Re:HP 9825 Projects
by analog31 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @04:57PM
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I don't know the precise history, but the corporate decision to work on these self contained computers was the reason why Steve Wozniak left HP to found Apple Computer with Steve Jobs.
Still, paging through Byte Magazine and looking at all of the things that I couldn't afford at the time, the HP computers definitely seemed pretty cool to me, and I'm sure the quality of HP calculators lent to the appeal.
Re:HP 9825 Projects
by faoileag on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:15AM
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Funny enough, I think those things were never meant to be a "personal" computer. You could get quite a sophisticated external bus system for these ("field bus" I think) and that made them ideal for lab environments.
Still, paging through Byte Magazine and looking at all of the things that I couldn't afford at the time, the HP computers definitely seemed pretty cool to me, and I'm sure the quality of HP calculators lent to the appeal.