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Spehro Pefhany wrote:
> the renowned Joerg wrote:
> 
>> Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>  Joerg wrote:
>>>
>>>> miso@sushi.com wrote:
>>>>> On Jan 23, 5:51 pm, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>> Those are recyclable packages, not scrap.
>>>> They can still be recycled after the last ferry flight to Tucson ;-)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/1285915/
>>> Ever driven by there?  HUGE place!
>>>
>> No, but a pilot friend of mine told me about his experience at an 
>> aircraft salvage yard farther west. He said it's not for the squeamish, 
>> that there'd be lots of crash fuselages and they seem to not always 
>> clean the cockpit after removing the bodies ...
> 
> 
> Considering the cost of aircraft parts- an arm and a leg- it might be
> possible to overlook such evidence of prior owners. 
> 
> 

You get what you pay for?

Cheers,
James Arthur