Magnetic Card Questions

[Jake Schwartz]

This brings back memories of the late Dean Lampman (PPC member #41 and founder of the Dayton, Ohio PPC chapter; also discoverer of "Lampman Split Logic" on the HP-65") recalling to us at the end of the HHC2001 conference in Chicago how he had gotten to beta-test the HP-65 in 1973. HP had supplied only very few mag cards for him to use, so he began to make his own from cutting out small sections of larger-sized cards (like the ones in the HP-9100A/B) and they worked. However, when he gleefully told HP what he had done, they replied with a "cease-and-desist" notice. Another example of "no good deed going unpunished" :-)

Jake