LOWELL Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III gave me a lifelong Anglophile a chance to reflect on the passage of time and the advance of technology since his 1986 visit to Lowell and the tech giant Wang Laboratories.
Sadly, my friend Dave Cochran passed away on October 7. You’ve likely never heard of Dave Cochran, but if you ever owned a scientific calculator, you owe him, big time. Cochran was “Mr. Algorithm” at Hewlett-Packard starting with the earliest days of HP’s desktop scientific calculators in the late 1960s. He developed the arithmetic and…
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