31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
10:40 p.m.
In article <m1F43oJ-000IyFC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
The least valuable HP I own is one that I would never
give up. An old,
battered, HP45. The reason is that I built it. I was given a load of junk
at an HPCC meeting mad there were enough bits to make a 45. The chips on
the logic board came from 2 or 3 machines, the displays aren't all the
same sixe (These machines have 3 5-digit display modules in them, HP used
2 different character height ones, you're supposed to have all 3 the same
in a particular machine, obviously), and so on. To a collector it's
worthless. To me, because I got it going, and because doing that taught
me a lot about how the classic series HPs work, it's priceless.
If you watch lots of Antique Road Show :-), you'll see that this sort
of thing actually adds provenance value over time, but it will
probably be a while before your HP-45 is valued higher than the
typical collectible :).
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