Hewlett-Packard

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 and , with the PC and printer businesses being retained by 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==
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and , and initially produced a line of electronic test and measurement equipment. The 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 . 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 from 2007 to Q2 2013, by which time has surpassed HP.Lenovo Shares Jump As PC Shipments Overtake HP. November 7, 2013
==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.How a cold call helped a young Steve Jobs score his first internship at Hewlett-Packard by Zameena Mejia, CNBC. 2018-07-26.
*Jerry Manock — product design engineer in the Microwave Division from 1968 to 1972.
*Rich Page — worked on the minicomputer.Artifact Details: Page, Rich oral history, Computer History Museum. 2018-11-07.
*Jon Rubinstein — manufacturing engineer who worked on HP workstations.
*Rich Whicker — project leader for the series of pocket calculators.Inside the New Pocket Calculators by Michael J. Cook, George M. Fichter, and Richard E. Whicker, Hewlett-Packard. 1998.
*Thomas Whitney — led development of the , the world's first handheld scientific calculator.Thomas M. Whitney, Iowa State University. Accessed 2020-06-15.
*Steve Wozniak — was still working at HP when the Apple Computer Company was founded.The World According to Woz by Gary Wolf, Wired. 1998-09-01.
==References==
==External links==
*HP official site
*Hewlett Packard Enterprise official site
*Hewlett-Packard at the Beats by Dre Wiki
* at Wikipedia
 
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