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Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series? - DavZell - 06-13-2024 12:08 PM
Same as title: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series?
Thank you!
RE: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series? - TomC - 06-13-2024 12:35 PM
The HP82162 is HPIL.
The HP48 is RS232..
RE: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series? - Maximilian Hohmann - 06-13-2024 12:39 PM
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
RE: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series? - brouhaha - 06-13-2024 06:16 PM
(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.
RE: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series? - DavZell - 06-13-2024 08:17 PM
Thanks, everyone!
RE: Does the HP 82162a work with any of the 48/50 series? - Raymond Del Tondo - 06-22-2024 01:38 AM
(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.