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That is a desktop calculator, which was the ancestor of the pocket calculator described in the parent article. I see no overlap between the stories, even if th
by adrian_b 2y ago
That is a desktop calculator, which was the ancestor of the pocket calculator described in the parent article.
I see no overlap between the stories, even if they are about the same people.
On the same site, there is
http://www.hp9825.com/html/osborne-s_story.html http://www.hp9825.com/html/osborne-s_story.html
with what Tom Osborne says about the history of HP-35. That gives additional details, but it is also distinct from the parent article.
- cgcrob 2y agoYou need the historical context of the desktop calculator to really understand the pocket calculator. Short summary: "I want that in my pocket"
- kragen 2y agoThe parent article tells the story starting from before the desktop calculator in question and devotes several paragraphs to it, and I didn't mean just that one web page. The parent article doesn't seem to have any information that isn't presented on hp9825.com. The several paragraphs in the parent article corresponding to specifically that web page start at: > Tom Osborne, a Berkeley-trained electrical engineer, wasn’t one of those 9000 employees. In his Bay-area apartment, he had built a floating-point electronic calculator he called the Green Machine (after the color of the automotive touch-up paint he used on the balsa wood case). He tried shopping it around but no one was interested until he showed it to HP in June, 1965.