Bill Hewlett Remembered
IN GRADUATE SCHOOL, my roommate was the technical one. I studied animal behavior and he was a biochemist, but that wasn't how you could tell. My programmable calculator was made by Texas Instruments; he used a Hewlett-Packard, with Reverse Polish Notation. In those days, the true test of deep technical ability was your brand of calculator and your calculation method.
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Back in 2001 I first read
Back in 2001 I first read this article in the printed weekly magazine Info World and it moved me. Within the short limit of his weekly column, Bob Lewis summed up the achievement and legacy of the legendary technical genius Bill Hewlett. A neat tribute to a neat Engineer.