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miso@sushi.com wrote:
> 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
>>
>> http://www.analogconsultants.com/
>>
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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.
> 

Oh, we have used tons of ceramic chip packages in ultrasound machines. 
Also, the gear in my lab is full of them. For example, all EPROMs in the 
HP4191 are ceramic. And then they stuck them into cheap sockets 
(#^&*%!!). Which had once cost me almost a day to figure out why the 
thing wouldn't calibrate anymore. There was an intermittent socket contact.


> 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
> 

Brings back old memories. My first flight across the big pond was in one 
of these, with Capitol Airways:

http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image2124.html

It probably also ended in Tucson by now.



> 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.
> 

Whoops. Not good.


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

-- 
Regards, Joerg

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