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My April fool's wish - the HP-80B or DM-80B
04-01-2021, 08:44 PM
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My April fool's wish - the HP-80B or DM-80B
This was presented some years ago at an HHC conference. Jake Schwartz and I worked it up as an "ultimate" programmable financial machine.

At the time, one objection we heard from HP was that there was ** no way ** the screen could ever be so close to the edge of the unit. Well, Swiss Micros showed that was not correct. :-)

Screen was an off the shelf HP-50G style LCD. Alpha would have been HP-42S style. FOCAL style programming.

Sigh. Don't think this will ever exist, but fun to imagine.

Gene


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04-02-2021, 12:50 AM
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RE: My April fool's wish - the HP-80B or DM-80B
I like the perennial April Fool's one that has HLT CTCH FIRE buttons.

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04-02-2021, 10:28 AM
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RE: My April fool's wish - the HP-80B or DM-80B
(04-01-2021 08:44 PM)Gene Wrote:  Sigh. Don't think this will ever exist, but fun to imagine.

Wonderful concept, beats the heck out of the dozens proposed since...

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