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(12-20-2017 05:39 AM)Michael de Estrada Wrote:  

(12-19-2017 02:31 AM)brickviking Wrote:  Five thousand dollars!!! Wow. The next red-dot entry in the list when I simply hunt for HP-35, is only 1.3% of that cost. Yeesh. He must think that the one born every minute must be filthy rich!

Yes, it’s a lot of money, but it’s also the rarest of the rare collectible calculators. So, I don’t agree with your implication that someone willing to pay the price is necessarily a sucker. I think the real suckers are people willing to pay $500 for an HP 15c LE.

You can look at it two ways.

If you look at it as a 45-year-old bug-ridden calculator then I would agree that you'd need to be one hell of a sucker to buy it.

If, on the other hand, you look at it as a unique and irreplaceable piece of computing history then you really wish you had 5 grand knocking about somewhere. I certainly do!