Anyone have PDF - Readers Digest 9 / 1975 page 115

[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??