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tlccomp
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chip68
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Er... What happened to the rest of the calculator? The valuable part was the Nixie tube display.
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JAC
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| chip68 wrote: | Er... What happened to the rest of the calculator? The valuable part was the Nixie tube display.
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Looked like JD had been at the board with a pair of cutters....  |
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Borris70
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Here'ss a picture of my favorite calculator with tubes (i have about 10 old calculators)
The chip is a Mostek MK-6010 (the first one chip calculator)
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chip68
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:49 am Post subject: |
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| Borris70 wrote: | | (i have about 10 old calculators) |
I have about 500. 
(Yes, that's the same MITS that made the Altair 8800.)
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tlccomp
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| chip68 wrote: | Er... What happened to the rest of the calculator? The valuable part was the Nixie tube display.
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That's the way I found it.... beleive me I would've like the rest too  |
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tlccomp
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| Borris70 wrote: | Here'ss a picture of my favorite calculator with tubes (i have about 10 old calculators)
The chip is a Mostek MK-6010 (the first one chip calculator) |
Very Nice  |
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tlccomp
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| chip68 wrote: | | Borris70 wrote: | | (i have about 10 old calculators) |
I have about 500.
(Yes, that's the same MITS that made the Altair 8800.)
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Wow  |
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pinkie
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Nice!
500? MG!
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JAC
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are all the calcs up on a website?
I noticed some people cleaning up in the calculator cats.. old calculators going for very little as there are not many bidders.
I dont bother collecting calculators .. the HP85 is a nice machine though .. you wouldnt happen to have a memory disk for one of those would you? |
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chip68
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| JAC wrote: | | are all the calcs up on a website? |
Nope, way too much work. Between my chip, computer, calculator, etc. collections I've got about 160 gigs of photos, scans, and other related material. I guess you might say I'm a pack rat.
| JAC wrote: | | I noticed some people cleaning up in the calculator cats.. old calculators going for very little as there are not many bidders. |
Depends on the calculator... A lot of the late-'60s desktop units can fetch a pretty penny, as well as some of the earlier handhelds:
| JAC wrote: | | I dont bother collecting calculators .. the HP85 is a nice machine though .. you wouldnt happen to have a memory disk for one of those would you? |
At one time I had an entire HP-85. Wasted countless hours playing "Hunt the Wumpus" on it. It had a tape drive built-in, so I didn't have much need for an external disk drive.
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JAC
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| yeah.. its the tape drive I need.. not for use, as I suspect the original magnetic media has deteriorated beyond use. I have plenty of paper |
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