Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!mcnc!thorin!unc!hardarso
From: hardarso@unc.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HP Calculators & PC computer connection
Message-ID: <14289@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 25 May 90 13:42:46 GMT
References: <13975@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1990May24.183012.1929@druid.uucp>
Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu
Reply-To: hardarso@unc.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson)
Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lines: 11

Several if not all of the new HP models (I own an HP-42S) feature
infra-red printer "connectors" neatly concealed in the battery compartment.
I don't like the quality or the price of the printers sold by HP to go
with those calculators. Is there someone out there who sells a box that
accepts an HP infrared signal and converts it to RS-232 or parallell?
From there it would be easy to do the printout on a PC. If this product
does not exist, the idea is hereby put forward. I waive all claims for
a patent, just let me no when you're done and I'll buy it.
Kari Hardarson
217 Jackson Circle
27514 Chapel Hill, NC