by Garth » Wed May 29, 2013 7:09 am
I keep seeing the wands at such high prices on eBay that I have to wonder if the sellers get any sales at all (being wishful and unrealistic), or if for some reason they're trying to keep artificially high prices to benefit something else. If I sold all my HP-41 and 71 stuff, I could definitely get at least a couple thousand dollars; but there's no way I'm going to pay $380 for a wand. If they really are in such high demand, it seems like Diego or Monte or Meindert Kuipers or someone else would be interested in making a replacement with programmable logic, and make it more capable than the original one was, as they have done with the NoV64, 41CL, MLDL2000, etc.. It could be made to read many more kinds of barcode, and possibly do other related things too.