WP34S in less than 3 hours

[PANAMATIK]

Yesterday I received the long awaited WP34S stickers in my letter box. A HP30b I had already bought new for 17 Euro. So I started to bring them together. Opening the calculator and soldering the quartz was easy after having seen this youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diJA2cCQenI.

I soldered a 2x3-pin 2mm socket strip on the pads for getting the connection to the outer world, an idea which I saw also somewhere in the forum, but don't remember where. I used a UM232 R FTDI Module http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Document...UM232R.pdf, which I had in my desk and added the Reset and Erase button, two 1k resistors and made a ribbon cable connection.
Then I used the link in the WP34S manual page 147 and downloaded the MySamba.zip Software and the WP34S bin.Files. Unfortunaltely MySamba didn't show any COM Ports to select under Windows 7. So I tried wp-34s-flash-windows tool, which showed my USB/COM Port, but didint get a connection. I assumed, that MySamba had problems with Windows 7, so I switched back to a Windows XP partition, and it worked! After 24 seconds transfer, I had my WP34S calculator in my hands (I couldnt believe it yet). Then I took some time to add the stickers.

Many thanks to the team who made this calculator. It is the most advanced RPN successor of all ever made HP (sorry WP) calculators, may I say it is the culmination of the ideal RPN calculator, that HP never made.