original HP calculator cases.

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(11-12-2018 08:58 PM)Zaphod Wrote:  I seem to remember when I bought my 41 (brand new, but gone long since) the case had space to accommodate the 41 and the card reader attached, and I think there was a foam block in there to use the case when you didn’t have the card reader ?

Can’t remember the colour though.

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. This is just a slight difference of ≈1 cm in both length and width. It's definitely enough to see side-by-side however. Perhaps I should take a photo... I just checked and both cases are long enough to accommodate the card reader if attached. It's a real squeeze on the smaller case, however. Both probably both had those foam blocks but mine were undoubtedly lost by the previous owners long ago. The smaller case is still oddly long if someone weren't thinking about the card reader. It's like they left room for it, but not quite enough.

The color variation is subtle as well and might not show well in a photo. Both are pebbled fake brown leather but the color is a little bit different (more attractive on the big, IMO).

I actually have a second of the "big" cases and it seems identical both in color and size to the other big one. So my sample size is just two big cases and one small. There are some clear differences big↔small, however.