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Shiny new 16C!
Message #1 Posted by Keith Midson on 22 Oct 2013, 8:12 p.m.

Well I finally got a 16C in my collection !!
There is something wonderful about receiving a 'new old stock' HP - the quality is just amazing.

      
Re: Shiny new 16C!
Message #2 Posted by Les Bell on 22 Oct 2013, 8:18 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Keith Midson

Har! Mine looked like that, when I bought it duty-free at Singapore airport in 1983 or so. These days, it's beaten up, but still working - because the quality is just amazing. ;)

Best,

--- Les
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]

      
Re: Shiny new 16C!
Message #3 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 22 Oct 2013, 9:19 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Keith Midson

Congrats:-)

So you caught the still factory sealed NOS 16C from the bay?

            
Re: Shiny new 16C!
Message #4 Posted by Keith Midson on 22 Oct 2013, 11:51 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Raymond Del Tondo

Hi Raymond, yes it came from the UK seller who seems to have many of them!! It really was new - even the batteries are original and still working.

                  
Re: Shiny new 16C!
Message #5 Posted by db (martinez, ca.) on 23 Oct 2013, 12:33 p.m.,
in response to message #4 by Keith Midson

union carbide A 76 cells?

                        
Re: Shiny new 16C!
Message #6 Posted by Mike Powell on 24 Oct 2013, 3:52 p.m.,
in response to message #5 by db (martinez, ca.)

Yeah I got one last month , the lady who's selling them told me her husband used to be a HP dealer but went Apple, Apple somehow stopped them selling anything else so they stashed the stock away for some 15/20 years.

Get those batteries out and replaced ASAP!

                              
Re: batteries
Message #7 Posted by db (martinez, ca.) on 24 Oct 2013, 9:04 p.m.,
in response to message #6 by Mike Powell

I still have two of an original set of three over 25 year old union carbide batteries. The other one just went dead. They're sitting on a shelf to see when they go bad.

Another example of a company that made good things but got destroyed by bean counters and middle managers who had no interest in the product being made - just profit and their cushy positions.

                        
Re: Shiny new 16C!
Message #8 Posted by Keith Midson on 27 Oct 2013, 2:22 a.m.,
in response to message #5 by db (martinez, ca.)

No these are LR44's - very flat, barely clinging onto life.

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