a) The main facts about the activities of the company. HP was started in a garage in Palo Alto in 1939, by the two electrical engineering students Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard with an initial capital investment of US$538. Over the years they concentrated on manufacturing electrical hardware associated with home entertainment as well as office work, e.g., printers, scanners, digital cameras, calculators, PDAs, servers, workstation and home computers. In 1968, HP became famous for its (...)