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YOKOGAWA-HEWLETT PACKARD - YHP 25C !!!! Message #1 Posted by gileno on 14 Feb 2007, 2:51 p.m. Link YHP 25C !!!! YHP-25C YHP -65 Link !!! 1963 HP enters the Asian market and forms its first joint venture, Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard (YHP), in Tokyo, Japan, with Yokogawa Electric Works. By 1963, overseas sales already account for 18 percent of HP's business; the largest foreign markets are Western Europe, Canada and Japan. The 5100A frequency synthesizer, one of the most complex instruments developed by the company to date, is introduced. It can do the work of a whole battery of instruments and does it with greater accuracy. The 5100A is used for automated testing, advanced communications systems and communications with deep-space vehicles. Revenue: $117 million. Employees: 6,598. Press release Yokogawa Link Edited: 14 Feb 2007, 5:38 p.m. after one or more responses were posted

Re: YOKOGAWA-HEWLETT PACKARD - YHP 25C !!!! Message #2 Posted by Karl-Ludwig Butte on 14 Feb 2007, 3:37 p.m., in response to message #1 by gileno Hello and thanks a lot for the links. Ididn't know about such a Japanese cooperation of HP. Do you have any more information about this joint venture ? Kind regards Karl

Link to an earlier HP Museum post on YHP Message #3 Posted by Gene on 14 Feb 2007, 4:44 p.m., in response to message #2 by Karl-Ludwig Butte http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv012.cgi?read=33038 From back in 2003...David Smith said: "I know a lot of the Yokogawa calculators were just regular HP calculators with Japanese labels. Mike Davis had Yokogawa HP65 last year."

Re: YOKOGAWA-HEWLETT PACKARD - YHP 25C !!!! Message #4 Posted by gileno on 14 Feb 2007, 5:25 p.m., in response to message #2 by Karl-Ludwig Butte Yokogama - HP Link

Re: YOKOGAWA-HEWLETT PACKARD - YHP 25C !!!! Message #5 Posted by Jan on 14 Feb 2007, 5:02 p.m., in response to message #1 by gileno I saw one when I was in the house of a japanese friend of mine in Tokyo back in the early 90's. If I am correct it was a 35.

Re: YOKOGAWA-HEWLETT PACKARD - YHP 25C !!!! Message #6 Posted by Alan Firth on 14 Feb 2007, 5:26 p.m., in response to message #1 by gileno Great. Something more to collect!

Re: YOKOGAWA-HEWLETT PACKARD - YHP 25C !!!! Message #7 Posted by GE on 15 Feb 2007, 11:53 a.m., in response to message #6 by Alan Firth The HP for the HP calculator collector who has everything ! Out of my reach, however. Run run !!

Re: YOKOGAWA-HEWLETT PACKARD - YHP 25C !!!! Message #8 Posted by David Smith on 15 Feb 2007, 6:48 p.m., in response to message #1 by gileno One thing I have noticed about Yokogawa calculators... they all have had very poor condition labels.

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