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The developer and our Curator of this website, Marc Mislanghe, passed away on July 23, 2014. He had been undergoing some medical procedures, when all of his friends, and the Internet audience of this website, were stunned to hear that he had died. His enthusiasm and energy and vision for a measurements museum, both real and virtual (this website) are gone forever. As his website expanded with instrument-related content, inventories, HP instrument introductions, described by decade, large archives of HP publications, application notes and measurement processes, he happened upon several HP author memoirs. This led to a new website section which began a long look at the human side of Hewlett-Packard, the HP Way, and the work culture of the preeminent high tech company of the 20th century. By the time of his shockingly-unexpected death, he had compiled 20 HP memoirs, which reveal the memories of a variety of HP authors, from division managers to the telephone operator who knew Hewlett and Packard personally. In these pages, you will see his vision for his future measurements museum, sketches, a promotional pamphlet, ideas for structuring some of the key instrument and computer breakthroughs of those decades. His personality shows through in all of those pages, little animations, large numbers of people and product pictures. In most cases, Marc would rehabilitate an old vintage instrument, clean it up, and THEN take the picture to use in his web content. He had an almost innate sense of where to look in HP publication archives to find a picture of some company event or personality profile. His greatest dream was to create a Hewlett Packard museum of instrumentation and measurement hosted by the newly created Keysight Technologies company -- Alas, where will we find another history visionary like Marc? Marc leaves two sons; Franck and Walter. He had one granddaughter, Marie, 10. You can imagine that Marc had an even-larger vision for his work going forward. Of course, those hopes and plans won't happen. And yet, there is still more HP people history remaining to be written: Memoirs, personality profiles of exceptional employees, other HP writings. To that end, we, as volunteer custodians, with the permission of Marc's family, are creating a New Section, which will become an addendum to the Home site. We plan to identify the new additions, keep them separate, but connected, so that there will be a dividing line at Marc's passing day. Click the Tributes to Marc Mislanghe link to read heartfelt letters, in tribute to Marc's life and times. This section is open to any and all who have enjoyed his work and legacy, and wish to remember their encounters with Marc.