I love old programmables, but this?

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(04-01-2023 06:20 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Well the desktop calculators on the HP side weren't similar in size? Still awesome piece of tech in my view.

Just being slightly facetious about this amazing piece of historical technology that rarely shows up online. The HP-9100 is also an amazing piece of technology.

The form factor of these machines is largely imposed by the constraints of early discrete circuitry in the late 60s/early 70s, e.g. consisting of diode-resistor logic and magnetic cores.

Historical programmable systems like these are amazing. Collecting them requires a lot of space and willingness to maintain and repair them, versus pocket computers and calculators that require little. I wish I had unlimited funds, space, and time

- Rob