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Hewlett-Packard Calculators - The First Family

The first half of the 1970s was something of a boom time for calculator manufaturers. The machines were something of a novelty and were often staggeringly expensive - often costing...

HP85: It works like a big computer, only it's yours

HP's 85, launched this year, was billed as a "scientific desktop" computer. It was built around the company's own proprietary CPU, running at a surprisingly-slow 0.625MHz. However...

"Discover the full professional power of Hewlett-Packard's personal computer"

Hewlett-Packard, which like Commodore, TI and Tandy also had a line in calculators, had launched its HP-85 micro at the beginning of 1980, with the machine even originating from th...

Astronaut quality. Everyday simplicity. The HP-41C. £184

Hewlett-Packard, like Commodore in the 1970s, was also a calculator manufacturer - although Commodore had bailed out of that market the year before, in 1981. This particular mod...

After you ask what it can do for you now, ask what it can do for you later: HP-86

More proof that it took at least a few years for the IBM PC format to bulldoze everything in its path, comes this advert for the Hewlett-Packard HP-86. Looking a bit like a very...

HP 9000: Today, HP can give you full 32-bit power

At around the same time as HP was dabbling in the mainstream microcomputer market with machines like its HP-86, released in 1982 and which retailed for $2,820, which is about £8,8...

My job takes me away from my PC - but nothing takes me away from my Hewlett-Packard Portable

Staking a claim to the entire industry of laptop (or lap-held) computers with a highly generic name of The Portable, HP's laptop was from the era of portable computers with chunky...