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HP 12C prices
Message #1 Posted by Ed Clark on 2 Feb 2002, 3:36 p.m.

Over the years I've amassed a collection of early 12C's (USA models). Does anybody have a sense of the highest price paid for an early 12C? I'm still finding them rather cheaply on eBay ($20.00 - $40.00).

By the way, If anybody is selling, I'm looking for a couple of clean '81 and/or '82 models.

On a related note, check out eBay listing #1329506298. This is a late model 12C with the Enron logo on the facia and the Enron logo on the vinyl case. So far, thirty (30) bids and a price of $132.50. As big as Enron is/was, there has to be a lot of these things out there. Have these bidders gone 'round the bend?

      
Re: HP 12C prices
Message #2 Posted by Ellis Easley on 2 Feb 2002, 4:46 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Ed Clark

Last week, I was on an Ebay calculator binge, and I noticed lots of Enron marked calculators but nothing as good as a 12C. Still, cheap little imports were bidding up over $20 when I was looking. I meant to follow up. I think this is like the Florida voting machines that I heard were being auctioned on Ebay. My local radio station gave one of them away in a promotion last week. I think the appeal is like owning something from the Titanic.

      
Re: HP 12C prices
Message #3 Posted by Todd G. on 2 Feb 2002, 8:31 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Ed Clark

Seems to me that people can make these very easily by attaching the crooked E logo to the faceplate, and paint the case. If this one Ed mentioned goes for a lot, it will be interesting to see how many more end up on eBay, and whether they are authentic or not.

Todd.

      
Re: HP 12C prices
Message #4 Posted by Steve Borowsky on 2 Feb 2002, 8:41 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Ed Clark

Maybe the Enron version 12C has some *custom* (cough, cough) algorithms...

            
Similar to early 35s with wrong answer
Message #5 Posted by Randy Smith on 3 Feb 2002, 9:47 a.m.,
in response to message #4 by Steve Borowsky

Maybe the Enron 12s are cousins to the early 35s that gave wrong answers. Perhaps the enron financial people didn't notice the answers were wrong at all. Just a thought.

                  
Re: Similar to early 35s with wrong answer
Message #6 Posted by Ellis Easley on 3 Feb 2002, 5:14 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by Randy Smith

My 35 is one of those. It is branded "AEC - LASL" Which I think must be "Atomic Energy Commission - Los Alamos Scientific Labratories". I assume (and hope) anyone doing science there would have had their calculator upgraded, and that mine was used in the warehouse!

      
Re: HP 12C prices
Message #7 Posted by Todd G. on 3 Feb 2002, 8:38 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Ed Clark

Well that one went for $197.

Here's another: eBay Item # 1070464087

I'll expect to see more in the coming days.

Todd

      
other Enron auctions
Message #8 Posted by Ellis Easley on 3 Feb 2002, 9:08 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Ed Clark

I just did a search on ebay, found 3322 items matching "enron" in completed auctions. Highest bid on an item: domain name "enronbankruptcy.com", $30,000 (reserve not met). Highest winning bid: some Enron financial manuals for $520. In current auctions, another 1250 items, lots of domain names (no bidders - "enronbankruptcy.com" now going begging at $16,000), highest bid: $204.25 for a paperweight!

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