On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:30:52 -0600, Andy Wood wrote: > >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". > Expensive calculator vs. low-priced computer. Perhaps somewhat thereafter DEC was advertising the PDP-8 with such as "Aha! The old 'computer in a gas chromatograph trick!'" And a coworker of mine told of an experience in a physics lab of outflanking the IT Politburo by ordering an expansion memory as an "addressable latch".
I suppose there persists a "doughnut hole" between the desktop and the Enterprise where IT continues to obstruct purchases, according to Parkinson's Law of Triviality. >In context of that video, the HP 9100 is particularly significant - Athur C. >Clarke had been presented with one by HP in 1970. > Is that Clarke? I'm not entirely familiar with his appearance. And the filming location? Sri Lanka? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
