The company's first product, built in a Palo Alto garage, was an audio oscillator--an electronic test instrument used y sound engineers.

公司的第一个产品是在帕洛阿尔托的车库里生产的，是个声摆，是音响技术员用的电子测试工具。

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So too was the audio oscillator and thousands of other products--all abandoned in the endless pursuit of something better.

FORBES: Great Garages

Most of the ideas were pretty marginal--like automatic bowling-pin resetters--but in time the pair settled on a winner: an audio oscillator based on one of Hewlett's old college designs.

FORBES: Great Garages