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In this issue we continue our discussion of HP's new Windows CE palmtop Pc. By the time it ships in June, you Volume six / Issue two should have a clear idea of MarchlApril1997 Executive Editor/Publisher whether you want to stay with Hal Goldstein the HP 200LX or move to the Managing Editor new HP 300LX or HP 320LX Ridiard Hall Associate Editors palmtop Pc. First read about Carol de Giere the latest on the new HP palm Ralph C. Turner top. Then check out Mark Technical Editor Scardina's objective point-by Tom Gibson Department Editors point comparison of the two Ed Keefe Wayne Kneeskern HP palmtop platforms. Carl Merkle To augment the comparison Contributing Writers of the two HP palmtops we Larry Dickson Tobv Lawrence published two thoughtful Randy Polumbo essays on the HP 200LX. Our Mark Scardina Hal Goldstein 1-2-3 columnist Carl Merkle, David Shier Advertisin2fMarketing along with David Shier, put on Brian 1eitzman their analysts' hats and look at the palmtop as an intranet-read Margaret Martin Tiffany Lisk er, a true Network Computer (NC). Then Larry Dickson makes Circulation a strong case that the DOS-based HP 200LX represents the high Colleen Rodibaugh David Brooks point in palmtop development and that future "progress" is Sharon Lloyd probably a step backward. Jolene PhillIps Executive Advisor In other news, the HP OmniGo 700LX Communicator is now Rita Goldstein available in the U.S. We've written about the HP 700LX (an inte The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) grated unit of a Nokia digital cellular phone with an HP palm is published by Thaddeus Computing top) which has been available in Europe and Asia for the past Inc., at 57 East Broadway Avenue, Fairfield, IA 52556. Periodical postage year. Data Critical has renamed the unit, calling it an HV01000, paid at Fairfield, Iowa. Subscription and is making it available through several U.s. phone carriers rates payable in U.S. dollars, checks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by credit card using the GSM protocol. - one year: $39; two years: $69. Postage: Also in this issue, I lament about the closing of ACE U.S. and U.S. possessions free; Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other countries Technologies. We offer information on former ACE products add $18 per year. Published bi-monthly and services. Plus, throughout the issue, you will read about plus two bonus issues, one in April and one in November. Please allow four to new freeware and shareware that will make your palmtop more six weeks for receipt of first issue. useful. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, Marketing and Advertising Offices: P.O. Elsewhere you will find fascinating profiles. Toby Lawrence Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52556. Telephone: interviews British M.P. Paddy Ashdown who tells how he uses (515) 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. Copyright 1997, Thaddeus the palmtop in Parliament. Contractor Randy Polumbo discuss Computing, Inc., all rights reserved. No es his high-tech edge as he takes his palmtop and wireless part of this publication may be repro duced without written permission. modem everywhere. Further, he outfits his employees and col Reasonable efforts are made to provide leagues with palmtops. accurate and useful information, but the reader must make his or her own inves Ed Keefe has a loyal following among our readership as his tigations and decisions; the Publisher articles describe interesting and innovative technical uses of the and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of palmtop. This time Ed revisits powerful HPCalc. He takes us . information contained herein. through statistics, equations, and graphics on the palmtop. POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to The HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: Thaddeus Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52556.
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 1 by Carol de Giere beside the record. Then press ~ You are unlikely to make a positive clip and arrow down until the line impression on the group. The TIME MANAGEMENT "Name and Business Phone" is Palmtop can assist your timely selected. Press ~. Open arrival-if you use it properly. Grouping Phone Calls Appointment Book and make an appointment for phone calls. Press ON THE PALMTOP To be more successful in reaching ~ Note, and ~ [Pastel. The Alarms can help you be on-time for your top goals, you may attempt to clipped items will appear, so that I appointments with others, but there accomplish your day's tasks in you now have one list of all the peo is a trick to setting them. Calculate order of their priority. However, it is ple to call at that time, along with how much time it will take to arrive often more efficient to group similar their phone numbers. somewhere and then add at least 10- types of activities regardless of pri Use abbreviations to record 20 minutes for challenging circum ority level. Your errands may be results of calls, such as B for busy stances. In Appointment Book, if more urgent or important than half signal, NA for not available, CB 2:00 you tab to the Leadtime box and of your phone calls. But once you for call back at 2:00, and LM for left press ~,the 5-minute default lead start on your high-priority calls, you message on answering machine. time on the alarm becomes 20 min may wish to complete the other low The Palmtop's time stamp is utes. Or in description, instead of priority calls before heading out the very convenient for these situations, writing "meet with John" and shed door for a flurry of errands. so you can note exactly what time uling it for 2:00, you can type in you reached a busy signal or no "Depart for 2:00 meeting with John" ON THE PALMTOP answer, and can better judge when and enter 1:45 in time. For those moments when you need to call back.1!!1 (Time). If you need to prepare for a to make multiple calls at one sitting, You will want to make a report meeting, make a date with yourself tapping through your Phone Book in the Phone Book's Note fields for in Appointment Book to get your may not be the best way. each person you were able to reach, materials organized in advance. Instead transfer names and to record promises, commitments, phone numbers from Phone Book and follow-ups notes. into the note field of an Thanks to Joe Matz PERSONAL ORGANIZATION Appointment or To Do item where [email protected] you can make notes on the results of Techniques for Avoiding Loss calls and lose less time between calls. Showing Up On Time Palmtops, glasses, cameras, and the In Phone Book, use the arrow atre tickets are among life's little keys to move to the desired records If you show up late for a meeting, things that are subject to loss or and select them by tapping on the you may be wasting someone else's inadvertent damage. But there are space bar. A diamond appears most precious resource-their time. several techniques to avert the dan ger. 1. Develop a place for these spe ciallittle things and discipline your 1I1/11I2/97 calls self to always return them there. 2. Mark Sut.t.er - 482-1550 ext. 5423***NA 3:13 p~ When you are rushing, make dou Sally McGrew - 51111-799-9999***LM 3:14 p~ bly sure you have everything, Ben Sage - 599- 469-2708***CB t.wo weeks because loss frequently occurs dur IEleanor Sunt.er - 41111-469-3441***fax det.ails 796-3333 ing a mad dash to catch a plane, get IThe Raj - 51111-472-9580***B 3:16 p~ to a meeting, or something similiar. ISals discount. cit.y - 319-39111-7746*"*CB To~ Hunt. at. 4 p~ 3. Keep a record of storage sites if IPaul Shi~uri -555-51111-5959***LM 3:2111 p~ necessary. -:"*.,.LI4'.;"_',&"'41·· II'oo,. ON THE PALMTOP Use smart clip or cut and paste to transfer phone nubmers to To Do note when grouping phone While on a plane, one woman calls. The Notes above include codes for result and time stamp ~O (Time).
2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 placed her Palmtop in the pouch of the seatback in front of her where the magazines are kept. She natural ly forgot about it and the airlines never found it. Someone on our staff left a Palmtop on the seat next to him at a restaurant. A reader report ed that while he stood with his car door open, he put his Palmtop on top of the car to make a note, turned to talk to a friend, then got in the car and drove off. He ran over his In the Sokoban game. the player must move the face (shown in the upper right of the playing Palmtop (which survived but had a area) with the arrow keys to push the balls to the goal (black squares). broken latch). The configuration differs in each game. HP-SOK.ZIP is postcard-ware. We include these stories as moti Ask them write you a secret The other way my daughter uses vation to always return your message in Appointment Book that the Palmtop is to check her ongoing Palmtop to the place you have des you will read tomorrow. They can softball statistics in Lotus 123. At the ignated, such as your left pants choose a time in your next day's start of a season I build a spread pocket, holster, purse, spot on your schedule, press I ENTERI and type sheet that compiles her batting aver desk or wherever. (Beware of plac "secret message from_ ." Tell them age, slugging percentage, number of ing it next to a full coffee mug, a sink to press ~ (note) so they have a hits, put outs and assists, etc. I or toilet, or any other source of liq plenty of room for their message. haven't designed a user interface for uids. We've heard stories .... ) You can make up guessing it. But she knows exactly where to Use your Palmtop to help you games with World Time and the look to find the totals." remember other things, such as the Map. For a detailed World Time $40 tickets to a Broadway touring game see p. 3 of HP Palmtop Paper, show or the files you need to bring May/June 1995. to your accountant. Make a quick Children always enjoy knowing Products note with alarm in your Palmtop how many days until their birthday mentioned in this article when you schedule the event, both or until summer vacation. Ask them to remember to bring the needed to open HPCALC, and press Menu, HP SOK.ZIP - Sokoban game for the item and to note its location in your Applications, Date Cales. Highlight Palmtop. Freeware. Available on Compu "First Date," and press ~ (Today), Serve's HPHAND Forum, Library 11 and on home or wallet. IENTER I if the current date is not The HP Palmtop Paper 1997 CD Infobase already displayed. Show the child how to enter an upcoming date fol WORM.ZIP - Arcade game where you feed ENTERTAINMENT lowing the format shown in First a moving worm. Freeware. Available on CompuServe's HPHAND Forum, Lbrary 7 Date. Have them press ~ for 365 Child's Play on the Palmtop day year so that the number of days and on The HP Palmtop Paper 1997 CD between dates will appear. (They Infobas. Also available for $20 (plus $5 ship When routines are bogging you ping and handling; non-US orders $10 ship could also check how many days down, moments of play with a child ping and handling) from Snappy Software, they have been alive by entering or child's toy can be a weleome P.O. Box 731, Lexington, KV 40586, USA; their birthdate as first date.) break. Phone: 606-269-0496. Children will enjoy games like Sokoban ij, Worm ij, Pac Man, and ON THE PALMTOP Pac Man - Palmtop version of the tradition Bubble ij. Next time you are in a restaurant al arcade game. Available on : http://home .hkstar.com I-tterencel waiting for your food, consider how Children, Softball your Palmtop could entertain the and the Palmtop Solitare, Golf, Vatzee and Dominoes child sitting next to you (or the child Conrad Cox offers this comment: Games.Freeware. Available on The HP in your own heart). Games are an "Some weekends my daughter's soft Palmtop Paper 1997 HP Palmtop Paper CD obvious choice, but other features ball games are hours away from InfoBase. also work well. home. While I drive, she likes to play For a young child who knows games on the Palmtop. Her favorites BUBBLE10.ZIP - Bubble Trouble inolves the alphabet, something simple like are Solitare ij, Golf ij, Dominoes ij placing bubbies of different types in a playing entering themselves in PhoneBook area to try to get several in a row. Freeware. and Yahtzee ij, all written by Curtis can be fun. Next suggest they enter Available on this issue's HP Palmtop Paper Cameron. They occupy her for hours Phone Book records for made-up ON DISK on a long drive. creatures or people.
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users and with the Japanese wordsl characters wants the new Windows exhaustive assistance of meant on the front cover of CE-based palmtops to be Toshiki Sasabe was just the Vol. 6 Number 1 issue. called "H/PCs," i.e. "Hand incredible. Both the pro The five characters, roughly held PCs." This is a mis gramming talent and the translated, mean "Japan nomer. Handheld they may hard ware discussed Special Issue." be, PCs they are not. shows what talent is attract The first two characters It transpires that Win ed to this little Palmtop make up the word NIPPON, dows CE, though possessing computer. It also shows the meaning Japan. The next the look and feel of incredible power of having a two characters make up Windows 95, is basically relatively open design plat TOKUSHU, meanin~ special incompatible with it. It can form. features, or special collec not run either Windows 3.x Thanks to you and your tion. The last character is or Windows 95 software. staff and to Toshiki and all GO, meaning issue. All software will have to be of the Japanese authors. specially written for, or Toshiki Sasabe ported to, Windows CE Fred Kaufman [email protected] machines, and is likely to WHAT THEy'RE DOING WITH THE HP PALMTOP TeamHP consist of severely cut down [email protected] TheCE versions of familiar Win The Last Palmtop is not a PC dows packages (judging by Issue Was Incredible What the Japanese "Pocket Word" and "Pocket characters meant I read the User-to-User arti Excel"). The lastest issue you did cle in Vol. 5, No.6, 1996 (Volume 6, Number 1) in Hal Goldstein asked me (page 6) with mounting dis concert with the Japanese what the meaning of the appointment. So Microsoft (Continued on page 48.)
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4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 ACE Technologies Closes Its Doors ACE Technologies, a major supplier of HP Palmtop flash storage and software, went out-oJ-business in January. Palmtop users will miss ACE; several products and services will be transferred elsewhere.
By Hal Goldstein
ACE Technologies opened its faster, cheaper, Palmtop-aware Aftermarket companies must sup doors about the same time as The flash storage products. ACE also port a product that only costs con HP Palmtop Paper and has adver brought us a variety of made-for sumers around $500. These compa tised with us since our first Fall Palmtop software and communica nies must compete in an arena 1991 issue. It was a small company tions products. where the perceived norm is the that made a large presence both in HP Palmtop users are extreme price-competitive PC Desktop The HP Palmtop Paper and among ly fortunate to have companies like industry. HP Palmtop users. Naturally as the ACE, Shier Systems, Times2 Tech, For example, people ask us all Publisher, I am sorry to see them EduCALC, Notebook Supply, EXP, the time why our $39 publication is go, but all of us who are dedicated Steel Creek, (check out all the "so expensive." No one believes me Palmtop users also lose. advertisers in this issue), as well as when I say our price is incredibly Thanks to Andy Fu's leadership hundreds of freeware / shareware cheap. The problem is our per and Mark Scardina's technical authors to support them. The HP ceived "competition" is a publica insight, ACE provided the lead in Palmtop market is a small market. tion like PC Magazine, funded by
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THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 5 NEWS: ACE Technologies Closes NEW SUPPLIERS The OF ACE PRODUCTS World Wide Web Browser PALMTOP.COM Continues for the HP Pahntop
WWW/LX (pronounced Web/ LX, from D&A Software inc" PALMTOP.COM service, formerly is the first World Wide Web a c cess solution specifically sponsored by ACE Technologies, is designed for the HP Palmtop computer. now being hosted by ESP Features include: Networks, a cc:Mail-to-Internet ser • Easy installation and setup with WWWSETUP program. vice provider. The PALMTOP. • Support for SLIP and PPP communications protocols. COM service provides the HP • Support for forms. GIF images and file downloads. Palmtop user an Internet e-mail • Hot lists (aka bookmarks) • Easy access to local files . ~LX address using the built-in cc:Mail HI application. The new network which hosts the service represents ~ SHIER SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE, INC. a major upgrade with full T-l Internet access and high-speed
C;; 1-n F'R C;;y stems & Software, Inc. specia lizes in HP Pa lmto p Co mr I Jtp.r~ ~nrl ;<:I ("(" p. "oe; orip.C'; . Thi c; Wp.h " it p modems. prov ides a loo k at m a ny of our products plus other usefu l information - ~ It's here! M1Mf4A....,.ij;;,,;;; for the H P Palmtop • ar= The new b~C in Yo ur poc ke t!! is here now! Ca ll us to order it to da y! Pricing: From $6.50 monthly CONTACT' ESP Networks, 888-463-7762; FAX 408- 744-9141; E-mail: [email protected]; Customer-~---~~------Reaction to WWW/lX http://www.palmtop.com "WWW/lXwill single-handedly broaden the appeal of the HP Palmtop beyond measure. I do not believe that a better online browser could be written .. ." Ian Melville - Marketing Director - AutoSvstems Co. Ltd. FastWRITE and VDE.ZIP ij Shier Systems & Software, Inc. 920 Hampshire Rd .. Suite A The FastWRITE word processor Westlake Village. CA 91361 has been discontinued. However, Phone: (805) 371-9391 Fax: (805) 371-9454 [email protected] Web Site: http://www.shier.com the VDE editor, upon which FastWRITE was based, now offers ' Price does not include shipping costs. CA residents include 7.25"10 sales tax full support for the HP 95 / 100/200LX Palmtops, and thus an advertisers, 200 times our circula Palmtop products. I am happy to upgrade path for FastWRITE users. tion. What readers see with PC say our renewals and new subscrip VDE 1.82 offers improvements Magazine is a cheaper subscription tions remain strong so we look for over FastWRITE 1.01, including ward to producing The HP Palmtop price for more pages and issues. column block mode. A spelling They don't recognize that we are in Paper for a long time. We think that checker is included with registra completely different markets. Windows CE helps educate the pub It is a similar situation with lic on the value of handhelds. As tion. companies such as ACE that duti sophisticated users examine the Type: Shareware fully support the Palmtop. These alternatives, many will continue to Availability: HP Hand Library 7; FastWRITE users can companies must produce products choose HP 200LX Palmtops. upgrade for $25 plus proof ofpurchase of FW, sent to with low profit margin, yet the vol Eric Meyer, 30454th Sf. Boulder CO 80304. ume is low and they are expected Comments from a few ACE fans: to give strong service and support. Magnify Now Sold by D & A These companies often are inspired "1 looked to ACE as a Palmtop D & A Software will now be selling as much by the usefulness and authority, Palmtop people selling power of HP Palmtops as by the to Palmtop people. I will miss the Magnify 100/200LX software mag nifying lens. profit motive. But at the end of the people and products that were day they must still pay their staff ACE."-Conrad Cox, organizer for and themselves. ACE had to CONTACT: Shier Systems & Software, Inc.; 920 the San Francisco Bay area users Hampshire Road, Suite A; Westlake ViI/age, CA answer to outside investors, which group for the Palmtop 91361 USA; Phone: 805-371-9454; Fax: 805-371- put more pressure on them to "I'm very sorry to see ACE dis 9454; [email protected]; Web: make strong profits. continue their business. They pro http://www.shier.com This is why from time to time I vided quality products, knowl editorially urge everyone to support Note: We'll keep you informed as additional HP Palmtop vendors. As long as edgeable service, and a source one infornultion comes in about ACE products. For you keep subscribing and purchas could recommend with confi Tech support for ACE products contact fellow dence." users on the CompuServe HP Handheld forum ing products we will keep publish and AOL Palmtop message center. ing and vendors will keep selling -Craig de Fasselle, AOL PDA Forum Leader
6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 This section lists new products PahnMate ATA Internet.· http://w.ww.educalc.com of interest to users of the HP PC Cards COIne in OR HP Offers Palmtop PCs. New Products New. Larger Sizes Notebook Supply Warehouse, 655 E. Replacement Kit Berry Street, Brea, CA 92621, USA; for Small Parts includes descriptions of hard Phone: 80.0.-566-6832 or 714-753- ware, software, books, videos, ActionTec has released a 8810, Fax: 714-753-8812.; E-mail." Palmtop owners who need training and service offerings. new line of AT A flash stor 73430. [email protected]; Prices listed in this section are age PC cards under the Internet http://ww.w.nsupply.com replacement parts for little suggested retail. You may be PalmMate brand name. things like battery covers can now obtain them by purchas able to get the products for less Their cards are designed for ing a Palmtop Maintenance Kit if you shop around. the HP Palmtop and for the for $20. new Windows CE-based PRINTERS HP Palmtop Paper Staff HPCs. Sizes include 4MB, 8MB, 12MB, 16MB, 20MB, The kit includes: 32MB, 48MB, and 64MB. o 2-IR port covers 8 rubber feet HARDWARE The cards are assem Priees Cut on o (for the bottom of the bled with new industry PoeketJet Printers Palmtop) standard controller and Penta x Tech nologies has o 4 hinge caps Nand-type flash memory announced a reduction in o 2 main battery covers chips, being used to avoid PC CARDS US list p rices for all three (green 200LX color only) compatibility problems. The models of Pocket Jet print o 2 backup battery trays cards also work in several ers. These printers can be o 2 engraving plates (to be models of digital cameras. Photo/Data Cards run from the Palmtop by used for identification) Store 2MB to 40~IB using a cable from Shier of Photos or Data CONTACT: Screws are not included in this kit. . Envoy Data Corporation, 953 East Systems for the Palmtop-to Juanita Avenue, SUile A, Mesa, AZ printer connection. Printer Viking Components manu Part number F1216-60998 8520.4, USA; Phone: 60.2-892-0.954,' kits include printer, carrying factures Type II AT A flash Fax: 60.2-892-0.0.29; Internet case, power cord, NiCd bat cards known as Photo/ Data CONTACT: 800-227-8164 www.envoydata.com tery, adapter / charger, and Cards. These are available OR some thermal paper. now in capacities of 2, 4, 6, Notebook Supply Warehouse, 655 E. The kit is currently available in Berry Street, Brea, CA 92621, USA; the US only. 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and Prices: Range: $349-$499 for kits. (18- Phone: 80.0.-566-6832 or 714-753- 40MB. 20.% reduction from previous prices.) 8810, Fax: 714-753-8812.; E-mail." Viking Photo/ Data CONTACT: Pentax Technologies, 10.0. 73430..1336@ compuserve.com; Technology Drive, Broomfield, Co, Cards manage up to one Internet http://ww.w.nsupply.com messages, choosing recipi million write / erase cycles, 80.0.21, USA; Phone: 80.0.-543-6144,' ents from the integrated and a virtually unlimited Fax: 30.3-460.- 1628; Web: ww.w.pentax tech.com address book, and adding number of read cycles. The multiple choice replies. cards have built-in error CABLE The program provides checking and correction. SOFTWARE an inbox and outbox for The cards also have a multi keeping track of messages. level power saving feature. Parallel Printer Incoming messages, once They have been tested Cable is Tiny downloaded from the pager, for compatibility in the HP COMMUNICATION can be replied to, forward Palmtop and numerous Trans'Digital Corporation's ed, or saved for later action. cameras, including several printer cable connects a The SkyTel Messenger SkyTel Announees models from Canon, Fuji, Pentax Pocket Jet printer to includes a communications New Version of Kodak, and Nikon, as well the Universal Parallel Port cable for connecting an HP ~Iessellger for as AGFA ActionCam, (UPP) on Trans PC Cards 100LX, 200LX, or OmniGo to UP Pahntop Associated Press NC 2000, manufactured by Trans the SkyTel 2-way pager, Minolta RD-175, Ricoh installation software for PC Digital. The cable is 1m (3ft) SkyTel Messenger for the RDC-2, and Sony DKC-IDl. and Mac, and a users guide. long and has miniature HP Palmtop lets users Hirose 25 pin plugs on both Prices range from $10.0. for the 2MB to exchange messages up to ends, which fits the printers Pricing: $3995 $80.0. for 40.MB. 500 characters directly from and the cards. CONTACT: SkyTel Corporation, 20.0. S CONTACT: the Palmtop to Internet e Lamar St., Mtel Centre BUilding, Viking Components, 10.0. Columbia, mail users, SkyWord Jackson, MS, 3920.1, USA; Phone: Laguna Hills, CA 92656, USA; Phone: Pricing: $29. 80.0.-456-3333; Web: http://www.sky CONTACT: EduCALG, 27953 Cabot alphanumeric paging users, 80.0.-338- 2361 or 714-643-7255; Fax: te/.com 714-643-7250.; Internet: Road, Laguna Niguel, CA 92671, USA; and SkyTel 2-Way users. http: // www.vikingcomponents.com Phone: 80.0.-535-9650, ext. 91720r The Messenger includes a 714-582-2631,' Fax: 714-582-1445; framework for composing
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Thaddeus Computing INC. Publisher: Tl1e HP Palmtop Paper and Handl1eld PC J1agazil1e 110 North Court, Fairfield, IA 52556 800-373-6114· 515-472-6330 Fax: 515-472-1879' E-Mail: [email protected] continued on page 49 symptoms or test results. mum take-off weight, cabin Ii GAMES The new edition configuration, and country. SynthMath includes information on 400 There will be updates Syntholi~ Cal~u1ator new diseases and expands Sept./ Oct. each year. Fritz2 Chess GalDe the knowledge base in neu SymbMath is a symbolic cal MS· DOS Version 2.0 rology, psychiatry, and Type: Shareware culator that can manipulate other fields. The cause list PriCing: $29 per region complicated formulas and has increased and test find (The data is divided Into four regions: return answers in terms of According to Publisher / North America, Europe/Africa/ Mid It Executive Editor Hal ings have been expanded for East, Asia/Australia/ Pacific, and Latin symbols. solves the same Goldstein, "Fritz2 is by far Xrays, CT, MRI scans, EKG, America. The Latin American file is sort of problems as pro the best chess program I ultrasound, and echocardio available for demo purposes upon grams like Mathematica, but ha ve seen on the HP graphy. request.) still runs in 640 K of RAM. Palmtop. Fritz2 was devel In addition to contents CONTACT: Wolfgan Kofen, Frautgartenweg 1, 82205 Gilchlng, oped jointly by a Dutch change, the software has Type: Shareware (commercial version been updated to include Germany; E-mail." 101660.466@com also available) chess programmer and a puserve.com more "intuitive" screen CONTACT' Or Weiguang Huang, German software company, 120/22 Wassell Street, Matravill, Chess Base Ltd for DOS choices and transparent Sydney, NSW 2036, Australia; Phone: machines. The graphics are cause list displays. Cal~Sol GalDe (612) 93113251; Fax: (612) clear and the user interface 99064141; E-mail" huang@emphasys. intuitive. CONTACT: Medtech USA INC at 800- In the Calculation Solitaire com.au. Web: http://acsusun.acsu. 260-2600 fax 800-611-8100,' E-mail." card game, a player builds unswedu.au/-s9300018/ "Fritz plays a quick [email protected] ' strong game with many up piles of cards in a certain options. It contains a data order to gain points. Unlike some solitaire games, most base of over 300 of the great & UPGRADES est chess matches that you FREEWARE Calculation Solitaire games can watch by pressing space SHAREWARE can be won. The challenge FLEXPAD Version involves how fast you can bar for each move or just 2.0 Ii Free ForlD win. Anything under 90 sec putting the game in replay ACRONYM.EXE Ii Text Editor/PIM onds is a good time. mode. If you don't under A~ronYID Datase stand why a player, for The program can be run from DOS or it maybe FLEXP AD is an organizer / example, didn't take a The self-extracting archive text editor. Type in notes pawn, you can stop play, acronym.exe contains the installed into the App. Manager. and add labels to delineate take it yourself, and learn database acronym.gdb. It's appointments, todos, cate the consequence. You can been compiled by many gories, bookmarks and sec also choose an opening to Type: Freeware people from many sources CONTACT' (CalcSo/'Zip) iI tions. View the labels in study, or you can set up a over several years. It is free, Author Curtis Cameron's Internet daily, weekly or monthly chess problem for Fritz to but, the author, Peter Ernst, address: FreeWhI44@ao/.com or increments or by matching a solve." asks that if users come http://users.ao/.com/freewhI44/ search phrase. Settings across an acronym that's not allow optimization for HP Price: $49.95 listed, they write to him: e Palmtops (95LX or CONTACT: mail: 100271.632@com ChessBase USA, Box 133, POWER OFF 200 Ii 100/ 200LX) or standard PC puserve.com or peer@hpb Hagerstown, Mo21140, USA; Phone: TilDe.· Utility compatibles. File size limit 304-188-1829; Fax: 304-188-1833; E brh.gsr.hp.com ed only by available memo mai/.·[email protected]. POWER OFF 200 allows you ry. Ver 2.0 adds export Type: freeware options, archive view, other Available: HP Hand Forum Library 11 to set the power off timeout of your Palmtop according improvements. to your needs from 1 second MEDICAL Aviation Data to 59 minutes and 59 sec Type: Shareware for the PallDtop onds. The user interface is Pricing: $35 registration fee Available: HP Hand Forum Library 11 graphical. The program runs DiagnosisPro Aviation Data (AVIA.ZIP)1i only on the HP100/ 200LX. Updated for the Palmtop is a data A note for programmers: the CONFERENCES base designed for aviation source code (Pascal) is also DiagnosisPro's January 1997 professionals and enthusi available in HP Hand update expands the volume Handheld SystelDs asts. The data, accurate Library "Palmtop Program of information of previous Conferen~e to he through mid 1996, includes mers" (PWR200BP.ZIP). editions by 20 %. The soft address and phone informa Held in April ware helps physicians diag tion for airlines, aircraft Type: Freeware nose unfamiliar or unusual type, registration code, year Creative Digital announces Location: HP Hand Forum Library 8 the fourth Handheld cases based on the patient's built, engine type, maxi- Systems Conference, devot-
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 9 ed exclusively to the cre ing hand-held computing ation of hardware and soft technology, as well as those Do you have a Palmtop ware for handheld comput producing, selling, promot You No Longer Use? ers, to be held at the San ing, servicing, consulting or We'll buy it .•. even if it's broken! Francisco Airport Hilton, financing this technology. April 24-26, 1997. (Formerly The conference will Thaddeus Computing (that's us) can always use extra palmtops for vari the events were called PDA include keynote addresses by ous projects. If you want to mail in your Palmtop equipment and manuals Developers Conferences.) several major customers and to us, here is what we will pay. Keynote speakers include vendors. In addition, 15 case Andrew Seybold, industry studies will be presented. Palmtop in good working order analyst and consultant, and and good shape:' Broken Palmtop' Jean Belanger, CEO and CONTACT: HP 95LX (with manuals): $ 55 Broken 95LX (with manuals): $25 Chairman of Metrowerks. World Market Strategies -PDA Inc. , HP 100LX (with manuals): $75 Broken 100LX (with manuals): $35 HP 200LX (with manuals): $100 Broken 200LX (with manuals): $35 The program features intro 309 17th Street, San Francisco, CA ductions to a variety of plat 94114, USA; Phone: 415-252-8008; forms and services, includ Fax' 415-252-8055; e-maIZ' * Without manuals: HP 95,LX subtract $5; HP 100LX or 200LX subtract $10. ing Pilot, Windows CE, and [email protected]; http://www.pda We'll adjust the price if equipment works but has some significant damage. many others. In addition to exp.com the introductions and Accessories exhibits, there will be panel HP Connectivity Pack with cable and manual: discussions on hardware, New York HP100 or 200LX: $15; HP95LX: $5 software, wireless services, Get-Together Uncompressed Flash and SRAM cards: emerging platforms, and Seheduled for May $7.50 per megabyte (eg 40 Meg=$300) other topics. Modem cards, cables, software, chargers, other items: we'll look things In May, a group of HP over, but we may not be able to offer much. We'll adjust price as appro Pricing: Registration is $350 until April Palmtop computer users are priate if accessories come without manuals, or if other items are missing. 15, $400 after thal It includes break planning to meet for lunch Send equipment to: HP Palmtop Used Equipment, Thaddeus fast and lunch all three days. The to share the joys and frustra Computing, 110 N. Court, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA. Include a note men Hilton has large single rooms for $121, tions of the HP 95/100/ tioning this offer with your phone and fax number. If you need to talk with doubles for $147 (there are other 200LX. All Palmtop users us, you may call, 515-472-6330. You will receive reimbursement within lower-priced hotels in the area). are welcome. The meeting is three weeks after we receive the equipment. Creative Digital can pair you up with a scheduled for 11 :30 am on Offer good March 1 - June " 1991 roommate at the Hilton. Saturday, May 10, 1997, at the Wildflowers Restaurant CONTACT: For a program, see at the Bear Mountain Inn in children are invited to Creative Digital's web site at New York. The Bear attend, even if they have no SERVICES http://www.cdpubs.com Mountain Inn is located in interest in Palmtop comput Bear Mountain State Park, in ing. They are sure to enjoy DrUlDa Ine Offers Creative Digital Inc., 293 Corbett the Southern Catskill the surroundings. Stan Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94114, Mountains, on the West side Custom Programming; Dobrowski has agreed to Business Solutious USA; Phone: 415-621-4252; Fax: 415- of the Hudson River about donate two pair of DayGlo 621-4922; E-mail."[email protected] 45 miles North of New York sneaker laces as a door Druma Inc. provides custom City. prize." There is no agenda, programming and integra tion of HP 200LX Palmtops Seeond Annual except for having fun and CONTACT: Ifyou are considering ForUID for Hand meeting other people who attending, please contact i.1c Roberts with existing systems. They Held Computing in share an interest in Palmtop at 70413.1423@ compuserve.com. It develop solutions for busi Healtheare computing. would be very useful to know how nesses using the Palmtop in Organizer Victor many people are planning to attend so such areas as field data col The Forum for Hand-Held Roberts says, "If you have we can reserve sufficient room for lection, meter-reading, price Computing in Healthcare questions about hardware lunch. This Will also allow Vic to contact lookup, inventory lookup, '97 will be held May 28-30, or software, or want to try you in case there are any changes in warehousing, inventory at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, out some hardware or soft date or location. Please use e-mail to control,delivery and courier, in Cambridge, Massachu ware that you may not yet contact Vic IT you can. Otherwise, he setts, USA. The focus is on own, or just meet other peo radio data, asset manage may be reached at his office phone ment, financial quotation point-of-care solutions using ple who share your interest number 518-387-6737 and office FAX hand-held computers, and in Palmtop computing, systems, process control and 518-387-5714. For informaiton on Bear bar-coding. The company features presentations led by please consider attending. Mountain Inn, call." 800-458-8264, or offers training to support major healthcare users, Bring your Palmtop and any 914-786-2731. manufacturers and suppli software and accessories their programs. ers of this technology. The you think may be of interest List of HP Palmtop Forum is designed for to other users. We hope to UserGroups CONTACT: Druma Inc, 6633 Hwy 290 healthcare industry execu have at least one Win CE East 30 " Austin, TX 78723, USA; tives and project managers machine for folks to test out. Please see page 50. 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New HP 300LX and HP 3Z0LX Windows CE Palmtop PCs
Their forthcoming line of Windows CE I Hewlett-Packard's 300 and 320LX Palmtop PC with Windows CE operating Palmtops will feature wider screens, system will be introduced mid-1977. Shown here is the HP 320LX with CompactFlash enhanced lighting, and superior back-up storage card from San Disk. and printing capabilities, when compared to other Windows CE units.
According to HP Singapore, their Both models include Pocket Card flash, CompactFlash (2, 4MB), forthcoming line of Windows CE Internet Explorer in ROM, 115k AC adapter, spare pens and a palmtops will feature wider screens, IrOA (infrared port), and RS-232C leather case/wallet. enhanc~d lighting, and superior back (serial port). The packages for the Both models can use AA NiCad up and printing capabilities, when units will include synchronization batteries and recharge with the AC compared to other Windows CE units. cables, PC software for synchro adapter. When put in the docking cra The system speed on the new palmtop nization, a free copy of Microsoft dle with the AC adapter connected, PCs will be 44 MHz. Although not Schedule+ 7.0, and a CD-ROM data files will synchronize automati confirmed yet, HP believes theirs will with trial versions of several cally while recharging the batteries. be the fastest products based on the Windows CE applications. The HP Hitachi SH3, yet will also have the 320LX is shipped with an AC adap New light pipe design longest battery life. tor along with the docking cradle. HP will name their new HP 300LX/320LX palmtop PC HP's backlight technology is based Windows CE computers "palmtop users will be able to purchase a . on LEOs and a flat panel "light pipe" PCs," rather than "handheld PCs." variety of accessories, including PC to evenly distribute the light to the This is to maintain consistency LCD. The result, according to the with the established LX line, say HP officials. HP Partners Add a Suite of Fax, E-Mail, Wireless, Users will be able to choose Storage and PIM Features between the 300LX model with standard features, and the 320LX HP has worked with Microsoft and other companies to provide integrated solutions for the HP model with more memory and 300LX and 320LX palmtop PCs. HP partners have added the features listed below: extras, including a docking cradle. The 300LX features 2MB of RAM, bsquare: bFAXPro -- a send-and-receive fax solution reflective display, and PC Card River Run Software Group -- Mail on the run! for access to corporate cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, Type II slot. Estimated retail price is Lotus Notes Mail and Microsoft Exchange e-mail systems. Odyssey Computing, Inc. -- Pocket On-Schedule, a contact manager with PIM functions. $499. The 320LX is designed with San Disk Corporation -- CompactFlash card slot for the HP 320LX palmtop PC 4MB of RAM, backlit display, PC Ardis -- Wireless solutions bundle supporting fax, e-mail and acess to the Internet Card Type II slot plus Compact Wynd Communications -- WyndmaillCE wireless solution providing fax, e-mail, voice-to-text and Flash slot, and docking cradle. text-to-voice communications. Estimated retail price is $699.
12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 There is also a backup utility for PC Cards and CompactFlash. This Thaddeus Computing announces protects a user's PIM files when Handheld PC Magazine they are mobile and not able to to support the new Windows CE Handhelds back their data up to a PC every day. Handheld PC Magazine is a bi-monthly Thaddeus Computing publica tion, due Mid-1997, exclusively for Windows CE handheld computer Significance of a wide screen users. Subscription price is $34.95 1 year, $59.95 2 years. Each issue is crammed with tips, articles and reviews that focus on built-in software The new HP palmtop PC uses a and third-party solutions. Autobiographies describe how professionals display that follows the VGA stan use their handheld PC's to solve everyday challenges. dard with 640 pixels across the screen allowing you to get the full view of your information. Accord Special, pre-publication ing to HP, this means you can: offer until March 31-$29.95 for 1 year, $49.95 2 years. (Canada/Mexico, add $6 per year shipping.) o View most web pages fully with (Outside North America add $18 per year shipping.) no need to scroll sideways, o Read e-mail easily, with large, Bonuses with subscription: clear characters displayed across the display, o Annual Windows CE Buyer's Guide - complete listing of known com o See more cells in standard mercial Windows CE products plus best shareware and freeware spreadsheets with the wide version o Goodies Disk - best 25 pieces of Windows CE freeware and shareware of Pocket Excel, o Read complete tables in Pocket o Special report: "12 Things every Windows CE user should know" Word, (a formatted table in the 80 column display of a host machine can become scrambled when How To Subscribe (3 ways): viewed in a handheld product with 1. E-MAIL usat:[email protected] less than 80 columns). Be sure to include your name, address, phone, and fax if you have one. Leave your Master Card, Visa or AMEX number and expiration date. Features of the new 2. PHONE us at: 515-472-6330 or 800-373-6114; HP Palmtop PC with the FAX us at: 515-472-1879 Windows CE operating system
3. SEND US THE ORDER CARD IN THIS ISSUE, Features along with a check or MC/VISA/ AMEX info to: Standard (2-MB RAM) Enhanced (Backlit, 4-MB RAM, Thaddeus Computing, Inc., 110 North Court, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA CompactFlash Card Slot) If you would like to contribute to Handheld PC Magazine with articles, e mail Hal Goldstein at: Includes: [email protected] or [email protected] Two AA and one CR2032 batteries CD-ROM (with additional software - see below) manufacturer, is a backlight that is both IR and RS-232C ports. Serial cable (to connect to your PC) substantially brighter than any other Docking cradle (for added conve in this class of products, yet runs on a nience in connectivity, included fraction of the power of other sys More data with enhanced model only) tems. Therefore an automatic time storage flexibility AC adaptor (included with HP out feature was not necessary. 320LX only) For other manufacturers' models using the first version of Windows Physical Specifications Printing directly from the CE, all data must be resident in 18.3 x 9.4 x 2.9 cm (7.2 x 3.67 x 1.1 in) Palmtop PC RAM while an application is run 442 g 05.6 oz) with batteries ning. In the HP units, programs HP's units will allow printing direct running out of ROM or RAM can Memory 2-MB RAM (standard model) from Pocket Word and the PIMs, via use data stored on flash cards.
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1997 13 Ni:WS: HP 300LX and 320LX 4-MB RAM (enhanced model) 5-MB ROM, upgradable HP OmniGo 700LX, Imported to the USA by Data High performance Hitachi SH-3 32- Critical, is Now Available in Selected Locations bit RISC CPU running at 44 MHz Under a New Name "HV01000" Display by Carol de Giere 640 x 240 pixels (1/2 VGA) FSTN liquid crystal display with 4 Several major phone carriers in the US will now be gray scales offering HP's OmniGo 700LX, in a new incarnation as Pen & Touch interface the "HV01000." HVO stands for Handheld Virtual Backlight (enhanced model only) Office, which conveys the breadth of applications of the package being offered through the phone companies Keyboard by Data Critical of Oklahoma City. Well spaced QWERTY layout As previously reviewed in The HP Palmtop Paper July/August, 1996, the HP OmniGo 700LX is Input/Output based upon the 200LX Palmtop and comes with its Built-in serial interface for connec built-in application. It is integrated with a Nokia mobile tion to RS-232 devices phone, which can be docked into the 700LX or used Built-in infra-red transmitter / separately. receiver OrDA standard, 115K bps) Data Critical made an agreement with Hewlett-Packard and Nokia to become the importers of the product to the US. Data Critical adds software to the packaging, including web PC Card Type II card slot (for browsers as well as all of Data Critical's medical and imaging software. In addition, users can nav adding memory or I/O cards) igate their way with Geolog and Getrack, two new products using Global Positioning System CompactFlash card slot (enhanced based on satellite data to calculate position on the earth. model only) To operate a Nokia phone model 2190, which is packaged with the unit, a phone com Audio Speaker pany must be using a protocol called GSM. Many carriers use a different system, but several in the US were already using GSM and thus were able to offer mobile phone service with the Power HV01000. Two 1.5V AA batteries (recharge able NiCad optional) Carriers thus far signed up to sell the product and mobile phone service are: One 3V CR2032 coin cell backup Q) Omnipoint in New York City battery Q) Pacific Bell in some parts of California Optional AC adapter F1218A : for Q) Western Wireless (Des Moines, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, powering and recharging Seattle, and Hawaii) Q) APC in Washington DC area Operating Requirements Q) Bell South in North and South Carolina Q) Powertellllndercell in Atlanta. Operating temp.: 0 to 40 C (32 to 104 F) Storage temp: 0 to 60 C (32 to 140 F) Data Critical's work with medical applications supports vertical market applications in Humidity: 90 % this area. Law enforcement officials have also expressed interest in the capabilities of this technol Relative humidity at 40 C (104 F) ogy which transmits both text and graphical data over phone systems. maximum. According to Data Critical, HP will not be marketing the OmniGo 700LX in the US through other channels. Software Built into ROM Pricing: $2000-$2300 depending on configuration Operating System CONTACT: Data Critical Corporation, 100 North Broadway, Suite 2200, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, USA; Microsoft Windows CE Version 1.1 Phone: 405-236-4441; Fax: 405-236-5118; E-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.datacritical.com
Applications Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Task Additional Software Included Free Accessories from Hewlett-Packard Manager, Calendar, Contacts, H/PC Explorer version 1.1 (desk HP CompactFlash Memory Calculator, World Clock, Terminal top PC software for connecting HP 2-MB & adapter for PC Card Slot application (TTY, VT-100 emula palmtop PC to PC) HP 100/ 200LX 4-MB & adapter for PC Card Slot tion), Remote Networking (for con & HP OmniGo 100/ 120 translation HP AC Adapter necting to remote access servers), software (for appointment book HP Docking Cradle (with Solitaire. and phone book), Free Trial soft enhanced model) Direct printing from HP palm ware from many software vendors PC Synchronization Cable (with top PC to HP PCL printers (from included on CD-ROM. Free bFax both models) Pocket Word and Information Pro send/receive fax software (HP HP Leather Case Manager). Inbox internet e-mail. 320LX only). Spare Pens
14 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MARCH/ APRIL 1997 You're on the move. Seconds count. You've got your HP Palmtop - but you need to stay in touch. You're dead in the water. But not with SkyTel MessengerTM for HP. Exchange brief messages with Internet mail users - wirelessly. Send and answer messages, no phones required. Nothing can slow you down.
SkyTel Messenger puts the full portability and power of your HP Pa lmtop into play. With a SkyWriter™ pager linked to your HP via the SkyTel Messenger kit, you can quickly generate messages. Incoming messages can be saved, replied to, or forwarded to other SkyTel®or e-mail users - wirelessly. When you're on the road, SkyTel Messenger keeps you cruising.
To order SkyWriter pager service and SkyTel Messenger, cal/l-800-858-4322 or visit www.skytei.com today. Then get Dutta here. SkyTeI A . Cl I997 S1cyTel Corp. Style!. SkyWnter and StyTel Messenger are registered trlldemarks or trademarks of SkyT.1 Corp. Other product names mentioned herein arl used for idenfificalion purposes only end mev be trademarks andlor reOlstered trademarb of thalf respectN& companies. Comparing the Windows CE Handheld PC to the HP Palmtop By Mark Scardina
As the new kid on the block, the each other in a software and hard ring to leave that up to each reader), Windows CE Handheld PC had the ware comparison. This article does the results are quite interesting, and I venerable HP Palmtop to use as a not take into account any third-party I believe they portend a bright future benchmark. I thought it would be software. While I do not attempt to for Windows CE and Handheld PCs. interesting to put them up against draw any overall conclusions (prefer-
Specifications Comparison
Features and Capabilities HP 200LX Typical Windows CE HPC - - Operating System DOS 5.0 and System Manager WindowsCE - -- - Included Applications I LapLink, Lotus 1-2-3, cc:Mail, PIM, Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Database, NoteTaker, WorldTime, Mail, Pocket Internet Explorer, System Macros, Pocket Quicken, Filer, PIM, Explorer, Calculator, DataComm, Stop Watch, HP Calc, World Clock Application Manager - Included Connectivity LapLink Remote and Connectivity Pack Windows CE Explorer (req.win95) Processor 80186 @ 8M Hz Risc Processor at 33-40MHz I Screen 640x200 mono or 320x200 with 480x240 with 4 levels of gray scale 4 lev els of gray scale .,--- Backlighting No Selected models -- Keyboard 80 keys inc. 8 Ap~lication Keys 61 Keys Pointing Device Non e (not req.) Can use serial Mouse I Pen .--:c-- Power 2AA batteries or AC Adapter. Can use 2 AAs, Rechargable Battery Pack, or AC rech argable AAs and internally recharge I Adapter. Can use rechargable AAs but must be externally recharged - I ------~MCIA Support I One Type II Slot One Type II Slot IR Support Seri al IR Support IrDA Support I- -- I - Printing Capability l:ri al Printer or None Seri ai-Parallel Adapter required I l>rinter Emulations Epso n FX-80, HP LaserJet, IBM ProPrinter None Supports SRAM PC Cards Yes r------'--'-- y" Supports ATA Flash Cards I Yes Yes I Supports Linear Flash Cards Yes with---:-in-c,--Iu--:d-ed-:--cd--:-riv-e-r------I------:-No I ------r------~ Supports Modem PC Cards Yes Yes Included RAM/Storage 2MB or 4MB (opt 5/6MB upgrade) 2MB or 4MB = Dimensions 1" H x 6.2" W x 3.4" D 1"Hx6.9" Wx3.7"D IWeight 11 oz. 13.4 oz Can Run DOS Programs Yes (Those not requiring x386 or No above processor) ---,----'------:--:- Can Run Windows 3.x Programs Can run Windows 3.0 or below if No Win 3.0 is installed Can Run Windows 95 Programs No No Can Run Windows CE Programs No Yes ------:------:----:-~------:~------Supports EMS Mem ~ _____Y_ e_s'--, w_ith opt_io_n_a_1D_ riv_e_r______---:- N,--o______Numeric Keypad Yes No ISound Support .SND Files and Alarms .wAV Files and Alarms
16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1997 Word Processor Comparison desktop version. It reads and as a basic word processor. Besides writes ASCII text files and a propri reading and writing ASCII text Windows CE Handheld PCs etary .PWD format that compresses files, it supports limited formatting include Pocket Word, which is a the data. Word .DOC files can be and outlining when using its pro subset of Word for Windows. It has imported and .PWD files can be prietary DOC format. This format most of the word processor func exported with a Windows utility or is not exportable to other word tions without the desktop publish HPC Explorer. processors. ing and graphics capabilities of the The HP 200LX includes Memo Features and Capabilities HP 200LX Memo Windows CE Pocket Word ----- Document Size Available Memory - 400K Available Memory Character Formatting Normal, Bold, and Underline Normal, Bold, Italics, Underline ----- ~--C----;-:-~--:---;::"'--;--;-;---;7;;---C'------< Paragraph Formatting Left Justified Left, Center, Right Justified File Type Import ASCII ASCII (Word for Windows with HPC) Explorer File Type Save As ASCII and MEMO .DOC Format ASCII, Pocket Word .PWD Format -l- Font Support Courier I Arial, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, MS ' Sans Serif, Symbol, Terminal, Times New Roman, and Wingdings ~ning ~ -,-s ___ : Yes Templates Smart Clip J No Zoom Modes 40x16, 64x18, 80x25 No --l--"N-"-o-- Undo Yes Macros Yes, System No I Graphics Support No No Search and Replace Yes Yes Multiple Files Open at One Time No Yes --l- f--- Spell Checker No No ----L _J
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THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 17 NEWS: Comparing Win-CE to the HP Palmtop PIM Comparison The HP 200LX has an Appoint include Pocket Excel, which is a ment Book application that subset of Excel for Windows. Its Windows CE Handheld PCs includes a ToDo list manager. A largest area of compatibility is with include an Information Manager separate Phone Book application the available functions, as it does that incorporates three applica handles contacts, addresses and not support macros, data, and tions: Calendar, Contacts and phone numbers. Syncing with a PC graphs. It reads and writes to a Tasks. These applications can be version is available with an option compressed .PXL format that can kept in sync with Schedule+ with al connectivity pack. be exchanged with Excel using the included HPC Explorer for HPC Explorer for Win95. Windows 95. The Tasks application Spreadsheet Comparison The HP 200LX includes a virtu can double as a project manager ally complete version of Lotus 1-2-3 due to its category function. Windows CE Handheld PCs version 2.4. Support is included for
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Features and Capabilities HP 200LX Appointment Book Windows CE Calendar Views Day, Week, Month, 6 Month Day, Week ----- ~ ~>-- Alarms Yes - Sound and Message Yes - Sound, Message, and Light t -- Appointment Types Time and Event Time and Event I Repeating Appointments Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Custom Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly I Undo Yes No r -I- Find Function Yes No 1------+------+ I Sync with PC PIMS Yes, with optional CPACK Yes with included HPC Explorer J"assword Support 1 File Level j No I
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Tasks Features and Capabilities HP 200LX ToOos Windows CE Tasks ------Priority Support Custom 1 -9, A - Z ------Notes -'-Yes Yes ----+--=--- ,Recurring -----Oaily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Custom , Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly Duration Days I Time and Days ,Views I DailyAil Daily All, Completed, Active ~ No ------Carry Forward + Yes I ,Categories I No I I Yes Find Function Yes No e -t- Alarms No e r t----'!:.es ------j Password File Level I No , ---'---- I Where there's a DoubleSlot'~ there's a way ... HPC STORAGE CARD . . py .. To run multiple PC Card products - SRAM, fax/modem, memory cards, etc. 100% compatible with To connect Type I, II and III Cards - even a Windows®CE Type II and III at the same time HPCs To externally power PCMCIA Cards - for those power hungry PCMCIA peripherals To run ATA flash cards and hard drives like the notebooks can! DoubleSlot, PCMCIA Slot Expander - reaching new heights of performance for your HP Palmtop. Add the Travel F1oppy TM to your Palmtop ... ".. ppy . PCMCIA, type II compatible For Palmtops or other DOS/Windows computers fIJistrihuwr inquiries we/come Use it to transfer files, archive, or run programs directly from disk Portable like your Palmtop - goes anywhere Uses inexpensive 1.44 Mb or nOK diskettes Envoy Data Corp Notebook Supply Warehouse (800) 368-6971 (800) 566-6832 ~it ""I'~I',,"~® 48460 Lakeview Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538-6532 MI _= _, J n: : 6'1 (510) 668-4900 FAX: (510) 668-4905 ActlonTec ElectroniCS , Inc .17702 Mitchell North , IrVine, CA 92614 T - E C ------H N 0 LOG I E 5 INC. [email protected] http://www.accurite.com Tel (714) 851 8242. FAX (714) 851 8249. Email mlkeb@acllonlec com THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 19 NEWS: Comparing Win-CE to the HP Palmtop @functions, macros, data functions, tion arithmetic with square root included for equations and custom and graphing. It reads and writes and percent. Entries are displayed functions. A converter for curren standard Lotus .WKI files and no in "paper tape" format with an cy, length, area, mass, volume, and conversion is required. on-screen keyboard available for temperature is also included. stylus input. Calculator Comparison The HP 200LX includes a E-mail Comparison sophisticated multifunction calcu Windows CE HPCs include a lator suited to a wide range of uses. Windows CE HPCs include a built-in basic Calculator designed Most types of calculations can be built-in e-mail client that interfaces primarily to provide basic 4-func- performed, and a "solver" is to standard POP3 Internet mail ser- Spreadsheet Comparison Features and Capabilities HP 200LX Lotus 1-2-3 Windows CE Pocket Excel Spreadsheet Size Available memory IAvaiiable memory -- - Macro Support Yes No -- File Type Import Lotus .wK1 , Text Files Excel .xLS with HPC Explorer I Undo No Yes I ~ ing Yes No Data Functions Yes No flJnction Support Yes Yes I Zoom Modes 64x18,80x25 No Maximum Rows and Columns 8192-- rows x 256--- columns 16384 rows x 256 columns Search and Replace Yes Yes -- Multiple Files Open at One Time No Yes --- Spreadsheet Linking Yes No ------ :SO- :so- ';-~7X ™ QUICK/LX learns the words you type most § g-=-= : §£ often, then suggests them after you type just QU~ itS § a few characters. The suggestions are -=. ~ -=. s=.. displayed in a box on the screen. You can • • ignore the suggestion and keep on typing, or mg aldfior the HP Palmtop accept it with the .press of a single key, and 1)rp QUICK/LX will finish the word. QUICK/LX can Your Palmtop Access to the World™ also be used to correct your most common Now you can have the world of electronic communi ,=:J==-II! typos!programs QUICK/LX under theworks System in cations in the palm of your hand with acCIS N and Manager and in text-mode DOS applications. QUICK/LX can CompuServe· . acCIS automatically uploads and A even be used to enter Macros downloads messages quickly. You can read Oq 4'q !l"t'-&4'~ boxt.~: ~~:r~~~~8 o~~~ t.he fluggaslian whan that work in both the System and write messages off line, saving on #qz; ~Q/A4:tb t'(/ Manager and DOS (unlike the connect charges and phone bills. acCIS is t'~ 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 vice providers. It interfaces with Data Terminal Comparison the Contact Address book in the Pricing and Contact Information Manager, providing a Windows CE HPCs include a Information centralized client list. Connections built-in basic Terminal application are via a modem and a PPP con designed primarily to log onto a Available: Mid-year, 1997 nection. Only text messages can be text-based system. No binary file sent or received at this time. transfer support is provided. There HP 300LX - $499 (est) Palmtop PC with Windows CE operating The HP 200LX includes the is also no scripting capability to system. Comes with 2 Mb of RAM, reflec mobile version of cc:Mail that inter facilitate the session. Multiple com tive display and Type II PC Card slot. faces to any dial-in connection to a munication configurations can be cc:Mail Post Office. Local and saved as icons. HP 320LX -$699 (est) Network address books are support The HP 200LX includes a basic Palmtop PC with Windows CE operating system. Comes with 4 Mb of RAM, backlit ed, as well as automatic directory communications application called DataComm. Support is included display, Type II PC Card slot and updates. Binary or text file attach CompactFlash slot, and docking cradle. ments can be sent or received. for all standard protocols, as well Internet mail access must be through as a Server mode under Kermit. A Contact: HP Dealers world wide. May also a gateway, such as the ESP basic script file function allows for be available via third party vendors. Networks. automating logons or basic comm sessions. Calculator Comparison F eatures and C apablhties HP 200LX C alculator Windows CE Calculator Arithmetic Functions Yes Yes Date Functions Yes No Time Value of Money Functions Yes No Business Functions Yes No Statistical Functions Yes No Conversion Functions Yes No Math Functions Yes No E~uation Solver Yes No Custom Functions Yes No Number Formats Fixed Decimal Scientific, Enoineerino Fixed Decimal Calculator Modes Arithmetic and RPN Arithmetic E-mail Comparison Features and Capabilities HP 200LX cc:Maii Mobile Windows CE Pocket Mail ~------,-~~~~~~~~------, IMail System ~c:Mail - a-bit binary POP3 - 7-bit ASCII File Attachments --1 Yes No Address Books Yes -- -'--Lo- c-a--'-I-a-nd--'--'-N;-e-'--tw-o-r;-k ------l- Yes - Local Address Updates --=r, Automatic Manual I Message Formatting Plain text Plain text Quoting Yes Yes -I Message Management User Assigned Folder_s______User Assigned FOlders _____~_ ____' Data Terminal Comparison Features and Ca abilities H_P_2_00L_X_D_a_t_aComm _____ Windows CE Terminal Multiple Profiles Yes Yes Terminal Emulations VT100, ANSI, TTY, Custom VT100, TTY File Transfer Protocols ____ T~ Xmodem Ymoder:!1 Zmodem and Kermit No ______Screen Capture _____Yes No Scripting Support Yes No Speeds Su orted 300 to 115K 110 to 115K Programmable Function K~ __4 -----.f'iQne______ THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 21 REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW User to User: Recent Freeware and Shareware Hal shares his first impressions of some of the new software available for the Palmtop. By Hal Goldstein I hope you have had a chance to try out some of the software from . . - . . All Phone Book Items Japan mentioned last issue. Much Name B credit and gratitude should go to ~Hutehlnson, Ken 4 Index Lega llS : Hyatt 8 H: 472- 6330 Toshiki Sasabe, NIFTYServe sysop, ~Hy l ton, Tor l 42 Ff Fax : 472-5997 NORI, their team of users, and the Hyperwrlter 4.0, Dr ~Iams, Tana C lar-enee Moor-e software authors. Many hundreds @!",I)Iiti~.'4~'~.~.~4mllfii~.i~.~L~!III~~ ~Inedlm Tanner , Sea 5 of hours were devoted to creating ~lnfoWorld 8 mostly free software and then ~Inn at Spanlsh Head 5 ~Inn on the Park 6 translating it so Westerners could Intelllnk, Kelth Cro 6 <482/1186> use it. I have only begun going through the software, but I've real ly liked what I have seen. I think A normal Phone Book screen, without using ZOOMC we could devote a whole year's issues to the uses of software from Japan, and still have plenty to write about. Index Legalis: What follows are a few of my H: 472-6330 first discoveries. An early favorite is ZOOMCii . ZOOMC, like Fax: 472-5997 Magnify from ACE, magnifies the ...... , ...... , ...... , ...... , ...... , ...... , ...... " ...... , ...... ,11 Palmtop's built-in application screens. I actually like ZOOMC bet Clarence Moore ter than Magnify. Once installed, a hot key lets you enlarge a screen, letting you see more clearly a phone number, an appointment, calculation, or other built-in appli After installing ZOOMC, when I press I!!!)-~ I get a magnified view of the DataCard cation data. Once you hit the hot key (I use ~-I Filer I) you can then toggle with the Zoom key «(~~) ~Hutchinson, Ken 4 Index Lega lis: (SPACEBAR I) between two enlarged Hyatt 8 H: 472-6330 sizes. ZOOMC acts intelligently. ~Hylton, Tori 4 Fax: 472-5997 Suppose, for example, that you Hyperwriter 4.0, Dr start ZOOMC in Phone on your ~Iams, Tana 2 Clarence Moore 200LX. The ZOOMC hot key blows I] up just the data card. Toggling Index Lega lis with the Zoom key, you can get an ~Inedim - Tanner, Sco 5 index view with the data card. o ZOOMC is very practical for poor lighting situations and for Pressing ~-Ispacebarl toggles to a different enlarged size 22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1977 , , . Detect/Plot Radioactivity Handl Gal'lel On Your HP 1 00/200 LX ...... You...... 111.1...... 1111 Complete RM 60 System: $149.50 West...... I~~ - Received frol'l East.: Nort.h...... :"!lr.-. --~~"f;..~' If ;"" East. 9 00(:/' o 0 :{~'lli\),~"''''' 2 8 9 0 0 :,.~.~---~-. Your 0 0 -.. Hand (> (> (> 00 EJ• • 1 ~ 1 1 ~ ~ ~ I Passing left. . .;Qi_ __ ~_ .:D, - , . .,£1EW --- - . . - Rob Tillotson created this version of the Hearts card game specifically for the Palmtop VISA I Me I EURO To order or/or nwre infornwtion call: (800) 729-5397 - 45 day $ back. AWARE HI-SCORE -NEXT- Electronics= 20000 ,::. 13 52 P.O. Box 4299, Wilmington DE 19807 PhonelFax: (302) 655-3800 LEVEL E-mail: [email protected] SCORE Visit us at: http://www.aw-el.com :I. 72 .': Alternatively, the software can be 1Pla'Y@r downloaded from our Thaddeus Mode. Computing web site (http://www 4 .thaddeus.com). If you need a diversion from serious work on your Palmtop, try the game 777 Shareware/freeware mentioned in this article those of us who normally require Doodle to Turkey in the Straw HEARTS.ZIP - Palmtop version of the reading glasses, (JUNKSND.LZH ii). popular card game. Sharewwe. Available One gotcha. You must be sure A fun diversion is the Tetris on this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper On to install MOREXM ii and follow like battery-draining game called Disk, or at http://www.thaddeus.com the ZOOMC instructions for the 777 ii. Numbers fall. Manipulate MOREEXM.lNI hot key file. (For them as they fall so that, if consecu ZOOMC - TSR program that lets you more information on using MORE tive ones total seven, they disap zoom the screen to larger sizes. Freeware. Available on Vol. 6, Number 1 issue of The EXM, see Quick Tips, page 54.) If pear. HP Palmtop Paper On Disk, or at you use a number of application On the game front, an http://www.thaddeus.com manager hot key EXM programs, American author created a you'll want to use MOREEXM, Palmtop version of one of my MOREEXM - Allows you to add an unlim anyway. With MOREEXM, you can favorite card games, Hearts ited number of EXM applications to the install as many EXM files as you (HEARTS.ZIP ij ). It runs well, System Manager. Freeware. Available at http://www.thaddeus.com. or on Vol. 6, wish, although even the more sophisti Number 1 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper As a child I took violin lessons. cated, registered version's oppo On Disk. I still pick it up on occasion. I have nents aren't all that bright. In the a reasonably good sense of pitch: registered version, there is a Jack of TUNE - Tool for a musician, including a but an awful sense of rhythm. Diamonds option, but as the chromatic tuner, metronome and a jazz TUNE ii helps. It provides a author, Rob Tillotson, explains, not scale trainer. Freeware. Available on Vol. 6, Number 1 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper metronome, a tuner and the capa much intelligence is built-in to try On Disk, or at http://www.thaddeus.com bility of playing major scales. ing to capture the Jack. It's still fun For music lovers who can tol to play and to try to "shoot the PLA VEX (And BACHSND6.LZH, BACH· erate the Palmtop'S limited ability moon." Hopefully, if the author SND7.LZH and JUNKSND.LZH, its sound to play tunes, there are some addi gets enough $10 registrations, he'll (.SNO) data files) - Exhances the alarm tional goodies. PLA YEX ii lets improve the quality of passing and function of the System Manager. Freeware. Available on Vol. 6, Number 1 issue of The you play sound (.snd) files that can playing. HP Palmtop Paper On Disk, or at be used as Palmtop alarms. The All 51 pieces of Japanese soft http://www.thaddeus.com Japanese have made available Bach ware that were mentioned in last classics (BACHSND6.LZHii , month's issue of The HP Palmtop 777 - Falling-objects-type game, similar to BACHSND7.LZHii), plus Japanese Paper (Vol. 6, Number 1) are avail Tetris. Freeware. Available on Vol. 6, and U.s. folk music, from Yankee able on a two-disk set for $33.00. Number 1 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper On Disk, or at http://www.thaddeus.com THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1977 23 INTERVIEW INTERVIEW INTERVIEW Interview with Paddy Ashdown, Member of Parliament The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party in the United Kingdom is interviewed Paddy Ashdown, M.P. about his use of his HP 200LX Palmtop. By Toby Lawrence It was a cold To go through the mass of Queen and all her political servants October's security, I needed to review my had made their procession in the evening when I pre-arranged contact information State Opening of Parliament. The surfaced from in APPT on my Palmtop. I thought of seeing Blackrod bang ~~)?:;·n~P.sr~~i~ the noisy Lon- announced myself to the clerk, ing on the door fired my imagina ...__ IiM .. don Under- who wore his uniform of white tion. (Blackrod is an officer with a ground and bow tie and tuxedo. I rested for a long wooden rod who summons walked into the beautiful serenity while in the Central Lobby before the Members of the House of of the Palace of Westminster, the being summoned. The ceiling of Commons.) At this point, my Mother of all Parliaments. I was this great area, in many ways, is as thoughts were halted as I was there to meet and interview The intricate and impressive as that of greeted and escorted to the offices Right Honorable Mr. Paddy the Cistene Chapel in the Vatican of Mr. Ashdown. Ashdown, M.P. - Leader of the in Rome. On the seat next to me, a On our way to the quieter and Liberal Democratic Party about his famous Lord was quietly talking more secluded parts of Westmin love and usage of the HP 200LX with his visitor. I had seen this gen ster's offices, we walked past the Palmtop. tleman on a news and current Defense Secretary and the The Liberal Democrats are the affairs program the week before. Education Secretary. They were third largest political party in the To my left I saw a member of the busy making their own ways from U.K. They hold the center area in opposition party saying goodbye to the day's session in the House of political terms. As the leader of this a colleague. Behind him was the Commons to their next meetings. party, Paddy Ashdown appears in grand entrance to the chambers After a quick coffee (in a cup the press and TV on a daily basis where the daily cut and thrust of emblazoned with the golden and can be seen doing battle political action takes place. This is Parliamentary seal) Paddy worldwide most Tuesdays and where, only two days before, the Ashdown and I sat down for our Thursdays in Prime Minister's Question Time with John Major. Mr. Ashdown is now at the ABOUT THE AUTHOR height of his political career and Toby Lawrence is a native Yorkshireman now living on the outskirts of apart from being a very active politi London, England. Toby has two businesses, a transport and express deliv cian he is also a former Royal ery service, and a property development and leasing business. He uses his Marine Officer. He lives in his con 200LX as his main computer, with occasional backup from his desktop. Toby stituency town of Yeoville in the is also studying for his Accountancy exams, for which his Palmtop is an Southwest of England with his wife. invaluable aid. 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 Palmtop for a long time and what I was ideally wanting was an MS DOS-based palmtop. I started out with a Psion, but since it couldn't run DOS programs as well, it was n ' t what I wanted. When HP brought out the 200LX I bought one straight away, so I must have had one of the first few in this country. Q: Tell me about your own use of the built-in software. A: Although they can give a big advantage, I don't, on the whole, use the built-in software apart from occasional use of FILER and MEMO. The software that I do run are all DOS-based versions of the programs we use here in the office - which gives me a portable mir ror of the office and allows quick Paddy Ashdown, M.P., holding his Palmtop. and easy compatibility. I keep all of The author, Toby Lawrence, is on the left. these applications on my A: drive. (A test fire alarm starts to interview. Although I had pre be two and half years now. I had sound and after a few moments pared the questions that I wanted been interested in getting myself a Paddy dispatches his Personal to ask him on my Palmtop, I had decided to print them out so that my colleague could take shorthand notes in case the Dictaphone stopped working half way through. I quickly noticed that his 200LX sat faithfully by his side. The Palmtop is his only computer and he uses it faithfully for his whole personal and political life. Mr. Ashdown is a great believ er in the on-line future, and has battled for the information super highway in Britain to be taken for IDtimate Palmtop Computer Light™ ward by leaps and bounds. His' Ends Non-backlit Screen Visibility Problems office computers consist of a faith • Allows productive use of time in dim planes, trains, autos, hotels & mtg. rooms ful bank of ICL 486 desktops which • Evenly illuminates display, keyboard and work area without disturbing others have been crafted to work in the • Top-quality, patented design for any PDAIPocket Organizerlhandheld video game most efficient way for the needs of his office. His staff all use the same • Sleek, compact, lightweight e-mail system which allows quick • Essential tool for mobile professionals transfer of messages as well as pro • Includes soft travel case, (6" x 2-3/16" x 1"), DC Vehicle Adapter w. bi-Io dimmer tecting data integrity for when a + four spare bulbs -- clear & red (for night use) more secure environment is • Uses AA batteries (not included) required. • 30-day, money-back guarantee • Only $29.95 for PCL 300 ($24.95 for PCL 200 wlo DC Vehicle Adapter) Q: How long have you had your + $4 USA shipping/handling To Order, Call: AmexiMCNisa ~ ~ ~ ASF Assoc Ltd • The Personal Portable Llghllng Experts Palmtop? Box 625 Merrick NY 11566 A: I had a lOOLX first - so it must 800 _ 771 _ 3600 Volume Pricing Availab le Fax 800·625·6897' 516·868·6897 http://world.std.com/-asfl Phone 800·9363638' 516·868 3638 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 25 INTERVIEW: Ashdown, M.P. machines here. I also use SUPER ELECT) which allows me to look CALC as my spreadsheet. up election results in every con stituency of the country and apply Q: Do you use any political soft this to a new model. There is also a ware? French translator and dictionary that I use, as well as the map read A: I have got EARS. This is my ing program with all the maps for party's political election fighting England and France. (He has a nat Big Ben and the Houses of program. This contains every sin ural love for France, and holidays Parliament gle address in my constituency - there frequently at his small cot which as you can imagine runs to tage.) Assistant to see if the "Wailing several thousand. In fact there are Cow" noise is not an IRA attack about 85,000 records in that data Q: Is that the AutoRoute program warning instead.) base! from Nextbase, now Microsoft? I Q: What third-party software do Q: You must be using a large flash A: Yes it is. I also use a pop-up TSR you use? card, programme called SK (SIDEKICK). In addition to that I have PKZIP iHI A: I have written my own batch A: It is 20MB doubled to 40MB (he and PKUNZIP iHI which I use with operated menu system to front-end proudly flicks out the card to a UUENCODE and UUDECODE my A: drive programs. My data reveal an ACE Doubleflash card), utility. This allows me to send and application (BUSYPOST) is an receive data and files via e-mail. address-based database with a Q: Do you use Stacker to double For mobile use this is invaluable crude word processor. I mainly use your card? when LapLink is out of the ques it for looking up addresses and tion. Additionally, I use an offline contact information. I rarely use A: Yes. I can use a 40MB card and reader (DOS) for CIX which is the word processor part. This pro double that to 80MB. I have also called MATRIX. (CIX, pronounced gram is also in use on the office got another election program (UK "kicks", is a UK-based conferenc ing system, a smaller version of CompuServe.) I have two fax pro grams. One of these is called ACE o & A Software, Inc. FAX and the other is TSFAX. So, I have got something like 15 or so The Leaders in HP Palmtop Software Development programs or utilities on the Our commercial products include: Palmtop and quite literally it is never out of my possession. • WWW/LX - A Palmtop Web Browser • ABC/LX - Advanced Battery Charging program Q: Your Palmtop has had a lot of • VOLT/LX - Battery Monitoring program use, Have you broken it or needed • More exciting programs coming in 1997! to replace it ever? (I noticed that 'mw;'*2#"6'"'·ki",,,,+,I;I_,<'* Paddy does not use a case.) A: No. It is the only one I have ever had. I replaced the 100LX with the 200LX. Some people have trouble with their hinges, but I never have. I think the Palmtops are beautifully NEW! 11.111(111('1(11'( ~ld' Mill(' O'JIIf'.[! engineered and I think HP has _~"""_"""EmI:._~ImlmImI~ done a wonderful job. These Palmtops are very good. I have WWW/LX Visits the HP Palmtop Paper Online never had any trouble. It is sturdily Contact 0 & A Software to develop and market your vertical application program. built and I throw it around with & A Software, Inc. no problem. It uses rechargeable o batteries, although I always carry a 920 Hampshire Road, Suite A spare set or ordinary batteries if I Westlake Village, CA 91361 am away from my charger. Being Telephone: 805-370-1088 online runs the batteries down E-mail: [email protected] quite fast, but otherwise it lasts 3 or http://www.dasoft.com 4 days on a charge. 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 Q: What about your foreign use? A: When I go to Sarajevo, and I • have been 10 times through the siege, I step back from the centre of the city and find whatever phone contact I can find. For these trips I will take a set of Duracell batteries. TAKE CHARGE Q: Do you use GSM for faxing and Of All Your Communications e-mail? (GSM is a digital cellular With A Single Wireless Service. service.) ZAP-ITTM wrreless service clears away the communication A: No, just straight connection clutter. Now one wireless service handles all your with a card and plug, although I communication needs. Whether messages originate am getting GSM. My Personal as e-mail, faxes, or phone messages, you can receive Assistant is dealing with HP at the and respond wirelessly using your laptop, palmtop, or PDA. Now there's no need to dial in for e-mail moment about the 700LX commu or call the office for phone messages and faxes. nicator and she is hopeful to have a Get 24-hour access to all your communications trial version by the end of the with one wireless solution. week. I think it is the same size. Have you seen one? For more information or the name of a participating retail store call Q: Yes, it is almost the same size 1-888-2-GET-DTS but a little deeper and a little longer - plus the phone of course. It saves you needing to swap cards, I though, which is a big advantage. DTS Wireless, 10 Woodbridge Center Drive, Woodbridge, NJ 07095 It has its own built-in card for E-mail: [email protected] • Web site: www.dtswireless.com telecommunications. A: Really. I didn't know that. (He Q: They have managed it, but with office desktops. The big thing I like smiles and gives an excited and very low success rates. I don't about the Palmtop is that it's MS expectant look about the possibili think they want to offer a general DOS-compatible. That way I can ties this new machine can offer.) solution yet. There are Palmtop take all my stuff with me from the But you can still use it with a land lights as the alternative. office. I would like to have a line as well, can you? Windows version, though. A: I WANT ONE! I WANT ONE! Q: Yes, I can't see why not. (He shouts this exci tedl y, then Q: Watch this space. A new laughs.) Windows-based system for A: The real advantage to the Palmtops is being developed. Do Palmtop is that I can hold it in my Q: I shall e-mail some information you use your 200LX as your prima hand. I can draft speeches and then to you. ry or secondary computer? correct them on plane trips. That is' a huge advantage. I have a small A: Good. These Palmtops are just A: I don't use a desktop. (He leaves vision problem in my right eye and so useful. The amazing thing to me desktop usage to his staff.) When I because the display can be a bit is that I haven't seen more of them go to France, I take the LX and use small, I use the ZOOM feature around. You may have seen it, it continually for four weeks to quite a lot. The one thing I could when I waved the Palmtop around draft my conference speech. (He really do with, although I know it during my annual conference has a small cottage in France and is not possible, is to have a backlit speech (on national live TV) when I speaks French very well.) As a screen. pronounced that I could connect to result I have become quite profi the whole world with it . People cient in using it. I am only a single Q: The Japanese have done it. wrote to me and asked, "Why use finger-per-hand typist. If I tried to that particular Palmtop?" Well, the use five it would be impossible. A: Really. (He smiles an even big answer is simple. The HP Palmtop But I simply don't need any other ger smile.) So I can send them my does what I want it to do. I can run computer other than the Palmtop. Palmtop for modification? the same programs that are on the Often I will type something up and THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1997 27 "All I!almtop users would "The contents of the CO "The CO Inf08ase is the ideal benefit from having are great!" reference source .... 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Save $20 off already low upgrade price: $79.95 after 8-31-97. 2. Over 200 Megabytes of new stuff: Over 2,300 new files. 3. New! MicroRef DOS & Lotus Manuals: Fully indexed. 4. Over 350 New Gutenberg e-text files: Years of great reading. 5. Special Bonus Offer! Up to $33 value... FREE! (see list, right) INTERVIEW: Ashdown, M.P. and I use those quite a lot. I some times use Memo and occasionally The MagicRAM Flash Storage Solution use Notetaker. ApptBook I only use if I want access to a diary. HP Calc I almost never use. When I .... 100% Plug & Play need a calculator I use the one in .... Low cost, high capacity storage my pop-up (TSR) program (SK) . .... No batteri es required Pocket Quicken I never use . .... Super low powe r usage for longer palmtop battery life PHONE I don't use because I have .... High performance solid state technology got my own. DataComm and .... Fully compatible with HP Palmtops, digital cameras, Windows CE Database I never use. There are Handheld PC's and other PCMCIA based computers also games in here - a Hearts and Bones and a Squid thing which I .... Withstands IOOOG of shock don't use . .... 2MB to 64MB un compressed I .... Lifetime warranty Q: What about connectivity? 2MB Turbo Flash Card $109.00 4MB Turbo Flash Card $129.00 Distributor and A: I do everything on LapLink. I 8MB Turbo Flash Card $ 169.00 have got the connectivity software 12MB Turbo Flash Card $209.00 Dealer Inquiries program on one of the machines in 16MB Turbo Flash Card $259.00 the office here. That way I can have 20MB Turbo Flash Card $299.00 Welcome my programs and data down 40MB Turbo Flash Card $499.00 loaded - it's dead easy. (Paddy's 64MB Turbo Flash Card $799.00 Personal Assistant reminds him To Order Call: 1·800·272·6242 that for just a small file he prefers to transfer using e-mail, PKUNZIP IX50 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057 USA Tel: 213-413-9999 Fax: 213-413-0X2X and UUDECODE) Yes, for that I e-mail: [email protected] will stick in the e-mail and pick up Internet: http://www.magicram.com the file that way. MagicRAM i ~ a tradclIlOln... of MagicRAM. Inc.:. Q: So you find e-mail more useful then e-mail it to the office. They for some file transfers? will format it into a document and A: Yes. I went to give a lecture and then spell check it and so on. So I a review of his book at the Hay on A: Yes, sure. If I want to make do the raw stuff on the Palmtop Wye book festival. He was there backup then I will use the connec and then the office finishes it off. and we both sat beside each other tivity software, but I hardly ever This is MY computer, my only one. on the stage and I interviewed him. use that. We both found ourselves working Q: Who else in the House of on our HP's . Q: When connecting online you use Commons uses a Palmtop? a fax modem card. Would Q: What for you is lacking from GSM/wireless use be a step for A: I am, as far as I know, the only the built-in applications? ward for you? one in the House of Commons who uses one. (He double checks with A: Everything in this office is done A: Yes, oh yes. The two things that his Personal Assistant - neither using our own office programs and I would really like, that would can think of anyone else). Mike as such I use those pretty much make my life so much easier, German, who is not an M.P. but exclusively. Indeed, if I could use would be (1) to get a GSM phone forms part of the Welsh Liberal one of the built-in programs I that would work with the Palmtop, Democrats Executive, has got one. would do so. Take cc: MAIL, for and (2) to get infrared connectivity The only other person who I know example. I don't know if that is so that I can communicate more who has one is General Sir Peter De possible here. Can you use cc: Mail effectively with the office comput La Billiere. He used his when I in this country? I go in and out of ers here. They don't have that went to review his book. I found System Manager just for fun. I liter capability, unfortunately, at the him working on it. (Paddy laughs.) ally never use the built-in pro moment. grams. I use Setup to change bat Q: Is that the General who was tery types, and Filer I use a lot. Q: So you will be shopping for posted as NATO Commander in System Macros I also use a lot; I some of the infrared "JetEyes" Chief in the Gulf War? use my own System Macros Setup, soon. 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 do not have the time for that. Palmtop, which he eased into his pocket. It is his faithful companion Q: Is UK Elect the election-model which goes with him everywhere ing program? to help meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. A: Yes, yes it is. I have got that. I returned home to transcribe the interview - you guessed it - Q: Do you ever use the Palmtop on my Palmtop using MEMO. I inside the House of Commons? quickly found the textual informa tion on lights for the Palmtop that A: I think I am the only person who Paddy wanted from me and e has used a computer inside the mailed it to him. A couple of days House of Commons. The Speaker later I learnt that he had a long (of the House of Commons) can't shopping list of Palmtop acces decide whether it is illegal or not. sories. If you see him on TV brows (He laughs) You are allowed to ing his Palmtop - it may be infor read (parliamentary) papers, but mation from the new PTP home not newspapers. Sometimes, page that he is reading, or the PTP though, when a Member of on disk. Parliament is speaking and I think, "Gosh, I can't remember who that (The Liberal Democrats may be visited is," and I want to know his name at any time on the Internet. Their web or his constituency, I look it up in site can be found at http://www.lib UK Elect. It will tell me, for exam dems .org.uk/ ) ple, about his voting majority in the last election, and then I can tease him about losing his seat next Shareware/freeware time round. mentioned in this article Q: Do you have to switch off the PKZIP and PKUNZIP File compression noise or alarms when you are in and decompression programs. Freeware. A: Do they allow desktops to do the House? Available on the 1977 HP Palmtop Paper infrared? CD InfoBase, and on CompuServe, A: No. It only beeps quietly, but HPHANO/1 . Q:Yes. there is so much noise in The House that you wouldn't hear it A: (He smiles deeply and looks to anyway. his Personal Assistant with a happy look.) We will need to look Q: What are the best and worst if our budgets have the ability to features, for you, of the 200LX? buy some of those. It would be Project: Vision extremely useful to have one of A: Best, definitely its size. It makes those. (He looks contented at the, it so portable and useful. Worst, Gives You thought.) It will save me the trou the size again. The size of the ble of cables and everything. screen and sometimes bad light. Planning In Your Palm For $99 Otherwise, I have got no com For HP 100/200 and DOS based PC's Q: Do you use the Palmtop as lit plaints. Features Include: Free Demo Pc . tle as possible, or do you look for Out of his sandstone windows , One Hour Learning Curve Disk , Uses 300K with Max file size from 80K to lMEG. added use? I could see the towering majesty of Big Ben illuminated against the , Logic Networks, Ttmelines, Resource Histograms , Critical Path, Milestones, Variable Zoom A: I use shareware from time to dark winter's sky showing me that , Mouse and keyboard time. MATRIX I originally got as time was almost up. The bell start 'NEW! toMS shareware. The UK Elect program ed to chime. Paddy automatically is shareware. By and large, though, rose and put on his jacket. The I am quite settled and satisfied work of a politician is never over, with the programs that I have got. and his presence elsewhere was If I was a huge enthusiast I would already required. We said our be able to find more - but I simply goodbyes and shook hands. He left the room after picking up his THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MARCH/ APRIL 1997 31 W TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE Managing Construction Projects Wirelessly with the HP Palmtop The company president and employees of a multi-million dollar construction company keep on top of their business using modems and RadioMail, along with built-in applications on the Palmtop. By Randy Palumbo Although it doesn't run windows, the HP Palmtop is a veritable Swiss Army Knife of computing power. Brilliantly engineered and well integrated built-in applications cover more tasks more portably than anything else around. In the late 1980s, computers revolutionized the way I worked and I suspected that when they left the desktop and came into the field, my effectiveness would again improve dramatically. I tried out several laptops that are all since retired. Mostly I used them to print fancy customized reports (from ACT!, Organizer or Packrat), that I then folded up and At 3-D construction, most employees carry their Palmtops to all work sites. They communicate jammed into my pocket. Entering with the office, clients, vendors, architects, and subcontractors using e-mail and modems. Palmtop users in photograph (left to right) are Randy Polumbo, Harry Caswell, David my notes into the computer from Schuiteman, and Leoncio Torres one of these coffee stained and Motorola flip phone, and a PCM time and worry from my day. dog-eared parcels was not a task I CIA modem. Some people com Here are some of the specific looked forward to at the end of the mented on the primitive nature of applications I have found most day. Waiting five minutes for all the output, but I was faxing meet worthwhile. By far the most the software to load was not an ing notes and uploading files from rewarding feature is how well all option in my fast-paced work envi taxi cabs and street corners my sec the built-in applications exchange ronment, nor was lugging an extra ond week. The accelerated pace of information and work together. bag full of expensive equipment communication, coupled with Particularly when automated with that would be gone in a New York improved accuracy carved some macros, this is a powerful set-up. minute if I turned my back. I started reading the HPHAND Forum on CompuServe and this ABOUT THE AUTHOR convinced me to order an HP 200LX and give it a shot. Randy Polumbo is President of 3-D Construction, Inc., based in New York City. His company focuses on high-quality residential We should hold an official and commercial projects. Randy studied pamtin~ and sculpture office holiday to commemorate the initially and started his working career with distmctive mill and metalwork, the building of models, as well as fine art commis day my briefcase became a rubber sions. Randy's e-mail addressis:[email protected] banded collection of a 200LX, a 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 Descr.ipt.ion TechRAM™ St.art. Qat.e Dye Dat.e o ~arry Forward 4MB Upgrade ~riorit.y i'f Repeat. St.at.us: None Attention 200LX users you can Not.e r i:;::;;:;;;.;;;t:i~~t:;;';;;;::;b;;;t:it:;::;t:;;'t:;;ii;;.t: increase your internal RAM to a total iRadiat.or cover cust.o~ brass grill i Pri~e and paint. st.eel lint.els @ windows of 5MBs. Some newer machines can iWat.erproof at. peri~et.er areas needing ext.ra i (radiat.or cover. under t.ub) actually achieve 6MBs. iClean and po 1 ish. t.ouch uP paint...... Free up the PCMCIA slot for M:AIW-jGGM_ttiJCW-um- .".'.leoms '84Ug'. 1+6111;4_ I. modem or other use! 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Iij·....i1i ·.iiii.... ·iiii··· iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ...... ~ Web: hnp://www.bhm.tis.net/-mack Phone: 20S-62()'140B Fax: 20S-62()'5205 Screen 2: The "punch list" is the dreaded document that we prepare containing all the small European dealer Runde! Datentechnik details that must be produced to high standards by many trades at a rapid clip in the last week Asian dealer Times2 AsiaPac Technologies of a project to get to 100% completion. The list grows, but I never loose a on a desktop PC or a Palmtop, he todo. or she has this information in a file Staying on top of Some of my todos require that they can print out, edit, or pass appointments and todos detailed explanations or attached along in seconds. notes. (Screen 1) I press I!!I (Note) I use Appointment Book to stay on and add up to 30 screens of addi top of a large number of appoint tional information to each todo. I E-mail for quick communication ments and an even larger list of can later save the note as a text file todos. If I have to change an and open it on a word processor. My company used to run a simple appointment, which I often do, it's Better still, I can cut and paste the computer bulletin board on our easy to cut and paste it to a new todo information to CC:MAIL, company network, with menus and time and day. The best thing about Mobile or RadioMail and e-mail or file areas for uploading and down Appointment Book is that the fax it to the office staff to finish up loading information. We now use Palmtop fits in my pocket. I have' and send. For example, I will e cc:Mail solely because it is more run six different organizers or mail the "punch list" (an official scheduling packages on my expen document detailing work to be "carpenter-friendly," as well as sive laptop and office computers done; see Screen 2) to my produc extremely robust and reliable. It for years, but I'm never anywhere tion and office staff while sending lets us attach files to messages, pro near them when the alarm goes off. a copy to the architect, home viding an extra level of security. When the alarm goes off on my owner, or subcontractors by fax or We use a single modem on our Palmtop, I actually hear it. e-mail, all in a single efficient oper office network post office and a The Palmtop feature used the ation. program called Router (part of CC: most at our firm is the Appoint Now that I'm getting better at Mail for our local area network) to ment Book's To Do list. I enter delegating, this is one of my exchange e-mail daily with our todos, tag them by priority, and favorite uses of the Palmtop. It pro lead carpenters and project man deadline, and mark the carry for vides a record of what was sent, agers. They call in twice a day, or ward box so they continue into who it was sent to, and when it when they know that we have eternity or until I check them off. was sent. Whether the recipient is something for them to download. THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 33 HOW TO USE: MANAGING PROJECTS Phone Book. In the Note field I cre l.mM1;Ri¥i-P"]~"ot...... _...... D.at.d ate a historical record of my con ,Na",e - .i..John...... Doe Business versations and meetings with the ~lt.ern. contact (using the date stamp). C ol"l12.any I use macros to paste addresses ddress.l ~it.y iNew and phone numbers into my e-mail ~e~a i f ····I§·~·~·:~:~·:§·:I·:~I :·:·:·:·~:·~~f::~·:~·I:~:?,~:~ :::J bas L ' or fax messages. This saves a lot of Act.ion iInquire ~ ""' ~ , ~" ~,~E ",,, !? ,~E ,,! .Int.e looking up and hunting around for - Dat.e i'i':f'7':':"ta'!,,='ta'4 ! Last. Act.ivit.y Nol.e r ·cff ·s ·c ·Ll·s ·s ·e"d······~ ·co:pai · n ·g .. ·.. ·c ·L'·s ·[ ·o~ furni'lure 1 ine ~ wanl.s t.a design information. icust.ol"l hardware La l'1at.ch, we produce + engineer •..... We use a basic Phone Book for ~~~~~~~_IlEImlU~ vendors, subcontractors and clients. A separate Phone Book tracks sales and prospects. We use Screen 3: The individual Data Item screen for our modified Phone Book. I tend to leave Phone the Notes field to record discus Book open in this screen and search by keyword on name to move to another contact. sions concerning unit prices and ,bids, and transfer that information They use the Megahertz XJ ACK Modifying Phone Book to a separate estimates database. card in their Palmtop to download as a contact manager Phone Book data can be their e-mail quickly. exported and merged with a num My production manager and I The built-in Phone Book applica ber of desktop contact managers, receive e-mail on a more continu tion is nothing more than a basic, like ACT! We tried this for awhile, ous basis. In our case, our mes searchable database. As is, it's but determined that except for a sages are more time-sensi ti ve. good for maintaining simple con couple of people who never leave Because of this, we use the tact information. Our needs were the office, it was handier and faster greater, so we loaded the Phone RadioMail service to send and to get everyone a Palmtop. They Book file into the Database applica receive e-mail. It costs more than never have to boot up a desktop tion and added some extra fields to PC, load Windows and start a sep paging or linking up to the home make it more like ACT! (See Screen office with a PC Card modem, but arate contact manager application. 3.) I can now keep massive notes This makes looking up contact it is infinitely more useful. on each person or record in the RadioMail offers nationwide cover information a twenty-second oper- age as part of the basic package, with no roaming charges. We get I - • I All Dat.abase It.e",s . ~ ~ . our phone messages, budget I ProJect. I When? I Dat.e call Act.ion I Prl BidS I Cont.act. I ~ Forst.en 96-08- 05 96- 06-13 see plan 1 125000 Ji", Avon ./ reports, change orders, etc., in min I>Garvin 96- 03-01 96-10-01 t.alk woo 1 14500 Will ./ I>Gi lbert. 96-08-12 96- 02-22 go see t. 1 69090 Bill Calver ./ utes. We can get e-mail from I>Ginsberg 96- 12-19 96- 11 - 19 follow 1 350000 Bill clients, vendors and subcontractors Gold Misc. 96- 03- 27 96 - 03- 24 Follow 1 2556 Brenda ./ I> Go",ez 97-01-10 96- 09- 21 follow 1 63500 Juan l'1ont.oy wherever we are. Instead of getting 5>Grace Resi 96- 04-07 96-02- 21 budget. 1 150000 Sarah Cohen ./ a beep on a pager, calling back and G1Grul'11"ta.n Re 96-04-30 96-04-30 rel"lind, 1 78250 Walt.er G ./ Ii'Anms ... --i.,'~I:w~G.Pj ..-w:I:OPjIC·I#·:mI'·LA 4·4=JPj'Pj ....n··· d;¥J¥$'Wj I>Harvey 96 04 25 96 04 10 budget. 1 275000 Bob Pine ./ waiting for the person to answer, I>Hillberg f 96 - 03- 21 96 - 02-23 Follow u 1 185000 Wilbur Har", we just e-mail a response and get . on with business. This approach provides a Screen 4: List view of the leads database. Select an item and press I ENTER I to display the full record of all communications. I can screen view of an item. Then it is simple to check the status and take meeting notes and send a copy to all those involved in one shot. The CC: field (Carbon Copy) shows who else is in the loop on a mes '·c'·ce·::::·.. ······'"",,; eli en t. sage. The BCC: field (Blind Carbon " " ,, ~ :::~: ,:', ::,;, , :~' =" :'i0,, 0 ':" .' o' " '··''' '··''· · ' ''''··'''"'~! IZI Fil';; ...... Phone Copy) lets you address a message to a party, but not have the name t. i on i #~XI~~; .. E~Y~~~id~i~~~ ~ I~~:$~~ :~~~ :gr 8:~E=; i d ts(~~ad show up on other recipients mes Prevo cont.act. Bid In r f9!:f6 : ilf3 :" :~!"i3 : (~Out. bid @ Alive sages. PrevJeferral Bi.dS :'.l. .:?'~ '~~ ''''': '''' ' '': 0 Budget. 0 Job Hi st.or y !PL'sl1edEoge£re£a:Ined' :;:';;eeEonJo'b£o 'se££Tefina:l ' A separate modem server !place",ent.s 12: 06 P'" 96- 06-08 fri ! exchanges our Internet mail .:::r.DlIIIi·.. ,titi ... iiij.·m.· ··iiiiiI:!DIIi.jitjSiW.lm._··· jCijijiiiilj ••il;lj'. (RadioMail goes in and out over the Internet) by calling our DDCP Screen 5: Individual item view of the leads database. This shows how we track prospective dial up account with our Internet clients at different stages: Lead (brand new), Bid, (has received proposal), Alive ,Dead, etc. service provider. These items are sorted by priority. 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 in simultaneous windows. This is Marketing Report really the only other computer that 22 has attracted my attention in a cou 20 1.8 ple of years, so the new Windows -;; 1.6 ~ 1.4 CE handhelds will have to either • 1.2 ~ 1.0 beat that or my 200LX will have to '~. 8 E 6 be pried from my cold, dead fin ~ 4 2 gers. 0 201.78624 The field crew has really ~bids inspired me in their quick grasp of the handheld technology and the increased responsibility and effi ciency it affords them. I can see we Screen 6: Macro pastes current bids from leads database and pastes them into Lotus, This screen shows a graph of how many bids are dead, alive, or actual jobs. are at the beginning of developing a project management system that ation, instead of a five-minute one. and plan accordingly. We tend to always meets our high company Screen 3 shows the individual Data be awarded commercial contracts standards. The Palmtops have Item screen for our modified Phone in the summer and have a steady helped us implement a "Mobile Book (loaded in the Database diet of residential work all year. Manager" model that we can repli application). You can space the Both have different cash flow, cate anywhere with repeatable and fields over four screens, but I like staffing and equipment needs. This excellent results. This is allowing to jam everything into one screen. modest tool lets me spot deviations us to expand and work on projects It is more immediate and looking from the norm as well as take an out-of-town, starting this year. up information is faster. overall snapshot that is easy to My gratitude goes to HP, the compare to other years by chang many CompuServe Forum post ing subsets. Our office staff is mov ings and The HP Palmtop Paper arti Separate Database tracks leads ing more into desktop ACT! lately cles - many of my ideas for imple and their orphaned Palmtops get menting the Palmtop in business We created a separate database to placed with lead carpenters or in were cribbed from these sources. track our leads. Screen 4 shows the some recent cases with architects list view of our leads database. The and designers. With the five next screen shows a detailed minute learning curve of cc:MAIL, Products record. We used check boxes for it is worth it for us to give these out mentioned in this article status of lead, such as Lead (brand to our colleagues at other firms new) and In Bid, (we have submit particularly in the cases where they CC: Mail for the desktop --- $Varies. ted a proposal). We also use check have no e-mail capability in house. Lotus Development corporation, 400 boxes to indicate if a lead is Dead A few are looking into developing Riverpark Dr., N. Reading, MA 01864; USA; Phone: 800-343-5414 or 617-577-8500; (not to be pursued), Alive (active) a similar setup for their projects, so Fax: 617-693-3899 or Job (we have been given the job). we give a lot of nickel tours of our I sort and resort the files according headquarters and help with hard RadioMail --- $Varies CONTACT: to my needs, such as sorting them ware and software specification RadioMail, 2600 Campus Dr., Suite 175, by priority to help organize our and installation. San Mateo, CA 94403, USA; Phone: 800- time effectively. 597 -6245 Dept. NT3; Fax: 415-286-7805; It is possible to create a multi E-mail: [email protected]; W.w.w: http: field Smart Clip to paste different ' From my cold, dead fingers . ... www.radiomail.net arrangements of data into Memo, Lotus spreadsheets, or other appli On our desktop and laptop com Magahertz XJack modem card: The cations. My most useful macro puters we have started to use CAD Megahertz 14.4K Fax/modem with Xjack selects current bids and pastes and full-featured project manage provides a pop-out telephone connection on them into a Lotus spreadsheet that ment programs on more of our the card. These are no longer manufactur displays in dollars a graph of how projects. Both are exciting tools to ered but you may be able to find them, many bids are dead, alive, or actual have at your fingertips, but I do not used, if you shop around, jobs. (See Screen 6.) see these or the new Windows CE I use the same approach to dis units displacing our use of ACT! Contact Management software. play graphs of the characteristics of Palmtops anytime soon however. Symmantec Corp., 10201 Torre Ave., our residential and commercial My other computer is an RDI Cupertina, CA, 95014, USA; Phone: 800- clients. This is a powerful tool that portable SPARC workstation that 441-7234 or 415-253-9600; Fax: 541-984- helps us determine marketing pri cheerfully renders huge CAD files 8020; Internet: http:\\www.symantec.com orities. We can tell in a minute while running eight other packages where our sales are for any period THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 35 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP The HP Palmtop: A Corporate Solution The HP Palmtop is the ideal Network Computer for corporate use in mobile computing applications. By David Shier and Carl Merkle Not too long ago, the Internet was thus privacy of the information is gets 80% of its revenues from sales barely visible to the general public an imporant issue. of its server software to corpora and was growing at an increasing "Intranets" were developed to tions for intranets. pace as a tool to connect educators, address the privacy issue. Intranets In addition to privacy, researchers and government orga are private networks, based on intranets offer considerable savings nizations. In 1994, a newly com Internet standards, which use the over the client/ server networks mercialized Internet exploded, same technology as the Internet used today. According to the coinciding with the release of the (Le., use the same web browsers to Gartner Group, a consulting firm, Netscape Navigator browser (a read HTML documents, use linked costs per station in client/ server popular Internet browser). By mid documents, e-mail, chat groups, environments can be as high as year 1996, Netscape's browser had etc.). While the Internet growth is $13,000 a year. Client/ server reached an installed base of 40 mil huge, the intranet market is grow upgrades require hardware that is lion users, passing Microsoft's ing at five times the rate of the expensive, and in large corpora Word, Excel, and Office to become Internet. In fact, Netscape Corp tions, managing distribution of the world's most popular applica tion - ever. The popularization of the Internet may be the single most ABOUT THE AUTHOR important technological develop David Shier is a former software engineer and ment in decades. marketing/sales director in the electronics industry. He is now President of Shier Systems & Software, Inc., and a principal in D&A Software, Inc. Together these companies Intranets develop and market products and applications for the Palmtop computer market. David can be reached at: Phone: The types of things that are done 805-371-9391; Fax: 805-371-9454; E-mail: [email protected]; on the Internet are useful to private Web site: http://www.shier.com companies and large organizations for facilitating communication, dis ABOUT THE AUTHOR tributing information, and coordi Carl Merkle isthe Director of Corporate Projects for Shier nating projects - locally and Systems and Software, Inc. and is responsible for managing worldwide. However, a problem delivery of ultra-mobile computing and communications busi ness solutions to corporate accounts. A CPA by background, pre for private companies is that the viously he was a senior manager with Ernst & Young, LLP. Carl Internet is open to the public - to lives in Irvine, California, with his wife and three children, anyone who has an account with where the use of the HP Palmtop is woven into the fabric of their daily activities. E-mail: [email protected]. 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Intranets by contrast are just a lot ing firewalls, firefences, passwords, Internet graphics slow things down cheaper. encryption, and so on. considerably. It doesn't have to be Corporations use intra nets to While graphics are popular on a desktop or notebook computer. publish manuals and procedures; the Internet, the bandwidth to sup All it has to be is there when you develop products and services port extensive graphics use is still need it. through the use of groupware; per not widely available and economi The recent introduction of the form group document review; pub cal. The most productive uses of Palmtop web browser software lish catalogs and parts lists; publish the Internet and intra nets involve WWW / LX makes the HP Palmtop human resour- an excellent ces and job in choice as a formation; and "While the Internet growth is huge, Network write and re- Computer. ceive e-mail. the intranet market is growing at WWW/LX is Basically, any a text-based type of infor five times the rate of the Internet." online web mation distrib browser that ution to a displays text group, which remains of value for text-based content, text-based in a formatted fashion (i.e. bold, some time, or needs to be frequent research and applications such as italics) and can display graphics. It ly updated but not distributed by e-mail. can also be used to fill in forms. e-mail, is a candidate for an Web page forms on the palmtop intranet application. Also, utilizing The HP Palmtop - overlooked PC can be filled in with the assis- forms on intranet pages turns the Network Computer? tance of pull-down lists, check intranet into a data gathering tool. boxes, and radio buttons. Early Intranet advantages over The growth of the intranet is the comments by new users indicate paper-based systems and client driving force behind the develop that they are very happy with the server systems include: ment of a new type of computer incredibly fast speed with which it the Network Computer. The browses the web using modems at Disintermediation - Network Computer is a simpler 9600 to 14.4 kbps. European users The removal of many people in the and less expensive computer that of the 700LX are getting the same middle, especially in the distribu connects to the Internet or compa snappy performance browsing the tion of information (if structured as ny intra net and relies on it to pro web using wireless telephones. on the Internet, information will be vide file storage, applications, and HP markets the HP Palmtop as indexed with hypertext links connection to the outside world. a PC companion. Yet, surprisingly, allowing fast access to related doc Many manufactures are working the HP Palmtop has emerged as uments); elimination of redundant on Network Computers, including many users' primary or only com data storage. Sun, Oracle, and IBM. Microsoft is puter. The Palmtop is growing working with hardware and soft especially popular with highly Cross-platform compatibility - ware manufacturers to produce mobile computer users. Many of Intranets work across platforms what it calls the NetPC. Oracle these users have access to more such as UNIX, DOS, Windows, Chief Executive Officer Larry powerful laptop computers, but are Apple, HP Palmtop PCs, and even Ellison predicts that by the year tired of lugging around even the a new breed of cellular phones . A 2000 more Network Computers lighter laptops just to do something wide array of computers can all will be sold than PCs. as simple as e-mail, web browsing, access the same document using The ideal Network Computer word processing, spreadsheets, browsers appropriate for each type is an inexpensive unit that can con databases, contact management, of machine. nect to the Internet. It doesn't have expense accounting, and so on, to be extremely powerful or have a which the palmtop PC is easily Security- lot of file storage - the net pro capable of facilitating. They find Established security devices and vides these. It doesn't even have to that the palmtop PC, combined management techniques can be have a fancy color display to inter- with a desktop PC, meets all of 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 their computing needs. They indi cate that the computer they use is the computer that is with them all DiskDock™ the time. low-cost Backup or Auxiliary Storage Potentially, the greatest benefi System using PCMCIA Technology ciaries of a highly-mobile, low-cost • Backup your Notebook or Laptop Network Computer are these with a high-speed, low cost mobile computer users - salespeo 2-1/2" Hard Drive • Great for systems requiring ple, field representatives, delivery security people and others whose remote • Removable-portable-compact ness has made providing new and • PCMCIA to IDE interface timely sales materials, pricing lists, sales strategies, policy manuals and so on difficult at best. The Palmtop running an application such as PalmTop Adaptor WWW / LX to access a company External Power intra net could change that. • Enables Notebooks and Laptops to use devices requiring more power, i.e. Advantages of the Palmtop as an PCMClA Hard Disks Intranet PC There are many advantages in using the Palmtop in a corporate environment, including: Cost Advantages - The Palmtop currently has a cost advantage over today's Windows 95-based machine that can claim that stability improves productivi 95-based machines. A Palmtop this capability. ty because of less lost work and capable of browsing the World fewer boot-ups. Wide Web in text mode can be Ease-of-use advantages - Great hardware quality, incredi acquired in the U.S. for a cost less Out of the box, the Palmtop must bly low maintenance costs and than $1,000, including browser easily qualify as the simplest full excellent resources - software and PCMCIA modem. function personal computer to Hewlett-Packard has justly earned Some people are discovering the operate that is available today. It a reputation for creating high-qual cost advantages to purchasing a beats the MacIntosh and Windows ity, long-lasting products. The high-end desktop computer and a machines for ease-of-use function Palmtop is no exception. HP offers Palmtop as compared to the pur- I ality. Its robust suite of programs is a standard I-year warranty, with chase of one high-end laptop com built-in, requiring no installation. It express overnight exchange, which puter. offers one-button access to the can be increased to 3 years with a most used programs. It has simple fee of less than $100. In addition to Mobility Advantages - to-use keys for date and time HP's telephone support, other The Palmtop can be taken and used stamps and for cut-copy-paste. excellent resources exist, such as anytime, anywhere, and can run Most built-in programs use an The HP Palmtop Paper and the HPHAND forum on Compu for weeks on a standard set of AA on-screen Function key menu. It Serve. The Palmtop even has its batteries. Plus the Palmtop has can keep multiple applications own book (PC in Your Pocket, edit instant on-off, providing a produc open at the same time and has an ed by Ed Keefe and available from tivity advantage in the types of exceptionally stable operating envi Thaddeus Computing), and a CD normal, periodic "use environ ronment with very few system Rom with a wealth of information ment" that people naturally work hangs and blowups forcing a to help a new user get productive in. Currently there is no Windows reboot of the computer. In turn, quickly. This combination of THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 39 HOW TO USE: A CORPORATE SOLUTION equipping their personnel with lap tops, which have grown in power New! Link-A-Printer II and are now as capable as desktop Smaller size & Attached cable machines. With an increase in lap top use, there has also been an Link-A-Printer II is a serial to parallel converter increase in theft. While Palmtops that allows direct printing from your OmniGo are just as subject to theft as lap 100 to any parallel printer. It also works with tops, they are less likely to be the HP 100/200LX $79 stolen because, with their ultra-portability, there is no excuse to leave them behind. Link-A-Printer II has a built-in connectivity cable that plugs in to your OmniGo 100. Since it does not require batteries or extra cable Link-A-Printer II is simple Less burden on phone lines - and easy to use. Increasingl y, telecomm unica tions ,companies have been complaining Also Available Link-A-Printer I $59 about the disproportionate use that Requires connectivity cable and optional battery Features auto Internet users have been making on/off fixed 9600 baud Greenwich Instruments LTD on telephone lines. While extensive Tel: 704-875-8490 European Distributor phone use by desktop Internet Fax: 704-875-2801 Tel: 011-44-181-302-4931 users may be occurring, Palmtop Toll Free: 800-476-4070 Fax: 011-44-181-302-4933 users have a tendency to do much of their work offline, and only con nect when it is truly necessary to resources and stable platform is Proven corporate track record - do so, much like standard phone hard to find anywhere else in Some corporations and institution use. WWW /LX reinforces this con today's rapidly changing comput al organizations have discovered cept with a feature allowing users ing environment. that the Palmtop is valuable in to disconnect and read a document, solving a variety of nagging corpo then re-connect when a link is E-mail advantages - rate issues. These organizations encountered. E-mail enthusiasts can read and include the Coca Cola Company, Lots of software availability - compose e-mail on their Palmtops Harvard Medical School, the Dutch As a standard DOS computer, there anytime, anywhere. This includes railways, a Korean insurance are literally thousands of programs commuting to and from work, Company, and Micro Age. These available which can run on the relaxing in an easy chair, relaxing corpora tions are seeing real pro Palmtop, many of them cus ductivity improvements and cost at the park, etc. How many people tomized for unique industry nich advantages to the use of Palmtops. do you see lugging around even a es. Also, new software continues to And, those who have discovered "light" four-pound Windows 95- be developed specifically for the the Palmtop believe it represents based laptop to do these things? 200LX platform, with over 3,000 the future of computing. applications developed to date. Productivity advantages - Fast web browsing - Familiar programming environ Palmtops offer a reduction in the One of the authors of this article, ment- waste of time caused by a graphical using a Palmtop equipped with a The programming language of environment and virus exposure. 14.4 EXP modem and running choice for many PC and Windows The Palmtop, with its software WWW /LX and HV in text mode, based applications has become C. built into ROM, is less virus prone. is able to browse the web faster With the Palmtop running in a Additionally, the Palmtop, as a pri than when he uses Netscape graph standard DOS environment, many marily text-oriented machine, is ically running on a Pentium 133 programmers can develop custom less likely to be used to browse the laptop computer attached to a high solutions with standard tools. big graphical web pages than a speed network. For straight text There is even a collection of C rou Windows 95-based machine and is based work, the Palmtop is defi tines available in the PAL library less likely to be used to format nitely as capable as most laptops. allowing programmers to rapidly fancy documents than a computer develop applications having the with a WYSIWYG software pro Reduced risk of loss from theft - same look and feel as the Palmtop's gram. Many corporations looking at field built-in applications. automation activities have been 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP Creative Rebirth The HP Palmtop's applications prove that smaller and simpler are better. By Lawrence Dickson At the 1996 HP Handheld Con be good. However, nowadays many powerful desktop system. Let's ference, there was a good feeling such articles are nothing more than take a look at that. about the current state of the HP an extension of marketing. They Palmtop. Everyone was congratu only measure the financial clout of Built-in applications lating each other on the surprising the company developing the soft utility of this little machine. ware, not the utility of the software The Palmtop comes with a spread Discussions of the future of the being discussed. sheet, word processor, file manag Palmtop, however, displayed a I don't think Palmtop software er, accounting program, database, common concern - fear of rapid writers really have an inkling how scheduler, phone book, and more. obsolescence. Questioners pep much they've accomplished. They The list is pretty much the same or pered Kheng-Joo Khaw with vague seem to think themselves slow, better than an off-the-shelf Pentium proposals of 386 systems, Windows when they've already developed desktop PC, and so is typical speed and even Win9S compatibility. ways to browse the Internet, send for everyday tasks. (My sister This fear is not justified. I and receive wireless e-mail, run picked up an old floppy-driven believe the HP Palmtop follows a CAD programs on the Palmtop, Tandy PC at a junk shop with a different set of rules from a stan and task switch between a number similar list of applications.) dard desktop Pc. In fact, native of different DOS programs. My Palmtop software is not just differ analogy to this: imagine NASA's Power efficiency ent, but decisively better than the befuddlement if it discovered some mainstream variety. garage mechanic had built a suc Power usage depends not just on cessful moon rocket! how long you have the computer on, but on the number of basic Palmtop software switches (transistors) in the com is a roaring success Comparing the puter. A good efficiency measure is Palmtop to a desktop PC the "transistor-year" (a year is The surest sign of quality in soft about 500,000 minutes). If revising ware is that it has a cadre of enthu But, you say, the Palmtop can't a letter takes 10 minutes on an 8086 siasts using it, each of them having possibly compare favorably to a Palmtop with 50,000 transistors, been shocked by some "jet assisted take-off" in power or convenience. I met and listened to many of them ABOUT THE AUTHOR at the HP Handheld Conference. Larry Dickson deSigns algorithms and specialty firmware Conventional wisdom dis for SuperComputing Surfaces of Santee, California. played in jargon-laden articles in Educated as a PhD mathematician, Larry turned to com puting fields ranging from aerodynamics to language the contemporary software publications ory. He lives in Tijuana with his wife and three children, scoffs at such amateur approval and and shares a custom-programmed HP 200LX with his son tends to support the general mis Tom. His e-mail [email protected]. conception that nothing small can THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1977 41 HOW TO USE: Creative Rebirth , The history of PC development - Power requirements and price keep Trans PC Card bigger isn't always better! going up - except on the Palmtop Universal Parallel Port Personal computers started with Compare your Palmtop's software two design models. One, the closed to similar applications on your system (Apple/Macintosh), imitat Pentium Pc. You'll find that the ed mainframes or client/ server software programs on your Pentium machine have a few more systems where the user proposed features. The Malthusian law of actions to a professional operating software is: each generation of soft system - or a professional opera ware rises arithmetically (say, plus tor - who ran the machinery. The 10%) in utility, but geometrically other, the open system (IBM PC), (say, 300%) in size. The result is PC Card with Parallel Port and Instant File Transfer was derived from microcontrollers that the current software is unen- Trans PC Card adds the Parallel Port making your Palmtop that directly drove machinery - , durably slow on hardware more 100% real PC, so now you can connect parallel devices like 100 MB Zip, etc. and fast print to standard parallel printers. the user directly controlled the than one generation back. This action of the computer. Early open means that laptop and desktop Programs for Instant (no installation or setup) transfer . synchronization and management of files between PCs are on system PCS came with IBM Basic PCS, which have to be able to run the Card flash to save system memory. The Card (Type I, with very low power draw) upon insertion becomes drive A:. or Microsoft Assembler program current software, never go down in ming languages so every buyer size, power requirements, or price! Programs on Card run under DOS 5.0 and Windows using On the other hand, the familiar XCOPY syntax or point and shoot interface. Included could create the applications and cable (used also for connection to peripherals) allows for Palmtop is more than one genera transfer between the Card in Palmtop and PC standard utilities he or she needed. parallel port at 30 KB/sec . BOX faster than Puma's IntelliSync. tion behind in hardware so it never The PC has changed so tha t uses the bloated mainstream soft Trans PC Card with Trans Flex Cable, Manual, current Windows/Intel ("Wintel") Quick Reference and backup disk is $149.00 ware. We reverse the Malthusian machines are squarely on the Mac law. We give up very little in fea For more information and deafer nearest you pfease call: side of that fence. Professionals tures and save a factor of ten in Trans Digital Corporation writing for today's huge operating price, size, and battery drain. This 39210 State Street, Suite 105 takes us off the treadmill of bigger, Fremont, CA 94538 systems use programming tools Tel: (510) 745·9777 • Fax: (510) 745·9937 like Rational Rose C++ to develop faster, more expensive machines applications. The process can for smaller and smaller improve that's one transistor-year. If it takes require almost a year of design ments. 15 minutes on a two million tran before any functional code is writ Palmtop programmers have easily created software programs sistor Pentium (reboots and slug ten. that provide the capabilities of gish file searches count too), that's A program for the old DOS PC sixty transistor-years. recent mainstream programs like could be written quicker, by fewer Net browsers. The developers of people, on a machine in the garage these mainstream programs must Trouble-free operation or wherever. Because development throw millions of dollars at a prob was quick and inexpensive, lots of lem to solve it. Someone in a How often does each hang up or programs were developed and cre garage then does essentially the crash? A Microsoft engineer ativity flowed like a river. This was same thing on the Palmtop, for a quipped, "If it doesn't hang up at the key to its huge success and thousandth of the effort. And the least once, it isn't Microsoft market dominance. But now, fact that the Palmtop has a mature Windows" OnfoWorld, 16 Sep expensive marketing flash replaces operating system that is not contin ually undergoing "improvements" 1996). Because of these types of creativity. System bloat actually problems, my son's classmate means tha t you don't have to destroys creative work that already spend precious time and money won't do his homework on his new exists. If it can't upgrade to Win95 machine - he uses his old repeatedly upgrading programs. Windows, it has to be discarded! The usefulness-to-cost ratio, any DOS 286 PC instead. The Palmtop, The Palmtop is an open system way you measure it, is incredible. in contrast, is as reliable as a calcu computer. It encourages creativity lator. Why is it we trust a calculator and the development of a wide to work forever without problems, variety of inexpensive software. Lean into our strengths but we expect and accept frequent The proliferation of Palmtop-relat failure in "top-of-the-line" comput ed software reminds one of the old Technical illiteracy drives the er software? PC software boom, returning to life Windows revolution, but there are Never apologize for a small, again. huge niches filled with literate cus- simple, clean design that works. 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1977 tomers. College and high school students are one such niche. I PC DEPOTINc. found that out when my son Tom, a high school junior, appropriated 800·570·8828 CALL US LAST FOR THE LA TEST PRICES! my Palmtop after Labor Day. He Haur.: Mon.-Fri. 9Im·5pm, Sat. Foryour200LX/100LX Acer AcerNote 8M IBM 32M now uses it all day at school and lit.350,350E.352.355 ActiNote 650,660 89 175 .. can't praise it enough. 2MB ATA Flash Card $129 lite356, 358, 359, 361 ActioNote 800,866,880,890 89 175 ... 8MB AT A Flash Card $179 350P,510AlP.810A/P 95 195 295 Fujitsu lifeBook 98 178 288 The answer to the fear of rapid 12MB ATA Flash Card $245 763,765,782,784,786·789 85159 . Biblo NB5100, 5122, 5133 85 179 285 16MB ATA Flash Card $269 Pr0950,954,955,957,959 99 185 289 Milan,Monte Carlo,Montego 99 199 325 obsolescence is for Palmtop users AST Adv.Explorer, BravoNB 179-· H·P OmniBook 800 95 185 425 20MB ATA Flash Card $329 Ascenti. 800,900,910,950 87159 ... Citizen PN50 black/white por· Ascenti.Jl0,J20,J30,J50 75145275 Hitachi C,E,M·Series 95 185 298 and developers to lean into our table printer $239 Ascenti. P30. P50 88 178 288 IBM Thinkpad 350, 350C 89 169 289 strengths. Citizen PN60 Color portable PowerExecEl,3/25.4/33Sl 95 185 .. . Thinkp.d 345,355,360,730 95 168 368 printer $339 AT&T Glob"yst 130 85 149 .. . Thinkp.d 365C/CD,365E1ED ... 155 - Globalist 200,250,250P 95 175 285 ThinkPad 500(8M only1.51D 107 205 - MONTHl V SPECIALS ) Thinkp.d 701C/CS 88 178 628 Moglhortz XJ2288 28.8 fax modem 179 Safari 3151,3180, 3181 105 185 ... ThinkPad 750,755 models 95 175 329 Strength 1: Cost ATI3D Expression,PC2TV,2MB card 139-':::==~~;! Canon 8M 16M 24M Thinkp.d 760C/CD/l/lD 78 158 628 Mitro. Mystique 2MB PCI VGA card 159 ... 149 _. Thinkp.d 760E/ED/El/ElD 79 159 589 Mitro. Millenium 2MB PCI VGA card 189 Innova 200lS 75 168 265 NEC VersaV,M,P.4000 75 175 285 Freeze the hardware capability of NEC VX 17 +, 17" .28mm monitor 739 NoteJet 486 C25/C33/M33 79 165 .- TI Extensa 550,555,560 79 159 269 lomogl Zip drive, 100MHz,Ext. Para .189 EPSON 2MB 4MB Compaq 8M 16M 32M Travelmate6020,6030,6050 79179279 Sony 2GB Ext. tape backup,parallel 195 1000,1500 69 ... Armanda 11 DO series 75 169 299 8M 16M 32M the Palmtop and aim at reducing GoldStor16,CDROM,intemaliOE 189 1100,1400.160045 Armanda4100series 75 159295 Toshiba TOlhibl 12X CD ROM. internaliDE 159 H.P 2MB 4MB Concerto 4/25,4/33 89 189 .- T1 ~O, 200, 400, 600 series 79 159 275 the price. If we get below $200, the TOlhibo 16x CD ROM SCSI intern.1 259 11,110 99 125 Contura Aero 4/25, 4/33C 74 148 ... T1900, T21 DO Series 89 159 _. Complql 010,P120, 16/810, 11.3" 1950 Contura400,410.420.430 85 165 .. . T4500, 4700, 4800, 4900 99 199 329 market breadth will explode. We Simiung P75,8/810, 10.3"active 1195 IIP,III,IIIP 95 119 Contura 4/25.4/25c.4/25cx 87 169 .. . T4400, 8400,6600 99 179 .- TOlhiblll0cs,Pl00,8/810,11.3" 1375 IIIsi.4.4M 55 65 lTE5000 75175285 Taera 500, Protege 650 85 159 289 could put one in the hands of every TOlhibI205cds.Pl00,8/810,6xCO 1575 4l(lMBonly)35 - DEC HiNote/HiNote Ultra 75155 _ Teera 700, 710, 720 85 165 325 TOlhibo 420cds,Pl 00.8/81 0,6xCO 1775 4+ .4V.4P 39 45 HiNote VP Pentium Models 79 159 275 Win Book XP. XPC ... 159 289 capable high school and college TOlhibITeera500cs,P120,16/1.3G 1895 Dell latitude433,450.475 79179 279 Zenith Z·STAR 433Vl, Vlp·- 79 ... student as a combination graphing calculator, PDA, scheduler, and note-taker. The programmers in the as imitation mice. We can serve all on its capabilities are only imagi group will start writing software these devices on their own terms. nary. Stick with the design! for our (stable) system, and the niche will be ours forever. Avoid obsolescence - stick with Strength 2: Flexibility the design Small specialty niches can't be Imagine a rocket ship that controls served by software monsters. The its direction by thrusters positioned million-dollar startup costs are too •CARD-LINK• on different places of the rocket. much and response to customer The only problem is that once needs is too slow. CPAs, MDs, turned on, the thruster can never inventory specialists, sales profes be turned off. If the rocket goes off sionals, and many other niche course, the only solution is to weld groups were mentioned at the on a new thruster and make it blast Handheld Conference. Something in the other direction. This "barna that works is a treasure to a spe cle rocket" wouldn't be an efficient cialist. After he has taken the time way to get to the moon. But it is a The easy way to transfer files between your palmtop and desktop to learn it, he will hang onto it I pretty reasonable model of current grimly without worrying about desktop software. -+ FAST - 80,000 Bytes/Sec whether it's obsolete or not. Mainstream software is -+ Easy to use - Works just like a floppy disk dIive. trapped in a cycle of obsolescence. -+ Convenient - plug in installation to Strength 3: Input/Output A single centralized "one-size fits your parallel pIinter port. all" system connects everything to -+ For bo\,h ATA flash and battery backed Breadth up SRAM cards. Model CL683 also everything else in a complex tan allows use of type III hard drives. Mainstream computer systems gle, slow and prone to failure. User knowledge of program functioning Model CL680 for Type I and Type 11 cards. have become specialized to a single $179.95 interface (mouse/menu) despite its is a thing of the past. Model CL683 for Type I, 11 and 111 cards. sluggish response to expert users. The HP DOS Palmtop runs $189.95 small programs, each one useful Steele Creek Technologles, Inc. We have no such baggage: dozens 14035 Appling Lane of transducers and sensors (input out of proportion to its size. Charlotte, NC 28278 and output devices) are easy to Through the combination of many Phone or Fax: 704-588- 1780 code in DOS, without being treated such easy steps it will run circles around its competition. The limits THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1977 43 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP Through the Looking Glass Ed shows how to use HP Solve's SIGMA( ) / L( ) / and G( ) functions to perform Numeric Integration to analyze the normal probability distribution function. By Ed Keefe A problem that's calculator built into the HP the same experiment repeated a out of this world Palmtop will do very nicely.) thousand times, the same thing happened. The star-date is 3481. The place is Some background on statistics They could calculate an aver the star-ship Enterprise with age (mean) height or temperature, Captain James Kirk in command. A couple of hundred years ago, sci but they were at a loss to explain The voice of the chief engineer entists gained an important insight. the discrepancies between this comes over the comm system. Whenever they measured the mean and the other readings. "Cap'n, the warp drive is goin' same phenomenon a number of down ag'in. We rrreally need ta 'lign the dilithium crystals." Kirk replies, "How long will it take this time, Mr. Scott?" There's a pause and Scotty finally replies, "It'll take at least four hours, Cap'n." Kirk responds, "That's too long, Mr. Scott. We need to be at warp 7 within three hours if we're going to make it to Starbase 17 in time." Scotty moans, "Ah dinna think we kin do it, Cap'n." Kirk looks over his shoulder at his sci ence officer, Mr. Spok, and, with out having to ask, gets the answer, "If Mr. Scott would start work in the next 5 minutes, there's a 95 per times, they got measurements that Then they noticed that the discrep cent probability that he can make were slightly off. Whether they ancies formed a pattern. They drew the repairs in 3 hours." measured the height of a thousand a bar-graph in which the height of Captain Kirk then tells his ten-year-olds or the temperature of each bar represented the frequency chief engineer, "I know you can do it, Scotty. Make it three hours and not a minute more." The question is, how did Spok ABOUT THE AUTHOR know that? What's the secret to his amazing ability to "predict" how A long time contributor to Hewlett-Packard Handheld long it will take Scotty to realign support publications, Ed Keefe is an author, editor, pro the dilithium crystals? Could you grammer, computer science instructor, and part-time con sultant in the computer industry. Ed's articles appear in do something similar? The HP Palmtop Paper. He is also the editor of the book PC The answers are "Yes." All it In Your Pocket: Information When You Need It. takes is some knowledge of statisti cal inference and a calculator. (The 44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1977 with which they got the same mea key and select Options Number surement. They placed the bars Format... from the pull-down along a horizontal axis that repre menu. Set the format to Fixed point sented the different measurements. with 6 as the number of digits. Then they drew a smooth line that Press the I Enter I key. .. connected the tops of the bars. Press and hold the [:£!~!] key They almost always found they while tapping the ~ key. This will had a bell-shaped curve. start HP Solve. Press [~~~ and Scientists jumped to the con select Eile New from the pull-down clusion that this bell-shaped curve Probability is proportional to area under menu. Type in the New Filename the bell-shaped curve between the was a great truth that applied to all mid-line and two units to the right STAT.EQN and press the [§!~ of nature. The bell-shaped curve key. Now press the ~~ function made its way onto the pages of sta key to open the Solve ~ditor and To a mathematician, the tistics books and, as they say, "the key in the above equatIon. Check answer is simple. You compute the rest is history." your typing and, when ready, definite integral of the bell-shaped Later on, mathematicians press the ~ (OK) function key. function over the desired range. found other more descriptive dis Press the [~~!!!~~~!] key and Suppose you're not a mathe tribution curves, but the bell press [~~]. Type in the Equation matician. You and your HP shaped curve still endures as a Name NormDistrib, then press the Palmtop can still find the area in pretty fair approximation of the ~ (OK) key. question. You just.need to teach ~P way things are. Now press the ~£](Plot)~ey Solve how to compute the area In and, in the Function Plottmg each of the bars in the above graph How the bell-shaped screen, set X-minimum to -3.50000. and add the areas together. That curve works Set X-maximum to 3.50000. Set Y will yield a pretty good approxi minimum to 0.000000 and Y-maxi mation of the answer. If you could Suppose you've a fifth-gra,de mum to 0.50000. Set the Plot-vari use more bars that were narrower, teacher and over the years you ve able to z and the plot resolution to the results would be even better. taken a series of over 100 measure 30.00000. Then press the [~!] Let's see how to do this. ments of the height of your stu (Draw) key. You should see the fol dents and found an average mea lowing graph: Drawing the bell-shaped curve on surement. You've drawn a curve like the one above. Now you're the Palmtop about to take another measure To draw a bell-shaped curve, we ment. You ask yourself, "What's the can use the Plot function in HP probability that the new measure Solve. All we need to know is the ment will fall somewhere between mathematical equation that the highest and lowest measure describes the curve. Without going ment you've found so far. The into all the details of how to find answer is, "There's almost a 100% Press the ~ key twice to get this equation, here it is in Solver chance that this will happen." the TRACE word in the upper left format: Then you ask, "What's the corner of the screen. Now you can probability that the new measure use the right and left arrow keys to y = l/sqrt(2*pi)*expHzI\2)/2) ment will fall somewhere between , slide the cross-hair along the curve. the average measurement a.nd a The top line of the screen will show where y is the height of th~ curve measurement that is two umts of the corresponding values for x and and z is a point on the hOrIzontal measurement greater?" The answer y. Hold the IShift I key and press t~e axis. e is the mathematical constant to that question is a little tougher to IArrowl keys to move the cross-haIr 2.718282. The square root sign is figure out, but basically the answer more slowly. replaced with the sqrt fu~ction. is, "It's the same number you'd get Now that we have an idea of The constant e is replaced WIth the if you could find the area betwee~ what the normal distribution curve exponent function. the bell-shaped curve and the h~n looks like, we can tackle the task of zontal axis, and between the mId finding an area under the curve. To Step by step line and a vertical line that's two do this we want to divide the area units of measurement to the right along the horizontal axis, between z Here's how to develop the HP of the mid-line." (See the diagram = 0.000 and z = 2.000, into rectangles Solve equation. at the top of the next column.) of equal width. We can find the Open the HP Calc program on So, how do you find the area length of each b.ar: ~t's the v~lue of y the Palmtop and press the [Men!£) under the bell-shaped curve? in our NormDIstnb equatIon. We THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1977 45 HOW TO USE: Through the Looking Glass can compute the area of each bar by the variables in the Solve Calc presses the I!!I (Stats) key and sees multiplying the length by the width. screen. The L(dz:abs(b-a)/20) com that Mean Value = 46.13 (minutes), Finally we need to accumulate the mand tells HP Solve to let the the Standard Deviation = 8.33 areas of all the rectangles. To expe width of a rectangle be 1/ 20th the (minutes). The Standard Deviation dite this task we'll use a special func range (b-a). Since the whole expres (SO) is a measure of dispersion. tion in HP Solve called SIGMA( ). sion is multiplied by zero, we can Those two numbers are critical for On the Palmtop, return to the add it to the rest of the equation the next part of the problem. Solve Catalog screen and press the without effecting the outcome. The mean and standard devia t DownArrow I key to move down to a In the rest of the equation we tion may indeed be critical but they blank line, then press the ~ (Edit) now replace dz with g(dz) which need to be "massaged" before they key to open an empty Solve-Editor will suppress the dz variable on the can be used with the equations screen. Key in the equation found Solve Calc screen. With this pol developed so far. You see, the in Figure 1. You may omit the text ished equation you can set b = Normal Probability curve is always enclosed in exclamation marks if 0.010000 or b = 4.000000 (or any shown so that the mean is 0 (zero) you wish. (The text is commentary thing in between) and get values , and the units along the horizontal on what each line of code does.) for COF that are very close to those axis are shown in terms of normal When you're ready, press the in the statistics books. ized values, called z-values. (The I!!£) (OK) key. Then press the I!!I area under the whole curve is 1 (Calc) key. In the Solve Calc screen, A worldly example unit, to correspond with the fact set a = 0.000000, dz = 0.100000 and that all the probabilities add up to b = 2.000000. Solve for COF by To see how to use this Solve equa 100%, which is the same as 1.) pressing the ~~) (COF) function tion, consider the following problem. To convert any other mean and key. You should get the answer Suppose you take your car in standard deviation to a z-value, CDF = 0.477295. for a transmission repair. You want you use the formula: If you happen to have a statis to know when you can expect the tics book at hand, flip to the back of repair work to be finished. The ser z = (X - mean)/SD the book. That's where you're likely vice manager whips out his HP to find a Table called Normal Palmtop and starts the HP Calc where X is the number for which Curve Areas (or something like program. He presses ~-[9 to get you want to find the corresponding that). You should find that the area to the Stat List application and z-value. given for 2.00 is very close to the uses file Open to bring up a list of Suppose the service manager COF result above. Transmission Repair times. There are wants to give you a repair time, and If you don't have a statistics at least thirty entries in the list. He a 90 % probability for that time. He book handy but you do have the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK, there's a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet on this COF= 1/sqrt(2*pi)* ! This is a constant factor in the! issue's disk that has this table in it ! equation. Isolated so it won't be! (NORMDIST.WKI 19). ! computed each time thru the loop! If you want to check the accura SIGMA( z, ! Loop starts here w / z holding the! cy of the above equation, try setting ! results of the accumulation ! b = 0.100000. You should find that a+dz/2, ! Start at a+half the width of the! COF = 0.03984, which is way off ! rectangle. ! from the value given in any Normal b, ! End atb ! Curve Area table. That's because the dz, ! Step through the loop by dz, the! width of the rectangle we're using is ! width of a rectangle. ! way too large for this small a range. exp(-(z/\2) /2) ! Use this as the function. ! You can fix this by making the rec )*dz ! Multiply the result by the width.! tangles narrower. Just set dz = 0.010000 and solve for COF = Figure 1 0.039828. That's better, but there's a more elegant way to do this. COF= 0*(a+b+L(dz:abs(b-a)/20))+ Press the (ESC I key and then 1 / sqrt(2*pi)* !This is a constant factor in the the ~ key to return to the Solve Editor and add some code to the !equation. Isolated so it won't be ! equation so that it looks like the !computed each time through the loop! equation in Figure 2. (The rest of the equation is the same as before.) The new line at the top uses a "zero-multiplier" trick to rearrange Figure 2 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1977 would start by assuming that since the midpoint of the graph is 50%, !This one does everything: see examples below! 90% is really 40% above the mid O*(Z+X+mean+SO+ !Arrange variables in the display! point. So he'd put 0.40000 in the 0000000+ !A separator between two equations! place of COF and set a = 0.000000 a+b+COF)+ and solve for b = 1.281332 Standard IF(S(Z) OR S(X) !IF you're Solving for any of Deviations. b is the z-value he OR S(mean) !these 4 variables, ! wants. Now he can compute the OR S(SO) !Use this equation that computes ! repair time. He'd use the formula X :Z-(X-mean)/SO+ !the Z-value. At the end put the! = z * so + mean = 1.281332 * 8.13 + O*L(b,Z) !Z-value in b. ! 46.33 = 56.7 minutes. The service :IF(S(ooooooo) !ELSE IF you try to Solve for the! manager can tell you that your car :0000000 !separator ... set it equal to 0 ! will be ready in 57 minutes with a :0*L(dz:abs(b-a)/20»+ !Set the width to Range/20! probability of 90%. If he wanted to 1/ sqrt(2*PI)* land multiply by a constant. ! give you a better probability, say SIGMA(z,!Start accumulating the lengths of! 95 %, he'd put 0.4500000 in COF and a+g(dz)/2, !the rectangles under the curve. ! solve for b = 1.644390 with a corre b, !from mid-point of the central one! sponding time allotment of X = g(dz), lout to b in steps of dz ! 1.644390 * 8.13 + 46.33 = 59.698893, exp(-(zA 2)/2) !This is the curve's equation. ! or there's a 95% chance that the )*g(dz)-COF+ !Multiply by width to get area repairs will be done in an hour. O*L(Z,b) !Finally, set Z to b. ! )=O! Example: Given that the mean time to repair a car is 45 minutes Spok"s equation with a std dev of 8 min. The service manager says that your repair will be done in 50 minutes. What's the probablity that he's WRONG? On board the Enterprise, 200 years "ANALYSIS: This is really asking for the area under a bell curve whose from now, Spok does all these com midpoint is at 45. We want the area from X=50 out to X=a large number. putations in his head without the We have to convert to the Normalized curve. So put 50 in X; put 45 in mean; put 8 in SO and solve for Z=0.6250. Then move the light bar to a aid of a calculator - or so we're and press Enter to make a = 0.6250 and put 5 in b. Then solve for COF = asked to believe. 0.265365 . That is there's 26% chance that the service manager is wrong. However, if he had an HP Palmtop, here's the equation he'd Figure 3 probably use. (See Figure 3.) It's an enhanced version of the equation above. I call it Spok's EQN. It com Wrapping Up numeric integration macro mod bines the equation for computing the eled on HP Solve's SIGMA( ) func Trying to figure out how a famous z-values along with the Cumulative tion. It is unique in that it not only Dispersion Function (COF) used to Vulcan might do statistical infer performs as well as the one in HP compute probabilities. It also uses ence has let us push the HP Solve Solve, but it will also let you single the IF(S( ) ... ) function to isolate one application to the limit. step through the solution of the equation from another. It even We've developed a sophisticat problem - something you can't do includes a "separator" line between ed equation that does numeric inte in HP Solve. the variables on the Calc screen. gration using the SIGMA( ) func It took me about a month to Here's how to use Spok's equa tion. We've also seen examples of research and write this article. I how to use L( ) and G( ) and even tion. Assume that we have built up a , hope there is at least a 90 % proba Stat List of the times of 30 or more used an example of a multiple bility that it will provide you with IF(S(var) ... ) function. repair incidents in which the dilithi a couple of days enyoyment. um crystals have been realigned. The In the process of developing mean is 149.582233 and the standard these equations, I needed a way to deviation is 15.315359. Enter those check my results. The only tool that two values in the Solve Calc screen. was handy was the Lotus 1-2-3 Shareware/freeware Since we want to find the z spreadsheet program in the HP mentioned in this article value for 95%, put 0.450000 in COF Palmtop. NORMDIST. WK1 - Lotus 1-2-3 spread (i.e. 0.95 - .050) and solve for b = On The HP Palmtop Paper ON sheet with table of normal curve areas. 1.644390. This value will also DISK, I've included a couple of Freeware. Available on this issue of The HP appear as the z-value in the first spreadsheets, one of which (NOR Palmtop Paper ON DISK variable on the screen. lveSo for X= MOIST.WKI iUI ) was mentioned 174.766660 which is close to 175 ND·INTEG.WK1- Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet above . This spreadsheet contains a with numeric integration macro modeled on minutes or 3 hours--less the 5 min table much like the ones you'd find HP Solve's SIGMAO function. Freeware. utes it will take for Scotty to get in a statistics book. The other WK1 Available on this issue of The HP Palmtop organized. file (NO-INTEG.WKI iUI) contains a Paper' ON DISK. THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1977 47 Letters to the Editor (Continued from page 4.) ccMaii hints nected through the switch months, which I use with an board, so you can plug into EXP 1414 ThinFax 8 Mb Worse still, it cannot run Like Jorgen Wallgren, a key the handset socket on the fax / modem/ memory card. DOS software, like the HP application on my Palmtop machine, or use the cable I've installed the Minifax LX series can, and data com is ccMail, which has saved running from wall socket to software, which otherwise patibility is apparently con me from lugging a laptop FAX, or go straight to the appears to work well. fined to Windows 95. around Asia for the last two wall socket (usually under However, the Minifax In short, we have here years. However, in this time an inch of dust, behind a software picks [ALT-F2J as yet another operating sys I have only once had to desk and reachable only if its "hot key" combination. tem which is exclusive to unscrew the telephone wall you have two elbows on When I'm in Lotus 1-2-3, this handheld machines and is box to make a connection. each arm). is the only key-combination incompatible with any exist Instead, I carry a small which sets Lotus for "step" ing desktop Pc. The advan connector with three stan David Ankers mode for debugging macro tage which sets the HP dard U.S. phone sockets in a da vid [email protected] programs. 100/ 200LX apart from all 2:1 arrangement that allows other handheld machines I have attempted to me to connect the handset Palmtops and pagers change the "hot key" combi (and is its unique selling and my Palmtop to the wall nation by selecting (~B point) is thrown away. socket simultaneously. I would like to answer the (EDIT) in the Application So what can you do with Usually the existing letter from Stephen Wilson, Manager and choosing a Windows CE that you can cable to the handset can be M.D., who wanted a DOS new combination. This only not do with an HP 200LX? unplugged and put into the based program that he could adds a second "hot key" and Not much that I can see! connector. I then complete run on his Palmtop to send Internet Access? The 200LX the connections with cables alphanumeric messages to (~E!~~~] still starts the does that. Windows look of various lengths (one 8' pagers (see Volume 5, Minifax program. I added : and feel? System Manager and a couple of a few inch Number 5, page 50). I'm to the comment sections of Compliant and PAL applica es). This way I avoid climb actually using a DOS-based both programs but without tions do a creditable emula ing around behind hotel beeper program called effect. tion of that. The only "gain" beds to get to the wall sock Skyword Access for DOS. It I have contacted both appears to be the Win 95 et, and it allows me to dial works perfectly with Sky tel HP and EXP tech support look and feel, and long file manually, if necessary. and most known beeper sys lines but neither one could name support. All other To cover other eventuali tems. help. I was hoping that functionality is already ties I also carry a cable with either you or one of my fel available on the HP 200LX! a UK-style plug, a cable Martin Sebastian low subscribers might be It would probably be possi able to help as it is very dif ble to emulate the Win 95 with spade terminals, and Buenos Aires, Argentina ficult to debug my programs look and feel with PAL, and one with the inner and outer marseb@giga .com.ar without the "STEP" mode. many of the PAL applica wires reversed at one end tions now becoming avail (some P ABXs need this). All Another pager able are at least as good as these cables are short, a few recommendation Wayne G. Hutchens "Pocket Word" or "Pocket inches only, and have a Atlanta, GA Excel." standard U.S.-style plug at In response to the letter I cannot believe that the other end. I use a 1:1 from Stephen Wilson, M.D., Windows CE is the way for connector to connect every who was requesting a pro [Try keeping the startup files ward! Surely HP should thing. A small screwdriver gram to generate alphanu for your fax/modem /memory seek to build on the techni completes the kit and it all meric messages, I am using card on the card itself (not on cal success of the HP lives at the bottom of my Duckie-UP 2.04 for DOS, the C: drive of the Palmtop). 100 / 200LX by producing a briefcase in an old airline and it works great. The pro Then, whenever you're not fax PC AT-based successor with washbag along with spare gram is available from ing or using the modem, a 486 or better class proces batteries, serial / parallel EVTEK Corporation (800- remove the card and re-boot the sor and lots more RAM and printer adapter, serial cable 388-8499). I called them a Palmtop. The re-booting will a VGA display. Such a and 9-to-25 pin adapters. couple of days ago and they cause the Palmtop to use its machine could run DOS, I made up the short are coming out with a new normal start-up files on the C: Win 3.x, or even a minimum cables myself. The materials version just for the Palmtop. drive. You'll also lengthen the installation of Win 95, and and the connectors came life of your Palmtop's batteries possibly even Windows CE, from computer sundry John R. Doyle by removing the card when it's for those who wish to use it. shops in Hong Kong, but I [email protected] not in use, since the card will This is certainly the kind of have seen them elsewhere drain batteries quickly when machine I require. Insofar as also. Fax card prevents use left in the Palmtop - Tom the HP 100 / 200LX has a A final tip: if you are of Lotus 1·2·3 "hot Gibson] weakness, it is its lack of having trouble communicat key" speed and XT architecture. ing through a PBX, then look for a FAX machine. I have owned my HP200LX, (continued on page 50.) Jerome V. Healy These are usually not con- 2-MB now for about 8 48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1977 MORE ... 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(Languages: 612·541·5631 ; Fax: 612·541·5636; Email: emphasizes CompuServe Zachary Laputz [email protected] (probably because of the German, English and Japanese) [email protected] KOREA .. Song, Taejin, M.D.; Phone: 82·11· NJ/NY-New York .. Stanley Dobrowski; Forums), for my purposes, 317·4288; E·mail: placebo@chollian . Phone: 201·807·5857 (work); E·mail: [email protected] dacom.co.kr Prodigy's DOS based e-mail OK-Oklahoma City .. Richard B. Meek; MEXICO .. Francisco Bricio; Phone: (3) 684 program is ideal. How to Write 1317; E·mail: 74174.1442 @compuserve.com Phone: 405·842·1267. NEW ZEALAND .. Jonathan H S Cheng; Office SC-Charleston .. Ron Rivers, P.O . Box I'm in the software con to The HP 31284, Charleston, SC 29417·1284; Phone: Phone: (025) 343·570; E·Mail : sulting business and when I Palmtop Paper [email protected] 800·864·8444; CompuServe 10: [75023,441. travel I bring my HP 200LX PANAMA / LATIN AMERICA .. Aviran Yanir; TX-Houston .. 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Chaikin Koon; 334·B King Submitted letters become the [email protected] load / upload my mail George's Avenue, SINGAPORE 208571; E· property of The HP Palmtop mail: [email protected] (including attachments). Paper, and are subject to editing. SWEDEN .. Kent Illemann; E·mail: The mail program has lots of 50 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 • •• BASIC TIPS ••• [All tips are by HP Palmtop Paper Ddt.e/Ti1'1e Associate Editor Ralph C. Turner, unless Current. ]ldt.e: 1112/27/97 otherwise noted. You can contact Ralph Current. Ii1'1e: 11:1113:1119 at [email protected] Ddt.e EOr1'1dt. Ti1'1e FOr1'1dt. DD-MMM-YY .~ DD-MMM : / MMM-YY HH:MM:SS I PHONE I MM7D·D7YY· ···································· HH.MM.SS DD7MM7YY ·············· HH.MM.SS OK DD.MM.YY HHhMMl'ISSs YY-MM-DD HH:MM Avoid inadvertently deleting MM/DD HH.MM [ Cdncel) your records While using a Phone Book database containing many records, I pressed the In Setup, you can choose from 21 different date and time formats. I Spacebar 1 twice to select (or mark) two records that I wanted to delete. Then, Note that pressi ng I Shift I, then IDownArrowl keys until you've highlighted after pressing the IDeletel key and being I~S-pa-ce~ba-.rl, when there are no records "HH:MM:SS AM/PM." Now press IENTERI, presented with the dialog box asking, already marked, selects all records. Put and you'll see the date and time dis "Delete selected items(s)?" I chose "OK." another way, repeatedly pressing IShiftl, played as "02/27/97 11 :03:04 am:' Unfortunately, I had forgotten that I had, then I Spacebar I, toggles between selecting There are 10 possible time formats a few minutes earlier, used the ISpacebarl all records, and de-selecting all those to choose from, including eight different to mark a third record that I had planned records that have been marked. variations of "military time." One exam to delete. I had changed my mind and ple: if you choose the "HH:MM" format, decided not to delete the third record, ISETUP I then at three minutes after two in the but I had forgotten to unmark it. afternoon, the time will be displayed as Since the third record was near the "14:03." end of the database, its diamond Change the Date/time display Of the 11 possible date formats, you shaped "selection marker" wasn't visible might try using "14-AUG-97," "08/14/97," in the current screen. The deletion If you would prefer a different method of or "97-08-14." erased all three records, but I didn't real displaying the date and time at the top ize this until I opened the database a few right corner of your screen, you have lots days later and couldn't find the missing of options to choose from. The default IMEMO I third record. (Although I was using format is "02/27/97 11 :03 a.m." But Phone Book, this situation can occur in maybe you'd like to have the seconds Insert in Memo any of the database applications.) displayed also, so you can measure your pulse accurately, or time how long a tele Here's what I now do to safely If you are preparing several letters or phone receptionist keeps you on hold. If delete records. Before selecting a record other documents in Memo, you may I Shift so, press I MENU Qptions OateiTime from to be deleted, I press I, then 1 wish to import phrases from previously I Spacebar I. This de-selects any records the SETUP screen. written documents, to avoid retyping Then press ITABI three times (or that have previously been marked, and I repetative material. Of course, you can can now select (and delete safely) only press I!£J-~) until you're in the "Time use cut and paste, but that means clos Format" box, then use the I UpArrow or the intended records. 1 ing one file and opening another, then going back to the first. A simpler method is to use Insert. .. .. Pi •• Press IMENUI, file, Insert. You will see a . - . All Phone Book I~e~s I Na~e ! Business I Ho~e list of possible document to draw from, ~ Thaddeus Co~pu~ing 472 6330 which you select by tabbing to the files 10-10 AAA II...... ~,~-~-om- ...... -t: list and using the I DownArrow 1 key until the Ad Lib (Mari Dele~e selec~ed i~e~(s)? Aherns, John preferred file is highlighted. Press ~ backup hp ~c (OK) and the entire text within that file Banker, SaIl M.'M [ Cancel I banks will be pasted into your open Memo doc +Barker, Chuc~ _~ _ ument. Then you can trim away anything ()mti1t&1.i.,.;¥ ~""-S:@1t Bookl is~ 800 545 2433 you don't want and continue with your new letter. Carol de Giere All records that are marked for deletion may not appear in the current screen. You can thus Associate Editor, HP Palmtop Paper inadvertently delete more records than you intend. caroL [email protected] THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 51 IMISC·I you're limited to the width of the field as error message in Filer if you haven't exit it appears on the screen. trytyping more ed from DOS itself. In this case. return to characters. Depending on what applica DOS from Filer (by pressing ~-~). Undo to the rescue tion (and what field) you're in. you may type EXIT. then press IENTERI. be allowed more characters than can be In other words. every time you're fin You say you've just inadvertently deleted displayed on the screen. ished running a DOS program. you the Phone Book record containing an For example. let's assume you're should do two things: exit the program. important telephone number or using the Phone Book and your cursor is then exit DOS. An added benefit in exit address? Not to worry. Just press I CTRLI positioned in the State field. Although ing DOS is that it will free up more mem [!). and the record will be restored. the field box is 10 characters wide. you'II ory. I CTRLI-[!) is a shortcut for I MENU I .Edit be allowed to type in 39 characters. As .undo. and is available in the following you enter the 11th character. the first applications: Phone Book. Appoint character gets pushed left. out of view. IApptBook I ments. Note Taker. Database. and World But it's still in the field. Time. ~-[!) reverses the last data If you copy the highlighted contents altering or file-altering action. such as of a field to the clipboard. all characters. Pasting an appointment to a deleting. editing. cutting or pasting even those that are hidden. get copied. different time ecords. or merging files. You can also Some field boxes don't allow more undo an undo operation. characters than can actually be seen all I What if your Palmtop beeps at 11 am at once. other boxes do. You'II just have with an alarm box reminding you to "Pay to experiment. the water bill." but you're too busy to Windows key-combinations for attend to the bill immediately? You'II cutting, copying, or pasting probably want to reschedule the appointment for sometime later in the f you're more comfortable using the day. standard Windows key-combinations for What to do if you get the "DOS One way to reschedule would be by clipboard operations. you're in luck. First application already active" changing the appOintment time. but this mark a block of text by holding down error message isn't the quickest way. since to alter the I~ and using the Arrow Keys to high time you'd have to open the appointment light the desired text. Then press I CTRLI If you try to run a DOS program from record by pressing I ENTER I. ITABI down to I!I to cut text to the clipboard (it works Filer (by highlighting the program. then the Start Time field. type in a new time just like pressing ~-ICUTI); pressing pressing IENTERI) and you get an error (say. 4 pl. and finally press I F-101 (Done). ~-(9 copies text to the clipboard in message saying. "DOS application Here's a quicker and easier way. the same way as pressing ~-~ already active;' you may have to do two Just cut the appointment and paste it to does; and pressing I CTRq-~ pastes text things before you can proceed. rom the clipboard just like pressing ~ 4 pm. (Press ~-ICUTI. use the First of all. DOS doesn't allow you to I PASTEl. IDownArrowl key to move to 4 pm. then have two applications open at the same press ~-IPASTEI.) time. Because of this. if you've already What if you want to paste the run a DOS program. but instead of exit Fields wider than they appear appOintment or event to 4:30. but the ing from it. you've pressed one of the timeline is set to 60-minute intervals application keys (such as ~. IFILERI. Have you ever been frustrated because (Le .• there are 4 pm and 5 pm appoint etc.) you'II get the error message if you a record field seemed too small? Maybe ment slots displayed. but not one for try to run a second DOS program from you wanted to enter 15 characters into a 4:30)? Press ~-I Spacebar I to toggle to a Filer. In order to run the second pro field that was only 10 characters wide. gram. you'II have to return to DOS and 15-minute or 30-minute timeline. and Well. before you conclude that exit the first program. you can now paste the appointment to But even if you've properly exited 4:30. "::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::"::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: the first DOS program. you'II still get the I Loc .. l I A: " " . " I Loc .. l • , 0 It appears as if you'lI run out of room after CHECH.. DOS applic"Lion .. lre ..dy aCLive L~!lJ..~ typing the 10th character 116:450 ~W~~~DAT ~ 0 ~~~~! ! 1~'§~§ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.. :::.:"::::::::::":::::::::::::::::::.. ::::::::::::::::::: chkre -.1-_.- 146:292 db ..se ~==~~=:====~~~~?T~~~~~~~==~==~ 161 ...... ~t:;: ovl 149:5041 ""'" ~ ·si~~~····t$:·i..·~il.·~.·~.·.f~h · ·· ·.··] ~ ip gr ..b co... 16,450 ... gr ..bb4b wpg . . 2,593 _: . .. . .,..,..,...-,.:".. _: .. ..,_ , ...... _...... _---_..... However. this (and other) fields can actually hold many more characters. If you don't exit twice, you may get this error message. 52 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 AAA QUICK TIPS AAA IApptBook I Find out about your included LXPROMIN which Palmtop with LXPRO monitors only the batteries. Move to Backing up By using LXPRO you different weeks your Palmtop Have you ever wondered can find out the amount of how much memory that memory needed by an In Appointment Book there Backing up your Palmtop is favorite DOS program of application. You can then is an undocumented feature a very important task that yours uses when you run it? edit the application's entry that will let you move should never be overlooked. How about the status of the in the AppManager and around week to week. Press Here is a simple batch file serial port? Every Palmtop assign the amount of mem I SHIFT I-I UpArrow! to go one you can run that will do your user need to know the status ory needed by the program of the batteries. You can find by appending a pipe symbol week into the future, ISHIFT! backup for you quickly and I DownArrow! to go back one completely. This method will out all this and much more if (I) and the amount of mem week. backup all files on your C: you use LXPRO ij by Stefan ory needed to the end of the TOm Gibson drive except hidden files and Peichl, the author of LXPIC. path statement. To do this, [email protected] will include any subdirecto LXPRO is a feature packed start LXPRO using the hot ries that contain data. TSR (Terminate and Stay key (the default is ICTRLI To create this batch file, Resident) utility that every ITAB!) and note the amount Save out-of-the-way press IMEMO! and type the serious palmtop user needs of free memory available. directions following line: in his arsenal. LXPRO can Then start the application monitor (m) and/or change you want to know about and Let's say you have friends or xcopy c:\*.* a:\backup\ /s* (c) the following: bring up LXPRO again and a business contact located note the amount of free somewhere in the country Then press I MENU! file m - battery voltages memory now. The differ on a little-known road off SaveAs and type c:\back.bat m/c- battery low warning ence will be the amount you Rural Route 5. Having an and press IENTER!, then m - card status need to place behind the address is helpful, but dis press IMENU! Quit to exit m/c- serial power status pipe (I) symbol in the path tances in the country are Memo. This will use the m/c - serial channel line of the Application large, you're usually not DOS command XCOPY m/c - serial port configura Manager. familiar with the area, and .EXE to copy all of your files tion (baud, frame, parity, houses can be located down TOm Gibson on the C: drive to a subdirec stop) driveways that are miles [email protected] tory on your PCMCIA card m/c - battery type long with houses not visible named BACKUP. If the m/c - battery charging status from the roads. directory doesn't exist, m/c - display time out You have to go through XCOPY will create it for you. m/c - beeper volume IMISC·I the effort of finding the As with anytime you do m - free main memory place, but make it easier on file manipulation, you will m - video mode My password yourself. Take down specific want to have all of your m - power source doesn't work! directions for an address in applications closed to avoid m/c - 1MB RAM (00000- unfamiliar territory, be it rural the chance of data corrup FFFFF) with search function There is nothing more fright Iowa or New York City. tion and to ensure that all m - all ASCII codes (BIN/ ening than attempting to Include distances, direc the files are backed up. You OCT/HEX/DEC) open an important file only tions, landmarks, etc. Take can also set up an appoint m -all key codes (SCAN/ to find that your password them down on your palmtop, ment to run this batch file ASCII) doesn't work. Recently this not on a piece of paper. automatically at night when m - HEx/DEC/OCT/BIN happened to me. Several of (E.G., "Take Rural Rout Five you are asleep. conversions up to 16 my database files are pass 3.2 miles South, past the air Just open Appointment bits word protected. When it port, and turn East (left) on Book, press ~ (Add) and came time to enter my pass Hasker Road. Go 1.5 miles type in IC:\BACK.BAT, Additionally, LXPRO has word I was shocked to see until you see a stand of pine select the time you want it to one window with a Program the message, "File is trees ... ") run and any repeat options mers Calculator (HEX/DEC Password Protected". It took Store these in the Notes you may choose, and make /OCT/BIN) in RPN (Rever me several panic-stricken field of the contact's entry in sure that the Alarm Enabled sed Polish Notation) with minutes before I realized Phone Book. box is Checked. arithmetic and logical opera that I left my Caps-Lock on tors. from a recent task in Memo. Rich Hall TOm Gibson LXPRO comes with the Since passwords are case HP Palmtop Paper [email protected] full utility or you can use the sensitive, your password will THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 53 only work in the case in run the conversion. If you MoreEXM ii, from Hiroyuki Name: Global Search which it was entered. are using Buddy, you should Sekiya, in Vo1.6 , No.1, Pg. Path: a:\bin\gs.exm first turn it off before running 39 , MoreEXM is a TSR Key assignment: (Alt)+(F10) Ken Moore the macro. (Term-inate and Stay KenAMoore @ao/. com Resident) that lets you set AppManager adds the fol TOm Gibson up and run virtually an lowing single line to the /om_gibson @/haddeus.com unlimited number of EXM APNAME .LST file: New interactive programs. You cannot set up currency update the additional EXM applica a:\bin\gs.exm,71DD,Global Search macro-builder Using a mouse with an HP Palmtop tions in Applications Mana ger. They must be set up in This line contains all the For those of us who travel If you have ever desired to APNAME.LST and activated information that MORE internationally, or for those of by hot key. In addition, EXM EXM.INI needs, and in the us who just like to know how use a mouse with an HP Palmtop, make sure that the programs started from proper format. much our money is worth MoreEXM cannot be closed Open the file APNAME someplace else, Peter Enable COM1 Port in DOS box is checked, ' or the by pressing lEI IMENU I [!J .LST in Memo, highlight the Watkins ([email protected]) lEI (Close All). entire line and Cut it to the and the folks at palmtop.net mouse will fail. To enable clipboard by pressing ~+O. have put up a new Currency this feature, go to SETUP by pressing ICTRq- 1FILER I, press Installing MoreEXM Then open MOREEXM.INI in Conversion Macro To install MoreEXM, copy Memo. Go to the bottom of the Generator at I MENU I Qptions .commun ications, and check the MOREEXM.COM to a direc file and Paste the line in. Save http://www.palmtop.net! tory identified in your PATH MOREEXM.INI and quit money.html. The service is Enable Com1 Port in DOS statement. Insert 'moreexm' Memo. After you have added free, very easy to use, and by pressing IALTI-I!]. just before the line '100' the EXM program in the up-to-date, using data taken TOm Gibson ('200' on the 200LX) in your MoreEXM.INI file, don't forget from the Bank of Montreal /om_gibson @/haddeus,com AUTOEXEC.BAT, as follows: to remove it from the Currency Spot and Forward Application Manager by high Rates page. moreexm lighting it and pressing the To use the service, go to 100 IDEL! key. the above page and select ISystem Manager I the 21 currencies you would This added line 10,ads TOm Gibson like. Make choice 1 your local /om_gibson@/haddeus.com Have more EXM MoreEXM before the App currency as this is the one all programs available Manager. If you need to the others are compared to. unload MoreEXM for any When you are done choosing Have alarms even A System Manager compli reason, type moreexm -r the currencies, simply click on when System Manager ant program is a special from the DOS prompt. "Build my Macro" and you will is terminated DOS program that is MoreEXM uses an ini go to an intermediate page designed to have the look tialization file named MORE If you are like me, you have which you can bookmark if and feel of the built-in appli you will want the same cur EXM.INI to register your been in a DOS program cations and which can be EXM applications by path working away or having fun rencies again. run using a hot-key combi Click on the link on the name and start key. It should playing a game only to real nation while inside of be placed in A:\ and/or ize that you are late for an second page to finish build System Manager. ing the macro and you will C:\_DAT\ directories. During appointment because the The maximum number startup, MoreEXM reads alarm you so diligently set for be presented with a "save of EXM or System Manager file" dialogue box allowing A:\MOREEXM.INI and yourself didn't go off because compliant programs that can you to save MONEY.MAC, C:\_DAT\MORE you terminated System be installed in the the macro file you just built. EXM.INI. Manager. This doesn't have Application Manager is 9 for Next, copy MONEY.MAC to The easiest method to happen anymore, thanks the 100LX and 8 for the your Palmtop, open up available to add an EXM to Harry Konstas who has 200LX. If more are added, System Macros by pressing application to MOREEXM written HP ALARM Watch you will receive a "Cannot ICTRq-f!) (MORE) and save .INI is the following (the doc dog Ii. This is a small Ter find application" error mes your current macros by umentation for the file gives minate and Stay Resident sage when you attempt to more methods if you are pressing I MENU I file SaveAs (TSR) utility program which run them. and give the System Macro interested). enables alarms that have Many people have written file a name like When you add an EXM been set with the Appoint System Macros to get around MYMACROS. application to AppManager, ment Book application, to this barrier, but they were Next press I MENU I file its information is automatically trigger even when System complicated and difficult to Qpen and select MONEY stored in the file Manager is terminated. keep up. Starting an applica .MAC from the location you APNAME.LST located in A:\ To install HP ALARM tion was time consuming and saved it to. Exit the System or C:'-DAT. Let's say you were Watchdog, copy ALARM you could not define a hot key Macros by pressing I MENU I to add an application with the .COM to the C:\_DAT subdi for the program. Quit and press ~ +I!I) to following information to the rectory. Next we need to edit We briefly mentioned Application Manager: the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 54 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MA RCHI APRIL 1997 Sharewarelfreeware mentioned in this section TYpe 288 to restart the System Manager MOREEXM - Allows you to add an unlimited number of EXM applications to the System Manager. Freeware. Available at http://www.thaddeus.com. or [!l Next Alarm is set for: 1997/62/ 14 at : 15 :15 on Vol. 6, Number 1 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper On Disk. A: ' _DAT> Buddy is sti II loaded . .. A:'_DAT> LXPRO - Utility that lets you check memory, serial port and battery sta tus, and more. Freeware. Available at: http://www.palmtop.neVsuper.htmlor on this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK ALARM displays the following message when you terminate System HPALARM - .Small TSR utility program that which enables Appointment Manager and sounds an beep when the alarm comes due. You have to Book alarms when you have terminated System Manager. Freeware. return to System Manager to read the content of the appointment. Available at: http://www.palmtop.neVsuper.htmlor on this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Start Memo, press IMENU! file 1997/4/10 at 15:22 Qpen and type in A:\ AUTOEXEC.BAT if the file is When an alarm is triggered, on your PCMCIA card, oth the palmtop will turn on, the HP Product Index erwise substitute the correct display will flash and a beep drive letter. We want to make ing sound will be heard. The [Please find the price and contact information for com the following lines The last 4 flashing of the picture works mercial products mentioned in the articles at the end of the article in which the product is mentioned.] lines in the AUTO EXEC. BAT on any video mode, text or graphic. file: HP Products contact information: Authorized HP computer dealers If you're in the middle of worldwide (Le. the same place you can purchase an HP LaserJet). d:\dos\doskey 100=1 OO$Tc:\ doing something with your To locate an authorized dealer in the USA, call 800-443-1254. You _dat\alarm Ie palmtop and the alarm trig can also purchase the 95LX & 100/200LX and its accessories from c:\_dat\alarm Ii gers, just hold down [ESC] EduCALC at 800-677-7001; Fax: 714-582-1445; A One-Stop 100 key to shut the alarm off Palmtop Shop at 800-709-9494 or 608-752-1537; Fax: 608-752- (snooze). Once the alarm is 9548; Notebook Supply Warehouse at 800-566-6832 or 714-753- c:\_dat\alarm Ie snoozed, you can run 8810, Fax: 714-753-8812. PDA Direct at 800-279-4732 ext 130; System Manager to see Shier Systems at 805-371-9391, Fax: 805-371-9454. When you have made these what the alarm was all about changes, press ~ to save by typing 100 from the DOS HP PALMTOP PRODUCTS the changes and then IMENU! prompt. Note that you don't Quit to exit Memo. Next HP 200LX 4 MB (HP F1216A)- $599 have to open the Appoint close all of the applications (versions available include: US English, UK English, ment Book when you run and reboot by pressing ICTAL! German, Spanish, French, Portugese, Japanese and System Manager to see an +I!!!I+~. The changes we Korean) alarm. You can simply run made to the AUTOEXEC HP 200LX 2MB (HP F1 061 A) - $499 System Manager, see the HP 1000CX 2 MB Palmtop PC (HP F1222A) - $449 .BAT file will make ALARM alarm message, and termi (versions available include: US English, UK English, .COM resident every time nate System Manager German, Spanish, and French) you reboot the palmtop and again. If you don't snooze HP OmniGo 700LX - $NA occupies about 688 bytes of the alarm (probably because (Combination HP 200LX, fax software and Nokia memory when loaded. If you GSM cellular phone.) you're not there) the alarm ever need to uninstall 1.8 Mb Flash Disk (HP F1024A, with Stacker) - $199 will stop after 30 beeps and ALARM, type: 6 Mb Flash Disk (HP F1215C, with Stacker).- $425 the screen will remain nega 10 Mb Flash Disk (HP F1013C, with Stacker) - $600 tive (white characters on alarm lu 20 Mb Flash Disk (HP F1014C, with Stacker) - $999 black background) so when AC/DC Adapter (HP F1 011 A)-$39.95 you come back, you will USA/Canada (Opt. ABA); Europe (Opt. ABB); from the DOS prompt and know if an alarm has been Australia (Opt. ABG); South Africa (Opt. ABO) ALARM will attempt to triggered while you were United Kingdom (Opt. ABU); remove itself from memory. gone. Pressing ~+IZI will PC Connectivity Cable (HP F1015A) - $24.95 You must still set all of toggle the screen back to MAC Connectivity Cable (HP F1 016A) - $24.95 your alarms in the Appoint 100/200LX Connectivity Pack - $119.95 normal. If you are in System ment Book as usual, but you U.S. (HP F1 021 B); International (HP F1 021 C) Manager while the alarm is won't have to worry about Connect/Adapter Kit - $24.95 them when you have termi triggered, you will see the (HP F1023A) 4 adapters for connecting the nated System Manager. familiar pop-up window as 100/200LX to modems, printers, and PCs. When System Manager has usual, instead of the flashing Service Agreements (2-year extension) - $85 screen. been terminated, ALARM will For U.S. HP Palmtop users. Units must be under war ranty to extend. Contact: HP, Corvallis Service Center, display the time and date of Tom Gibson USA; Phone: 503-757-2002. the next alarm, for example: [email protected] NOTE: Prices listed are suggested retail price. Dealer prices may vary. [!] Next alarm is set for THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1997 55 HOWTO CONTACT US Products advertised in this issue ofThe HP Palmtop Paper [Please note: The HP Palmtop Paper does not and cannot provide techmcal support.] COMPANY (PRODUCT) •.. •. •••.•• . •• ••• . •• . •• . •• . •• • •• [PHONE/FAX NUMBERSj ..PAGE NUMBER There are a number of ways to get in touch with The HP Palmtop Paper staff. You Accunte (Floppy Dnves for 100/200LXIDouble Slot) . . .. (510·668·4900; Fax:510·668·4905) .. 19 can write, mail us a disk with your com Actiontec (PMC) (PDA Memory Card ...... [714·851·8242; Fax: 714·851-8249) .. 9 ments, send CompuServe or [nternet e mail, fax, or call. Our mailing address and ASF (Palmtop Computer Light) . . (800·771·3600 or 516-868·3638; Fax: 516·868·6897) .. 25 contact information is: Aware (Micro Roentgen Radiation Monitor) ...... [302·655·3800; Fax: 302·655·3800) .. 23 Calculator World (Trade·in Palmtops) ...... [610.588·4444; Fax: 610·588·1727] .. 18 Thaddeus Computing, Inc., ConectUS Wireless Comm (Wireless Messaging) ...... • ...... [800.350.0373) .. 5 57 E. Broadway Creative Digital (Handheld Systems Conference) .. [415·621-4252; Fax: 415·621-4922) .. 4 Fairfield, IA 52556, U.S.A. o & A Software (Palmtop Software) ...... [805·370.1088; Fax 805·371·9454) .. 26 Phone: 515-472-6330 DTS Wireless Messaging (Wireless Messaging Service) ...... [888·243·8387 or 908·602·1144; Fax: 908·602·0990) .. 27 or 800-373-6114 E&B (Leather Cases) ...... [800·896·2273 ; Inti: 916-344·5047; Fax: 916·782·9306) .. 37 Fax #:515-472-1879 EduCALC (Accessones) ...... [800.385·9376) .. 17 Internet: [email protected] EXP Computer (ThinFax Modem) ...... [8oo·EXP·6922 ext. 641 or 714·453·1020; Fax: 714·453·1319) .. back cover CompuServe: 76125,1773 Greenwich (Palm Link) ...... [800·476·4070 or 704·875·8490; Fax: 704·875·2801) ..40 Greystone Penpherals (PC CardsIDnversiAdapters) ...... [800·800·5710 or 408·866·4739; Fax: 408·866·8328) .. 39 TO SUBSCRIBE, change address, or clear Inmax (CGA VGA Graphics Pack Vision) ...... [604·980·9991; Fax: 604·985·5597] .. 31 up any problem with your subscription, MagicRAM (Flash Card/Hard Dnve/Card) ...... [800·272·6242 or 213·413-9999; Fax: 213-413·0828) .. 30 contact our subscription department. Call Notebook Supply Warehouse (Memory upgrades and assorted products.) (1100.566.6832 or 714·257·1680; Fax: 714·257·1688) ..inside back cover or fax us at the phone numbers above. E mail us at: [email protected] PC Depot (ATA Flash Cards) ...... [800·570·8828 or 818·888·8288; Fax: 818·888·8293) ..43 Pretec (PCMCIA Memory Cards) . ... [510.440·0535; Fax: 510·440.0534) .. 31 TO ADVERTISE in The HP Palmtop Paper Puma (Windows Connectivity K") ... [800·248·2795 or 408·321-7650; Fax: 802·658·3991) .. 18 contact Brian Teitzman, Margaret Martin RadioMail (Wireless Messaging Service) ... . . [800·597-6245 dept. NT3) ..inside front cover or Tiffany Lisk at phone: 515-472-1660 or Shier Systems (Cables. software. & accessones) ...... (805 ·371·9391 ; Fax: 805·371·9454) .. 20 800-809-5603; Fax: 515-472-8409. (World Wide Web Browser for Palmtops) . . 6 SkyTel (Wireless Messaging Service) ...... [800·858·4322) .. 15 Technical Support Steele Creek Technologies (Card Link Dnves) . ... [Phone/Fax: 704·588·1780) .. 43 Thaddeus Computing (Subscnptions: HP Palmtop Paper. HP Palmtop Paper ON DtSK) ...... 49 HP Technical Support - HP offers tech nical support from 8:00am. - 5:00pm. P.s.T. .(800.373-6114 or 515·472·6330; Fax: 515-472·1879) Phone: 970-392-1001. . . . (Knowledge products: HP Palmtop Tech Ref. Manual, Lotus/DOS Reference Books. HP PTP's CD InfoBase) .. 8 (The Palmlop Pape(s new 1997 CD tnfoBase) ...... 28.29 On-Line Support- offered by these bul Times2 Tech (HP 200LX 5MB RAM Upgrade) ...... (Phone/Fax: 205-620·1408) .. 33 letin board services. Trans Digital (Trans PC Card·Universal Parallel Port) ...... [Phone: 510·745·97n; Fax: 510·745·9937) .. 42 World Market Str.! PDA Inc. (Forum for Handheld Computing in Heatthcare) ...... [415·252·8008; Fax: 415·252·8055) .. 11 o COMPUSERVE: GO HPHAND FORUM - Call 800-848-8199 or 614- 457-0802: For FREE membership state #231 . o AMERICA ON LINE: Keyword PALMTOP - Call 800-827-6364 or Shareware and Freeware Index (MarchlApril1997) 703-893-6288 for membership informa Software on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe tion. o INTERNET: comp.sys.palmtops; or PRODUCT FUNCTION CIS FORUM I LIBRARY TYPE PAGE comp.sys.handhelds ACRONVM.EXE Database: acronym database. HP Hand. 11 Freeware 9 ADVERT.ZIP Text: descriptions of products advertised in this issue. NA NA NA AVIA.ZIP Database: aviation data. NA Shareware 9 BUBBLE10.ZIP Game: graphical arrangement game. NA Freeware 3 How to Submit an Article CALCSOL.ZIP Game: solitaire card game NA'1 Freeware 9 FLEXPAD.zIP Application: ver. 2.0 of free form text editorlPlM. HP Hand, 11, '1, '2 Shareware 9 The richness of The HP Palmtop Paper HEARTS.ZIP HP Palmtop version of the popular card game NA '2 Shareware 23 comes from the contributions of Palmtop HPALARM.ZIP Utility: enables alarms. NA'1 Freeware 54 PC users. We and your fellow users wel LXPRO.zIP Utility: monitors various functions. NA'1 Freeware 53 come your submissions. (We do not offer ND·INTEG.WK1 Spreadsheet: numeric integration macro. NA Freeware 47 payment for articles, your reward is know NORMDIST.WK1 Spreadsheet file: tables. NA Freeware 46 mg that you've helped others.) PTP32.ZIP Text: The HP Palmtop Paper. Mar/Apr 1997. NA NA NA 1f you have a good idea and want to "go PTPDSK32.zIP Database: PTP On Disk Index in .GDB format. NA NA NA for it," send it in via CompuServe e-mail PWR200BP.zIP Utility: sets power time·out. HP Hand, 8 Freeware 9 [75300,2443], Internet: hal_goldstein@thad SVMBMATH.ZIP Application: a symbolic calculator. NA Shareware 9 deus.com, or send disk or liard copy to Hal VDE.ZIP Application: word proceSSing. HP Hand, 7 '1 Shareware 6 Goldstein or Rich Hall at the above address. Alternatively you can send an '1 http:\\www.palmtop.netlsuper.html '2 http://www.thaddeus.com outline of your idea. We will try to guide you as to when and whether we woufd use the article and contact you if we need clari Software mentioned and included in The 1997 HP Palmtop Paper CD Info8ase fication or have any suggestions - please GOLF.ZIP, solnaire game, free , page 3; HP SOK.ZIP, game, free, page 3; PKZIP and PK UNZIP, applications for file compression include your phone number. We may want to use an article but for a variety of and decompression, page 26; WORM.ZIP, game, free, page 3; VATZEE.ZIP, game, free, page 3. reasons you may not see it for many months. Please understand that we cannot Software included in the Special Jan/Feb 1997 Edition of The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk promise to run any particular article at any (These files also at www.thaddeus.com) particular time. If you can, especially if you write a 777, game, free. page 23; DOMINOES. game, free, page 3; MOREXM, utility for installing multiple exm files. page 23; ; PLAVEX. Palmtop Profile, send us a photo of your tones, free, page 23; SOLITARE, game, free. page 3; TUNE, tones and metronome, free. page 23; ZOOMC.ZIP. Application: self - black and white is preferred, but magnification program, free , page 22. color is acceptable. TO ORDER the CD InfoBase or HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK, see order card page 8 56 THE HPPALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1997 Maintains up-to-date information on your HP 200LX and your PC Works direcHy with today's leading PC applications Keep important information safe with built-in backup and restore functions Features easy one-time setup Synchronizes multiple PC applications in one step Automatically resolves conAicts between the HP- 200LX and your PC Fully customizable to Windows Applica~on Imports data to your HP200LX from other mobile devices Runs under Windows 95, NT, Workgroups, and Windows 3.1 • Includes HP-F1 015A serial coble Rea~d your palmtop hands free while stopped in traffic PUM-Intellisync Intellisync Software $65 SmDisk~ATA FLASH cards Trans PC Card HP 200LX Palmtops Sizes are not compressed. ATA cards are for use in HP 200LX and 1OOOCX only. SAN-ATA02MB Sandisk 2MB ATA FLASH $99 Universal Parallel Port SAN-ATA04MB Sandisk 4MB ATA FLASH $119 True DOS tibility SAN-ATA06MB Sandisk 6MB ATA FLASH $159 SAN-ATAOBMB Sandisk BMB ATA FLASH $195 SAN-ATA10MB Sandisk 10MB ATA FLASH $249 SAN-ATA20MB Sandisk 20MB ATA FLASH $359 SAN-ATA40MB Sandisk 40MB ATA FLASH $799 SAN-ATAB5MB Sandisk 85MB ATA FLASH $1,675 ~1'!?.e!5 ATA FLASH cards The HP 200LX features true DOS compatibility - the ONLY this feature. Simple Technology ATA Flash cards use the Cirrus logic Chip set. The unformatted capacity Built in programs such as appointment book, phone book, data base , memo, Pocket for each card is shown here. The formatted capacity will be slightly smaller than shown. Quicken, and Lotus 1-2-3 make it easy to organize your business or personal infor STI-ATAFU4 4MB ATA card FLASH $105 mation. The 200LX features true PCMCIA compatibility as well as being able to run STI-ATAFUB BMB ATA card FLASH $165 PC Card with fast parallel Port and Instant File Transfer a wide variety of compatible software programs including all those DOS favorites STI-ATAFU10 10MB ATA card FLASH $185 Trans PC Card adds the Parallel Port making your from the PC days. The 200LX is a powertul business tool with several web brows er and e-mail programs available. NSW provides the HP 200LX in factory configu STI-ATAFU16 16MB ATA card FLASH $239 Palmtop 100% real PC, so now you can connect paral rations as well as our own modified versions with expanded memory capacity. STI-ATAFU32 32MB ATA card FLASH $465 lel devices like 100 MB Zip, etc. and print fast to stan STI-ATAFU40 40MB ATA card FLASH $530 HP-F1061A HP200LX w/2MB memory 1449 dard parallel printers. The card is also compatible with HP-F1216A HP200LX w/4MB memory 569 Notebook PC's. NSW-F1066A HP200LX modified to 6MB memory 619 Software for HP Palmtops Programs for instant (no installation or setup) transfer - HP-F1 011 A 11 Ov/220v AC Adapter 131 ABC/LX Battery Management Software synchronization and management of files between PC's HP-Fl 021 B Connectivity Pack 92 acCIS CompuServe connectivity software HP-Fl015A Palmtop to PC serial cable 20 are on the Card flash to save system memory. The Card Quick/LX Typing assistance program (Type 1, very low power draw) upon insertion becomes HP-Fl016A Palmtop to MAC serial cable 20 WWW/LX Internet Web browser software drive A. HP-Fl023A Adapter kit for serial cable 22 Programs on Card run under DOS 5.0 and Windows MODEM Don't risk your modem to an unsafe telephone ~"- _""";.;,i,,--_~ using familiar XCOPY syntax or point and shoot inter line , Test the socket before you plug in. Color face. Included cable (used also for connection to SAVER LEOs indicate jack status. No battery needed. Only $24.95 peripherals) allows transfer between the Card in HP Palmtop and PC standard parallel port at 30KB/sec. - 60 X faster than Puma's IntelliSync. OMNIGO PALMTOP HANDBAG Between two Notebook PC's the effective transfer rate is The Palmtop handbag from COAST pro faster than 400 KBps. This is 4 to 8 times faster than 100 vides a portable office solution. Room using lOMbps/100 Mbps Ethernet PC Cards. To transfer for your Palmtop or OmniGo, paper, pen, at this rate, two Trans PC Cards are needed, one for business cards, and even a cell phone. This soli leather bag originally sold at each notebook. But transferring with only one card and over $120, NSW has a limited supply a standard parallel port of the other PC, is still twice as HP-F1310A HP OmniGo 100 Organizer $229 IIo'."ook Stlppl, U/ar.hous. available for .. . ONLY $49.95 fast as using LapLink. HP-F1305A OmniGo 120 $349 Even;thlng you need for mobile computing HP-F1306A HP Link to Windows Pack $99 Trans PC Card with Trans Flex Cable, Manual, Quick HP-F1314A Replacement Pen pack (3 pens) $10 655 N. Berry Street, Suite E, Brea, CA 92821 Reference and backup disk ...... $149 NSW-SRAM01 1MB SRAM storage card $99 Tel: 714-257-1680, Fax: 714-257-1688 Optional Universal Parallel Cable 611.12011 ...... $29/$59 NSW-SRAM02 2MB SRAM storage card $159 Internet Address: [email protected] The world's smallest parallel port printer cable for fast Compuserve Address: 73430,1336 printing on Pentax PocketJet connected to Trans PC Visit us online at: www.nsupply.com Card...... $29 Also, visit us at the I-Mall at: www.nsw-inc.com HP ACCESSORIES Toll-Free Order Line: AND CABLES 1-800-566-6832 THE POUCH The POUCH is the perfect casual case _rzrn. 11 OV Accurite floppy drive $229 for the Palmtop or OmniGo 100. Made Payment accepted by MC, ~SA , AE, Discover, COD cash and of waterproof neoprene, the POUCH 220V Accurite floppy drive $249 Bank Wire Transfer. Govemmen~ Educational and Double Slot for HP200LX $149 will protect your palmtop from dings Corporate Purchase Orders accepted.lntemational orders, Serial to Parallel converter adapter $55 and dirt. Specify OmniGo or Palmtop call 714-257-1680 or fax 714-257-1688. Serial to Parallel converter cable $75 model when ordering. 8ft. coiled cord $8 ONLY 5.95 ea. The Only HP Palmtop Upgrade That Has It All. To get the most from your lIP 100/200LX palmtop, you need 3 advanced upgrades on 1 convenient PCMCIA card. First, you need to send and receive both faxes and data at an exceptional 14, 400 bps speed. Second, you need fax/modem software that operates easily with the same lIP function keys and commands you already use ... without the hassle of downloading software and without consuming precious hard disk space. Third, you need Flash memory for fast, easy access to all your software applications and for efficiently storing data. Plus you need to fax from and receive faxes into your Flash memory for extra convenience. And, most of all, you need the flexibility to use all your upgrade features together or independently, without inserting and removing separate fax/modem and memory cards. Now you can have it all with ThinFax 1414LXM. ALL THE ADVANCED UPGRADE FEATURES YOU NEED ••• ON 1 CONVENIENT PCMCIA CARD. EXP's award-winning MiniFax™ software. High-speed fax/modem. 2 or 4 MB Flash memory. They're all built into the ThinFax 1414LXM card. That's why ThinFax 1414LXM is the Qill: upgrade that's a must for your lIP palmtop. So call the toll-free number today for complete ThinFax 1414LXM specifications and the name of an EXP dealer near you. CRll: 71U53-1020 or FRX: 71U53-1319 http://www.expnet.eom ~ MOBILE COMPUTING EXPERTISE IS BUILT INTO OUR NAME.