The Hewlett Packard Company, now known as HP Inc., was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It has since spun off various portions of its business into Agilent Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, with the PC and printer businesses being retained by HP Inc. Many of Apple Computer's early employees were veterans of HP. The Apple Park headquarters complex presently occupies the site of HP's former manufacturing campus in Cupertino.
History[]
HP was founded in the first of the historic Silicon Valley founders' garages.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and initially produced a line of electronic test and measurement equipment. The HP Garage at 367 Addison Avenue is now designated an official California Historical Landmark and is marked with a plaque calling it the "Birthplace of 'Silicon Valley'". Hewlett and Packard got their first big contract in 1938, providing test and measurement instruments for production of Walt Disney's hugely successful animated film Fantasia. This success led the two to formally establish their Hewlett-Packard Company on January 1, 1939. The company grew into a multinational corporation widely respected for its products, and its management style and culture known as the HP Way which was adopted by other businesses worldwide. HP was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013, by which time Lenovo has surpassed HP.[1][2][3]
Future Apple employees[]
- See also: Category:Former HP employees
- Steve Jobs — cold-called Bill Hewlett for spare electronic parts at the age of 12, and was awarded an internship.[4]
- Jerry Manock — product design engineer in the Microwave Division from 1968 to 1972.[5]
- Rich Page — worked on the HP 3000 minicomputer.[6]
- Jon Rubinstein — manufacturing engineer who worked on HP workstations.[7]
- Rich Whicker — project leader for the HP-21 series of pocket calculators.[8]
- Thomas Whitney — led development of the HP-35, the world's first handheld scientific calculator.[9]
- Steve Wozniak — was still working at HP when the Apple Computer Company was founded.[10]
References[]
- ↑ HP regains PC lead over Lenovo. PC Pro (January 14, 2013). Retrieved on April 27, 2013.
- ↑ Lenovo Shares Jump As PC Shipments Overtake HP. November 7, 2013
- ↑ "Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Grew 1 Percent in Fourth Quarter of 2014", Gartner, January 12, 2015. Retrieved on February 8, 2015.
- ↑ How a cold call helped a young Steve Jobs score his first internship at Hewlett-Packard by Zameena Mejia, CNBC. 2018-07-26.
- ↑ Jerrold C. Manock. Manock Comprehensive Design, Inc.. Retrieved on 27 July 2011.
- ↑ Artifact Details: Page, Rich oral history, Computer History Museum. 2018-11-07.
- ↑ Perry, Tekla S.. "Jon Rubinstein", IEEE Spectrum, February 2000.
- ↑ Inside the New Pocket Calculators by Michael J. Cook, George M. Fichter, and Richard E. Whicker, Hewlett-Packard. 1998.
- ↑ Thomas M. Whitney, Iowa State University. Accessed 2020-06-15.
- ↑ The World According to Woz by Gary Wolf, Wired. 1998-09-01.
External links[]
- HP official site
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise official site
- Hewlett-Packard at the Beats by Dre Wiki
- Hewlett-Packard at Wikipedia
