HP-71B BASIC Question

[J-F Garnier]

(03-24-2021 12:40 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(03-24-2021 10:05 AM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  BTW, I advised this person to try my ILvLIF utility (together with the PIL-Box and the 82161) to make an image of the cassettes.

I recommended ILvLIF at the very start of the exploration of these tapes, as dumping the tape to a PC disk file is its very purpose. Since the tapes contained non-HP data, using ILvLIF was deemed unlikely to succeed, and with an old tape, not in great shape (e.g. the pressure pad needed to be replaced) they did not want to possibly wear or damage the tape. I would have tried it anyhow, but in the end, it appears it likely would not have succeeded any better.

The ILvLIF code would have to be tweaked a bit, to bypass the check for a LIF type volume and set the right tape parameters (# of sectors). Should not be too difficult.

Quote:But it's not too late to try, I plan to suggest doing so now when we meet on Saturday.

? Are you/were you involved in these tape recovery? The tapes from Mark mentioned by Sylvain, or the tapes from Mike (the guy who bought me a PIL-Box in Aug.2020)?

J-F