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This book marks the 20th anniversary of the Handheld and Portable Computer Club with reminscences by club founders, HP engineers and others of how HP calculators and portable computers have been bringing people together and changing their lives. Before the web, before PDAs, before PCs, one company provided a vision of how computers and software could change lives when put into the hands of ordinary people. Hewlett-Packard's amazing series of hand-held calculators and portable computers, begun in 1972, has introduced a generation of technically-inclined people to personal computing power. As these tiny computers have grown in capability to be depended on in space missions and on battlefields, people around the world have banded together in so-called 'user groups'. Through these, they've exchanged information, solved each other's problems, and enjoyed learning about (and playing with!) computers. In the process, they've also made friendships, started businesses, and contributed to the computing environment we live in today. One such user group, the Handheld and Portable Computer Club (HPCC), started in Britain in 1982 as an off-shoot of the huge US-based group PPC, and is still active twenty years later. This book celebrates the twentieth anniversary of HPCC. Inside: we see what the future of portable computers looked like in 1978; HPCC founders and members write about the club, and remember those members who have passed on; the founders of HPCC, PPC and other clubs discuss what they have learned by starting and running them; the engineers of HP's calculators reveal their thoughts on the company and its products; fans of HP's smallest computers explain what they find so special about them.

Table of Contents:
v Introduction 1 WHY WE STARTED 3 A letter to PPC Journal (David Burch) 5 "Thank you, Beep...!" (Gordon Dickson) 15 HOW WE STARTED 17 The founding of HPCC (Frank Wales) 23 I blame Bill & Dave (Frank Wales) 31 The most toys (Dean Lampman) 37 Starting a calculator club (Richard J. Nelson) 47 GROWING & CHANGING 49 The early years (Rabin Ezra) 53 Zengrange & John French (Graeme Cawsey) 59 A short history of EduCALC (Jim B. Carter) 63 DEVELOPMENTS 65 Constitution and name (Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz) 69 CHIP chapter recollections (Ron Johnson) 73 Founding the Philadelphia-area PPC Chapter (Jake Schwartz) 79 COMMUNICATING 81 Datafile (Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz) 85 Mark Cracknell (Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz) 89 HPCC.ORG (Mark Power) 93 Conferences & meetings (Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz) 99 Gerry Rice (Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz) 101 Why we need Datafile (Jordi Hidalgo) 103 DESIGN 105 A Really Pathetic Name (Bill Wickes) 109 HP-41 design (Dave Conklin) 115 Graphing calculator design and development (Diana Byrne) 119 PERSPECTIVES 121 Users' clubs (Neville Joseph) 125 A hardware hacker's perspective (Gary Friedman) 131 Portrait of the engineer as a young nerd (Raan Young) 139 My walk along the Hall of Fame (Jim Donnelly) 143 CODA 145 The end of an era (John Olwoch) 149 Half a Beep (Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz) 153 HP - There is no sequel (Jeremy Smith) 157 About the editors 159 About the contributors 167 Index

About the Author :
Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz is a founder member of HPCC. His interest in HP calculators began with his studies and work in Physics at Imperial College in London. He contributed a few early articles to Datafile, then became the HPCC Secretary and began writing articles regularly. This developed into a book about the HP-41, and later books about the HP28 and the HP-32S. He currently chairs the club committee, continues to write for Datafile, and has published a Guide to HP handheld calculators and computers. He lives in West London surrounded by a large number of old HP calculators. By the way, Wlodek is a Polish abbreviation of Vladimir, and you will not be surprised that he is overly fond of Reverse Polish Notation. Frank Wales Frank Wales is a founder member of HPCC. He contributed many early articles and programs to Datafile and talked at its early conferences. As a professional software developer, he worked on many of Zengrange's calculator products, from ZENROM to the HP-41 Emulator for the HP48, and also worked on the tools to create them. He recently launched his second Internet consulting company, despite the first one still prospering. He continues to work with, and be friends with, many of the people he first met through HPCC. He lives in London with his wife, Paola, and an illogical quantity of computing devices.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780951073339
  • Publisher: W.A.C.Mier-Jedrzejowicz
  • Publisher Imprint: W.A.C.Mier-Jedrzejowicz
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Sub Title: People, Dreams and HP Calculators
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0951073338
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 275 gr


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