Amusing history:
> The Hewlett-Packard 9100A is an early programmable calculator, first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM.
I would be surprised if any of these could be easily found for sale. I just did a quick look via Google and eBay, and found nothing.
If you find one, do let me know. I only experienced them because I went to a ritzy private school. They were exceedingly uncommon.
I didnt find any either, and will do.
Amusingly, I hated it. I also wasn't really into math then - but that didn't change. I didn't actually start really liking computers until they got over 1.5 GHz. Prior to that, it was a love-hate relationship, with mostly hate. I had to use them, otherwise I'd have had no career. They pretty much fucking sucked until not that many years ago.
This does not stop me from playing Zork. It stops me from writing anything in BASIC.
I did have an old FLOG (golf) game on tape. A buddy called me with his acoustic coupler, I wired in my jack, and recorded it. Arrr! I be piratin' 'fore yon web was world wide, matey! In hindsight, that game sucked too.
300 baud, screamin! hehe. At this point id almost take the step back in time to the early BBS/Usenet/Gopher days (i still use the last two), this iteration pretty much sucks. Crossing my fingers for another Carrington Event so we can start over!
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