On Friday afternoon, I discovered that HP is running a trivia game on their
home page that asks" "Can you guess the Product?", where the game shows what
they consider to be the most significant and revolutionary products that
they've created in their nearly 60 year history.

I don't know that there can ever be a better measure of the fact that you're
getting old than to have someone ask what function these various products
served, especially when you do not need to guess but can remember the serial
numbers of the copies you owned.

Amazingly, the three products that appear in the game immediately after the
very famous 1939 HP200A audio oscillator are the 1964 cesium-beam clock, the
1966 HP2116 computer, and the 1968 HP9100 Scientific Calculator. All three of
these products were a very intimate part of my life.

Thus, yesterday, I spent the afternoon putting together a more detailed
history of
these HP products, from a very personal point of view. The URL (which is an
isolated set of looping pages) is:

      http://aics-research.com/history.html

The pages are heavy on graphics, so they will be slow. The period covered is
from 1963, when I was first introduced to the extraordinary quality of HP
instrumentation, to 1976, the birth of AICS Research. These are
non-commercial pages, just a fond remembrance of fine times and superior
products.

Wirt Atmar