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Call for young collectors! - Katie Wasserman - 11-06-2015 05:03 PM
I just saw this interesting post on the Google old calculator forum. I'm sure that an all HP calculator collection would certainly qualify as a unique and interesting collection. Are there any collectors here that are "young" not just young at heart?
RE: Call for young collectors! - HP-Collection - 11-06-2015 07:14 PM
Well, I doubt that 40 years is "young", and Europe is maybe also a bit far away, but:
Keep in mind visiting HP-Collection when you're in Switzerland. You're all welcome.
RE: Call for young collectors! - walter b - 11-06-2015 07:44 PM
And I can confirm it's worth a detour (on the Guide Michelin scale).
d:-)
RE: Call for young collectors! - Katie Wasserman - 11-06-2015 08:04 PM
(11-06-2015 07:14 PM)HP-Collection Wrote: Well, I doubt that 40 years is "young",
Unfortunately it's not, they're looking for "kids and teens".
RE: Call for young collectors! - walter b - 11-06-2015 09:08 PM
Mathias could go for three teens.
d:-)
RE: Call for young collectors! - Massimo Gnerucci - 11-06-2015 09:43 PM
(11-06-2015 09:08 PM)walter b Wrote: Mathias could go for three teens.
d:-)
Me too, at least for a couple years more... ;)
RE: Call for young collectors! - Etienne Victoria - 11-07-2015 10:32 PM
I'd qualify !!!.....,well ..... mod 50 :-(
RE: Call for young collectors! - ggauny@live.fr - 11-08-2015 11:12 AM
hi,
+1,
but for me the equation is :
I=SQUARE(9).
"Range error" (out of range !)
Gérard.
RE: Call for young collectors! - Sanjeev Visvanatha - 11-10-2015 11:44 PM
My kids (both under teen years) are using WP-31S in daily school work. In fact they may be the only ones their age in Canada doing so (possibly North America). Perhaps they qualify for this.
RE: Call for young collectors! - Katie Wasserman - 11-11-2015 02:14 AM
(11-10-2015 11:44 PM)Sanjeev Visvanatha Wrote: My kids (both under teen years) are using WP-31S in daily school work. In fact they may be the only ones their age in Canada doing so (possibly North America). Perhaps they qualify for this.
That's great, but do they have a calculator collection that they could show off?
RE: Call for young collectors! - walter b - 11-11-2015 07:46 AM
Does anybody at all collect calculators at that age (teens and below)?
I don't remember anybody doing this 40 years ago - those instruments were expensive tools then. Even professors just had one calculator at a time and gave their previous models to their team members.
Now, these instruments became cheap enough so everybody can buy (almost) as many recent models as (s)he likes - but who of the younger generation would collect such boring stuff? And who of them would even acquire the old, very limited models without deep own memories to the time they were the state of the art? People collecting vintage objects are usually far older than the target group of that call.
Just my 20m€.
d:-/
RE: Call for young collectors! - walter b - 11-11-2015 07:48 AM
Congratulations! May they become true pioneers!
d:-)
RE: Call for young collectors! - Waon Shinyoe - 11-11-2015 12:00 PM
Born in 1996, I might be qualified...
I have collections of HP, TI, CASIO and SHARP, among which the TI prototyoe PLT-SHH1 should be the most valuable one... But still, HP is the most beautiful!
Also maybe my friend BXG who collects all the models from TI-81 to TI-89... He is a little bit older than me.
Edit: Just contacted Sarah.
Bad news: I'm too old to be qualified. TAT
Good news: ZephRay, or nbzwt, or Zweb (Anyway, my friend in Ningbo who ports the WP-34S to NSpire...) is under 18! Now I'm lookong for him showing up in the TV screem XD
RE: Call for young collectors! - Bill Platt - 11-11-2015 07:18 PM
If Ben S. hadn't returned the 15c I lent him years ago, he'd qualify as a young collector.
RE: Call for young collectors! - alcuin - 11-12-2015 12:20 AM
30 Year old is young enough?
14-HP48GX
2- HP48SX
3- HP42S
1- HP71
4- HP17BII
2- HP28S
2- HP32SII
1- HP19BII
is this the start of a collection? or just 48GX series obsess?
regards
RE: Call for young collectors! - Waon Shinyoe - 11-12-2015 01:54 AM
(11-12-2015 12:20 AM)alcuin Wrote: 30 Year old is young enough?
14-HP48GX
2- HP48SX
3- HP42S
1- HP71
4- HP17BII
2- HP28S
2- HP32SII
1- HP19BII
is this the start of a collection? or just 48GX series obsess?
regards
They only accept collectors under 18... So unfortunately you are too old
BTW, nice collection.
RE: Call for young collectors! - d b - 11-12-2015 05:12 AM
(11-11-2015 02:14 AM)Katie Wasserman Wrote: That's great, but do they have a calculator collection that they could show off?
Maybe kids now collect calculator APPS on their phones?
RE: Call for young collectors! - Frido Bohn - 11-12-2015 11:12 AM
If you want to show off pretend that your son/daughter owns your collection. Give your kid a crash course in HP-calculatorlogy and let them become famous ;-)
RE: Call for young collectors! - HP-Collection - 11-12-2015 07:20 PM
My girls are 3 and 5.5 years old... should be young enough....