Anyone have PDF - Readers Digest 9 / 1975 page 115

[Gene]

Article was titled "Put a computer in your pocket". I see the reference in HP 65 Key Notes V1N5P6 and not sure I have ever seen the article.

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Gene

[ Edited to correct the Key Notes reference... oops ]

[Albert Chan]

Not pdf, but ebay is selling physical copy

Reader's Digest September, 1975, vol 107, #641
Put a Computer in Your Pocket ... Shreveport magazine, page 115-119

[hewlpac]

[quote='Gene' pid='135688' dateline='1598537517']
Article was titled "Put a computer in your pocket". I see the reference in 65 Notes V1N5P6 and not sure I have ever seen the article.

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Gene


https://backissues.com/issue/Readers-Dig...ember-1975

[rprosperi]

Here's a copy of the Reader's Digest article.

Kind of disappointing content if you ask me, but wanted to share it to fill in another tiny piece of calculator history here.

Thanks to Jake Schwartz for the nice scan!

I don't think "65 Notes" V1N5P6 is the right reference? That was from 1974 and the referenced article is from Sept 1976.

[BruceH]

(10-23-2020 04:38 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Here's a copy of the Reader's Digest article.
Kind of disappointing content if you ask me, but wanted to share it to fill in another tiny piece of calculator history here.

Depends what you're looking for. I love the little phrases that really date the article, in particular: Now there are two-, even three-calculator families.

And, what audience these days could cope with a fraction as cumbersome as "...all in machines 1/270,000 as large as their ancestors"?

[Fred Lusk]

From the third page: "Each brain consists of a crystal, or "chip," of pure silicon..." (emphasis mine), immediately followed by a contradictory description of the chip as a metal oxide semiconductor.

Well, at least the author didn't describe the chip at potato or corn. :-)

[rprosperi]

(10-23-2020 10:44 PM)BruceH Wrote:  

(10-23-2020 04:38 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Here's a copy of the Reader's Digest article.
Kind of disappointing content if you ask me, but wanted to share it to fill in another tiny piece of calculator history here.

Depends what you're looking for. I love the little phrases that really date the article, in particular: Now there are two-, even three-calculator families.

And, what audience these days could cope with a fraction as cumbersome as "...all in machines 1/270,000 as large as their ancestors"?

I agree that the article surely dates itself by references, phrases and the like, but since it was referred to as a 'Must See' article in HP's newsletter, I expected more HP focus and HP-65 specifics; still it does include a who's who of the early players, HP, Rockwell, NatSemi, etc. and some good 'these machines take a licking and keep on ticking' stories.

And I found the original reference; it was in that issue (V1N5P6) of 'HP-65 Key Note', HP's predecessor of the 'Key Notes' newsletter, and not '65 Notes', the predecessor of the PPC Calculator Journal. Now who could ever mix those up??

[Albert Chan]

Quote:A calculator was propelled through a snowblower last winter; another was run over by a trailer truck in Houston.
Both proved still usable after minor repairs

What happen if the calculator was propelled through a snowblower, without snow ?

And, run over by a truck may not be as bad as we think (don't do this at home)

[twdeckard]

I think this is profound. September 1975 and the magazine had articles on climate change, pocket computers, Biblical Archeology, and the debate over fossil fuel development and pipelines. All in a periodical intended for the average coffee table. It reminds me of the days of the Amateur Scientist articles in the back of Sci American, that expected a home inventor to be curious enough about rockets, radiation, seismography to build real instruments. Even the pocket calculator article portends google translate, outlook contacts, and even Neuralink. In 1975, delivered in a Readers Digest.

Is there a modern example?

[Nate]

I’d be interested to see how the condensed version compares to the original article published in the August 1975 issue of Shreveport Magazine.