Tucked away down a narrow driveway on a leafy, quiet street here is perhaps the most famous garage in the valley and, arguably, in all of the technology industry.
It is the garage in which David Packard and William Hewlett launched Hewlett-Packard, now the world's second-largest computer maker and the biggest printer maker, which they founded in 1939 and named with a coin toss.
Long considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley, the 12-by-18-foot garage was the initial spark for the now-thriving technology business in a region that has replaced the fruit orchards of the early 20th century with business parks, corporate campuses, suburbs and malls.
After HP came, other household tech names such as Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker (though not started in a garage), Sun Microsystems (again, no garage founding here), online media giant Yahoo, and many, many others.
But other garages did follow....
