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m SERVICE INFORMATION FROM HEWLETT-PACKARD MARCH-APRIL 1982 New Interface Lets HP-41 and HP-85 Personal Computers Control Instruments and New Peripherals New HP Interface Called HP-IL Wald Skowron, Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packarci's top-of-the-line 80 personal mmpu The drive is designed to give the HP-41 handheld computer can now ble with the HP-IL loop and the new HP-41 mass memory unrivaled in control low-cost, battery-operable HP-IL Interface Card. The interface size and reliability by other cal- systems through a new interface card plugs into the HP-85 and culators or handheld computers and called HP-IL; Hewlett-Packard HP-83, connecting them to the to make the HP-41 capable of data Interface Loop. HP-IL loop, enabling the personal collection and management applica- computer to do tasks such as storing tions that previously required a The new interfami?enables HP41C and analyzing data collected on the larger computer. The digital quality handheld machine. This capability of the drive and the HP cassettes makes certain applications easier, used is designed to lead to greater such 89 mllecting customer data in performance and reliability than is the field with an HP-41 then dump- possible with audio tapes and ing, analyzing and storing data in drives. printer/plotter. The multimeter is the personal computer and reload- fully programmable and has a 12- ing it into the handheld computer. Each tape has a capacity of 131,000 character alphanumeric display. bytes of information, which would The cassette drive uses digitally Read-only memory modules (ROMs) accommodate, for instance, all the certified magnetic tape and for HP series 80 machines, programs from the 26 HP-41 Solu- increases the system's memary by the UO and PZotter/Printe tions Books on one tape. more t h a n 60 times, to 131,000 bytes. The printer/plotter File management using the drive is bar code printing and e easy because files can be names and graphics. recalled using names sel the user. Another new product is the Converter which ie a componen Quick, bi- signed to be built into third-pa