Hewlett Packard HP-67

Serial Number (1) 2011S02171: 1980, 11th week, Singapore
Accessories Original box, some wear on front

Manual: HP-67 Bedienungs-Handbuch (German), mint

Software cards: HP-67/HP-97 Standard Pac, mint, blank cards unused

Manual: HP-67 Standard Paket (German), Standard Pac software description, mint

Manual: HP-67 Standard Paket Diagnostik-Programm (German), Short description

Manual: HP-67 Kurzanleitung (German), mint

Programming  Pad (paper sheet to write down own programs), still sealed

External charging station for the battery pack

Pouch

Power supply

Rechargeable battery pack. Housing has been discarded and batteries have been soldered together
Condition Mint, back label intact, card reader working. Self-test from Standard Pac successfully passed.
Acquired 7.7.2002

Serial Number (2) 1708S06023: 1977, 8th week, Singapore
Accessories Pouch

Additional battery pack

Power supply

Programming  Pad (paper sheet to write down own programs), still sealed

Manual: HP-67 Bedienungs-Handbuch (German), mint

Manual: HP-67 Bedienungs-Handbuch (German), worn

Leavlet: Nachtrag zum Bedienungs-Handbuch (German)

Manual: HP-67 Kurzanleitung (German)

Brochure: HP-67/HP-97 Umfangreiche Software-Unterstützung (German)

Brochure: HP-67/HP-97 Comprehensive Software Support, brochure

Manual: HP-67 Standard Paket (German)

Manual: HP-67 Standard Paket Diagnostik-Programm (German), Short description

Software cards: HP-67/HP-97 Standard Pac magnetic cards

Manual: HP-67/HP-97 Vermessungs-Programmsammlung, 1976 (German)

Software cards: Program card holder with lots of personal programs, some of them seem to contain the "Vermessungs-Programme"

Book: Richard Eckert: Die Programmierbaren von HP, Mit 98 beispielen und 62 Programmen, 1979 (German)

Original cardboard box
Condition Mint, but the card reader doesn't work.
Acquired 1.9.2002



Standard Pac





Condition
Acquired 14.2.2004
.
HP codename, series Hawkeye, Classic
Type, Precision, Input Mode Scientific, 10 BCD digits, exponent ±99, Reverse Polish Notation.
The calculator delivers highly accurate results.
Programmable 224 steps, fully merged, labels A-E, a-e and 0-9, program editing. Interestingly, this unit is slower than the HP-65.
Performance Index 1.6
Memory 26 memories, not permanent
Display 13 digit 7 segment red LED plus sign
Special features 10 user-defined keys, subroutines, indirect addressing, numeric and symbolic labels, flags, store data and/or programs on magnetic cards using the internal magnetic card reader.
Original Pricing, Production 1.7.1976 ($450) - 11.1.1982 ($450)
My own records indicate a price of "only" DM 1350 (670 Euro) at the Kaufhof in Munich in July 1977.
Batteries Battery pack equipped with 3x AAA sized cells or accus or power supply
Dimensions Length 15.1cm, Width 8cm, Height 3.6cm
Links HP-67 Owner's Handbook and Programming Guide, April 1977 (PDF)
HP-67 Bedienungs-Handbuch, August 1978 (PDF, German)
HP Jounal: HP-67/97 A Pair of Program-Compatible Personal Programmable Calculators, Nov 1976
Quick Reference (PDF)
Programming Book.
HP-67CX (April Fool Joke at the hpmuseum.org)
Comment HP's last Classic model. Yet another candidate for "best calculator ever". The magnetic card reader gives access to numberless software libraries; the weight of it makes it a rather heavy and thus an even more impressive device. 
Three prefix keys provide access to a large number of functions. The HP-65's concept of "inversed" functions that can be accessed via f-1 has been abandoned - maybe it was a little hard to grasp that "f-1 INT" would calculate the fractional part. To avoid a cluttered keyboard a neat orange/blue coloring scheme is used. Although this scheme is a bit confusing when it comes to understand the ominous blue "f" labels.
Shortcomings in the programming model of the HP-65 have been eliminated - the result is a perfect calculator!! 
One odd thing, though: With my standard benchmark it is significantly slower than the HP-65.
The HP-97 was an identical unit in the shape of a desktop calculator with built-in printer.

Calculation
Correct result
HP-67 Result
Error
100/18 
40/9 
5.555555*0.5555555
40/9+50/9000 
sqrt(2E6)/1000
exp(0.005) 
exp(0.999999) 
exp(1.000001) 
exp(100)/1E43
ln(1E-6)/10
ln(0.9995)*10000 
ln(1.0005)*10000
pow10(0.005) 
pow10(0.99999) 
pow10(1.00001)/10 
pow10(80.1)/1E80 
log10(2E-8) 
log10(0.9995)*10000 
log10(1.0005)*10000 
log10(1000100) 
2^40 / 1E12 
2^1.443 
1.000001^1E6 
sin(0.01 rad)*1000 
sin(1 rad)*10 
sin(1.5608 rad)*10 
sin(800 rad)*10 
tan(0.01 rad)*100 
tan(1 rad) 
tan(1.5708 rad)/1E5 
tan(800 rad) 
asin(0.01)*100,rad 
asin(0.5)*10,rad 
asin(0.999),rad 
asin(0.99999),rad
atan(0.01)*1000,rad 
atan(0.9999)*10,rad 
atan(1.0001)*10,rad 
atan(1E4),rad 
sin(0.01 deg)*10000 
sin(50 deg)*10 
sin(89.9 deg)*10 
sin(5000 deg)*10 
tan(0.01 deg)*10000 
tan(50 deg) 
tan(89.99 deg)/1000 
tan(5000 deg)*10 
asin(0.01 deg)*10 
asin(0.5 deg)/10 
asin(0.999 deg)/10 
asin(0.99999 deg)/10
atan(0.01 deg)*10 
atan(0.9999 deg)/10 
atan(1.0001 deg)/10 
atan(1E4 deg)/10 
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