Have you joined and posted your question to the Yahoo Agilent/HP group ? It is a much bigger group and has been very helpful to me in the past
-pete On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Hans Holzach <h.holz...@vtxmail.ch> wrote: > hi all, > i have a small collection of old HP calculators, with the hp 71b being > my favourite. as a watchmaker i thought it might be a good idea to add > a digital clock HP 59309A to my collection. but this cost my quite a > few hours of sleep as i encountered an unexpectd problem that i can't > solve. > i have already posted this problem to the forum of the HP-Museum, but > unfortunately i could not get a solution. so i thought i should try it > here. > i have an hp 71b connected via HP-IL (version 1B) to an hp 82169C > HP-IL/HP-IB interface (DEVID$ is HP82169A, though). an HP digital clock > HP59309A is connected to the HP-IB interface. > > the IL/IB interface is in translator mode, hp-il address 3. the clock > is addressable, address is 11. > > i can control the clock (set time, stop etc.) without problem (e.g. > OUTPUT 11;"R" resets the clock). but i am not able to read from the > clock. my latest attempt to read from the clock looked like this: > > RESET HPIL > RESTORE IO > SEND TALK11 (ADDRESSED light of the clock is now permanently on) > ENTER :11 USING "#,9A";D$ (i also tried 10A, 11A etc. and ENTER LOOP) > > then the loop freezes, the hp71 does not respond to pressed keys, and > the T/R light on the interface and the ADDRESSED light on the clock are > permanently on. to continue i have to reset the hp-il interface. > > any help to solve this mistery would be much appreciated! > > thanks, > hans > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.