Tek 4041

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Jul 29 09:58:32 1999

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
Received on Thu Jul 29 1999 - 09:58:32 BST