What happened to HPs tooling molds

[Eric Rechlin]

(10-26-2024 02:29 PM)Allen Wrote:  

(10-25-2024 01:51 PM)HPing Wrote:  that niche market probably wouldn't have any legs.

I would suggest the entire 2024 calculator market is in decline. I've been following prices and demand for 18 years. For calculators made before ~1990 (pre-pioneer series) the market prices seem to be buttressed by low supply, not high demand.

Possibly we are seeing an equilibrium where decreasing supply always falls just short of the decreasing demand, making prices decline slightly less than either market force.

Sadly after several decades of scarcity, economic substitution has further eroded demand for these beautiful machines.

This is a very long way to say that calculator-collectors are dying off only slightly faster than their heirs are throwing their collections in the trash (instead of selling them).