Sad day for HP-41C

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(12-14-2017 11:38 AM)pier4r Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 01:03 AM)larthurl Wrote:  This is my original HP-41C that I bought in 1980. I used it heavily and then about 1990, it went into storage. I re-discovered it about a decade later and saw that it had battery damage from leaking cells.

This is what I meant when, in the post about "most common calculator", I found really surprising that many old calculators are still in working conditions.

One just need either to put a calculator with batteries for some years in a drawer (because life happens) or a calculator may have difficult to find/adapt battery slots and threfore is not usable anymore.

Pier, be aware that the same can happen any day, even on a brand new calculator or whatever device.
A few years ago, @work, I left my wireless mouse on a friday evening, in OFF state. Next monday, when I came back, I found its bottom completely covered by white stuff coming from the battery compartment.

I understand that the more time passes, the greater probabilities are that something like this happens but once we were proud of our calculators and paid an hefty amount to get them so we used and checked them often.
Surely, as reported above, this doesn't shield you from the havoc...