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Miles Archer

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Sat Sep 26, 2015, 08:00 AM Sep 2015

Whitworth asked Fiorina’s speech writer where the story came from. “He said, ‘I don’t know.’”



Fiorina gave an embroidered account of how Hewlett and Packard sold their first invention, an audio oscillator, to Walt Disney Studios for the soundtrack of “Fantasia,” a story that most HP employees know by heart.

In Fiorina’s telling, Whitworth said, Walt Disney invited two unknown Palo Alto engineers to Los Angeles to discuss making a machine for the movie soundtrack he had in his head. It was pure fiction.

“Walt did not get on the phone and ask Bill and Dave to come down,” Whitworth said. (Actually, as Packard recounted in his 1995 memoir, “The HP Way,” Disney’s chief sound engineer found the device at a technical conference in Portland.)

Whitworth asked Fiorina’s speech writer where the story came from. “He said, ‘I don’t know.’”

http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-carly-fiorina-trashed-the-hp-way-20150923-column.html
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Whitworth asked Fiorina’s speech writer where the story came from. “He said, ‘I don’t know.’” (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 2015 OP
If her lips are moving, she's lying about something hobbit709 Sep 2015 #1
Lying for the Lord is not lying! Lying for Money is also not lying! When will lefties ever learn? Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #2
is there a difference when your god is money? Downwinder Sep 2015 #3
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