[WP-34s] 30b for 18,99€ in Germany

[Alexander Oestert]

Maybe intersting for future WP-34s conversions:

Do an ebay search for NW238AA, there is a brand new 30b to be had for 18,99€, free shipping in Germany.

I'm not the seller and am not affiliated to them in any way. The first one I bought was already delivered, so I purchased a second one before posting this here. ;-) I did not test the other item that comes up for 17,10€.

If you feel this posting to be inappropriate, I will delete it.

Edited: 10 Feb 2012, 4:19 a.m.

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

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Do an ebay search for NW238AA, there is a brand new 30b to be had for 18,99€, free shipping in Germany.

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Thank you for the heads-up (sometimes it has its benefits to be sitting at home in standby-status...)! There is even a seller who has it 17,10 Euros including shipping, just finished clicking "Buy Now!".

Unfortunately, I will not be able to convert it to anything else as all the necessary software does not run on my Macintosh, if I understand correctly.

Regards,
max

[pascal_meheut]

You can flash from a Windows XP virtual machine running on your Macintosh. This is what I do and it works fine.

We have plan to support flashing from any platform but I cannot tell you when it will be available.

[Marcus von Cube, Germany]

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Unfortunately, I will not be able to convert it to anything else as all the necessary software does not run on my Macintosh, if I understand correctly.

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As Pascal has already stated Parallels or other virtualization software running Windows XP works fine. If you do not want to install such an environment I can do the flashing for you. Mail me if you are interested.

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Thanks Pascal and Marcus for your replies,

as old-fashioned as I am with my calculators, I am also with my computers... no parallels desktop here, my PowerBook still runs on a trusted G4 processor (but no red LED display, I'm afraid :-) )
Recently I feared that it's time has finally come when the Video RAM failed, but I found a repair wizard over the internet who replaced (or resoldered?) it again for a fixed price of 100 Euros (cheeeeap compared to the alternative of having to buy the current 17" MacBook Pro for 2500 Euros...).

I think I could do the flashing at the office, but the PCs have all been upgraded to Windows 7 recently, will that work?

[Marcus von Cube, Germany]

The MySamba utility should work under Windows 7. I have yet install my Windows 7 copy in another virtual machine on my iMac and try.

[pascal_meheut]

Never worked for me under Windows 7 virtualized but it may be a driver problem with the USB->Serial adapter I'm using.

Also, the new emulator works under MacOSX but not on G4.

[Bob Cortopassi]

MySamba has worked perfectly for me in Windows 7 Professional using an FTDI USB->Serial converter I purchased from Eric Rechlin here.

Good luck!

[Frank Boehm (Germany)]

http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/info/p786509_HP-Taschenrechner-NW238AA-30B.html



If you only need one, the other mindfactory companies offer free shipping today, with prices around 18 EUR.

(I'm not affiliated with them...)

[Hubert Weikert]

An other is 13.98 Euro for 30B and 11.19 Euro for 10bii+ plus 5.89 Euro shipping (per shipping) to Germany.

See http://tintenshop.net/index.php?info=p6038564&cat=c7003864

Hubert, not affiliated with them.