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Specifications for Hewlett Packard 9100B

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Model Number: 9100B
Serial Number: [Not Listed]
Date of Introduction: October, 1969
Date of Manufacture: 1969
Manufactured In: USA, Loveland, Colorado
Original Price: $4,900 at Introduction
Weight: 40 Pounds
Size: 16" Wide, 19" Deep, 8 1/4" High
Power Requirement: 70 Watts, 115/230 V AC, 50/60Hz
Display Technology: CRT Display, 7-Segment Digit Rendition
Three Stack Registers Displayed
Logic Technology: All Transistor, Diode-Transistor Logic
Microcoded Architecture
Microcode stored in special circuit board-based Read-Only Memory(ROM)
Ferrite Wire-Rope Macro-Sequence ROM
Non-voltatile Magnetic Core register/program step storage
  3840 bits of core memory, equivalent to 480 bytes
Digits of Capacity: 10 digits mantissa with sign
Two non-displayed guard digits in mantissa to add accuracy
2 digit exponent plus sign
Decimal Modes: Scientific or Fixed, thumbwheel selectable digits behind decimal
Arithmetic Logic: Reverse Polish Stack, Three Levels
Math Functions: Four Function plus Square Root
Trigonometric (Normal & Hyperbolic, Inverse) Degrees/Radians
Logarithm: Natural & Base 10, ex
Reciprocal (1÷x), Absolute Value (|x|), Integerize
Coordinate Transformation: Polar\<-\>Rectangular, Rectangular\<-\>Polar, Coordinate Summation
Constant: RPN Logic. Single key recall of π
Memories: 32, Two Banks of 16, w/second bank accessed by [-] prefix
Program Steps Can Consume Storage Registers
Programmable: Learn Mode, 392 Steps (Each 14 steps consumes one memory register)
Conditional & Unconditional Branching
Branch based on Flag status
Subroutine Capability, 5 level nesting
Stop, Pause
Program Single-Step Capability
Magnetic Card Reader/Writer for external Program/Data Storage
Peripherals: 9101A Extended Memory Unit
9102A Buffer Box
9106A IBM Selectric I/O Typewriter Coupler
9107A Digitizer
9120A Electrosensitive Printer
9125A X-Y Plotter
9150A Monitor Scope
9160A Optical Mark Sense Card Reader
Performance: (Mfg. claimed worst case, mS=milliseconds e.g., 1/1000ths of a second)
Add/Subtract: 2 mS
Multiply/Divide: 35 mS
Square Root: 40 mS
Trig: 354 mS
Natural Logarithm: 56 mS
ex: 141 mS
Notes: All Transistor Digital Logic - No digital integrated circuits
Claims that there are no integrated circuits in the 9100A and 9100B are incorrect.
  There are four simple Linear (not digital) ICs used in the read/write
  circuitry for the magnetic card storage device
Follow on to earlier 9100A, which had half the memory and lacked subroutine capability
Hewlett Packard's second Electronic Calculator
US Patent: 3,623,156A

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Web Links:
Dave Hicks' Museum of HP Calculators Exhibit on the HP 9100A & 9100B Calculators

Reading:
Steve Leibson's The 9100 Project
Dr. Douglas W. Jones' (University of Iowa Dept. of Computer Science) An HP9100B Core Memory Module Analysis
The September, 1968 Hewlett Packard Journal Featuring the HP 9100A Electronic Calculator

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