I was privileged to be in the conference room at HP's Loveland Instrument Division (LID) in about 1971 with a group of engineers clustered about Bill Hewlett when he said words like, "Hey guys, take a look at this!", and pulled out of his left front shirt pocket the first HP-35 that I had ever seen. It was a late prototype unit, and a few months later the HP-35, the world's first pocket calculator and the first pocket scientific calculator, was introduced to the world. It ultimately sold about 300,000 units!
have a USA made 1143A series, got it at garage sale or who knows where, need new battery cells. and need a power supply, back cover not damaged by disassembly
I was privileged to be in the conference room at HP's Loveland Instrument Division (LID) in about 1971 with a group of engineers clustered about Bill Hewlett when he said words like, "Hey guys, take a look at this!", and pulled out of his left front shirt pocket the first HP-35 that I had ever seen. It was a late prototype unit, and a few months later the HP-35, the world's first pocket calculator and the first pocket scientific calculator, was introduced to the world. It ultimately sold about 300,000 units!
Sad to see how much HP/Agilent/etc has drifted away from the original vision.
I still use a concrete volume slide rule from that is 50 years old
4 years to have 7000 visits ? what a prosaic world we have !
The did make the HP 41 calculator. For me the best thing I ever did buy. 😊 I still have it and use it.
Sadly the "old" HP is long gone...
It‘s not a good story.😭😭😭
have a USA made 1143A series, got it at garage sale or who knows where, need new battery cells. and need a power supply, back cover not damaged by disassembly
What a great story. It makes me sad to see what idiot CEOs have done to their legacy.
... and then came Carly Fiorina to fuck it all up ...
HP: two people in a garage building a company --> true
Apple: two people in a garage building a company --> marketing bullshit
Probably Posted from an iphone.