HP chip model planes

I wonder how many collector's item HP machines were destroyed to make these works of art.

Which part of the calculators were the plane wheels?

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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)

Those are recyclable packages, not scrap.

You can tell the era by the ceramic packages...

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!

Bob

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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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Hard to see. Maybe the coin cells, with some black rubber bands? The first set of coin cells in my HP11C lasted around 15 years. Those old engineers sure knew their stuff.

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They can still be recycled after the last ferry flight to Tucson ;-)

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Ever driven by there? HUGE place!

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No, but a pilot friend of mine told me about his experience at an aircraft salvage yard farther west. He said it's not for the squeamish, that there'd be lots of crash fuselages and they seem to not always clean the cockpit after removing the bodies ...

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Finally, something I can do with all those old DIP/DIC parts in my junque-box.

;-)

Cheers, Tom

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.

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Would you want that job?

Most interesting salvage I ever saw was a car... guy tried to run a police road block... the car had probably 50+ BIG bullet holes... killed the guy, of course ;-)

Before someone's sensibilities are offended... this was in AZ, not in some weenie-land state.

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Yes, Costco even had them a while ago. Anniversary edition. Not exactly the same electronically but it sure was a nice touch. I wish they'd also do that with the HP11C. And yeah, when my wife absolutely wants me to trudge along to a yard sale I always keep looking for those calculators. None so far in years :-(

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The latest 12C actually uses an Atmel ARM processor (as in the new

20B) running the original 12C ROM using the Nonpareil emulator:

Rumor has it further Voyager models (11C, 15C etc) will be re-released with this method.

Dave.

Considering the cost of aircraft parts- an arm and a leg- it might be possible to overlook such evidence of prior owners.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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