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Re: Old Classic battery packs Message #1 Posted by D. Banks on 9 Mar 2001, 9:52 a.m. My foggy memory says that the really early packs had brown paper skins, or at least that's what I remember. Then again, I know enough about memory to know that memory is incredibly unreliable, or at least that's what I recall...

Re: Old Classic battery packs Message #2 Posted by M Currie on 10 Mar 2001, 1:15 a.m., in response to message #1 by D. Banks Yes, the original batteries in my HP35 had the brown paper skins.

Re: Old Classic battery packs Message #3 Posted by Steve (Australia) on 10 Mar 2001, 5:13 p.m., in response to message #1 by D. Banks Actually, even the early 82033A's had a sleeve around the cells. In my case the colour was best describes as mauvish brown -- perhaps magentaish.

Re: Old Classic battery packs Message #4 Posted by Tom (UK) on 12 Mar 2001, 7:15 a.m., in response to message #1 by D. Banks The 82001A pack I rebuilt had brown paper around the 3 AA NiCads (450mAh capacity). This was from a 1977 HP67. The only other thing on the battery pack is '1819' heat stamped - is this a sort of date code? (I'd guess it does not mean the year 1819!)

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