50g

Hello --
Can anyone tell me how to write a program, execute a program, or 
operate the HP50g using BASIC? And, what BASIC would that be -- qbasic, 
quickbasic, gwbasic, hpbasic ...? HP says in their manuals or guides 
that the HP50g recognizes BASIC, UserRPL, systemRPL, Saturn(assembly) 
and ARM(assembly) languages. In the User Guides, Reference Manuals, and 
Advanced Reference Manuals HP discusses all those languages in detail 
except BASIC. I sent an E-mail to HP with a similar question. So far, 
they have not responded Thanks, Dick Howell

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Howell" <rhowellelsupremo@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello --
> Can anyone tell me how to write a program, execute a program, or 
> operate the HP50g using BASIC? And, what BASIC would that be -- qbasic, 
> quickbasic, gwbasic, hpbasic ...? HP says in their manuals or guides 
> that the HP50g recognizes BASIC, UserRPL, systemRPL, Saturn(assembly) 
> and ARM(assembly) languages. In the User Guides, Reference Manuals, and 
> Advanced Reference Manuals HP discusses all those languages in detail 
> except BASIC. I sent an E-mail to HP with a similar question. So far, 
> they have not responded Thanks, Dick Howell
>
Hello Richard.

I think the word 'basic' means in this context 'fundamental
programming', rather than BASIC-language.
As far as I know, you can not program HP-calculators with
BASIC.

Regards, Asko

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Howell" <rhowellelsupremo@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hello --
> Can anyone tell me how to write a program, execute a program, or 
> operate the HP50g using BASIC? And, what BASIC would that be -- 
qbasic, 
> quickbasic, gwbasic, hpbasic ...? HP says in their manuals or guides 
> that the HP50g recognizes BASIC, UserRPL, systemRPL, Saturn(assembly) 
> and ARM(assembly) languages. In the User Guides, Reference Manuals, 
and 
> Advanced Reference Manuals HP discusses all those languages in detail 
> except BASIC. I sent an E-mail to HP with a similar question. So far, 
> they have not responded Thanks, Dick Howell
>

Hello Richard
Basic is the language used to program the HP 50 when in the algebraic 
mode. Ther seems to be little information on this.
One place you might look at is www.hpcalc.org. When on the site search 
for and download casmath.zip. Unzip the file and read usflan.pdf. It 
gives example showing the difference between basic in algebraic mode 
and user rpl in rpn mode. Hpe this helps. Herman Schoob

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "schoobh" <schoobh@...> wrote:
>
> --- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. 
Howell" <rhowellelsupremo@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello --
> > Can anyone tell me how to write a program, execute a program, or 
> > operate the HP50g using BASIC? And, what BASIC would that be -- 
> qbasic, 
> > quickbasic, gwbasic, hpbasic ...? HP says in their manuals or 
guides 
> > that the HP50g recognizes BASIC, UserRPL, systemRPL, 
Saturn(assembly) 
> > and ARM(assembly) languages. In the User Guides, Reference 
Manuals, 
> and 
> > Advanced Reference Manuals HP discusses all those languages in 
detail 
> > except BASIC. I sent an E-mail to HP with a similar question. So 
far, 
> > they have not responded Thanks, Dick Howell
> >
> 
> Hello Richard
> Basic is the language used to program the HP 50 when in the 
algebraic 
> mode. Ther seems to be little information on this.
> One place you might look at is www.hpcalc.org. When on the site 
search 
> for and download casmath.zip. Unzip the file and read usflan.pdf. 
It 
> gives example showing the difference between basic in algebraic 
mode 
> and user rpl in rpn mode. Hpe this helps. Herman Schoob
>

Hmm. If you wrote a program in RPN mode would it run correctly in 
algebraic mode? And vice versa?

Lance

schoobh wrote:
> --- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Howell" <rhowellelsupremo@...> 
> wrote:
>> Hello --
>> Can anyone tell me how to write a program, execute a program, or 
>> operate the HP50g using BASIC? And, what BASIC would that be -- 
> qbasic, 
>> quickbasic, gwbasic, hpbasic ...? HP says in their manuals or guides 
>> that the HP50g recognizes BASIC, UserRPL, systemRPL, Saturn(assembly) 
>> and ARM(assembly) languages. In the User Guides, Reference Manuals, 
> and 
>> Advanced Reference Manuals HP discusses all those languages in detail 
>> except BASIC. I sent an E-mail to HP with a similar question. So far, 
>> they have not responded Thanks, Dick Howell
>>
> 
> Hello Richard
> Basic is the language used to program the HP 50 when in the algebraic 
> mode. Ther seems to be little information on this.
> One place you might look at is www.hpcalc.org. When on the site search 
> for and download casmath.zip. Unzip the file and read usflan.pdf. It 
> gives example showing the difference between basic in algebraic mode 
> and user rpl in rpn mode. Hpe this helps. Herman Schoob

It seems silly to refer to UserRPL as "BASIC" when it's used in ALG 
mode, and the document you reference does not seem to do so.

I'd like to ask Mr. Howell exactly what documents he found that say that 
"the HP50g recognizes BASIC, UserRPL, systemRPL, Saturn(assembly) and 
ARM(assembly) languages", because, while the HP50g certainly can be 
programmed in all the others, I know of no implementation of BASIC for 
it.  Not that one is impossible; I simply don't know of one.

There's a version of HP-BASIC for the 39G-40G series, however.  Perhaps 
that's what was intended?


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