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HP 41CX Byte Grabber?? Message #1 Posted by paul on 13 Oct 2002, 3:28 p.m. How can a 'byte grabber' be assigned to a key WITHOUT doing a total memory wipe on the 41? Thanks Paul

Re: HP 41CX Byte Grabber?? Message #2 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 14 Oct 2002, 12:26 a.m., in response to message #1 by paul Hi; I'm not gonna tell you about wiping all memory out, but I just want to add two small advice for dealing with Synth Programming on the HP41: 1 - AVOID using [GTO] [.][.] (if you do not need to, do not use this sequence). I lost some synth sequences (in fact, their effect in memory) after pressing [GTO][.][.]; 2 - if you have a

Re: HP 41CX Byte Grabber?? Message #3 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 14 Oct 2002, 12:26 a.m., in response to message #1 by paul Hi; I'm not gonna tell you about wiping all memory out, but I just want to add two small advice for dealing with Synth Programming on the HP41: 1 - AVOID using [GTO] [.][.] (if you do not need to, do not use this sequence). I lost some synth sequences (in fact, their effect in memory) after pressing [GTO][.][.]; 2 - if you have any mass storage device (card reader, HPIL any) that can save status information, use it; the assignment and the byte grabber (jumper) will be saved and retrieved anytime you want to. Does it help? Cheers.

Re: HP 41CX Byte Grabber?? Message #4 Posted by Chris Catotti (Florida) on 14 Oct 2002, 5:27 p.m., in response to message #3 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) The mass storage (card reader, disk drive, tape drive) work great, The PPC ROM has a hey assignment program in the ROM. If you have a bar code reader, there are several good key assignment programs. I could look up the decimal codes for the byte grabber (BG7). Email me if you need a hard copy of the bar codes, etc for key assignment programs (free).

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