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Post: #19
10-02-2011, 10:57 PM
Howard Owen Offline
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"Very RARE and Hard to Find!"

TAS link.

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Post: #20
10-02-2011, 11:04 PM
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Haha ! I just saw that too. You beat me to it. Like it's the only
TAS listing. And there have already been many more auctions that have ended.


Edited: 2 Oct 2011, 11:12 p.m.

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Post: #21
10-03-2011, 12:07 AM
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closing prices as of today:

Average close: $220

Lowest:  $147

Highest: $447

Sometimes I am positively amazed by humans.

Oh, and I didn't touch an HP for this. I used a spreadsheet on an IBM :-)

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Edited: 3 Oct 2011, 12:07 a.m.

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Post: #22
10-03-2011, 12:26 AM
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I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand it's amazing to see so many folks getting, not to put too fine a point on it, [screwed, not only by the sellers, but through getting potentially defective units. On the other it's nice to see a revived 15C selling so well. It may mean HP will actually spend the dough to implement in a reasonable way the fixes Cyrille and Tim come up with. Of course, in my dreams, brisk sales could even lead to a not limited edition 15C, or even consideration of the idea to designing new calcs along the lines of the "42S plus II glory hallelujah."

Like I said: *sigh*. :)

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Post: #23
10-03-2011, 12:43 AM
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"42S plus II glory hallelujah."

Amen!

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Post: #24
10-03-2011, 01:00 AM
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Appropriate Sunday commentary. :)

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Post: #25
10-03-2011, 03:00 AM
Howard Owen Offline
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There's no doubt in my mind that this hobby is at least 2/3 religion, and that last decimal digit better be a seven. :)

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Post: #26
10-03-2011, 03:02 AM
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Have you been tracking prices for a while, Bill?

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Post: #27
10-03-2011, 09:28 AM
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On and off for about 10 years...
But I am not a baseball statistician about it.

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Post: #28
10-03-2011, 01:28 PM
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Bill,

Great work.

Funny to know that the one from the Datamath Calculator Museum sold for the highest price so far ;-))

I guess I should focus more on Hewlett Packard stuff instead TI's.

Cheers,
Joerg

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Post: #29
10-03-2011, 01:54 PM
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Yes, you should!

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Post: #30
10-03-2011, 02:39 PM
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Gene,

I would have to sell my TI-88 first - a nice HP collection needs some start-up money ;-))

Cheers,
Joerg

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Post: #31
10-03-2011, 05:23 PM
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I believe you said you'd sell the TI-88 for $2500.01, right?

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Post: #32
10-03-2011, 09:17 PM
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I remember that you wanted to trade it for your supercharged, custom-painted Saleen Mustang ;-))

Cheers,
Joerg

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Post: #33
10-04-2011, 03:06 PM
David Ramsey Offline
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Really? I don't remember ever saying that.

Besides, as a sophisticated European person used to sophisticated cars, I don't think you'd like it. It's pretty, but quite crude. Kind of like the SR-60. :-)

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Post: #34
10-04-2011, 04:23 PM
bill platt Offline
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I discovered that there is a pretty energetic 1960s Mustang collector fan base in Holland. Meanwhile in the U.S. we like better cars, such as Porche....

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Post: #35
10-03-2011, 04:48 AM
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"Very RARE and Hard to Find!"

At least for us Europeans that is true after all.

And with the bugs apparently accumulating in the LE, I might be tempted to also take advantage of this situation... ;)

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Post: #36
10-03-2011, 05:10 AM
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Seems there are better investments ;-)

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