Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!eagle.wesleyan.edu!flinton From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: More on ROM extraction Message-ID: <1991Feb5.184019.38498@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Date: 5 Feb 91 23:40:19 GMT References: <10594@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <25590096@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> Organization: Wesleyan University Lines: 16 In article <25590096@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>, prestonb@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Preston Brown) asks: > Do many people complain > that they can't have more then two floppys loaded at a time? Perhaps not -- but *I* do: I picked up an old HP-110 ("Nomad") Portable along with matching battery-operated HP-IL diskette drive (9114A) and printer (2225) at a swap meet a year or so ago, and some few weeks ago leapt upon another 9114 when I found it at a computer fair (a -B version) -- and I'd leap just as eagerly upon yet another, or upon an HP-IL 5-1/4" diskette drive or two, if I could ever find such beasts. BTW: any hints as to how to get the 9114's to read or write standard MS/PC-DOS formatted diskettes? They will succeed at the DIR command after enough Retries or Ignores, but fail persistently at COPYs or TYPEs unless it's an HP-formatted diskette that's in the bay. -- Fred