Re: Apple II sighting in Wired article

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

David Schmenk wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> > David Schmenk wrote:
> > > John B. Matthews wrote:
> > > > In article 
> > > > <e1fe51d0-5f60-4ef7-b1a2-563b3a5bb179@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
> > > >  a2aviator@gmail.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > <http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage 
> > > >
> > > > =6>
> > > >
> > > > > Interestingly .. whats the white spot thats in the center, that 
> > > > > looks like posterboard stuck on top of the CPU/ROM? Is that where 
> > > > > Woz signed it?
> > > >
> > > > Could be. The long card has its front corner cut off, as if it were 
> > > > meant to fit in a //e style case. Might this be an upgrade board?
> > > >
> > > > > Seeing a an Apple II board next to an Enigma machine is kind of cool.
> > > >
> > > > Is that a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside the enigma?
> > > >
> > > > > the closest I have is a civil service radiological monitor, and a 
> > > > > piece of the Berlin wall.
> > > >
> > > > Sweet. That looks like a TI calculator near the Apple board. I have 
> > > > an SR-10.
> > >
> > > I think it is an HP-35.  Maybe an HP-48g next to it?
> >
> > It is certainly an HP-35--the calculator that killed the sliderule!
> >
> > The one next to it sure doesn't look like an HP calculator...
>
> That's because you're Old Skool.  I think it is a 48g:
>
> http://calculators.torensma.net/index.php?page.id=16&calculator.id=322&action=detail&; 

You're absolutely right--about the calculator and about me!  ;-)

> The picture in the article seems to suffer from astigmatism.
>
> Collecting old (not the graphing) HP calculators is another weakness of 
> mine.  A mint Hp-65 with working card reader is my show-off item, as 
> well as an HP-71B with Forth module.  I did, however, just buy a new 
> HP-35s for some unknown reason.

I've been planning on a new 35s, too!

I never owned an HP-65, but a friend had one.  It was pretty neat to
be able to record your programs and data on the little magnetic strips!

> Jay Walker does have a most admirable library.

Hear, hear!

-michael

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