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Dave Packard's garage, the 1938 birthplace of silicon valley, is to enter the national register of historic places.
Long restored by HP in its Palo Alto location, the site saw the creation of HP's first product, an audio oscillator. Walt Disney was among the first customers, according to the Wikipedia entry.
Here is HP's page about rebuilding the garage. The picture here is from Pradipta Dutta's Photo Tour
Interesting aside: Albuquerque's is hosting the Startup museum, which is focused on Microsoft's own birth. The curators had originally planned to use Gates and Allen's own "first garage," which is, in fact, a fairly substantial warehouse. Unfortunately, the area it is in has, shall we say, gone downhill. So they put the museum at the New Mexico Museum of Natural Science and History instead.
HP garage joins National Register of Historic Places [Computerworld]
