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Olivetti Programma 101 aka Perottina // One of the first commercial desktop programmable calculators (Italy, 1965)

Case design by Mario Bellini. Uses magnetic cards to store programs. Blue lamp: On, Ready for input. Red lamp: Error

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HP-01 (1977)

Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard HP-01 is a calculator watch. It was designed and manufactured by Hewlett-Packard.

The HP-01's digital display used 7 light-emitting diodes (LEDs)/digit in a 7-digit + decimal point arrangement. Introduced in 1977, at the height of the LED watch craze, it had five models: two gold-filled and three stainless.

Prices ranged from $450 & $550 for the low-end steel or gold to $850 (the equivalent of $2200 to $4200 in 2023 dollars).

HP also sold a battery replacement kit that allowed customers to change the batteries themselves. The watch uses two batteries for the display and one for the processor IC. It also comes with a ballpoint pen with a stylus on the rear end. Most of the 28 buttons on the HP-01 are recessed and designed to be depressed with a stylus stored in the band.

The production was stopped by the end of 1979.

more info: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-smartwatch-ever-invented-2016-2

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Source: Flickr/Adam Field

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Netscape - Address Book

Sony Sports Watchman, Sony Mega Watchman and Sony FD-10 Pocket Watchman.

photos from Wikipedia / Austin Calhoon

sorry if you've been asked this before, but what's your favorite chonky computer? Your favorite big burtha old mamma slamma? Your favorite hummna hummna computer? Thank you.

i love how you phrased this

i'm going to be very vague and say i like computers that have that slant in the back. like this

ideal shape for me. very iconic. go-to shape for a computer from the chunky era

but also i want to highlight the apple macintosh

tall.

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