29 Jul
1999
29 Jul
'99
6:20 a.m.
At 11:30 AM 7/29/99 -0500, Roger wrote:
At 08:57 PM 7/28/99 -0500, Roger wrote:
Yeah, but tapes and manuals seem to have a way of never showing up with
the computers!
The thing I really need is the diagnostics tape.
< Good luck finding one. I have never seen a factory tape of any
kind.
This tape is/was standard issue with all 4041 - according to
everything I've seen so far. which consist of 2 4041 manuals and 3
or 4 Tek catalogs.
The manual states
Hmm. Very different from the HPs.
This is for
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.
No! Not at all. The manual states that you can (and should) use an
RS-232 terminal as the 'systems console' if you will. communications with and programming of the 4041 - an
I/O device.
BTW, UPS just left a HP 87XM on my porch - more wasted nights on the
way!! (Don't you just love $30.00 computers!)
Yeap, The cheaper the computer the more time it takes to figure it out!
The 87XM is a NICE computer, you should use it for a HP-IB controller and
forget the 4041. I have plenty of docs on the 85/86/87, let me know if you
have questions.
Joe