Nick writes:

> Seems to me that there should be no problem in keeping Hewlett
>  Packard in
>  the name, e. g. Hewlett Packard Instrumentation Company.

I agree. I think that such a name would be wholly appropriate (no matter how
much confusion it now causes due to the loss of "synergy" with the "other"
HP).

It may also be time to finally add in Hewlett and Packard's silent partner,
Frederick Terman (see: http://www-
forum.stanford.edu/About/History/valley_of_hearts.html ). If Varian and HP are
the only two companies that can't trace their history back to Fairchild
Semiconductor, that isn't true for Varian and HP themselves. They are both
related and both owe their initial existences to Terman.

Thus a not all together inappropriate name might be:

      Hewlett-Packard-Terman

or

      HPT Instruments

Wirt Atmar