HP Forum Archive 13

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Just a few Thoughts on Times Past Message #1 Posted by Trent Moseley on 18 June 2003, 11:23 p.m. I was watching TV's "History Channel" about our first space shuttle in 1981. That was before the HP-15C! And then I remember in HP's Key-Notes a photo showing the Astronauts on board with an HP-67. tm

Re: Just a few Thoughts on Times Past Message #2 Posted by Randy Sloyer on 18 June 2003, 11:47 p.m., in response to message #1 by Trent Moseley IIRC, the first on-board nav computer contained a whopping 4k of plated wire memory so the HP was a pretty powerful backup!

Re: Just a few Thoughts on Times Past Message #3 Posted by gene on 19 June 2003, 12:03 a.m., in response to message #1 by Trent Moseley FYI, the shuttle astronauts did not use the HP-67, but the HP-41c.

first launch of the shuttle was 34C days ... Message #4 Posted by Norm on 19 June 2003, 2:55 a.m., in response to message #3 by gene when they launched the shuttle, that's when the HP-34C was a hot new item .... where's the exit door, I'm tired of this Bill Gates nightmare called "the future" I wanna go back to the good old days ...

Re: Just a few Thoughts on Times Past Message #5 Posted by Larry Corrado, USA (WI) on 19 June 2003, 7:54 a.m., in response to message #4 by Norm "I wanna go back to the good old days ..." I know exactly what Norm means. Too often I feel exactly that same way. The Michael Meyer post a bit higher in this Forum reinforces this notion. Larry

Re: Just a few Thoughts on Times Past Message #6 Posted by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) on 19 June 2003, 8:04 a.m., in response to message #1 by Trent Moseley I think that the HP65 (or maybe -67) was used in the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous.

Re: Just a few Thoughts on Times Past Message #7 Posted by Trent Moseley on 19 June 2003, 3:16 p.m., in response to message #6 by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) Whatever. How would you like THAT ONE in your collection! tm

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