Founded by Stanford University engineers David Packard and William Hewlett in a Palo Alto, Calif. garage in 1938, for most of its history HP grew at a near exponential rate.

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And if Woz, an HP employee, and Jobs, and HP admirer, didn't intentionally set out to reproduce the garage myth at Apple, they quickly did in retrospect.

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The old garage has been expropriated by Fiorina not only as the new symbol of HP, but also apparently to give her the entrepreneurial spurs earned by Bill and Dave in the course of a half-century.

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You can picture the teams of executives holed up in conference rooms at HP headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, just down the street from the iconic garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard launched the company more than 70 years ago and planted the seed that became Silicon Valley.

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Fiorina insists the troops will heed her message, but from HP's past she has borrowed a talisman against an uncertain future: Bill and Dave's garage, where invention began.

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The Addison garage was left behind because to fetishize it would upset the proper hierarchy of things that mattered in the HP Way.

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