1 Oct
2005
1 Oct
'05
1:01 a.m.
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:01:30 +2500 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
15C,
> My Tandy Pocket Computer (a PC-8) still has the
same battery in it
that
it did when I
bought it used. Granted, I don't hammer away at it
I've heard stories of HP Voyager series calculators (10C, 11C, 12C, 16C) running for 15 years or more on the same set of 3
LR44 button
cells.
And being used fairly hard in that time.
-tony
I used my HP-11C calculator for years at work. Then some hearing aid
company (for some reason) sent me a sample kit of hearing aid batteries.
They were a smaller radius but the same thickness. I put them in the
HP11C and wedged a little of that 'pink ESD supressant' foam to hold
them in place, and used it for quite a while that way.
Yesterday at work someone found an HP-45 Owners Handbook and two Quick
Reference Guides stuck in a cabinet that was being cleaned out, and
handed them to me. I have succeeded in getting the folks at work well
trained. ;)