HP Portable PLUS and Term71

[Dave Frederickson]

What's the easiest way to transfer Term71 to the Portable PLUS and 71, without the ROM or DOS image? How about creative solutions like HP-IL only or PIL-Box only?

Dave

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

When I had a portable plus I put the Term71 binary onto a diskette and read it using a 9114 connected to the portable plus.

[J-F Garnier]

(06-27-2014 02:44 AM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  What's the easiest way to transfer Term71 to the Portable PLUS and 71, without the ROM or DOS image? How about creative solutions like HP-IL only or PIL-Box only?

Hi Dave,

You can load it from the Emu41p or Util1 disc image files on my site using the PIL-Box/ILPer solution, Term71 is included in both.

J-F

[Dave Frederickson]

Thanks Paul and J-F. That's half the task. What about the BASIC program for the 71? I'm too lazy to key it in and now that we have the PIL-Box, maybe there's a more complete solution. For example:
1. Using HPDir, create a LIF image file like the ones in the HPSWAP archive.
HPDIR -initialize -9122 TERM71.lif
2. Create a DOS text file with the BASIC program for the 71B called HPPLUS.txt.
3. Copy the text file to the LIF image.
HPDIR -add -c TERM71.lif HPPLUS.txt
4. Mount the image in ILPer, copy to the 71B, and transform into BASIC.

Of course this technique can be used for editing any BASIC program for the 71B on a PC.

Note that the 616k LIF image created above can be copied to a physical disk for the 9114 using Fdio. Conversely, LIF disks can be turned into images using the same utility.

Dave

[Dave Frederickson]

(06-27-2014 06:58 AM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  

(06-27-2014 02:44 AM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  What's the easiest way to transfer Term71 to the Portable PLUS and 71, without the ROM or DOS image?

You can load it from the Emu41p or Util1 disc image files on my site using the PIL-Box/ILPer solution, Term71 is included in both.

Hi J-F,

Using the Emu41p ROMs or Util1 DOS image are easy ways, but I did say "without the ROM or DOS image" So you owe me another answer.

Dave

[Sylvain Cote]

(06-27-2014 04:09 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  Thanks Paul and J-F. That's half the task. What about the BASIC program for the 71?

If you have the basic program in a text file, you can do the following ...

a) fetch the HP-71B emulator: Emu71 at hp.giesselink.com/emu71.htm
b) fetch the text to macro translator: MK71MAC at hp.giesselink.com/emu71.htm
c) run from the command line:
mk71mac <MyProgramFile.txt >MyProgramFile.mac
d) start emu71
e) then edit a new file
f) run the macro:
[Menu] -> [Tool] -> [Macro] -> [Play ...] ->
select [MyProgramFile.mac] then press [Open] then wait for the macro to finish
g) save the basic file to a a virtual tape with ILPER application (IP mode)
h) stop Emu71
i) reconfigure ILPER application (COM mode) to use the PIL-Box
j) connect the real HP-71B
k) read back the file and run it!

Sylvain