The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (HP 9100A) is an early programmable calculator[3] (or computer), first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a calculator, and all such nonsense disappeared."[1]
An ad for the 9100A in 1968 Science magazine contains one of the earliest documented use (as of 2000) of the phrase personal computer.[2]
- ^ a b "History of the 9100A desktop calculator, 1968". Hewlett-Packard. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- ^ a b Aaron, Clark (Dec 2000). "Wired 8.12: Must Read: The First PC". Archived from the original on 2015-10-04. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
- ^ See Old Calculator Museum definition at the end of cited page (note with asterisk)
- "Note in: WANTED - Data Acquisition Corp. DAC-512". www.oldcalculatormuseum.com. Note with asterisk at the end.