Talk:Hewlett-Packard 9100A

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This article should be deleted. It does not expand on the information already in the Hewlett Packard article, and appears to be directly lifted from it. It should be replaced by placing this external link in the HP article, it has far more information on the calculator with photos: http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp9100.htm

Huh?

The article doesn't provide any definition for "personal computer" or why this should be considered the first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.219.251.216 (talk) 10:28, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be a typo error in the name of the photo to the right. The picture displays fine but the name is 'HP0100A_1.jpg', it should be HP9100A_1.jpg. 24.144.69.6 (talk) 20:20, 14 January 2011 (UTC)MLS[reply]

False claim: first scientific calculator

Article says "The 9100A was the first scientific calculator by the modern definition (i.e. trig, log/ln, and exponential functions)".

This claim is false. Wang had scientific calculators (some of them programmable) several years before the 9100. Interesting factoid is that according to oral history (or myth), seeing an early private demonstration of the hp calculator, is what convinced dr. Wang he needs another product line, which eventually pushed wang to word processing products, starting with wang 1200, in 1971. קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 13:40, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

specifically, wang 360 (1967?) could do trig. loci 2 (1964) and wang 300 (1965?) did logs/exponents (actually, this is how they thought, i.e., used logs for multiplication, which produced amusing results, such as 2x2 = 3.99999999), and the 300 line had several programmable models. see [1] for some 360 info. they may have been other "programmable" calculators, but ttbomk, wang had the first "scientific". peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 15:20, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]