🚀 go-pugleaf

BobW wrote:
> "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)
> 
> Thank goodness that no working HP calculators were injured during the making 
> of those models.
> 
> That gave me quite a scare. I had to go pull out my HP 9825T, 35, 67, 97, 
> 34C, 38C, 42S, 12C, 16C, 32SII, 17BII+, 48SX, 48GX, 50G, 33S, 35S, and 20B 
> and give them all a hug.
> 
> Phew!
> 

What? No HP11C? Still in (heavy) use here. The 12C is for finance guys 
AFAIK. Probably a lot of those will show up on the 2nd hand markets 
soon, along with their owners ...

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