The story of Walt Disney characters helping to save companies during the Great Depression is well known. We have all heard how Ingersoll Watch Company (now Timex) and Lionel Train Company would not be around today if not for Mickey Mouse and the gang. It leads one to wonder what other companies may not have made it without Disney. One possibility is HP (Hewlett-Packard) the computer giant. When Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard passed away in the mid-1990s, my eye happened to catch an item buried in his obituary in the Los Angeles Times. And I quote: “The company’s first product was an audio oscillator, and among their first customers was Walt Disney Studios, which used the device in making the movie Fantasia.” Just think, if the film had become a true “concert” feature as Walt had planned on, one of the follow-up sequences could have very well been “Adventures in an Oscillator.” Had Roy E. Disney picked up on this for Fantasia 2000, there would have been an actual piece of music written for the animation. Classical composer Alvin Lucier’s “Septet For Three Winds, Four Strings And Pure Wave Oscillator,” composed in 1985.