Re: How to move lexfiles from PC to 71 w/o HP-IL? Message #10 Posted by Christoph Giesselink on 18 Oct 2013, 3:50 p.m., in response to message #9 by Joe Horn
I only can confirm Marcus earlier suggestion, use or in your case, buy a PILBox from J.-F. Garnier. This is an investment into the future.
Years ago I thought also about buying a 9114 for my collection and for playing around with my real 41 and 71 calculators. But therefore you need room in a cabinet and saving data on these disks isn't really safe as well. So I decided, the best way is using JFG's PILBox and ILper and save the money for the 9114.
With the lastest version of ILper available at my homepage http://hp.giesselink.com/hpil.htm and a PILBox you can do things you haven't dreamed years ago.
Suggestion 1: Real 71B, real 9114, PILBox and ILper
Suggestion 2: Emu71/Win with 1 HPIL module, ILPilpox with PILBox, real 9114 and ILper
Suggestion 3 (more sophisticated by using 2 HPIL adapters): Emu71/Win with 2 HPIL modules, ILPilpox with PILBox on one loop, real 9114, and ILper on the 2nd loop
Of course you can do that also with real 71B and if you have one of these rare Dual HPIL adapters and 2 HPIL modules.
The simplest combination for loading LIF files from the PC hard disk into a real 71B is nowadays still the PILBox with ILper on the PC. This is also IMHO the best solution for the 41.
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