50g

I'm new to the group and new to the 50g, though not new to HP
calculators. My first was an HP-35 that I got just about exactly 32
years ago. I loved that machine. Much later, I had an HP-48GX which
unfortunately was in luggage that went missing. I passed on the 49 on
account of the lukewarm reception it got, but, with my new 50g, I'm
back in the fold.

My first steps have been to patch HPTalx-1.3.0 so that I can connect
to my Linux box. I put the patch in the Files section. The Linux box
was upgraded with a flash reader so that I could upgrade the ROM to
2.09 and install Emacs, Nosy and OT49 on the HP. Thanks to this list
and its members for the posts that pointed out where to obtain these
tools.

Lately I have been using the CAS "Maxima" at home and at work. The
idea of having CAS-to-go on my HP is really intriguing. Along these
lines, does anyone know what the relation is between Maple and Erable?
(Erable means "Maple" in English IIRC.) I think I read somewhere that
the HP-50g's CAS is based in part on Erable. I know that Maple (a
commercial system) is a successor of Macsyma (on which is based
Maxima). Apart from being interesting in itself, it also occurs to me
that it might be possible to work on the same problem in the Maxima
and HP-50g environments. I think that would be excellent.

If anybody has any suggestions, complaints, further patches, etc., for
HPTalx, please let me know.

Ricky