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From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Re: Astronauts using HP calculators in space
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Date: 9 Jan 91 14:48:19 GMT
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In article <7360039@hpfcso.HP.COM> rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:
>re:  HP's in spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-c-e

The HP-41 was far from being the first handheld calculator in space.  Apollo
astronauts used HP-65's, with magnetic cards and a whole flock of charged
battery packs.  It may have been the later Apollo flights, or it may have been
Skylab.  Obviously, HP-65's did not exist yet at the time of the first moon
flight.  I remember seeing a picture of astronauts changing batteries in
space, but I don't remember who first proposed the idea.

Dave Seaman
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Dave Seaman
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