Adventures in Paper Tape with a 9830A

[mrcity]

Well, the 11272A Extended I/O ROM came in today! What a good week for HP parts. I think that should be all I need to start using paper tape as a storage medium. I've got GPIB cables that should be the right gender already.

I haven't popped in the internal ROM card yet because I've been having a bit too much fun testing the 11289B Advanced Programming II ROM I got in the same order. This gives me an all important function, BEEP, plus some extra matrix & string functions. Plus I can't remember if there's a way to get the system to not just hang when I'm executing BASIC with the printer offline. There's gotta be some button I'm forgetting to press, but my 12" long strip of thermal paper is getting awfully full and hard to read

Hopefully I can get this working over the next two or three weeks!