HP 80 Series Software

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri May 30 14:52:00 2003

   I have some of the pacs but I don't have an 85 and drives set up right
now. NO ONE has the HP 85 User's Library. It's been destroyed. I spent a
lot of time tracking down the HP-85 User's Library and found that it was
given (sold?) to someone in Oregon that continued to sell programs for a
while. They later moved to Montana and left the library behind in a rental
unit. There's been no trace of it since so we can only assume that it was
scrapped by the unit owners. We've covered that here a couple of times
already. It's a long story, check the archives. I do have a User's Library
Catalog but it's much to big and flimsy to copy.

    As you've probably already found out, the HP-85 drives are mostly
in-operable by now. The tapes also have some serious failures with age.
I've managed to fix a few drives and I been able to read SOME of the tapes.
But I found that the tapes usually fail COMPLETELY after a few uses. (Again
see the archives) For several years I tried to get people to send me
whatever tapes they had so that I could copy them to disk and preserve the
SW but no one cooperated so I've given up.

    Joe

At 01:34 PM 5/30/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Clear DayDoes anyone have any software or "Pacs" for the the HP 85 or 87
>they would be willing to share. I could send you either 3.5 or 5.25
>floppies if you could copy to discs. Also does anyone have a copy of the HP
>85 User's Library?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bob
>
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