William Hewlett and David Packard were the student of Stanford University. Professor Frederick Terman encourage them to start their own business. started with a capital investment of $538 on William Hewlett's garage in Palo Alto. The company name is to be decided now, they flipped the coin for this and Hewlett won the toss then Hewlett-Packard is there in 1939.
They began with the Hewlett master's thesis they created an audio oscillator. There forst product was HP200A sound equipment.they weren't getting dealing company offering its first product didn't do much for sales .In 1940, the Walt Disney Company ordered eight oscillators fro the Disney film Fantasia.
Inspired by the sale to Disney, Hewlett and Packard decided to try selling their new products.After developing a range of electronic products, the company entered the computer market in 1966 and is now one of the world’s largest technology corporations. HP is a leading technology solutions provider for consumers and businesses with market leadership in fault-tolerant servers, UNIX servers, Linux servers, Windows servers, storage solutions, management software, imaging and printing and PCs.
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