HP 71B RAM: has anybody big ones to sell?

[Jake Schwartz]

Re: Elek-Tek:

Richard Nelson frequently told the story of how when he worked for EduCALC, he was once in Chicago and visited Elek-Tek. For some reason, he walked outside and adjacent to Elek-Tek, found another business and took pictures of the front of it. Later, Richard discovered that this other business was a calculator distributor who happened to be owned and run by the Elek-Tek folks. Disturbed that they were able to charge such low HP prices (as compared to EduCALC) due to the fact that they effectively skipped a middleman by distributing to themselves, Richard complained to HP. Ultimately, HP explained that this "problem" was of a monetary size which fell in between the financial responsibility levels of two HP financial people and as a result, ended up being ignored. Kinda sad.

Thanks,
Jake