HP 41CX Byte Grabber??

[Paul]

How can a 'byte grabber' be assigned to a key WITHOUT doing a total memory wipe on the 41?

Thanks

Paul

[Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)]

Hi;

I'm not gonna tell you about wiping all memory out, but I just want to add two small advice for dealing with Synth Programming on the HP41:

1 - AVOID using

[GTO] [.][.]

(if you do not need to, do not use this sequence). I lost some synth sequences (in fact, their effect in memory) after pressing [GTO][.][.];

2 - if you have a

[Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil)]

Hi;

I'm not gonna tell you about wiping all memory out, but I just want to add two small advice for dealing with Synth Programming on the HP41:

1 - AVOID using

[GTO] [.][.]

(if you do not need to, do not use this sequence). I lost some synth sequences (in fact, their effect in memory) after pressing [GTO][.][.];

2 - if you have any mass storage device (card reader, HPIL any) that can save status information, use it; the assignment and the byte grabber (jumper) will be saved and retrieved anytime you want to.

Does it help?

Cheers.

[Chris Catotti]

The mass storage (card reader, disk drive, tape drive) work great, The PPC ROM has a hey assignment program in the ROM. If you have a bar code reader, there are several good key assignment programs. I could look up the decimal codes for the byte grabber (BG7). Email me if you need a hard copy of the bar codes, etc for key assignment programs (free).