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As a joke, a group of employees gave Bill Hewlett this abacus disguised as an HP-35 electronic calculator. |
Introduced in 1972, the HP-35 handheld scientific calculator had
been an enormous success for HP, selling 300,000 units in the roughly
three and one-half years it was on the market. Bill Hewlett had
stood behind the HP-35 and pushed for its development even when
the results of market research initially indicated that sales would
be disappointing. As a joke, a group of employees gave Bill this
abacus disguised as an HP-35 electronic calculator.
In 1992, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the HP-35, Bill
donated his abacus HP-35 to the HP Archives.
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