27 Nov
1997
27 Nov
'97
9:45 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Secondly, if we bend 'computer', HP had the
HP65 available in early 1974.
That was the first (AFIAK) pocket programmable calculator, and was
certainly advertised as a 'pocket computer'. The earlier HP9100 was also
portable (although it had no handles, it could certainly be picked up and
carried :-)), and was almost a computer
A bit earlier. I was drooling over the HP-65 at the Engineer's Bookstore
across the street from Georgia Tech starting in September 1973. No way
was $795 anywhere close to within reach. Hell, the HP-35 at $295 was out
of my reach. Just had to carry on with the old 10" Pickett.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]