The HP-85 was a calculator. Not a real computer.
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In the 70's (maybe late 60') they produced the HP-2100 series of minicomputers. These were really meant to interface with the instruments through the HPIB/GPIB for production.
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Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
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Subject: Re: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: HP Archives lost to fire.
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HP was in the computer business long long before the Agilent name came along. I worked on an HP computer in the mid 70¡¯s for example. The HP85 was available by 1981.?
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I believe the first product? was their wein bridge audio oscillator, model 200a, b, or c.? They made their way to fame by doing the audio soundtrack to Walt Disney's first feature length animation of the movie Fantasia.? We all respected the equipment
with the name Hewlet-Packard, some called HP High Priced.? Then they ventured into the computer arena, I think the reason they changed names, they didn't want to take a chance and have the HP name fail if the computer thing didn't work out, and take the whole
company down, so I think that's why they created the name Agilent.? The younger kids had never heard of Hewlet Packard instruments, all they know HP for is their computer stuff.
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My favorite scopes came in blue cases and the rest of my favorites were HP.
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Jim
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I think that as the Hewlett Packard test equipment product line became Agilent and later Keysight, upper management had little interest in preserving the legacy of the first decades
of the company and the contributions to the state of the art, by thousands of employees.
It's so sad that the history of such a significant company is being lost. This was a company that changed the world.
Stuart
K6YAZ
Los Angeles, California
