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Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #1 Posted by Luca de Alfaro on 24 Oct 2001, 6:34 p.m.

After HP stopped making the 42S, it made a last batch of them in order to fulfill warranty claims. Some 42S that were not used in this fashion were later given/sold to users. I have a 42S that comes from this later batch, and I am curious to know how close it is to the last 42S ever made. The serial number of mine is:

ID91809752

Indicating it was made in 1999, week number 18, serial n. 9752 in that week. What's the last serial number anyone has for an HP 42S?

Luca

      
Re: Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #2 Posted by Chris Randle (Lincoln, UK) on 24 Oct 2001, 6:39 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Luca de Alfaro

Mine came from the same warranty claims batch
s/no 9 40 03363

      
Re: Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #3 Posted by Massimo Gnerucci (Italy) on 24 Oct 2001, 7:14 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Luca de Alfaro

I have one (from exchange program) with s/n ID027027xx

Massimo

            
Re: Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #4 Posted by thibaut.be on 25 Oct 2001, 11:07 a.m.,
in response to message #3 by Massimo Gnerucci (Italy)

I also have a 2000 one, someone in the community helped me just before they closed the exchange program in August 2000. I'll communicate you the ID# tomorrow

                  
Re: Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #5 Posted by J. Lopez (New York) on 25 Oct 2001, 1:16 p.m.,
in response to message #4 by thibaut.be

One I've got has a serial number starting with ID027, which I also bought from someone who frequents this forum.

                        
Re: Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #6 Posted by Iqbal on 25 Oct 2001, 3:31 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by J. Lopez (New York)

I wonder who that could be Jalo? Actually the ones with the serial numbers ID027 were the last batch ever made. So I guess who has the last serial number of that batch has the last one.

                              
Re: Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #7 Posted by J. Lopez on 25 Oct 2001, 4:02 p.m.,
in response to message #6 by Iqbal

Hi, Iqbal. Yup, this one I bought from you back in September 2000. The whole serial number is ID02702892. Did you sell me the last one?

                                    
Re: Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #8 Posted by Iqbal on 26 Oct 2001, 10:54 a.m.,
in response to message #7 by J. Lopez

No Jalo I sold to others after you.

                                          
Re: Who has the LAST HP 42S ever made?
Message #9 Posted by Larry on 1 Nov 2001, 10:52 a.m.,
in response to message #8 by Iqbal

I wish to nominate my HP-42s as possibly being the last *regular production* HP-42s made. The first 5 characters of the serial number are 3543S, indicating that it was made in the last week of October, 1995 in Singapore.

      
Looking to Buy 42S
Message #10 Posted by Jason Lockwood on 28 Oct 2001, 8:24 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Luca de Alfaro

Does anybody have a 42S that they would like to sell? Or does anybody know where I could find one. I lost mine after 13 years, and hate to start using another.

jlockwood@mba2002.hbs.edu

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