Mines about to bite the dust. Hard to justify this price, but I do want to have another. Me thinks it's time to put a bid on the others. "Vintage????"
Wow. Got one in my laptop case. Had no idea they might fetch that much. Oh well, I'm hangin' on to mine.
Well.... that's what he want's for it. But whether he get's that amount or not remains to be seen. A quick search shows others have sold for less.
Won't even put a dent in Craigs wallet..
The money you could find in Craig's couch would buy this one...
I carry an 11C in my briefcase. Bought it new way back when.
Scott
I personally think that the 11C and others of that era are what killed HP as far as making great calculators. They worked too well, were rugged and just about never quit.
I still use my 11C all the time and it's never far from me. It's sad that a dependable product turned out to be too dependable in our ever faster age of expendable goods. To me the last 20 years have turned into the throw it away age.
I did find an 11C app for the iPad, which works on the iPhone and maybe some other smart phones. I tested most of the functions and got the same answers as my 11C. You might consider it if you have smart phone. It will work in a pinch.
I rarely reached into the holster for the 48 when working in the field. Every check or calc could be done quicker in most cases with the 11C in my shirt pocket. I just about wore out the Polar/Rectangular button. There were not many things you could not check using those two functions.
Deral
It’s funny how sentimental you can get over a calculator. I used my 11C when I took the LSIT in '85 and, even though I had an HP 41 in '89 for the LS test, I still brought my 11C as both a backup and a totem of sorts (superstition reigns supreme in times of doubt).
I use to sew an inside pocket in my vest on the right side, behind my compass pocket, to keep the 11C in. Had two programs entered into the 11C, a traverse program and an inverse program. My peg book still has the program commands on the back pages, just in case I had to re-enter the programs in the field.
This model of HP was also a work horse in other professions. The 11C had an accounting twin (the 15C?) and my cousin, a mortgage banker, used hers exclusively up until her retirement in 2008. She didn’t even have a computer on the desk… just the little HP.
The accounting version is the 12C and is still on the market. The 15C is a superior version of the 11C with more features. I stiil use my 15C daily and have a program in it that will do any of my field calc's, traverse, inverse, grades, X-slope transitions, intersections, curves layout info, including solving for the radius point coordinates with radial bearings by entering a few known quantities and a slope staking routine.
I bought a 15C when I went back to school for the MS in 1981.
The 15C has more features than I ever used. It was just too much work to enter complex-valued matrices for solution, and I always took those to some bigger computer. The only feature I really missed (wrote HP about it) was a normal probability function that was accurate for rare event tails of the distribution. I would have used that a lot back then.
After I got back to work in late '82 I won another 15C in a drawing. I kept one at the office and the other at home and was very happy to have both. Both still work flawlessly today, and are only on about their 3rd or 4th set of batteries in almost 30 years. I can't name another piece of electronics I have that is that old with so few problems.
Charles - you're right. I saw cousin Ellen today and asked about her calculator and she said it's a 12C. She's as protective of it as us surveyors. Keeps it in a display case at home.
Huachuca City? I grew up as an army brat and was at Ft. Huachuca right after I was born (1957) and then again when my dad got back from Nam in 1964. I imagine it has changed a bit in the last 46 years.
In '57 my big brother (who is 16 years older than me) was bussed to Tombstone to go to high school.
Just Mapit,
Heck I still have an HP-35 in the original case. I thought that was the greatest invention ever. Built in trig tables WOOO-HOOOO!
Mike:
Your right. It has changed a lot since you've been in the area. I have been here 22 years and it has changed a lot in that time period. A bunch of expansion has taken place, both on the Fort and also the surrounding area, residential and businesses. A new 4 lane from I-10 to Sierra Vista in 1999-2000 and just general growth. When I came here in April of 1988, there was not a Wal Mart, but they started in September and put in a Wal Mart and several other stores in the complex or shopping center. Now they are working on gettig a new Wal Mart Super Center constucted along with several other stores in the new complex area just across the highway from the old one. They built a new High School in Sierra Vista around 1995 and a new one in Tombstone about 3 years ago. A big surge in growth took place in about 1974 or thereabouts and the City of Sierra Vista really started to get bigger. The growth in the area is stillgoing on. I would be happy to answer any quetions you may have.
Still using my 15c, hope I quit before it does.:-)
