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Strategies & Market Trends : Bill Wexler's Profits of DOOM
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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (449)3/17/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell   of 4634
 
Re: The myth of Chiang inventing the HP 35 calculator

Thanks to Kevin Watson, I got a copy of Dave Stewart's original newsletter touting ZITL. He said: "In the 60s, Chiang invented the Hewlett Packard HP35 hand-held calculator..."

Well, for fun, I checked out HP's web site and in a matter of seconds found this:
When HP introduced the HP 35 -- the first scientific handheld calculator -- a small revolution took place in shirt pockets around the world. It began in the early 1970s, when HP co-founder Bill Hewlett, impressed by the small size of an arithmetic calculator he'd seen, became convinced that HP could expand the technology into a pocket-size calculator capable of performing trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions. The result was the HP 35 -- a product that fundamentally changed the way engineers, scientists, mathematicians and students worked and banished the slide rule to the history books.

Source:
hp.com

Looks like Stewart even got the decade wrong.

- Jeff
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