Hardware

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HP W2072a 20-inch Diagonal LED Backlit LCD Monitor

The W2072a 20" Widescreen LED Backlit LCD Computer Display from Hewlett-Packard is a flat-panel monitor with an impressively thin design. The display is backlit with an energy-saving LED light.…

HP W2371d 23-inch Diagonal LED Backlit Monitor

Experience quality views and convenient connectivity at a price within reach on the new HP W2371d 23-inch LED Backlit LCD Monitor. True performance and expanded screen real-estate in an ultra-thin…

HP x2301 23 inch Diagonal LED Monitor

The HP x2301 is a razor thin 23-inch LCD monitor that will dress up even the dreariest of desktops. It does a good job of displaying small text and delivers evenly saturated colors and artifact-…

HP x2401 24-inch LED Backlit Monitor

Simply striking anyway you look at it; the HP x2401 monitor delivers vivid color imagery from almost any angle with MVA panel technology, along with a sophisticated micro-thin design and smart…

HP Xpander

"Xpander is a new kind of hand-held learning device. It combines the portability and accessibility associated with calculators with the intuitive visual/tactile user interface associated with…

HP Z1

The new HP Z1 is the world’s first all-in-one workstation featuring a 27” diagonal display that snaps open to let you swap out parts and make upgrades. No tools required. Unleash your creativity…

HP-01

The HP-01 was a marvel of miniaturization and intelligent design. It was HP's first watch and their first small algebraic calculator but it was more than just a wristwatch and a calculator in the…

HP-10

The HP-10 was probably the simplest HP calculator ever made. Not surprisingly its code name during development was KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid.) It was a handheld printing adding machine.

HP-10C

While lowest in number, this was the last 10C series calculator to be introduced. Thanks to ever improving technology, this was the first series in which every model was programmable and like…

HP-11C

The HP-11C was a mid range scientific programmable calculator. Compared to the previous series it would fall between the HP-33E/C and HP-34C. It also included two new features: a built-in random…

HP-12C

The calculator that wouldn't die. The HP-12C is HP's longest and best selling calculator. Though it has been followed by many newer models, with both more and less features this model continues to…

HP-14B

Along with a version of the HP-32S, this version of the HP-14B was developed as part of HP's 50th anniversary celebration. Other than the two anniversary logos on the calculator and one on the…

HP-150

The 150 (code named "Magic") was introduced with great hoopla in October, 1983. It was HP's first MS-DOS PC, equiped with an Intel 8088 CPU. The market was already crowded with MS-DOS PCs, and…

HP-150II

The TouchscreenII (150II) replaced the 150. The touch screen feature was no longer standard, but rather a rarely-adopted option. The 150II had the same footprint as the 150, but came in a larger…

HP-15C

The HP-15C was a high end scientific programmable. To the HP-34C's numerical integration and root solver the HP-15C added complex numbers and matrix calculations.

Complex Numbers
A…

HP-16C

The HP-16C was HP's first (and so far only) programmer's calculator.

Numbers and Bases
The HP-16C could display numbers in Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal and Binary formats using a…

HP-17B

The HP-17B was a pocket business calculator with algebraic logic. This model had an unusually sparse looking keyboard with a single shift key and shifted functions on only about 40% of its keys.…

HP-18C

The HP-18C was a business calculator with a new folding design and a dedicated alphabetic keyboard. It was HP's first algebraic pocket calculator. (HP previously used algebraic logic on desktop…

HP-19C

The HP-19C was functionally equivalent to the HP-29C with the addition of a built-in printer and a keyboard buffer. Unlike, the HP-67, the HP-29C did not provide "printing" commands in order to be…

HP-21

The first of the 20 series was essentially an HP-35 in a smaller, less expensive package. Since the HP-21 had 33% more ROM than the HP-35 it had room for a few extra features, namely:
Trig…

HP-22

The HP-22 was the first business member of the 20 series. It was originally intended to be an HP-70 plus but grew beyond its original design goals to include a large array of additional functions…

HP-22S

An algebraic scientific/statistics calculator. This model didn't have a four level history stack but still made the previous result available via the LAST key and a SWAP key allowed the numbers…

HP-25

The HP-25 started on the drawing board as a scientific calculator with a much larger set of functions than the HP-21. By the time it was done, it was that and it was programmable with 49 lines of…

HP-25C

An improved version of the HP-25 featuring continuous memory. Programs and data were retained when the calculator was turned off, because the new low power CMOS memory was powered even in the "off…

HP-27

This was HP's first "do everything" pocket calculator. (As long as your definition of "do everything" doesn't include programming.) The calculator did math, statistics and business functions.

HP-27S

The HP-27S was another "do-everything" calculator. While it was called a "Scientific Calculator" it also had statistics, Time Value of Money with loans, savings and amortization schedules, plus…

HP-28C

With the HP-28C, Hewlett-Packard completely revamped the scientific calculator. This model did symbolic math, used named variables, understood many data types and was the first full RPL calculator…

HP-28S

The HP-28C was introduced with 2K bytes of storage. The HP-28S replaced it a year later with 32K bytes at the same price.

The HP-28S also added:

Directories. Directories allowed…

HP-29C

The HP-29C was the top (and last) 20 series calculator. It had 98 program steps (with fully merged keycodes) and 30 storage registers. (16 were directly or indirectly addressable and the rest were…

HP-31E

The HP-31E was most basic scientific member of the 30 series. It was a replacement for the HP-21 at the remarkably low price of $60. (About one half the price of its predecessor and less than one…

HP-32E

The HP-32E was the mid-range scientific member of the 30 series. While still non-programmable, it offered these features over the HP-31E:

HP-32S

The HP-32S was an inexpensive yet powerful calculator. It had a single line display but with many annunciators to convey additional information. It had a fairly uncluttered keyboard due to its…

HP-33C

The HP-33E and HP-33C were the basic scientific programmable members of the 30 series. The "E" model had conventional memory which lost its contents when power was turned off. The "C" model…

HP-33E

The HP-33E and HP-33C were the basic scientific programmable members of the 30 series. The "E" model had conventional memory which lost its contents when power was turned off. The "C" model…

HP-34C

The HP-34C was the high-end scientific programmable member of the 30 series. In addition to a full complement of scientific and math functions, it was the first to offer root finding and numerical…

HP-35

The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first scientific pocket calculator (a calculator with trigonometric and exponential functions). Like some of HP's desktop…

HP-37E

The HP-37E was the lower end business member of the 30 series. It replaced the HP-22 and like most previous business calculators, it was not programmable, relying instead on a wealth of pre-…

HP-38C

The HP-38C and HP-38E were the high-end business members of the 30 series. The HP-38E was introduced first, followed a year later by the HP-38C which added continuous memory.

HP-38E

The HP-38C and HP-38E were the high-end business members of the 30 series. The HP-38E was introduced first, followed a year later by the HP-38C which added continuous memory.

HP-41CV

The HP-41CV was the same as the HP-41C except that it had four memory modules built in for a total of 319 registers. (With the four ports still available to add other modules.) The HP-41CX was the…

HP-41CX

The HP-41CX was the same as the HP-41CV but added the Time module (stopwatch plus clock with alarms), an Extended Functions / Extended Memory module, a text editor, and some additional functions.…

HP-42S

This small but powerful calculator was designed to be software compatible with the HP-41C. It lacked the HP-41C's expandability but it offered, a two line dot matrix screen with customizable menus…

HP-45

The HP-45 was HP's first scientific calculator to have a shift key. This was such a novel feature at the time that HP credited the key with nearly doubling the computational power of the…

HP-46

The HP-46 was a printing version of the HP-45. It was built like a real tank with a structural foam case and used a contactless keyboard with keys that looked and felt like those of a selectric…

HP-48S

The HP-48 is a series of graphing calculators using Reverse Polish notation (RPN) and the RPL programming language, produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1990 until 2003. The series include the HP…

HP-48SX

The HP-48 is a series of graphing calculators using Reverse Polish notation (RPN) and the RPL programming language, produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1990 until 2003. The series include the HP…

HP-55

Coming out a year after the HP-65, the HP-55 didn't generate quite the same level of excitement. It had no card reader and only 49 lines of program memory. (And, of course, a much lower price.)…

HP-56

In the 1970s, the Advanced Products Division (APD) in Cupertino California built handheld calculators and several other divisions of HP built computers and peripherals. The Loveland Division (…

HP-65

The HP-65 was a stunning calculator. Just 18 months after introducing the first pocket calculator with transcendental functions, HP introduced a pocket calculator that was programmable with a…

HP-66

The HP-66 was upscaled to become the HP 9815. The tape cartridge used in the HP-66/9815 was designed and developed by HP and manufactured by 3M.

This beautiful model was crafted from wood…

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