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To the moon, HP-67!!!! Or not.
03-02-2014, 08:50 PM
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RE: To the moon, HP-67!!!! Or not.
(03-02-2014 08:00 PM)Matt Agajanian Wrote:  I remember reading here, other HP ads among other resources that the HP-65 was part of some of NASA/JPL's missions (i.e. Soyuz).

Correct. Compare "the" manual, pp. 76 and 235. Smile

Quote:And I remember that infamous photo of Sally Ride with a few HP-41s in the background.

Why is that photo infamous? Because NASA didn't listen to its own engineer? That's neither Sally's nor the photographer's fault. It was caused by marketing and politics outweighing technical reasoning, AFAIK.

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