HP97 The journey begins

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(02-23-2023 08:13 AM)Harald Wrote:  Do you have a 19C to play with?
Bernhard still has mine and asked several times if I wanted it back. We can ask him to ship it to you if you need one.
Edit: it is not fully working though!

Hi Harald,

That's very generous and thanks for the offer. I have one here that I tried to repair for a Forum member, but it had a failed IC so I thought I would try to put together a new CPU board and hopefully ship it back fully working again.

It has been a while, and now that I look back into this, after having to get a new laptop in the meantime, I had the donor details stored on the old laptop which now won't boot, a LED comes on but that's it :-(

Somewhat embarrassing. Hopefully the owner sees this message and sends one in return, otherwise I'll broadcast one on the Forum.

I got the latest Spice board today as well, so I am populating it now. With the Spice model I realized I didn't need a separate storage chip for constant memory, so hopefully the new software works for this. You can remove the battery indefinitely and it will still retain the last memory.

cheers

Tony