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Hand Picked: HP 75C Handheld Computer
The HP 75C was the first product Hewlett-Packard designed and marketed as a full-blown handheld computer rather than a calculator. The 75C was programmable in BASIC, had a magnetic card reader and use ...
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HP 25C: A Calculator Worth C-ing
The HP 25C handheld calculator was Hewlett-Packard’s first programmable handheld product with “continuous memory,” meaning that it could retain information after the device was turned off without requ ...
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HP Jornada 420: A Window Into the Future
The Jornada 420 changed what people thought was possible from portable electronics. It was the first device with a color screen to combine Windows software and e-mail capability in a package that coul ...
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HP Omnibook 300: One of the Great Ones
The Omnibook 300 “superportable” had revolutionary capability relative to its size. It was the first laptop to come with Microsoft Windows and Word preinstalled on its ROM, speeding up its operation a ...
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Jaguar Jumps into the Market: HP96LX
The HP95LX Palmtop PC (codenamed “Jaguar”) was the first portable computer to run MS-DOS, effectively creating a true handheld PC. It began 11 years of Hewlett-Packard’s dominance in the portable PC m ...
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Locked Down: HP 65 Locking Cradle
The notion of a personal electronic device small enough to be easily stolen and valuable enough to protect was a novel concept in the 1970s. Hewlett-Packard addressed this new issue by offering a lock ...
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Progress: HP 35’s 20th Anniversary
On the 20th anniversary of the HP 35 (left foreground), Bill Hewlett took a moment to reflect on how Hewlett-Packard had revolutionized the way people computed. The HP 35 obsoleted the slide rule in B ...
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Raising the Barcode: HP 94
Hewlett-Packard continued to push the boundaries of portable computing in the 1980s. The HP 94 Handheld Computer featured an alphabetic keyboard, headphone jack, serial interface and barcode interface ...
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Right on Time: The HP 01
Step inside the Hewlett-Packard Company Archives to learn more about the HP 01 wristwatch and all of its capabilities.
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Scanning History: The HP CapShare 910
When speaking about the HP CapShare 910, Lew E. Platt, Hewlett-Packard chairman, president and chief executive officer, foreshadowed the future when he stated, “HP envisions a world of people sharing ...