sharp el-55000ll

[Dave W]

Hello , I am new to the site and i love it .
I was wondering if someone can help me with programing my sharp el-5500ll I do a lot of radius millwork and nead to write a program to calculate a given radius. I would like to enter the cord and rise and be given the radius. I have tried to do this my self but I am having trouble remembering basic .

Thanks
Dave

 

[tingo]

Is it this one? If so, what kind of Basic does it have? What functions and so on?

 

[Dave W]

Thats the one . as to the type of basic , I am not sure
Thanks
Dave

 

[ziloo]

Hello Dave,

If you look at the keyboard section of your
calculator, you can see that most of BASIC
language commands are associated with one of the
buttons. For example on top of the G button, you
see [For], and on top of the C button there is
[GOSUB] which is another BASIC statement. When you
are in the Programming mode, pressing [Shift] followed
by one of the keys would display the corresponding
command on the screen. So now you know what is available
on your calculator's BASIC.

In order to write a program,

1- press the green button that says [BASIC] twice to
get into the programming mode.

2- First you enter a line number, such as 10, followed by
a name for your program inside a " ", such as "P1".

3- When the stement in line 10 is finished, press the [Enter]
button. The calculator responds by placing an [:] sign
right after the line number which means line 10 in now
in the calculator's memory.

4- Now you enter another line number, such as 20, and
then you enter a BASIC statement that is your first
line of program followed by pressing [Enter].

5- You carry on the same way until your entire program is
entered into your calculator's memory.

6- Now you press the green button [BASIC] again to get
into the [RUN] mode.

7- Either type RUN or press [SHIFT] follwed by [,] and
then enter your program's name inside quotations, such as
"P1" followed by pressing [Enter].

8- Now your program gets executed/interpreted.

Look at a sample program here,

http://www.rskey.org/detail.asp?manufacturer=Sharp&model=EL-5500II

You can also post the equation that you are trying to calculate,
and I will show you how to code it in EL-5500II Basic.

Best wishes

ziloo

 

[Dave W]

Thanks Ziloo,
This is the equation

Radius= ( RISE/2)+CORD2/(8XRISE)
Seams simple to program but my small brain is having a hard time getting around it.I look forward to your solution.
Thanks
Dave

 

[MikeS]

Boy, I'd forgotten what a PITA these things were to program ;-) :

[BASIC]
[BASIC] (PRO should light)
NEW [ENTER]
10 INPUT"CHORD:";C [ENTER]
20 INPUT"SAGITTA:";S [ENTER]
30 R=S/2+C^2/(8*S) [ENTER]
40 PRINT"R:";R [ENTER]
50 GOTO10 [ENTER]
[BASIC]
RUN [ENTER]

The usual disclaimers: don't blame me if the plane crashes ;-)

 

[Dave W]

I think I must be doing something fundamentally wrong.
Thanks for all who tried to help
Dave

 

[ziloo]

I think I must be doing something fundamentally wrong.
Thanks for all who tried to help
Dave

I checked Mike's program on my EL-5500, and it is just fine and
dandy (Thank you MikeS!.....).

1- "GOTO10" must be "GOTO 10" although the calculator itself
will correct that when you press [Enter].

2- "New" command in the beginning will erase all existing
programs on the calculator, so that you start with clean
memory.

3- If you don't give a name to your program, it will RUN fine
as long as it is the only program on the memory. If you
want to have more than one program, you must give them
names.

What seems to be the problem.....?

ziloo

 

[MikeS]

...What seems to be the problem.....?
ziloo

Yeah; don't give up so quickly!

Didn't mean to butt in Ziloo, but I hadn't played with the Sharp in years so I was kinda intrigued; figured since I'd tried it I might as well post it.

Took me more than a half hour for such a simple program, manual in hand, installing batteries, finding the right keys, how to delete, Run vs. Program, shift on/off, etc...

@Dave:

Can you get the classic PRINT "HELLO" working?

Where are ya? Might be easier to do this over phone/Skype or an IM.

 

[Dave W]

For the life of me I cant figure it out I have typed in mikes post 20 times and get error 9.
Thanks
Dave

 

[ziloo]

.................... I have typed in mikes post 20 times and get error 9.

Hello Dave,

1- Get into the programming mode by pressing the [BASIC] button twice.
You must see a dash line over the PRO label underneath your calculator's
screen.

2- Use the down and up arrow keys to step through the short program
Mike wrote. What you see line by line must match what is in
Mike's post, except that on the screen each line number is followed by a
[:] e.g. 10 : INPUT"CHORD:";C

3- Now you must get out of programming mode and get into
the RUN mode by pressing the [BASIC] button once. You must see
a dash line over the RUN label underneath your calculator's screen.

4- Now do a [Shift] followed by [,] key to see the word RUN on the screen.

5- Press [Enter]

6- You must see CHORD: on the screen which is asking you to enter the
value for CHORD; Enter a number and then press [ENTER].

7- Follow through the rest of the program.

ziloo

 

[ziloo]

Hello again Dave,

Remember that,

1- [NEW] means typing the word NEW without any line number
2- [BASIC] and [ENTER] means pressing the BASIC button, and
pressing the ENTER button.

I just had a nightmare that you might be typing those words as
part of the program, and ............never mind....my delusions....

ziloo :mrgreen:

 

[Dave W]

I am in program mode but I cant seam to step through the code.
Thanks
Dave

 

[Dave W]

10 PRINT "Hello World!"
20 GOTO 10

When I do this I get the same error 9in0
Maybe its not me but the machine .

 

[Dave W]

success at last after not binging able to program the above code I new something was amiss. On the back of the machine is a reset button ,paper clip in hand and wala . Now all the radius's in the world are ALL MINE I SAY ALL MINE.
Thanks for all who chimed in it was a group effort .Now onto that Timex Sinclare I just bought at a garage sale.
Dave