Dr. Dobbs..

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Tue Dec 8 19:59:59 1998

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 DaveyGF_at_aol.com wrote:

> I didn't make any claims that MITS calculator was on par with HP.

Sorry, reading more closely, I see you were just posting an ad from ebay:

<<
This extremely rare calculator has a red LED display and the usual four
functions (+, -, *, and /) as well as square root, 1/x, x^2, percent, and
memory keys. It was marketed about the same time that Hewlett Packard got
into the business.
>>

The calc was made in the 70's and HP got into the calc biz in the 60's, so
it's factually wrong, and including HP in the sentence seems to be a
non-sequitur.

By 1974, probably close to when the MITS calc was made, HP had introduced
the HP65, which was basically a hand-held computer, and in a league of its
own (my first "computer").

-- Doug
Received on Tue Dec 08 1998 - 19:59:59 GMT