9 Dec
1997
9 Dec
'97
6:41 p.m.
Tony Duell <ard(a)odin.phy.bris.ac.uk> wrote:
Yep. Which just goes to show one point I had in the back of my mind
at the time: HP's model numbering scheme comes maddeningly close to
making sense.
-Frank McConnell
HP 79xx and
91yx (for y>1) are usually storage of some sort. (9111 is
a graphics tablet.)
But the 9114 was a disk drive, wasn't it? (the HP-IL drive for the
71/75/etc). And the 9100 was a calculator (HP's first desktop calculator,
released in 1968, and rather nice). 
9 Dec
9 Dec
6:50 p.m.
At 21:41 12/9/97 -0800, Frank McConnell wrote:
Yep. Which just goes to show one point I had in the
back of my mind
at the time: HP's model numbering scheme comes maddeningly close to
making sense.
"Maddeningly close" = "so close as to be close to close enough"
cf. "Infuriatingly close"
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