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John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:11:16 -0700, "David L. Jones"
><altzone@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>For those interested, here is a 1 hour interview with Dave Cochran
>>from HP Labs, the designer of HP's first digital voltmeter and the
>>early calculators including the HP 35. The interview is in honor of
>>the 35th anniversary of the HP 35.
>>
>>http://www.viddler.com/explore/sleibson/videos/2/
>>
>>Dave.
>
>I would love to contact any surviving HP calculator designers from
>that era. I have two dead 9100's that I'll either fix (if I can find
>schematics) or toss into the dumpster (if I can't.)
>
>John
>

Now you are talking calculators! If I was foolish enough to collect
anything, I think it would be calculators - and HP35 and HP9100 would
be high on my list of ones to start with.

At around $5000 when introduced, I was never going to own a HP9100.
Heck at around $400 I was not even going to own a HP35 either, but I
did have the chance to spend many, many hours "playing" with both of
them.

The 9100 weighed about 16kg but I can assure you it was portable! I
helped somebody take one on a small boat to do some survey position
calculations. I can still remember the other bloke as he nonchalantly
stepped on to the boat with the borrowed 9100 under his arm, and the
visions I had of it ending up at the bottom of the harbour. Not to
mention the Honda generator we had to take with us to power the
thing... 

Andy Wood
woodag@trap.ozemail.com.au