Hi,
As a few of you may be aware, I managed to hose the OS on my 16500B
while trying to upgrade to the latest software. I've now got the
analyser booting again, and it's picking up the I/O cards correctly.
Unfortunately (for me) it seems my backup (done with Filezilla, i.e.
FTP) is totally duff -- apparently I had FZ set to "transfer files with
no extension as ASCII", which has hosed all the System, Driver and
Extension files. Which means I've lost the E2450 Symbol Utility software.
Seeing as there are a few folk here with 16500B analysers, I was
wondering if I could ask a small favour... I need a copy of the Symbol
Utility install floppy, HP part number E2450-17504, aka "Symbol Utility
for HP16500B/C/CS". It should be either a normal 1.44MB DOS format
floppy, or a HP LIF floppy (more likely DOS than LIF).
If there's anyone on here with a copy of this disk (possibly stashed
away in the manuals folder for their 16500B analyser), could I possibly
ask for an image of it? Almost anything is fine; I'd prefer something
reasonably standard though -- WinImage .IMA, ImageDisk, or even a raw
"dd if=/dev/fd0 of=imagefile" (rawrite) dump.
For what it's worth, I had V3.02 installed, but any version is fine by me.
Thanks,
--
Phil.
philpem at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/