Happy Birthday HP-35

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I have so many memories of the wonder of the HP-35 that my dad bought and received in the springtime of 1973. I still have a fondness for my slide rules, but this was just on a whole new modern age level! The meteorology department at Florida State University had 2 desks for students with HP-35’s secured to cradles on the desktop to use in the meteorology department library. Many of the professors, of course, all had them. I still have my dad’s unit in mint condition in my work library. I still get a kick out of the manual that spoke of this being something that a Walter Mitty or a Dick Tracy might have…