Returning to the HP fold

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OK,

Brace yourselves.


I have a working HP41CL.

Thank you Monty !!


The transplant surgery was a little more involved as it turns out than I had expected. My really nice TK had a serial # a little too early and was going to need the capacitor addition, and if you had been reading between the lines in my earlier posts, I wasn't that eager to tear into that particular unit.

So, grabbed my emergency backup 41C TK machine, and it has the wonky incompatible connector inside. Well, poo!!

I also have a 41C I'm eyeing for 'parts'. Well, give this one a shot, and when I peeled the feet off, I became suspicious, and when it was all apart, it turned out to be a factory rehab unit, and internally it's a CV. Might explain why it is so wonky, it came with a couple memory modules in it, and I had added another, so that might be why it is wonky. I decided to leave that one alone.

Went and grabbed my CV, and looked it over. It is just here because my first 41 was a CV (long since gone bye bye), but it was intended to just be a display case unit, I was even surprised it had a square corner display as it was never intended to be a CL donor.

Well, that's what happened to it. And the CL lit up immediately with MEMORY LOST, and I'm not looking back.

Haven't painted the spacer silver yet, my buddy into model trains has suggested adhesive back silver colored metal tape to avoid the wear problems. Probably what is going to happen when I get time.


Of course, having a working CL here changes everything. 'Flagship' is still 'Flagship', but it looks like it will be a stay at home unit now, and I'll be taking the full internal XMEM on the road along with the GO App, and the CL.

First impression on the CL is amazement. Actually having that much ROM under the keyboard is quite a sensation of power. Looks like several of the ROMs have better versions of programs I have home brewed for my own use, and no pesky reloading from the card reader.

I think having the CL will also be the impetus to get my 9114 IL hard drive working too . . .