"It was a different kind of a work world, a place where, for the most part, our bosses were not our bosses, they were our friends. A place where we worked hard and played hard, a place where we liked going to work in the morning, a place that shared with us the rewards of our labors, a place without time clocks to punch, a place with flexible hours that we managed on our own, and a place where layoffs were avoided at all costs." It's clear that the amiable work environment described above by the authors is heartfelt. Though Hewlett-Packard's heyday on Garden of the Gods Road (reaching a high of 2,700 employees in 1984) ended in the early 2000s, "We're still stick-together kind of people," Les Bailey commented in a recent interview. It's an outgrowth of where we worked, Koperski noted. "We were given a lot of trust. We worked together and played together and we're still life-long friends." In fact, that lasting camaraderie had much to do with why the Baileys, Koperski and Hoewisch decided to tell the story about the design and manufacturing plant for measuring instruments that electronics innovators Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard established in Colorado Springs in 1962. This book is mostly for the thousands of people who were involved with HP over the years. Even so, the story is an absorbing one, and of interest to business people, today's high-tech historians, and the general public who wonder what it was like working for HP in "the good old days."