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Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #1 Posted by Pal G. on 24 Sept 2011, 1:09 p.m.

Please let us know, so we can listen in.

Thanks.

      
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #2 Posted by Bruce Bergman on 24 Sept 2011, 6:42 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Pal G.

There's ZERO wifi available, so it would have to be via phone, and cell coverage out in this area is crummy.

It's almost like they're TRYING to block us from getting to the net. ;-)

            
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #3 Posted by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) on 25 Sept 2011, 2:20 a.m.,
in response to message #2 by Bruce Bergman

And we have an NDA to obey too...

                  
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #4 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 25 Sept 2011, 3:10 a.m.,
in response to message #3 by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina)

At least it was a full day...

I'm just back but after having emptied a bottle of wine with my wife I'm not very good at reporting. We saw interesting stuff from the community (new non HP hardware is on the horizon), very serious programming efforts for existing platforms, and some enlightening reports about the new 15C (benchmarks and such) or the 41CL. I'm pretty sure the non HP efforts will soon be published by the respective persons. I'm posting my and Neil's presentations on SF.

                        
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #5 Posted by hpnut on 25 Sept 2011, 5:03 a.m.,
in response to message #4 by Marcus von Cube, Germany

Hi Marcus, pls share with us.

                              
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #6 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 26 Sept 2011, 2:28 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by hpnut

The second day was far less exciting (and exhausting) as day one but it had its highlights, too. I very much enjoyed Richard Nelson talking about how the PPC ROM was put together by the community before the Internet and what huge effort was necessary to mail out the boxes to the PPC members. Richard should do a wright-up on this.

BTW, the folks at the conference are a nice crowd. I felt very comfortable with them.

                  
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #7 Posted by Eric Smith on 25 Sept 2011, 8:49 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina)

You mean we can't tell them about the HP 51g?

                        
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #8 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 26 Sept 2011, 2:23 p.m.,
in response to message #7 by Eric Smith

I forgot the model number, was 51 or 15? ;-)

NDA is NDA is NDA is...

                        
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #9 Posted by Martin Pinckney on 26 Sept 2011, 3:15 p.m.,
in response to message #7 by Eric Smith

I would not want to be one of you guys who knew something terrific about a new release, but had to keep it secret for ... a year, in the case of the 15c LE.

                        
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #10 Posted by Steve Simpkin on 27 Sept 2011, 2:00 p.m.,
in response to message #7 by Eric Smith

Of course in Eric's case, if HP doesn't make the calculator he wants, he will "simply" make it himself, from scratch. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the presentations at HHC2011, but Eric's was astounding....

      
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #11 Posted by David Hayden on 25 Sept 2011, 8:05 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Pal G.

We just finished up and it was another great conference. The attendance was quite high (I think Gene said 67) and the talks were wonderful.

We heard from Dennis Harms, Product Manager (I think that was his title) of the HP 12C. He had some great stories. In the introductions, he said "if you press a math key on an HP calculator, that's probably some of my code you're running."

I think the highlight for me was the WP 34S. Marcus von Cube gave a great talk about it, Jake Schwartz talked about the 16C functionality in it, and Eric Rechlin explained his keyboard overlays, complete with a demonstration on installing them. I sat across from Eric and he spent most of the conference flashing 20b's and 30b's into 34S's. This is certainly an exciting machine.

Of course we heard lots of great stuff from HP also, including a Q&A session with the developers, marketing, product management etc. Information from HP is covered under the NDA that we must all sign, but trust me, it's very interesting and for me, the confidential information is reason enough to attend the conferences.

There were many other talks but I don't have time right now to go into them. Joe Horn won the Best Speaker prize.

Dave

            
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #12 Posted by Walter B on 26 Sept 2011, 1:24 a.m.,
in response to message #11 by David Hayden

Now we who could not attend are all waiting for the proceedings to be published. Also individual files are appreciated :-)

Edited: 26 Sept 2011, 1:28 a.m.

            
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #13 Posted by Olivier (Wa) on 26 Sept 2011, 1:55 a.m.,
in response to message #11 by David Hayden

I believe it was higher, in the mid-70, as we had at least a #74 ticket called during the door prizes drawing. Richard did mention something like 88 people signed-up and maybe 76 ended-up showing-up.

                  
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #14 Posted by Eric Rechlin on 27 Sept 2011, 10:53 a.m.,
in response to message #13 by Olivier (Wa)

I think 74 was the highest ticket, and there were another 4 or so HP people who came by but did not have to register, for a total of about 78.

Eric

                        
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #15 Posted by gene wright on 27 Sept 2011, 11:35 a.m.,
in response to message #14 by Eric Rechlin

74 was the highest ticket - Jeremy Smith, but he came after the HP people. I think we had 68 total non-HP attendees this year.

                              
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #16 Posted by Jake Schwartz on 27 Sept 2011, 1:25 p.m.,
in response to message #15 by gene wright

Quote:
74 was the highest ticket - Jeremy Smith, but he came after the HP people. I think we had 68 total non-HP attendees this year

I believe that the total including HP folks was 69 or 70 back in 2007 when we were last in San Diego with the intro of the 34S, so this one beats that and easily is the largest attendance in a couple of decades. FYI, the 8/22/1981 conference in Corvallis when the 41 series was "fresh", attracted 180 people. This not only included a barbecue on the HP grounds, but a plant tour, where we got to see the manufacturing area as well as the R&D area. A few of us got early glimpses of the HP11C and 12C machines, to be officially announced only 3 weeks later. Ultimately, that manufacturing area built Voyager machines on an assembly line with robots controlled over HP-IL by HP71Bs. Is that cool, or what?

Jake

                                    
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #17 Posted by Jake Schwartz on 27 Sept 2011, 1:26 p.m.,
in response to message #16 by Jake Schwartz

Quote:
...last in San Diego with the intro of the 34S,

I actually meant 35S. I have "34S" on the brain!!!

Jake

                                          
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #18 Posted by Walter B on 27 Sept 2011, 2:56 p.m.,
in response to message #17 by Jake Schwartz

Quote:
I have "34S" on the brain!!!
Feel free to continue this way - you're welcome :-)
Actually, "Imagine" was in 2008 IIRC.

Edited: 27 Sept 2011, 2:58 p.m.

                                    
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #19 Posted by Egan Ford on 27 Sept 2011, 4:05 p.m.,
in response to message #16 by Jake Schwartz

Quote:
Ultimately, that manufacturing area built Voyager machines on an assembly line with robots controlled over HP-IL by HP71Bs.
So what you are saying is that the 71B created the Voyager line in it's own image? Fascinating. :-)
Quote:
Is that cool, or what?
That is awesome. I would have loved to have seen that (or video's or pictures).

                                    
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #20 Posted by hpnut on 28 Sept 2011, 8:56 p.m.,
in response to message #16 by Jake Schwartz

Quote:

a plant tour, where we got to see the manufacturing area as well as the R&D area. A few of us got early glimpses of the HP11C and 12C machines, to be officially announced only 3 weeks later. Ultimately, that manufacturing area built Voyager machines on an assembly line with robots controlled over HP-IL by HP71Bs. Is that cool, or what?

Jake

now that's a factory tour that I would love to go!

                                    
Re: Anyone 'tweeting' from HHC2011?
Message #21 Posted by Dominic Richens on 29 Sept 2011, 11:27 a.m.,
in response to message #16 by Jake Schwartz

Quote:
Ultimately, that manufacturing area built Voyager machines on an assembly line with robots controlled over HP-IL by HP71Bs. Is that cool, or what?

Maybe someone should talk to James Cameron - perhaps the HP-15C can make a cameo in Terminator 5!

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