Michael Lavorgna strikes back.......

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11 hours ago, Spacehound said:

Shame HP left the instrumentation business. When  I was in the UK guided missile trade in the early 1970s we   used lots of their stuff, and fed the results of our measurements into this, which they also made. It was a proper computer, but they called it a programmable calculator deliberately as it looked different from other computers.

 

 

Yeah, though plissken's post was clearly meant to be whimsical.  The PDP 11 was actually made be DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), not HP.