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Originally Posted by Metal Mick
Hi all,
my first introduction to computers (1976!) was on an HP "Desktop Calculator" - a thing the size of a suitcase, with a cassette drive on the left and right.
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Hey, I remember using one of those (same year). I was supposed to be studying Earth Science but I was walking past one of the Chem labs and saw this thing through the window. And (oh joy!) the door was unlocked. I spent hours programming that thing. The graph plotter was just magic.
Talking of slide rules I have an old Astounding mag and on the cover is a piratical figure climbing over the gunwhales with, not a dagger, a sliderule between his teeth. The title story is something like Space Pirates.