HP Origins ft HP-35 Death of the Slide Rule

In 17 chapters: Death of the Slide Rule is at 12:00
Chapter 1 (Intro: Garage scenes)
Chapter 2 Origins
Chapter 3 The Early Days
Chapter 4 Dave & Bill
Chapter 5 The Purpose of a Company
Chapter 6 Contribution
Chapter 7 Good Friends
Chapter 8 #10:22 Management by Walking Around (ft. Woz)
Chapter 9 #12:00 Death of the Slide Rule
Chapter 10 #13:54 Serving a Worldwide Need
Chapter 11 #16:00 Trust in People
Chapter 12 Medal of Defiance
Chapter 13 Change
Chapter 14 Creating Entrepreneurs
Chapter 15 Looking Forward
Chapter 16 (Credits)
Chapter 17 (Special Thanks)
From archive.org/details/HPOrigins

[@harryhef]

I was privileged to be in the conference room at HP's Loveland Instrument Division (LID) in about 1971 with a group of engineers clustered about Bill Hewlett when he said words like, "Hey guys, take a look at this!", and pulled out of his left front shirt pocket the first HP-35 that I had ever seen. It was a late prototype unit, and a few months later the HP-35, the world's first pocket calculator and the first pocket scientific calculator, was introduced to the world. It ultimately sold about 300,000 units!

[@josephcote6120]

Sad to see how much HP/Agilent/etc has drifted away from the original vision.

[@Believer21777]

I still use a concrete volume slide rule from that is 50 years old

[@joseluisrodriguez5302]

4 years to have 7000 visits ? what a prosaic world we have !

[@peterhaagen8506]

The did make the HP 41 calculator. For me the best thing I ever did buy. 😊 I still have it and use it.

[@threadripper979]

What a great story. It makes me sad to see what idiot CEOs have done to their legacy.

[@analogdesigner]

Sadly the "old" HP is long gone...

[@tongxu721]

It‘s not a good story.😭😭😭

[@QuasarRedshift]

... and then came Carly Fiorina to fuck it all up ...

[@pablopicaro7649]

have a USA made 1143A series, got it at garage sale or who knows where, need new battery cells. and need a power supply, back cover not damaged by disassembly

[@hisheighnessthesupremebeing]

HP: two people in a garage building a company --> true Apple: two people in a garage building a company --> marketing bullshit

[@xoio]

Probably Posted from an iphone.