Maximize a 41C - Challenge

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(04-24-2023 06:31 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Not having a 41C, could I get a small explanation of this? Do I understand correctla that those blocks are - as the name suggest - port extenders for functions, like a JBOD ?

If that is the case, then the 41C was really designed as a sort of small compact monstrous controller? If I am not wrong the 41 should have the possibility to control devices through a bus (HP IL or the like). I mean amazing, they tried to make a portable super control plane. But was the calculator able to use all the ports or only 4 at times?

HP-IL, able to address 31 IL devices (per the HP manual).
Modules, the maximum number of modules being addressable simultaneously is a complicated response. See Sylvian's first post for a sense of the potential maximum.

Not an expert on port extenders, would not describe them as JBOD-like and is OT.

Technically anything able to communicate on the HP-IL interface is part of the ecosystem.