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Article #1580Re: HP chip model planes
From: Lord Garth
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:04
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:04
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"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) > You can tell the era by the ceramic packages...
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