{"id":356,"date":"2007-08-20T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/356"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:18:25","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-hp-150-touchscreen-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/356\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-hp-150-touchscreen-computer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The HP-150 Touchscreen Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"white_caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/hp150_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/hp150_small.jpg\" alt=\"HP-150 Touchscreen Computer Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">In 1983, Hewlett-Packard released what may have been the world&#8217;s fist personal computer with an integrated touch-screen.  The HP-150 was an 8088-based MS-DOS compatible PC with a handful of advanced features for its time.  Unfortunately, the 150&#8217;s hardware architecture proved so different that it was not compatible with most IBM PC programs.<\/p>\n<p>The HP-150 uses a crude, low-resolution method for detecting finger placement on its display.  The unit projects a grid of infrared beams across the surface of the screen.  By sensing which beams are obstructed by an object, the computer can calculate the coordinates of the touch.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the touch-screen, The HP-150 is notable for being the first U.S. computer to use Sony&#8217;s 3 1\/2-inch &#8220;micro-floppy&#8221; disk format, as well as support for Ethernet networking, hard disks, and HP&#8217;s first LaserJet printer (through an HP-IB interface).  Not bad for 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody have one of these that they don&#8217;t want anymore?  I&#8217;d love to add one to my collection.<\/p>\n<p><em>[ From Personal Computing, December 1983 ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1983, Hewlett-Packard released what may have been the world&#8217;s fist personal computer with an integrated touch-screen. The HP-150 was an 8088-based MS-DOS compatible PC with a handful of advanced features for its time. Unfortunately, the 150&#8217;s hardware architecture proved so different that it was not compatible with most IBM PC programs. The HP-150 uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}