Your First Handheld?

[ColinJDenman]

(11-20-2015 06:15 PM)TASP Wrote:  We had one of these bad boys before the TI.

It could be carried around, but it wasn't really 'hand held'. My sis and I were fascinated with the thing.

Might be in my basement somewhere. No batteries or cords, seems like there was a ribbon in it.

Gods teeth. I used to play with one of these in the office on my dad's ship, back in 1967. Either the same or a very similar model -- the circular operator control stick thing at the top right was especially fun. Kept me occupied for hours. Endless yards of printout.

My first encounter with proper hand-helds was a HP-21 (?) in the 70s. Got my dad's hand-me-down 5 function PYE-640 in 1975, a Nat-Semi 4525 RPN Programmer in 76 and a HP-41C in 80/1, then a HP-16C in 83. Still got 'em all. Did buy a Prime a couple of years ago, bu that's hardly in the same pedigree as the older HPs.