In January of 2015, I posted that I had purchased copies of the three “
Learning to use the HP-65” Training Videos and that I had successfully converted the ¾” U-Matic videos to a digital format. I had planned on making their contents available on YouTube. However, in that post I overstated the quality of that initial conversion. Saying “the results aren't exceptional” is the understatement of the year. Typical video quality looked like this:
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I let three other “hobbyist” services make the attempt at converting the tapes to digital. I still found the results horrible and useless. I had an unfortunate incident and had to take a year away from the Internet. After getting back on my feet (literally), I found a friend-of-a-friend that hooked me up with a private forensic service used by law-enforcement. Their results are as good as it's going to get. Rather than posting them to YouTube, I am providing a downloadable archive.
I hope you enjoy the results.
Learning to Use the HP-65 Videos - Courtesy Mark Hardman.zip (527,231 KB)
Enter Up!
Mark Hardman
Houston, TX
(09-25-2016 09:19 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote: [ -> ]Their results are as good as it's going to get. Rather than posting them to YouTube, I am providing a downloadable archive.
I hope you enjoy the results.
Thanks for sharing Mark, will watch them during the coming week.
Mark,
Really thanks for your efforts to share with us these piece of history.
Although I don't have a physical HP 65, it is a pleasure watching it, and it's a gem for every RPN enthusiastic and old technology fan like me.
Once again thank you very much indeed.
Cheers
JL
Hello Mark,
Thank you very much for your perseverant effort and for the generous gift, very appreciated.
Best regards,
Sylvain
Mark,
Thank you for working on this from so many angles, and through such troubling times. Glad to hear you're back on your feet.
Brad
Thank you very much from me, too, Mark.
Whow! Mark, what a precious gift
thank-you
Mark:
Thanks very much for 'resurrecting' these videos - I had heard of them back over 40 years ago when I had purchased my 65. Only dreamed of ever seeing them!
Thanks again,
TomC
(09-25-2016 09:19 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote: [ -> ]In January of 2015, I posted that I had purchased copies of the three “Learning to use the HP-65” Training Videos and that I had successfully converted the ¾” U-Matic videos to a digital format. I had planned on making their contents available on YouTube. However, in that post I overstated the quality of that initial conversion. Saying “the results aren't exceptional” is the understatement of the year. Typical video quality looked like this:
I let three other “hobbyist” services make the attempt at converting the tapes to digital. I still found the results horrible and useless. I had an unfortunate incident and had to take a year away from the Internet. After getting back on my feet (literally), I found a friend-of-a-friend that hooked me up with a private forensic service used by law-enforcement. Their results are as good as it's going to get. Rather than posting them to YouTube, I am providing a downloadable archive.
I hope you enjoy the results.
Learning to Use the HP-65 Videos - Courtesy Mark Hardman.zip (527,231 KB)
Enter Up!
Mark Hardman
Houston, TX
Thank you very much, Mark, these are great. I also had heard of these instructional videos years ago in that funky pre-Beta format, but I never dreamed I would see them. I have enjoyed my 65 for years now and I look forward to going through these three videos. This is a real treasure!
Don
oh, by the way, the avi files work great on my Chromebook (don't even need Windows)
Something that I find delightful in the videos is the instructor's narration when the Enter key is used:
ENTER ↑
Which he pronounces throughout as, "Enter" ...pause... "Up".
It reminds me a bit of Victor Borge's "
Phonetic Pronunciation" sketch.
Mark Hardman
I noticed that Roy Martin was listed in the credits of the videos as one of the technical contributors. I corresponded with him via mail a few years ago regarding the date range of the HP-12c calculator and he was very helpful in explaining why it included exactly 900,000 days, ending in the year 4046.
Those old HP engineers of the 70's were a breed apart.
Hi all.
During Part 3, there's a mention of a further video which covers programming the 65 in more detail.
Where might I find that on YouTube or elsewhere?
Thank you