HPCC 25th Anniversary Conference

Imperial College, Room 344, Huxley Building, 180 Queen's Gate, London

13th and 14th October 2007

On the 13th and 14th October 2007 HPCC celebrated the 25th Anniversary of HPCC and the 35th Anniversary of the HP-35 calculator, the first scientific pocket calculator, the first HP pocket calculator and the first handheld calculator with RPN. For more on the HP-35 check out the Museum of HP calculators.

Conferences

2007 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997

Photographs of the conference

The HP35 Cake and HP35	Wlodek's history talk	Conference dinner
Hugh's real 21st century calculation	Precision on the HP50G	Errors in calculation
Vintage desktop calculators	Hardware disection	Hardware inspection

Timetable

Saturday 13th October 2007
10.00	Doors Open
11.00	Wlodek - Keynote
11.15	Jake - Updated "24 years of datafile" CD
11.40	Hugh Steers - real 21st century calculation
12.40	Lunch
14.00	Tony - restoring the HP9820
15:30	Wlodek - History (Calculator and HPCC)
16.30	Meindert - MLDL2000V2 for the HP41, the sequel
17.45	Close
Sunday 14th October 2007
10.00	Doors Open
10.30	Meindert - Demonstration of MLDL2000v2
11.00	Andreas Moller - TreeBrowser - Another Equation Library Approach
12.00	Wlodek - Summary of Eric Smith's presentation to the US conference
13.00	Tony Duell - more vintage HP disection
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Hugh Steers - Demonstration of Real 21st Century Calculation
14.30	Hugh Steers - Early Casio Calculators
15.30	Bruce - A proposal for a simple scientific calculator
16:30	Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the HP-35 - the cake
18:00	End

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