My first HP-35 and a happy end

[aurelio]

(09-24-2014 06:48 PM)jebem Wrote:  

(09-24-2014 08:25 AM)aurelio Wrote:  People die and things survive
But things help people in reminding other people

And it's so interesting with the old stuff, to think about and to guess who owned it before, what's his history?

[OMISSIS]
The new era of paperless storage have its dangers...

Following are the remaining photos of the calculator internals.

Agree, Josè.........
Thank-you for sharing the internals pictures

Certainly, comparing these 35's boards, keyboard, circuits and connections to the ones of just a few years later (spice series I mean), it's practically unpossible for me: like to compare sky and earth

Maybe the spices represents the low cost project for scientific calculators (31c), but if Ithink to the 34c I can't believe that was made using ribbon connectors and unsoldered connection with all the related problems we quite well know.

It seems actually that the classics (expecially the 35A) were made to live forever while the others not.....