>Yep, they weren't cheap - I paid C$265 for mine in '78 I think.
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>Before I got that, our engineering labs at UBC had early models (35s or 65s, can't remember) in heavy, form-fitted steel cradles that were wire-cabled to the furniture. That was to discourage theft; ISTR when the school bought them in the mid '70s they were the better part of a grand each.
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>It seems hard to believe now, but back then HP had more cachet than iDevices do today.

I think I bought a calculator able to do linear regression a year later ;-)