The greatest HP breakthrough Scientific calcs

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

I really only see the HP-35 as the "greatest breakthrough" in scientific calculators. Everything we are talking about here already existed in the form of desktop calculators and/or workstations many years before.

It was a bold move from HP to try and miniaturise a scientific desktop calculator into a handheld battery powered device. But once it had been done with the 35, everything else was just a logical consequence (programmability, I/O capability, continuous memory, alphanumerics, high level programming language, symbolics, ...) and implemented into handheld devices not only by HP but other manufacturers as well.

Regards
Max