Things You Didn't Know
If you made a country of all of HP’s customers, it would be the third-largest country in the world.
HP powered the New York Stock Exchange after September 11, supplied printers to the new government in Afghanistan after the Taliban fell, and works with the Fire Department of New York to help train new recruits.
HP started the tradition of casual Fridays in the 1950s, when everyone including Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard showed up each week in shirtsleeves and casual dress ready to solder electronics, pack boxes, or ship products.
HP shipped 43 million printers in 2003 — a rate equivalent to shipping more than one printer per second.
