Hewlett-Packard
Coordinates: 37°24′49″N 122°08′42″W / 37.4136°N 122.1451°W
Hewlett Packard (HP) is a computer technology company. It was created in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, in a garage in California. It is based in Palo Alto, California. They are best known for making computers and computer hardware such as inkjet printers, laser printers, all-in-one printers, scanners and digital cameras.
Public | |
Traded as | NYSE: HPQ |
Industry | Computer hardware Computer software IT services IT consulting |
Fate | Corporate split; renamed as HP Inc. |
Successors | HP Inc. Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
Founded | January 1, 1939 |
Founders | |
Defunct | November 1, 2015HP Inc. | (main company) (For Hewlett Packard Enterprise). Now operating as
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | See list of HP products. |
Subsidiaries | List of subsidiaries |
In 2002, HP bought Compaq and re-branded together as one company that is stylized as hp. The letters in the latest logo are lower case.
Hewlett-Packard Media
The HP200A, a precision audio oscillator, was the company's very first financially successful product.
Introduced in 1968, "The new Hewlett-Packard 9100A personal computer is ready, willing, and able ... to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer."
A sign marking the entrance to the HP corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California, 2006
A Hewlett-Packard Mini 1000 netbook computer, a type of notebook computer
The research center of Hewlett-Packard in the Paris-Saclay cluster, France
Other websites
- Hewlett-Packard
- The Museum of HP Calculators
- HP History Links
- Protect 724 Community Archived 2014-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
- hp drivers Archived 2018-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Local HP Archived 2019-10-24 at the Wayback Machine