[ih] Norm Abramson

[Jack Haverty]

Also different - operations and maintenance.   One of my neighbors, in
the 1950s, worked on staff at the University of Pennsylvania.  His job
was simple and very repetitive -- changing vacuum tubes (remember
those?) inside Eniac.   It was a continuous daily task.

/Jack

On 12/12/20 6:02 PM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> On 12/11/2020 3:58 PM, Dan Lynch via Internet-history wrote:
>> Yes, the HP-35 was the first personal computer!
>
>
> IEEE had a brief article, just after it came out, written by one of
> its engineers.  He compared the device to ENIAC.
>
> Basic computer characteristics were remarkably similar.  Cost, size,
> reliability were a bit different.
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>
> d/
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