Your First Handheld?

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I purchased a Picket in 1970. My dad excitedly opened the package that arrived one June day in 1973 while I was home from college...an HP 35! I have it on my desk in mint condition along with it' big plastic case that has room for calculator, charger, spare batteries, and instruction book where it states that HP wanted you to have something like James Bond, Walter Mitty, or Dick Tracy were supposed to own. Next to it is my best college slide rule, the Faber-Castell Mathema 2/84 N. My 1st calculator was the TI SR-50 followed by an HP 25C that I programmed with a simple formula to calculate the SWEAT weather index that is used to forecast the potential of severe thunderstorms (I'm a meteorologist). Took the big plunge for an HP 67 in 1977. My best program on it utilizing the black magnetic cards was playing out the entire 1970 American League baseball season (each team had it's players on a card). I've enjoyed a lot of HP's since those days up to the Prime, HP 39gii of today. Also, of course, the WP 34S.