Re: HP chip model planes

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From: miso
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:18

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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.

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Subject: Re: HP chip model planes
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