Reading old HP-65 program cards

[Didier Lachieze]

(03-04-2021 04:00 AM)teenix Wrote:  

(03-04-2021 03:36 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  The lack of power pins on the back is mighty interesting!

Maybe with the super cautious approach to missions, they decided that open battery contacts presented too much of a possibility of shorts with something and didn't want to add the risk.

The same modification was done on the HP-41C units that were on-board the Space Shuttle according to this source:

Quote:HP only made two “custom” modifications to the machines NASA finally bought. First, NASA wanted a quartz clock/timer/alarm in the machine, so HP developed and debugged the Timer Module (in record time) for them. Second, NASA had HP weld shut the AC adapter hatch and the the expansion ports, to keep any static electricity from leaking in or out of the machine.