On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:50:03 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> wrote:
> >IBM 5100 1973 at Palo Alto Science Center >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100 > Besides the IBM 5100, there were other desktop machines that could be called computers. Two that I personally encountered were the Datapoint 2200 from 1971, and the HP 9100 from 1968. Some may say that the HP 9100 was only a calculator, but Bill Hewlett himself supposedly said that HP called it a calculator rather than a computer as a marketing ploy (knowing that potential customers could more easily justify the purchase of a "calculator" than of a "computer". In context of that video, the HP 9100 is particularly significant - Athur C. Clarke had been presented with one by HP in 1970. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
