Is PACK on the HP-71 buggy?

[rprosperi]

(08-06-2014 08:21 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  

(08-06-2014 06:42 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Some additional info here in a note from Mike Markov on the CHHU05 disk in the SWAP archives, but still can't find the comments I saw earlier.

This is the same link as in Post #2. The original article is in DataFile V5N3. What comments did you see earlier, Bob?

Dave

Ooops, sloppy of me to repeat a link, didn't realize that you had posted it above.

When I first got the HPIL:1B module, I went a-googling about "A" vs "B" differences (also noting the issues listed in the errata page that came with my 1A Module Manual) and read somewhere a comment that some aspect of the PACK issues were better using a "B" version, but now can't find it again.

Anyhow, probably best to just avoid PACK-ing at all. With the PIL-Box, tightly managing a few bytes on storage media just no longer makes any sense, and certainly not worth the risk.