Re:The early history of HP calculators
by jaclaz on Sunday September 10, 2017 @07:13AM
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Probably I will sound like a dinosaur, but I actually remember a time where the HP-97 was a daily used tool at work.
256 steps of program!
I could write small programs that calculated coordinates for road topography, circular curves and even (with a very little approximation) clothoids.
And you will have to pry out from my cold, dead hands my HP 28C[0][1], I bought it right when it came out in 1987 (yes, that is exactly 30 years ago) and it still goes strong.
But to give you a data point, I payed for it (in 1987) around 650,000 Lire, something like the equivalent to 330 Euro that nowadays would be roughly 750 Euro.
256 steps of program!
I could write small programs that calculated coordinates for road topography, circular curves and even (with a very little approximation) clothoids.
And you will have to pry out from my cold, dead hands my HP 28C[0][1], I bought it right when it came out in 1987 (yes, that is exactly 30 years ago) and it still goes strong.
But to give you a data point, I payed for it (in 1987) around 650,000 Lire, something like the equivalent to 330 Euro that nowadays would be roughly 750 Euro.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-28_series
[1] http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp28c.htm