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    Garages are wondrous things

    In Silicon Valley, a lot of things happen in garages. In fact, were it not for the humble garage, Silicon Valley wouldn't exist, with many of todays companies having started out in them. Reuters looks back at some of the greatest garages of all time.
    "It's kind of a humbling thing," HP Chief Executive Mark Hurd said on Tuesday at a small ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Addison Avenue garage to celebrate the completed restoration of the HP garage and the house with which it shares the lot. HP now has nearly $90 billion in annual revenue and some 151,000 employees. Its current headquarters are a 10-minute drive from the house that Hewlett, then a bachelor, Packard and wife Lucile, rented for $45 a month in 1939.
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