Recommend a watch

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Pulsar is coming!

But wait seven years and you can have an HP-01!

HP decided to sell the HP-01 only through selected watch shops, not through their usual calculator dealers. Watch shops had mostly not heard of HP before, nor had many of their customers, and the HP-01 watches were expensive - $650 for the steel case version and $750 for the gold version. (These prices were raised to $695 and $850 on 1 July 1978.) This meant that sales were low. HP has not released sales statistics but in 1994 an HP employee posted a message on the Usenet area comp.sys.hp.misc about this. The message said that a total of about 50,000 HP-01s had been made, of which about a half had been purchased by a Saudi prince. Half the rest were sold through shops, then the remainder were sold to HP employees at a clearance price of $180 (the message did not specify if the steel and gold versions were both sold at the same price).