Predictions on where this good-looking HP-70 will end up on ebay?

[Gene]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3028444334&category=11712

This one looks nice. $500? $600?

[Bob]

I don't know about the HP calc, since my tastes run towards the 41 series and 42S, but the little date and time curser "follower" was pretty cool.

Does anyone know where to get the "follower" ?

[Ellis Easley]

I'm no expert on Java or HTML but I looked at the page with View, Source and then searched for "clock" and found a block of code starting near the middle of the file that looks like it is the clock.

It's neat but things like that or MIDI files attached to auction listings irk me. I just don't appreciate having my computer's response time slowed down. Do they help or hurt sellers? Ultimately I'm sure it's the value of the item on auction that really matters but annoying things like that must drive away some bidders.

[David Smith]

I can tell you for a fact that they hurt bidders. ANYTHING that has a chance to annoy anybody or that places a restriction on who can bid or how they can pay will drive bidders away. I may be just one bidder, but than can make the difference between an outrageous price or a so-so price.

[Ellis Easley]

I copied everything from:

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>

dCol='red';//date colour.

to:

if (ns||ie)window.onload=Delay;

</SCRIPT>

and pasted into a simple HTML page that I happened to have, and it worked. It worked offline so it isn't downloading anything to run. I put the code just before:

</BODY>

</HTML>

at the end of the HTML file. I just used Notepad, which is invoked when you select View, Source in Internet Explorer. After selecting and copying the code, I loaded the simple HTML file into Notepad, pasted the code, and saved the HTML file.

[Dave Shaffer (Arizona)]

re: " It worked offline so it isn't downloading anything to run"

It seems to pick up the time from the PC's internal clock. The display in the ad and my PC time are within a fraction of a second of each other - and several minutes from the correct time.

[Ellis Easley]

I tried changing this line (which I found by searching for "speed" which is used in several lines at the end of the code):

speed=0.6;

It controls the speed at which the clock moves to its new location when you move the mouse. 1.2 makes the clock move quickly but overshoot and then take a long time to settle into its new location - the clock "rings". 0.3 makes the clock move slowly but without overshooting or ringing - I guess it is "overdamped".

You could try this by saving the auction listing on your computer, then loading that copy into your browser, Viewing the Source, searching for "speed", changing the value, saving the file from Notepad, then going back to your browser and clicking on Refresh. But I think that auction listing is probably pretty big! It would save a lot of files along with the HTML. The file I pasted the code into is a free-standing HTML file.