Battery check through IL?

[rprosperi]

(10-11-2024 03:44 AM)Sylvain Cote Wrote:  Each HP-IL peripheral defined what it wants to publish and how to do it.
The HP-IL module function INSTAT (input status) is only able to get the first byte of the peripheral status byte array.
The HP-IL Extended-I/O module function STAT (read device status) is able to get the peripheral status byte array of up to 23 bytes long.

I'm glad that's the case as it means my gut instinct (aka ever weakening memory) was right about using the Ext-I/O to get the more detailed status. This implies I did this at some time in the 80's but have no recall what for, though almost certainly with my then-new 41CX and 82161A drive, just to what the status bits were...