HCL was founded by Shiv Nadar in 1976, at a time when India had a total of just 250 computers. HCL developed the first indigenous micro-computer in 1978.HCL developed a fine grained multi-processor UNIX in 1988.HCL Technologies was spun off as the information technology and software services arm of the enterprise, with listing in 1999.HCL Enterprise was a $6.2 billion global org with 90,000 professionals operating from 31 countries as on June 2012 HCL now has 85,335 on 30th September 2012 Geographies : USA, Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan Consolidated revenue: US$ 4.3 billion (Rs. 22,417 crores), as on 30th September 2012 for HCL Technologies Limited