HP 65 Question?

[Geoff Quickfall]

Damage

Debatable, anecdotal evidence but yes.

The main caveat, as with the Woodstock 67, card reader does not work on charger only. Calculator does. 67 is a woodstock so of course, no charger only, but unfortunately people think it is a classic like the 65.

Of course the HP 41/67/97/65 cards are identical physically. So passing a 41/67/97 card with associated program will only test the physical drive ("to be goo or not to be goo?"That is the question as Shakespeare so aptly put I t), but will not test the read/write properties of the PCA. Of course once the capstan is proven to be functional, then you could enter a simple test program and try the write/read function.

cost is sooooo subjective. A pristine functioning HP 65 (calc PCA) with manuals and a bad card reader for me, around $150 USd but then I fix the card reader and I have spare parts (not many).

Geoff