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
"The new Hewlett-Packard 9100A personal computer" is "ready, willing, and able... to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer."
Electronic calculator prototype, made by Thomas E. Osborne for Hewlett-Packard, 1964, in the National Museum of American History
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company. It was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 in a on
Hewlett-Packard 9100A
…The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (HP 9100A) is an early programmable calculator (or computer), 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…
Headquarters in Palo Alto, California
The garage in Palo Alto, where Hewlett and Packard began the company
The HP200A, a precision audio oscillator, was the company's first financially successful product.
Introduced in 1968, "The new Hewlett-Packard 9100A personal computer is ready, willing, and able ... to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer."