HP-85 (1980)

Il personal computer Hewlett-Packard.
Lavora come un grande computer.
Ma solo per te.
 Il personal computer HP-85 ti mette a disposizione una piena potenza di elaborazione a livello professionale ovunque ti serva: sulla tua scrivania, in laboratorio, perfino a casa tua.
Con tutti i vantaggi di un Sistema compatto e facile da usare.
Da Hewlett-Packard non potevi aspettarti di meno. 
Un singolo "corpo” non più grande di una macchina per scrivere comprende uno schermo grafico, una stampante ad alta velocità, una unità a nastro magnetico, il sistema operativo e la tastiera.
E una volta nella sua valigetta, l'HP-85 è anche facile da trasportare.
Completo, compatto, tuo. 
Non è solo simpatico e semplice da usare: è anche incredibilmente versatile, con ampie possibilità di periferiche e di programmazione.
HP-85, il personal computer Hewlett-Packard. Studiato per risolvere i problemi di calcolo, scientifici e finanziari dei professionisti della finanza, dell'ingegneria e della scienza.  

HP-65 (1975)

The American astronauts calculated critical course-correction maneuvers on their HP-65 programmable hand-held during the rendezvous of the U.S. and Russian spacecraft.
Twenty-four minutes before the rendezvous in space, when the Apollo and Soyuz were 12 miles apart, the American astronauts corrected their course to place their spacecraft into the same orbit as the Russian craft. Twelve minutes later, they made a second positioning maneuver just prior to braking, and coasted in to linkup.
In both cases, the Apollo astronauts made the course-correction calculations on their HP-65. Had the on-board computer failed, the spacecraft not being in communication with ground stations at the time, the HP-65 would have been the only way to make all the critical calculations. Using complex programs of nearly 1000 steps written by NASA scientists and pre-recorded on magnetic program cards, the astronauts made the calculations automatically, quickly, and with ten-digit accuracy.
The HP-65 also served as a backup for Apollo’s on-board computer for two earlier maneuvers. Its answers provided a confidence-boosting double- check on the coelliptic (85 mile) maneuver, and the terminal phase initiation (22 mile) maneuver, which placed Apollo on an intercept trajectory with the Russian craft.
Periodically throughout their joint mission, the Apollo astronauts also used the HP-65 to calculate  how to point a high-gain antenna precisely at an orbiting satellite to assure the best possible ground communications.
The first fully programmable hand-held calculator, the HP-65 automatically steps through lengthy or repetitive calculations. This advanced instrument relieves the user of the need to remember and execute the correct sequence of keystrokes, using programs recorded 100 steps at a time on tiny magnetic cards.
Each program consists of any combination ofthe calculator’s 51 key-stroke functions with branching, logical comparison, and conditional skip instructions.
The HP-65 is priced at $795*. See it, and the rest of the HP family of professional hand-helds at quality department stores or campus bookstores. Call 800-538-7922 [in California, 800-662-9862] for the name of the retailer nearest you.

*Domestic USA prices only.

Polaroid OneStep (1978)

Un clic sull'immagine per visualizzarla (e scaricarla) nelle dimensioni originali

Incredibly Simple
Polaroid's OneStep.
The world's simplest camera, instant or otherwise.
Just press one button. That's it! The motor hands you the picture. You never focus or set anything. Nothing to pull or peel, nothing to crank or wind. The battery's built into the film pack so you have fresh power every time you load. What's more, this camera won't let you waste a picture if the flash is used up, or waste a flash if the film is used up. And the beautiful SX-70 pictures develop while you watch, with sharp, clear SX-70 color that lasts! Get the OneStep. lt's incredibly simple. 

Incredibilmente Semplice.
OneStep di Polaroid.
La fotocamera più semplice, tra istantanee e non. Premete semplicemente un pulsante. Ecco fatto. Il motore vi porge la foto. Non c'è da mettere a fuoco o fare qualcos'altro. Niente da tirare o da sbucciare, niente da ruotare o da avvolgere. La batteria è contenuta nella confezione della pellicola così che avete energia nuova ad ogni cambio. E in più, questa fotocamera non vi farà sprecare un'immagine se il flash è esaurito, o sprecare un flash se è finita la pellicola. E le belle immagini della SX-70 si sviluppano mentre le guardate, con colori da SX-70, chiari, brillanti, duraturi! Fatevi una OneStep. E' incredibilmente semplice.

Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 (1978)

Un clic sull'immagine per visualizzarla (e scaricarla) nelle dimensioni originali

Simply Incredible
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1. No other camera in the world does it all.
Its unique optics let you come in as close as 10.4 inches, so even little faces can fill the frame. No other camera lets you get this close without expensive extra lenses. Its electronics control the photographic thinking, freeing you to do the creative thinking. Automatic time exposures up to 14 seconds, sequential pictures every 1.5 seconds. The world's only folding single-lens reflex camera. Polaroids SX-70 Alpha 1. It's simply incredible.

Semplicemente Incredibile
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1. Nessun'altra fotocamera al mondo fa tutto questo.
Le sue ottiche uniche vi fanno avvicinare sino a 25 centimetri, così che anche piccole facce riempiano l'inquadratura. Nessun'altra macchina vi fa avvicinare così tanto senza l'aggiunta di ottiche costose. La sua elettronica controlla l'elaborazione fotografica lasciando a voi quella creativa. Esposizioni automatiche con tempi sino a 14 secondi, sequenze di immagini ogni 1,5 secondi. L'unica fotocamera reflex mono-ottica pieghevole al mondo. Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1. E' semplicemente incredibile.

DAI Personal Computer (1983)

• Basic evoluto con ROM da 24 k che include anche le funzioni grafiche e musicali.
• Alta risoluzione: 336 x 256 punti.
• 16 colori.
• Testo 64 colonne per 24 righe.
• Editor con scroll automatico in tutte le direzioni.
• Sintetizzatore musicale a 4 generatori con funzioni di tremolo-glissato e uscita audio stereofonica.
• Monitor linguaggio macchina (8080 A).
• Interfaccia parallela e RS 232.
• 2 interfaccce cassette.
• Interfaccia integrato per processore aritmetico.

The DAI personal computer is a rare, early home computer from the Belgian company Data Applications International. The DAI came to market in 1980. It provided many pioneering features such as high resolution color graphics, a maths co-processor, and a pre-compiling BASIC interpreter. But it never became a commercial success.

Da: Wikipedia.

Cambridge Z88 (1989)

Dalla ricerca della Sinclair, lo Z88, l'ultimo portatile della generazione, nato dallo spin-off Cambridge Computer Ltd.
I Personal Computer e i 'veri' portatili stavano per cambiare il mondo.


CPU:  CMOS Z80A @ 3.2768 MHz
Memoria standard:  32 KB RAM, 128 KB EPROM

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Burroughs B700 (1973)

 

If you have in the neighborhood of 25 to 1000 people working for you, you know this dilemma: small businesses need computers to stay competitive—but simply can’t afford computers and still stay competitive.
Burroughs ended the problem for thousands of businesses in this category with the Series L minicomputer and the small B 1700 computer system.
Burroughs now ends it for all such businesses with the introduction of the B 700.
Now—with a degree of simplicity and affordability that’s never been available from any source before-you can get big corporation computer results in small company proportions. And you can do it with ready-to-use programs that dramatically reduce the need for special computer knowledge and special computer personnel.
You can start streamlining your accounts the very day your B 700 is installed. Just choose the programs you need from the Burroughs exclusive Business Management Systems (BMS) library of ready-to-use software for instant management reports on inventories, account status, sales analyses, payroll, etc. You can either add programs as you need them, or choose a complete set of inter-related programs.
Data are entered through a simplified keyboard console, then verified and edited, automatically, by the system. A printed journal gives you a positive audit trail for your accountant or auditor. An optional AE 300 Audit Entry Unit is available for high volume data preparation.
Your business records will be permanently stored in disk cartridges—as easy to handle as phonograph records. You’ll have direct random access to all information—immediately —just like large-scale system users have.
And as your business grows, it’s easy to expand your B 700. Just add peripheral or memory units as needed.
With this new link between our Series L minicomputers and our fourth generation B 1700 small computer, Burroughs now offers the only complete line of computers specifcally designed to cover the entire range of small business needs.
Call your local Burroughs office and find out which one is right for you. Or contact: Burroughs, 18 rue St. Pierre, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.