History of Hewlett Packard

[supacook2000]

fact: the music was way to loud for the little girls voice. a cant even hear her properlly

[drh4683]

Fact correction: HP was indeed first to introduce the electronic calculator to the market, but it wasn't until 1972 and it was called the HP-35.

[RayAir1]

I heard HP is looking at laying off an additional 9000 people shortly.

[Xenios9]

HP=best PC!!!!

[rebeccabennett30]

where are you buying computers with out a one year warrenty? you are crazy. I have owned several great HP computers. The one I bought in 95 still works great and my kids use it.

[pikabko1]

HP builds and sells dead notebooks for a living. the wrost cusomer service ever done ever. all notebooks warrnerty are void. and all dead computers must be sent to Africa and give it to these poor people that do not have money . HP Tech support is fucking rude to the consumer. fight the consumers.

managers far more worse. Kill consumer rights and demand there customers to make law suits.

While I got three dead computer that I am fucking pissed off about fighting for a rerfund

[EddieLolz3r]

you obviously haven't called dell

[pikabko1]

I never order from Dell I heard too many horror stories of there computer breaking down and Suck witn a stupid 64 bit O,S, Windows 7 that dose not work, Dell is a black market compnay the same way HP is and Toshbia is,. Delling dead broken computers for a living using Dead o,S,.

blocking out peoples right to change there O,S, that is not right

[EddieLolz3r]

You are so wrong.

Either you are

1. A troll

2. An unlucky guy who bought a bad Hp or used

3. Macbook fanboy....nuff said

4. Spambot

5. just plain retarded

Hp make good computers

[pikabko1]

I got dead computers out of he box they over heated and died while the other kee[s crahsing and then all kinds of blue creen of death of evey little think.

HP demadned me to take the mater to court. yes HP demands law suit

if this is how they do busiess HP must close I hate being ripped off. and Ebay lost customers left and right. I tell the facts as it shows. No such thinks as trolls in real life. all K iknow I am right HP is a black market and they told me so.

[pikabko1]

HP buleds the worst computers in the world I got ripped off. heck due to all my dead comptuers that HP designed since 1997 I simply want to tell Hewlett Packard Fuck you for wasting my money and kicking out as a tax paying customer trying to get a refund on there stupid busted computers that HP sells on the internet and dealersw

[dasboten]

Your spelling and grammar are below retarded level

[63jaskiratgill]

they were so poor but if you try anything is possible anything

[SosiBibuSuka]

If the founder of HP heard this now, he would do a 360 turn in his grave...

[Pirateofthecaribean]

The girl is anoying

[henan8]

the voice made me sleepy.. Why dont try to be a little more entusiastic?

[stopfraud3432]

I purchased one of these from ishopit and ended up being used and not new. found out company is owned by the same fraud and scam guy Philip Kim who owns officetronics as well. check officetronics scam and you will see the nightmare i went through along with others. other than that got my new product from tigerdirect and works well.

[ducksgoquack01]

OMG this girl's voice is annoying. Also, is the cheesy pop song in the background necessary??

[clay4him]

This is neat I had to check up on my history after I watched this :)

[izurz]

hp's been around for a long time, i got the new hp touch smart 500gb HD, 2.18GHz, 4G memory, and i love it!! the thing is so quit and cool , and the display is so HD and stunning! and not to mention its touch screen!!

[Membrane556]

I guess the the correct term for the HP98xxs should be work stations esp the 9845s.

I heard they called them calculators at first because in 1972 it was easier for an engineer to convince accounting to pay for a calculator then a computer since a computer at the time usually would cost at least 80K USD.

I think the 9830 sold for around 6K a real bargain at the time.

Some personal computers of the early 80s such as the Lisa and AT were nearly as expensive even with allowance for inflation.

[BHT70]

My HP slimline

2.3ghz AMD Athlon dual core 64 bit

4gb of ram

ATI Radeon HD 3450 DDR2 256MB pci e 16x 2.0 low profile

250gb sata 7200rpm hard drive

[DjGisME]

Take the spagetti out please

[OhioBuckeyez]

LMFAO

[omarbain]

i need help dudes!!! i  nedd information about the hp vectra multimedia vl2 4/50se, please!!!! i can't found information about that computer!!!!

[Lizbit527]

Actually, that's pretty funny because they made calculators in the 1980s and earlier. If you want to get TECHNICAL we can say the first PC was the 9100A and it weighed 40 lbs. It was marketed as a calculator because know one really thought they needed an at-home computer but it was termed among "knowledgeable" people as a personal computer. The IBM didn't release it's first PC until 1981. Which is funny because the term was already being used...so I don't think they were first. Sorry!

[hp2114b]

Calling a HP 9100 a personal computer is an extreme stretch of the imagination. The 9100 is a scientific calculator, a finite state machine which lacks general purpose computing abilities. HP's desktop scientific calculators didn't make use of a general purpose computer core until the next generation, the 9810/20/30 series. By the way, HP's first system was the 2116A, not the 2115, and neither system spent much time in anybody's home. Both models are large industrial minicomputers.

[Membrane556]

The HP9830A of 1972 definitely was a personal computer it's similar the the rockwell aim65 and it eventually lead to the HP9845A/B of 1977 and HP9845C of 1980 which were far more powerful the the IBM PC of 1981.

The 9845C was even more powerful then the IBM PC/AT of 1984.

[hp2114b]

The 9830A isn't at all similar to the AIM65. How is a fully built scientific calculator with a serialized 16-bit discrete TTL CPU (HP9830A) similar to a single-board 6502 development microcomputer (AIM65)? The 9830, 9825, 9845 etc. were powerful, expensive scientific calculators and engineering computers. They may have been desktop machines but they were not particularly 'personal', and they did not introduce computers to the home market.

[Membrane556]

They both have a single line display and came with around 4K I guess not much else.

I should have said similar in computing power and memory though I think the 6502 actually might be much faster then the TTL cpu in the HP despite being only 8bits.

[Lizbit527]

Actually, HP did introduce the first PC according to organized computer history, but not the first "large scale computer". It was in 1966 and is called 2115. It allowed users to fit all of the features of a large scale computer in the comfort of their home for the first time. So...yes, HP did create the first "PC"-but not the first computer.

[Full4mat]

Hewlett-Packard did not create the first PC. It was the IBM. HP did not beliewed consumer market's until 1995 when they start to make consumer equipment. Before that, they work with LSC and hospital equipment's.

[agiac99]

The first MS-Dos PC (HP 150) was introduced in 1984 was better that IBM PC, but not Standard (3.5 inch floppy, higher res diplay...)

Before this HP produced "HP 125" a CPM personal computer with Visical as spreadsheet and a word processor (word ? i don't rememeber exactly the name)

[ndenneysac]

HP entered the consumer mkt well before 1995. Calculators were sold in every college bookstore by 1970 and the Thinkjet printers hit the consumer mkt nlt 1985.

[aceyage]

@Full4mat The first affordable PC actually was the MIPS Altair 8800 in 1975. The fist large-scale PC that could actually run GOOD software was the Apple II from 1977. IBM was just copying the Apple II and badly so.

[ceasar289]

i got so much chips i think dey call me hewlett packard

[chelseawashington81]

u need to get rid of the music- u can't hear shit from the girl talking

[Crash900s]

The music makes it hard to hear the person speaking.

[advancedpcwebsite]

see that in vvv vvv vvv apc-usa dot net

[420MilKY]

OMG y are all the nerators retards

[Ferdinand1703]

I now work 5 years for HP. Best company I ever worked for.

[atarian345]

HP did NOT introduce the first PC

[Oneness100]

So, who brought Silicon to Silicon Valley? NOT HP. So why did they get the Birthplace of Silicon Valley plaque? THEY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR IT BY DONATIONS TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. That sounds unethical to me. Taking credit for something they didn't do....

[ndenneysac]

HP established a vertically integrated, hi-tech manufacturing base in the valley in 1939. They financed their own growth, recruited the best and brightest from far and wide, and promoted from within. They established multiple hi-tech disciplines and mfg facilities in the valley. I'm anxious to hear who might be more deserving of the Historical Society plaque. Enlighten us please.

[Oneness100]

If you look at the Geneology of SILICON VALLEY. ALL of the Semiconductor mfg spawned FROM Fairchild after they left Shockley Labs, but Shockley never sold a single Silicon based transistor, that was perfected and brought forth by Fairchild and all of the Semiconductor companies came from Fairchild. It's not Test Equipment Valley, or Computer Valley, or Electronics Valley, it's SILICON VALLEY and the birth of that industry came after FAIRCHILD brought the technology and spawned that industry.

[Oneness100]

I know it is semantics, but HP should only get a plaque that says "First Electronics Company in Silicon Valley", NOT the BIRTHPLACE. Sorry, but most intelligent people that work in the Semiconductor industry recognize Fairchild, not HP. At least that is my understanding. It was a big argument back when they granted the plaque, and HP has given LOTS of money to Politicians/Historical Society to get the plaque and keep the plaque. The more money you thrown around, the more favors you get.

[bati555]

u sound retarded and turn down the fucking music.

[biukucanoe]

nice student piece, get higher res pictures, and the first HP desktop computer was the HP 9830, the HP 85 came later about the same time as PCs. HP set the standard for tech companies, Microsoft is still run very much like HP was.

[jaak68]

The heart of Hewlett-Packard Company is the the measurement business they started with. Right through to November 1999 when the very business that started the company and enabled HP to create a computing business was kicked out on it's own, as Agilent Technologies.

Dave Packard would have enjoyed the video. It's a shame, that HP pushed it's own history out the door in the form of Agilent Technologies.

[teslawon]

,,after weeks of being stuck on the HP TOTAL CARE loop of e-mails & phone calls each person wants to sell me a new printer with 1year warranty?? When they don't honor the one on this piece of sh**

[XxbRiTtXxXx]

my dad works there

[martymmc0001]

i would have liked to work for hp in those days,

i would'nt recommend hp to anyone *******.

its the worst place ever to work, you want treated like sh** come to hp.

[skittleschew]

whaaaaat? I went to HP for Job Shadowing Day and it was awsome. I think it's just your work experience

[martymmc0001]

congratulations skittleschew you went for a job wow im pleased for you, must have been your first job if you thought it was awsome,

hp is terrible, compaq was better could not fault them.

[skittleschew]

HP aquired Compaq. so it's basically the same thing. I think it was just ur work experience, and not the whole, entire, company

[ndenneysac]

I retired from HP in 2005 after 33 years in mgt. The old days were really great but I can sure understand the frustrations of those who work there now. However, please don't even joke that Compaq was ever a better place to work.

[MIANBOCA]

BUENO

[Robbiej74]

no they did not do anything 1st.

[Jourei91]

Hehe, i know where u got some of ur pictures...

[BillSchwenke]

Can hardly hear the dialogue on my laptop. We have to thank HP as Steve Wozniak cut his chops for them before starting up Apple, and the real revolution!

[fistro]

I am ex-hp employee and for me working for Hewlett-Packard was the best thing in life. Dave and Bill were examples to follow.

[popeye152]

Nicely done! I think Bill and Dave would have liked this video quite a lot as it captures several key moments in HP's history. Thanks for doing this!