The story of our company starts at the same time as a legendary history in Palo Alto, California, USA. In 1939, from their garage, Bill Hewlett en Dave Packard set up their Hewlett-Packard (HP), in what is still seen as the birth of Silicon Valley. The business partners supplied an oscillator to Walt Disney Studios and so laid the foundations for international success.

At the same time in the Netherlands, Cornelis Nicolaas Rood was working to make his passion for electronics his business, and decided to introduce the Hewlett & Packard equipment to the Dutch market. CN Rood was also a great music lover. For that reason, he launched his own record label, which still exists today under the name CNR Records.