> Say, Rick, did you know Matt Hunton at HP Spokane Division?
Sorry no, but it could just be me not remembering.
> ...later versions of the 8902A did not use the F8 ... Do you know anything about that ...
Fairchild announced the F8 would become obsolete and HP made a projected lifetime purchase for all F8-based 890nx products. The estimates ended up being low and we ran out of F8 haredare, so the F8 assembly code was program-translated to another CPU but I forget which one. I wasn't involved in that effort but know the engineer that did it, who likewise still lives in Spokane, WA.
> I tried on mine with firmware 94.1991 and it didn't appear on any of those functions.
Thanks for trying. In 1983 I went on to other projects and had no idea HP production engineers were still doing firmware releases as late as 1991! Big surprise to me.
> ... the 11794A softpac ... how you can get the information from the 8902A keyboard?
Sorry but no knowledge about that.
Rick - WA6NDR