Re: Do they really want to sell? Message #15 Posted by Reinhard Hawel on 18 Feb 2001, 3:51 p.m., in response to message #9 by Jim L
But in this time you can work and earn $80 (or more), so this can be a concern of money too, even if you don't make a business with calculators. Besides that, I'm pretty sure, that the work of us collectors is worth more than $20/hour anyway (it depends on the circumstances, if somebody wants to pay it, but I'm sure, it's worth more for the majority...).
That's the reason, why nobody can afford repairing calculators commercially. Nearly all of the people offering repairs seem to do that as a favour for the community and charge a small sum just as an acknowledgement of their work. They just have fun with it. You couldn't afford an electronics engineer, whose job is fixing calculator (or at least, you wouldn't want to pay the price).
I'm working in a University and I once got 3 HP-21s and a Nice HP-80/45 box (you know, the black one) just for the asking. This possibilities do exist, but you have to be lucky. There are no obvious government auctions here in Austria (or, at least, I didn't find them til now), so I, in my case I depend on eBay for getting a lot of devices.
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