Re: 41cx synthetic and over clock Message #2 Posted by Tony Duell on 20 June 2001, 2:21 p.m., in response to message #1 by Miguel(Denver)
In the halfnut, I believe that you need to discharger at least the
470uF electrolytic capacitor, and maybe the 33uF one as well to
remove the memory supply. Certainly discharging both of them should do it. I'd use a 1k resistor rather than
just shorting them out, though, to avoid damage from a possible high-current spike.
2) As far as I know, synthetic programming works on all 41s, including halfnuts and CXs. The important 'bugs' (the ability to edit a key
assignment register from the keyboard, and the fact that some combinations of prefix and postfix bytes do interesting things)
are there on all HP41s.
4) There were several ROMs to help with synthetic programming -- the most famous being the PPC ROM, the CCD ROM (that's the 'german one' you mentioned) and the UK ZenROM.
None of them are essential -- you can do synthetic programming with a bare HP41. Conversely, you can also do it the way I do it (I have none of the above ROMs), namely either creating barcodes of programs with synthetic instructions on another machine and
reading them with the wand, or creating the program in binary on another machine and downloading it using e.g. the
HP82164 RS232 interface and the Extended I/O function INP. There
are many ways to do it...
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