rpandey@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Rajeev Pandey) (05/16/91)
So I am at this surplus sale at Oregon State University and they have an HP 97 (big brother to the 67, but with printer......not really a handheld), anyway, they have an HP 97 for $15!!!! No manuals, no assurance it works, no charger, nothing. I buy it anyway, thinking that these things sold for $750 in 1976. I managed to buy a charger for it for $20, brand new. Works perfectly. Now for a manual. Call HP Service, they refer me to HP Direct Marketing, who refer me to EduCalc, who tell me that they are out (and have been for some time :-). Does anyone out there have a manual they would like to sell/unload/lend/etc?? Also, I need some thermal paper for it. No luck at EduCalc again.....any suggestions? I see lots of brands on the market, will any of them work? Lastly, anyone with HP 67/97 magcards willing to sell a few? DISCLAIMER: I'm just putting this HP back into working order for fun. I have a little yellow slip from the mailman that says my 48sx is at the post office...... -- Department of Computer Science | Rajeev Pandey Dearborn Hall 303 | Internet: rpandey@cs.orst.edu Oregon State University | UUCP: hp-pcd!orstcs!rpandey Corvallis, OR 97331-3202 U.S.A. | Phone:(503) 737-3273 Fax: (503) 737-3014
HCLIMER%UTCVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Harold Climer) (05/18/91)
As far a cards go my HP41CV will read HP97 cards but I am not sure about the
if the other way aris also true.You might want to try it though.
Harold Climer
Physics Department
U. Tennessee at Chattanoogabson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) (05/19/91)
In a posting of [17 May 91 23:15:46 GMT] HCLIMER%UTCVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Harold Climer) writes: > As far a cards go my HP41CV will read HP97 cards but I am not sure > about the if the other way aris also true.You might want to try it > though. The HP-41 card reader recognized a 67/97 card and automatically translated it to 41 code. Some of the 67/97 instructions didn't exist in the standard 41, but were insteadimplemented in the card reader. Like operations on the `I' register, which I think became card reader XROMs that operated on register 25. Pretty neat. (No clue as to whether 41 cards will work on 67/97s.) -- Jan Brittenson bson@ai.mit.edu