HP48

How to erase a faulty flashbank ?
Hello, in flashbank E and F pfree.bin from Thomas Rast reports a 32kB object with a is marked as deleted and has a bad crc. It also reports 127kb free memory for this bank but I can not store any object there which is larger as 95 kB. Fman.bin by Claudio Lapilli refuses to jump into bank E and F. So, how do I... 10 Nov 2007 08:49

What good are ?
What good are symbolic functions anyway, Oh you 35S bangers.. ? I'd like to say that I'm for them. If there are talking toasters and car readouts in development, then we need CAS in Scientifics. I'm at it again, Walking down the halls, and looking into windows.. In each Window, is a crudely taped draft print ... 10 Nov 2007 08:49

Problems moving large objects between ports -- HP50+, ROM 2.09
I sometimes want to pull a piece out of an archive, e.g., a subdirectory. I do my archiving to port 3; say I have an archive ARC1 stored there. What I would like to do is copy it to Port 2 and then dive down into it. The following is all in RPN mode; it makes no difference if the LastStack, LastArg, and LastCMD ar... 10 Nov 2007 08:49

HP 50g & NiMH Batteries
I´m using HP 50g with a local brand of AAA NiMH batteries rated as "1000mAh". When fully charged, if measured with batstat I get 60-65% charge (it is normal to be below 100% at full charge since NiMH batterie are 1.2v instead of 1.5. With normal, non intensive use, charge quickly drops within 1 or 2 days to 35-40%... 10 Dec 2007 00:37

Pac Man for S and G versionos of hp48 series
I installed pac man from www://.hpcalc.org/h p48/games/arcade for S and G versions of the hp 48 on my hp48g 32k and am having the difficulty that when playing it I encounter a "get" error each time the pac man attempts to gobble up a ghost. There is an sx and gx version if I understand correctly and am trying to us... 10 Nov 2007 08:49

Soft menus and choose boxes in an INFORM
Hi, I have a couple of questions conserning the INFORM command when writing programs on the HP49g+; ( I would like to write the programs in the standard RPL language) - In a field in an INFORM I would like to have a CHOOSE-box (or similar) to be abel to choose between options to enter. How do I do this? ... 10 Nov 2007 08:49

Solution required: Corroded Terminals in battery comartment
In the name of ALLAH, the most Beneficent, the Merciful. The batteries in my hp 49g+ leaked somehow and the terminals of the battery compartment have corroded. The calculator worked well earlier, but now the thin twists of wire have gotten corroded so much that current doesn't pass and hence the calculator w... 14 Nov 2007 08:38

How to fromat SD cards properly
I there a list of which versions of the OS for the 49G+ and 50G need which type FAT 16 or 32 to upgrade the OS from an SD card? Also it has been a while since I formatted a disk from the commnad line. Is it the old MSDOS format command? Harold A. Climer Dept. Of Physics, Geology, and Astronomy University of Tenne... 10 Dec 2007 00:37

my first programming experience on the hp50g
alright so i've got through writing and running some simple programs on the hp50g. i've only tried stuff in "reverse polish notation" mode (rpn) so if programs are different in "algebraic" mode i'd be curious to know the pros and cons of each. how rpn seems to behave ******************************************... 10 Nov 2007 08:48

new to hp50g, old to programming - hello world anyone?
i've only owned the hp50g for a few days and can tell that it is a powerful computer but not the best input device or user interface around (though i understand the limitations it needs to function in so it isn't too bad all things considered) since i come from a programming background i liked how everything abo... 10 Nov 2007 08:49