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*sigh*
Message #1 Posted by Howard Owen on 2 Oct 2011, 10:57 p.m.

"Very RARE and Hard to Find!"

TAS link.

      
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Message #2 Posted by Michael de Estrada on 2 Oct 2011, 11:04 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Howard Owen

Haha ! I just saw that too. You beat me to it. Like it's the only TAS listing. And there have already been many more auctions that have ended.

Edited: 2 Oct 2011, 11:12 p.m.

            
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Message #3 Posted by bill platt on 3 Oct 2011, 12:07 a.m.,
in response to message #2 by Michael de Estrada

closing prices as of today:

Average close: $220
Lowest:  $147
Highest: $447

Sometimes I am positively amazed by humans.

Oh, and I didn't touch an HP for this. I used a spreadsheet on an IBM :-)

210
250
242
210
213
203
250
153
147
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154
260
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250
170
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260
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280
360
240
187
229
229
185
199
150
202
179
355
300
199
447
223
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215
200
175
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200
210
200

Edited: 3 Oct 2011, 12:07 a.m.

                  
Re: *sigh*
Message #4 Posted by Howard Owen on 3 Oct 2011, 12:26 a.m.,
in response to message #3 by bill platt

I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand it's amazing to see so many folks getting, not to put too fine a point on it, [screwed, not only by the sellers, but through getting potentially defective units. On the other it's nice to see a revived 15C selling so well. It may mean HP will actually spend the dough to implement in a reasonable way the fixes Cyrille and Tim come up with. Of course, in my dreams, brisk sales could even lead to a not limited edition 15C, or even consideration of the idea to designing new calcs along the lines of the "42S plus II glory hallelujah."

Like I said: *sigh*. :)

                        
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Message #5 Posted by Jim Yohe on 3 Oct 2011, 12:43 a.m.,
in response to message #4 by Howard Owen

Quote:
"42S plus II glory hallelujah."

Amen!

                              
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Message #6 Posted by Ethan Conner on 3 Oct 2011, 1:00 a.m.,
in response to message #5 by Jim Yohe

Appropriate Sunday commentary. :)

                                    
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Message #7 Posted by Howard Owen on 3 Oct 2011, 3:00 a.m.,
in response to message #6 by Ethan Conner

There's no doubt in my mind that this hobby is at least 2/3 religion, and that last decimal digit better be a seven. :)

                  
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Message #8 Posted by Howard Owen on 3 Oct 2011, 3:02 a.m.,
in response to message #3 by bill platt

Have you been tracking prices for a while, Bill?

                        
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Message #9 Posted by bill platt on 3 Oct 2011, 9:28 a.m.,
in response to message #8 by Howard Owen

On and off for about 10 years... But I am not a baseball statistician about it.

                  
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Message #10 Posted by Joerg Woerner on 3 Oct 2011, 1:28 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by bill platt

Bill,

Great work.

Funny to know that the one from the Datamath Calculator Museum sold for the highest price so far ;-))

I guess I should focus more on Hewlett Packard stuff instead TI's.

Cheers, Joerg

                        
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Message #11 Posted by gene wright on 3 Oct 2011, 1:54 p.m.,
in response to message #10 by Joerg Woerner

Yes, you should!

                              
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Message #12 Posted by Joerg Woerner on 3 Oct 2011, 2:39 p.m.,
in response to message #11 by gene wright

Gene,

I would have to sell my TI-88 first - a nice HP collection needs some start-up money ;-))

Cheers, Joerg

                                    
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Message #13 Posted by David Ramsey on 3 Oct 2011, 5:23 p.m.,
in response to message #12 by Joerg Woerner

I believe you said you'd sell the TI-88 for $2500.01, right?

                                          
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Message #14 Posted by Joerg Woerner on 3 Oct 2011, 9:17 p.m.,
in response to message #13 by David Ramsey

I remember that you wanted to trade it for your supercharged, custom-painted Saleen Mustang ;-))

Cheers, Joerg

                                                
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Message #15 Posted by David Ramsey on 4 Oct 2011, 3:06 p.m.,
in response to message #14 by Joerg Woerner

Really? I don't remember ever saying that.

Besides, as a sophisticated European person used to sophisticated cars, I don't think you'd like it. It's pretty, but quite crude. Kind of like the SR-60. :-)

                                                      
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Message #16 Posted by bill platt on 4 Oct 2011, 4:23 p.m.,
in response to message #15 by David Ramsey

I discovered that there is a pretty energetic 1960s Mustang collector fan base in Holland. Meanwhile in the U.S. we like better cars, such as Porche....

      
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Message #17 Posted by Alexander Oestert on 3 Oct 2011, 4:48 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Howard Owen

Quote:
"Very RARE and Hard to Find!"

At least for us Europeans that is true after all.

And with the bugs apparently accumulating in the LE, I might be tempted to also take advantage of this situation... ;)

            
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Message #18 Posted by Walter B on 3 Oct 2011, 5:10 a.m.,
in response to message #17 by Alexander Oestert

Seems there are better investments ;-)

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