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* 1975 - The electronics industry adopted the HP interface bus as an international standard to allow instruments to connect easily to a computer.
* 1975 - The electronics industry adopted the HP interface bus as an international standard to allow instruments to connect easily to a computer.
* 1977- Bill Young was appointed president of the company. Packard remained chairman and Hewlett as CEO of the company. The company also launched the wrist instrument,a digital wrist watch, calculator and personal calendar.
* 1977- Bill Young was appointed president of the company. Packard remained chairman and Hewlett as CEO of the company. The company also launched the wrist instrument,a digital wrist watch, calculator and personal calendar.
* 1979- HP foundation was established
* 1980- HP 85, the company's first personal computer was launched. The product has an input-out put module capable of communicating with other computers.
* 1981- HP 12 C, the world's first standard business calculator was introduced.
* 1982- The HP electronic mail system was introduced based on minicomputers. The company also introduced HP-75c, the first hand-held computer.
* 1883- HP-150 Touch Screen PC was launched. Bill Hewlett received the National Medal of Science Award.
* 1984- The HP Think Jet was introduced. The HP Laser Jet became the most famous persoal desktop laser printer.
* 1985- HP introduced the Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC)
* 1988- HP was listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange
* 1991- The company revolutionized the color printing by introducing the HP Deskjet 500C
* 1992- Lew Platt became President and CEO of the company
* 1993- Dave Packard retired as Chairman of the company, 10 million HP Laser Jets were sold and the HP Omnibook 300 was introduced in the market.
* 1994- HP partnered with [[Intel]] in developing the 64-bit microprocessor, produced the brightest LED and introduced the HP OfficeJet personal printer-fax-copier
* 1999- Carly Fiorina became President and CEO
* 2002- The company introduced the nanotechnology; acquired Indigo to enhanced the company's digital publishing capability and merged with Compaq.
* 2004- The company ranked number 11 in the Fortune 500 List. The company's launched plasma and LCD flat-panel TVs and the HP Digital Entertainment Center.
* 2005- HP was named the Most Trusted Privacy Company in the United States and acquired Snapfish, an online photo service company
* 2006- Mark Hurd as named Chairman of the company. HP acquired VoodooPC, a high-end gaming company and the Mercury Interactive Corp., a software company
* 2007- The company introduced the Touch Smart PC, an all in one PC with a touch screen
* 2008- HP acquired the Electronic Data Service (EDS) Corp., a technology service company worth $13.9 billion
* 2009- The company acquired 3Com Corporation, a networking switching, routing and security solutions provider
* 2010- HP acquired Palm Inc.,a smart phone provider and ArcSight, a security and compliance management company
* 2011- Meq Whitman became President and CEO
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