From: JAM on
Does anybody if there is unofficial or official USB driver for Windows
7 64 bit that will allov HP Connect recognize calculator ?

JAM
From: JAM on
On Nov 9, 12:12 pm, JAM <ja_1...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Does anybody if there is unofficial or official USB driver for Windows
> 7 64 bit that will allov HP Connect recognize calculator ?
>
> JAM

Forgot to mention. I'm talking about HP50g calculator.

JAM
From: John H Meyers on
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:12:02 -0600, JAM wrote:

> Is there an unofficial or official USB driver for Windows 7
> 64 bit that will allow HP Connect to recognize HP50G/49G+ ?

One is lucky to get any 64-bit driver for anything so old.

However, an SD card may save the day (and is much less bulky than a cable).

If your computer didn't come with built-in card slots,
there are USB plug-ins for them (there seems to be a USB plug-in
for everything but an electric shaver :)

No, I spoke too soon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028Y4DIG

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From: JAM on
On Nov 10, 8:17 am, "John H Meyers" <jhmey...(a)nomail.invalid> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:12:02 -0600, JAM wrote:
> > Is there an unofficial or official USB driver for Windows 7
> > 64 bit that will allow HP Connect to recognize HP50G/49G+ ?
>
> One is lucky to get any 64-bit driver for anything so old.

John

This is still their top of the line calculator and it was not that old
when Vista come out. But I was wondering if some frustrated,
knowledgeable user maybe wrote USB 64 bit driver himself instead of
waiting for HP forever to support it.

> However, an SD card may save the day (and is much less bulky than a cable).

That might work. Thanks for advice.

> If your computer didn't come with built-in card slots,
> there are USB plug-ins for them (there seems to be a USB plug-in
> for everything but an electric shaver :)
>
> No, I spoke too soon:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028Y4DIG

LOL

>
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JAM
From: John H Meyers on
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:45:16 -0600, JAM wrote:

> it was not that old when Vista came out.

It is older than it appears,
because the HP50G might still have been called HP49G+,
were it not for the very soiled reputation of that model name,
for several years of keyboard failures and bad customer service,
so it basically got a "name lift" and new colors
(plus a serial port which had no cable to match,
and somehow managing to require one more battery),
and lo, it became the HP50G!
(with no change to even the name of the old driver,
just a little new "skinning" of connection kit
to add "50G" somewhere, also on new cover pages of manuals :)

> But I was wondering if some frustrated, knowledgeable user
> maybe wrote USB 64 bit driver himself instead of
> waiting for HP forever to support it.

Does anyone have a list of user-written Windows drivers?

Perhaps that's why "System Restore" was invented :)

> This is still their top of the line calculator

Some might say that a descent began much longer ago,
and ended in what you can get today -- better in programmability,
internal functions, MK, CAS, developments like flash and SD,
but no match in various other qualities.

Great improvement over 49G+ first two "generations" (of keyboards),
which by the 3rd generation of 49G+ were already the same as 50G.

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