New-to-me HP-71B

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A couple of years ago, I sold off all my HP-71B equipment when I was trying to whittle down my vintage stash. Not only did I not really whittle down my stash very much, I regretted not having any HP-71B any more.

Recently, I saw an excellent early HP-71B on TAS, I couldn't resist, and I managed to snag it up:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-71B-palm-top...true&rt=nc

I received it today. Serial number 2437A00145. I decode that to the 2nd week in September, 1984. I thought that it would have ROM 1AAAA, but it has ROM 1BBBB. I thought that ROM 1BBBB came out in September 1984, but I didn't know when in September. Maybe it was right at the beginning of September?

Anyway, I am thrilled to have an HP71B again, in excellent shape, too. It passes all the self checks, and I've keyed in a couple of BASIC programs, as I wait for my HP-IL interface module to arrive:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-IL-Interface...2749.l2649

An observation I made was, wow, have TAS prices for HP-71B items gone sky high! There seems to be one Seller there who has a lot of different items, and is asking the sky & moon for them. Whew! I don't know how much is actually being bought at those prices? Luckily, I got a reasonable deal on Both my HP-71B and the HPIL module, too.

Thanks for listening!

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