Subj : Re: PI to 104 Decimal Places
To   : Ed Vance
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Fri Aug 29 2025 07:29:01

-=> Ed Vance wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 EV> The first calc. shown to me was a HP-30 ( 35?) given to an employee of
 EV> a electronics company.
 EV> He showed me what all it could do and My Jaw Dropped.

 I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, on the peninsula, near the
 garage where Hewlett-Packard was founded. The local Macy's department
 store, less than a mile from that garage, had a display with an
 assortment of Hewlett-Packard calculators. Very odd, I never saw any
 other Macy's selling them. Must have been an early customer.

 Did you notice when Carly Fiorina was CEO of Hewlett-Packard and they
 acquired Compaq, the Hewlett and Packard families were against the
 deal? After that, everything was branded HP. Petty revenge?

 
--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
 * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/700)

.