I have bought a fairly cheap HP65 on ebay recently. And it turned out to be the most worn out machine I have ever seen. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures before I started repairing it.
Somebody had burnt the display with a cigarette, the case was held togather by tape and it was really dirty. Most of the metal "click" strips (how do you call those?) on the keyboard had broken.
So I replaced the burnt display by one off an old and broken 45 which I made to fit, replaced the broken parts of the keybord with ones from the same 45 and cleaned everything. I then did the card reader repair. And I even get it to work occasionaly. But even the card reader has seen that much use, that the brushes on the Motor have worn out and it often will not start. Has anyone ever attempted to fix that? I suspect even if I manage to open the motor, I wont't be able to replace the brushes. The calculator won't become a beauty anyway, but at least it fully works now - apart from the card reader, and that is bugging me :)
Most worn out HP65 ever
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