What group made it?

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Hello,

Calculators used to be in Corvalis, Oregon, up to 1998 or so... So, all calcs created before that came form that group. This included all calcs up to the HP38G...
Note that at the end, the calculator group was part of the larger PDA division which included the 95LX series and the Jordanas. This division was based in Singapore, but the calc work was still in Corvalis.

In 98, calculators moved to Melbourne, Australia (when I joined), we worked on the 49 39 series, remade the 10BII and 12C at the time. We worked on a number of aborted projects also... This lasted 4 years until the division was killed by Carly Fiorina...

in 2002, it was restarted with the head in San Diego and R&D (basically me) in Boise Idaho, with the help of Hydrix, a company in Melbourne, staffed with... you guessed it, old calculator engineers, we developed the "app series" 50G and the like based on the ARM chip emulating the Saturn. At kind of the same time, we also did a new 17BII+ and 12C platinum...
Forward some more years and we had the 20B series, more 12C/10B redesigns due to CPU changes... At this point, Tim joined me...
Some more years and we did the 39GII+ and now Prime. Throw in some more 10BII and 12C redesign in the mix...By then, I had moved to Europe...

Here you go, the rough story...