Original Box for Classics

[DaveBr]

(06-26-2019 08:08 PM)[kby] Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 08:40 PM)DaveBr Wrote:  The serial# is 1503A21073 (1975)

It didn’t come with the green plastic case, but I have since acquired one from an esteemed forum member.
Dave

So my original HP-65 was 1507A05763 (bought new; I think at the college bookstore), and it was replaced on 19–Sep–1975 under warranty for something with 1511A01393.

It came with the the green molded travel case.

It appears, then, that the green travel case could not fit in the retail box? So it looks like you are likely to have (assuming you have an original collection) either the retail box or the green travel case? I'm pretty sure mine came in a generic brown or white corrugated cardboard box just big enough to hold the travel case, and it was "behind the counter"—they had the demo displays in the store.

I bought my rebuilt HP-65 fairly recently off the auction site. It looks like everything is as purchased new, as the serial # is written in the manual, QRG and std app manual. The green plastic case fits in the box if you remove the cardboard with the cutouts for the calculator/case, owners manual and charger. How the rest of the items (program forms, program cards, accessories literature, warranty info, calculator ads ...) were placed in the retail box, I have no clue.
I keep the calculator, cards and manuals in the hard case and keep the retail box on a shelf for safe keeping.
I put a 3,000 mah NiMh battery pack in the HP-65 and use it quite often.
Dave