HP and clear plastic cases

I spotted this message on cctech several months ago, and tried to join the group then, but never heard back. Suddenly today, I received my "welcome" message. Takes a while, I guess. :-))) Anway, back in 2003, folks were talking about an HP-85 with a clear plastic case that was for sale. Joe rigdonj at cfl.rr.com wrote... That is absolutely correct. They almost always molded 25 to 100 case parts in clear plastic, primarily for checking how everything fit. (All of this is from the point of view of the Corvallis OR division, which made the calculators and the Series 80 machines, as that's where I worked.) I've still got a clear cases on my HP-41, my HP-85A, and my HP-87 (although, unfortunately, the CRT has gone black on the HP-87 :-(. I'm sure that they molded at least 50, and possibly 100 sets of top and bottom cases in clear plastic for the HP-85 and HP-87 (top case only for the HP-87, since the bottom case was the same as the HP-85). (The number 50 sticks in my mind the most firmly, but it could have been as high as 100.) In fact, if there had only been 10 or less made, there's no way in h*ll that I would have been able to snatch a set! :-) Anyway, it's a little late, but I thought I'd clarify the historical record in case anyone cared. Everett ====================================================================== Everett Kaser Software Logic & Puzzle Games for PCs PO Box 403 Albany OR 97321-0117 Phone: 541-928-5259 8am-8pm PACIFIC TIME USA http://www.kaser.com ======================================================================