The Museum of HP Calculators
The Museum of HP Calculators
Hewlett-Packard Company, various years.
Provides excellent in depth articles on many HP calculators and other HP
products. Many issues are now online in the
Journal Library.
W. A. C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz, Ph.D., Wilson/Barnett Publishing, Tustin CA,
1996.
ISBN 1-888840-00-5
A newly revised resource for the serious collector. Descriptions (and some
pictures) of HP's handheld models. Includes information on newer models that
the museum hasn't yet documented but is fairly strictly focused on "handhelds".
Also includes product codenames and numbering schemes. To order, contact
mrcalc001@aol.com
W. A. C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz, Ph.D., published by the author.
ISBN 1-879828-04-9
Great book on HP-28C/S tips, machine language sysevals etc.
W. A. C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz, Ph.D., Synthetix, Berkeley CA, 1985
ISBN 0-9510733-0-3
Nearly 700 pages of HP-41C information, covering basic usage to synthetic
programming.
Gary Friedman, Synthetix, Berkeley CA, 1987
ISBN 0-9612174-9-9
Projects for HP-41C and HP-71B users with HP-IL. Would you believe an
HP-41C-based answering machine with speech synthesis and DTMF decoding? "This
is the most outrageous 41 project I was able to dream up" -- the author.
Other projects include a darkroom controller, electronic tape measure, a
slide projector dissolve unit and an intelligent autodialer.
Gerry Kane, Steve Harper, and David Ushijima, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Berkely
CA, 1982
ISBN 0-931988-77-2
Good overview of HP-IL with component level information and protocols.
John A. Ball, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1978.
ISBN 0-471-03070-8
Contains an introduction to RPN, suggestions for good algorithms, and ready-made
programs in a wide variety of topics. Contains an overview, comparisons and
pictures of the HP-35, HP-45, HP-65, HP-67, HP-25, Novus Mathematician, Novus
Scientist, Corvus 500 and other RPN calculators. Also contains hints for
porting algorithms between various calculators.
Ernst Martin. Translated and edited by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell and Michael
R. Williams.
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England.
Originally titled: Die Rechenmaschinen und ihre
Entwicklungsgeschichte.
ISBN: 0-262-13278-8
Volume 16 of the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History
of Computing. Documents the state of the calculating machine industry as
of 1925. Contains descriptions and illustrations of many calculators. Probably
the single best reference book on these machines.
(or Modern instruments and methods of CALCULATION)
Edited by E.M. Horsburgh with a new introduction by Michael R. Williams.
Tomash Publishers, Los Angeles/San Francisco.
ISBN 0-938228-10-2 Volume 3 in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series
for the History of Computing. Originally published in 1914 as part of a
celebration of the 300th anniversary of the publication of Mirifici
Logarithmorum Canonis Descripto where John Napier first described his
invention of the logarithm. Has sections on calculating machines, the abacus,
slide rules, other mathematical instruments, mathematical models etc.
Charles Babbage Institute reprints may be ordered from the MIT press at (800) 356-0343 or (617) 625-8724.
Scientific American Inc., various years.
Most of HP's early calculators were advertised here in a very informative
style. In addition to the advertisements are interesting articles such as
"The Small Calculator" in the March '76 issue (with an HP-65 keyboard on
the cover) and the September '77 issue devoted to microelectronics.
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