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PILBox initial testing. HP-IL Lives! Message #1 Posted by Egan Ford on 12 July 2009, 3:41 p.m. I received my PILBox (http://www.jeffcalc.hp41.eu/hpil/index.html) yesterday and assembled it using the solderless instructions. Essentially it does work as advertised. I was able to use ILPer as an HP9114B drive and as an HP83163 32 column video adapter with my 41CX via HP-IL. Sweet! The PILBox really opens up the possibility for PCs to emulate any HP-IL device. I write all my 41CX programs on my laptop and compile with HP41UC and test with Nonpareil. To get into a physical 41CX I print barcodes and wand it in. This is faster than booting up my 200Mhz PC so that I can do electronic transfers with my HP-IL ISA adapter. With the PILBox I now use HP41UC to create a disk image and then use that with ILPer. That's laptop -> PILBox -> 41CX. Nice! Given that I am an OS/X user I had to do all of this with VMware. No problems, the USB pass-through worked just fine. Presently I am unable to use the PILBox as an ISA HP-IL replacement with EMU41. This support is experimental and still being worked on. A better solution would be for modern emulators to use the PILBox directly. I'll be attempting to get Nonpareil to do this (when I find time). 99% of the work is already done (http://pagesperso-orange.fr/kdntl/hp41/nonpareil-patch-doc.html). HP-IL Lives! Edited: 12 July 2009, 3:44 p.m.

Re: PILBox initial testing. HP-IL Lives! Message #2 Posted by Etienne Victoria on 12 July 2009, 3:57 p.m., in response to message #1 by Egan Ford Hi Egan, all, Glad to know it works great also for you! Success also here with the PIL-Box connected to my Hp-71Bs! Normal speed works great, both :HDRIVE1 & :DISPLAY +scope and on any port. It even works with Virtual Pc (I'm also a Mac user). I still did not succeed in activating high speed with JP3 + port at 115kbs (Ilper answers "pas de réponse de la PIL-Box) but this feature is still experimental as per JFG site. And the case is nice too. I had secured an Hp-IL printer enclosure to fit the circuit in but it is much more transportable in the case provided by Jean-François. Definitely an awesome job from Jean-François Garnier. Best regards from France! Etienne

Re: PILBox initial testing. HP-IL Lives! Message #3 Posted by Matthias Wehrli on 14 July 2009, 8:57 a.m., in response to message #2 by Etienne Victoria Just wanted to show you my PIL-Box with a standard HP-IL Connector unstead of cables..... Matthias

Re: PILBox initial testing. HP-IL Lives! Message #4 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 14 July 2009, 12:57 p.m., in response to message #3 by Matthias Wehrli Not bad! Do you have a part number? ;)

Re: PILBox initial testing. HP-IL Lives! Message #5 Posted by Matthias Wehrli on 14 July 2009, 3:36 p.m., in response to message #4 by Marcus von Cube, Germany One moment, it's all in my brain: 82166-60020 (or use a dead interface HP-IB <-> HP-IL, ...) Yours Matthias

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