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.JULY/AUG 1992 THE PPalmtop aper INSIDE: Publisher's Message ........ 2 Letters •.....•........... 3 Reviews Useful Software - 95Buddy, Four Extraordinarily Useful Switch!, UNO, UMA . .. cover, 6 Best Batteries . 13 Software Packages - User Profiles each under $50 Physician Keeps On Top Of Practice .... .. ..... 16 95Buddy and Switch! add a number of useful features News From HP to the HP 95LX, and make it easier to run system From the Factory ........ 19 compliant and DOS programs. Useful Notes adds Free RAM Card electronic ''post-its'' to your Palmtop and Useful for Stories . .. 19 1.3" Hard Drive . 20 Macros greatly expands the 95LX's macro capabilities. SkyStream Receiver ... .. ... 21 HP 95LX Support Introduction by Hal Goldstein HP Handhelds Forum .. .. ... 21 During the last few months four inexpensive yet well-conceived and Thaddeus Computing News useful programs have come to our attention. Two of these programs, User to User: What we'll 95Buddy and Switchl, were written specifically to remedy some of see soon ......... ...... 22 the limitations of the HP 95LX. The other two programs, Useful Columns Notes (UNO) and Useful Macros (UMA) are programs originally Looking Glass: Backing written for the IBM PC but adapted to the 95LX. Up with ZIP ............. 26 95Buddy fixes many of the awkward keystroke combinations Savvy User: New Solver to 1-2-3 transfer ...... ..... 30 and inconsistencies of the HP 95LX. For example: It automatically . Programmer's Corner: saves and exits built-in applications when going from FILER to Swift!Basic .......... .... 32 DOS. It lets IMENU I File Open do the same thing across all built-in Getting Started: Directories . .. 34 (Continued on page 6) Third Party 95LX Products Hardware . 38 Software ........ ....... 39 Thaddeus Computing, Inc. Application to mail P.O. Box 869 2nd Class pending Basic Tips ............. " 45 Fairfield, Iowa 52556 at Fairfield, Iowa Quick Tips ......... .. 46-47 Forwarding and Address Correction Requested Palmtop Paper On Disk . .. 48 Advertiser's Index . .. 48 NOW DOUBLE YOUR CAPACITY with DoubleCard! Introducing TM DoubleCard 2.0 RAM Memory Card NEW! DoubleCard 2.0 now doubles both your standard RAM cards and your HP95LX internal RAM disk! Now up to 5 MegaBytes on your HP95LX! DoubleCard 2.0 ACE Technologies introduces DoubleCard 2.0 with its unique new DoubleRAMfeature. 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We're all in for Ed Keefe a treat these coming months as these and Mark Scardina other products under development ship. Contributing Writers A number of you have written asking Marty Mankins Larry Lefkowitz about battery alternatives for the HP Robert Williams 95LX. Mark Scardina did his usually Ted Dickens thorough and to-the-heart-of-the-matter Copy Editor Hal Goldstein job in researching and writing about this Margaret Martin subject. Mark compares four types of Advertising/Marketing double-As; two rechargeables, an alkaline, and a lithium-based Brian Teitzman Peder Sweeney battery. Circulation Ed Keefe reviews SwiftlBasic, a programming language for the Kelly Johnson rest of us that allows programmers in BASIC to create graphics Rene LaReau Marni White and system compliant applications for the 95LX. At the same time Signe Wilson we have not forgotten novices as you will see with our new "Basic Diane Wimett Tips" page ("Basic" here means "fundamental"). Executive Advisor Finally, both Thaddeus Computing (The HP Palmtop Paper) Rita Goldstein and Hewlett-Packard have small favors to ask - both with rewards The HP Palmtop Paper is published to you: bimonthly by Thaddeus Comput ing Inc., at 57 East Broadway Ave If you like The HP Palmtop Paper and Subscribers Disk and nue, Fairfield, IA 52556. Second plan to renew, please take a minute and fill out the enclosed card class postage pending at Fairfield, or call in your renewal. You'll avoid getting any of those annoying Iowa. Subscription rates payable in U.S. dollars, checks drawn on a renewal notices, and we'll avoid the time and expense of sending U.S. bank, or by credit card - one them. year: $39; two years: $69. Postage: U.S. and U.S. possessions free; If you appreciate your HP 95LX, see page 19 and tell HP how Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; you use it. As a thank you, HP will be giving away RAM cards to other countries add $18 per year. both the earliest and the best responses. Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, MarketIng and Advertising Offices: P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52556. Telephone: (515) 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472- 1879. Copyright 1992, Thaddeus Computing Inc., all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permis sion. Reasonable efforts are made Subscribers Disk Users to provide accurate and useful Based on initial feedback most of you appreciated and were able to install Subscribers Disk programs. However. others of information, but the reader must you had problems. Please note the following: make his or her own investigations 1. 486 owners: The INSTAlL program on the 1992 Subscribers Disk. Version 1.01. does not work on 486 machines. The and decisions; the Publisher and simplest solution is to run INSTAlL on a non-486 PC. Alternatively. see manual page 16 or mail us your disk with your Editorial Staff cannot assume any name and address. stating '486 machine', and we'lI mail you back a updated version of the disk. responsibility or liability for the use 2.