Strange hobby? You betcha
Gulp, here it is. When I was a young man, I had a friend once who jumped into an ice breaking
conversation I was having with a young lady by saying, ``Did you know Tom collects calculators!?''
Man, that put a stake in it. So when I met my wife-to-be, I waited until she had said
``yes'' to the proposal (right after she said, ``what are you asking again?'') and then
told her the Dark Truth.
[For an explanation of these models (but not why someone would want them), see
Dave Hicks' The Museum of HP
Calculators]
In my collection:
- Classic series:
HP-35 "red dot"
HP-35 mid-model
HP-45
HP-55
HP-65
HP-67 (2)
HP-70 (horay!)
HP-80
(missing: 35 late model)
- Top Cat:
HP-97
(missing: 91, 92, 97S)
- Woodstock:
HP-21 (2)
HP-22 (2)
HP-25
HP-25C
HP-27
HP-29C
- Sting:
HP-19C
HP-10A
- Spice:
HP-31E
HP-32E
HP-33E
HP-33C
HP-34C
(missing: 37E, 38E, 38C)
- Coconut:
HP-41C (2)
HP-41CX
(missing: HP-41CV)
- Cricket:
HP-01 (stainless steel)
- Voyager:
HP-11C
HP-15C
HP-16C
(missing: 10C, 12C)
- Clamshell:
HP-28S
- Pioneer:
HP-32SII
HP-42S
- Other:
HP-48SX
HP-48GX
HP-71B
SR-40
SR-52
TI-55
TI-57
TI-59 (2)
Rockwell 61R
- Peripherals:
HP-41 Printer
HP-41 Wand
HP-41 Modules: PPC, IR Printer
HP-41 Pacs: Standard, Math Pac (3)
HP-65 Pacs: Standard, Finance, Navigation, Mathematics, Machine design
HP-67 Pacs: Standard, Statistics, Games
HP-71B Pacs: FORTH/Debugger
HP-IL Casette drive
HP-IL Video interface
HP-IL Asynch I/O interface
Total: 30 odd calculators (so learn to add already! ok, ok).