Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series?

[DavZell]

Same as title: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series?

Thank you!

[TomC]

The HP82162 is HPIL.
The HP48 is RS232..

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(06-13-2024 12:08 PM)DavZell Wrote:  Same as title: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series?

Thank you!

Not out of the box. The HP82162a has an HP-IL interface which the HP 48/50 do not have. Google finds articles about how to make the connection using an RS232 to HP-IL converter but first you have to find one of these (good luck!) and second you need to get it working (even more good luck...).

Regards
Max

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(06-13-2024 12:39 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  Hello!

(06-13-2024 12:08 PM)DavZell Wrote:  Same as title: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series?

Thank you!

Not out of the box. The HP82162a has an HP-IL interface which the HP 48/50 do not have. Google finds articles about how to make the connection using an RS232 to HP-IL converter but first you have to find one of these (good luck!) and second you need to get it working (even more good luck...).

Regards
Max

That would take a lot more than just good luck. The 82164A HP-IL to serial interface would have to be configured, and told to talk on HP-IL, and that can't be made to happen from the serial side, so you would still need another calculator or controller with an HP-IL interface to do that configuration at every power-up.

[DavZell]

Thanks, everyone!

[Raymond Del Tondo]

(06-13-2024 12:08 PM)DavZell Wrote:  Same as title: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series?

As Max wrote, not out of the box.

W&W once made a small number of HP-IL to serial interfaces, especially for users of the HP-IL devices,
so they could at least save their data from the HP-41 or HP-71B world to the HP 48 world.

This was accomplished by a special HP 48 library from W&W which could control the interface.
The library implemented the basic HP-IL functions.
Performance of the interface & software was rather poor, but sufficient for the purpose.