Plain meaning rule. The plain meaning rule, also known as the literal rule, is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts. The plain meaning rule dictates that statutes are to be interpreted using the ordinary meaning of the language of the statute.
HP laptops and computers are made in Palo Alto in the California state of USA. It was founded in 1939.
Although Programma 101 was the first commercial desktop computer, HP is identified by Wired magazine as the producer of the world's first device to be called a personal computer, the Hewlett-Packard 9100A, introduced in 1968. Programma 101 was called computer personale (in Italian), at Fiera di Milano, 1966.