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Fluff
Message #1 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 9 Oct 2000, 12:07 a.m.

Has anyone else noticed that the HP family picture <http://www.hpmuseum.org/gallery/family.jpg> provided by HP on this site doesn't have the correct Woodstock series calculators. It shows 7 of them, shouldn't there be just 6 of them. As far as I can tell, it duplicates the 25C and the 21 and leaves out the 25. I know that this is total fluff, but they seem to have the rest of the family correct.

BTW, Dave, is there a way to include a hot http link in your recently upgraded formatting language?

      
Re: Fluff
Message #2 Posted by Viktor Toth on 9 Oct 2000, 8:39 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Katie Wasserman

Actually, it seems that the HP-25 isn't the only one missing from the picture. I can't see the HP-10C anywhere either, and it's hard to tell, but there appear to be some anomalies with the Pioneers (either the II models are not included and there's an extra machine there, or some models are missing.) Lastly, I see only one machine that looks like the 18C/19B/19BII (although there's one closed Champion, one of the anniversary specials I presume?)

Viktor

      
Re: Fluff
Message #3 Posted by Dave Hicks on 9 Oct 2000, 10:24 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Katie Wasserman

You can include images like:

that... Just enter [http://www.hpmuseum.org/gallery/family.jpg]

            
Re: Fluff
Message #4 Posted by Peter Khor on 9 Oct 2000, 3:14 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Dave Hicks

Show-off; I'm really drooling now ;-) (I presume it's from you collection, rather than a HP publicity shot)

Made it as my new desktop wallpaper even as I type ... which btw does bring up a question, are they any HP 'Collectors' Calc desktop theme/screen saver/wallpaper? Is that a little too obsessive to ask for?

                  
Re: Fluff
Message #5 Posted by Dave Hicks on 9 Oct 2000, 3:54 p.m.,
in response to message #4 by Peter Khor

No this is an HP shot that was provided for use here. I don't know if my "studio space" is big enough to get a shot like that. I'd have to hang the camera from the ceiling or something.

I've been working on taking some additional shots of calculators - mostly three quarter views to show the overall shape and compliment the straight-on views that I already have. None of these are up yet.

                        
Re: Fluff
Message #6 Posted by Reinhard Hawel on 9 Oct 2000, 7:06 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by Dave Hicks

Do you have the photo or a better scan?

I have access to a Mutoh large format plotter and printed it at 36" paper. It's nice, bot 1000 * 1000 pixels on 36" isn't that great... I made a test print some hours ago. The poster could get even larger, if I'd change the paper roll...

2000*2000 or even 3000*3000 would be o.k. :-)

I have a negative scanner (Canon something, I don't know the exact number, but it's the expensive model) at work, so I could provide the file, if you trust me so far and send me a photo or negative or whatever you have.

                              
Re: Fluff
Message #7 Posted by Dave Hicks on 9 Oct 2000, 8:40 p.m.,
in response to message #6 by Reinhard Hawel

I believe the original TIFF from HP was in the 10s of megabytes but I think it was rather soft and may not have much more detail than the scaled down version.

                                    
Re: Fluff
Message #8 Posted by Reinhard Hawel on 9 Oct 2000, 10:09 p.m.,
in response to message #7 by Dave Hicks

I can see the single pixels in my plotted poster.

            
Re: Fluff
Message #9 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 9 Oct 2000, 4:14 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Dave Hicks

Dave,

I read in your instructions that I could included images as you just demonstrated. But for those of us who are "bandwidth challenged" a pointer is nicer to have so that you can view a picture or (more importantly) a web page at your leisure.

-Katie

                  
Re: Fluff
Message #10 Posted by Dave Hicks on 9 Oct 2000, 7:49 p.m.,
in response to message #9 by Katie Wasserman

That you can't do yet - perhaps in a future update.


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