HP-65 brochure Message #1 Posted by RMillán on 5 July 2004, 8:40 p.m.
Hi, all!
As the proud winner of a digital copy of the HP-65 brochure (see Valentín's recent 15C challenge), I have read it today thoroughly, and cannot help making here some comments:
Look at the outfit they bundled the 65 with:
- rechargeable batteries and charger,
- soft carrying case,
- Owner's Handbook,
- Quick Reference Guide,
- a Standard Application programs pack in magnetic cards (with the corresponding handbook),
- a set of 20 blank magnetic cards,
- a pad of 50 letter-size program forms,
- a set of 20 blank "pocket instruction cards", which would fit inside the carrying case, and each one being able to hold and protect two cards, and providing a sort of "mini-form" to write down short program instructions, and
- a safety travel case, of high impact plastic, with room for the calculator inside its soft case, the charger, manuals and cards.
I will not elaborate on this. The list speaks by itself.
But it is not just that they made a very good bundle, also you were fully able to learn the exact details from the brochure. And, better, you could nearly learn to program the HP-65 from the very same brochure! So thorough and well done it was.
I don't remember for sure, but it's likely that it was a brochure of similar quality which made me save three months of wages (it was my very first and very badly paid job) to purchase a 41C.
You know, not just calculators are not made today as they were.
Best regards from Rafael Millán.
PS: Curiously, the 65 brochure is dated on 7/74, exactly 30 years ago.
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