Fire burning a building at Keysight Technologies in Santa Rosa, California which contained 100 boxes of Hewlett Packard’s Historical archives. AP Photo/Ben Margot, File.
When the Tubbs Fire hit Keysight Technology’s northern California campus this October, 100 boxes of Hewlett Packard’s archives were incinerated. Archivists bemoaned the destruction of HP’s historical materials as a preventable tragedy. Many wondered why such valuable materials were given to Keysight (a spinoff company of HP). Others questioned why the materials were in a modular building in a fire-prone area.