Re: hp71 death, please help! Message #2 Posted by Garth Wilson on 20 Mar 2004, 1:31 a.m., in response to message #1 by t-bone
This message was somehow lost the first time I tried to post it, so I'll write it again (and keep a copy this time!)
I crashed the 71 royally a few times when I was new to Forth. (I knew it could happen, so I had everything backed up, and a program to re-load everything from tape and do all the custom set-ups.) At least once I had to remove the batteries and short the end terminals together while pressing ON for half a minute or more to get things discharged enough to ensure a real reset.
I should make a side comment here. A few times I got the dredded "Memory lost" message at unexpected times when I turned the 71 on. I told this to the friend who got me into it, and he said he did too, and suspected it was from keys getting pressed while it was in the soft case in his atache case. Acting on that tip, I had a woodworker friend make me a little one-piece box that I could slide the computer and soft case into the end of, which fit just snug-- not tight. I've never had a memory-lost condition since then. That was ten or fifteen years ago.
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