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From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue Feb 1 18:06:04 2005

> Also, if anyone has a spare Forth module for the Hewlett-Packard HP-71B,
> please let me know!

I don't have either of them spare, but it's worth knowing that as well as
the Fort/Assembler module (which is the normal one), there's also an HP41
emulator module which contains much the same Forth. No assembler, but
with the HP41 emulation fuctions instead.

You can;'t have both of them plugged into the same 17 at the same time.
Unlike most 71 modules, part of the Forth ROM is hard-addressed (has a
fixed address) so the 2 modules try to occupy the same address space.

Incidentally I have -- somewhere -- the HP71 Forth Internal Maintenance
Specification, which is the commented source to the Forth and Assembler
programs, documentation on the dictionary format, and other fun stuff...

-tony
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