The beloved HP-35, one of the first scientific calculators able to “perform transcendental functions such as trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions” with an LED display just received an ...

There was a time when being an engineering student meant you had a sword. Well, really it was a slide rule hanging from your belt, but it sounds cooler to call it a sword. The slide rule sword gave ...

Today is a happy day for engineers everywhere. Well at least for those of us of a certain vintage. HP is introducing a retro model of its first hand-held scientific calculator, the HP-35, to mark the ...

Since the early 1970s, Hewlett-Packard pocket calculators have proved popular with students, scientists and engineers. Most of their scientific calculators let you show more digits after the zero. For ...

A year ago, I finally added an example of the very first handheld scientific calculator – the HP 35 – to my collection. If you don’t insist on a pristine unit, they can be had for quite reasonable ...

Feel that? That's the unexpected stir of nostalgia welling inside your dorktic-loin. Rest easy, you're not alone. In fact, that picture aroused a deeply seeded HP fanboi-ism long obscured by thick ...