🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:49:19 -0800, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

>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 ...

HP12Cs are still being made, $70 retail, so I doubt they'd bring much
more than $100 on eBay...  ;-)

An HP11C, OTOH, I might buy.  I bought a 35S a year ago.  Don't like
it as much as either my long stolen HP11C or weak in the keys 35
year-old HP45.