The love seems to be reciprocated quite a bit. He talks about it with such affection you would think it was Santa's Workshop.

Interesting to see just how many incredibly bright people were around back then. Or maybe there still are lots of bright people, but back then they had more power over their lives and they could make their own companies. The really smart guys back then were building their own computers and starting million dollar companies. The really smart guys these days work for others. So I don't know which is it. Are people these days not as smart? Or are they not as adventurous? Or maybe companies are better at keeping them under heel?

@@CristiNeagu In the early Silicon Valley, Lockheed grew and shrank and grew and shrank, leaving cheap buildings to house startups, as well as laid off engineers to staff them. The 1960s space program showered the valley with money to solve the pressing needs of aerospace electronics, while there were still orchards to convert into housing tracts. In the 1980s, it was commercialization of microprocessors, and housing got tougher. In the 90s, it was workstations, web mania and Internet hardware, while housing got ridiculous, pushing engineers into San Francisco. What funding drives Silicon Valley now, and where will your startup's new staff live? The current smart guys face economic barriers to entry for their startups that just didn't exist before, though we may be seeing some relief on that front as physical presence becomes less important. Wait for the next recession, and see who emerges from the rubble. There are still new Silicon Valley success stories, though they may not happen as frequently.

@@anovaprint It all started with William Shockley and fairchild, with the Germanium transistor

I was at HP during the HP 35 days at the start of my career (Desktop Computer Division in Loveland/Fort Collins). Those were indeed great days, smart people, and open minds. I have an original and it’s current version in my desk today in retirement, along with the best business version the HP 17B II. Use them all the time.

Thank you so much! Comments like this make my day. I hope to share some Apollo era NASA stories at some point that I don't think have been widely shared

I thought that was a really interesting part of the 45 that the 55 ironed out as you say. You can see me playing around with it a bit in the background. The one thing I had a lot of trouble with was the conversion. I'd be very curious to hear how people were going about that equation. I talk a bit about the upgrade at 3:55.

Oh, what a sneaky way to weed out the popular calculators of the time. I'm a bit younger but still remember the resistance to calculators. Often citing the idea we do not always have one around when of course these days we all have a supercomputer in our pocket. Thank you for sharing!

Did you reply along the lines of "the data I started with has only 3 significant figures, so showing 9 decimal places for the result would be BAD computing practice and you, Mr. PhD, ought to know that"? 🙂 That being said, I once provided 9 decimal places in the answer to an iteration problem that only required a 2-sig-fig answer because of the limits of the data and the empirical method we were using. I wrote a humorous commentary about why I did it (I won't mention the name of the high-maintenance classmate who inspired the 9 decimal places) and my professor said he completely understood. BTW, I am still Christmas-card friends with said high-maintenance classmate.

I appreciate you checking it out! I think there is a lot of fun history in the calculator world that hasn't been discussed much. I'm curious if you meant Woz or the 45 in regards to a connection between Apple? If I had to choose, I think 4:50 might be a good example of the Apple connection. Woz was already getting a vision of how all the elements of a calculator could be put into service of a home computer but HP passed on the idea. Imagine a world where the Apple I/II was actually an HP product. Crazy thought!

I had to go to one of his oldest speeches to find that extra context. I really wish more people would interview him about his HP days. But yes, I got a lot more empathy for the risk they were balancing after hearing that as well.

I really appreciate you checking it out. Sharring this stuff with like minded people makes my day!

He's really lived an interesting life that could have gone a dozen directions. His time with HP is particularly influential IMO

Thanks man! I really appreciate the feedback and support. This one has kind of been a passion project so I took a bunch of extra time to tease it out. That's really killer it got noticed!

Thank you for watching! I'm always a sucker for Woz shenanigans, personally. Considering doing a top 5 woz pranks video at some point.

Hahaha, yes. Definitly a big part.

@@anovaprint They used to much time thinking and opportunities comes and goes... but they were near for a very brief time and I enjoyed it.

I'm curious what you would have liked to see? Personally, I enjoyed hearing about how the 45 was effectively an upgraded 35 that woz could himself upgrade. And that he had this whole side hustle doing so. To me, it's a really interesting insight into what Woz was doing at the time.