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Portable Paper Vol. 4, No. 2 The HP Portable/Portable Plus/Portable Vectra Users Newsletter March / April 1989 PortableTHE Paper (il Publisher's Message .................... 3 Special Feature: New Products for dte Portable Letters ............................... 3 Plus ................................. 13 Re-arranging the PAM screen .................. 3 WordPerfect 5 Partially On ROM ................ 13 Upgrading To LS/12 ........................ 4 Speed Up Your Plus With Faster CPU ............ 15 1banks From Millipore ...................... 4 Dac-Easy .Accounting ........................ 16 Larger Fonts For Plus . 4 Relay Gold Version 2.0 On TIle Portable Plus ....... 19 Foreign Language Speller & 1hesaurus ........... 5 The Tax Man Cometh ...................... 27 Where is Glow Worm? ..................... 44 Clipper On The Plus ....................... 27 Editor Flaw ............................. 44 News From PersonaHzed Software ....... 29 1100/0 ................................. 6 Portable Plus Upgrade List: Can Anybcx:ly Help? ..... 29 Sundog - Almost A Breakthrough ............... 6 New Products Announced This Issue . 31 No More Plus Lotus 2.0 Upgrades ............... 6 Screen Upgrade ........................... 31 HP 1 Meg Drawer Price Increases ............... 6 Numeric Keypad For Plus Finally Ships. 31 Refilling Your Own DeskJet Cartridges: ............ 6 Condor JR For HPII0 Joins the Endangered Products List 33 Setting the A1a.rtn .......................... 6 What's Delayed ........................... 33 Converting Time Manager Files to Lotus .......... 7 Through The Looking Glass .............. 33 Portable vectra Views .................. 8 TIle VJSUa! Display Editor .................... 33 1he Best Software For Your Vectra .............. 8 Big Results For Number Crunchers ............. 34 (I' New Vectra LS/12 laptop PC Products ........... 10 A Beginner's Guide To Debug . 34 Reducing Eyestrain ........................ 11 ~ ............................. 36 A Larger Cursor For The LS/12 ............... 11 More On 1he LS/12 ., . 36 Portable Vectra's Screen .................... 12 The Savvy User ....................... 38 LS/12 On Compuserve ..................... 12 User Groups ........................... 41 , \ I I " . I I '---.....----- ------ '\ \ "' ' ... 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You'll never have to we will install your ROMs for you-and puters require a disk drive in around an HP9114 disk drive carry a disk drive again. test them-at no charge. order to function. A disk drive­ wherever you go-then you are We invite you to browse through To remove your software drawer, first even a portable one-is a bulky not using your Portable Plus to the chart, read the information at back up your A drive (so you won't lose piece of equipment, easily break­ full advantage. the right, and then order one or your data), then use an ordinary screw­ able, and slow in loading pro­ Th st&rt using thefull potential more ROMs today. You'll find driver to remove the two outside screws on the drawe~. grams. of your Portable Plus, look over them to be fast, reliable, and an By contrast, a ROM chip weighs You won't be able to use your Portable the chart at the far right. It con­ incredible boost to your produc­ Plus without the software drawer, so we next to nothing, is virtually inde­ tains more than 50 programs and tivity. recommend you call us first to make sure structible, and lets you load pro­ utilities available on ROM chips Whatever your reason: to free the ROMs you want are in stock, and to grams instantly. (Programs on from Personalized Software. up valuable memory space ... to set an appOintment for installation. ROM chips don't take up any Taken together, these ROMs eliminate the need for an exter­ That way, we can install and test your space on your Edisc.) new ROMs the day we receive your soft­ cover every application you're nal disk drive ... or just for the All of which means that your ware drawer, then ship your drawer back likely to need-from. word pro­ convenience of lightning-fast pro­ that same evening. Return shipping with­ 9-pound Portable Plus is the fast­ gram loading, fill your software est, most portable, and most re­ cessing to spreadsheets to data in the Continental U.S. via UPS Second­ Day Air is free for all orders over $200. liable computer you can own­ drawer with ROMs and you'll turn your Portable Plus into the Please add $15 to your order if you want provided, of course, you take full overnight return shipping. advantage of its ROM technology. powerhouse its designers intend­ OUR EXCLUSIVE ed it to be. (In most cases, if you set an appoint­ DOUBLE GUARANTEE ment in advance and use overnight ship­ YOUR SOFTWARE With our exclusive Double ping both ways, yOu'll only be without DRAWER WAS MEANT ON ROMS Guarantee, the risk is all ours. your software drawer for less than two TO BE FULL Why not order right now? business days. We'll ship the manuals The engineers at Hewlett­ 60-DAY GUARANTEE and other materials in advance by sur­ Packard designed the Portable OF SATISFACTION face carrier so yOu'll have them by the If, within 60 days, you are dissatisfied time you receive back your software Plus so it could accommodate an with a ROM product for any reason, P.S. If you have questions about drawer.) optional "software drawer" con­ you may return it for a full refund. any of the ROMs, give us a call. taining 12 ROM sockets. Clearly, Brian or David will be happy to their intention was that those 2-YEAR GUARANTEE make some recommendations as HOW TO OROER ROMS sockets be filled with useful AGAINST DEFECTS: to which ROMs might best meet programs. If a ROM proves defective at any time To order, use the postage-paid order within 2 years, we will replace it at no your needs for word processing, form in the center of this issue. For even But if you're like most Portable charge. spreadsheets, or whatever ap­ faster service-or if you have questions Plus users, you probably are using plications you're interested in. about any of our ROMs-give us a call. IMPORTANT INFORMATION SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM ABOUT OUR ROMS For product details, see individual ads elsewhere in this issue or in our catalog, or refer to articles in past issues. In this chart, "Type" refers to either HP (used HP ROM) or PS (Personalized Software ROM Backup package-price includes both We offer two kinds of ROM chips. One ROM and disk versions. kind we produce ourselves; these are No. of Retail Subscriber Product offered as part of our "ROM Backup Product Notes Type chips Price Price Number Packages" (see below). The other kind WORD PROCESSORS .------. a.re manufactured by Hewlett-Packard; The Editor II' The Editor version 1 is available as part of PS $224.00 $194.954 ED12PP we call these simply "HP ROMs." our SuperROM chip (see "Combined ROMs," ROM Backup Packages beiow). A ROM Backup Package includ~s both The Editor II Upgrade For The Editor ROM and SuperROM owners PS $58.00 $58.00 E015NR the disk version of a program and the only. ---- ROM version-plus the standard User's MemoMaker Comes on same chip as Time Manager (see HP Manual and additional instructions for "Combined ROMs," below). installing and using the ROM. (In the MS Word HP $375.00 $199.00 MS20UR chart, prices of products marked "PS" Multimate HP $S2O.oo $425.00 MM20UR are for entire ROM Backup Package.) WORD PROCESSING UTILITIES According to the agreements we have Format110 Comes as part of SuperROM (see "Combined PS with the original software vendors, our ROMS," below). ROM version is considered a backup FormatPlus1 ROM includes driver for Softword extra memory PS $174.95 $164.954 FP13PP copy of the disk version. Unless you drawers. i" already own the disk version, we cannot FormatPlus Upgrade For SuperROM owners only. PS $58.00 $58.00 FP14NS sell you the ROM Backup by itself. HPrint PS $175.00 $170.95 HP12PP Please note: Mini PrinterTalk Comes as part of SuperROM (see "Combined PS 1. If you purchased the disk version of ROMs," below). a program from us, we have that in our Webster'S Spelling Checker PS $25895 $248.95 WB13PP records. If you purchased the disk SPREADSHEETS version elsewhere, you will need to Lotus 1-2-3, Version 1A HP 2 $495.00 $295.00 LT12UR show us proof of purchase before we Lotus 1-2-3, Version 2.01 HP $S2O.oo $425.00 LT15UR can sell you just the ROM Backup. SPREADSHEET UTILITY 2. Prices for ROM Backups alone are as SideWinder Also available on a ROM with Shelp, and on PS $134.95 $124.95 SW12PP follows: our SuperROM chip (see "Combined ROMs," below). Best of DOS Tools .. ..... $129. The Editor. ... $95. DATABASE PROGRAMS HPDuette . ........ $95. Executive Card Manager (Lotus 1-2-3 can also be used as a database HP $341.00 $279.00 EC11UR HPrint . ..... $95. (ECM) manager). Shelp. .$55. SideWinder . .... $55. COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE Shelp + SideWinder .. ... $95. PC2622 VT100 and HP Terminal emulator HP $395.00 $239.00 PC13UR Sketch .
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