Fell from the top bookshelf to my desktop where my innocent and (until now) unscathed 1984 12C was sitting. Ouch! Put a nice little dent on the gold display surround. Still works like a charm, though, of course. It stinks that it's marred now, but I guess that just gives it a little character.
Egad! I dropped a stapler on my 12C!!!!
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12-28-2004, 11:37 AM
12-28-2004, 08:57 PM
I usually carried my 15C (purchased Nov 83) in the outer pocket of my backback. Twice, the book-laden pack slipped from my fingers and landed on the ground, damaging the bezel of the 15C. The second time caused a deep scratch from a loose mechanical pencil. Fortunately, the display window was unscathed and the calc works perfectly to this day.
12-29-2004, 01:43 PM
I remember years ago reading in "Key Notes" about some guy accidently running his car over his 15C, and it still worked afterwards! tm
12-29-2004, 07:50 PM
Don't try this at home, folks.
12-30-2004, 09:07 PM
Anybody brave enough to donate their 12C or 15C to "MythBusters" to prove this story? 12345
12-30-2004, 10:10 PM
... HP12C found "spread around" the street, as if a car had ran over it? At least I remember someone at this very forum mentioning this particular event. Anyway, I keep an intriguing Educalc Catalog (# 59) with the title "Fake Displays?". It shows both an HP42S 'bitten by a dog' and an HP48SX after an "18-wheeled road hazard". Jim Carter's issue letter mentions, amongst others, an HP32S that survived a fire accident in Ithaca. Its owner had his building burned up and found the HP32S working fine, X-contents unchanged, inside his "charred book-bag". I would not doubt about anything else. Cheers.
Luiz (Brazil) Edited: 31 Dec 2004, 1:12 a.m.
12-31-2004, 02:25 AM
I have a feeling they would be up to at least testing the rhino story involving a 12c. They have the budget to afford an old 12c easily. As for surviving being run over by a truck, I have personally seen an 11c back in the '80s that met with an 18-wheeler. It was somewhat slimmer to say the least.
01-01-2005, 09:26 PM
Great! But did it still work afterward?
01-08-2005, 09:13 AM
hi
01-08-2005, 03:04 PM
Oh, you shouldn't have cancelled it! I've dropped my 33S, too once or twice and it still works. Further, it has grown on me since I bought it and in my heart, it has come to almost occupy the same place as my 32SII. Again, the ONLY real complaints I have with the 33S are the femtoscopic decimal point and comma. I have to look twice sometimes to be sure of an order of magnitude. Otherwise, it is a pleasure to use. Cosmetics? For kids.
01-11-2005, 07:56 AM
well i would like to buy some 12/15/32s if anyone wants to sell, they are great for the site work, i need a clear decimal point as i work in dim light when the stuctures are up setting gridlines and that complaint would bug me, i need clear displays always
01-11-2005, 08:06 AM
about the dropping, when i was a student,30 years ago, another engineer with a late 70,s model dropped it on the site office wooden floor,intentionally, he told me they were able to withstand a 3 foot drop, i always believed him and never worried about not dropping them, he said they were drop proof
01-11-2005, 10:09 PM
Well, I think the guy may be swamped, but Randy Sloyer at www.fixthatcalc.com would be my first try if it came to fixing a HP calculator. He is also one of the posters here on this forum.
01-12-2005, 06:49 PM
The HP41 machines seldom survive a drop onto hard surfaces. The upper screw bosses in the case are sure to go. In hard drops the lower screw posts will break.
01-20-2005, 05:36 PM
I Double Dare you!
01-22-2005, 06:25 AM
i thought i would get intelligent responses from others who drop them also, not those who are scared to do just that.yesterday i dropped the 42s onto the level 5 concrete deck from 700mm and its fine , i guess the 100 times would include the dirt i walk on as well so in 15 years or more the 100 times includes concrete dirt and timber site shed floors |
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