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More info: HP calculators refer to various calculators manufactured by the Hewlett-Packard company over the years. In the 1960s, Hewlett-Packard was becoming a diversified electronics company with product lines in electronic test equipment, scientific instrumentation, and medical electronics, and was just beginning its entrée into computers. The corporation recognized two opportunities: * HP's customer base would likely buy a product that could replace the slide rules and adding machines that they were now using for computation.