Woodstock Low Power

[Maximilian Hohmann]

I knew it: The sun shone through our windows onto my table this afternoon (which means I could have done the soldering without using a loupe or glasses), the soldering iron was hot, the Panamatik parts were disposed around my workplace, I had disassembled two Woodstocks (a 21 and a 25) for a last-minute decision which one to sacrifice.
Then I took up the x-acto knife in order to inflict the PCB-sectomy on one of the calculators. But I couldn't do it. However hard I tried. A cosmetic surgeon must feel that way when tasked with cutting up a perfectly beautiful face to (allegedly) make it even more beautiful...
So I unplugged my soldering iron again, reassembled the calculators, put the tools away and bought a "defective" HP-22 on eBay instead from the UK. Should be here end of next week so I can try again next weekend. But with my kind of luck that defective HP-22 will probably work just fine and I will be back were I am now ;-)

Regards
Max

NB: In the process I discovered that the rubber feet of most of my Woodstocks have turned into something like chewing gum over the years. Which means that they will be destroyed when the screws underneath need to be accessed. Has anyone come up with something to replace those feet with?