There are some matters that depart indelible impressions in your memory. Just one of all those matters, for me, was a technical presentation in 1980 I attended — by calling in a ton of favors — a presentation by HP at what is now the Stennis Space Middle. I was a scholar and it took a several cellphone phone calls to wrangle an invite but I wound up in a state-of-the-art conference place with a bunch of NASA engineers seeing HP tell us about all their most recent and greatest. Not that I could find the money for any of it, intellect you. What definitely caught my creativeness that working day was the HP9845C, a shade graphics computer with a approximately $40,000 price tag tag. That was twice the regular US salary for 1980. Now, of study course, you have a substantially improved laptop or computer — or, rather, you
