Slightly OT: Reviews of HP-41C & HP-150 in Byte Magazine Message #1 Posted by Bill (Smithville, NJ) on 16 Sept 2008, 6:38 a.m.
This past Sunday I attended the Vintage Computer Festival East 5.0. Got to hear a talk by Bill Mauchly , who is the son of John Mauchly, co-developer of the Eniac. Very enjoyable and interesting. Also got to see a lot of Vintage computers in operation.
While there, I picked up a stack of Byte Magazines from the early 1980's. In the January 1981 issue is a great review of the HP-41C - 11 pages long! The issue also had an article on Generating Bar Code in Hewlett-Packard Format written by Thomas McNeal of Hewlett-Packard.
In another issue, October 1983, was a review of the HP-150. This also included an interview with the Hp-150 Design-team Leaders.
I had forgotten how good and complete the articles were in Byte. Can you imagine a magazine today doing 10-20 page in-depth articles on one subject or (as was the case in Byte) long multi-part articles spread over several issues.
I'm having a blast reading these articles and looking over all the old advertisements. I especially like the ad for dBase II - The headline reads: dBASE II vs. the Bilge Pumps. and shows two photos - dBASE II in left photo and a Bilge Pump in the photo on the right.
Bill
Smithville, NJ
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