50g

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Gary" <garyfiber@...> wrote:

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> The HP-50G is such a pain in the backside to get into upgrade mode.
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> I can't go to the upgrade mode to save my life. Did it once about a year ago. It just keeps resetting. and pressing the +_ and the reset hole with a paper clip, it takes two people. In this day and age with microprocessors HP surely could have made it easier to do. Let the software place the calculator into download mode. Sheesh. My Ti-89 is easier to upgrade.
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> Guess I'll just keep the old rom.
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Well after I whined here I found a web page that described how to do the upgrade. It seemd to have worked perfectly. I was trying to use the instructions that came with the rom upgrade and they don't work for me in either SD card or USB cable. Here is the web page link.
http://www.educalc.net/2137081.page

Gary