HP Forum Archive 11

[ Return to Index | Top of Index ]

English Commodore M55 Manual Message #1 Posted by Clive Marner on 1 Apr 2003, 3:58 p.m. For anyone else that wanted it there's one here.

And, Katie has the N60 manual... Message #2 Posted by Gene on 1 Apr 2003, 4:04 p.m., in response to message #1 by Clive Marner Katie, want to put the link out there? Viktor was kind enough to scan the M55 and S61 manuals after I sent them to him. I think Viktor should put a link on his site to your N60 manual, if you're ok with it. Gene

Re: And, Katie has the N60 manual... Message #3 Posted by Katie on 1 Apr 2003, 4:25 p.m., in response to message #2 by Gene Gene, Sure. I've got a few, non-copyrighted manuals here: http://www.wass.net/manuals/ Viktor, feel free to point to the N60 manual or copy it to your site, if you'd like. -Katie

I need manual too Gene Message #4 Posted by Chan Tran on 1 Apr 2003, 8:02 p.m., in response to message #3 by Katie Hi Gene, Do you have the manual for the TI-58. I particularly need instructions on how to use the program chip that came with the calculator.

The TI-58/59 manual is coming within next few weeks/months Message #5 Posted by Gene on 2 Apr 2003, 7:24 a.m., in response to message #4 by Chan Tran It is in a stack being scanned and will be posted when it is done.

Re: The TI-58/59 manual is coming within next few weeks/months Message #6 Posted by GE (France) on 2 Apr 2003, 2:08 p.m., in response to message #5 by Gene Hello, I wonder if it is bad Internet citizenship to download these big files from someone's site ? Isn't bandwidth paid by the bytes sent ? I just downloaded some of those nice manuals... Also, as volume permits, we would like a CD with some extras (from someone who does not producxe any 'extra'...). Gene, we're eagerly awaiting your TI-related series of CDs. No threats, just some friendly pressure of course ! Thanks to all these dedicated people !!!

Re: The TI-58/59 manual is coming within next few weeks/months Message #7 Posted by Gene on 2 Apr 2003, 3:47 p.m., in response to message #6 by GE (France) The real helpers are the ones doing the scanning. :-) I'm just providing the manuals...they are the people doing all the work. I just couldn't stand it if the TI calculator stuff disappeared. :-) Gene My calculators in order of purchase: SR-16II (TI) SR-51A (TI) SR-52 (TI - used) TI-58C (TI) HP-41C (HP and never looked back...well, not TOO much)

Re: The TI-58/59 manual is coming within next few weeks/months Message #8 Posted by Joerg Woerner on 2 Apr 2003, 4:41 p.m., in response to message #7 by Gene FYI: I scanned about 25 TI manuals... Just ask. Regards, Joerg

But these are in JPG format? Can that be converted easily to PDF somehow? Message #9 Posted by Gene on 2 Apr 2003, 5:38 p.m., in response to message #8 by Joerg Woerner Anyone know? I think Joerg said these are in JPG format. Any easy way to convert these to PDF? Gene

Re: But these are in JPG format? Can that be converted easily to PDF somehow? Message #10 Posted by John Cadick on 2 Apr 2003, 8:02 p.m., in response to message #9 by Gene jpg can be converted to pdf using Adobe Acrobat. I am afraid that the files might be bigger than if they are scanned in directly as pdf. Not sure until it is tried. John

Re: But these are in JPG format? Can that be converted easily to PDF somehow? Message #11 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 3 Apr 2003, 8:11 a.m., in response to message #10 by John Cadick Hello, John; I'll tell you how do I mannage to create PDF from image files. I do not use JPG format directly, I'd rather convert them to TIFF if they are B&W or GIF (16 or 256 colors). I use Windows Imaging to build the final image set (it's esy to use and allows "shrink and stretch"). After the document is finished, I use Acrobat Exchange's Printer. It's a printer driver that generates the PDF file as if it's been "printed" to the hard disk. I remember some DOS-based programs also allowed this sort of file to be generated. Final PDF file usualy goes 10% of the original TIFF/GIF set generated by Imaging. Hope this adds a bit more information. Luiz C. Vieira - Brazil

Re: But these are in JPG format? Can that be converted easily to PDF somehow? Message #12 Posted by John Cadick on 3 Apr 2003, 9:11 a.m., in response to message #11 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) Good method, Luiz. I have Adobe Acrobat (the program not the reader) and it allows me to build Acrobat documents by importing most of the major formats including jpeg, gif, tiff, etc. I also scan directly into Acrobat which seems (with the small amount of research I have done) to generate smaller files that importing. If I get a chance today, I'll compare a file built by importing directly, one generated using a printer driver (as you describe), and one that is scanned in. John

Re: The TI-58/59 manual is coming within next few weeks/months Message #13 Posted by Bill Wiese on 2 Apr 2003, 9:58 p.m., in response to message #5 by Gene It'd be nice if the scans were in some kind of continuous document - as opposed to separate page-by-page downloads. Warren Rurlow has lots of nice info on HP41Cs but each page has to be treated separately; hard to bulk download. BTW: for image files, might NOT want JPeG files but .GIFs or .TIF files insteads. JPeG does not offer great performance on black & white w/limited grey images (i.e., those that are not continuous tone). Bill Wiese San Jose, CA

Re: The TI-58/59 manual is coming within next few weeks/months Message #14 Posted by Ellis Easley on 3 Apr 2003, 9:52 a.m., in response to message #13 by Bill Wiese I found some websites that support the BBC computers and most of the manuals there are OCR'ed to make them compact, with GIFs or JPEGs for drawings. The OCR leads to some funny results! Most of the BBC interest seems to be running the games on BBC emulators on PCs for the sake of nostalgia.

[ Return to Index | Top of Index ]

Go back to the main exhibit hall