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Great your older brother from me. He was our tutor during his military service at st Cyr.

I myself had an hp48 during my high school and now I own 6 of them I bought on Leboncoin or eBay for cheap. Also found an hp32sII for 5 euros but after three years I own it it decided to die in my hand.

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Are they working correctly?

Most of the models seems to age well except for the rubber-like connector between the key plane and the motherboard, and the keys are either not registering presses or you have to press hard on the body.

Mine still works ok. Though I never got my head around RPN though.. I just don't use maths enough to get accustomed to it.

If it would have supported normal notation as well it would still have been a useful tool to me.

What is the exact model? Would you sell it?

I’m looking for memory card either diy or genuine. Do you know if it exists anymore ? I often find custom Ron card with specific application (EE or advanced physics) but I cannot find 1mb black card for sell.

I don't remember exactly, have to look it up. I think it was a 48GX. But the problem is sending electronic items to the US is a real PITA. I'm in Europe myself. We shipped a MacBook with work one day from the US to EU and it would have cost us more than the thing was worth in import and brokerage charges, it was ridiculous :( In the end we had to decline and the thing went back but it still incurred a lot of charges there.

I also live in Europe, I am French but I live in the UK at the moment.

Ah the UK is also a problem now unfortunately :( Thanks to Brexit. But sending to France might be doable if that could work (I'm Dutch, in Spain). I'll have a look for it and ping you.

Beside the hp32sII which refuse to switch on since this last august, my 6 hp48gx are running very well.

I have a serial cable and was able to upload program on it ( the famous dune game) I also grabbed some French books (classic one for hp48)

The best game was Phoenix, made a guy from Croatia, smooth gameplay, tight controls, sound effects, difficult and a bit short but enjoyable.

Diamonds was also very good.

https://imgur.com/a/JRorpqY

My little collection

Impressive :)

I had most of those books and a few others at some point.

My almost 30 years old GX was unfortunately stolen last year. :(

I was always amazed that a game like Phoenix was possible on it. Really enjoyed that game.

Didn’t know about Diamonds. Something to look up. Thanks!

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