{"id":1272,"date":"2021-08-24T02:16:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2021-08-24T02:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T23:16:15","slug":"hewlett-packards-first-handheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Hewlett-Packard&#8217;s first handheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hewlett-Packard has played an exceptional role in the history of handheld computers. This company gave us truly remarkable palmtops 100LX\/200LX, PDA iPaq hx4700 and Jornada 720. Some people still <a href=\"\/?p=267\">use these devices on a daily basis<\/a>.<br \/>\nBut what was the first handheld computer created by Hewlett-Packard?<\/p>\n<p>You <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/hp75.html\">may consider<\/a> HP-75C as the first HP handheld. The device is not very small, and the possibility of using it as a handheld is questionable.<br \/>\nBut actually it depends on the criterias of a handheld computer.<\/p>\n<p>Another candidate is the HP-67, which was introduced in 1976.<br \/>\nHP-67 was world&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpmuseum.org\/software\/67turing.htm\">Turing-Complete<\/a> handheld device. This is a strong argument in favor of transferring this device from calculators to the category of handheld computers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-loading\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"1258\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicmasonry-gallery rl-hover-effect-1 rl-hover-icon-2\" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gutter-sizer\"><\/div><div class=\"rl-grid-sizer\"><\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item rl-gallery-item-width-4\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Remarkable-handhelds-from-HP-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Remarkable-handhelds-from-HP-800x442.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-67-1-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-67-1-600x800.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-67-2-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-67-2-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-75C-logo-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-75C-logo-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-75C-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-75C-800x500.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-75C-next-to-HP-100LX-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-75C-next-to-HP-100LX-800x800.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-100LX-1-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-100LX-1-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-100LX-3-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-100LX-3-800x533.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-100LX-2-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-100LX-2-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-Jornada-720-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-Jornada-720-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-iPAQ-hx4700-scaled.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HP-iPAQ-hx4700-600x800.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a 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This company gave us truly remarkable palmtops 100LX\/200LX, PDA iPaq hx4700 and Jornada 720. Some people still use these devices on a daily basis. But what was the first handheld computer created by Hewlett-Packard? You may consider HP-75C as the first HP handheld. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/?p=1272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hewlett-Packard&#8217;s first handheld&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,286,287],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-hp-67","tag-hp-75c"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handheld.computer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}