HP-71B & PILBox & Remote Terminal

[Erwin]

(06-25-2019 07:03 AM)Nick Taylor Wrote:  I have recently built JF’s excellent PILBox, and managed to connect my HP-71B to my Mac using it.

I would like to use a terminal emulator (called Serial) on my Mac to both send keystrokes and receive screen output to/from the HP-71B.

Hello,

I use a MAC too and connect the HP71b with the great PILBox und pyIlper program. Easy installation with Miniconda and no use of VMWare.

The easiest way to connect the HP71B with a computer is through the PIL-Box and in the case of Max OSX or LINUX do it with pyILPER. I used MINICONDA to install the python programm – download via their website http://conda.pydata.org/docs/inst all/quick.html. The python installation is straight forward and easy.
Download pyILPER https://github.com/bug400/pyILPER and go through the instal- lation instructions on https://github.com/bug400/pyilper/blob/master/INSTALL. md.
Don’t forget to run the update sequence in the terminal window: conda update --all

For comfortable editing in the terminal window of pyILPER on the PC instead fiddling around on the small keyboard of the calculator you can use the prog: PILTERM2 (PILTERM) and KEYBOARD (Lex-File).

regards Erwin