BL154562@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx (Carlos D. Hinojosa A.) (08/23/90)
I'm buying a new HP-48SX next Saturday and I still don't know how to detect the ROM VERSION it has. So, can someone help me?. I don't want to get one with ROM version C or earlier. I'm trying to buy it in Service Merchandise in McAllen Texas. I'll apreciate your help very much. Thanks!! Carlos Hinojosa (Pitufo).
byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) (08/23/90)
In article <90234.174656BL154562@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx> BL154562@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx (Carlos D. Hinojosa A.) writes:
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# I'm buying a new HP-48SX next Saturday and I still don't know how to detect
# the ROM VERSION it has. So, can someone help me?. I don't want to get one with
# ROM version C or earlier. I'm trying to buy it in Service Merchandise in
# McAllen Texas.
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# I'll apreciate your help very much.
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# Thanks!!
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# Carlos Hinojosa (Pitufo).
Hmm, I bought mine just a few days ago and I have no idea how to tell what
ROM version I have. Can anyone please post a note??
Thanks!
Benjamin Yu
University of Toronto CSNET, UUCP, BITNET:
Department of Computer Science byu@csri.toronto.edu
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1A4 byu@csri.utoronto.ca
(o)(416)978 - 4299 (h)(416)470 - 8206 {uunet,watmath}!csri.utoronto.edu!byufrechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Mac the Ripper/ / / /) (08/23/90)
In article <1990Aug22.233736.26923@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes: ># I'm buying a new HP-48SX next Saturday and I still don't know how to detec ># the ROM VERSION it has. So, can someone help me?. I don't want to get one wit >Hmm, I bought mine just a few days ago and I have no idea how to tell what >ROM version I have. Can anyone please post a note?? > The sequence is ON-D (That is ON and D pressed at same time and released) Then Backspace or left arrow or whatever you want to call it. Then EVAL This will show you your Rom version. Mine says. Version HP48-C Copywrite HP 1989 To leave the diagnastic mode. (ON-D) use ON-C. This is a system halt and will stop almost anything. Almost..... ;) Now, I have a question. I just found out tonight that one of my directories has died. When I try to go into that directory, it just hangs. I have to ON-C to get out of it. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong? I have 11K avail right now so I am not crashing th memory. I did fill it a couple days ago when I downloaded Hexatom. Would this temporary memory shortage have caused this ill state of affairs? Basically there is nothing important in the directory so I would like to just erase it if possible, BUT it won't let me kill the directory without cleaning it out first. Since I can't get into it, I am stuck. What can be done, if anything? Is there the equivalent of "rm -r" on the 48? I could really use it. ian frechett frechett@snoopy.colorado.edu
dove@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ray Rischpater) (08/23/90)
In article <1990Aug22.233736.26923@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes: >In article <90234.174656BL154562@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx> BL154562@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx (Carlos D. Hinojosa A.) writes: ># ># I'm buying a new HP-48SX next Saturday and I still don't know how to detect ># the ROM VERSION it has. So, can someone help me?. I don't want to get one with ># Thanks!! ># Carlos Hinojosa (Pitufo). > >Hmm, I bought mine just a few days ago and I have no idea how to tell what >ROM version I have. Can anyone please post a note?? > >Thanks! ON-D backarrow EVAL displays the version. Press ON-C to reset the machine and return to the stack prompt. (ON-X means hold down ON and press X...) Hope that helps. Enjoy your new machines. :) -- -- dove@ucscg.ucsc.edu Ray Rischpater -- dove@ucscb.ucsc.edu (408) 426-0716 --As usual, all of the opinions contained herein are my own...
stoppani@rust.zso.dec.com (Pete Stoppani) (08/24/90)
> In article <1990Aug22.233736.26923@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes: > > into it, I am stuck. What can be done, if anything? Is there the equivalent > of "rm -r" on the 48? I could really use it. > The last page of the MEMORY menu has a PGDIR (purge directory) command that will allow you delete a non-empty directory. -- | Pete Stoppani | stoppani@decwet.dec.com | | DECwest Engineering | decwrl!slough.enet!stoppani | | Bellevue, WA | HPDESK: stoppani("decwet.dec.com")/hpunix | | "The wise learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise." |
frechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Mac the Ripper/ / / /) (08/24/90)
In article <1214@rust.zso.dec.com> stoppani@rust.zso.dec.com (Pete Stoppani) writes: >> In article <1990Aug22.233736.26923@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes: Nope Nope Nope. Twas frechett@snoopy.colorado.edu that wrote this. Tas me. >> >> into it, I am stuck. What can be done, if anything? Is there the equivalent >> of "rm -r" on the 48? I could really use it. >> > > The last page of the MEMORY menu has a PGDIR (purge directory) > command that will allow you delete a non-empty directory. Nope... Thanks for the tip, BUT this is the *Directory From HELL*. It is realllllly screwed. I tryed a PGDIR and it locked up on me. ON wouldn't stop it.... ON-C wouldn't stop it. Finally I had to resort to ON-A_F and That stopped it. I got the standard.. Try to recover memory? Yes No and I tryed Yes. Then got Recovering Memory and it froze. Nothing would kill it at this point. I would have resorted to pulling the batteries but luckly someone sent me a message about the little reset button under the foot as a responce to my second post. So... it is clean again. Too bad PGDIR doesn't work. There must be something that is really confusing to the calculator in that directory. Any ideas as to what it could be? Another person mentioned the use of "." in directory names. What's wrong with . in the name? All of the stuff that I download has .dl stuck to the end. The directory in question doesn't. But I can easily create use and destroy a directory named "tetris.dl" or "hexatom.dl" ;). Could this use of . be affecting other parts of the memory? soooo odd ian frechett@snoopy.colorado.edu
prestonb@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (Preston Brown) (08/28/90)
>Is there the equivalent > of "rm -r" on the 48? I could really use it. > You can completely wipe memory by pressing the following three keys at the same time: [ON] [Leftmost Softkey] [rightmost softkey]. In other words on and the two outside softkeys. Warning, all memory will be cleared! Preston