HP97 The journey begins

[hpux735]

That's amazing.

I have the pleasure of living in Corvallis, OR (on Circle Pl, which intersects Circle Blvd; that should be familiar). Anyway, I was talking to a friend of mine about the HP97, and it turns out he plays bridge with one of the HP engineers that's old enough to have worked on a lot of these calculators. My friend didn't remember which calculator model he worked on, but he did say that they don't have any of the original source code for any of the microcode on these, and that the newer units literally emulate the old systems, and that they just use the original microcode.