HP-97 saga Message #1 Posted by Jeff Woolsey on 20 Oct 1999, 11:28 a.m.
Third time's a charm at posting this?
Time to ask the HP Forum about my HP-97.
I picked it up some time ago, and have slowly restored it to life, learning things along the way (such as good batteries being an integral part of the AC power circuit). I'm working on the card reader now, and I've done the O-ring thing (fuel tubing didn't seem to work at first, but I have three feet of it, which ought to be enough for, oh, 1440 years) and now it pulls card through, but it always says Error after doing so. Did I miss some sort of pressure pad to make the card contact the head? I didn't see any obvious way to adjust the head height, either. I don't have any pre-recorded cards, so all my tests are W/DATA, which should be doable right after power-up, no? I'm not sure what the next step is, and taking that card reader apart is getting less fun every time...
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