By ET

I’ve retrieved an old HP 11C scientific calculator from a box outside a professor’s office, it was supposed to be trashed by the cleaning people at midnight.
At MIT, you can really dig a gold mine from piles of trashes. (Jeffrey helped me to retrieved an IBM server from a trash pile at the neighboring department, it had 3G rambus memory, and a burnt 2G Xeon CPU, the good news is that the box was still under warranty, so a call to IBM got it fixed… well, that’s another story).

Looking at this HP reminds me my dad’s old calculators back in the 80’s. Googling about it turns out that it was indeed first produced in 1987, the price then was $135. Then I went to ebay to check out its current market value, to my surprise, there are a lot of HP 11Cs offered in eBay, and they can sell from $150 to more than $200, depending on the quality. This is very strange, as similar calculators produced by Casio and TI were not found in eBay. I hope to find out a reason why this is so expensive now…

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