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News from HP HP Announces New 1 MB 9SLX Upgrade HP95LX to 1MB 95LX ... front cover U.S. Users Can Upgrade! Rebate offer ...... 5 Advantages of Upgrading .. 6 HP announces a new 95LX with 1MB of internal memory, and a program where current u.s. users can upgrade Features their 95LXs for $190. HP also introduces a 1MB RAM Card. Opening Up the 95LX . . . .. 7 Using APNAME.LST ...... 9 Reviews HP 95LX Upgrade Connectivity Packs ...... 11 Mac to 95LX Connectivity . 17 By Richard Hall Profiles On-The-Road Diary ...... 20 Since the introduction of the 95LX in April of 1991, increased memory has been the most asked-for enhancement by 95LX users. Quick Tips ...... 24 As of March 4,1992 HP will offer a 95LX with 1MB of internal RAM memory. The list price of the new 95LX will be $799. HP 95LX Support Current owners of the HP 95LX in the U.S. can upgrade their Accessing CompuServe . . 26 Palmtops before December 31, 1992, for $190. Upgrades will receive a 90-day warranty or the balance remaining on the original DOS Connection warranty, which ever is greater. To upgrade follow these steps: Finish Line '" ...... 31 1. COMPLETE the form in the box on page 6. Columns 2. PACKAGE your 95LX for shipping (original packaging Looking Glass ...... 34 if available). Enclose the items listed on page 5. Sawy User ...... 37 Programmer's Corner .... 38 (Continued on page 5.) How Do You Do That? ... 39 Getting Started ...... 41
Thaddeus Computing, Inc. Application to mail 2nd Class Third Party 95LX Products P.O. Box 869 pending at Fairfield. Iowa Hardware ...... 43 Fairfield, Iowa 52556 Software ...... 45 Other ...... 48
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Stacker LZS is a trademark of Stac Electronics. DoubleCard is a trademark of ACE Technologies, Inc. ACEcard is a trademark of ACE Technologies, Inc. Publisher's Message The HP Palmtop Paper Volume one I Number two Kudos to HP for providing an upgrade March I April 1992 path to its U.S. users at a reasonable Executive EditorlPublisher price. Hopefully, a similar offer will be Hal Goldstein made soon to the 95LX's sizable interna Managing Editor tional base. Richard Hall Department Editors When HP performs the upgrade from Tom Page 512K to 1 MB of RAM, HP replaces the Ed Keefe Mark Scardina entire main logic board. That board con Bil. Alvernaz tains the CPU (the "brains" of the HP Contributing Writers 95LX), the ROM that contains the built Todd Bernhard in software, and the 95LX's RAM memo Bernie Kim Copy Editors Hal Goldstein ry. That means if HP decides to intro Margaret Martin duce new versions of the HP 95LX with Kelly Johnson better built-in software or a faster pro Advertising cessor, HP could offer a similar upgrade program. This is pure Brian Teitzman Circulation speculation, but within the realm of possibility. Kelly Johnson With HP introducing the upgrade, Managing Editor, Richard Margaret Martin Hall convinced me to let him take one of our HP 95LXs apart so Marni White Executive Advisor we could see what HP would be doing. Following instructions from Rita Goldstein fellow users, Richard successfully accomplished this. He reports on The HP Palmtop Paper is published this unrecommended procedure for the adventuresome and bimonthly by Thaddeus Comput foolhardy. ing Inc., at 57 East Broadway Ave nue, Fairfield, IA 52556. Second Connectivity - the ability to transfer information between the class postage pending at Fairfield, HP Palmtop and other computers - is fundamental to HP 95LX Iowa. Subscription rates payable in U.S. dollars, checks drawn on a users. Bil. Alvernaz and Bernie Kim review several excellent U.S. bank, or by credit card - one alternatives for the PC and MAC. year: $39; two years: $69. Postage; U.S. and U.S. possessions free; . Larry Lefkowitz takes us by the hand and shows us, step by Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; step, how to use the HP 95LX on CompuServe. He teaches us how other countries add $18 per year. Please allow four to six weeks for to send messages and download files with a 95LX and modem. receipt of first issue. Executive, Ed Keefe in Looking Glass and Tom Page in Savvy User show Editorial, Circulation, and Adver tising Offices: P.O. Box 869, Fair us some of the power of HP Solve. Meanwhile Bil. Alvernaz and field,IA 52556. Telephone: (515) I discuss how the CHAR key can be put to good use. 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. Copyright 1992, Thaddeus Comput As described in the Fall 1991 issue, the 1992 Subscribers Disk ing Inc., all rights reserved. No will be mailed out around the time of the May / June issue. I part of this publication may be reproduced without written pennis decided not to release a disk earlier because I felt that it would sion. Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful take some months before the most useful HP 95LX utilities would information, but the reader must be developed. I believe I was right, and I promise you the disk will make his or her own investigations and decisions; the Publisher and be worth waiting for. Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of information contained herein. POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to Thaddeus Computing, Inc., Attn: The HP Palmtop Paper, P.O. Box 869, Fair field, IA 52556.
MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 1 . LETTERS
Bug in PHONE and them every Friday or when APPT Find Function the battery indicator is in HOW TO CONTACT US I usually don't write letters the first 1/3 of the scale. I to publications for lack of use the 95LX all day long There are a number of ways to get in touch with The HP time, but I do want to ex and find that there isn't Palmtop Paper staff. You can write; mail us a disk with your plain that the reason for enough difference in how comments; send CompuServe mail; fax; or call. Our address is: the problem in the Find long they last with regular function is that the comput AA batteries vs. recharge Thaddeus Computing, Inc. er has to search through all able ones, so why pay more? The HP Palmtop Paper the dates that you have set Make a permanent note to PO 80x869 up in the repeat appoint check/change your batteries Fairfield, IA 52556 ments. For example if you every Friday and that will U.S.A. probably be good enough. have set up repeating ap Fax #:515-472·1879 Alfred Hen pointments up to the year Phone: 515-472-6330 2906 it might take six hours Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon., or ~373-6114 . until it finishes searching. MEXICO If you want to find things CompuServe 10: fast, you have to do either Hal Goldstein, [75300,2443] of the following: Something needed to help users see the (To send material to our street address, you may substitute "57 1. Avoid setting long term 95LX's diAplay screen E. Broadway" for "po Box 869".) repeating or other ap pointments After working with the To contribute to The HP Palmtop Paper, contact Publisher / 2. Use a trick to find 95LX for a while, I discov Executive Editor, Hal Goldstein or Managing Editor, Richard things faster. ered that my U-year-old Hall. son had a similar problem Here is a trick that will let with his Nintendo Game To advertise in The HP Palmtop Paper, contact advertising you find things fast: first Boy as I had with the 95LX. sales director, Brian Teitzman. you set the date to a little The display screen on both To subscribe, change address, or clear up any problem with more than where you think devices is small and some your subscription, contact our subscription department the item to find might be. times difficult to read in (Director, Kelly Johnson). For example if you know poor light. We solved his For support: We are not staffed to answer your HP 95LX that tip can be found in this problem with a device questions by phone. If you send us a letter describing your year, go to January 1, 1993. called the Light Boy (mar problem we may publish and respond to it. For faster response Then search backwards, keted by Vic Tokai Inc, we suggest you: that way it only searches 22904 Lockness Ave, Tor through the one year in rance, CA 90501, USA). It 1. Call HP at 800-443-1254 for pre-sales information, dealer stead of having to search all attaches to the Game Boy locations, and answers to common questions. the way through the far and provides both light and 2. Call HP for technical support at 900-288-0025 from 8am - future. This is done by magnification of the game 3pm Pacific time. For non:U.S. customers, look in your User's Guide or call your local HP sales office. pressing F7, entering the screen. 3. Join the HP 95LX section of the CompuServe HPSYS search string and then Frank Mattsson Forum (call 800-848-8990 or 614-457-8650). pressing F5. Lasne, BELGIUM As for the bug in the PHONE Find function, this may be caused by incorrect 95LXGreat expressly designed for this household, each month used keying. If you are careful to for Reading Meters purpose. There are lots of to bring a host of excuses press only the right keys, it I use the HP 95LX to read water, gas, and electric and lots of bickering about should not happen. If you utility meters and then meters out there and they who was going to give up want to avoid all problems, transfer the meter readings all have to be read. an entire weekend to bal don't use F7 at all. You can via the connectivity pack to Tom Carson ance the checkbooks. Now I find things in the phone my PC. I developed a sim Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A. even volunteer to balance book with F5 (Go To) just ple 1-2-3-based program, my wife's checkbook! For as well if you are looking and it works great! My only $50 (after receiving a for a name. If you are look research indicates that Likes Money Manager; direct rebate) you owe it to ing for the name "tuition," cities pay $8,000 to $10,000 Recommends The HP yourself to get this nifty you just press F5 and "tui per hand held with software DeskJet Printer program. Incidentally, Mon tion" and press enter. It will to do this job. The 95LX is a I highly recommend Money ey Manager is not only de go right there with no prob great alternative - for Manager, from the Autobyte signed especially for the lems at all. apartments, mobile home Corporation (see ad, page 95LX's screen, it also comes I also tried but recharge parks, ore even cost-con 25, JanlFeb 92 issue) as an with a TSR version for your able batteries vs. regular scious municipalities. I excellent way to get control desktop or notebook PC. expensive AA batteries and challenge professional pro or" your personal finances. For those of you consid I opted for using recharge grammers to come up with With two wage-earners and ering a printer, I want to able batteries and changing a RAM card-based program four checkbooks in our mention that HP's DeskJet
2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1992 printer works great via the cording to Webster's Seventh novice (Jan! Feb 1992, page Windows Programs serial interface. As a bonus, New Collegiate Dictionary, 35). However, the shutdown I was reluctant to convert the DeskJet also comes a "geek" is a carnival per function does not work as to the HP 95LX Palmtop be with a parallel interface former whose act includes you have described. In OFF cause I have become accus which you can leave con biting the head off a live mode the HP is truly shut tomed to my AST 386 Note nected to your desktop chicken." I probably should down, not simply powered· book computer. With a computer. Lotus 1-2-3's have checked back with the down. The program param 60MB hard drive, space is LaserJet interface works author to make sure his use eters and data segments are not an issue for its PIMs with text, but I haven't of the word wasn't inten saved t(} RAM and the CPU and Database program. I tried it with graphs yet. tional. I throw myselfon the is shut off. Upon turning on did not see how the 95LX Anyone out there have any mercy of the subs.cribers. - the data is restored as the could become an efficient experiences with the 95LX/ Rich.] applications are activated. productivity tool. However, DeskJet combination? Mark Scardina pulling out a full size note John Pomeroy HP95LX San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. book computer in a phone State College, PA, U.S.A Shutdown when Off booth or with a customer I read your getting started required too much juggling. Letters combined: memory article and think it Using The HP 95LX The need for something like will the real nerd is well presented for the with Other DOS/ the 95LX, with its built-in please stand stand up! One minor complaint: on page 2, the first 50% or so HAVE FUN WITH YOUR HP95LX! of the note attributed to Ed Greenberg is actually from me - check out the file I uploaded to Lib 14 in HPSYS a few months back. The stuff from the begin ning of the note through the paragraph ending "... for the case to "adapt" to the 95LX" is mine, taken from that file, and the rest is from a forum message Ed posted a volullle , few weeks later. David RallUley San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
I AM NOT A "NERD" Well, maybe I am, but I didn't write such a com ment in the last HP Palm top Paper. In an easily understandable typographi cal foul-up, Palmtop Paper seems to have mixed my article about a leather case for the 95LX with David Ramsey's article on the same subject, giving me credit for the whole thing in To Order: the process. So, I'd like to go on re Call ACE TOLL FREE: cord thanking David Ram Discover the fun part of your HP95L.X. sey for (a) machining the 1/800 825-9977 aluminum form, (b) finding Relax, sit back and enjoy games such as Brian Digardi, and (c) pio Tetris, Blackjack, Craps, Adventure, Reversi, neering the whole project. Ed Greenberg Go, Poker and more, a total of 14 games on San Jose, CA, U.S.A. a single ROM card. ACE Technologies, Inc. [Mea culpa! I did com 2880 Zanker Road, Suite 103 GAMEcard volume 1 (G 100 1) ...... list price $791 San Jose, CA 95134 U.S.A. bine letters accidentally. I (4081428-9722 FAX (4081428-9721
The term somebody used GAMEcard is a trademark 01 ACE Technologies, Inc. © Copyright 1992 ACE Technologies, Inc. was "geek," not "nerd." Ac-
MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 3 LETTERS: Continued applications was appealing, Removing EOF Marker so I devised a way to work from Translated We'd Like to Publish Your Opinion with the 95LX. Phonebook Files of The HP Palmtop Paper Just about every PIM I recently upgraded from a and database can export to Casio Boss to the HP 95LX. Everyone benefits from a large readership of The HP Palmtop Paper. an ASCII file. I use Micro The larger the readership the greater the knowledge base for The HP I didn't feel like re-entering Palmtop Paper. logic's Info-Select as my 560 names, numbers, and desktop PIM. The 95LX's addresses into the HP Here is how you can help: MEMO function can read Phonebook, so I used Trav ASCII. So, after I update We are preparing a new brochure about The HP Palmtop Paper. It will eling Software's PC-Link consist of one- to three-sentence quotes from our readers. If you like my To-Do list, Phone Num program to output the Boss The HP Palmtop Paper, tell us Specifically w~at you find. useful, why ber List, Business Card telephone database in SDF HP 95LX users should subscribe, etc. If possible, please Include your List, or any of my Calen format. I changed the files Title, Profession, and Company. dars (usually at the end of a extension from .SDF to Send your feedback to: Hal Goldstein, Thaddeus Computing, PO Box day in the office) I export .CDI so the HP 95LX Con these four as ASCII files to 869, Fairfield, IA 52556, Fax: 51547218790rCompuServeiD 75300" nectivity Pack Translate 2443. a sub-directory on my AST Utility would accept it. HARD DRIVE. I then Copy The Phonebook Trans these files to the 95LX late Utility processes 99% of The top price for such belt Wants to Test using DC95.EXE. the file, then displays: In order to do this with wallets runs around $15 in Maintenance Software "Cannot Process Source this area. out having to enter a thou File, Invalid File Format, In response to the article on sand keystrokes, I have T.D. Cradduck page 35 of the Fall 1991 Press ESC to Continue." Univ. of Western Ontario created the following User The format of the data issue of The HP Palmtop London, Ontario, Canada I would certainly Defined Function Keys: conforms to "Conventional Paper, have an interest in any HP Data Format 1" (see Trans CHAR FI= CUSTOM F KEYS 95LX software to be used (Shows this list) late Utility Users Guide, HP 95LX Disturbes for Industrial Equipment CHAR F2= RUN DC95.EXE page 4-8). Transmissions CHAR F3= OPEN 1992 CALENDAR Maintenance. In one short After some experimenta I was at a meeting whose CHAR F4= OPEN ADD TO AST tion I found that the End of month the HP 95LX has be CHAR F5= OPEN PHONE LIST proceedings were simulta come an indispensible tool File (EOF) marker created neously translated for inter CHAR F6= OPEN TODO LIST when the Boss data was on the plant floor. As a data CHAR F7= OPEN FORECAST.wKI national participants. All I translated was the culprit. I collection tool and portable CHAR Fa= OPEN BUSINESS CARDS could hear out of my head logbook of vital information deleted the EOF marker CHAR F9= RUN DOS 3.3 phones was static noise, with safety, personnel, and using PC Tools HEX edit, CHAR F10=CONNECT TO WINDOWS instead of the translation. equipment data stored in 1- saved the file, and ran the TERMINAL PROGRAM After switching off my 2-3 worksheets, along with file through the Translate 95LX, which was on my the built-in applications, I use the following Utility again. Without the knees all the time, I imme the 95LX's size and power PALM.BAT file on my AST, EOF marker, the transla diately could hear the inter are ideal. This machine has to copy files from the AST tion succeeded. to the PALMTOP: preter very clearly. Is my certainly caught the inter Roberl Mueller 95LX defective, or is this Kai Tak, Hong Kong est of a colleague or two cd\cpack just a characteristic of the involved with Industrial [You can also edit out dc95 machine that I have to live Maintenance. the EOF marker in MEMO. copynew c:\temp\*.txt j:_dat with? This could be a great The EOF markers are en copynew c:\is\bc.txt I: Relating to the above, it opportunity for Mainte tered by pressing to if it emits this kind of elec available to the personnel 95LX, all I have to do is remove it from the end of tromagnetic disturbance, I connect the cable, press the file - Hal.} that need constant and
4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 .NEWS FROM HP: 1MB 95LX/ U.S. User Upgrade
(Continued from front page. Rebate Offered • A rebate coupon (available from on 512K 95LX in U.S. your 95LX dealer); Complete the form in the box on HP will continue to offer the 512K page 6 and package your 95LX for version of the 95LX for a suggested • Original or photocopied sales shipping, original packaging materi retail price of $699, $100 less than receipt reflecting purchase date; al if available. Enclosing the follow the 1MB 95LX. HP will offer a $100 • End flap to the box the 95LX ing items:) rebate to anyone purchasing the came in (the end with the UPC code and HP logo). 512K Palmtop PC between March 1 a. Copy of the completed form and May 31, 1992. This will make (point 1); Send all of the above to the address the cost of buying a 512K 95LX and provided on the coupon. In 6-8 b. $190 (US) payable in check, upgrading it $789, $10 less than weeks you should have your rebate. money order, Mastercard, or buying a new 1MB 95LX at list If your local dealer doesn't have any Visa. Checks and money price. Rebate offer good in the U.S. rebate coupons, or if you have ·any orders should be made pay only. further questions, please call 503- able to Hewlett-Packard To apply for the rebate on the 750-3383. Company and should in 512K 95LX you'll need the following: clude local sales tax. Please do not include cash! c. ALL ORDERS MUST include SAVE DATA! SAVE $$$! SAVE EARTH! local sales tax in addition to the $190. 3. INSURE the package for the full value of the 95LX. 4. PREPAY the package for deliv ery to: HP Corvallis Service Center, 1030 NE Circle Blvd., IArrman" ~ Corvallis, OR 97330, U.S.A.; Phone: (503) 750-3850. 5. Your 95LX will be upgraded in 2-3 working days and returned '0 ,lte RESCUE' via UPS. Stop throwing away Complete battery status .Introducing akaline batteries every two display everytime you turn on Back up all files you wish to keep. weeks. Now you can use your HP95LX. If you cannot back up files, clearly BATTman rechargeable batteries in Manages low card battery request HP Service to save your your HP95LX for life! condition every 24 hours. files and put them back on your Battery BATTman monitors battery Turns on HP95LX if card upgraded 95LX. HP Service is very discha~ge in real time and battery is low preventing data Management turns off your HP95LX safely loss to your RAM memory conscientious and will probably be before sharp voltage drops card. able to do so. for your crash applications and valuable data (see chart New HP95LX. below). One Megabyte HP 95LX DiICha9. at lOOmA To Order: The only difference between the 3 con6nuoUSlyw/HP95lX new and the original 95LX is the Alkaline 12 celkl Call ACE TOLL FREE: 2.5 f--=::::::::::;;;;;;~--~ amount of internal RAM memory. V> 2 !3 The original 95LX had 512K of §? 1/800 825-9977 RAM. The new HP 95LX has 1MB (l,024K) of RAM. NiCd(2 celisl You can split the RAM memory of both 95LXs between system RAM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 (the RAM you use to run application HOURS programs) and RAM disk (for stor ing files). The new 95LX can be RETURN registration card and receive two free ACE Technologies, Inc. configured for a maximum of 626K NiCd batteries (lifetime warranty) plus one ~~IT.6Er quick charger! 2880 Zanker Rood, Suite 103 of system RAM (still leaving a mini Son Jose, CA 95134 U.S.A. mum 398K of RAM disk for storing BATTman 3.5" diskette (C1005) ...... list price $59 (4081428·9722 FAX (4081428-9721 files).
MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 5 NEWS FROM HP: Continued
Other Advantages invoked from FILER otherwise it on your C drive with a .WK1 exten of Upgrading Your 95LX stays off (thus conserving bat sion. Those fIles are either dated 3- teries). Previously it turned on Inside any computer is ROM soft 20-91, 4-1-91, 6-5-91, or 9-24-91 ware. In most cases it is "low-level" whenever FILER was invoked. depending on which revision you software that has to do with the • The 5 minute default timeout is have. The 1MB upgrade boards will changed to 3 minutes. interaction between a computer's contain 9-24-91 or later dates. operating system and hardware. • The problem with DOS COPY If you upgrade to 1MB, it will be with N option is fIxed. (The The 95LX ROM software also in nice to get the latest revision. But COpy N could cause a system to cludes the built-in applications remember, there will always be (Lotus 1-2-3, PHONE, APPT, COMM, lock up in previous version.) later revisions: if you are having no MEMO, FILER, HP CALC, and SET • The save function for large problems with your HP 95LX it's not UP). APPT or PHONE fIles is sped up something to be concerned about. (If All reputable computer compa quite a bit. it ain't broke ...) nies from time to time "revise" • The long wait searching for non One other note. Last issue we ROMs. They do so to fIx any prob existent APPT entries has been discussed several menuing systems lems they've discovered, or to im signifIcantly shortened. that allowed users to run DOS soft prove things. HP has issued several ware "on top of' the built-in system revisions of the HP 95LX ROM. Early units had an additional prob manager fIles based on software HP did an exceptional job "get lem of an insufficient battery-low developed in UTIL Forth. (See J ani ting it right the fIrst time." Except warning resulting in the potential Feb, 1992, pages 19 and 31). These for one problem in some of the very loss of open unsaved fIles. HP will "loaders" must be revised to work early units described below, users fIx this problem at no charge by properly on units with ROMs later can feel very comfortable that their sending them the unit. than 9-24-91. Updated versions of unit contains a stable, problem-free From what we can tell there these loaders are available in the ROM. have been four ROM revisions. From CompuServe HPSYS HP 95LX. data Having said this, there are some FILER take a look at the Lotus fIles library. minor ROM software revisions (im provements) that have been made sinc~ the HP 95LX was introduced April, 1991. When you send in your u.s. HP 95LX Upgrade Order Form unit for a 512K to 1 MB upgrade, PLEASE UPGRADE MY 512K HP 95LX TO 1 MEGABYTE. you will receive the latest ROM software revisions. This is so be 1. Enclosed is my HP 95LX for upgrade. 4. My daytime phone number is: cause HP upgrades each unit by 2. Also enclosed is my payment, payable to replacing the main system board Hewlett-Packard Company: which contains RAM, ROM, CPU, 5. My evening phone number is: and I/O circuitry. See photo below. Upgrade payment ...... $190 Add Local Sales Tax ...... TOTAL ...... 6. Please return my upgraded 95LX to the following address: I am making payment via, (please check one): Name VISA Mastercard == Check == Money Order Company Please do not send cash. Address (no P.O. Box please) Credit Card # City/State/Zip Exp. Date
Figure 1 Signature IMPORTANT! The Main System Board for the HP 95LX 3. My HP 95LX serial number (on the bot Please send your HP 95LX base unit only. Here is an unofficial list of some of tom of my PC) is: REMOVE all accessories (RAM cards, etc.) before packing for shipment. Also, backup your the improvements in later ROM data elsewhere for safe-keeping. revisions as discovered by Compu Serve users. SHIP TO: HP Corvallis Service Center, 1030 N.E. Circle Blvd. • Serial Port now only turns on Corvallis, OR 97330, U.S.A. when REMOTE or SYSTEM are (offer good in U.S. only)
6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 Should You Upgrade 95LX that will have to be stored in 2MB (2000K) of data. 750K is the PC card A drive slot. That about as large as you win want Your 95LX to 1MB or means if you want to have data to make your built-in C drive. Buy a RAM Card? available when you use that soft It depends. Here are some of the ware, you will need the extra disk Ideally you will want both. It de advantages of upgrading your unit: space on the C drive. pends on how you use your HP 95LX 1. You will be able to allocate If all you do is work with small more RAM to system memory. Here are the advantages of adding files, your current 512K HP 95LX That means you can run larger a RAM card to your system. may be sufficient. 1-2-3 spreadsheets, keep all 1. Both the built-in C drive and your built-in applications open the RAM card A drive are rela New 1MB RAM Card" HP with larger files, or run DOS tively safe. However, it is easier Lowers Prices on Others software that requires more to inadvertently corrupt the Another way to increase memory on system memory. (See Getting built-in C drive then the RAM A the 95LX is to add a RAM memory Started column in the Fall and drive. (No matter where your card to the system. HP is introduc Jan/Feb issues for a de,eper data is, you should be backing ing a 1MB RAM card in addition to understanding of System RAM.) up both drives. See reviews on the 128K and 512K memory cards it 2. There is more built-in disk Connectivity Packs in this already offers. Suggested retail space to hold data or software. month's issue.) price for the 1MB card will be $599. This means you can store more 2. Sensitive information can more As of the 1st of January, HP spreadsheets, memos, phone easily be protected by simply lowered the suggested retail price of books as well as other DOS removing the RAM card from their 95LX RAM cards. The 128K software and data in your base your system. RAM card now retails for $149.95 unit. 3. The RAM card can be read not and the 512K RAM card for $299. 3. In the coming months you can only in your HP 95LX but by 95. HP also lowered retail prices on expect to see an increase in the RAM card readers that can RAM cards for it's popular 48SX number of larger software pro attach to your desktop. Programmable Calculator. grams available for the HP 4. RAM cards can hold as much as
, - . . age to the unit while opening it up . • would be considered "customer dam age", not be covered under warranty. Opening Up the HP 95LX All three of us went ahead and split the case with no apparent For your interest only! We do not suggest or encourage damage. Here are the steps chroni cled by Jeffrey and David. any 95LX user open the case and perform any internal repairs on the HP 95LX. By Richard Hall linked to the AC adapter jack, so he [Although I am listed as author, this wanted to attempt a do-it-yourself article borrows heavily from infor repair. mation submitted by Jeffrey Mattox David Marsh was advising an and David J . Marsh - Rich.] other user whose 95LX speaker stopped working. He suspected that A number of us had the desire to the wires going to the speaker had crack open the case on the HP 95LX intruded into the Memory Card's to do some minor repairs. I was in a space and that repeated insertion of hurry connecting serial cable and I a RAM card had broken the wires. pushed one of the four pins in the He suggested splitting the case and 95LX's serial port back into the unit taking a look. so just the pin's tip was showing. So all of us wanted to look in Jeffrey Mattox had been using side to see if there was a quick and his new HP 95LX for about a week easy fIx without having to send our when an intermittent short circuit 95LXs away to Corvallis for a week. developed in the AC adapter input (Alright, maybe we're curious to see circuit. The unit would automatical what it looked like inside!) ly turn itself off after a few minutes I contacted HP's Corvallis Ser of inactivity even though it was vice Center and they encouraged me plugged into an adapter. Jeffrey strongly to send the 95LX in for thought the short was mechanically repairs. They told me that any dam- Top and Bottom Half of the HP 95LX
MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 7 FEATURE: Opening the 95LX
The problem David addressed (the we would have sent it in to HP's speaker wires) was easily confirmed Service Center in Corvallis and they /" Rubber foot by splitting the case. Correcting the would have fixed it - for a price! problem requires resoldering the Remember, if you damage anything / Hex screw break in the wires or replacing the while opening your 95LX, that dam wires - a job for the tech guys at age will not be covered under the Corvallis. warranty. If you're 95LX is still I opened my case and confirmed under warranty, and even ifit isn't, that the left-most of the four pins in it's better to have Corvallis fix it. the 95LX's serial port had been They usually fix your 95LX within a pushed in. All four pins are soldered three working days, and then send HP 9SL.X (UpSide dCN MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 11 REVIEWS: Connectivity Packs As an example, let's say you use On the other hand, the HP Connec The screen above shows Filer run Borland's Sidekick on your PC to tivity Pack is quite good and offers ning on the PC. This figure shows keep track of your appointments. features and options no other pack how you can split the screen to You can translate Sidekick's datafile age has yet matched. show the directory on the 95LX (the to the format used by the 95LX's The two biggest advantages of left side of the screen) and the di APPT function and then transfer it the HP Connectivity Kit is that it rectory on the PC. The figure shows to the 95LX. APPT should then be comes with everything you need and the Phone Book file "_l.PBK" high able to use the calendar created on it doesn't absolutely require addi lighted. your desktop PC. You can just as tional disk space on your HP 95LX. Once the connection is made easily go the other direction and The HP Kit even includes a 9-pin to between the PC and HP 95LX, it's translate 95LX file formats into 25-pin adapter just in case you need easy to transfer files. You use the Sidekick (or other) formats. it when connecting the cable to your arrow keys to highlight the file you The ability to translate file for PC. want to move and then press(ill mats provides a level of flexibility If you use the HP Connectivity to copy the file. You'll receive a you'll quickly grow to like. And it's Pack for straight file transfer you message at the top of the screen easy to learn how to use this handy won't need any additional disk indicating the file you want to copy feature, too. space. However, if you want to take and the location you want to copy it advantage of one of the more ad to. Press [ENTER~ (unless you want to 4. Merging Files vanced features you will need about change somet ing) and the file is Merge is another option you have 50K of disk space on your HP 95LX. copied from the 95LX to your PC. with three of the connectivity pack We'll come back to that later on. You can go the opposite direction, ages reviewed here. The Merge You'll need approximately 700K of too, moving any files from your PC feature lets you combine two files. disk space on your desktop PC for to the 95LX. Let's say you had made changes to the HP Connectivity Pack. If you run into any problems the PHONE data file on your 95LX The HP 95LX Connectivity Pack using FILER, press lEJ for help. while traveling. The Merge feature comes with a 50-page User's Guide. This on-line help is a welcome fea would let you combine your 95LX's While it is set up in a step-by-step ture, not offered on any of the other PHONE data file with the one on format, too many assumptions are packages we review here. your desktop PC, and update the made about what the user knows desktop's file. and understands. Many HP 95LX The option of Merge is an extra users are NOT power users. In addi level of flexibility that expands the tion, some commands just aren't HP 95LX Palmtop Software potential of both your HP 95LX and intuitive or that easy to remember. your PC. Once you do get things set up and installed - which isn't that Pocket Connectivity Packages hard if you have a little common Sales Force! For The HP 95LX sense and some computer experi ence - there is much to be happy A powerful, flexible and This section provides a brief over about with this package. interactive database program. view of each of the four connectivity The heart of moving files is the packages. You'll find a Comparison Simple to use, Pocket Sales Force will instant- Filer applications - both on the PC 1y control and plan the vital areas of sales Table of these packages at the end and 95LX. activity, lead and enquiry maintenance, con of the article. Also, you'll find a tact follow-up dates, letters and mailshots. brief user profile immediately fol Improves customer servicing, reporting and strategic marketing. lowing the subheadings. Iler 12122191 HoD irs • 20 fully user-definable fields, plus full contact history. 95LX Connectivity Pack • Sophisticated single- and multiple-criteria '...dat C:'cpack search filters. From Hewlett-Packard nEno EMU .. ~Uieu O-1fA11 • Hot-key access, compliant with 95LX If you are a DOS user and want the TXT APIW1E LST built-in applications. PHONE EI1V APIfAnRiS LST • Lotus 1-2-3 interface. ability to use the 95LX's built-in SAMPLE CTF APP'l5 EXE applications on your PC, consider SETUP EI1V APPTBH EI1V Available Now! TlGERFOX CI1F APPTUS HLP HP's 95LX Connectivity Kit. TOPCARD PCX ASHP95LX DOO TO ORDER, or for more information, contact: IIATCH EHU ASMETRO DRIJ The first connectivity package on ASPCTOOL DRIJ C M Software, Business Unit 1, the market for the 95LX was the ASSHPWS DOO 33 Sandford Road, Littlemore, made by Hewlett-Packard. And, Oxford, OX44)[[, U.K., Tel: (+44) 865 while HP included some clever and 748875, Fax: (+44) 865 748873 unique features in their package, it TO ORDER in U.S. or outside U.K., contact: quickly became obvious that users Sparcom Corp., 897 NW Grant Ave., were having difficulty setting up Figure 1 Corvallis, OR 97330, U.SA., Phone: and getting started with the pro HP Connectivity Pack FILER screen (800) 827-8416 or (503) 757 8416, gram. as seen on a desktop PC screen. Fax: (503) 753-7821. 12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 HP 95LX Connedivity. Made Effortless. For Everyone. MS-DOS MACINTOSH The Connectivity Kit from Nuvotech for Only $99.* The Connectivity Kits from Nuvotech make file transfer a reality! You can now link your HP 95LX to your MS-DOS machine, your Macintosh, or your desktop computer running Windows. The Connectivity Kits transfer and translate wordprocessing text. HyperCard files, and Lotus spreadsheets effortlessly. The Connectivity Kit allows you to merge, upload or download the appointment book and phone book, memo, HP calculator, and filer. Each Connectivity Kit contains a 1.5 meter serial cable, 9·pin to 25-pin adapter, 5:4" and 3~ " disks with PC software, and an owner's manual. Call Nuvotech for the Connectivity Solution you've been waiting for! Call Nuvotech Marketing Today. J-800-4-NUVaI'ECH 2015 BTidgeway Sausalito, California 94965 Voice (415) 331·7815 fc.; 1991. Nuvotech. In<. All trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners ·R... i l Pricing Fax (415) 331·6445 REVIEWS: Connectivity Packs and the ability to work in the Backing up you files using the HP C~nnectivity Pack's DC95 Program Windows environment, select the DC951OCS95 are file transfer programs included with the HP Connectivity Pack. (See Chapter 5 of IntelliLink connectivity package. the Connectivity Pack User's Manual for more details.) To back up the entire contents of the 95LX, create two sub-directories on the PC's hard drive: C:\HP95A to store the 95LX's A drive, and If Windows is your game, then C:\HP95C to store the 95LX's C drive. IntelliLink is a great addition to Here is how to backup the 95LX's entire RAM card to the PC assuming C is the last desktop your arsenal of Windows' tools. It is drive. Type the following command form the OOS prompt on your desktop: easy to set up and get started. How XCOpy D:*. * C:\HP95A IS IE ever, a serial cable doesn't come with the program, so you'll need to This will copy all files from the 95LX's A drive, including all sub-directories, to the PC. To copy the get one (HP Serial Cable, part # HP 95LX's C drive into the HP95C sub-directory on the PC, type the following command on the PC: 82222A, list price $35). XCOPY E:*.* C:\HP95C IS IE IntelliLink provides file transfer If you know how to create batch files, you can put both lines into a file, call nBACKUP. BAT, and then and merging of files. It is the easi just type BACKUP from the OOS prompt. est to install of all the connectivity Another nice feature of using DC95 is that you can run a word processor like WordPerfect 5.1 packages reviewed here. Even on the desktop and spell-check a file from the 95LX without transferring it. Just run WordPerfect and though the user manual is only 19 read a MEMO file in from the Palmtop's bui~-in C drive. Then spell check it and save it back to that pages long, if you know how to drive in ASCII format. You could also use PCTools Shell program (or your favorne file manager) to install programs in Windows, you'll access the 95LX's drives as if they were another disk on the PC. Larry Lefkowitz have no problem. CompuServe ID: [76137,155] All you do to install the pro gram on Windows is open up the Program Manager, Click File and Run with your mouse, enter the The HP Connectivity Pack is Sys work with Lotus Metro, Borland tem-Manager compliant. You can path and name ofIntelliLink's SET - Sidekick Plus, Central Point PC UP program and click the OK box. open up Filer on the 95LX, without Tools and ASCII file formats, trans shutting down other applications, lating data to and from HP 95LX IntelliLink's Setup program does something you can't do with the file formats. Merge and Translate the rest. IntelliLink's manual is a other packages. are easy to use, working with sim little fuzzy with its Install instruc The biggest bonus of all with ple menu formats that minimize tions, so watch out. You'll also need the HP Connectivity Kit is that you typing. can run just about all of the HP The HP Connectivity Pack also 95LX's built-in applications and offers you DOS Connect. This fea IntelliLink utilities on your desktop PC. Here's ture lets you set things up so that a list of them: your PC will treat Drive A and C on Not Just File your HP 95LX as additional disk - Setup - Appointment Book drives. So if you have Lotus 1-2-3 on Transfer - Filer - HP Calculator your desktop PC, you can open a - Memo - Phone Book spreadsheet file from your 95LX, Data Translation - Merge- Translate work on it, and then save it back to & your 95LX. This works with MEMO Reconci I iation However, there are some limita files, too, as well as any other ASCII tions. For instance, you must pur text file. chase 1-2-3 and a communications DOS Connect requires that you HP Connectivity DOS Windows3.x program separately. The Appoint transfer DCS95.EXE to your HP Pack "Add-In" ment Book's alarms and timer won't 95LX. This 47K file is included with $69.95 $99.95 $99.95 work on your PC, and HP CALC on the HP Connectivity Pack, along a PC has no links into 1-2-3. with DC95.EXE, which must simul The ability to run APPT and taneously be run on the PC from the Sidekick 2.0 PackRat PHONE on your PC means that you DOS prompt. (See "Backing up your Word Perfect Office Current can make changes and additions to files using the HP Connectivity ... " dBase Excel your PC version and then transfer sidebar, this page, for examples of Paradox Word for those changes to your HP 95LX, and how DOS Connect can be used.) Calendar Creator Windows vice versa. Also, while you're trav You can also use DOS Connect eling, you as well as someone in 1-2-3 for to link your HP 95LX into a network Windows your office can continue to work like Novell or OS/2 Lan Manager. IntelliLink, Inc. with PHONE and APPT. When you DOS Connect also works with Win 7 Parker Street return the files can be merged, dows. keeping things up to date without Acton, MA 01720 Tele: (508) 264_99~3 the need to re-enter and cross IntelliLink for the HP 95LX check data. Fax: (508) 635·9778 Merge works with either If you want a wide variety of = PHONE or APPT. Translate will translation and merge features, 14 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 to add the DOS SHARE command to Application PHONE APPT MEMO 1·2·3 reduced to somewhere in the neigh- your AUTOEXEC.BAT file before you borhood of 400K soon. . can use IntelliLink. Current X X X Only a DOS version is available, After IntelliLink is installed on Daybook X X but Nuvotech plans to cover all the your PC, it must be installed on Dbase X bases with planned releases of this your HP 95LX. A special program is connectivity kit for Windows and Excel X X provided to accomplish this and, the Macintosh. Their 75-page User's like installing IntelliLink on your Pacluat X X X Guide is comprehensive and in PC, this one is easy, too. There's Paradox X cludes an ample number of illustra even more complete instructions in Sidekick 2.0 X X X tions, diagrams, and highlighted the manual. notes. You'll also need to follow the Word for Win X If you can follow simple instruc instructions in the IntelliLink to create (or modify) the APNAME.LST 1-2-3 for Win X tions, you should have no problem file on your HP 95LX. The 95LX installing this software on both your portion of IntelliLink is System Table 1 PC and the HP 95LX. Manager compliant - it can be ac IntelliLink can translate the following PC application Once you've installed and set up cessed by a hotkey and pop up on formats into the 95LX application formats indicated. Nuvotech, you'll need to modify or top of the 95LX's built-in applica A lot of work has gone into the de create APNAME.LST like you did tions. IntelliLink requires approxi sign of IntelliLink and it removes with IntelliLink. mately 50K of disk space on your the user from the complexities of Nuvotech's install program HP 95LX and about 900K of disk accurately translating data between helps you install the necessary files space on your PC for the appropri file formats. Files from a program on to your HP 95LX. The process, ate files. as sophisticated as Paradox are although a bit involved, is much changed and re-mapped to fit the better than attempting to copy files file formats for the Phone Book on over on your own, as we'll see when the HP 95LX - all while the user we get to the next program re just makes simple selections from viewed here. menu screens. That's the way every Nuvotech's Connectivity Kit is thing works in IntelliLink. It allows very intuitive. The main menu the user to concentrate on getting screen with large directional arrows the work done, while the computer shows the directories on both the PC Lotus takes care of the details. When you and HP 95LX (see Figure #3). The think about it, it's too bad more PackRat command buttons are located be programs don't work that way. tween the directory listings. Other PackRel options are listed at the bottom of Current the screen. You'll always know File Nuvotech HP 95LX what's going on in this program. Connectivity Kit oi) Cop},ligf1llnlelliLink. Inc. 1990,'991 Nuvotech's easy-to-follow program Reproduction or uuge for .any purpo:se othol tnan personal ~e is prohibited. If you want to work in DOS on your structure makes it easy to use. PC, with an intuitive user interface and easy-to-use translation and Figure 2 merge features, Nuvotech's kit is an IntelliLink's Main Menu. You work from this ~ excellent choice. ;;-;='=C=--T.1. ==.i "'C:,"'.....-" -- -.., AH ,IIIII CII!DIk.EXE screen to import, export, and merge files. CQA .IIBI COII . DAT ....".."..-.""" Nuvotech's connectivity kit is intu OUMLT.DAT K'IHSTAL .£)c£ II'SEJIUEJI . ElOt Figure #2 shows IntelliLink's main GDTH.IBI IF.CDII itive and has the look and feel of Jo£fIC.1IG1 _CARLOAII .lIKl program screen on the PC, running ....cFLllW.NKI Windows (without the memory re ~~!;;,---'" Oltlor2'l """"""'''''''''''''i'''''".',""",, - -'-' under Windows. From this screen quirements of Windows). It comes you will select options for transfer with a serial cable, which makes life ring and merging files. Merging is easier when setting things up. The accomplished using the Import Up only bad news with this kit is that Pecor DnIlIff Olr date feature. As data from files is you need 115K of disk space to IF DnIlIff ~@] @]GB@]@]GBEl being imported and updated, the install it on your HP 95LX. Fortu user is allowed to determine wheth nately, after installation is com Figure 3 er or not duplicate data will be com plete, you can free up more than pletely replaced or merged. Nuvotech's Main Menue shows the PC (left), The following table shows which half of that, leaving 47K on your the 95LX (right) and the options (center). PC application file formats can be 95LX. You'll also need about 500K translated to the HP 95LX applica of disk space on your PC. At press You can translate the following file tion file formats. time, Nuvotech needed 520K of formats using the Nuvotech Connec RAM to run on a PC. That will be tivity Kit: MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 REVIEWS: Connectivity Packs If you don't mind somewhat of an Application I'IIONE APPT MEMO 1-2-3 Connectivity Kit Comparisons awkward, arcane interface, ZIP CDF X X Name/Price HP InteIIi NINo ZI' provides the fastest file transfer 599.955148.115 599 S30 Metro X X using the tiniest amount of disk Cable included yes no yes no Paradox X X space - 10K on each machine. You'll 91>ln to 25-pin adapter yes no no no need to dig up your own serial cable PC Tools X X to use with this program. Software on 3.5" disk yes yes yes n/a Sidekick X X Look elsewhere for file transla Software on 5.25" disk yes no no n/a ASCII text X tion and merging features. ZIP is Supports Windows no yes yes no Lotus 1-2-3 X strictly for moving files between Supports a Mouse no yes yes no machines. The best news of all is COMM Ports 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 Table 1 that this program only costs $30, (IR =Infrared port) IR 3,4 3,4 3,4 Nuvotech Connectivity Kit can translate the following and payment for the program is PC application formats into the 95LX application voluntary for individual use. The File Formats Supported formats indicated. program is so good, it's worth more AmiPro x x than $30. ZIP isn't just for 95LX to ASCII x x x The translation feature in the Nuvo PC transfer, it's terrific for transfer CDF x ring files PC to PC, too. tech Connectivity Kit works excep Current x tionally well. Just point and click to To install ZIPs (copy its pro Daybook x make your selections. It's easy to grams to the 95LX) you will have to make changes so the program isn't use another connectivity package, dBASE x restrictive at all. the built-in COMM program, a RAM Excell x x card, or a modem. Merging PHONE or APPT files is HP 95lx x x x x so easy, it seems like cheating. Once Lotus 1-2-3 x x x you select the merge option, you Metro need to decide which file records x x will be included in the output file Pack rat x and then whether to merge into the Paradox x selected destination file or into a PC Tools x x newly created file. Sidekick x x x Perhaps the nicest feature of Word for Windows Nuvotech's Connectivity Kit is that x you get all of the look and feel of a Quick Reference card lye. no no no Figure 4 Windows 3.0 interface without the eral files at once. You also have need to ever leave DOS (or add ZIP Main (and only) Menu - it's simple, but it does the job. options to list directories or even anything in the way of memory or delete files while using ZIP. hardware to your current system). Figure #4 shows what ZIP looks like Don't let the simple look of ZIP's After working with this program for when run from the DOS prompt on menu fool you. This program is awhile, you'll wonder why more your PC. This is the main and only loaded with many nice features and programs can't look and work like menu you will work from. ZIP needs touches. Using the command options this without Windows. to be run on both machines simulta in ZIP you can have the program neously. Before starting ZIP on the copy files, overwrite files only when 95LX you need to run ZIPCFG.COM, the new copy has a more recent ZIP Transfer Utility Ii a special utility to set the ZIP to run time/date stamp, and prompt you to If you are reasonably comfortable in 40 column mode on the 95LX. confirm files individually. There's working with DOS commands and You can also use this file to set the even a command which lets you just want to move files back and colors for ZIP when you run it on "fetch" files from the other computer forth between your PC and 95£X, your PC. while in server mode - the "Op then ZIP is a good program for you. Working with ZIP is as simple tions" choice in ZIP. Finally, ZIP as selecting "Send" on one machine commands can be used in batch files ZIP wasn't developed for the HP and "Receive" on the other machine. expands, expanding ZIP's potential 95LX, but a lot of people have used However, this means you'll need to even more. this dandy little program for file be doing some typing on each key ZIP is a great program, ideally transfer between the HP 95LX and board. It's more ideal to set one suited for file transfer from one a PC. ZIP doesn't offer fancy fea machine to be the "Server". Then, computer to another. It's a simple, tures, but the program is a work all you need to do is type in com lean, and very, very effective pro horse. mands on the other machine. You gram - the fastest of all the pro can use the DOS default character grams we looked at for this review. ii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Mar/Apr 92. (asterisk) in file names to copy sev- 16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 Conclusion All of the programs reviewed here Macintosh to HP 95LX Connectivity do the basic job of getting files from With MacLink Plus PC one computer to the other. You need to evaluate your needs carefully and Nuvotech will be releasing a Mac connectivity kit for then look closely to see which pro gram most closely fits those specific the HP 95LX. In the mean time, this alternative was needs. Like all other computer soft discovered by one of our subscribers. ware, it's a very subjective choice; and what is right for one person By Bernie Kim through an extra step to install the won't be the answer for someone CompuServe ID: [71621,232J MLPC.EXE file into your 95LX else. Connectivity is an important through your Mac. See "Setting Up issue on the HP 95LX and there are DataViz, Inc. manufactures a Mac Your 95LX Without an IBM Compat sure to be continuing developments intosh software program called ible" at the end of this article for when it comes to file transfer, tr,ans MAC LINK PLUS PC ($129 through instructions. lation, and merging. MacWarehouse) that enables your On your Mac, follow the instruc This is the first in a continuing Macintosh and HP 95LX to transfer tions in MacLinkPClPlus to install series of articles the HP Palmtop and translate certain Macintosh the software onto your Mac hard Paper will be doing on Connectivity formatted files into the 95LX's for drive. for HP 95LX. We will cover all of the mat. Once set up, your 95LX works developments as they unfold for as ifit were another Mac drive. You Configuring Your Macintosh both PCs and Macintosh computers. can back up your 95LX files onto your Mac's hard drive or a DOS 1.Double-click on the MacLinkPlusl We welcome your input, questions, PC application icon. tips, and pointers, which we will -formatted diskette in the Mac's gladly share with our readers. 1.4MB Superdrive through the Ap 2. Click the SET MODE radio button ple directory dialog box. and select MACLINK MODE. [Bil. Alvernaz is a Department 3. Click the SET COMMUNICATIONS Editor for The HP Palmtop Paper. First: Connect Your Hardware radio button and select the follow and writes the "How Do You Do ing from the pop-up menus: That?" column. You can reach him To connect your Mac to the 95LX, at (209) 394-8188, MCI MAIL #207- you will need a serial cable (HP REMOTE = IBM PC 82209A, retail: $60) that comes with TRANSFER VIA =DIRECT (CABLE) 8825, or FAX: 209-394-8918.] SPEED = 19,200 baud the "Apple Macintosh Serial Inter PORT = PHONE face" kit. The kit also comes with a diskette of Mac utilities for use with 4. Save your settings at this point Connectivity Kit the HP 48SX Programmable Calcu and name it "Mac/95LX" or whatev Contact/Pricing Information lator. The serial cable is all you er you desire. need. HP 95LX Connectivity Pack To get started, connect the seri 5. Click the SET TRANSLATORS radio Retail price: $99.95; available from HP al cable from your 95LX to the mo button. Two sets of scrolling menus dealers an other vendors. Contact: Hewlett will appear. The left scrolling menu Packard, Corval/is Division, 1000 NE Circle dem port of your Mac. (Later on, you may want to invest in an AlB is your Mac. The right scrolling Blvd., Corvallis OR 97330, U.S.A.; Phone: menu is your "Remote IBM PC" or (800-443-1254) transfer switch [2:1 Mini DIN 8 Switch Box] to connect both your your 95LX. You'll see a variety of IntelllLink for the HP 95LX modem and HP serial cable to the file translation methods. Macintosh (Retail price: $99.95; available from: MS Word or MacWrite II files can Intel/iLink, Inc., 7 Parker Street, Acton, MA same outlet on your Mac. Mac Warehouse advertises one for $29.) be translated and transferred into 01720; Phone: 508-264-9943). the 95LX's text (.TXT) format. Excel Nuvotech HP 95LX Connectivity Kit Second: spreadsheets can be translated and (Retail price: $99.00; available from: transferred into the 95LX's Lotus 1- Nuvotech, 2015 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA, Install Your Software 2-3 format (.WK1). Macintosh PICT U.S.A.; Phone: 800-468-8683 or 415-331- Ask a friend with a PC to transfer files can be translated into the 95- 7815; Fax: 415-331-6445.) the MLPC.EXE file from the DOS LX's picture card format (.PCX). Diskette of MACLINK PLUS PC into ZIP Transfer Utility your 95LX's C: \ drive. That's the Shareware fee: $30.00; available froml Configuring Your HP 95LX shareware fee paid to Eric Meyer, 3541 ONLY file you'll need in the 95LX. Smuggler Way, Boulder CO 80303, U.S.A.; What's nice is that the program 1. Go to FILER and scroll down to CompuServe ID: [74415, 1305]. takes up only 32K of memory in your MLPC.EXE file. ZIP wil/ be available on the March/April your 95LX. 1992 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON If you're like me and don't know 2. Press CEJ (RUN). You'll be prom DISK. anyone who has both an IBM com pted to 'Press any key to continue'. patible and a 95LX, you'll have to go 3. Do so, and you'll be prompted to MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 REVIEWS: MacLink Plus 'Select a menu letter'. 7. Scroll through your Mac dialog me a few problems. If it works well box on the left and select the WORD for you, go for it. 4. Enter the following keys: 4.0 file that you want to transfer to P then A - sets your Communi your 95LX. If you want the file to be Setting Up Your 95LX cations Serial Port to COM1; transferred to your 95LX's _DAT file, Without an IBM Compatible B then F - sets your Communi double-click on the _DAT file in the cations Speed to 19,200 baud; IBM PC dialog box (just like you 1. SET UP YOUR 95LX by entering C then C - sets your Communi would on a Mac!). Click on CONVERT COMM and pressing [MEt) Settings cations Connection to CABLE; & TRANSFER on your Mac screen. Config Port. Set your nterface to S - to SAVE; a .BAT file will You'll be prompted to name your file COM1, Baud to 7 (Direct), Stop to 1, automatically be created on for the 95LX. (Note that the .TXT Parity to None, and Char to 8. your 95LX; extension has automatically been 2. Save your settings by naming it o - to GO Online; this will put added to the default file name. If MACCONN.DCF, or whatever. your 95LX on standby until your your Mac file's name was longer Mac is connected. than 8 letters, it will automatically 3. SET UP YOUR MACLINK PLUS be pared down to the first 8 letters PC software. Use the Terminal mode; Transfer a File of the file name along with the . Click on the Set Connections radio Let's try an example of transferring extension.) Click OKHP150 and the button and set the following options: a Macintosh MS Word 4.0 file to translation and transfer will com Remote: Other your 95LX (assuming that you al mence. Transfer Via Direct (Cable) ready have a Word 4.0 document on 8. Mter the transfer has been com Speed 57600 your Mac hard drive): pleted, click the DISCONNECT button Port Phone 1. Go to SET TRANSLATORS on your on your Mac screen. Enter Save your settings as "Mac To 95- Mac screen and select MACINTOSH [illQ-=-OO on your 95LX. Go to LX," or whatever. FORMATS from the pop-up menu on MEMO 10 your 95LX and retrieve the left side of the screen. your new .TXT file to verify that the 4. CONNECTING THE TWO: on transfer was successful. your 95LX, retrieve your Mac set 2. Scroll down the menu and high tings and the sub-menus TRANS light WORD 4.0. The upper-left corner THAT'S IT! Later, when you're FER, XMODEM. will show that you've selected confident with transferring word 5. You will then be prompted to WORD 4.0. The REMOTE IBM PC processing files to your 95LX, exper scroll menu on the right will show Send or Receive. Select Receive and iment with EXCEL (Mac) to Lotus 1- type in MLPC.EXE you the PC formats that WORD 4.0 2-3 (IBM) transfers, or PICT (Mac) can be translated to. to PC PAINTBRUSH (PCX). Clicking 6. On your Mac, retrieve your 95LX 3. Since the HP 95LX stores MEMO the left DIRECTION button translates settings and click on Set Communica files as .TXT, highlight TEXT under or transfers 95LX files to the Mac. tions and then Connect. the REMOTE IBM PC FORMATS 7 . You will then be prompted to scrolling menu. When you do, the Quick Backup of Your Send or Receive. Select Send and SELECT FILES radio button at the 95LX FILES to Your Mac click on the drive in the dialog box top of the screen will become acti Binary to Binary transfers from that contains your MacLinkPlus/ vated. your 95LX to your Mac allows you PC's DOS diskette. Scroll to MLPC to shift-click multiple 95LX files to .EXE and double-click that selection. 4. Click the radio button that se back them up onto a DOS formatted lects the DIRECTION of the file diskette inserted into your Mac's 8. Verify that your 95LX's FILER transfer. In this example, you select 1.4MB Superdrive. contains the new MLPC.EXE file. MAC to IBM PC. 5. Now, click the SELECT FILES radio A Few Minor Quirks Product Information MacLink Plus PC comes with 5.25" button. You'll be taken to another 1. If .BAT file you created doesn't screen similar to the one you just & 3.5" DOS diskettes, 2 Mac dis save your Macintosh connection set kettes, a manual, 25-pin to mini 8- exited. Looks familiar? You'll rec tings (as it often won't for me), ognize it as the Apple directory DIN cable, 9-pin serial port adapter, consider writing a short macro to and mini-DIN serial port adapter. It dialog box. The left box is your Mac save you the key punching steps. and the right box is your 95LX. is a product of DataViz, Inc, of 2. I've experienced problems with Trumbull, CT, and has a suggested 6. Click on CONNECT in the my 95LX locking up after I've con retail price of $199. It is available lower-right corner of your screen. If nected the serial cable from the Mac from discount software cataloges for all goes well, the IBM PC dialog box to the 95LX. Reconnecting often less ($129 from MacWarehouse - will show your 95LX's C:\ directory solves the problem. 800-225-6227). For DataViz contact and your 95LX will read 'Connected information please see Third Party to Macintosh.' 3. 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Some of the things we'll be looking for (all not necessary) in Palmtop Profiles submissions are: 4. E-mail. My company, Sun, thrives on elec 1. Ways you use the 95LX that will trigger ideas in others on how to better use their 95LX tronic mail. I'll use the communica 2. Tips and tricks tions utility to log in to Sun each 3. Interesting or unique uses of the 95LX. night. I could interactively read my 4. How you use the 95LX specific to your occupation (ifpossible with implications mail and respond, but I'm going to to other fields) try a utility that lets me download Please see the box on the next page for more information on submissions - Hal.] my mailbox, hang up, and read and respond in batch mode. (Portable Mail, DUX Software, 415-967-1500 By Todd Bernhard works with any UNIX system using the standard / usr / ucb / mail sys tem.) When I log in next, my replies Recruiting Business Trip and deletions are processed on the (2117192 - 2/19192 Sun. I save time and money on phone charges, and can process my I've been given the opportunity to E-mail at my own pace. recruit at myoId college, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.l work for Sun Microsystems in PALMTOP DATABASE California, and so I'll have to travel a little. Naturally, I plan to use my HP 95LX to help with scheduling, hnprove your productivity with but I intend to use it for more than just an electronic Filofax - my 95LX software built to satisfy your is going to pay for itself before this specific needs. We create trip is over! custom database applications First I'll identify the tasks I Todd Bernhard tailored for the HP 95LX. With need to accomplish on this trip, and our databases, you can finally see where my Palmtop can help. with time enough to record my realize the full power of your thoughts on the candidate (in pocket computer. Our relational The Plan MEMO). I'll use a large clock pro gram to keep track of time. I'll place database is so small, you won't 1. Travel the screen towards me so I can need a RAM card! • Flight: I'll put my schedule and check the time without making the We provide: flight numbers in my appointment student uncomfortable. I'll also use or Rapid development; usually book - along with Chess (AG.ZIP a timeout program to change the under a month ii, Jan! Feb 92) and Tetris auto shutoff time to 30 minutes ... I or Custom reports must remember to bring spare bat (GAMES.ZIP Ii, Fall 91)! User documentation • Car: I can't play Tetris while teries! (TIMOUT.ZIP iI and SM or driving, but my 95LX helps me CLOCK.ZIP Ii are available in HP or Training & support track my frequent driver and fre SYS's Library 14.) For a free consultation, quent flyer numbers. • Questions: I prefer to be sponta call or write: 2. The Interview neous, but just in case of a lull, I'll • Timing: I have a lot of folks to create a MEMO file of sample ques IID~IIID 1II(iL'-J~1i interview in a short time, so I'll use tions. I can have the file loaded and the appointment book to remind me leave MEMO running, available by SctiwM£ to wrap up the current interview a keystroke. 3001 Red Hill Avenue Bldg 4 Ste 213 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 (714) 850-1767 Ii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Mar/Apr 92. Ii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk. 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 5. Diary and AUTOTRIS disables the serial 10:45 (Eastern) I'll be recording my thoughts port while I'm playing Tetris ... uses My luggage made it. Off to the ho throughout this trip on how the HP less power that way. tel...after a stop by my fraternity! 95LX has made this trip more en joyable and efficient. 4:00 p.m. (PST) 1:15a.m. We should be arriving in Chicago in I decide to log in to work and sure Day One: 2/17/92 about an hour... time to update the enough, I have 15 new messages. Local City to Chicago by pressing I'm staying in a hotel with the 10:45 a.m. [hPT~ F9 ) Watch (see page 17-36 in room/phone modem-ready! Unfor Finished packing and managed to t e P 95LX User's Guide). tunately the phone lines are not fit all my clothes in one carry on clean. I can only establish a connec garment bag. I'm bringing along a 7:30 p.m. (Central) tion at 1200 baud and this will slow modem, too. We just arrived late and my con me down. nection is at 7:55 at the other end of 12:00 noon the airport. If I don't make it, at Day Two: 2/18/92 I have survived another drive on least I have my 95LX with phone the freeway and I'm at the San numbers of friends in Chicago. 11:00 p.m. Francisco Airport. I've decided to This is my first opportunity to up park in the short term covered par 7:55 p.m. date my diary today. That's not to king for these two days. I'm not I made it. I'm in Coach this time, say I haven't had a chance to use known for my short term memory, but at least I'm on my way to Pitts my 95LX, but that it's been a hectic so I'll record where I parked on my burgh. I hope my luggage is too. day of interviews and meeting 95LX, as a Note to my return trip's Time to update the Local City to friends. appointment. Pittsburgh. Horrors! Voted the most My plan worked well, with some I've changed my mind and livable city by Rand MacNally and minor hitches. When I arrived on checked my bag; had to check it in it's not listed? I'll have to edit the campus I learned that my appoint to try to upgrade to First Class. entry for Philadelphia... how sad. ments weren't all 30 minutes Besides, the bag was getting heavy. apart ... they left some 15 minute (Maybe I need a modem that is smaller and lighter than the 95LX itselfl) Now, my only carry-on is a soft padded briefcase containing my tickets, my 95LX, business cards, and The HP Palmtop Paper. One last stop at the Gift Shop for some AA batteries (l left spares at home). I'm using B-CURSOR, which came with my ACE 512K memory card to warn me when the batteries are low ... 3/4 full now. Now to create a file of questions to ask the students ... 1:00 p.m. Well, the upgrade came through ... First Class to Chicago. First Class travel is very conducive to Tetris. I've reached my all time high, several times! Batteries now half full. To save power I use a HP-95XL Accessories batch file to start Tetris. I call it #F1001A IBM-Compatlble PC's Connectivity Pack C:\AUTOTRIS.BAT, and here's what #F1003A SUK RAM Card it looks like ... #F1QOSA Dictionary/Thesaurus Card echo off #82222A Serial Cable, HP-9SXL to IBM-Compatible a..pin te 9-pin #82224A Serial Cable Adapter, Sopi" to 24-pin serctl/o a:\bin\hptris serctl/w Whenever I want to play Tetris I 1 *IIUhiil""ij.ji!'II~=i~~=,:· select AUTOTRIS and press[EJ CALL TOLL FREE 1-800-227-8292 (Run). I don't have to hunt throUgh 24 Hour Phone/Fax Message Center: (415) 494-1995 subdirectories looking for Tetris, MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 21 PROFILES: On The Road breaks in random spots. So the Day Three: 2/19/92 Well, I'd be lying if I said my HP work I had done to set up the ap 95LX paid for itself by managing my pointments in advance was wasted. 7:45 p.m. appointments and phone numbers There ought to be a better way to Again, my HP 95LX has helped with during this trip. Paper and pen create/modify appointments. It questions and kept me on track. It would be much cheaper. But being would be nice to specify that an also helped me contact the airlines able to read my E-mail (so impor appointment is 30 minutes long, during a break to upgrade to First tant for Sun) has certainly justified and then to change the starting Class again! My 95LX has my flight the 95LX's purchase for me. Indeed, time later. Instead, I have to change info, Frequent Flyer info, and phone that was one of the reasons I went the starting and ending time. numbers to call. No need to dig for with the HP 95LX instead of the Also, the beeping I used to tell a phone book, my tickets, and my Sharp Wizard - the larger screen of me that I had 5 minutes before the Frequent Flyer card. the HP is a minimum requirement. next interview was good for me, but I'm now in Washington D.C., And many of the E-mails I respond not for the student... so I did with waiting. Since it's late and I'm tired, ed to while on the road were involv out it. Too bad the appointment I think I'll opt for the slower pace of ing big deals worth thousands or reminder can't pop up on top of a Chess instead of Tetris. And, I'll try millions of dollars. I'd say it was graphics program, like the big clock. to read those E-mail messages I justified on this trip alone, and my The MEMO file of questions downloaded last night. HP and I have more trips ahead! worked like a charm; it gave me the [Todd Bernhard is a Product confidence I needed to keep the 9:45 p.m. Marketing Manager at Sun Micro systems, Inc. He is the co-author of conversation moving. Portable Mail is pretty cool... it "Writing Applications for Sun Sys When the first day of interviews looks just like UNIX system mail was over, I contacted some old tems: A Guide for the Macintosh (lusr/ucb/mail) with enhancements for Programmer". Todd can be reached friends who were still in town, us DOS. I had an earlier version that ing my 95LX's phone book. We got on Internet at todd.bernhard@Sun. was written for an 80 x 25 screen COM or on CompuServe at [72510,- together to sample some of Pitts and told the author of my difficul 2777J'] burgh's finest ... Primanti Brothers ties. He sent me the present ver Cheesesteak and Iron City beer. sion, which includes a set screen 40 16 command that works great on the 12:00 midnight HP 95LX. I haven't figured out how How to submit an article Logged into work again... 63 new to reply to E-mail yet. It looks like to The HP Palmtop Paper messages this time! I respond to the the program requires an editor (like The richness of The HP Palmtop Paper urgent ones (i.e. from my boss) and the MS-DOS Edlin program) to pro comes from the contributions of HP 95LX us download the rest to be processed vide that ... the 95LX's MEMO does ers. We (and your fellow HP 95LX users) on the plane using Jim Lerner's n't cut it. I wanted to put Edlin on welcome your submissions. (We do not offer Portable Mail program. This takes my 95LX anyway and this is a good payment for articles; your only reward is knowing that you've helped others.) some time at 1200 baud and is hard excuse. I'll do that when I get back. Here is how to develop an article. If you on the batteries (I didn't bring the For now, I can read my mail on the have a good idea and want to "go for it," AC adapter). I sure could use the plane and use MEMO to take down send us your article via CompuServe EMail, NewsStream receiver. I could have any notes. disk, or hard copy. If we need clarification or my workstation at work transmit The guy across the aisle from have suggestions, we'll get back to you. new E-mail at regular intervals ... We may want to use an article but for a me is recording his thoughts on a variety of reasons you may not see tt for especially overnight while I'm sleep microcassette recorder. He's proba many months after tts submission. Also, ing. That would be nice! bly going to have a secretary tran understand that we cannot promise to run Some of the E-mail messages scribe it into a computer later. It's any article. have appointments for me. I switch too bad everyone doesn't have a Alternatively, you can EMAIL or send or over to APPT and enter them, and Palmtop. I think it's going to take call Hal Goldstein or Richard Hall wtth an then use Ix2cm, a program I wrote, outline of your idea. We will try to guide you pen-based units for folks like him to as to when and whether we would use the to convert from .ABK files to Sun think about converting. Besides, you article. In general we have had very good Open Windows 3.0 Calendar Man can't play Chess with a recorder. experiences working with authors via Compu ager. (Available on Library 14 of Serve electronic mail. CompuServe's HPSYS forum as 10:30 p.m. If you can, especially if you write a SUNCAL.95. Ii.) 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Since the 95LX does independently. I was surprised Each entry on the appointments t to only solution I've found for wake-up n't have a OTR line, most battery when, after using OC95 to backup do list can be considered a project calls is to turn up the volume (from powered modems will never turn my 95LX to my PC, I repeatedly and the notes related to it are the the setup menu) and set an alarm on. The World Port works because turned my 95LX off only to have it "to dos" for that project. every minute for 5 minutes (or lon it can look at the TXO pin instead of turn itself back on again after about Arturo F. Barrio ger for when you're "belly down")! OTR. (Other modems can be made one second! Only by disconnecting I find that in a noisy office envi to work by running a line from the the serial line or by unloading OC95 Boca Raton, Florida ronment, I can't hear my 95LX modem's battery to the OTR pin, from memory (command: OC95 -U) alarm go off when it's sitting on my thus fooling the modem.) can this be avoided. The documen EXPORTING APPT FILES desk a few feet in front of me. Second, line powered modems tation is correct but could have You can get an ASCII file of your Lee Buck (the kind with no battery and no AC been more explanatory. Appointment Book by using the CompuServe ID: [76430, 1067J power) expect to get their power Trevor Cradduck PRINT, FILE function on the 95LX, from the RS-232 interface. The Univ. Western Ontario or from APP95 on your PC. You 95LX doesn't have enough power London, Ontario, CANADA can choose start and stop dates, HJBattery to share. and decide whether or not to in Third, many modems expect 95LX AND 48SX clude Notes or not. You also get to BACKUP BATTERY Wisdom around here suggests that hardware handshaking (via RTSt CAN COMMUNICATE choose Appointments or TO-OOs. CTS). The 95LX doesn't support HP says it won't work, but the 95LX The format of the ASCII file gener if you relied on the backup battery for a long period of time, you may this handshaking protocol. Most and 48SX communicate via infrared ated is useable, but not great. want to replace it early. Radio modems allow the user to disable with NO trouble. A better solution is a file called Shack stocks the battery, part num the RTStCTS handshaking, but One of the embarrassing points is CALRP.EXE ii, in Library 14 ber 23-162. many of them only let you disable it that the 48SX's implementation of (95LX library) here in HPSYS on Ed Greenberg from a system that supports RTSt Kermit is better (more complete) CompuServe. This is shareware CompuServe 10: [76703, 1070J CTS. (You could wind up having to than the 95LX's. that reads Sidekick Plus files and do the initial configuration using a To transfer files to the 48SX, I creates nice looking screen ALKALINE BATTERIES LESS PC to drive the modem.) put the 48SX in Kermit Server displays, print outs or ASCII files. POLLUTING, LESS POWERFUL Ted Dickens (HP Forum Sysop) mode and use the Transfer Kermit You use the Translate routine in Battery technology has taken some CompuServe ID: [76701,272J Send command on the 95LX. APP95 to convert from 95LX format steps backward this year. The new Ted Dickens (HP Forum Sysop) to SK+ format, and then run alkaline cells, while certainly envi COMM DOWNLOADS CompuServe 10: [76701,272J CALRP. Kind of messy, but it ronmentally much better (reduced Yes, one can download using works. mercury), are not as powerful as COMM while other System-Manag SOLVING Victor D. Roberts their predecessors. They are also er compliant applications are load CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS [70413,1423J physically fragile. ed. If your Connectivity Pack, modem Ted Dickens (HP Forum Sysop) Ted Dickens (HP Forum Sysop) or Serial printer does not work, USE F10, NOT ESC TO CompuServe 10: [76701,272J CompuServe ID: [76701,272J First, try a hard reboot, 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 cannot specify a .EXE or .COM file TEST THE KEYBOARD DISPLAY $1000 BILL SCREEN in APNAME.LST. ONLY FILES ~Printer You can test the keyboard very In the SET UP application (press WITH. EXM extensions are allowed. FASTER PRINTING quickly. Exit all the applications and MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 25 HP 95LX SUPPORT: CompuServe will guide you through a typical on Accessing 'CompuServe line CompuServe session. In the with the HP 95LX next issue, you will be introduced to MESSAGE, a program designed for the 95LX that allows automatic Larry Lefkowitz shows how to use the 95LX to send batch mode access of CompuServe messages and download Jiles from CompuServe's HP Forums and Cmail. 95LX Support Forum. Doing It By Hand If you are brand new to Compu By Larry Lefkowitz Methods of Forum Access Serve, or just want to get a feel for If you have never used CompuServe, using it, this short tutorial will If you're like me, you purchased the you might have some basic ques . walk you through the steps. Using HP 95LX for its portable organiza tions that need answering. You the built-in COMM program you will tional tools. I saw its communica should look at the sidebar titled have an online session with Compu tions capability as an extra added "CompuServe Forums and Cmail" Serve. You will read messages in bonus. As a long time CompuServe for information on CompuServe the 95LX support section of the HP user, I planned to use it for limited Forums and Cmail. Systems Forum, retrieve (download) CompuServe Information Service There are two basic ways to a file from the HP 95LX Palmtop (CIS) access. access CompuServe Forums and C library, and compose a message in However, after some experimen mail: 1. ONLINE and 2. Using a the Practice Forum. tation, it became apparent that the BATCH PROCESSING program. 95LX had real potential as a porta Online access to CompuServe is A note on the Practice Forum ble communications platform. This simple and effective. You connect to The Practice Forum was created so article will give a background on CompuServe, and conduct all activi that CompuServe members could the two basic ways to work with ties while connected. You may use learn to use the Forum software CompuServe, Forums and Cmail. the 95LX's built-in COMM program without any connect charges. It has You'll also take a short online tour and your modem to conduct an on the same organization as all of two CompuServe forums. line session with CompuServe. CompuServe forums, (message area, The main drawback to this libraries, etc), and is staffed by Why the 95LX? method is the expense. If all mes The 95LX, no larger than many sages are read and composed while calculators, has a rather small key connected, the 2400 baud connect CompuServe Forums and email board and a 40 column screen. Yet, charge of of $12.80 an hour starts to CompuServe Forums and Cmail Forums are with the proper software, it can be become prohibitive. areas of CompuServe that address an area a serious tool for communicating In order to make the access of of interest. CompuServe has a mu~nude of with CompuServe. A couple of per Forums and Cmail cost effective, interesting and practical Forum areas, and sonal examples will help. programs have evolved that greatly some that are just fun. Here is a (very) small My desk at work is dominated reduce connect charges. These pro sampling of CompuServe forums you can by a computer terminal (this termi grams call CompuServe, automati visn: nal cannot be used for CompuServe cally visit forums you have decided Astronomy Forum [ ASTROFORUM J access). My 95LX sits right next to on beforehand, retrieve and store IBM Programmers Forum [ IBMPRO J Comics/Animation Forum [ COMIC J the terminal, where I use it for Forum messages/Cmail and then Aviation Forum [ AVSIG J scheduling, phone numbers and disconnect you from CompuServe. Bacchus Wine Forum [ WINEFORUM J calculations. The addition of a small Once disconnected (no longer Mac New Users Help Forum [ MACNEW J portable modem allows retrieval of incurring online charges) you are Forums are divided into two major areas, CompuServe messages and mail free to read and answer these mes during the day. sages at your leisure. When you 1. The Messaging area, where members can exchange ideas and information At night, while watching the have finished writing and replying 2. The Library area, where programs and late news in bed, I use the same to your messages and Cmail, you data files are available to forum portable modem and the 95LX to can connect to CompuServe once members. retrieve, read and reply to Compu again, and the program will auto For further background on CompuServe and Serve messages. Another computer, matically and quickly send your Forums, take a look at the article by Ted even slightly larger, would make responses to the correct Forums, Dickens in the Fall, 1991 issue of The this impractical. send Cmail to the Cmail area, and Palmtop Paper, page 10. Ted is the Sysop Because of the 95LX has true then disconnect. (System Operator) of the HP Systems shirt pocket portability, you can Examples of programs in this Forum. begin to exercise the full power of category are MESSAGE, TAPCIS and CompuServeMaii (Cmail) is a separate electronic messaging. Your electron AUTOSIG. (See the sidebar "Auto function from the Forums. Using Cmail, you can send a private message to any other ic mail can be retrieved almost mate Your CompuServe Access" on CompuServe member. You may also send anywhere in the world that a phone page 28). data and programs as well. line is accessible. The remainder of this article 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 6. Press Dial and select Tone if hear the modem dialing. Short Quick Tips: your phone system supports ly, if the connection is made Using HP 95LX on CompuServe tone signals, otherwise leave the properly, you will see CONNECT • To get onto CompuServe follow the setting on Pulse. 2400 on the screen (assuming directions in the start-up k~ and in this 10. Press Dial Number. Enter your you are using a 2400 baud mo article. In general, after your modem CompuServe access phone num dem). At this point, follow the makes connection, get the USER 10 ber and press [ENTER I. instructions for logging on to prompt by typing CTRL-C. If you get 11. Press [ESC) (two times). You are CompuServe you received with the "HOST SYSTEM" prompt, type CIS. now at a menu. your CompuServe startup kit • To exit at any! prompt, type OFF. (also see "Using HP 95LX on • If your system locks up from within You are now ready to access CompuServe" sidebar above). COMM press CTRL·F7 to hang up. CompuServe. Make sure your mo 2. If all goes well, you will see the • Press MENU at any point to get to the dem is on and connected to the main menu. Then press Connect to get CompuServe main menu, and 95LX. You will now log on to, and have a prompt ending with a !. back to the communications screen. change the CompuServe setting that • If you want to "capture" parts of your Type go profile and press [ ENTEr)' will allow you to download files You now see a menu tIt ed communications session such as ses with the 95LX. sions described in this article, press ! CHANGE YOUR USER PROFILE. CTRL·F5 (Capture) and enter the file 1. Press Connect. The screen will 3. Type 1 for "Terminal Settings" name you want to save it in when go blank, and you will probably and press [ ENTER I. asked. CTRL·F5 again tums off capture mode. You can read the captured file later in MEMO. people who can answer any ques tions you may have about forum The smaller use. (See sidebar on page 11, Fall 91 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper for more on The Practice Forum.) they get, In order to perform the follow ing exercise, you will need equip ment in addition to the 95LX, most the bigger importantly a modem. For details on the equipment required and set up, see "How Do You Use DATA we are. COMMIt on page 33 of the Jan/Feb issue of The HP Palmtop Paper. When using the built in COMM program, menu selections become Personal computers are getting Sparcom Battery-backed RAM cards available when you press (t)' It smaller. Your demand for power and are available in 256K, 512K, 1MB and should also be noted that a any performance is not. Sparcom Battery 2MB. Their long-life point on CompuServe, you may type backed RAM cards, engineered lithium batteries HELP and receive an explanation of for the HP 95LX, give your are designed to the different option~ which are palmtop the memory and protect valuable available at that point. capability of a desktop Pc. You data, and will Connecting With CompuServe have the power to run additional always Let's start! Your first step will be to software, store deliver the change some of your 95LX's COMM entire data durability settings to allow you to retrieve bases, and and reliability files. Then we'll connect with improve necessary for the most CompuServe. After turning on the 95LX, do the following: speed and performance. demanding palmtop applications. 1. Press [co~} to start the built in Available at leading retailers of Hewlett·Packerd palmtop computers. COMM program. For more information contact Sparcom Corporation· 897 NW Grant Ave, Corvallis, 2. Press I~N\J) Settings Config. Oregon 97330, USA· (800) 827·8416 or (503) 757·8416· Fax: (503) 753·7821 3. Press ort Baud and enter the baud rate for your modem 4. Press Port Parity and select Sparcom Even Parity. I 5. Press Port Char and select 7. MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 27 HP 95LX SUPPORT: CompuServe 4. Type 2 for "Change Pennanent your screen. Again, following fit on the screen all at once. To stop Settings" and press [ ENTER I. the instructions you received the scrolling, press ICTRL)- S. 5. Type 4 for "Tenninal type/ from CompuServe, proceed to To start again, press 1Q!!jJ- Q. parameters" and press [ENTER I . log on to the service. 6. Type 8 for "Parity" and press This time, however, you will Replying to a Message [ ENTER l. notice a difference. What ap At the end of any message, you will 7. Type 3 for "Zero" or "None" and pears to be meaningless charac receive a prompt ending with I. At press [ ENTER I . ters will appear on your screen this point, you may reply to the 8. Press [ENTER I to return to the at the point you are supposed to message if you wish. If you would PERMANENT SE'ITINGS menu. see the "User J.D.:" prompt. like to do this, type reply and press 9. Type EXIT and press [ENlR l- This is nonnal. At this point, [ ENTER I. CompuServe will present 10. Type 1 for "Confinn" an press enter your CompuServe user you with this prompt; !}WRI. I.D. anyway and press I iii. 11. e OFF and press (aR L You When you enter your user .., Enter reply. (/EXIT when done) are now disconnecte from it will also appear unintelligible. Type in your reply. Keep each line CompuServe. However, CompuServe is auto less than 80 characters long, and matically sensing how your press [ ENTER) after each line. To end You have just changed your person computer is set. You should now al CompuServe settings to allow file see the nonnal, readable "Pass retrieval (downloads) from the word:" prompt. Enter your pass Automate Your CompuServe libraries using the word and press Le.ffl:.!!J. CompuServe Access 3. You will come to a prompt that 95LX COMM program. This article focuses on manual CompuServe For successful file downloads, ends with a !. Type go hpsys access. In the next issue of The HP Palmtop you need to make one final change and press [ENTER) to enter the Paperwe wiD take a closer look at a program to the settings you have made in HPSYS forum. for the 95lX, called MESSAGE, that auto the COMM program. You'll then mates access to the CompuServe Forums save these COMM settings to a If you have never entered the HP and email. pennanent file, so you don't have to Systems Forum before, you will see If you want to begin using an automated go through the setup process each the following notice; program, here is where you can find them; time you access CompuServe. Non-members cannot access this feature. MESSAGE - is available in the HP 95lX Do you wish to join (Y or N)? Palmtop library (14) on the HP Systems 1. Press 'eh) Settings Config Port. Forum (GO HPSYS). This program is 2. Press ar and then select 8 Type Y and press [ENTER). written specifically for the HP 95lX. 3. Press Port Parity and select Download MESSG.lIP ... Uis a share None. You will then be prompted for your ware program ($20 registration). MES 4. Press [ESC) Save. Then type in name. Enter your full name (first SAGE requires COMMO, a shareware the name you want to give file, and last) and press [fiTER). Finally, communications program (registration press [ENTER I and then [ESC). The you will be asked if a is correct. If $35) be to be on your 95lX. Download above settings are now saved. it is, type Y and press [ENTER I . COMM02IP ** and COMM0921P .. from the satnelbrary. An ed~or is option (NOTE: You can retrieve these set Reading Messages In HPSYS al but suggested. The recommended tings after entering COMM by press ed~or is VDE, a shareware program Mh You're now in the HPSYS forum. ing [MENU) Settings Use. Several files optional personal registration. Download to choose from will be displayed. By When you receive a prompt ending VDE2IP" from the above library. moving the highlight bar to the file in I, type set wid 40 and then press TAPelS - is avaiable in the TAPelS lilrary [ ENTER I. This allows most messages (1) of the TAPelS Forum (GO TAPeIS). called CSERVE and pressing [ )ER ), you can retrieve these settings. to be read on the 95LX's 40 col dis TAPCIS runs on IBM and compatible play. Then type: read new thread sec: computers. Download TAP4.EXE" and TAPDOC.EXE **. TAPCIS is shareware Accessing the HPSYS Forum 14,15 and press [ENTER I. This will allow you to read all new messages (registration $79). You are finally ready to go on line in the two sections of the forum AUTOSIG - is avaiable in the AUTOSIG and access the HP Systems Forum. library (1) of the IBM Communications dedicated to the 95Lx. You will read Forum (GO IBMCOM). AUTOSIG runs You should have the following menu only new messages (ones you have options at the top of your screen: on IBM compatible computers. Download n't read before), and they will be in AT068B.EXE ** and ATOOOC.EXE. Settings Connect Transfer Quit thread order (an original message There is no cost for AUTOSIG. followed by all replies). NAVIGATOR - is avalable from the If you don't, press [ESC) a few times (Note: To read only messages CompuServe online store, and may be and then [~ll and you should see addressed to you, type read waiting ordered on&ne (GO ORDEA). NAVIGA the options. en do the following: and press [ENTER) instead of the TOR runs on Macintosh computers. above READ command. When en NA VIGA TOR costs $50, and comes with 1. Select Connect. tering the forum, you will be in a $10 CompuServe usage credl. 2. Your modem will now dial fonned of any waiting messages.) CompuServe. After awhile, you Messages will begin to scroll by on ** Available on The HP Palmtop Paper ON will see the CONNECT 2400 on the screen. Some will be too long to DISK. See page 23. 28 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 your reply, type /post as the first Your response to this prompt will have sent them a message when entry on its own line and then press determine who the message will be they enter the forum. [ ENTER}. CompuServe will respond directed to. Type in all and press CompuServe will then prompt you with a message like this: [ ENTER} and the message posted for for the subject, like this; all to read. ALL is not the only Message # 18127 posted Subject: appropriate response at this point, Your reply has been sent. but is the one we will use during Type in Test and press [ENTER). The this practice session. It lets you subject of a message can be no more Finish Reading Messages address a question or comment to than 24 characters. . At the end of each message (if you anyone on the forum. Finally, you will be presented choose not to reply), press [ENTER) to Many times you will want to with a list of forum sections. Type continue to the next message. To direct the message to a particular 11 and press [ENTER). The test mes re-read a message, type reread and forum member. To do this you may sage will be sent to section 11 called press [ENTER}. If you would like to enter their name, followed by their 'My "TEST" Message'. This section stop reading messages, press M and CompuServe user I.D. and press is set up on the Practice Forum [ ENTER). (By typing M at most places [ ENTER )like this: John Doe 70000.123. specifically for test messages like in CompuServe, you will return to If you just enter a person's the one you have just composed. the previous menu.) If you do not name without their user I.D., the CompuServe will then show you type M at the end of any message, person may not be alerted that you the message on the following page: you will continue reading messages .------, until there are none left to read. Before moving to the next step, be sure you have read all messages, or, have typed M at the end of a message and pressed [ ENTER} • Instant Composing a Message You will now compose a message on the Practice forum. To move to the connections. Practice Forum, type: go practice and press [ ENTER}. You will leave the HP Systems Forum and move to the Practice Forum. When you receive a prompt ending with !, you are ready to Compose a test message. Type compose and then press [ ENTER). (If you haven't joined this forum yet, you'll be asked your name.) CompuServe will respond with the following: The Sparcom Included with the The Practice Forum Compose Enter mes Station95™ links your Station95 is a DB 9 serial sage. (/EXIT when done) HP 95LX to your desktop PC connector for quick hook-up to for instant communication. This your desktop, and an AC battery Type in your test message. Since this is just a test message, you may palmtop docking station replaces the adaptor for power. Station95 is type just about anything. Lines usual web of loose cables and plugs compact and fits easily on your desk. should be shorter than 80 charac with a permanent, 4-pin serial It weighs just 3 lbs. So despite what ters, and you must press[ ENTER) connector. Saves your battery power conventional wisdom tells us, after each line. When you have too. Simply slide the palm- • TM instant gratification can completed entering your message, top onto the Station95; it Statlon95 sometimes be a good thing. type /exit (/ on numeric keypad, not clips securely into place. Like now. Call Sparcom. MENU key) as the only entry on its [ENTER) • own line and press You will Available at leading retailers of Hewlett·Packerd palmtop computers. then be presented with a prompt For more information contact Sparcom Corporation. 897 NW Grant Ave, Corvallis, ending in I. At this prompt, type Oregon 97330, USA· (800) 827-8416 or (503) 757-8416 • Fax: (503) 753-7821 post and press [ ENTER}. CompuServe will respond with the following; Sparcom Post for (Name and/or User ID): I Station95 is a registered trademark of Sparcom Corporation. MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 29 HP 95LX SUPPORT: CompuServe To: ALL Remember that [eTRL) (fl] saves Palmtop Paper for specific interna Subj: TEST these descriptions to a1ile. For tional numbers). Section: 11 a shorter description of the forum files consult HPSL14.LIS, Is this correct (Y or N)? Summary the file you just downloaded.) The techniques outlined in this Type Y and press [ENTER I. If some Type off and press ~NfER). article allow you to enter any thing was incorrect, you can change You are now disconnecte rom CompuServe forum and work in the it here by selecting N. CompuServe. online mode. CompuServe will confirm that To exit the COMM program, Your new found skills will allow your message has been sent with a press [MENU) Quit. you to ask any burning questions response similar to this: you have on how to use the 95LX. The file HPSL14.LIS is now on your We welcome you to drop by HP Message # 126299 posted computer. You may view it in Filer Systems Forum. You have now completed your prac or by retrieving it into the MEMO Part two of this article will tice message. program. You may retrieve any file appear in the next issue of The HP listed in HPSL14.LIS by repeating Palmtop Paper. It will introduce you Downloading an Important the above download procedure, and to a program for the 95LX that File From the 95LX Library using the appropriate filename. automates the message and Cmail The file you are about to retrieve functions described here. will be very useful for you. It con How to Join CompuServe tains a listing of all the other pro If you don't have a CompuServe ac [Larry Lefkowitz has been an grams and information files avail count, you can obtain a free Intro Allstate Insurance agent for the last able in the 95LX Palmtop Library. ductory Membership by calling 800- 5 years. Previously he was a pro Type go hpsys and press[ ENTER 1 848-8199 and asking for representa grammer / analyst for 5 years and to go back to the HPSYS forum. tive #231. also in computer retail / direct sales International users can call the for 2 years.] 1. You'll get a prompt ending in !. 614-457-0802 in the U.S. (Please see Type Lib 14 and press [ENTER 1; page 11, Fall 91 issue of The HP 2. Type dow hpsl14.lis proto:xmo and press [ aNTER); CompuServe is now rea y to send you the file; Uncompressing .ZIP Files 3. Press I/.EN' Transfer XMODEM When you download a file from CompuServe or another bulletin board, often the file actually contains Receive. ou are now prompted several compressed files. For example, if you downloaded the HP 95LX blackjack game from the to enter the name the new file CompuServe HPSYS forum, you would download 9087 byte file BJ95.ZIP. To be able to use the will have on your 95LX. Type in blackjack program, you would first have to "unZIP" the BJ95.ZIP file. When you unZIP BJ95.ZIP on hpsl14.lis and press [ENTER). You your HP 95LX or desktop, the 12,382 byte BJ.EXM file and the 3183 byte BJ.TXT file emerge. (The TXT file contains the documentation and the EXM file is the program). will begin to receive the file. PKlIP from PKWARE is the most popular of the file archiving / file compression programs. Most The COMM program will pres files in the HPSYS HP 95LX Data Libraries (DL14 and DL15) are ZIPped. ent you with a screen showing To summarize, ZIP is a compression technique that performs two basic functions: your progress as the file is sent 1. Compresses a file so it will take up less disk space to your 95LX. 2. Consolidates several files into one file 4. When the file transfer is com Since the resulting file is smaller, it will take less time to transmit over a modem, saving you connect plete, you will see a prompt at charges. And since one ZIPPED file may contain many compressed files, it makes downloading the top of the screen; multiple·file programs very simple. Press any key to continue. A file compressed in the ZIP format can be recognized by its name (ie TEST.ZIP) and may be uncompressed with a ZIP extraction program. Press [ENTER~ then press[Esc) The original ZIP software comes from PKWARE, Inc. of Glendale Wisconsin. ZIP software is shareware. You can download PKZ110.EXE· from the HP 95LX Library (2) of the HPSYS forum on three times. his will bring you CompuServe. PKl110.EXE is a self·extracting file. That means after downloading the file to your back to the terminal screen computer, type PKZ11 0 at the DOS prompt, and it will automatically expand and separate all the where you left off when the compressed files that make it up. Doing so will create a number of files including a ZIPper and an download began. unZIPper. Press [ENTER) and you will PKZ110 is well over 100K. If you are only interested in unZIPping, or if you are downloading to return to a forum prompt. (At your 95LX and are short of space, there is at least one other alternative. A free ZIP extraction program called ZIPPER.COM· (11K), is available in the HP 95LX Library (14) of the HPSYS forum. this point you may want to UnZIPing is simple. Let's use our BJ95.ZIP example. It is a compressed file made up of a download other files. The simpl program BJ95.EXM and BJ95.TXT. ist way to do so is to type bro To extract and expand both files from BJ95.ZIP type the following command at the DOS prompt: {for browse} at the Disposition ZIPPER BJ95. ZIPPER (or PKWARE's PKUNZIP) will automatically add the .ZIP to the end of the prompt. A description of each filename, so there is no need to type it. Alternatively, selective extraction is useful on the 95LX with file will be followed by the Dis its limited file space. To extract only BJ95.EXM, type the following command at the DOS prompt: ZIPPER BJ95 BJ95.EXM. If you just wanted to find out what files are buried within BJ95, you would position prompt. Type dow at type ZIPPER·V BJ95. To find out the various ZIPPER options just type ZIPPER. the Disposition prompt any time you want to download a file. • Available on the Mar/Apr 1992 edition of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK. 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 example, on my 95LX I want Finish Finish Line Line's menu to pop up often. In Finish Line's easy-to-use "Predict" This software program ''remembers'' the words you use configuration screen, I choose "Of_ and finishes typing your words for you, saving you ten" as opposed to "Rarely" or the normal "Default." time on the 95LX.'s diminutive keyboard. I could further refine what I mean by "Often." For example, I could tell Finish Line to guess after By Hal Goldstein The screen popping up is dis I typed 1 letter or 2 letters, or even tracting at first, but once you get o letters (enter 0 and Finish Line The one downside of the compact used to it, Finish Line is quite help guesses based on last word typed.) 95LX, for me, is its keyboard. The ful. The more you use the program, You can also customize where size of the keyboard slows down the "smarter" it gets. on your screen the Finish Line win typing and discourages entering lots Finish Line is simple to install dow pops up (upper left, center, and of text. Columnist Ed Keefe intro and use. It is very flexible. That is, so forth) as well as what keys will duced me to a possible solution: A it lets you customize how it works be your "hot keys." I use the maxi software program that types much according to your preferences by mum of nine hot keys and choose of your text for you. Innovative De pressing ICTRL}- Drive95'M, the portable A single charge powers floppy disk drive for the HP the Drive95 for 15 hours of Finish Line seems a very u 1 express ion pr09rar~ for HP 95LX users 2 ei9hth 95LX, provides a low-priced remote operation. Included is an like typin9 on the keyboar 3 exch9nge 4 enemles 5 eleventh data storage and transfer device for AC wall adapter and a preformatted It would be 9reat if the p 6 enemy work with the builtin pr09 7 education palmtops. Drive95 reads and writes in 1.44 MB disk containing the device Unfortunately, it only wor ~ ~~~!~t PC-DOS format on 3 112" disks. driver software. An intelligent cache It does no take that lon9 to get used to the prediction window. Finish Line Programs are executed quickly and memory minimizes power learns fast. It doesn't need a total e easily. Drive95 is small and light- consumption. An AC battery weight and fits easily into adapter and serial cable your briefcase. Drl.Ve95™ If the word I was about to type was are included. "education", I would simply type 7 on my numeric keypad. If I wanted Available at leading retailers of Hewlett-Packerd palmtop computers. to type "elephant", I would type For more information contact Sparcom Corporation. 897 NW Grant Ave, Corvallis, "elephant" in the normal way and Oregon 97330, USA· (800) 827-8416 or (503) 757-8416 • Fax: (503) 753-7821 the screen disappears as I type the word. The next time I type e, "ele Sparcom phant" will likely be listed as an "e" I alternative. Drive95 is a registered trademark of Sparcom Corporation. MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 31 DOS CONNECTION: Finish Line Finish Line default hotkeys are: The Down Side am so excited about the product. ICTRll-a, ICTRLl-s, ICTRL)-d and ICTRL)-f. Here comes the bad news. At this There are other customization time Finish Line only works from Ordering Information choices. For instance, you can tell DOS. This is great if you use DOS Finish Line is presently shareware, Finish Line what characters you software such as VDE or COMMO and the latest version is available want to be considered as first char described in the past few issues. on CompuServe: GO IBMSYS, Lib 1, acters. That way DOS users can However, at this time Finish Line have Finish Line recognize \ as the File FINISH.ZIP ii. It's also avail start of a word. With such a Finish will not run with any of the System able on the March/April HP Palm Line configuration you can use DOS Manager built-in applications such top Paper ON DISK. commands to change directories as MEMO or LOTUS. If you like the program, you are (e.g. cd ,-dat). You won't have to Finish Line's advantages - ease required to send Innovative Designs type all the keys since _DAT will of use, intelligence, and small size the user fee. You can order a regis pop up after you type \. cause a down side. The user cannot tered version of Finish Line directly. The most obvious use of Finish customize exactly what word pops Line is in word processing applica up, when it pops, nor which hot key Availability ...... NOW tions. However, Finish Line could be it is assigned to. However, the Medium ...... Floppy Disk useful in many other applications. program is flexible in its customi Runs under SysMgr ...... No For example, Lotus users could type zation of options and this lack of Pricing ...... $39 @ and the user's favorite functions control is not a major problem. ($89 after May 31, 1992) would pop up. Ed Keefe tells me he COMPANY: Innovative Designs, uses it for computer programming. Installing Finish Line P. O. Box 2577, Santa Clara, CA Since there is a relatively small 95055, U.S.A.; Phone: 408-247-6624, vocabulary for any programming on the 95LX language, Finish Line is a boon to Running Finish Line requires a Fax: 408-985-9255; Modem: 408- programmers. It also works with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT 246-24688/ N /1/300-2400; Compu most DOS-based text programs. file. (See the JanJFeb issue, Quick Serve: [70402,2003J. Besides the fact that HELP and Tips, under DOS Tips and Set Up the configuration menus are in for instructions on how to set up English, the program is not lan these files.) You can start Iii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Mar/Apr 92. guage-dependent. That means FINISH.EXE from your AUTO EXEC Finish Line learns long German .BAT file. Alternatively, what I do is words or Spanish accented letters to create batch files containing my HED - A Hex Editor without difficulty. DOS applications in which I want to What makes Finish Line even use Finish Line. In the batch file I ForThe9SLX more attractive to HP Palmtop load Finish Line, then the applica users is that it takes very little disk tion, then I unload Finish Line. HED is a tiny (under 6K), full screen space. The main Finish file FIN If you have a desktop, you Hex Editor for use with "small" fIles (up ISH.EXE takes 44,546 bytes. The might want to install it there first to approximately 55K in size). HED is data file that stores the words typed System Manager compliant, so it can be does not grow. It stays at 16,384 to get used to its functioning and popped up over System Manager ap bytes. There is an optional help file configuration screens. plications, and other applications can be that is 65,501 bytes. I DIETed FINISH.EXE and FIN The Future popped on topofHED. ISH.EXE was reduced to 27,677 Glen Shires, the program's author, Within the 40 x 16 display you can bytes (see Fall 1991, page 18 for is seriously considering a 95LX-only modify the hex values of individual more on DIET II). The only degra version of Finish Line that will bytes, or "tab" to the ASCII display to dation was that the configuration work with System-Manager compli edit text strings etc. HED is more screen was much slower to pop up. ant applications. That means you convenient, and easier to use than That means Finish Line at the could use Finish Line with MEMO Debug for these applications. minimum only takes up about 40K. or LOTUS 1-2-3. Furthermore, Fin HED is available as an executable Finish Line operates as a TSR ish Line would be able to memorize program, or as Forth source code program. That means it borrows MENU key combinations so as soon some of the HP 95LX's System RAM ready for meta-compiling with the to operate. It needs 39K extra of as you [MENW' 9 choices could pop up. UTIL metacompiler (available System RAM to work properly. (To Whet er a HP 95LX version is separately). use Finish Line you'll probably need created depends on how much time HED's price is only $35. To order to increase System RAM from the it takes to make the conversion and your copy, call today. SET UP menu.) how much interest there is. I am encouraging Glen and am even Essex Marketing Services Inc. considering marketing the product 272 Old Farms Road under our company's name, since I Simsbury, CT 06070 Iii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Fall 91 . Phone: (203) 651-8284 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 FOR THE HP 95LX • Contact and client tracking ACT! for tbe HP 95LX lets you take control of your day while you're on-the-go. This powerful contact manager keeps all the details about your contacts and your calendar at your fmgertips. • Calendar management ACT! even tracks and reports your expenses. The innovative ZAPCARDS® feature lets you exchange business card and other • Expense tracking contact information wirelessly with other ACT! HP 95LX users. 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(payable to Contact Software) • Discount Price $99.00 • Shipping & Handling $5.50 1840 Hutton Drive, #200 TIC residents add $8.17 sales tax Carrollton, TX 75006 • Total: 21 41919-9500 or Toll Free 1-800-365-0606 ~ Please Call for International Orders. ©1992 Conlacr Software Internalional ------MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 ·COLUMN:·Looking Glass ': ~ . ,.-..... ~. __ ,., ...... ,;:, .. ---'!I '- this in, press ~MENf) Range Name Through The Looking Glass Create FIXCOST or cell B9 and press [lsi Range Name Create Ed compares using Lotus and HP CALC to do VARCOS or cell B12. This will let "break-even analysis" on the HP 95LX. you link these cells with the follow ing worksheet. Save this spreadsheet as By Ed Keefe formula for getting to the bottom line is: COSTS.WK1 Ii and then press IM21 Worksheet Erase Yes to clear 1- - Number Crunching Profit = to start a new worksheet. on the HP 95LX Units • (Price· Variable Costs) • Fixed Costs The break-even analysis spread This article takes a look at two of sheet looks like this. the "number crunching" tools in The break even point is reached your HP 95LX: Lotus 1-2-3, and when Profit is zero. We want to A B C D Solver. know how many units must we sell 1 BREAK-EVEN ANALYSIS Almost everyone who owns a to get to that point. 2 SELLING PRICE PER UNIT: $29.95 95LX knows how to use 1-2-3. Not 3 A Real-World Example 4 everyone has had the time to come 5 TOTAL FIXED COSTS:$ 1,042 up to speed with Solver. Maybe this As an example of break even analy sis I'll use my most recent venture: 6 trip through the looking glass will , " . 7 VARIABLE COST PER UNIT: $6.31 pique your interest in one of the developing and producing the DI- 8 nooks and crannies of the HP 95LX. versions Disk of Games Galore for 9 Along the way, you'll develop a the HP 95LX." (See pages 7-10, 10 BREAK EVEN QUANTITY: 44 JanlFeb issue of The HP Palmtop 11 Lotus spreadsheet to do break-even Paper.) This will give us some real 12 analysis. Then you'll do the same numbers with which to work. 13 X A B break-even analysis using Solver. 14 BE SALES COST Rather than just read about The Solution Via 1-2-3 15 0.0 00 1042.1 1-2-3 and Solver, you'll gain some 16 8.8 264.1 1097.7 The two spreadsheets mentioned firsthand experience and be able to 17 17.6 528.1 1153.4 below are available on the Mar/Apr 18 26.5 792.2 1209.0 assess the strengths and weakness 92 edition of The HP Palmtop Paper es of each tool. 19 35.5 1056.2 1264.7 ON DISK. Also included is a file 20 44.1 1320.3 1320.3 For those of you who have used called ED.EQN Ii. That file contains 21 52.9 1584.4 1375.9 Solver on the HP 19BII, some of this the break even formula along with 22 61.7 1848.4 1431.6 article will be old news. The article a couple of other equations that I've 23 70.5 2112.5 1487.2 may even sound like the babbling of found useful. Maybe you will too. 24 79.4 2376.5 1542.9 a kid who has just found a neat, Here is a 1-2-3 spreadsheet that 25 88.2 2640.6 1598.5 new toy. Maybe it will remind you shows the breakdown of the costs. If Figure 2 of the first time you discovered you have your HP 95LX handy, key Figure 3 below is a listing offormu Solver. The sense of wonderment is this in and check the numbers. Af exhilarating, right? las used to develop thi~ spreadsheet. ter you enter Lotus press [MENU' The Widths for columns A and B Worksheet Global Format Currency are 5 and 8. In the listing, the \ Break-Even Analysis 2 to format the worksheet. Break-even analysis is a mathemat characters represent a series of dashes which have been copied ical tool used in business and mar A B C 1 Fixed Costs $500.00 Hardware across the cells in rows 2 and 8. keting. If we know the cost of devel Note the formulas in cells D5 oping a new product, and the cost of 2 $70.00 Development Software 3 $11.86 Photo Ready Copy and D7. This type of formula is new making just one of these products, 4 $25.24 Review Copies to Lotus ver 2.2. The formulas link and we also have settled on a sell 5 $435.00 Development time . the cells in the current worksheet to ing price for one item, we need to 6 $1 ,042.10 TOTAL FIXED a cell, or range of cells, in a work know how many items must we sell 7 8 Var Costs $0.90 Disk sheet that is on the disk. The gener to offset the cost of development and 9 $0.63 Mailer al format is +«Filename»Cell (or production? 10 $1 .21 US Postage range name). Textbooks refer to the cost of 11 $3.57 Printing The formula in cell D 10 solves development as Fixed Costs and 12 $6.31 TOTAL VAR for the break even point. The cell is the cost of production, marketing, formatted to show only whole num and distribution as Variable Costs. Figure 1 bers with commas. The formula The selling price of one item is says "If the value in D3 (the selling called the Price per Unit, or just The formulas in cells B9 and B12 Price. A single item is a Unit. are, respectively, @SUMCBl..B5) and Profit is always the bottom line, and @SUMCB8 ..Bll) . While you're keying ii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Mar/Apr 92 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 price) is 0, then show "0". Otherwise show the result of dividing the Formulas for Break·Even Analysis Spreadsheet Fixed Costs by the difference be tween the Price and the Variable Bl : [WS]' BREAK· EVEN ANALYSIS C13: A A B2O: (Fl) IW8] 0.5'(2'$0$10) A2: [WS] \. 013: A B C2O: (Fl) +820'$D$3 Costs: D5/(D3-D7). B2: [WS] I· B14: IW8] A BE 020: (Fl) 40$5+(820'$0$7) The bottom part of the spread C2:1· C14: 'SALES 821: (Fl) IW8] 0.6'(2'$0$10) sheet consists of three columns of 02:1· 014:' COST C21: (Fl) +821'$D$3 numbers. These are used to develop E2:1· B1S: (Fl) IW8] 0 021: (Fl) +$0$5+(821'$0$7) A3: [WS]' SELLING PRICE PER UNIT: $ CIS: (Fl) +81S'$0$3 822: (Fl) IW8] 0.7'(2'$0$10) a graph of break-even analysis. You 03: (C2) U 29.95 01S: (Fl) +$O$5+(B15'$O$7) C22: (1'1) +822'$D$3 don't have to key in the formulas for AS: [WS]' TOTAL FIXED COSTS: $ B16: (Fl) [W8] 0.1'(2'$0$10) 022: (Fl) +$0$5+(822'$0$7) each cell. Just key in the formulas 05: (,0) U +«COSTS.WK1»FIXCOSTS C16: (Fl) +816'$0$3 823: (Fl) IW8] 0.8'(2'$0$10) and labels for the cells in rows 13 A7: [WS]' VARIABLE COST PER UNIT : $ 016: (Fl) 40$5+(B16'$0$7) e23: (Fl) +823'SD$3 through 16. Wherever you see $D$7, 07: (C2) U +< "'":B=-r=-kv-n--' ~G-=~P=-r:~~~~~ i t~! ~Pr i ce-Var) -F i x What You See... GrPrft = 0.00 If you're used to Lotus graphs, the fJP:'!ce ~~ HP CALC graph may leave you Var = 6.31 Fix = 1,042.10 scratching your head. It can only To finish the worksheet, press1 ' show one independent variable at a Worksheet Global Protect Enatre e. time, and nothing is labelled. How Units = 44.08 Then press liN(~ Range Unprotect GrPrft PrIce F,x ever, in this graph, the vertical axis with each cel s 3, D5, and D7). H~l Unlts Var represents Profit. The horizontal Save this worksheet by pressing ~E21 File Save BRKVNAN ii. Leave - -3 running. Ii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Mar/Apr 92 MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 35 COLUMN: Looking Glass axis shows the number of Units. overwrites the formula in the cell analysis, the advantage would go to The dotted line is the break-even thereby destroying the worksheet. Lotus 1-2- 3. line, where Profit is zero. Again, advantage Solver. Finally, why even set up an ei Now press @ and see "COORD Solver gives completely inter ther/or debate between Solver and X=50.00 Y=O.OO" on the top line of changeable solutions. With Solver 1-2-3? With the HP 95LX we don't the graph. Press 1< SPACE >. to solve it's possible to solve for any variable have to choose between one or the for the root of the equation. You in terms of all the others. Lotus, all other. We've got them both in the should see: "ROOT X=44.08 Y=O.OO". by itself, can't do this. palms of our hands. That's the break-even point. Until next time, Happy Porting! Why Compare? [Ed Keefe is an author, program Playing 'What If. .. " Maybe my enthusiasm has clouded mer, computer science instructor, To see how much Profit I'll make my judgment. It's based on only one and long-time contributor to support after 1000 people register their copy example. Perhaps if I had chosen to publications for Hewlett-Packard of "The Diversions Disk", press @ examine a problem involving a computers. He is the president of the again. You should see "TRACE budget analysis, my enthusiasm Fast Aid Company, 314 S. W. Logan, X=43.89 Y =- 4.60" on the top line of would be less. Certainly, for such an Ankeney, IA 50021. Ed's Compu the display. Press - twice to re-scale Serve ID# is [73277-1064].] the graph and then use the ~ to move the cross hair to X=88~. Y will be 19,839.31. Now press ( {open bracket}. You'll see an * (asterisk) on the diagonal line. PressCB again and then press) {close brack oro" tc=\\ t '+h UD et} to complete the boundaries of a LJLI II V LA:: a compac WILl more nr, Zoom Box. The graph will explode and show you the area inside the Zoom Box. Again, press ~ to get to the point where X=99'rn7. Then press k6)~ to nudge up to where =1,0O'['tr2. At that point Y will be 22,611.82. Well, a kid can dream, can't he? A Comparison Solving this problem with either Lotus 1-2-3 or Solver takes about the same amount of effort. (It just takes more work to describe the process in 1-2-3 than it does in Solver.) So what's the advantage to using one or the other? OERIVE®, A Mathematical Assistant is now available for palmtops through 486-based pes. Certainly Lotus 1-2-3 produces graphs that are more presentable. With a little effort they can be The DERIVE® program • Displays accepted math notation. System requirements solves both symbolic and • Performs arithmetic to PC version: MS-DOS 2.1 or printed and framed. However, for numeric problems, and it thousands of digits. later, only 512Kb RAM and plots beautifully too. my money, the power of the HP • Simplifies, factors and one 3.5" or 5.25" disk drive. CALC graph outweighs the pretti • Symbolic math from algebra expands expressions. Suggested retail price $250. through calculus. ness of the 1-2-3 graph - The ad • Does exponential, logarith- ROM-card version: Hewlett- • Plots in both 2-D and 3-D. mic, trigonometric, hyperbo- Packard 95LX Palmtop vantage is Solver! computer. Suggested retail Moreover, if I want to see how • Simple, letter-driven menu lic and probability functions. interface. price is $289. much profit I'll make after 100 • Taylor and Fourier series • Solves equations exactly. approximations. Contact Soft Warehouse for people have registered their copy of a list of dealers. Or, ask at "The Diversions Disk", all I have to • Understands vectors and • Permits recursive and itera- your local computer store, matrices. tive programming. software store or HP calcu- do, in Solver, is store 100 in Units • Split or overlay algebra and • Can generate Fortran, Pascal lator dealer. Dealer inquires and solve for GrPrft. plot windows. and Basic statements. are welcome. If I try the same thing in 1-2-3, it won't work. Trying to put 100 in 2000 years of Soft Warehouse. Inc . • 3660 Waialae Ave. Mathematical Knowledge II... )loft Wa,ehoule ~ Sle 304 . Honolulu, HI, USA 96816·3236 cell D10 either gets me a warning on a Disk __ HONOLULU·HAWAII Ph : (808) 734·5801 . Fax: (808) 735·1105 that the cell is protected or the 100 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 COL~MN: Savvy User . j based on an angle rotating through The Savvy User Struggles with a circle of 360 degrees. In other Default Directories and Plays words the range of a single cycle is o to 360. I will use this equation to with HPCALC demonstrate using the calculator while in solver. First let's get into Tom works around the 95LX's tendency to mandate RPN mode. If you are not already in default directories, and then relaxes with HP CALC RPN, press [MENU' Options AlgIRPN. RPN will appear on the lower left of your screen. To get out of RPN By Thomas R. Page HP Calculator mode press !1fie Options Alg/RPN The program I use the most on my again. For t IS example, use[MENU' Setting Default Drives 95LX is the HP calculator. I'm a Options Degrees. The sine wave A program should boot up with MY long time HP calculator user, and I equation is: CHOICE of disk/directory as the have configured my calculator to default drive. This is true on any RPN (reverse Polish notation). This y=sin(x) desktop computer, but this not quite method of entering numbers works the case with the HP 95LX. best for me. I prefer to key a num Enter this equation in the Solver OK! 1-2-3 lets you set the de ber and then decide what I want to editor and then press IE[) to select fault directory by modifying the do with it. If you have never used Graph. Press [ill (XVAR) until Y Lotus configuration file. (See the an RPN calculator, I recommend shows as the plot-variable. Set section titled "/Worksheet Global experimenting with the RPN option. XMIN to o. Now let's set XMAX to Default Directory" on page 13-8 of It can really speed up some calcula plot four complete cycles. If one your HP 95LX User's Guide.) And tions. cycle is 360 degrees four cycles will APPT and PHONE remember the To switch between algebraic and be four times 360. Since the calcula last file used and will load that file RPN options in HP CALC press[MENJ' tor is active it can be used to calcu the next time they are used. Options AlgIRPN. (Appendix D of late the value of XMAX. Simply Unfortunately MEMO forces you the HP 95LX User's Guide explains enter 360, press [ENTER), enter 4, to change from C:\_DAT (its default) RPN. Understanding how a "stack" Press *, press rm to set XMAX, and to whatever directory you use for works helps get the most from RPN. finally press [ill (AUTO) to plot the primary data storage. A detailed explanation of the stack graph. My solution is to create a User begins on page D-6. To view the If you have done everything Defined Function Key (or "macro") stack in operation in HP CALC press[MENU' right you should have a nice smooth that clears C:\_DAT directory and Math.) plot. If the plot is jagged it means changes to A: \ WORK, the WORK the resolution is insufficient or if subdirectory on the RAM card in my Using Solver the graph took forever to plot, the Memory Card slot. This macro can My favorite feature of the HP calcu resolution is too high. The higher be created using the 95LX's learn lator program is the solver function. the value the smoother the curve, option. (For more on creating CHAR With this function, I write equa but since resolution indicates the macros, see Getting Started, page tions and let the computer solve for number of times the equation must 41, this issue.) any value in the equation. (See be solved to plot the curve, a high To view the F -key macro defi Through the Looking Glass, page value will slow the plotting. The nitions press [6) [FILER) Char. Here 34, for an example of using Solve screen resolution limits the resolu is the macro I wrote just as it ap for Break-Even Analysis.) tion of function plotting so that pears on the 95LX's Macro Defini One of Solver's useful features selecting higher and higher values tion screen: is sharing variables among equa will not improve the plot after a {MENU}FO{BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP} tions. For example, an equation point. I find 100 to be a good com {BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP} calculating fxdcost could be written. promise value for resolution. Try A:\WORK\ Computing a value for this variable plotting the sine wave with a reso Here's a macro to switch you be will make it immediately available lution of25, 100, and 1000. You will tween two or more phone books, to the average cost equation or any get the idea. and to display a list of phone books other equation using fxdcost. Vari that you have. (If you have made able sharing allows breaking diffi [Tom works for a natural gas changes to the active phone book be cult equations into smaller more pipeline company in Houston, Texas, sure to save it before attempting to understandable equations. and was one of the first to use PC's execute this macro. If you don't, the in the natural gas industry. He has macro will crash.) been a regular contributor to sup Function Plotting- Sine Wave port publications ofHewlett-Packard {MENU}FO{BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP} Function plotting is another handy computers for many years. Tom's {BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP}{BACKSP} Solver feature. The sine wave is CompuServe ID# is [76011,3655J'] A:\WORK\*.PBK{ENTER} nice little repeating equation. It is MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 37 ".:.,COLUM.N: Programmers'Corner - " originally written by Neil Ruben Programmers Corner king, and modified it to run on the 40x16 LCD display. My version, Ed discusses programming tips and utilities that LIFE95.COM ii has given me hours make writing programs on the 95LX somewhat easier. of battery-wasting enjoyment. The source and executable files for LIFE- 95 are available on CompuServe, in By Ed Keefe Software, has several add-on pro the HPSYS forum, the HP 95LX grams for TP 3.02a. Perhaps the section (Library 14). This month's Programmers' Corner best of~hese add-ons is TDEBUG, a contains tips and utilities that will dynamIc debugger. Programmers' Helper make writing programs on the HP Another add-on, Turbo Optimiz 95LX somewhat easier. All of the er, will reduce the size of a Pascal PROHLP.EXE ii, The Programmers' programmers' tools mentioned below executable file to a mere shadow of Helper, is a simple program that are made available to the program its former self. It does this by weed does four tasks that ordinarily re ming community free of charge. ing out parts of the run-time library quire paging through a book or that are not used. TDEBUG requires using a computer calculator. Patching Turbo Pascal 3.02a a full sized screen. Turbo Optimizer PRO HLP will find the key codes should run on the HP 95LX. If for various keys. Also, at the touch On page 31 of the Fall 1991 issue of of a key, it will let you find either The HP Palmtop Paper I described you're interested in either of these products, you can reach Turbo Pow the hexadecimal or decimal value of a procedure to modify Turbo Pascal any ASCII character you desire. (On (TP), version 3.02a, so it would run er Software in the U.S.A. at"either 800-333-4160 or 719-260-6641. the HP 95LX, it shows the Code on the HP 95LX's sixteen-line dis Page 850 characters.) Besides this, play. Any program compiled with PRO HLP will convert any number, this modified version of TP 3.02, It Really Works To convince myself of the practicali to hex FFFF, from one base to an will also use a sixteen-line display other. by default. ty of using TP 3.02a on the HP There are other modifications 95LX, I took a copy of LIFEM2.PAS, Ii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Mar/Apr 92. up that can be made to TP 3.02a. For instance, you can change the default colors, automate loading the error message file, and even add a new command to TP 3.02's menu. The new command is eXecute. "Execute lets the user "drop to DOS" and return to Turbo Pascal 3.02 by typ ing "exit." I To speed up and simplify the I whole modification process, I found INSTX.COM ii (archieved in TP95- INST.ZIP below), a program that makes patching TP 3.02a a breeze. The process involves running the INSTX.COM program on a standard PC computer. INSTX makes a copy of Lower TURBO.COM and modifies the copy, leaving the original file intact. I've enhanced INSTX so that it includes the patches for making TP 3.02a Prices run on the HP 95LX. The file, TP95INST.ZIP ii, con tains a complete set of instructions for modifying Turbo Pascal 3.02a MEMORY using INSTX.COM as well as the Borland TINST.COM program. Imaging Supplies Express If you're looking for a copy of II Torrance, CA - USA II Turbo Pascal 3.02a, contact Joe Wright, 711 Chatsworth Place, San F~)c 310-370-3265 Jose, CA 95128. Joe has been li censed to distribute TP 3.02a. The price of the program is $90. I• 800-462-4309 I• Another company, TurboPower 1IIIIIIII_1IIIIIIII 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 The Programmers' Helper program I have enough of these programs on RUN. In either case, you need to is available in the HPSYS, Library my 95LX that it was becoming a write a small batch file that will 14, forum. The source code (Turbo C nuisance to use them. So I wrote drive RUN or EXEC. The batch file 2.0) comes with the program. I have two programs, RUN Ii and EXECii will look something like the one a reason for this beneficence. I'm to solve the problem of how to use shown below. hoping that some other programmer UNIX-like programs from FILER. rem run GREP.BAT will explain to the rest of us, in Both programs do essentially echo off relatively simple terms, how to get the same thing. They prompt for the computer to show the key codes cis input, store it within the RUN or run grep for the blue application keys and EXEC program and pass it along to the MENU key. I've tried various another program. In short, RUN and methods and none of them seem to EXEC act as shell . programs for Look for RUN95.ZIP iii in the HPSYS forum. This archived file work. This programmer needs help. other programs. RUN is more flexible. It uses contains RUN.EXE, EXEC.EXE, and RUN95.DOC. RUN95 just the file name of the program [Ed Keefe is an author, program Here's a problem. There are a num you want to run, e.g. GREP.RUN ber of UNIX-like programs that use clones a copy of COMMAND. COM, mer, computer science instructor, switches and command line options. which searches the DOS path for and long-time contributor to support None of these programs can be run the GREP program and runs it. publications for Hewlett-Packard from FILER since there is no way to EXEC, on the other hand, calls computers. He is the president of the enter command line arguments. The for the complete path of the child Fast Aid Company, 314 S. W. Logan, only way to use GREP, for instance, program (e.g. A:\BIN\GREP.COM). Ankeney, IA 50021. Ed's Compu Serve ID# is [73277-1064}.} is to press [MENU) S and key in the EXEC does not waste time load program name and its command ing COMMAND. COM and searching line switches and arguments. the path. It's a tiny bit faster than Ii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Mar/Apr 92. How Do You Type Special CHAR key by pressing and releasing tAR, once, and then pressing the Characters On The HP 95LX? eSlred keyboard key (see Figure 1 on the next page to see which key Bil. show how to create ®, ©, 'I, a.nd other special board keys produce special charac ters). characters using CHAR- and ALT-key combinations on Create a special character using the HP 95LX. the ALT key by holding down(ill) and entering a 2- or 3-number cliar By Bil. Alvernaz other special characters are easy to acter code. (See Figure on the next produce on your HP 95LX. page for the complete HP 95LX Who Needs Those Generate special characters on your Character Set and code numbers. !%#*&@ Characters? HP 95LX by pressing [C~R' and any Note that any of the 95LX's charac For most people the HP 95LX has an of the keys you see shown in Figure ters can be created using the AL T adequate collection of characters in #1 or by holding ~ down and method.) addition to the alphabet and num entering a 3-digit c aracter code Creating a special character bers. The yellow shifted characters from the Character Code Set in using [C~R) is faster than using an above the second row of keys and on Figure #2. rEIl - key combination. The CHAR the numeric keypad provide a wide The only qualifying statement Key, located just to the left of the variety of additional characters, here is that your printer or the Space Bar, is a "sticky" key. Like including' - ! # $ I \ [ ] { } ; : ' " < software on the PC to which you the Shift keys, once you press it, it >? A and %. will transfer a 95LX-created file also is activated. You don't need to hold But there are less common spe must be able to generate special it while you press the next key. In cial characters that occasionally characters. Otherwise, you'll get addition, using the CHAR key to come in handy: the numbers ~, t, strange looking characters (or noth create a special character requires and t or ; the plus-over-minus or ing) in place of where y.ou wanted fewer key strokes. cents sign; the copyright, registered the special characters. ' trademark symbols, for example. If EXAMPLE 1: Using CHAR To Create you do business in different coun Creating Special Characters ©, The Copyright Symbol tries, you'll occasionally need to use Using [CIM) and fEll an N, B, or ti. Fortunately these and Create a special character using the 1. Go into MEMO. 2. Place the cursor where you MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 COLUMN: How do you do that? bers, but it only works with the numbers 1, 2, and 3. Even if you don't think you'll eyer need these special characters, you should do some experimenting with them anyway. You owe it to yourself to open up a MEMO file and just fool around with creating several characters, using both the CHAR key and the ALT- key combi nations. You never know just when you might need those !%#*&@ char acters! [BiZ. Alvernaz has been working with palmtop computers for over two Figure 1 years. He has picked the HP 95LX as his preferred choice because he You can create any of the characters and symbols you see in here by first pressing the CHAR key feels the 95LX sets the standard for (left of the Space Bar) and then pressing the appropriate key. palmtop computers. During the past decade BiZ. has written about com puters for USA TODAY, PC Maga want the symbol to go. The numbers 1, 2, and 3 on the zine, United Feature Syndicate, and numeric keypad do triple duty. 3. Press IC~;:, down and lift up. other publications. BiZ. specializes in 4. Press 12 • Press (Q) first, and they produce desktop publishing, as well as writ 5. You shou a now see ©. the <, >, and ? symbols. Press [aIM) ing, media relations, and helping first and they produce «, », an ;,. people get the most out of using EXAMPLE 2: Using ALT To Create Hold down r2S1, and press [C~R) first computers. You can reach him at the German letter and they produce the superscripted A.. (209) 394-8188, MCI MAIL #207- numbers 1, 2, and 3. These smaller 8825, or FAX: 209.394.8918.] 1. Place the cursor where you numbers are ideal for footnote num- want the symbol to go. Oa Clrnol 0 16 32 48 64 f[J \16 112 128 144 Ito 176 192 2Il8 22A 2«l 2. Hold down ~ and press 1 4 2 Value ... He_ on the numeric keypad. ... Voluo 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C 0 3. Let up on ~. .. 0 0 ~ 0 @ p p C;; E 6 L , .. 11 6 4. You should now see the letter A. 1 1 © ... ! 1 A Q a q 0 rn i ~~m ~ -{) B ± 2 2 2 B R b r e A' 6 E 6 EXAMPLE 3: Creating any accented : III T = letter you want using CHAR. 3 3 •." !I # 3 C S c s 6 6 U I f-- E 6 '/, 4 4 • ~ S 4 D T d t i:i 6 n -1 - E 0 ~ The 95LX allows you to generate a 5 5 + § % 5 E U e u 6 6 N A + I 0 § character with almost any type of f v 6 6 • - & 6 F V 6 0 • A i:i i II + accent using (cr) and the R, T, Y, . 7 W w 7 7 ..L. G 9 C; U • A A i U, and 1 keys. ook at Figure 1 and • ( H X h x you'll notice an accent symbol above 8 8 C i 8 e y i- © lh: i "I> 0 Y i .. each one of these keys (R=', T=', 9 9 0 ! ) 9 I Y e 6 ® =H rr= -.J 0 Z j z -.JL Y=A, U=", 1=1 When you press (CIM) 10 A [f] ... J e U ~ II I 0 . 11 B + K ( k I 'j I and anyone of these keys, it pre 0 . 0 I, ~ -Jr 0 pares the 95LX to generate the 12 C Q L < L \ I I i £ I, =oil 11= • y , corresponding accent above the next 13 0 } , . = M ) m J I ¢ : y , key you pressed. i 0 - > f\ - .JL - 14 E ~ N n A X ¥ ,r -i • " , • T / ? 0 j 0 Example 3A: we could also create 15 F P 0 Q A " r the A. we generated above by press - ing [CIM) U (to prepare for th.~ accent Figure 2 mark) and A to create the A. This table shows the complete HP 95LX Character Set and the code numbers for each Example 3B: we could create the character. To determine the character code needed to create a specific character or symbol, accented D in the French word take the number from the top column the character is in and add it to the row number in which "D'achat" by pressing[C~k) r (to pre you find a character. (Le. the character code for©is 184, which is the sum of 176 - the number pare for the accent mar ) and 0 to at the top of the column - and 8 - the row number.) create the D'. 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 COLUMN: Getting Started saved. The Shift key is also "sticky". User Defined Function Keys • An Hold down [6), let go, and type Advanced Lesson For Beginners any letter. This generates a capital letter.) Press two keys and carry out ten keystrokes: It's possible Let's create a written reminder that pressing the FlO User Defined with this 95LX function that lets you do less and Function Key saves a file. accomplish more! However, use caution. 1. Press [6) ---lEIilll to see the SET UP menu. By Hal Goldstein have to go into Set Up to delete 2. Press Char to see the User it before you can enter a new Defined Function Key menu. (At Programming is usually reserved for one. (See below for information the bottom next to F10, and next advanced users. However, you can on how to delete User Defined to it, {MENU}FS{ENTER}y, the easily use the built-in User Defined Function Keys.) commands you entered your Function Key capability to program 3. Press [MENU) File Save [ ENTER) Yes User Defined Function Key your HP 95LX to save repetitive (the series of commands you above.) keystrokes. As you'll see, you must want to automate). With each 3. Move the cursor to the FlO line do so carefully, with your eyes open. key press, you'll hear a low and press [ENTER I. If you read the first two of these pitched beep. 4. Under "Comment" type Save file. columns, you understand the value 4. Repeat step 2 to save the User (Replace existing file.) . You can and necessity of saving your files Defined Function Key. type any message you wish to often. For example, if you added remind you of what the User some names to your phone book in Now hold down [C~R' and press l!1§). Defined Function Key does. PHONE, those names don't become You'll see the HP 95LX automatical 5. Press (]il again. You will see permanent until you save them to ly saving your file. (You can use the that the comment you entered is your C Drive RAM Disk. A savvy "sticky" CHAR feature. Press [C~R', now opposite FlO, completely user saves his files frequently. (He let go, and press l!1§). Your file gets also backs up his files to a desktop computer or RAM Card). Saving your phone book is sim ple. Press [MENU' File Save Return Yes to replace the older version of your phone book with your revised phone book. It turns out this exact same [MENd) File Save Return Yes cornman is used to save APPT and MEMO files. Those five keystrokes may be just awkward enough to prevent you from saving as often as you should. We can reduce the num ber of keystrokes for this command to a single keystroke combination by creating a User Defined Function Key (also known as a "macro"). As simple and convenient to use as a floppy disk ) drive, Adtron's SolidState Data Drives allow direct, To automate saving a file by effortless access to memory card technology. using a "User Defined Function The SolidState Data Drives interface with standard 110 ports, RS-232 serial, line Key" do the following: printer parallel and floppy disk controllers, allowing almost any computer to utilize memory cards. They read and write battery backed static RAM memory cards and 1. Press [PHONE' to enter the built-in incorporate programming logic control for EPROMIOT?, FLASH and EEPROM memory PHONE application. technologies from major manufacturers including Epson, Fujitsu and Mitsubishi. 2. Hold down i~) and [CHAR' and Available in both internal and external verSions, all models of the SOD family can then press F1D • You'll hear a support the MS-DOS file structure and the 68-pin PCMCIA and JEIDA 4.0 standards. musical, two-toned beep indicat For other applications, the SOD Interface Protocol allows systems developers to create ing the 95LX is ready to "memo their own drivers. rize" the series of commands Prices range from $295 to $350 in 1-9 quantities; OEM discounts are available. For free you want to automate. If you literature, caI/602-926-9324 get a single-toned beep, a User Defined Function Key is already Ai)t=tOn CORPORATION 128 West Boxelder Place/Chandler, Arizona 85224/602 926·9324 assigned to that key and you'll MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER .41 COLUMN: Getting Started replacing {MENU}FS{ENTER}y lighted by the cursor will be re thinking a little like a programmer. that had been there before. placed (gone forever) by the new 6. Type IESC) and Quit (test file) file you just created! Some uses of I solve this problem by creating User Defined Function Keys (Deleting a User Defined Func a meaningless file, one-word file There are as many possible uses for tion Key: After you are in the User and saved it as AAAAAAAA.TXT. User Defined Function Keys as Defined Function Key menu {step 2 This way, if! space out and use my there are keystrokes. Look at com above} you can delete any of the key Save File, User Defined Function mon commands you use on a day-to definitions you've created by moving Key to save a new MEMO, I have day basis (similar to our [MENU) File the cursor down to the F·key of the saved it into AAAAAAAA.TXT with Save Return Y example). Lotus definition you desire to delete, and out writing over any other .TXT file. users should consider making User pressing (£D. You have to delete the The real point here is that User user definition associated with a Defined Function Keys for common Defined Function Keys gives you keystrokes like @sum( or [MENU) Work specific Function key before you can more power by permitting a single sheet Column Set. MEMO users create a new one for that Function keystroke combination to stand for key.) a specific series of keys. But if that could create a User Defined Func tion Key with "Sincerely," followed power is not used wisely, bad things by I ENTER} four times and your name. If you create a number of User can happen. In particular examine If you need to turn the sound on Defined Function Keys, you can your User Defined Function Keys to and off frequently you can create always press [61 -~ILER) Char to go see if they have the capability of to the menu screen and see what destroying something, as our Save User Defined Function Keys to do so. the definitions are. I've created a File example does. Then consider User Definp-d Function Key (Fl) to carefully the various possibilities in Most issues of The HP Palmtop Paper will contain examples. In the take me to the User Defined Func which the User Defined Function manual see page 21-14 for the dis tion Key menu screen. Key might delete a file, either pur posefully or accidentally. Make ad cussion on creating User Defined Function Keys. Warning justments accordingly. You are now The Save File, User Defined Func tion Key described above has a danger. This danger illustrates the perils of programming at all levels. TRANSFER MEMORY CARDS No matter how innocuous a User BETWEEN DESKTOP AND PALMTOP pes Defined Function Key seems, you must consider all possible scenarios. Suppose you start a new MEMO. SIMPLE OPERATION Plug the TMD-5oo or TMD-550 into your PC's printer port. After a few minutes you want to Then plug your printer into a second plug on the back of the save the MEMO using our newly drive, and keep using it. SRAM [-500] and SRAM and created User Defined Function Key. FLASH card [·550] models available. Both include self Don't do it! (Remember our User installing software. Full PCMCWJEIDA Meta/omlat support ensures that the TMD-5OO/550 will work with the new Defined Function Key was designed palmtops in 1992. to replace an existing file.) Here's what can happen: If our WIDEST RANGE OF CARD SUPPLIERS Save File, User Defined Function The TMD-500/550 Card Drives have been tested with SRAM and FLASH cards from 10 mlijor card manufacturers. When Key is used on a new file, MEMO you buy a TMD-500 or TMD-550 ThinCardDRIVE™ you will save the new file to the first are assured of easy, reliable operation with your cards in your MEMO file it finds in the MEMO Desktop and Palmtop computers directory. It overwrites that file, HP-95 SUPPORT erasing its contents! Databook Card Drives are the choice of HP-95 V ARs and developers. As the architect of the now industry standard Meta/annat, Databook has the most experience and broadest Memory Card product Let's try it by hand. Go into line in the industry. With a TMD-5oo or ·550 you are assured of support, now and into the future. MEMO and press [MENU) File New. Now type "test file", press [MENU) File OEM and Distributor inquiries welcome. Save, and take a look at your screen. Notice that the cursor is W/DE RANGE OF MEMORY CARDS A VA/LABLE highlighting the first file in your directory. Press I ENTER) and you are ncniDCudDRIVB"M~~~~~"'~~~~Mi~t CoIp. asked whether you want to "Replace RPClXT/AT &lid laM.,. «littered trtdeca",b or IBM Corp. current file? (YIN)". You MUST Sales office: 10 ALDER BUSH, ROCHESTER, NY 14624 answer N here to cancel the Save. If Partners in Memory Card Solutions 716-889-4204 FAX 716·889·2593 you enter Y, the file that was high- 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 New Non-HP Products designed Floppy Disk Drives to work with the HP 95LX Drive95 A light-weight, battery-powered portable floppy disk drive (3.5" stan By Richard Hall and Hal Goldstein Laguna Niguel, CA92677, U.S.A.; Phone 800- dard) for your HP 95LX (or HP 48SX 677-7001 or 714-582-2637; Fax: 714-582-1445. calculator). Fits in a briefcase and In the last two issues we listed Over operates up to 15 hours on a single 80 hardware and software products, charge. An "intelligent cache memo and other 95LX-related services al Communications ry" in Drive95 minimizes power ready available from third-party consumption. Comes with an AC manufacturers and developers. We adapter, software, and serial cable. will continue to list 95LX hardware WorldPort Modems [See advertiSing, page 31.} and software as we discover them. Battery operated modems that work Availability ...... 4/92 Vendors of 95LX-related products with the HP 95LX, including: Pricing ...... $299.95 should send us information. CONTACT: Sparcom Corporation, 897 NW WorldPort Palmtop FaxlData Grant Avenue, Corvallis, OR 97330, U.S.A.; Modem - Contains all the software Phone: 800-827-8416,503-757-8416; Fax: 503- Hardware 753-7821. within the modem required to send a fax. Automatically converts stan HandyDisc dard ASCII text to Group III fax I Adapters/Converters A portable disk drive which con without additional software. Sup nects to the 95LX's serial port and ports data transmission speeds from GA 935 Serial reads/writes MS-DOS compatible 300-2400 bps and fax transmission 3.5" disks. Can be operated with to Parallel Converter speeds of 2400-9600 bps. This small, battery powered adapter internal alkaline batteries or an connects to the 9-pin end of the HP WorldPort 9600 - Supports data Serial Cable for the 95LX. The other speeds of 800-9600 bps. Includes end of the GA 935 connects to your MNP 4 error control and MNP 5 Publishers printer's parallel port or printer data compression for error-free cable. Auto Power on/off conserves throughput. Uses the standard com and battery life, with an average of munications software included with about 100 hours of battery life on a Dealers the 95LX. (WorldPort Technical 9-volt battery. support indicated that a "jumper" Only Availability ...... April 1, 1992 needs to be installed for this to Pricing ...... $99.00 work in battery-powered mode with CONTACT: Greenwich Instruments, 3401 Major Software Dis Monroe Road, Charlotte, NC 20205 U.S.A.; the 95LX.) Phone: 800-476-4070 or 704-376-1021; Fax: tributor is looking for 704-335-8707. WorldPort 2400 - Provides full UP 95LX software for EUROPEAN CONTACT: Greenwich Instru functionality of a desktop modem. ments, The Crescent, Main Road, Sidcup, Supports data speeds from 300 to distribution to dealers. Kent, DA14 6NW, U.K; Phone: 81-302-4931; 2400 bps and is fully CCITT and Fax: 81-302-4933. Bell compliant. Earlier versions of If you are a developer and would this product, with a serial number like to have your software in the ATEN Serial to less than 50,000, do not work with distribution channel, contact Mr. Parallel Converter the 95LX. ~ Convertor with 9 volt adapter. Lets you connect the 95LX to a parallel If you are a dealer looking for a Availability full-service distributor of HP 95LX printer in the office or home. Not Palmtop FaxlData Modem ... 3/31192 software and hardware, contact battery powered, you must have an WorldPort 9600 ...... NOW Barbara McLon~street, AC outlet available to use this con WorldPort 2400 ...... NOW verter. (SmartConverter, reported on Pricing Palmtop FaxlData Modem . . . $249.00 page 41 of the Jan / Feb 92 issue is WorldPort 9600 ...... $559.00 Pacific Software Supply not available through EduCALC.) 2400 ...... $229.00 Phone: (800) 327-0425 [See advertising, page 19.} CONTACT: U.S. Robotics, 8100 N. McCorm ick Blvd, Skokie, IL 60076-2999, U.S.A.; US Fax: (805) 549-0549 Availability ...... NOW phone: 800-342-5877; or 708-982-5010; Fax: Pricing ...... $119.00 708-982-5235. CONTACT: EduCALC, 27953 Cabot Road, MARCH 1 APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 43 THIRD PARTY: What's New? external power supply. Device driv er included allows Handydisc to be Software Included on seen as another drive and respond The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK (Mar/Apr 1992) to DOS commands or the 95LX's Filer Application. f!:!!!!!S ~ In!! f!Il! Availability ...... NOW MESSG.ZlP Application: automates CompuServe br 95lX users Shareware 28 Pricing ...... £350.00 lAP4.EXE Application: lAPCIS - auDnates CompuServe on PC Shareware 28 Serial cable adapter ...... £21.50 TAPDOC.EXE Application: lAPCIS documenlation Shareware 28 ZIP151.ZF Application: file transfer program Shareware 16 (Prices exclude shipping and local taxes) BKlP95.ZlP Batch file: automates ZIP151 file transfer on 95lX Free 14 CONTACT: Christie Electronics Ltd., Bonds KlON.lIP Game: standard seven pile game of Klondike solitaire Shareware 46 Mill Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, GL10 3RG, UFE95.ZF Game: graphical diversion, watch objects grow Free 38 UK; Phone +44 453 823611; Fax: +44 453 BRKVNAN. WK1 Spreadsheet break.ven analysis wOrksheet Free 35 825768. COSTS.WK1 Spreadsheet costs breakdown worksheet Free 34 ED.EON Spreadsheet mrmulas a break-even analysis. Free 34 CALRP.EXE Utility: reads and prints out SideKick Plus tiles Shareware 24 FINISH11 .ZF Utility: finishes your keystrokes, saves time Shareware 32 MACPBK.SIT Utility: hypercard stack to convert PHONE to Mac files Free 24 PKZ110.EXE Utility: fire compression program Shareware 30 RAM Cards PROHLP .lIP UitIity: programming tool . Free 38 RUN95.lIP Utility: shell programs (contains RUN and EXEC). Free 39 SMClOCK.ZF Utility: system manager clock for the 95LX Free 20 Included below are some additional SUNCAL95 Utility: converts APPT files to Sun Open Free 22 Windows 3.0 Calendar Manager RAM card vendors. For other ven TIMOUT.ZlP Utility: chi auto shutoff time on 95lX Free 20 dors please see the Fall 1991 issue TP95~T.lIP Utility: modi Turbo Pascal 3.02a for 16-1ine display Free 38 TPATCH.lF Utility: mod' Turbo Pascal3.02a for 16-1ine display Free na of The HP Palmtop Paper, page 40. UNZlP.EXE Utility: decompresses .ZF &las Free na ZIPPER.COM Utility: decom .ZF files Free 30 HPSl.14.US Text latest H~ ComJlUS.erve library files listins Free na Imaging Supplies Express HPSl.15.US Text latest library files listing for programmer's section Free na Markets SRAM memory cards for ADVERT.ZlP Text in-depth descriptions, products advertised this issue na na PTP2.Z1P Text: The tiP Palnop Paptr,IIIIrIApr, 1992 nil na the 95LX. README.ZlP Text caver letter a .., Palmtop Paper ON DISK na na [See advertising, page 38.} Software mentioned in this Issue and Included Availability ...... NOW Pricing in other Issues of The HP Palmtop Paper On Disk. 128K SRAM Card ...... $99.00 AG.lIP (Jan/Feb 92) Chess and Space Invaders Shareware 20 256K SRAM Card ...... $179.00 AT068B.EXE (Fall 91 ) automates CompuServe activity Free 28 COMMO.ZlP (Jan/Feb 92) small and roboust communications program Shareware 28 512K SRAM Card ...... $229.00 COMM09.ZF (JanlFeb 92) adapIation of COMMO for .., 95lX Shareware 28 1MB SRAM Card ...... $432.00 DIET (Fall 91 ) file compression utllity Free 32 2MB SRAM Card ...... $795.00 HPTRIX.ZF (JanlFeb 92) a Tetris-like game Free 20 CONTACT: Imaging Supplies Express, 3892 VDE.ZP (Fall 91 ) compact. powerfUl text editor Shareware 28 Del Amo Blvd, Unit 705, Torrance, CA, The Fall 1991 HP Palmtop Papsr ON DISK consisled of oyer 20 files, including those mentioned on page 36 90503, U.S.A.; Phone: 800-462-4309 or 310- of the Fall 1991 issue of The HI' Pa/mt)p Paper. 370-6882; Fax: 310-370-3265. The Jan/Feb 1992 HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK consisted of owr 24 files, including those mentioned on page 43 of the JanlFeb issue of The HP Palmtop Paper. Databook Offers a wide range of memory cards. monitor and record background Remote Power On/Off [See advertising, page 42.} radiation using a special inter A telephone-activated power control Availability ...... NOW face/adapter cable, the Radalert™ unit for your desktop PC computer. Geiger counter, and the HP 95LX. Set Remote Power to detect a specif Pricing RAD95 also monitors RADON using ic number of phone rings. Remote 512K SRAM ...... $195.00 any CW (continuous) Radon moni Power On/Off activates power to the 1MB ...... $340.00 tor. Interfaces for the Honeywell PC it is connected to. Remote Power Item 3 ...... $665.00 CONTACT: Databook, 10 Alder Bush, Roches "Professional" and "Ad Ease" Radon On/Off could be useful for travelers ter, NY 14624, U.S.A.; Phone: 716-889-4204; monitors have been developed. who want to communicate with Fax: 716-889-2593. their home or office computer, but Availability ...... NOW who don't want to leave the comput Software Medium ...... Floppy Disk er on all the time. Runs under SysMgr ...... No Pricing ...... $45.00 Specialized Products (USA shipping paid; Canada add $5, other Availability ...... NOW international add $10) Pricing ...... $169.95 RAD95 CONTACT: RAD95, Harold Cole, 614 Cedar CONTACT: Server Technology, 2332-B Walsh Hill Road, Albuquerque, NM 87122, U.S.A.; Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95051, U.S.A.; RAD95 is a hardware and software Phone: 505-293-6751; Fax: 505-296-2632. Phone: 800-835-1515 or 408-988-0142; Fax: package that allows the HP 95LX to 408-738-0247. 44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 Software works as if it were another Mac [Wireless Communications I drive. You can back up your 95LX onto your Mac's hard drive or a Mobidem Wireless Modem Communications DOS-formatted diskette in the Mac's 1.4MB Superdrive. Does not This portable wireless receiver atta come with the necessary HP to Mac ches to the 95LX via the serial port AKTerm 95LX cable HP 82209A). and allows the HP Palmtop to ac PC datacommunications software Availability ...... NOW cess the public Mobitex wireless that allows the 95LX automatic or Medium ...... Floppy Disk data networks operated by RAM manual access to BTX in Germany. Runs under SysMgr ...... No Mobile Data in the U.S.A. and Rog Includes additional terminal config Retail Price ...... $199.00 ers Cantel in Canada. The Mobitex urations and high programming CONTACT: DataViz, Inc., 35 Corporate language for datacomm applica Drive, Trumbull, CT 06611, U.S.A.; Phone: provides two-way communications 800· 733·0030 or 203·268·0030; Fax: 203·268· between the 95LX and the networks, tions. Baud rate maximum 57,600. 4345. allowing wireless E-mail, paging, Supports all Hayes and CCITI'-V25 dispatch, sales force management, modems. and other mobile messaging and Availability ...... NOW I Contact Management I data communications applications to Medium ...... Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr ...... No Head Office Coordinator take place. Pricing Item 1 ...... Not known The Mobidem package comes CONTACT: Andre Koppel Software, MMS Software that supports multiple with Viking Express: wireless E Communication, Eiffestrasse 596, 2000 Ham· users of Pocket Sales Force, the mail software allowing Mobidem to burg 26, GERMANY; Phone: +49 (40) 21 15 sales management software de interface with Mobitex networks 91; Fax: +49 (40) 21 1598. scribed on page 41 of the Fall 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper. throughout the U.S.A and Canada. This software enables organizations Connectivity to exchange data with each PSF Availability ...... 4/92 Pricing user and a central PC unit via RAM Mobidem ...... $1,795 IntelliLinkIXLT card drive. Includes a user-definable 95LX with software ...... $2,949 Add-in to the software that comes Report Generator with consolida- CONTACT: Ericsson GE Mobile Communica· with the HP 95LX Connectivity Kit. tions Inc., 15 E. Midland Avenue, Paramus, This software provides additional NJ 07652, USA; Phone: (201) 265·6600; Fax: translators for Borland Sidekick 2.0 Learn To Program (201) 265·9115. PIM, WordPerfect Office, Calendar In Forth Creator Plus, and Paradox and Notify! dBASE databases, including field On Your 95 LX for the Apple Macintosh mapping of 95LX data. TWll your HP95LX into a portable soft Notify is a Apple Macintosh commu According to IntelliLink, the ware development system with urn..., a nications utility that enables many field mapping capabilities will allow System Manager compliant implementa Mac application programs to deliver the back-and-forth transfer of infor tion of the Forth language. data, via wireless communications, mation such as customer lists, order lIJ Includes Forth compiler / decompiler, to the HP 95LX. The utility trans data, inventory, price lists, or pa 8086 assembler / disassembler, and mits information from Mac calendar tient information between the 95LX mer's guide with !DUlCe code examples and phone book programs as well as and Paradox or dBASE databases. II! Creates compact, System Manager spreadsheets and E-mail systems [See advertising, page 14.} compliant executable files, and via SkyTel's SkyStream service to loaders for .COM or .EXE files Availability ...... 3/92 Motorola's NewsStream receiver. Medium ...... floppy disk lIJ Small kernel of under 11K maxi From there, HP's Mobile Data Link Runs under SysMgr ...... Yes* mizes space for data and programs *Add·ins to Connectivity Kit software software can extract the information it Free games, music and graphics tools for use on the HP 95LX in Lotus 1- Pricing ...... $69.95** **Plus shipping • Uses text source files created and 2-3, PHONE, APPT, and MEMO. CONTACT: IntelliLink, Inc, One Tara Boule· modified with the 95LX memo vard, Nashua, NH 03062; Phone: 603·888· editor or any ASCII editor Availability ...... NOW 0666; Fax: 603·888·9817. Medium ...... Floppy Disk At just $70 ($80 outside USA), urn... Runs under SysMgr ...... NIA MacLink Plus PC lets you harness all the power of your AN APPLE MACINTOSH PROGRAM 95LX. To order your copy, call today. Pricing ...... $149.00 Connectivity program that enables your Mac and 95LX to translate CONTACT: Ex Machina Inc. , 45 East 89th Essex Marketing Services Inc. Street, #39·A, New York, NY 10128, U.S.A.; certain Mac formatted files into the Phone.: 800·238·4738 or 718·965·0309; Fax: 95LX, and transfer the files between 272 Old Farms Road 718·832·5465. the two. Once set up, your 95LX Simsbury CT 06070 (203) 651-8284 MARCH 1 APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 45 THIRD PARTY: What's New? tions, a text processor and document including the following: filing system. Software allows for 40 Print to Parallel user-definable data fields and up PG02- Financement des Printers from the Entreprises et des Particuliers: loading and downloading of external Provides practical solutions for HP9SLX data files. Parallnk 3 is for those times you need to credit and leasing for personal and print to a parallel printer from the HP [See advertising, page 12.} 95LX. Just connect one end of the corporate finance. Parallnk 3 adapter to your printer's 36- Availability ...... April, 1992 PG03- Finance Epargne pin female parallel ~rt, and the other to Medium ...... Floppy disk the 95LX via the serial cable from the Placement: Provides multiple solu Connectivity Pack. Runs under SysMgr ...... Yes Paralink 3 IS battel'Y. powered and works Pricing ...... £395.00 tions for professionals and students, with most parallel printers. Irs light, small, CONTACT: Richard Hill, CM Software, including: Bonds (bariation, volatili and easy to carry. Business Unit 1, 33 Sanford, Littlemore, ty and duration), Matif, Options Paralink 3 retails for £59.95. Oxford, OX4 4XT, United Kingdom; (+44) Black-Scholes valuation, Coefficient 865-748875; Fax: (+44) 865-748873. To Order S, and many others. Call: 011-44-438-815444 PG04- Analyse Financiere Fax: 011-44-438-815222 Entreprise: Provides a program of (AmEx, Via., MasterCard Accepted) finance analysis based on French I Financial Management I fiscal document (CERFA) and other WIDgET solutions for corporate finance. S 0 F TWA R E Bond, Options, MBS @nalyst PGOl- Solutions Financieres 121 London Road, Knebworth, These add-ins for Lotus 1-2-3 help Generals: Complete package, in Hens SG3 6EX United Kingdom you analyze investments on your cluding the three programs 'listed 95LX. Including: above. bond @nalyst - for working Included in each of these programs Games with US and foreign bonds, bills & CD's. Analyzes price/yield, duration, is a translation into French of the k convexity, accrued, Va132, VaIBP, macros used in the built-in _CFLOW Klondike Solitaire-95 CBOTIFINEX factors, carry forward, and STAT worksheets, courtesy of Supports a standard seven pile tails, strips, data and after-tax Hewlett-Packard. game of Klondike, without screen calculations, and more. SIA & AIBD Availability ...... NOW scrolling or other concessions to the compatible. Medium ...... Floppy disk small 95LX screen and keyboard. options @nalyst - for working Runs under SysMgr ...... No The program is shareware and is Pricing (plus tax) available on CompuServe, HPSYS with Anierican & European options PG01 ...... ff 2,087 on stocks, futures, commodities, PG02 ...... ff835 forum, 95LX Library 14 as KLON95 foreign exchange & bonds. Black PG03 ...... ff835 .ZIP ii. It is also available directly Scholes and binomial models. Hold PG04 ...... ff835 from its author. CONTACT: Bruckert Diffusion, 25, Avenue ing cost and dividend adjustments. Victor Hugo, 92170 Vanves, FRANCE; Phone: Availability ...... NOW Sensitivities, historical & implied +33 (1) 4021 24 08; Fax: +33 (1) 40 95 7025. Medium ...... CIS/floppy disk volatilities. Runs under SysMgr ...... Yes mbs @nalyst - Mortgage Pricing ...... $11.00 Micro Hedge (Shareware fee, $10 if you download backed securities; Price/yield, dura Analyzes individual options with from CompuServe.) tion, WAL, implied speed, factors, quick edit of underlying price, vola CONTACT: Edward W. Greenberg, Box 286- components. CPR, PSA, FHA and tility, and time or interest rate. 18, San Jose, CA, 95159, U.S.A.; Phone: 408- Custom speeds. Specific changes in options prices 283-0184; CompuServe ID: [76703,1070] [See advertising, page 47.} are instantly generated. Also will ACE GAME card I Availability ...... NOW define volatility skew, select major Fourteen games are provided on a Medium ...... Floppy Disk option pricing models, and provide ROM card for the 95LX, including: Runs under SysMgr (Lotus add-ins) . . Yes easy viewing of corresponding sensi Pricing Blackjack, Checkers, HPtris, and bond @nalyst ...... $495.00 tivities. Derivative management Craps. Games selected from a "Win options @nalyst ...... $495.00 feature allows a wide variety of dows" icon menu "popped up" from mbs @nalyst ...... $495.00 option parameters to be set for within built-in applications. CONTACT: Tech Hackers, 50 Broad Street, "what-if' scenarios. [See advertising, page 3.} New York, NY 10004, U.s.A.; Phone: 212-344- 9500; Fax: 212-344-9519. Availability ...... NOW Availability ...... 4/92 Medium ...... Floppy Disk Medium ...... ROM Card Le Monde de la Finance Runs under SysMgr ...... No Runs under SysMgr ...... Yes Pricing ...... $1,900 Pricing ...... $79 au Bout des Doigts CONTACT: Micro Hedge, 440 South LaSalle Three financial programs compris Street, Suite 1767, Chicago, IL 60605, U.S.A.; ing different equations and Lotus Phone: 312-362-3577; Fax: 312-362-2379; Contact: Valerie Attia. solutions libraries for the HP 95LX, Ii On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk, Mar/Apr 92. 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1992 CONTACT: ACE Technologies, In~, 2880 Runs under SysMgr ...... Yes Zanker Road, Suite 103, San Jose, CA 95134, (Lotus templates) BOllds • OjJt iOlls • M BS U.S.A.; Phone: 800·825-9977 or 408-428-9722; Pricing ...... $585.00 Analyze Investments on Fax: 408-428-9721. CONTACT: Real Estate Computers Solutions, 288 Clayton Street, Denver, CO 80206, Your Palmtop with U.S.A.; Phone: 303-321-3341. @ Function Add-Ins for Programming Lotus® 1-2-3® Curve Fit bond @nalyst Linear regression software for the us and Foreign Bonds, Bills & CD·s. PriceIYield, Duration, muLISP 90 95LX useful for scientists, engi Convexity, Accrued, Va132, ValBP, CBOTIFINEX Factors, A programming language used for Carry, Forward, TaUs, Strips, Date and After·Tax neers, physicians, and pharmacists. calculations. MOREl SIA & AIBD Compatible. implementing expert systems and Lets you automate least-squares fit options @nalyst other artificial intelligence applica American & European options on stocks, futures, com of 2-term curves for . straight line, modities, foreign exchange & bonds. Black-Scholes & tions. muLisp provides much of the exponential, logarithmic or power Binomial Models. Holding cost & dividend adjustments. functionality of common LISP, with Sensitivities. Historica1& Implied Volatilities. equations, 4-term equations for mbs @nalyst over 400 built-in LISP functions, cubic polynomials and for Fourier Mortgage·backed securities. PriceIYie1d, Duration, W AI., special forms, macros, and control Implied Speed, Factors, Components. CPR, PSA, FHA & series. Save and retrieve data and Custom Speeds. variables. muLisp supports the 240 equations to an ASCII file. x 128 graphics mode of the HP _ - Tech Hackers Inc. [See advertising, page 19.} " 50 Broad Street 95LX. , New York, NY 10004 [See advertising, page Availability ...... NOW 36.} Medium ...... Floppy disk or ROM card ~ -- - 212-344-9500 Availability ...... NOW Runs under SysMgr ...... No Medium ...... Floppy Disk Pricing Runs under SysMgr ...... No On Floppy disk ...... $169.00 and material properties. Suggested Retail Price ...... $400 On ROM Card ...... $235.00 CONTACT: EduCALC, 27953 Cabot Road, Equations were selected for the CONTACT: Soft Warehouse, 3660 Waialae library on the basis of general use Avenue, Suite 304, Honolulu, HI 96816, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, U.S.A.; Phone 800- U.S.A.; Phone 808-734-5801; Fax: 808-735- 677-7001 or 714-582-2637; Fax: 714-582-1445. fulness to mechanical engineers and 1105. applicability to HP CALC's solver Swift! Basic Executive Companion (i.e., algebraic equations). Equa BASIC programming language de Software Series tions which require a high degree of signed for the 95LX. A fast and Four programs designed for profes visualization are avoided because modern implementation of Basic, sionals in the insurance and finan graphical concepts are difficult to that supports structured program cial services industry. The programs document in a clear fashion in HP ming, different data types, virtual generate charts, graphs, and re CALC. The equations take up about arrays, a complete set of graphics ports. The following programs are 19K of disk space, the reference commands, sound and full access to available: Insurance Companion, tables about 30K. all HP 95LX ports and interrupts. Financial Companion, Business [See advertising, page 19.} Develops System-Manager compli Companion, and Productivity Com Availability ...... NOW ant programs. panion. Medium ...... Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr ...... Yes* Availability ...... 3/92 Availability ...... NOW HP Calc equations and Lotus spreadsheets. Medium ...... Floppy disk Medium ...... Floppy Disk Pricing ...... $29.95 Runs under SysMgr ...... Yes Runs under SysMgr ...... No CONTACT: EduCALC, 27953 Cabot Road, (creates .EXM files) Pricing Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, USA; Phone: Pricing ...... $215.00 Insurance Companion ...... '$399.00 (800) 677-7001 or (714) 582-2637; Fax: (714) CONTACT: Swift!, Neustiftgasse 56, A-1070 Financial Companion ...... $399.00 582-1445. Vienna, AUSTRIA; Phone: +43 (222) 526 12 Business Companion ...... $399.00 Productivity Companion . .. .. $399.00 71; Fax: +43 (222) 526 12 72. CONTACT: Phoenix Systems, 77 NE Second Meeting Maker for the Mac Street, Corvallis, OR 97330, U.S.A.; Phone: This Macintosh network application 800-397-4179 or 503-742-0448; Fax: 503-752- that helps plan, schedule, and con Specialized 0053. firm meetings. Its latest release has been upgraded to include new fea Complete HP 95LX Mechanical Engineer's tures, including the ability to export Palmtop Real Estate Kit Equation Library calendars to the HP 95LX. Includes real estate Lotus tem The software pulls together general plates, buyer qualification, loan ly recognized mechanical engineer Availability ...... NOW amortization, and CCIM-type invest ing equations and material property Medium ...... Floppy Disk DOES NOT RUN ON THE 95LX! ment analysis. More templates in values from many sources, and in cludes equation (.EQN) files and 1-2- Pricing ...... $495 development. CONTACT: On Technology, 155 Second 3 (.WKl) files. The .WK1 files are Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, U.S.A.; Phone: Availability ...... NOW "database" files with unit conver 617-876-0900; Fax: 617-876-0391. Medium ...... Floppy Disk sions, geometric property equations, MARCH / APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 THIRD PARTY: What's New? Smart Rounds A physician's database and refer Products Advertised in The Palmtop Paper ence that can track hospital visits Company Product Page number and procedures, print out or inter ACE (RAI-1 Memory Cards) ...... inside front (Game Card) ...... 3 face CPT4 codes and descriptions, (BATTman Battery Monitoring Software) ...... 5 and give finger-tip access to 700 Active Data (RAM Memory Cards) ...... outside back commonly used diagnoses. Supports Adlron (RAM Card Drive) ...... 41 (RAM Memory Cards) ...... 8 multiple physicians and hospitals or C M Software (Pocket Sales Force) ...... 12 locations. Contact Software (ACT Contact Management Software) ...... 33 Requires at least 338K system Databook (RAM Card Drive) ...... 42 Essex Marketing Services (UTIL - Forth Programming) ...... 45 RAM available in the 95LX plus a (HED - Hex Editor) ...... 32 512K or greater RAM card installed. EduCALC (95LX Accessories Catalog) ...... 19 EI Dorado Trading (HP 95LX and Accessories) ...... 21 [See advertising, page 19.J Globalink (Foreign Language Translation) ...... inside back Availability ...... NOW IntelliUnk (Windowsl95LX Connectivity Software) ...... 14 Imaging Supplies Express (RAM Memory Cards) ...... •...... 38 Medium ...... Floppy disk or RAM card Ughthouse (Custom palmtop database) ...... 20 Runs under SysMgr ...... No Nuvotech (MAC, Windows, DOS Connectivity Kits) ...... 13 Pricing Pacific Software Supply (Service of 95LX Software Distributors) ...... 43 On Floppy disk ...... $459.00 Palrntree Products (Cases, RAM Cards, Serial-Parallel Adapters, Software) ...... 9 On RAM Card ...... $669.00 Soft Warehouse (DERIVE - Mathematical Assistant) ...... 36 CONTACT: EduCALC, 27953 Cabot Road, Sparcom (RAM Memory Cards) ...... 27 Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, U.S.A.; Phone 800· (Station95 Docking Station) ...... 29 (Drive95 Floppy Disk Drive) ...... 31 677-7001 or 714-582-2637; Fax: 714-582-1445. Tech Hackers (Investment Analysis Software) ...... 47 Thaddeus Computing (The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK) ...... 23 Widget (Paralink 3 SeriaVParaliel Adapter) ...... 46 Other Products CONTACT: Markt & Technik Verlag, Hans Driue, Hackettstown, NJ 07840; Phone: 800- and Services Pinsel-Strasse 2, 8013 Haar b. Miinchen, 248-2080 or 908-850-9700; Fax: 908-850-9618. GERMANY; Phone: +49 (89) 46 13-637; Fax: +49 (89) 46 12-689. Custom Palmtop Publications Database Program Inside CompuServe Lighthouse Software will develop, Memory Card Billed as "The easy start guide to test, and document custom database Systems & Design on-line information and communica applications in less than a month This bi-monthly magazine focuses tions," this 290-page softbound book using a proprietary database en on memory card related issues. The comes with communications pro gine. articles are targeted more towards grams and utilities on a 5.25" floppy [See advertiSing, page 20.J people working in the memory card disk and includes a coupon for industry than end users. $12.50 in CompuServe usage credit. Availability ...... NOW Subscriptions in the U.S. are Availability ...... NOW Medium ...... ROM card/floppy disk free to "qualified individuals." Medium ...... Softbound book Runs under SysMgr ...... No Pricing Pricing ...... varies U.S ...... $29.95 CONTACT: Lighthouse Software, 3001 Red Availability ...... NOW Hill Auenue, Building 4, Suite 213, Costa Medium ...... Magazine Canada ...... $39.95 U.K...... £32.95 Mesa, CA, 92626, U.S.A.; Phone: 714-850- Pricing 1767. U.S...... Free CONTACT: New Riders Publishing, 11711 N. CanadalMexico ...... $38.00 College Auenue, P.O. Box 90, Carmel, IN Other International ...... $40.00 46032, U.S.A.; Phone: 800-428-5331 or 317- DOS Programs (Payment in U.S. funds must accompany 573-2500; Fax: 800-448-3804 or 317-573-2583 on Memory Cards order) (outside U.S .). Accepts VISA, MasterCard, American Express cards. Palmtop Resources converts stan CONTACT: Memory Card Systems and & dard DOS applications to PCMCIA Design, Attn: Subscription Dept., 6300 S. Syracuse Way, Ste 650, Englewood, CO memory cards as well as Flash and 80111 U.S.A.; Phone: (303) 220-0600; Fax: OTP ROM cards. Virtually any DOS (303) 773-9716. 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