On 2015-Oct-10, at 9:59 PM, Marc Verdiell wrote:
> Brent Hilpert <[email protected]> wore:
>> I had that problem with the stuck reel hubs. Failed to take my own
> advice-to-self to leave the reels unmounted and they stuck again,
>> although easier to get off this time as it hadn't been many years under
> pressure.
>
> I ended up covering the rubber hub with black electrical tape. That prevents
> it from sticking again.
OK; offhand, didn't think there'd be enough clearance to handle the extra tape
thickness.
>> I had originally written it in a re-targetable cross-assembler in a
> now-outdated development environment under MacOS9.
>> Last year rewrote someone else's assembler (C source) - it should work in
> any standard C environment.
>> Was using it to re-assemble HPBASIC.
>> [...] Can send you the source if you wish.
>
> I'll gladly take the source, that would be very helpful later on.
Forgot, it's online already:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/HP21xx/software/index.html
