Deke Slayton's HP65 is on eBay...

[Paul Dale]

I've had a couple of conversations along these lines in various areas.
Generally, they aren't worth the effort disputing the response. The final bids say everything.

My most recent was a HP-29C and my question was "did it work?" The response was that if it did work it would be listed at three to four times the price. It didn't sell for anything like what I was ready to offer untested. I assumed that it didn't work and that it was worth at most a tenth of the asking price. I'll pay a bit more for good cosmetic condition (which it was).

Needless to say, it didn't sell. I lost the device to a far lower bidder, someone else got a device that most likely didn't do everything they wanted.


Pauli

PS: I'd like a nice clean 29C at some point -- it needn't work but the price would have to be such that I could purchase it and get it repaired by my good German friends for a reasonable total.