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Gee - in the last year or so I threw out my HP 9830A because something fell on
the keyboard and broke a few key caps off beyond repair... brought tears to my
eyes to find it broken from an avalance in storage... I had the plotter and
the wide thermal printer as well as the modem dongle for it... all the
manuals... all the original receipts and sales literature and a load of
engineering software... the invoice was for over $19,000 new!
Dave - former antique HP owner...
In lugnet.people, Frank Filz writes:
> Maggie Cambron wrote:
> >
> > sheree rosenkrantz wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > :-) Let it suffice to say that I grew
> > > up using a sliderule not a calculator.)
> >
> > If it makes you feel any better, so did I. I remember my friends all wanted
> > cars for high school graduation, but I just had to have one of the first HP
> > calculators. (Yikes! I guess I really must have been a geek.) : )
>
> Here's a web page with tons of old HP calculators:
>
> http://www.hpmuseum.org/
>
> I used one of the early desktop models at my dad's work. I also used the
> original Wang calculator at his work. Fun stuff.
>
> I've got an HP 25C at home which I picked several years ago at a HAM
> fest which had never been used (still had the registration card). The
> batteries were dead, but I just dissasembled the battery pack and put a
> pair of AA NiCads in. It's starting to get flaky, but I still use it
> occaisionally.
>
> I also occaisionally used a slide rule in high school, but mostly just
> for fun.
>
> --
> Frank Filz
>
> -----------------------------
> Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
> Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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