19 Feb
2011
19 Feb
'11
8:19 a.m.
On 19 Feb 2011 at 14:55, Rik Bos wrote:
Use a HP 9000/200 series to load the program and then
save it to ascii
with the 'SAVE' command (lif disc). Or use a Viper board to SAVE it to
DOS ASCII format.
Am I to understand then that the internal binary format of RM/HP
BASIC is undocumented and unknown? This seems strange for HP, who
usually could be expected to document such stuff.
The reason that I ask is that the customer has many disks full of the
stuff and loading/SAVEing one file at a time is going to be a very
long procedure.
The best solution would be a batch conversion of both the programs
and the data on the disks to PC-readable format.
(And yes, he's got a 9121 3.5" drive that he's using to store them.
Are there perhaps any 9826 emulators available that might be used for
this in batch mode?
--Chuck