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Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> David Schmenk wrote:
>> John B. Matthews wrote:
>>> In article
>>>
,
>>> a2aviator{at}gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage
>>>
>>> =6>
>>>
>>>> Interestingly .. whats the white spot thats in the center, that
>>>> looks like posterboard stuck on top of the CPU/ROM? Is that where
>>>> Woz signed it?
>>>
>>> Could be. The long card has its front corner cut off, as if it were
>>> meant to fit in a //e style case. Might this be an upgrade board?
>>>
>>>> Seeing a an Apple II board next to an Enigma machine is
kind of cool.
>>>
>>> Is that a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside the enigma?
>>>
>>>> the closest I have is a civil service radiological monitor, and a
>>>> piece of the Berlin wall.
>>>
>>> Sweet. That looks like a TI calculator near the Apple board. I have
>>> an SR-10.
>>>
>>
>> I think it is an HP-35. Maybe an HP-48g next to it?
>
> It is certainly an HP-35--the calculator that killed the sliderule!
>
> The one next to it sure doesn't look like an HP calculator...
>
That's because you're Old Skool. I think it is a 48g:
http://calculators.torensma.net/index.php?page.id=16&calculator.id=322&action=detail&
The picture in the article seems to suffer from astigmatism.
Collecting old (not the graphing) HP calculators is another weakness of
mine. A mint Hp-65 with working card reader is my show-off item, as
well as an HP-71B with Forth module. I did, however, just buy a new
HP-35s for some unknown reason.
Jay Walker does have a most admirable library.
> -michael
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