Happy Birthday HP Calculators!
I stumbled upon a little banner on the HP home page celebrating 35 years of the HP calculator. It’s amazing to think that the handheld calculator is only 35 years old. It’s one of those inventions that we just take for granted, particularly since most of the work done today is done on PCs (in my case, a Mac). I remember spending many hours while in college plowing through pages of physics, chemistry, calculus and engineering courses with my HP calculator (mine was a 32s, and I still use it to this day — it’s 1 year shy of being in continuous use for 20 years, and the day it decides to no longer function, it will be replaced with another HP calculator).
Yet another innovation from the Santa Clara Valley!
Happy Birthday HP Calculator!
Visit the HP calculator anniversary site.
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