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Prices on ebay Message #1 Posted by Matthias on 7 Feb 2004, 4:12 p.m. Wow. If this becomes with all my calculators, Iīll be a millionaire in some years... http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31387&item=2688552728&ssPageName=STRK:MEBWA:IT I allready saw this increasment on the Curtas, but now on HP-01? Letīs have a look on my HP-10A, HP-70A, HP9100B in some month.... cool

Re: Prices on ebay Message #2 Posted by David Smith on 7 Feb 2004, 4:34 p.m., in response to message #1 by Matthias That is about the normal price for a truly new condition gold HP-01 in the box with all the goodies. I have seen them go for $4000. It looks like the Curtas are cooling off now. It is strange that they sell for so much (over $500). It seems that one sells every day on Ebay. An HP65 may come up once every couple of weeks and sells for around $200.

Curta mechanical calculators Message #3 Posted by Karl Schneider on 7 Feb 2004, 8:48 p.m., in response to message #2 by David Smith David Smith stated, Quote: It looks like the Curtas are cooling off now. It is strange that they sell for so much (over $500). It seems that one sells every day on Ebay. The January 2004 issue of Scientific American had a very good article about the Curta and its history. There might be an excerpt of the article on SciAm's website. Given the quality of the Curta, I'm not surprised that collectors were paying $500. They might be even rarer than most pre-41C HP models.

What about $495 for a TI-59 ? Message #4 Posted by Emmanuel Verbeeck (Belgium) on 8 Feb 2004, 3:13 a.m., in response to message #1 by Matthias http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3076586507

Re: What about $495 for a TI-59 ? Message #5 Posted by David Smith on 8 Feb 2004, 3:05 p.m., in response to message #4 by Emmanuel Verbeeck (Belgium) Well, it's down to $350 buy-it-now. Probably not too bad a price if it is truly NIB. The Scientific American article would explain the recent (hopefully brief) Curta price spike. Everybody should have one of these little jewels in their goody box... but $3500 is utterly riduculous... even with the box.

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