29-04-2016, 02:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 29-04-2016, 02:43 PM by peter scott.)
Hi Alan,
Thanks for relating the story. It's really nice to hear of such a system nearly up and running again. I worked in Hewlett-Packard's R&D lab in South Queensferry for most of my working life and when I first started in the early 1970s the single lab computer was a rather similar machine, an HP 2116. We also had an HP 9100A programmable scientific calculator on a trolley shared by about 70 engineers. It had a flag pole mounted on the trolley so you could see where it was in the open plan office. It too had a core memory holding up to 50 register operations. I subsequently acquired an HP9100A, currently gathering dust in my attick and no doubt still remembering what I last programmed it to do despite having not been played with for a decade or so.
Peter
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![[Image: HP9100A.jpg]](http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Personal/images/HP9100A.jpg)
Thanks for relating the story. It's really nice to hear of such a system nearly up and running again. I worked in Hewlett-Packard's R&D lab in South Queensferry for most of my working life and when I first started in the early 1970s the single lab computer was a rather similar machine, an HP 2116. We also had an HP 9100A programmable scientific calculator on a trolley shared by about 70 engineers. It had a flag pole mounted on the trolley so you could see where it was in the open plan office. It too had a core memory holding up to 50 register operations. I subsequently acquired an HP9100A, currently gathering dust in my attick and no doubt still remembering what I last programmed it to do despite having not been played with for a decade or so.
Peter
