Exhibit 24

                           POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the persons whose signatures
appear below constitute and appoint D. Craig Nordlund and Ann O. Baskins,
and each of them, as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with
full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his
or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the Form
S-8 Registration Statement pertaining to the Hewlett-Packard Company 1993
EEsof Incorporated Stock Option Conversion Plan, and any or all
amendments (including post-effective amendments) to said Form S-8
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes
as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or their substitute or
substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement and these Amendments to Registration Statements
have been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on
the dates indicated.  Moreover, the undersigned hereby also certify that
to the best of their knowledge and belief the issuer meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8.

            Signature                 Title                    Date


 /s/ Raymond W. Cookingham     Vice President and        February 4, 1994
 -------------------------     Corporate Controller      ----------------
    (Raymond W. Cookingham)   (Principal Accounting 
                                Officer)

 /s/ Thomas E. Everhart             Director             February 7, 1994
 ------------------------                                ----------------
    (Thomas E. Everhart)


 /s/ John B. Fery                   Director             February 11, 1994
 ------------------------                                -----------------   
     (John B. Fery)


 /s/ Jean-Paul G. Gimon             Director             February 4, 1994
 ------------------------                                ----------------- 
   (Jean-Paul G. Gimon)


 /s/ Richard A. Hackborn            Director             February 5, 1994
 ------------------------                                -----------------  
   (Richard A. Hackborn)             


 /s/ Harold J. Haynes               Director             February 7, 1994
 ------------------------                                -----------------
   (Harold J. Haynes)
         
           
 /s/ Walter B. Hewlett              Director             February 8, 1994
 ------------------------                                -----------------
   (Walter B. Hewlett)


 /s/ Shirley M. Hufstedler          Director             February 7, 1994
 -------------------------                               -----------------  
   (Shirley M. Hufstedler)


___________________________         Director           ____________________
  (George A. Keyworth II)


___________________________         Director           ____________________
      (Paul F. Miller, Jr.)


  /s/   Susan P. Orr                Director             February 7, 1994
 --------------------------                              -----------------      
      (Susan P. Orr)


___________________________         Director            ___________________
     (David W. Packard)


 /s/ Donald E. Petersen             Director             February 8, 1994
 --------------------------                              ------------------ 
   (Donald E. Petersen)


 /s/ Lewis E. Platt           Chairman, President and    February 3, 1994
 --------------------------   Chief Executive Officer    ------------------
 (Lewis E. Platt)          (Principal Executive Officer)
                          

___________________________         Director            __________________
       (Hicks B. Waldron)


 /s/ Robert P. Wayman      Executive Vice President,     February 7, 1994
 ------------------------  Finance and Administration    -----------------
  (Robert P. Wayman)       (Chief Financial Officer)
                                  and Director


___________________________         Director            __________________
    (T.A. Wilson)