RCL40: Recollection, Reinvention and HP Calculators
In 2022 HPCC is 40 years old. 20 years since the publication of RCL20: People, Dreams & HP Calculators we once again want to celebrate our continuing enthusiasm for HP calculators and pocket computers, and reflect on not just the most recent 20 years and the amazing things that have happened, but recollect earlier times.
RCL40, to be published in time for the HPCC 2022 40th Anniversary Conference, will include stories from some of the people at HP who designed the calculators we cherish, as well as people in the club and around the world who have devised modern components to keep alive our curiosity and enhance our machines way beyond their original life expectancies.
Project Timelines
The timescales for production of RCL40 are subject to change and have some flexibility compared to the frankly ridiculous timescales that RCL20 was produced in. Progress will be discussed at HPCC meetings, so please join a session on the 2nd or 4th Saturday of the month if you want to catch up.
- Mid August 2021 - Initial email invitations to participants
- Sept 2021 - Reminder email and invitation email to all the people we forgot the first time around
- Mid September 2021 - RCL40 website with outline contents and contributors
- End October 2021 - Participants submit outline or initial drafts
- January 2021 - Final date for contributions
- March 2022 - Editing complete
- April 2022 - Copy delivered to printers
- May 2022 - Sample book checked and corrected
- June 2022 - Books delivered from printers
- Autumn 2022 - Books available at 40th anniversary conference, London
Contents
This is the latest contents and confirmed contributors list as of 20th October 2021.
| Contributors | Section | Subsection | Draft Subject Outline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wlodek and Mark | Introduction | ||
| Wlodek and Mark | Contents | ||
| Jim Donnelly | Recollections | HP Adventures | |
| Bill Wickes | Recollections | HP Adventures | RPL |
| Chuck McCord | Recollections | HP Adventures | HP Calculator division |
| Jean-Yves Avenard | Recollections | HP Adventures | ACO (Xpander, 49, Hydrix) |
| Richard Nelson | Recollections | The Fall and Rise of International Clubs | PPC |
| Bruce Horrocks | Recollections | The Fall and Rise of International Clubs | HPCC and Datafile |
| Marc Staps | Recollections | The Fall and Rise of International Clubs | Dutch HP Club |
| David Hicks | Recollections | Digital Archaeology | MoHPC |
| Eric Rechlin | Recollections | Digital Archaeology | Software archive |
| Jake Schwartz | Recollections | Digital Archaeology | Archiving the HP Handhelds User Groups |
| Warren Furlow | Recollections | Digital Archaeology | HP-41 archive |
| Tony Duell | HP Calculators | Reverse Engineering | Schematics |
| Monte Dalrymple | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | 41CL |
| Godwin Stewart | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | Swiss Micros and the 41X |
| Gene Wright | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | 20b, 30b, 40b |
| Cyrille de Brebisson | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | My memories of the HP-12C |
| Meindert Kuipers | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | MLDL2000 |
| Ángel Martin | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | Next generation HP-41 modules |
| Steen Petersen | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | Development of the HEPAX module |
| Edward Shore | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | Views from a new HP-41 user |
| Dejan Ristanović | HP Calculators | The calculators that wouldn't die | Friendly Competition |
| Geoff Quickfall | Reinvention | Reinvention | Restoration |
| Bernhard Emese | Reinvention | Reinvention | Panamatik - Updating the classics |
| Diego Diaz | Reinvention | Reinvention | The Clonix-41 history |
| Jean-Francois Garnier | Reinvention | Reinvention | PIL-Box |
| Mark Fleming | Reinvention | Reinvention | Multimod |
| Bob Prosperi | tbc | tbc | |
| All | Biographies | ||
| Wlodek and Mark | Index |
If you want to contribute and your name is not on the list, please send an email mark dot power at btinternet dot com.