🚀 go-pugleaf

krw wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:49:19 -0800, Joerg
> <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
> 
>> BobW wrote:
>>> "Steve Sousa" <etsteve@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:497a8661$0$35415$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.octanews.com...
>>>> "David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote in message 
>>>> news:14e795fa-af9f-468d-9246-c68200c46867@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> On Jan 24, 9:35 am, Mark Harriss <bi...@blartco.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> David L. Jones wrote:
>>>>>>> Thought I'd share this I came across on another group:
>>>>>>> http://www.elcafevirtual.com/julio/
>>>>>>> Model planes made entirely from old HP calculator chips and parts.
>>>>>>> Dave.
>>>>>> I wonder how many collector's item HP machines were destroyed to make
>>>>>> these works of art.
>>>>> None.
>>>>>
>>>>> From the constructor:
>>>>> "The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was the second of four I made more
>>>>> than 30 years ago with defective and scrap HPchips. This aircraft
>>>>> model I made with IC,s of the Clasic and Woodstock pocked calculator
>>>>> series. This model has a modified HP-67 card reader mechanism built-in
>>>>> that moves up and down the landing gear, pilots' cabin and the engine
>>>>> light and four intermitent tricolor leds, powered by 6 V."
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave.
>>>> What a relief...
>>>> (cross-posted to c.s.hp48)
>>> Thank goodness that no working HP calculators were injured during the making 
>>> of those models.
>>>
>>> That gave me quite a scare. I had to go pull out my HP 9825T, 35, 67, 97, 
>>> 34C, 38C, 42S, 12C, 16C, 32SII, 17BII+, 48SX, 48GX, 50G, 33S, 35S, and 20B 
>>> and give them all a hug.
>>>
>>> Phew!
>>>
>> What? No HP11C? Still in (heavy) use here. The 12C is for finance guys 
>> AFAIK. Probably a lot of those will show up on the 2nd hand markets 
>> soon, along with their owners ...
> 
> HP12Cs are still being made, $70 retail, so I doubt they'd bring much
> more than $100 on eBay...  ;-)
> 
> An HP11C, OTOH, I might buy.  I bought a 35S a year ago.  Don't like
> it as much as either my long stolen HP11C or weak in the keys 35
> year-old HP45.


Yes, Costco even had them a while ago. Anniversary edition. Not exactly 
the same electronically but it sure was a nice touch. I wish they'd also 
do that with the HP11C. And yeah, when my wife absolutely wants me to 
trudge along to a yard sale I always keep looking for those calculators. 
None so far in years :-(

-- 
Regards, Joerg

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