Annual Reports
After becoming a public company, HP published its first annual report in 1957. The annual reports provide very good summaries on how the computer business performed during the year. They also provide good insight into how management perceived the computer business relative to other parts of the company.
HP was not shy about using annual reports to promote the computer business even in the earliest days. The 1966 report is 24 pages long. Two of those pages promote HP's first computer, the 2116, a machine that didn't get to market until the very beginning of HP's FY67. Computers accounted for a fraction of HP's revenue in 1968. However, nine pages of the 26-page annual report were devoted to the data processing business, thanks to the very-successful new 9100A. The HP 3000 computer was announced in 1972 and shipped in 1973 where it contributed only $2M to HP revenues because of its disastrous introduction. However, the 1972 annual report carried a picture promoting the new computer. The same page in the annual report carried a picture of the 9830A computer. Amusingly, the display on the 9830A reads "TRY AGAIN, INVALID INPUT".
Our collection of annual reports was donated by that great HP historian Chuck House. For the definitive story on HP's history and its many business transformations, be sure to read Chuck's 2009 book The HP Phenomenon.
1968 Annual Report, One Third Devoted to Data Processing
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1957_20pages_OCR.pdf
1958
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1958_24pages_OCR.pdf
1959
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1959_23pages_OCR.pdf
1960
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1960_17pages_OCR.pdf
1961
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1961_23pages_OCR.pdf
1962
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1962_25pages_OCR.pdf
1963
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1963_25pages_OCR.pdf
1964
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1964_17pages_OCR.pdf
1965
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1965_22pages_OCR.pdf
1966
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1966_24pages_OCR.pdf
1967
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1967_25pages_OCR.pdf
1968
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1968_26pages_OCR.pdf
1969
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1969_32pages_OCR.pdf
1970
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1970_26pages_OCR.pdf
1971
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1971_24pages_OCR.pdf
1972
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1972_32pages_OCR.pdf
1973
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1973_34pages_OCR.pdf
1974
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1974_36pages_OCR.pdf
1975
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1975_42pages_OCR.pdf
1976
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1976_41pages_OCR.pdf
1977
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1977_42pages_OCR.pdf
1978
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1978_42pages_OCR.pdf
1979
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1979_43pages_OCR.pdf
1980
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1980_44pages_OCR.pdf
1981
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1981_41pages_OCR.pdf
1982
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1982_42pages_OCR.pdf
1983
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1983_43pages_OCR.pdf
1984
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1984_39pages_OCR.pdf
1985
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1985_44pages_OCR.pdf
1986
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1986_41pages_OCR.pdf
1987
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1987_48pages_OCR.pdf
1988
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1988_52pages_OCR.pdf
1989
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1989_52pages_OCR.pdf
1990
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1990_48pages_OCR.pdf
1991
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1991_5091-3390E_49pages_OCR.pdf
1993
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1993_5091-9911E_53pages_OCR.pdf
1994
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1994_5963-5264E_53pages_OCR.pdf
1995
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1995_5964-6425E_55pages_OCR.pdf
1996
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1996_5965-6046E_61pages_OCR.pdf
Issue - HPShareholderMeetingInvitation_1997_Feb25_5965-6549EUS_45pages.pdf
1997
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1997_5966-2778E_63pages_OCR.pdf
Issue - HPShareholderMeetingInvitation_1998_Feb24_5966-3389E_89pages.pdf
1998
Issue - HPAnnualReport_1998_5968-3384E_71pages_OCR.pdf
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