FILE - In this Sept. 17, 1993, file photo, David Packard, right, co-founder of the Silicon Valley computer company Hewlett-Packard, announces his retirement as chairman during a news conference at HP's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Packard, 81, started the company in 1939 with William R. Hewlett, who listens at left. Hewlett-Packard, one of the nation's most storied tech companies will split in two this weekend of Oct. 31, 2015, another casualty of seismic shifts in the way people use technology and big-company sluggishness in responding. (AP Photo/Joe Pugliese, File)