HP-39GII: Will it become a desired collectible?

[Jim Horn]

Regarding the 39gII: I enjoy mine a lot. I don't have a Prime so this is as close as I can get. And considering the very stringent requirements for which it was designed combined with the circumstances that Tim has mentioned, combined with the huge body of code it represents, I'm delighted that it's available at all. It would be nice if the bugs were fixed. It would be nice if all the bugs in *any* large software project were fixed. But they have yet to impede my use of it.

Collectors here have often gone to great lengths to get older HP machines that couldn't do a tiny fraction of what the 39gII does. With it not having sold in large numbers, if there are collectors decades in the future, I wouldn't be surprised to see this one commanding a premium. Meanwhile, it serves me just fine.

(from someone who was excited beyond measure to get his HP-25 in June, 1975...)