Got to love this site:
http://www.hpmuseum.org/
You can see the old slide rules and some of the first calculators. I find it vey interesting how, as an avant-garde technology costing more than a couple of weeks wages, it was a source of competition and knowledge-sharing information between engineers. I remember the HP-65 calculators with the card strips. These two dutch guys I knew competed with each other for programming their various problems and they documented their plan their flowchars and everything they planned to do. I was impressed by their foresight and used it as I my benchmark for the future. Ths was in 1995!
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