wand utilities/creating files in extended memory

[Sylvain Cote]

The initial HP-41 peripherals was the wand (read-only), the thermal printer (write-only) and the card reader (read/write).
The Extended-Function/Memory module came several years after, so it is normal that the wand did not support it.
The solution would have been to either: release a new Wand version, add wand functions in XF/M module or release a standalone wand/XM bridge module.
Instead they released at the same time: Time, XF/M, XM, HP-IL and Digital Cassette Drive, so I assume that HP thought it was the new way to go for data intensive programs.
Sylvain