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From: conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-38E
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Date: 8 Nov 90 23:59:15 GMT
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In article <21661@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, daver@ECE.ORST.EDU (Dave
Rabinowitz) writes:
> 
> In article <543@voodoo.UUCP> you write:
> >    What can you say to your spouse that will make them believe
> >    that buying old HP's is better than putting the same amount
> >    of money in savings????
>
> I'm not sure this is defensible.  The 38E is more than 10 years old
and unless
> you paid less than $10 for it with the recharger and a good battery pack you
> could have done better buying a new calculator (HP sells an upgraded
> replacement for about $50 list, about $35 by mail order).  

It is defensible, from a collector's standpoint.  I own 20+ antique HP's.
(Everybody has a hobby, and all that.)  A 38E in good working order is a
good find.  $10 is too low.  Without manual, $40-$50.

EduCALC has replacement battery packs and rechargers for 38E's.  I personally
don't own one, so I can't xox a copy of the manual to you (sorry).

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Tom Conte	  Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
 conte@uiuc.edu   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
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