Leibson's Law: It takes 10 years for any disruptive technology to become pervasive in the design community. This blog is about the disruptive technologies that either have or will win over electronic engineers, some that won't, and why. Please feel free to link to these blog entries! Written by Steve Leibson, a marketing consultant specializing in lead generation and content creation for high-tech companies, former VP of Content for Reed Business, and former Editor in Chief of EDN. See my consulting Web site at www.sleibson.com and my history site at www.hp9825.com. You can email me at steven.leibson followed by the magic email symbol @ followed by att.net.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Dave Cochran, Calculator Pioneer: The Video Interview
Oct 23 2007 10:57AM | Permalink |Comments (1) |
Dave Cochran grew up around HP and lived near Bill Hewlett’s house in Palo Alto. He joined HP in the 1950s even before earning his engineering degree. Like all engineers hired during that time, Cochran was expected to have mastered the full range of engineering activities from the machine shop to the workbench. In the mid 1960s, he was working in HP Labs under the legendary Barney Oliver when Oliver decided to productize a hybrid of two electronic calculator prototypes developed independently by Tom Osborne and Malcolm McMillan.
During the ensuing discussion, Oliver started discussing algorithms. Cochran raised his hand and asked, “What’s an algorithm?” thus ensuring that he’d be the one to write all of the firmware for the HP 9100A desktop calculator and its diminutive follow-on, the HP 35 pocket scientific calculator. In celebration of the HP 35’s 35th birthday, I recorded a 1-hour video interview with Dave Cochran. It’s must-see TV if you enjoy learning about the history of technology. Click on the image below or this link to watch.
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at 4/15/2009 3:24:47 PM, JimM said:
A pleasure to hear how creative minds work in solving problems that lead to innovative products that so many people have enjoyed around the world. Interesting to note that it did take "vision" from Hewlett to make this happen. Maybe we now see vision as simply an ability to drive creative minds to find solutions that seem impossible to achieve. Dave Cochran is certainly a unique individual - as was the other HP staff.
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