Happy Birthday HP-35

[Jake Schwartz]

(01-10-2022 11:20 AM)TomC Wrote:  Their naivete' was shown by the initial estimate of annual production of 10,000 units whereas the demand was on the order of 100,000 units.

TomC

At the HHC2008 conference in Corvallis, retired HP employee Sharon Butterfield reminisced about the early HP-35 days, whereby they didn't have a process to handle checks and cash for HP-35 sales. So as the orders came in, they stashed the cash and checks into a file cabinet until it filled to the gills, whereby they started using a second one. Finally, when they convinced the higher-ups that they needed some sort of method to process the incoming funds, there were multiple (I think she said three) full cabinets with cash and checks - hundreds of thousands of dollars worth - which were finally scooped up and processed. What a nice problem to have! :-)
Jake