HP97 The journey begins

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I got my 97C board a couple weeks ago, and have been busy playing with it ever since. The manual in the CalCom folder answered many of my questions, including the one about the card reader cable. Teenix has been super helpful chasing down various issues. Be sure to get an USB/FTDI connector and reflash your board with the latest software, currently v. 9.

This board, along with my HP67C, allows me to transfer single programs, or blocks of programs, to and from the abundant memory on both boards to PC disk using the Bluetooth connection. Programs, or blocks of programs, on the PC disk can then be sent to another calculator. Simply put: 67C to computer to 97C. If we, as a community, load, save to local memory and then save to disk, all the HP original program packs, we can easily share them with each other. Programs can also be edited in Teenix's CCE33 emulator program. I'm working on a cheatsheet for using and integrating the various portions of this ecosystem.

My thanks to Teenix for all his work!