24 Jul
2000
24 Jul
'00
12:47 a.m.
At 06:31 PM 7/23/00 +0100, Tony wrote:
That's news to me. The ones that I looked at only had a few functions
in them. Someone should round up some of each and find out for sure. I
have the manual for the commmercail version so I can supply a list of
functions for it.
Joe
Correct. HP never made a bar code wand for the HP 71. However, Zengrange
made two different wands for the 71. The first one has the normal type
programmer applications. The second one was made for use with the HP 71s
that Zengrange sold to the UK's National Health Service (or what-ever their
The big HP71 cotnract over here was with the DHSS (Department of Health
and Social Security). Or at least that's what the ROM modules and
overlays say on them.
exact name is). The second type wand only has
functions that were used for
the NHS's data collection operations. The commercial Zenwand is much rarer.
Are you sure?
The reason I'm questioning this is that I have a couple of Zenwands. Both
were cheap and are almost certainly from the DHSS contract. But they seem
to have the normal functions in the ROM, including the BASIC program to
print barcodes on a Thinkjet.
It's possible that there's a version with cusom software in it, but there
are certainly some cheap ones with the standard software about over here.