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Post: #8
06-18-2003, 11:23 PM
Trent Moseley Offline
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I was watching TV's "History Channel" about our first space shuttle in 1981. That was before the HP-15C! And then I remember in HP's Key-Notes a photo showing the Astronauts on board with an HP-67.

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Post: #9
06-18-2003, 11:47 PM
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IIRC, the first on-board nav computer contained a whopping 4k of plated wire memory so the HP was a pretty powerful backup!

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Post: #10
06-19-2003, 12:03 AM
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FYI, the shuttle astronauts did not use the HP-67, but the HP-41c.

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Post: #11
06-19-2003, 02:55 AM
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when they launched the shuttle, that's when the HP-34C was a hot new item .... where's the exit door,
I'm tired of this Bill Gates nightmare called "the future"

I wanna go back to the good old days ...

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Post: #12
06-19-2003, 07:54 AM
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"I wanna go back to the good old days ..." I know exactly what Norm means. Too often I feel exactly that same way.

The Michael Meyer post a bit higher in this Forum reinforces this notion.

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Post: #13
06-19-2003, 08:04 AM
Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) Offline
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I think that the HP65 (or maybe -67) was used in the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous.

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Post: #14
06-19-2003, 03:16 PM
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Whatever. How would you like THAT ONE in your collection!

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