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The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #1 Posted by Andy on 28 Feb 2003, 9:58 a.m.

Over the last couple of weeks, Gene Wright, Vassilis Prevelakis and I have been working on archiving a previously unreleased, extensively debugged version X of the famous JPC ROM for the 71b. Gene owns this rev X version and its manual that he received from Joe Horn some years ago! He mailed me a copy of the ROM on cassette tape and a copy of the manual. Then I used LINK+ to create a LIF image of the ROM and a scanner to create a pdf of the 230 page manual and quick reference guide.

If you would like to download the LIF image of the JPC ROM, manual, and quick reference, please go to http://home.attbi.com/~andy.delano/jpc71b.htm.

You'll need at least 26K of spare memory on your 71b. If you need help getting the files to your 71b, please let me know. I am willing to copy the ROM to a cassette mailed to me. I would even be willing to copy it to cards, but it will require at least 14 cards! If others who want the ROM would be willing to help make copies in the future, that will increase its availability.

If you are wondering what the JPC ROM is, take a look below at an excerpt from the manual (or download the quick reference guide).

Enjoy!

Andy

Exerpt from the JPC manual:

"JPC Rom combines over 100 keywords into a single 25K Lex file. This brings together some of the most useful hp-71 enhancements and improves the overall performance of the machine. The source material was contributed by members of the international community, ost of whom are members of PPC Paris.

All contributions have been made in the same spirit of benevolent, cooperative, mutual assistance."

      
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #2 Posted by Alain (Canada) on 28 Feb 2003, 10:43 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Andy

Nice ! I really like the documentation that comes with it !

Thanks !

Alain

            
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #3 Posted by andy on 28 Feb 2003, 3:01 p.m.,
in response to message #2 by Alain (Canada)

If you have trouble accessing the website, here are the links for downloading the three files:

http://home.attbi.com/~andy.delano/jpcrom_lif.ZIP

http://home.attbi.com/~andy.delano/jpc_quickref.pdf

http://home.attbi.com/~andy.delano/jpc_manual.pdf

                  
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #4 Posted by Christof on 1 Mar 2003, 1:32 a.m.,
in response to message #3 by andy

awesome! now I need to find a 64k module ;)

thanks a lot!

      
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #5 Posted by Gordon Dyer on 28 Feb 2003, 6:25 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Andy

Thanks, thats a great contribution to 71B owners.

      
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #6 Posted by Daniel Diggelmann on 1 Mar 2003, 3:08 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Andy

Hi Andy,

Many thanks to your contribution. The HP-71B is worth more discussions on this forum. Now I definitely need to try LINK+ on my OmniBook 800CT with the HPIL card installed :)

      
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #7 Posted by J-F Garnier on 2 Mar 2003, 3:10 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Andy

For Emu71 users, I just put a ROM image of the 'Ex' version on my Emu71 page at: http://membres.lycos.fr/jeffcalc/emu71.html

Thanks to Andy for providing this version.

J-F

            
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #8 Posted by HrastProgrammer on 4 Mar 2003, 7:00 a.m.,
in response to message #7 by J-F Garnier

I got error 404 when I tried to download it :-(

                  
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #9 Posted by andy on 4 Mar 2003, 10:05 a.m.,
in response to message #8 by HrastProgrammer

Try again...I've updated the website.

http://home.attbi.com/~andy.delano/jpc71b.htm

If you still have trouble, email me directly

                        
Think he was referring to JF's link, not yours Andy
Message #10 Posted by Gene on 4 Mar 2003, 10:55 a.m.,
in response to message #9 by andy

?

Hope everyone can enjoy the rom!

Gene

                              
Re: Think he was referring to JF's link, not yours Andy
Message #11 Posted by HrastProgrammer on 4 Mar 2003, 2:12 p.m.,
in response to message #10 by Gene

> Think he was referring to JF's link, not yours Andy.

Right ...

                  
Re: The JPC ROM for the hp71b
Message #12 Posted by J-F Garnier on 5 Mar 2003, 7:02 a.m.,
in response to message #8 by HrastProgrammer

I will fix it, sorry.

J-F

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