HP Overview

Hewlett Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 in a garage in Palo Alto, California by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. The company's first product was an audio oscillator, which was an electronic test instrument used by sound engineers. One of HP's first customers was Walt Disney Studios, which purchased eight oscillators to develop and test the various channels, recording equipment and speaker systems in the twelve specially-equipped theaters that showed Disney's Fantasia in 1940. Throughout the decades, HP continued to invent products that paved the way for the high tech industry today. Some of these products include oscillators, wave analyzers, cameras, recorders, computers, calculators, plotters and PDA’s.

Today, HP operates in more than 170 countries around the world. They explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. They apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, while continuously improving the way their customers live and work.

No other company offers as complete a technology product line as HP. They provide infrastructure and business offerings that extend from handheld devices to some of the most powerful supercomputer installations. They offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment, storage and servers, managed services and software, and from computing to home printing. This wide-range portfolio helps them match the right products, services and solutions to their customers' specific needs.

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