NavList:

Courtney, you wrote:

"I have a couple of old calculators laying about unused, e.g. TI-82 and
HP-28C. Used to have an HP-97 that had programmable cards and a small
printer."

 

In that case (putting the unused hardware to good use), I would say go with Bill Murdoch's excellent and detailed instructions posted to the list a few hours ago. It's Sun-only, but it'll get you where you're going.

 

" I have a small network at home with several machines running
FreeBSD, Linux [several flavors], Novell, SCO, MS Windows [several
flavors], etc.."

 

Cool. :-) I've got two Linux flavors, two Windows flavors, and two MacOS flavors. But only three machines :-(. When I see people collecting old editions of Bowditch's Navigator, I wonder whether there will be similar collections of today's computer operating systems in 200 years... or sooner.

 

And you wrote:
"I've done a little programming but it's not my trade. I have a
familiarity with Fortran, Pascal, Basic, ASM, & C"

 

Not that it's relevant to the calculator coding task, but I have to mention my favorite coding environment for the past couple of years. It's called Realbasic. Do you know it? Very nice, modern Basic with unbelievably good cross-platform compilation. You can code under Windows or Mac and compile for Windows, Mac9.x, MacOSX, or Linux. No kidding. It works.