11 Oct
2015
11 Oct
'15
9:31 a.m.
On 2015-Oct-10, at 9:59 PM, Marc Verdiell wrote:
Forgot, it's online already:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/HP21xx/software/index.html
Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wore:
OK; offhand, didn't think there'd be enough clearance to handle the extra tape
thickness.
I had that problem with the stuck reel hubs.
Failed to take my own
advice-to-self to leave the reels unmounted and they stuck
again,
although easier to get off this time as it
hadn't been many years under
pressure.
I ended up covering the rubber hub with black electrical tape. That prevents
it from sticking again. I had
originally written it in a re-targetable cross-assembler in a
now-outdated
development environment under MacOS9.
Last year rewrote someone else's assembler (C
source) - it should work in
any standard C environment.
Was using it to re-assemble HPBASIC.
[...] Can send you the source if you wish.
I'll gladly take the source, that would be very helpful later on.