HP Forum Archive 05

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New HP28S, HP42S, 48SX in shop in NL Message #1 Posted by Andre' Wilhelmus on 26 Mar 2001, 5:37 a.m. Edzes/Stax, Nieuweweg 5, Groningen, The Netherlands (050-3120530) has the following: 48SX: fl. 299.- (2 in stock) 28S: fl. 219.- (1) 82240: fl. ???.- (1) Dijkgraaf-Rijsdorp, Pr. W. Alexanderlaan 1423, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands (055-3554444) has the following: 42S: fl. 225.- (1) which is about $91

Re: New HP28S, HP42S, 48SX in shop in NL Message #2 Posted by Tom (UK) on 26 Mar 2001, 12:25 p.m., in response to message #1 by Andre' Wilhelmus I suggest you buy the HP42, and quickly. You could sell a mint in box HP42S on ebay for much more than $91. If you don't feel like doing that then I would gladly buy the HP42S from you including all your expenses, postage etc. (I would then USE it for what it was intended - it would be a good upgrade for me from my HP32/HP67). I've been trying to get a reasonably priced HP42 for some time but collectors keep the prices up and HP don't make them any more. Otherwise I'll just have to wait until the heat is off collecting HP calcs (but I may have retired by then!) Tom.

Re: New HP28S, HP42S, 48SX in shop in NL Message #3 Posted by Chris Randle (Lincoln, UK) on 26 Mar 2001, 7:03 p.m., in response to message #2 by Tom (UK) Well said Tom. I recently bought a new 42S from a friend of mine and it's my no.1 love at the moment. A fantastic _calculator_. A totally different beast from my 48 (not quite a calculator?) and, IMHO, better for it. I'm _using_ it too. In fact the screen is already scratched :-( but I'm not totally distraught because it'll never be sold again and so it won't bother anybody but me. In my defence, I'm normally quite careful with my possessions, and it was my 16 month old daughter (also an HP calculator fan - she calls them blick-blicks after the noise the keys make!) who scratched it, but now its battle scar reminds me of her :-)

Re: New HP28S, HP42S, 48SX in shop in NL Message #4 Posted by dana bingham on 26 Mar 2001, 8:16 p.m., in response to message #3 by Chris Randle (Lincoln, UK) the idea that your 16 month old daughter could have scratched your calculator... i got an 17 year old son that has never shown the least interest in my collection. i would gladly let him scratch them if he would give it time to let him see the beauty of an hp calculator.

Re: New HP28S, HP42S, 48SX in shop in NL Message #5 Posted by D. Banks on 27 Mar 2001, 9:35 a.m., in response to message #4 by dana bingham Prior to this message thread, I'd have found few things (related to calculators) to be of greater beauty than an HP. Now, I think we have one: Calling an HP a "Blick-blick" I think wins the prize for beauty.

Re: New HP28S, HP42S, 48SX in shop in NL Message #6 Posted by Paul Brogger on 27 Mar 2001, 8:05 p.m., in response to message #4 by dana bingham Well, they don't call 'em "blick-blicks", but my two teenagers think their HP-28S calculators are pretty neat. (Except for the tape holding the battery doors in place!) I tried to get them into programming them, but no luck there yet. Back to "blick-blick" -- what would the little ones call a latter-day HP with those no-account rubber chiclet keys? "Mush-mush?" At least the old ones made a noise!

Re: New HP28S, HP42S, 48SX in shop in NL Message #7 Posted by John Robinson on 28 Mar 2001, 2:23 a.m., in response to message #3 by Chris Randle (Lincoln, UK) Right, I'm off to find my stored away new-in-box 42S to give it to my 14 month old son, and see what he does with it :-)

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