Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,647 pages of information and 247,065 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
of Slough
British subsidiary of the US company
1974 Introduced the first pocket sized programmable calculator, the HP-65, which performed 51 maths functions. Cost £445 including import duty and VAT.[1]
1974 Dr Eberhardt Rechtin was appointed chief engineer of Hewlett-Packard, previously manager of telecommunications.[2]
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