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HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #1 Posted by Rainer Wiedemann (Germany) on 14 Sept 2009, 8:03 p.m. Up for a "Buy it now" auction is a HP Calculator Digest from 1976 for 580 bucks. Here you'll find the auction, the gracious seller will ship for free. Is this the Blue Mauritius among all HP calculator literature? Perhaps I should make a best offer then, a block of Lehman Bros. shares ... :-) Edited: 14 Sept 2009, 9:09 p.m.

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #2 Posted by Namir on 14 Sept 2009, 9:18 p.m., in response to message #1 by Rainer Wiedemann (Germany) I think I will swap him with my authentic unpublished Beethoven musical manuscript. :-) Namir

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #3 Posted by fbronner on 15 Sept 2009, 11:20 a.m., in response to message #2 by Namir Quote: I think I will swap him with my authentic unpublished Beethoven musical manuscript. :-) Namir Well, I should consider to sell my deads to the Brooklyn bridge :-)

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #4 Posted by Namir on 15 Sept 2009, 11:53 a.m., in response to message #3 by fbronner The seller has other HP calculators that he is selling with rather high price tags. An you thought time travel to the past was impossible!!! I sure hope he will not hold his breath. I hate to see a fellow seller expire like that! :-) Namir

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #5 Posted by Rainer Wiedemann (Germany) on 15 Sept 2009, 1:16 p.m., in response to message #4 by Namir Not only the calculators are pretty expensive, did you see the wall warts' prices? For such a lot of money I would expect them at least to work, even when not plugged into a wall outlet. What about your Beethoven manuscript? If ol' Ludwig van printed it on an HP-97, I'd give you a bid for it, provided, you sell me his original mag cards, too :-)

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #6 Posted by Namir on 15 Sept 2009, 2:20 p.m., in response to message #5 by Rainer Wiedemann (Germany) Rainer, You are a good guesser! The manuscript I have for Beethoven was printed using an HP-41C and an external HP printer!!! Now many readers will ask how on earth did Beethoven get an HP-41C?? Well, thanks to the Einstein Express, I was able to send the old master all these gadgets back time! :-) Namir

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #7 Posted by fbronner on 15 Sept 2009, 4:58 p.m., in response to message #1 by Rainer Wiedemann (Germany) Wow, Have you seen how many remotes he is selling....My wife has issues picking the right one from the 3 at home, can you imagine if I had that many hanging around at our home...

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #8 Posted by Gonzalo Fernandez (Spain) on 25 Sept 2009, 4:24 p.m., in response to message #7 by fbronner Finally it has been sold for $579.99, congratulations to the lucky buyer!

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #9 Posted by hecube on 25 Sept 2009, 11:57 p.m., in response to message #8 by Gonzalo Fernandez (Spain) Was it worth it?

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #10 Posted by Rainer Wiedemann (Germany) on 27 Sept 2009, 9:43 p.m., in response to message #8 by Gonzalo Fernandez (Spain) Nope, he didn't sell it. It's up for auction again at the same price. Either the seller is pretty sure to find a dude, oops, I mean a buyer, or he doesn't mind paying high ebay fees. I wonder, what makes this magazine so very special, of course without considering a buy (since my cash cow is constipated for a while :-))

Re: HP's "Blue Mauritius" up for auction Message #11 Posted by Michael de Estrada on 27 Sept 2009, 10:36 p.m., in response to message #10 by Rainer Wiedemann (Germany) Quote: I wonder, what makes this magazine so very special Presumably the fact that it is Volume One. The first edition of anything is always considered more valuable than subsequent issues. For example, I have Volumes Five and Seven of the HP Digest, but I imagine that they are less valuable for that reason. Of course, I have no desire or intention of selling them, any more than I would sell my Red Dot. As far as the item not selling at that price, well, the market has spoken and clearly no one has felt it is worth that much.

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