A new book about the history of the pocket calculator

[jonmoore]

This quote come from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Cambridge University).

Quote:During World War II in the United States, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the fastest machine to date, to calculate firing tables for the military. At Bletchley Park, British codebreakers and engineers produced the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, Colosus, to aid in the cracking of German ciphers.

https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/expl...ng-devices

This timeline (I suspect) will inform the basis of the "helped build the Atomic Bomb" aspect of the PR blurb. Although the precision and logic of zero's and ones have never informed PR, something which HP always understood only too well.