David Schmenk wrote:
> 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&


You're absolutely right--about the calculator and about me!  ;-)

> 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.

I've been planning on a new 35s, too!

I never owned an HP-65, but a friend had one.  It was pretty neat to
be able to record your programs and data on the little magnetic strips!

> Jay Walker does have a most admirable library.

Hear, hear!

-michael

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