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It's a supply and demand issue. HP has flooded the market with the 15C LE. Even the authorized vendors have dropped their prices. I was able to get a vintage HP-15C from eBay for $75. The machine was in a very good shape!!
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The HP-15C market.
There have been numerous auctions below $100. That hasn't happened, ever since Ebay was founded as far as I can remember!
In the process of stopping myself from
bidding on a vintage 15c in relatively pristine shape which
inexplicably wound up with no takers at US$100, I'd noticed that.
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Soooo, the 15C LE really has affected the market and it is NOT merely collectors looking for them.
Somewhat mystifying in the present day given a UI hammered into
a 7-segment display and static annunciator icons. Then again I
suppose once the design of a wheel yields a round product,
it has essentially fulfilled its fundamental design goals.
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Many of us already believed this was the case (often based on our own experiences) but now there seems to be definitive proof.
Viewed from a different perspective
one of the most impressive yet seemingly under appreciated
achievements of the vintage 15c voyager,
is the realization of the end product in all of
its glory despite running an under 4KHz instruction rate NUT processor. And yes I'd expect a modern
32-bit data path 36MHz ARM processor
rattling around in emulation to do significantly better.
Yet normalizing computation relative to power consumption the
15c le only bests the 30 year old 15c design by
about a factor of 7.8.
