Re: HP chip model planes

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From: Joerg
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:57

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miso@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/

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