Mystery HP Gear Teardown
What’s round, has what looks like a vacuum tube in the center, and was made in the 1950s by HP? We don’t know either, but [The Signal Path] restored one …read more Continue reading Mystery HP Gear Teardown
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Calculate Like It’s 1989 With This HP15C Emulator
Back in the day, your choice of calculator said a lot about your chops, and nothing made a stronger statement than the legendary Hewlett-Packard Voyager series of programmable calculators. From …read more Continue reading Calculate Like It’s 1989 With This HP15C Emulator
Boat Anchor Nixie Clock Plays the Cold Warrior Role Convincingly
The early Cold War years may have been suffused with existential dread thanks to the never-ending threat of nuclear obliteration, but at least it did have a great look. Think …read more Continue reading Boat Anchor Nixie Clock Plays the Cold Warrior Role Convincingly
This Expedient Microfiche Reader Illuminates Retro Datasheets
You have to be of a certain vintage to remember doing research on microfilm and microfiche. Before the age of mass digitization of public records, periodicals, and other obscure bits of history, dead-tree records were optically condensed onto fine-grain film, either in roll form or as flat sheets, which were …read more
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Retro Calculator Design Has Creative Tactile Touchscreen
We’ve all heard it a thousand times – they don’t make ’em like they used to. Sometimes, that’s for good reason, but there is a certain build quality to electronics of the mid-20th century that is hard to find in hardware today. This inspires great nostalgia and dedication in some, …read more
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Retrotechtacular: The $5,000 40 Pound HP Classroom Computer
See if you can talk your local school district into buying a computer that costs about $5,000 and weighs 40 pounds. That was HP’s proposition to schools back in 1968 so really it is more like $35,000 today. The calculator had a CRT display for the RPN stack that you …read more
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Vintage Instrument Gets Modern Replacement for Unobtainium Parts
One of the best parts about Hackaday is how much you learn from the projects that people tackle, especially when they are repairs on old gear with unknown failure modes and potentially multiple problems. By the same token, the worst part about Hackaday is seeing what other people are capable …read more
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HP’s latest EliteBooks offer 5G connectivity and 29-hour battery life
HP is looking to serve folks who find themselves having to work away from the office with some powerful new laptops. The EliteBook x360 1000 series machines come packing 5G mobile connectivity and a long per charge battery life.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading HP’s latest EliteBooks offer 5G connectivity and 29-hour battery life
OpsRamp raises $37.5M for its hybrid IT operations platform
OpsRamp, a service that helps IT teams discover, monitor, manage and — maybe most importantly — automate their hybrid environments, today announced that it has closed a $37.5 million funding round led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, with participation from existing investor Sapphire Ventures and new investor Hewlett Packard Enterprise. OpsRamp last raised funding in […] Continue reading OpsRamp raises $37.5M for its hybrid IT operations platform
HPE warns of impending SSD disk doom
The company has revealed that many of its SSDs are set to permanently fail by default after 32,768 hours of operation. Continue reading HPE warns of impending SSD disk doom