3 Jul
2000
3 Jul
'00
10:51 a.m.
At 07:10 PM 7/3/00 +0100, Tony wrote:
If the tape itself is good (not shedding oxide), then you can replace the
belt with one from another cartridge. This will at least let you read the
tape a few times.
HP85s with an HPIB interface and a mass storage ROM (IIRC) can support
floppy drives. If you have this sort of set-up, it's worth copying any
tapes you find onto floppies.
That's been one of my long term projects. Does anyone have a tapes that
I'll donate so that I can copy them?
I've only ever once had an electronic fault on one. This was a shorted
capacitor on the PSU/printer driver board (the vertical one to the left
of the printer assembly), and it caused at least one of the PSU outputs
to be missing.
Hmmm. interesting. I don't think I've ever seen an 85 with an
electrical fault. Except for the tape drives and printers they seem to run
forever .
Joe
2) Any software
about?
Yes. lots but none is posted on the web that I know of. Beware that the
HP cassettes are very prone to broken belts and shedding their media so
original tapes may not be usable.
First HP
I've been able to find, nice little machine....
Yes, they are but they have two problems. The "rubber" feed wheel on
the tape drive turns to goo and the two belts that operate the printer wear
out. You can test the printer by pressing the "TEST" button. It should
display and print the full character set.