Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> The saturn was used in just about all HP handheld calculators since the
> HP71B. It's gone through several revisions over the years, and later
> versions (as used in the 48 and 49) have instructions that are not used
> by the original version used in the 71.
I believe that it is not used in the HP 6S (either version) or 30S.
It appears that these models are OEM'd by HP from another vendor,
although HP won't comment on it.
> Incidentally, the CPU in the Thinkjet printer also seems to be a Saturn.
> It's a 48 pin package containing the CPU, I/O ports, some of the ROM
> (there's an external ROM and RAM hooked up to it), and an HPIL interface.
I don't think it's a Saturn. ISTR that the Thinkjet uses the same 8-bit
CPU core that's buried in the 71B HP-IL module, and several other HP
devices from the same timeframe. There's very little information
available about it.
Received on Mon Aug 28 2000 - 18:29:57 BST