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On Jan 24, 8:57 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@removethispacbell.net>
wrote:
> m...@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/
>
> --
> Regards, Joerg
>
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I don't think that kind of ceramic package is used for anything other
than prototypes. So you would recycle them for in house use.

There is a boneyard near the old El Mirage airport near Lancaster. I
got permission to tour it a few years ago, but no photographs.
However, there are photographs from the outside the fence on the net.
http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA4952/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/6202560/
http://www.lazygranch.com/el_mirage.htm
http://tinyurl.com/bdooxg

You may remember these guys for getting busted by having scraped
F-14s, a plane used by Iran, which just would love to get spare parts.

I think the place has new owners, so I have no idea if you can tour it
anymore.