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From: sterling@cbmvax.commodore.com (Rick Sterling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP95C (was Re: List of All HP Calculators)
Message-ID: <20872@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 12:05:52 GMT
References: <51394@apple.Apple.COM> <41259@cup.portal.com> <28116797:2733.7comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: sterling@cbmvax.commodore.com (Rick Sterling)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <28116797:2733.7comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.egarcia@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Edwin Garcia) writes:
> Just thought I'd add the following to your "list" of HP calculators,
> for those who "gotta have" all of them... There are at least three
> different known versions of the HP-35 (HP's very first calculator):
>  
>    Early HP-35, identifiable by following characteristics:
>       - front nameplate says "Hewlett-Packard" only
>       - first four rows of keys have legends printed on the land
>         area immediately above the keys
>       - first four rows of keys are nearly square in shape

Can also be distinguished by what probably was first HP calculator bug in
a production unit. If my memory serves me right it had trouble with the
natural log of 2. I purchased my HP35 from a traveling HP salesman, serial
number 200.


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