29 Jul
1999
29 Jul
'99
2:58 a.m.
At 08:57 PM 7/28/99 -0500, Roger wrote:
The thing I really need is the diagnostics tape.
Good luck finding one. I have never seen a factory tape of any kind.
The manual states
that you can use an RS-232 terminal for programming
this thing
That's news to me but like I said I've never found a manual for them.
- and
then goes on to explain how to make an autostart tape
to tell the
4041 to use a serial port as the standard programming I/O port.
Does the manual say if you can write the programs on annother machine and
record them to tape and then use the tape in this one? HP makes a similar
box called a HP 9915. It's basicly a HP 85 in a small box with no display,
keyboard and an optioal tape drive. You can write your programs on a
regular 85 and record them on tape ih an "Autost" file and then put the
tape in the 9915 and it will load it automaticly.
And
of course I never meant anything ill about process
control or the
IEEE-488 bus(HP-IB - GBIBP whatever), but I have noticed that a lot
of folks do seem to look down upon machines that they have (in their
minds anyway) abstracted down to nothing more that simple black
boxes.
That's not true of the folks on this list. They're very into computers
that are used as controllers.
Learn everything their is to know about a Commodore C-64 or
even a Motorola D5 board and you have acquired more
knowledge than
most windows programmers about what really is going on, think?
You know it!
Joe