Publisher's Message ...... 1 E Letters to the Editor ...... 4 - (Y) HP PalmVue System ...... 6 '­ HP makes critical patient data available to the Q) U.S. physician, anywnere, anytime! .0 E ::l Imaging Technology Used :z: witli the HP PalmtQP Helps Out - P Palmtop in Oklahoma City Ti'agedy ...... 10 "

Q) E HP Palmtop' Contributes to Safety of ::l Oklahoma City Rescue Workers ...... 12 o > New Third Party aper Products and Services ...... 13 HP News ...... 15

New liP PalllVlle PalmConnect Windows Con nectivitv Software ...... 17 This connectivity software lets you run Windows versions of PhoneBook, Appointment Critical patient data available Book and NoteTaker on your desktop PC, and to the physician .. .anywhere! keep them synchronized with your Palmtop files. System Using LapLink Remote with Windows ...... 19 User to User ...... 20 Discover the "Patience" to Qlay solitaire; take a look at the new HP 1000CX DOS Palmtop; Hal and others give HP advice on how to advertise the HP Palmtop. PCMCIA Adapter Card ...... •••.•.••• 28 Slip this PC Card in your HP 100/200LX Palmtop PC and carry your LAN teminal in your pocket wherever you go.

Palmtop Wisdom ...... 2-3 Keep meetings focused and on time; Use your Palmtop to end bad habits and begin good ones; Use World Time game to teach you geography.

User Profile: A Week in the Life of a CPA ...... 30 This CPA on the go uses the HP 200LX to balance his books - as well as his life! Blaze Through Home Study Course with NoteTaker .•. 36 This introduction to NoteTaker shows how one HP Palmtop helps investigators person used his Palmtop to finish his course work rescuers in Oklahoma City born in half the time. Basic Tips ...... 42-43 Quick Tips ...... 44-46

06 Product Index ...... 47 Advertiser'S Index ...... 48 Files on May/June 95 ON DISK ...... 48 o 744 7083112 9 I YOUR HP PALMTOP JUST TOOK AQUANTUM LEAP.

With just one SMART move, your Hewlett-Packard your life easy, this powerful multifunction card Palmtop can jump from a portable organizer to a provides all the functions you need: easy data mobile communications center! The Fax & transfer between your HP LX and your notebook Memory Multifunction Card from SMART or desktop computer, additional hard drive capacity, Modular Technologies enables this transformation and increased reliability during data transmission. by combining industry high speed fax & modem Best of all, it has the lowest power requirements of capabilities with powerful, on-board flash any multifunction card made for the HP LX in the memory-all on the same streamlined PCMCIA market! All told, the Fax Modem & Memory Card Type II compatible card. By coupling 14,400 bps from SMART is a Calaveras County-like leap for­ ward for palmtop computing :::BU~::::y4a:d ~ C M[MOny and serious Hewlett- a 2400 bps modem l.t [ n Packard 100LX and in a single card, you can send, receive, store and 200LX users like you. print communications that before now were When you think speed, beyond the reach of palmtop computing. performance and quality. In keeping with our reputation for making Think SMART.

To order product or for more information call: EduCALC 1-800-677-7001 or SMART Modular Technologies Mobile Planet at 1-800-M-PLANET (1-800-675-2638) 45531 Northport Loop West, Fremont, CA 94538 Toll free: 1-800-536-1231 • Tel: 510-623-1231 • Fax: 510-623-1434 © 1995 SMART Modular Technoiogies, Inc. All rights reserved. SMART Logo is a trademark of SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Publisher's Message The HP Palmtop Paper

We, HP Palmtop users throughout the world, use our little machine in three ways: for data access, data cre­ ation, and data communications. Volume four / Number three The most common use is for refer­ May/June 1995 ence (data access) to check our Executive Editor/Publisher todo's, phone entries, databases, spreadsheets and so forth. In fact, we Hal Goldstein Managing Editor devoted the last issue to using the Richard Hall HP Palmtop as an always-handy ref­ Associate Editor erence library. Paul Merrill Of course, we also use the Palmtop Technical Editor Robert Roney to create data - our PhoneBook, Department Editors DataBase and ToDo entries; finan­ Ed Keefe cial transactions in Pocket Quicken; Mark Scardina Contributing Writers 1-2-3 spreadsheets; NoteTaker Tom Gibson entries and Memos. Most of the Ray Kump activities we perform on the Palmtop Advertising/Marketing Brian Teitzman are for personal organization and Margaret Martin computation. However, as technolo­ Top: Hal Goldstein Diane Wimett Bottom: Robert Roney and Richard Hall gy progresses and we see possibili­ Circulation ties, we will be spending more time Sharon Ash Sharon Dilmore with our Palmtop communicating Cindy Ericson with the rest of the world. Tom Gibson Tiffany Lisk In this issue we build on past HP Palmtop Paper data communica­ Colleen Rodibaugh tion discussions (Fax/Modem cards, wireless receivers, data transfer prod­ Executive Advisor ucts, CompuServe and access, and so forth). Our cover story reveals Rita Goldstein how medical professionals and criminal investigators can use a combination The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) is of paging and palmtop technology to receive graphic and textual images published by Thaddeus Computing Inc., at 57 East Broadway Avenue, Fairfield, IA 52556. anywhere. Closer to home, our own network administer, Tom Gibson, Second-class postage paid at Fairfield, Iowa. explains that we received our Silicom PC LAN Card for the Palmtop just in Subscription rates payable in U.s. dollars, checks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by credit card time to test nodes in our newly expanded Local Area Network. Finally, - one year: $39; two years: $69. Postage: U.S. Mark Scardina takes a look at a recently released Palmtop-to-Windows file and U.S. possessions free; Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other countries add $18 per transfer product from Palm Connect. year. Published bi-monthly plus two bonus In this issue we profile a CPA. As you might expect author, Ray issues, one in March and one in October. Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of Kump, gives us lots of interesting uses of 1-2-3 and HP Calc. As a bonus, he first issue. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, describes how he uses the HP Palmtop Database program to organize his Marketing and Advertising Offices: P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52S56. Telephone: (515) 472- day and his people. Managing Editor, Reverend Richard Hall, adds a second 6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. Copyright 1995, mini-profile as he explains how he used NoteTaker to aid him in recently TIladdeus Computing, Inc., all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced becoming a priest in the Liberal Catholic Church. without written permission. Reasonable In my User To User column I look at the HP 1000LX and a solitaire effelrts are made to provide accurate and use­ ful information, but the reader must make his game. Then I (and other readers) give Hewlett Packard some unsolicited or her own investigations and decisions; the advice about how they should advertise the HP Palmtop. I go to the extreme Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of on page 26 of working with the designer of our HP Palmtop Paper covers, information contained herein. George Foster, to come up with a sample ad for the HP Palmtop. See what POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to The HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: you think. Thaddeus Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 869, Our Quick Tips, Basic Tips, Palmtop Wisdom and Letters are espe­ Fairfield, IA 52556. cially meaty, and as usual provide bite-sized ideas of how to better use the Palmtop.

MAY / JUNE 1995 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 1 The editors of The HP Palmtop Paper welcome you to out) for 60 minutes. You also have a choice of five different sounds. I select­ Palmtop Wisdom. Palmtop Wisdom takes current think­ ed a short rising sound for the quarter ing about leadership, human relations, time manage­ hour beep and a chime for the on-the­ hour reminder. ment, finance, self-development, travel, and entertain­ In meetings I place my Palmtop so ment and shows the concrete application of these concepts I can see the digital clock. The clock stays on and every 15 minutes beeps to using HP'slOOj200LX Palmtop pes. keep me, and the rest of the staff, con­ We welcome your feedback, ideas, and contributions. scious of the time. I also use the pro­ gram when I teach our weekly Palmtop classes, and at my desk when I'm working under a tight deadline. STAYING alarm ring gives us a five minute Hal Goldstein ORGANIZED warning (or however many minutes I Publisher, The HP Palmtop Paper choose). On longer meetings that I Keeping Meetings want to finish on time, I might set two Focused and on Time or three appointments warning of the SELF Meetings enhance communication and meetings end, so that alarms go off ten, DEVELOPMENT coordination, both critical elements to five, and even two minutes before the the success of a business. However, end. Use your Palmtop to meetings must be focused and time­ I recently discovered a simple but end bad habits and begin conscious, or they can cause more quite useful freeware program called good ones - now! problems than they solve, and waste VISCLOCK.EXM ii, by Eugeen Dorr, Anthony Robbins, in his book productive time. to keep meetings on schedule, or at the "A waken the Giant Within", proposes least keep us all aware of the time. The that the old notion that change takes a ON THE PALMTOP program displays a large digital clock long time, even for seasoned habits, is One of the boons of the HP Palmtop that stays on and beeps every 15 min­ wrong. His idea: You can change any­ Appointment Book program is the F3 utes. thing in a second, no matter how long Notes function. For example, as ideas it's been a problem, no matter how come to me about our next weekly many times you've tried and failed in company-wide meeting, I simply go to Mi!'t'• ., ...... ' ... h•• ,', Ii •••• l , • • • ' n.l.. IM'"'3 the past. All you have to do is associate .:::n ... :ii::::::!!: the next repeating appointment set for :: ~i: enough pain with doing the old habit, '::'!! and enough pleasure with doing the Wednesday 9:30 am. I press (~~) U Iii: (Notes) - you don't need to open the I::::::::: I::::::::: :i t:::::!~ i:::ij"'i new one you are changing to .. . and appointment first - and jot down top­ .....~__ -=-~_EIIII:!IIEEIIIImiIIII "I _ ~lI_ ... t ~ __ poof! The change is made. It's a simple ics as I think of them. Similarly, before idea, and it works! my weekly operations meeting, I press VISCLOCK screen displaying time Your "pain" should be whatever ~ on that appointment and spend a works for you - doing something you few minutes entering and refining an don't like to do, doing something agenda. When the meeting starts, I You activate the program with a hot embarrassing, volunteering time to the read out my agenda items and ask key (see the next Wisdom article needy, etc. what other points need to be dis­ "Action Is Based on Rest" for a My "pain" option of choice is cussed. I quickly add the other items to description of this same procedure). I money. Let's say you want to change the list and number them by priority set it up to be activated by IALTI-IAPPTI, your habit of watching television on before beginning. since APPT has a clock on it. If you week nights. Your "pain" could be to In addition to controlling the con­ look at the screen above, you'll notice donate $20 to a needy family each time tent, I also use the Palmtop to control at the top, the words Chime: quarter you catch yourself doing this. One or the meeting's time. First of all, I enter hourly, and Timeout: 60 minutes. This two times at $20 and you stop. If $20 an appointment for the time the meet­ means that on the quarter hour the isn't enough to stop you, just raise the ing is scheduled to end. That way the Palmtop will emit a small beep, and price till you do. It's that simple. the screen will stay on (will not time Here, according to Robbins, is all

2 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY/JUNE 1995 you need to accomplish instant change: • No teaching except when you want to insert the Country col­ asked! (To prevent me from teach­ umn, press ~ (Add), highlight the • A clear idea of the old habit you ing all the time and not doing.) word Country in the Define Column want to change. $10. screen, press I ENTER 1 (OK) ~ (Done). • A clear idea of what you want in • Take a walk and go to bed by 2. Guess the capitol, currency, its place. 10:00 pm. $10. language, etc. - For the country you • A big enough dis-incentive • Write (current novel) nine want to learn about, e.g. Mexico, write (pain) attached to doing your old hrs/wk. $250. in the Notes field of the capitol city: bad habit. • Ask for what you want! "National capitol"; the official lan­ • A big enough incentive (pleasure) • 1 fun thing/wk. $20. guage; the currency; or any other infor­ attached to doing your new "good • Have fun!!!! mation you want to learn. Next, set up habit." (This can be simply the • If you're tired go to bed early! a Subset to include all cities in Mexico good feeling of not doing the old • No unnecessary talking about - press f!!I (Subset) ~ (Define), tab habit.) personal finances. $10 to the Country field and enter Mexico, • A support group of people who press [~.!2) (OK), name the Subset will hold you to your commit­ (Mexico) and press I ENTER 1 (OK). From ... "\I \I ment, no matter how much you life is .. No t.eachin iii the View Subset screen, highlight plead for mercy. : 1?;:s4'VMM~ • I ;B9p Lunc:h Mexico and press IENTERI to get a list of .~ 2 : 30 Ken • 4 : 30 Addilioat acreliln shots 'l2:n~ , ;:"!:~'i'::-:al ToO. lilt all cities in Mexico. Whenever you The reason that such attempts at :1 .'1::"..!~nt ""r .I .. :llu...... fil want to test yourself on Mexico, open change failed me in the past was the Mexico Subset and guess which of because after I wrote them down as instructed, I never looked at them the cities listed is the capitol (Mexico again. Even when I posted them on the Appointments screen showing Events above City), then before you bring up the mirror in the bathroom - another sug­ Appointments Only format City screen (by pressing I ENTER I, guess gestion of most of the books I've read the language (Spanish) and the curren­ - I stopped noticing them after the cy (Peso), or any other information you second time I passed them. have entered in the Notes field. Note: You can use the UpArrow and If you only have the Note field entered DownArrow keys to scroll the Events ON THE PALMTOP for one city, it is easy to spot it from or you can delete them. Here's where the Palmtop changes all the list because of the "+" flag in front The results from using the that. In APPT, set a repeating event - of the city name. If you enter informa­ Robbins' book with my Palmtop have (press IMenul Add Event, fill in the tion for each city it becomes harder - been nothing short of amazing. Description field, then ~(Repeat) and teaches you more about the coun­ .!2aily IENTERI (OK) ~ (Done» - to try. remind yourself every morning of the Paul Merrill 3. Guess the location - If you old habits you won't be doing today. Associate Editor, The HP Palmtop Paper aren't sure what part of the world your When I start my day, I read and delete city resides in, highlight the city name 14 of these "reminders." (Only three in the All Cities list and press I ENTER 1 Events show up at a time - If you Use World Time as a once or twice as needed to get to the have more than three Events, they will Geography Game City screen. be hidden behind the Appointment You can use World Time as a game to list.) Not all of them cost me money if teach yourself some simple world I mess up, some are just friendly geography. Following are three differ­ reminders of ways I want to be each ent ways. day. With the Palmtop reminding me ON THE PALMTOP every morning of the consequences Start World Time (press IE] World associated with each item, it's a snap to Time). keep my resolve! (I lose about $10 a 1. Guess the country - From the World Time cross-hairs showing location of month at this, but it's worth it. I save All Cities list, block off the Country Andorra la Velia, Andorra much more money by not doing the column, then guess the corresponding old habits. If I innocently forget I don't country for each city. To block off the Then press I!!t (Locate). You get the penalize myself.) Country column, press IMENUI Yiew city's location in cross-hairs on the Here's a list of my morning event Arrange .columns, tab to the Country world map, as shown below for pop-ups (the ones that aren't too per­ column, press I!!) (Delete) IF10 I (Done). Andorra la Vella, Andorra. sonal). These include habits I'm chang­ When you are done, restore the ing as well as reminders of how I want Paul Merrill Country column by pressing IMENUI Associate Editor The HP Palmtop Paper to look at life. Yiew Arrange .columns, tab to where • Life is a party!

MAY / JUNE 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 3 to recognize the concept of of the River Club in Nyack, hard copy of The HP Palmtop Palmtop Interferes "acceptable risk" we are NY) I often write in my jour­ Paper and the HP Palmtop With Airliner? going to continue to see nal for a few minutes. Paper On Disk? Regarding the Palmtop more restrictions placed on Sunday I was doing this, Jini Scamme/l-Tinling interfering with airline elec­ our lives: No hot coffee and an attractive woman CompuServe ID: [73240,131OJ trical systems - personally, since you might spill it, no (Sonya) came over to see I think the whole thing is more use of electronics on what could possibly be [The time, energy, and paranoia. No device in an airplanes since we don't more interesting than the resources that go into produc­ aircraft, which is critical for know that they won't cause crowd around us. She ing The HP Palmtop Paper safety, should be so sensi­ a problem, no more skiing thought I was balancing my for a limited market make the tive to outside electromag­ since you might hurt your­ checkbook (not impressive) paper version of the issues netic interference (EM!) that self, no more anything with but when she found I was underpriced. Since we began a flight would be in danger risk, no more living, only writing in my journal it publishing, our costs ha ve due to a passenger turning existing ... seemed much more interest­ increased by 40%. (Last year on a computer or a David Shier ing. I sort of regretted that I we added two new issues to the Palmtop. CompuServe ID: [74777,2477] was meeting Patricia, but I subscription - the PC Card Sure, there might be a declined the advance. Review and Best Tips - rare case where a passen­ Palmtop This has not been a without raising prices. This ger's electronic device at a Singles Bar unique experience either. year's postal rate increase and affected one aircraft system. My friends at work (I'm Sometime I'll tell you about skyrocketing paper costs have However, all critical systems sure you are familiar with taking it country dancing ... added another 20 % to our on board have backups. If a this part) all poke fun at my (No, I don't hang out in sin­ cost.) problem is noted, then all attachment to my 200LX, gles establishments. Like I Also, because people are portable devices should be which goes everywhere told you I was meeting my used to PC Magazine or Time turned off until the plane with me. The thought of friend Pat.) with 200 times our circulation, lands, then the airplane being seen in a singles pub Ernest Lilley and paid for by advertising, should be grounded until with one seems worse than CompuServe ID: [72600,2521] they still perceive The HP the failure of the aircraft is being caught with a pen Palmtop Paper itself (8 issues found. That's right, any air­ protector in my shirt pocket. Why the and a disk per year) at $39 as craft that can be disturbed When I'm not doing Price Difference? expensive. PC Magazine con­ by a passenger's portable anything (like waiting for Could you explain the huge tains roughly 65% ads, where electronic device is broken. my friend Patricia at the pub price difference between the our goal is to make that ratio What would an electrical storm do to that same air­ plane? Or flying into LA International where there are lots of 50KW radio transmitters, cellular phones on the freeway below the landing pattern, and thou­ sands of other sources of EMI on the ground? Supports the HP 95LX, l00LX and 200LX! The bottom line is that this whole issue is really one • Transfersffranslates important data between your HP Palmtop and Wmdows PC of too many lawyers. The • Reconciles data, notifying you when conflicts are found airlines (and the FAA) are • Controls what data is transferred, how it's formatted and where it's transferred worried that they could get • Keeps your HP Palmtop and PC data in synch! sued if a plane were to crash after they allowed some pas­ Supported Software senger to use a laptop in ACT! for Windows dBASE PackRat4.1 Windows flight. Then someone would ASCII (CSV) Files ECCO Paradox Cardfile/Calendar claim that this caused the CaLANdar Excel Schedule+ Word for Windows problem. In our courts to­ Commence 2.x Lotus Organizer Sidekick 2.0 Word Perfect for Windows day, (where a lady can get IntelliLink for Windows Only $99.95 $2M for spilling coffee in her own lap because the coffee "IntelliLtnk is the only solution for keeping network-based scheduling and contact information synchro­ was sold to her hot!) the sad nized with your PDA." PC Week, April 17, 1995 truth is if you have money "Ibis is truly excellent software· vital ifyou want to use a pocket computer. .. very useful ifyou need to (such as an airline, or Boe­ move data between formats, even just software formats." Computer Shopper (UK), April 1994 ing) then you will pay for '1nteUiLink surpasses other desktop-ta-palmtop links in its ease of use, its smart way ofhandling of data accidents, regardless of the flIes, and its error correction features during uploads and downloads." Windows Sources, June 1993 fact that it may not be due to AJJ products listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective entities. gross negligence or intent. To order IntelliLink One Tara Blvd., Suite 210 Tel: (603) 888-0666 Until people are willing contact: Corporation Nashua, NH 03062 Fax: (603) 888-9817

4 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY / JUNE 1995 about two-thirds editorial con­ PCMCIA Cards More tear in my pants matches the memory chips lined up tent to one-third ad space. Susceptible to Back exactly the corner dimen­ again, or is there a more Advertising has been good to Pocket Stress than sions of the 100LX. The Alt subtle way to disable the us but doesn't come close to the Palmtop key now clicks a bit when parts of the card that don't supporting the publication. In the July/August issue of pressed, but the HP 100LX work? The HP Palmtop Paper The HP Palmtop Paper, Mark still works just fine, and I Tony Paxton On Disk is a full text version Scardina warned about pos­ still carry it in my back CompuServe 10: [71601,1150J of the Paper; detailed advertis­ sible long term effects of pocket all the time! er information; and all the Back Pocket Stress (carrying A week or so later, I was [The rolling pin sounds like an shareware/freeware mentioned your Palmtop in your back trying to create a new sub­ interesting experiment, but if in the Paper for those who pocket). I had the following directory on my 5MB Flash­ you want to get some use out of don't have the time or easy direct experience of Back card when I got a "Device the card it would probably be access to CompuServe, AOL, Pocket Stress. I/O" error message. After more fruitful to send the card or Internet . While leaving a bar in some poking about, I back to the manufacturer for We think The HP Palm­ New York during the excite­ eventually looked at the repairs. - Robert] top Paper On Disk is an ment of the Canuks win Flashcard. It is concave on excellent value for our sub­ over the Rangers in the 1994 the under side, and has sev­ cc:Maii Learns scribers . Especially at the two Stanley Cup, I managed to eral visible wrinkles in the I would like to applaud the year rate. $199 for 14 disk sets slip on the sidewalk and top metal cover. Most of the company "palmtop. com" translates to $14.20 a disk set, landed on my right side. card seems ok, but I can't for finding some use for that including U.S. postage. Almost Weighing a svelte 254 access several files. CHK­ old ROM-sucker cc:Mail that all our disk sets are at least one pounds, the impact of my DSK runs ok, but when I try lives on our lOO/200LX's. 1.44MB floppy (equal to four fall was quite considerable. to do a surface scan it locks What palmtop. com has 360K floppies) . Two to three Fortunately I was cushioned up immediately. done is actually quite sim­ times a year the disk sets have by my HP 100LX which I I've since replaced the ple: They've set up a cc:Mail been two 1.44MB floppies . was carrying in my back 5MB card as I need reliable server (or whatever it's That's a lot of Palmtop Paper pants pocket. I know I land­ access to my files but I'm called) that functions as a information, templates, free­ ed on it because the outline wondering if there is any gateway to the Internet. ware / shareware, and adver­ of the HP could be seen in way to repair damaged tiser information . the large multi-colored PCMCIA cards. Do I flatten Thanks for the question . I bruise, and the 'L' shaped (Continued on page 40.) hope that helped - Hal.] it with a rolling pin to get

You've waited long enough for 50 it's as easy to organize your files Windows connectivity - trade up on your palmtop as it is on your to PalmConnect for only $49*: Windows Pc. And even if you work on But Windows isn't all you'll one computer in the office and another get. PalmConnect gives you at home, with PalmConnect you're the simplest, most automatic always up-to-date. When you're at and painless solution for synchro­ either computer, plug in the cable, nizing the data on your HP palmtop with run Hot5ync! and your palmtop your Windows Pc. carries all your most current data. PalmConnect takes a radical new approach to PalmConnect - back up and synchronization - ifs called HotSync!'" the painless way to back up This one-step backup and synchronization technology and synchronize your data. keeps track of your files and updates any files that have changed - both on your Windows PC and on your palmtop. Developed in cooperation with FliiIfJ HEWL.ETT O And if both files have changed, no problem. Hot5ync! con­ ~r.. PACKARD ducts a record-level synchronization for your Note Taker, Phone Book, and Appointment Book entries automatically. *Special $49 trade-up offer for owners of an HP 100/200 Connectivity Pack for ~ij -- What's more, PalmConnect ensures that your other DOS only. (Proof of ownership required.) • palmtop files, including Quicken, Lotus 1-2-3, and database files, are always up-to-date both on your palmtop and your Or, get the complete PalmConnect package (cable included) for only $129. desktop. Once connected to your Windows PC, your palmtop works just like a disk drive within the Windows File Manager. To order, call 1-800-881-7256.

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MAY I JVNE 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 5 HP Pall11Vue Systel11

HP makes critical patient data available to the U.S. physician, anywhere, anytime!

Inside the HP By Rich Hall PalmVue System The complete HP Palm­ The scene is a hospital Intensive Vue System is designed to Care Unit. A cardiac patient takes a work with the HP Care­ turn for the worse, but the resident Net Mon-itoring Network. cardiologist is stuck in traffic five HP CareNet, installed in miles away. The ICU nurse cap­ many hospitals and other tures the "waveform" displays of health care facilities, HP Medical Palmtop with wireless receiver. Part of the patient's physiological data shares patient data among the HP Palm Vue System from the PalmVue System Dispatch monitors placed at differ- Station and sends the data through ent bedsides. The Palm- the station's built-in modem to a Vue System is comprised paging service provider. HP PalmVue System is in the side­ of a Dispatch Station located at the bar on page 8. In his car the resident cardiolo­ nurses station and connected to the gist hears a beep coming from his HP CareNet. The HP Palmvue How does PalmVue work? pocket, indicating that he has just Dispatch Station acquires and The HP PalmVue System is received an incoming message. He transmits patient data via a paging pulls out an HP Palmtop equipped service to one or more HP M1496A designed to be used in a facility with a wireless receiver and Medical Palmtops specially that has HP monitors networked PalmVue software, and turns it on equipped to receive and display together via HP CareNet. So, for to view the ECG waveform, other patient data. A more complete example, an ICU in a hospital vital signs and messages from the description of the elements in the might have 15 beds, each with an ICU staff. He picks up his cellular phone, calls the ICU and gives the attending physician vital instruc­ tions.

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HP Medical Palmtop display showing a waveform display of a patient's physiological data

The above scenario dramatizes the value of HP's new PalmVue System, an advanced clinical com­ munications system designed to provide health care professionals in the U.S. with remote access to criti­ HP M1496A Medical Palmtop with PCMCIA wireless receiver. PalmVue software cal patient data. running on Palmtop allows the display of physiological patient information.

6 THE HP P ALMTOP PAPER MAY/ JUNE 1995 HP patient monitor. If these moni­ receive the data and starts the pag­ PalmVue was thoroughly tested at tors are on a CareNet network, a ing transmission. The user may a number of different locations for physician or nurse can access criti­ also retrieve stored messages and functionality and accuracy in the cal data about any patient in the send them. paging fulfillment process. The HP PalmVue System is 5. The message is automatically specific to health care facilities with 7,0 u sent to the paging service, which HP Monitors linked via HP liTlii "iiii' transmits it. The Dispatch Station CareNet. However, the technology j .. r T i f f indicates when the transmission is developed can be applied to any 2'0 received. field that needs text, data or graph­ ics sent quickly to mobile locations. -- I =- ---._ •• " - , 6. The HP Medical Palmtop in the For example, a few of the potential ;;=-=-",-:,-::- pocket of the physician beeps to uses are as follows: indicate the arrival of the message. PalmVue software on the Palmtop o Transmit price changes, invento­ has an error detection feature that ry and scheduling information, and 'I.. detects incomplete or corrupted product descriptions to remote transmissions and avoids the dis­ sales and service forces. play of invalid data. o Update real estate personnel with new listings and pictures. 7. The PalmVue software on the o Transmit delivery orders and HP OmniCare 24, one of HP's many Medical Palmtop automatically location maps to delivery and ser­ medical bedside monitors starts and displays the patient vice vehicles. name, date, time, hospital name, o Transmit mug shots and All network from any of the monitors. care unit, individual to contact, and Points Bulletins to mobile law The Palm Vue Dispatch Station is phone number. From that screen he enforcement officers. connected to this network. Here's a can view the waveform display, o Send design and construction typical scenario: text note, or vital sign data. information and schematics to con­ struction sites. 1. The clinician starts the Dispatch 8. The physician contacts the Station, views a list of patients on sender to discuss the patient's con­ Further information the monitoring system and selects dition and confirm that he received The complete HP PalmVue System the desired patient. the transmission. is available for under $25,000, and includes 1 Dispatch Station, 5 HP 2. The Dispatch Station displays Non-medical uses 200LX Medical Palmtops, the nec­ the first three of all active "wave­ of PalmVue technology essary PalmVue software, modem forms." [A waveform is a graphical Hewlett-Packard Company and and interface card to connect the display of a patients physiological Data Critical Corporation of Dispatch Station to the HP CareNet data, e.g., blood pressure, respira­ Oklahoma City (see page 10) coop­ network. The health care facility tion, EKG, etc.] erated in the development of must be using HP medical moni­ PalmVue, integrating three items: tors linked via the HP CareNet net­ 3. The clinician selects, views and work. In addition, Data Critical captures a 5-second snapshot of 1. The lightweight reliability of the Corporation will assist the health any three waveforms, and creates a HP 200LX Palmtop. care facility in assessing paging message to send to the remote user. reception and selecting the best (The user may also select a single 2. Software developed by Data paging service for their needs. IS-second snapshot of one wave­ Critical to allow text and graphical The HP PalmVue System is form.) data to be sent to portable comput­ only available in the U.S. at this ers. time. For more information, contact 4. The clinician views each screen your HP medical sales representa­ to confirm that its data is complete 3. Existing paging networks and tive or ca1l800-HP4-PALM. and ready for transmission. From a wireless receivers. list the user selects the physician to Product Index: page 47

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MAY / JUNE 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 9 Imaging Technology Used in HP Palmtop Helps Out in Oklahoma City Tragedy

By Rich Hall images to remote locations via pag­ Wednesday morning ing networks. HP's Palm Vue The disaster was close to home for The tragic bombing of the Federal System uses this capability to send Data Critical Corporation (DDC), Building in Oklahoma City on medical waveforms. The same headquartered in Oklahoma City. April 19 made us all more aware of technology can be used by law Data Critical Corporation had the fact that individual pain and enforcement agencies to send mug already been testing their technolo­ suffering are the inevitable off­ shots, pictures of missing persons, gy with several law enforcement agencies, the Department of springs of hatred and violence. But diagrams, and other graphical Defense, and in commercial appli­ the Oklahoma City tragedy also images to agents in the field, trans­ cations including the HP PalmVue showed a better side of mankind. missions are encrypted for security. System. Volunteers worked tirelessly, around the clock, rescuing sur­ vivors and recovering the bodies of those less fortunate. Expressions of sympathy and donations poured in from all over the United States and around the world. Businesses donated material and resources to the victims families, to the rescue efforts, and to law enforcement agencies. Data Critical Corporation, an Oklahoma City based small busi­ ness, teamed up with Hewlett­ Packard and PageNet to help a number of law enforcement agen­ cies involved in the investigation of the bombing. Data Critical Cor­ poration and HP developed the technology used in the HP Palm­ Vue System described in this issue. Although the HP PalmVue System applies to health care, the basic technology can be applied to the transmission of any critical data or graphics. So, for example, word processing documents, spread­ sheets, and other data files can be encrypted, compressed and sent via existing alphanumeric paging networks or private paging trans­ HP 200LX Palmtop equipped with Data Critical software and wireless mitters. In addition, the technology paging receiver (not shown), allowed remote law enforcement agents can be used to send graphical to receive and display artist renditions of the bombing suspects.

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MAY / JUNE 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 11 useful feature was creating prob­ HP Palmtop contributes lems for the structural engineers. They didn't want to have to leave to safety of rescue workers someone in the building to press the SmartLevel "on" button every By Richard Hall involved, emergency response five minutes. They contacted Mack­ structural engineering teams lanburg-Duncan with their prob­ One of the main concerns in the arrived early in the disaster and lem, and got a quick solution. aftermath of the Oklahoma City continually assessed the stability of Steve Rhodes, a Tool and bombing was the safety of sur­ the building. Design Engineer for the company, vivors remaining in the wreckage, One of the ways structural and subscriber to The HP Palmtop as well as the safety of fire fighters, engineers assessed the danger of Paper, described what happened as rescue workers, and law enforce­ collapse was by using a device follows: ment personnel in the building. called a digital inclinometer. These "The emergency response The Federal Building was badly electronic levels were strapped to structural engineers contacted us damaged and continued to shift. support columns, walls, etc., in the for help. We already had a pro­ There was a very real concern that building and indicated in fractions gram written for the manufactur­ additional portions of the building of degrees the angle at which these ing process that was able to modify might collapse. parts of the building were leaning. the SmartLevel's EEPROM chip. It To insure the safety of those Changes in the angles were moni­ let us reprogram the SmartLevel so tored closely and rescue crews its LCD would display continuous­ were warned as necessary. ly. Support columns in buildings We responded within 45 min­ are designed to bear weight com­ utes of their call. I used a specially ing straight down on them. If modified HP Connectivity Cable to because of the sinking of the foun­ connect an HP 200LX to the dation, or the effects of some natur­ SmartLevei. I then ran our propri­ al or man-made disaster they are etary software on the 200LX, letting caused to lean, their ability to sup­ us reprogram the EEPROM chips. port weight dramatically decreases. Some units were modified at our The angle at which the support plant just two miles from the blast columns in the Federal Building site. Others were modified at the were leaning was a measure of logistics center near the blast how much of the remaining weight sight." they could bear, which areas of the The use of the HP Palmtop and building were particularly danger­ modified connectivity cable ous, and an indicator of when parts allowed the engineers of Macklan­ of the structure needed to be be burg-Duncan to modify the shored up. SmartLevel units so they would operate continuously, ensuring the HP Palmtop helps safety of the crews. modify Smart Level [Editor's Note: SmartLevel is not The particular brand of digital designed specifically to work with the inclinometer used, the SmartLevel, HP Palmtop. However, the SmartLevel is manufactured by an Oklahoma Pro 3600 comes with a serial port that City company named Macklan­ allows it to interface with a desktop PC burg-Duncan. The SmartLevel has with a serial port. The software men­ a power-down feature similar to tioned in this article is for in-house the one on the HP Palmtop. To con­ manufacturing purposes and not avail­ serve batteries, the SmartLevel able to the public.] SmartLevel digital inclinometer attached shuts down it's LCD display if its to rail functions as an "electronic level" function buttons are not pressed Index: page to give angles in degrees, percent slope, for 5 minutes. Product 47 pitch in inches or feet, or display a simulated bubble. Unfortunately, this otherwise

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Third Party Products of Interest to HP Pall11top Users

This section lists products new since the last issue and includes hardware, software, books, videos, training, and services of interest to HP Palmtop users. The icons above the product name indicate which Palmtop the product is suitable for: FM" for the 95LX, ' 100/200LX for the 100/200LX (in some cases, the product may be suitable for the 100LX or the 200LX, but not both). Prices listed are suggested retail. We invite vendors and subscribers to send us information about HP Palmtop­ HP Palmtop Users Groups related products they discover. We rely Those interested in pl!rticipating in an HP Palmtop users group should contact the following individuals. Write on information we receive from the us IT you wish to be added as a contact for a users group in your area. Arllnaton, VA I Was USA) - 95LX11001200LX users in the ArtingJon, VA I Washington, DC area should contact: , alo Computer tnstructors Corporation, 2320 'Sotith Eads, Arlington, manufacturer and cannot test every VA, 22202; Phone 103 AUSTRIA - 95LX11001200LX users in Austria should contact: Ulli Hoesch. A-1111 Vienna, P. 0 Box 50, piece of hardware or software. We wel­ HP-Club Austria; Fax: +4311/5443224. come any user feedback on product Cleveland, OH (USA) - 95LX1100/200LX users in the Cleveland area should contact: Craig de Fassel~, c/o MEM, Inc., 470~ East 355th St., Willoughby, OH 44094. suitability. BostolJ, MA (USA) - 95LX1100/200LX users in the Boston area should contact: Bryan Krauthamer; Phone: oI1-314'!J6(J() x 191 (WOrl<); Fax: 611-314-9620; CornpuServe 10:[70444,41J. BRAZIL - 951100/200LX users in Brazil should contact: Marcos L. Pedroza, Rua Train' 641 Ap 104-8, By Paul Merrill to run and/ or charge your 59020-150Natal, RN-Brazii,' Phone:5S 84211-6162. DenverA CO (USA\ - 95LX1100I2OOLX users in the Denver area should contact: Bill Hoe/tgen, 5944 S. Palmtop, Omnibook, or Kip5ng, ~uite 3lJO, Liff/eton, CO 80121 Phone: 303-933-0023; Fax: 303-911-0341. Group meefs quarterly. Hardware Portable DeskJet Printer. Detroit, M~US.eJ - 95LX1100/200LX users in the Detrott area Sh9uld contact: Jeff Zom'h~311 A:tiSJ/J. Lind 12 volt Power Adapter ~1::'Pf,~-!lf:9390.48334-2815; Phone: 313-489-1855 (EST) or Lows Peeples, Sf. Clair S. ores MI ; has "Power On" light and GERMANY - HP PalmtooiOmnibook users in Gennany shOuld contact: Eckarl Prinz, Obere MOhlStr. 560, 642910annstadt, GERMAN'f; Phone!Fax: +496151316065. Carrying Cases aluminum, black casing. I GERMANY I LUXEMBOURG - Not an official user groyp but this individual is willing to help HP Palmtop users with ~uestions or technlc~roblems.; contact Gilles Kohl, Hau,sfelder Ailee 16, 0-16131 1Jt!f!'a~eff:''1,A'Jintf:'l:J;er.;~!f/JJ. 114,3148]; Intemet 10: gillestispam.7ido.de; Phone: +49-121-69- Availability ...... Now FIO'D 100/200LX GREECE - HP Palmtop users in Greece should contact: Stavros 0. Zacharakos, Sofocleous 33. Athens Pricing for HP products: 15126, Greece; Phone: (+3.fJI) 8050041; : (+3) 093-254-11124hrs.; Fax: (+3-01) 805iiJ41 .. 100/200LX Palmtop ...... $49.95 HOLLANDIBELGIUM - HP 95LX1100I200LX users in the low countries should contact: PROMPT HP­ Leather Cases GG, Mister G. Dongs, Postbus 1081, 1500 AB Zaandam, HOLLAND; Phone: +3115104205. Omnibook 300/425/430/530 .. $49.95 for Palmtops INDONESIA - HP Handheld users (HP 75C, 110, ~ 12, l00!200LX) in Indonesia should contact Oirl< H. Omnibook 600 ...... $89.95 Eversbert, alo P. T. Auslindo Mitratama, Mr. Elman Sunenio, J/. Gunung Sahari 2I6E, Jakarta 10610, INDONE­ This XLC200 Case for SIA. Port. DeskJet 300/310/320 ... $49.95 Palmtops from Global ITALY - 95/1001200LX users in ItalY should contact: Stefano Gigli, Via E. Toti, 13-80/23 Ancona, Italy: CONTACT: GlobalConnections, 110S. Phone: 011-36845 or 011-200916,' Fax: 011-200916; In/eme/IO: SGiglitiagora.s/m.lt,· Fido-Net m: Connections is made exclu­ 2'3321316.4. sively of cowhide leather. Jackson St., Janesville, WI, 53545, Kansas (USA\ - 95/100/200LX users in Italy should contact: Marie/ha Wilson, P.O. Box 1151, Manhattan, KS 6d5iJ2-OO12, USA; Phone: 913-532-9715. Has pocket for PCMCIA or USA,' Phone: 608-152-1531; Fax: 608- Los Anaeles, CA (USA\ - 95LX1100/200LX users in the LA area should contact: Dave Shiar at 805- business cards and belt loop. 152-9548. 371-9391; Fax: 805-3il-93lft,· CIS [751J3tJ,3314j for more information. Dimensions: 11/ 8" x 3 1/2" X New JerseylNew York ~U~ - 95LX1100!200LX users in the New Jers~lNew York area. Contact: 'fttfglJ!~T 169 Spri Igfi< AvenlJ8, Rutherlord, NJ. 07010-1642; CIS 10.'fTI03I,2162J; Phone: 201- 61/ 4." Software Oklahoma City, OK (USA) - 95/100I200LX users in the Oklahoma C[tY. area. Contact: Richard 8. Meek, 1804 Huntington, Oklahoma City, OK 13116, USA; Residential Phone: 405-/142-1261. Availability ...... Now Richmond .. VA (USA) - For 95LX11 OOI2OOLX users in the Central Virginia area. Contact: John Haskell, Pricing ...... $29.95 1102 Three ,,'hopt'Road, 'Richmond, VA 23226-3615. CIS 10: [70150, 1243j or Phone: 804-288-6013 (work). CONTACT: GlobalConnections, 110S. Financial San Diego, CA (USA) - For l00!200LX users in the San DieQo area. Contact: Marl< GiUiIz, Intemet I gitlitzfihdSs(J .hitachi.com; Worl< phone: 619-531-3000; Fax: 619-695-9501. Jackson St., Janesville, WI, 53545, San FranCisco\hCA (USA1 - S.P.A.M ~Socie'tfor Palmtop Advancement through Meetings). For HP USA; Phone: 608·152-1531; Fax: 608- ~~p4~r~i~laBay Are, Northem ear omia. ontact: Dennis Dodd, CornpuS8rve 10.' [1330I,3214J; 152-9548. 1100/200LX 1 Seattle, WAJ.USA) - For HP Palmlop and Handheld user!! in the Pu~et. Sound ~rea. Contact: Kent Loan Amortization ';g::ug;~cOf%; ~jj'/3iSj£qU8h, WA 98021. CIS 10. [72310,21 ~j, Intemet peter Power Adapters ~ Software ~;!~~Lanka; P~~:~~!?~~r4~~~ri Lanka should contact: Francois Smith, Colombo Rd. 71411, TimeValue Software, Inc. SOUTH AFRICA - HP Palmtop/Omnibook users in South Africa should contact: James Dean. CIS 10.' announces TValue 4, a pro­ fltl}1/i3J; Internet address: james(/charon.hipsys.co.za; Phone: (OIl) 806-1382 (O/H); Fax: (OIl) 100/200LX fessional loan amortization SWEDEN - HP Palmtop users in Swede contact: Kent litemann, Erii

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rates of return, and more. alphabet languages current­ Accounts for changes in Foreign Languages ~ ly work on the 100/200LX, Word Processing I interest rates for adjustable and author promises to have rate mortgages. TValue 4 for more languages available as DOS runs on the 2MB 100/200LX' soon as possible. Trans­ n OO/200LX 100/200LX, but requires lations between the non­ Foreign Language English languages above Typing Helper almost 1MB for installation Translator (e.g. Hungarian to Chinese) Type on your Palmtop and and 450K to run. TValue 3 Write what you want to say will also be available soon. this TSR utility monitors installs and runs on about to your foreign language Contact Entente Corp. for your keystrokes and offers 600K, and offers some speed speaking friend and Entente more information. to complete a word or advantages over version 4. translates it. This is a con­ phrase after seeing only a You get $50 off the price versation translator, so the Availability: ...... Now few characters. Also use the listed below if you mention The grammar may not be perfect Medium ...... Floppy disk program to create macros HP Palmtop Paper. TValue 4 is ("Where be the bicycle Pricing: English/1 language...... $49.95 that work in both built-in also available in Windows, and shop?"), but you will be understood. Ea. additional and DOS applications. Macintosh. language ...... $29.95 Comes with a DOS version This 100/200LX version ENTSPNI4' ...... freeware of the Entente translator Availability ...... Now for your desktop. program comes in English • ENTSPN 14 is an English-Spanish Medium ...... Floppy disks iii to: Spanish, Portuguese, version available now on The Palmtop Availability ...•...... Now Pricing: Italian, French, German, Paper On Disk, the PDA Forum of Medium ...... Floppy disk Version 4 ...... $149 America On Line , and from Entente Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Pricing ...... $39 Version 3 ...... $99 Corporation. Serbo-Croa tion, Chinese CONTACT: SHIER Systems & CONTACT: TimeValue Software, 4 (mainland, Latin-alphabet­ CONTACT: Entente Corporation, 1441 Mariposa Ave., Boulder, CO. 80302, Software, 920 Hampshire Road, Suite Jenner Street, Sulle 100, Irvine, CA, based phonetic method), USA; Phone: 800-409-1101; BBS: A-29, Westlake Village, CA 91361; 92118, USA; Phone: 800-426-4141 or and Japanese (Latin alpha­ ramole@ao/.com Phone: 805-311-9391; Fax: 805-311- 114-121-1800,' Fax: 114-121-3268. bet "Romaji"). All the Latin- 9454; CompuServe 10: 14111,2417.

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Freeware support section. HPHAND One year (Palmtop) ..... , .... $52 515-472-6330, fax: 515-472- Deutsch, Section 21, is a Two years (Palmtop) ...... $81 1879. W!01U 100/200LX German language support sec­ CONTACT: Safeware, 2929 N. High Glossary of tion. Street, P. 0. Box 02211, Columbus, HOTEL REGISTRA nON Networking Terms Both sections will cover Ohio, 43202, USA; Phone: 800-800- The conference fee does not for the Internet all HP handheld products. 6132 or 614-262-0559; Fax: 614-262- include meals or accommo­ 1714. INTERO.ZIP ij is a 22.5K Gilles Kohl has joined the dations. Rooms can be freeware glossary of Internet TeamHP staff to help out in reserved at the Mall of WI01'* 100/200LX networking terms. The file, these new sections. America Grand Hotel ($89 per located in CompuServe's HP night single or double 1OO /200LX' Handhelds Forum, Library WIO"* HP Handheld accommodations). Contact 11 , is written by O. Jacobsen Insurance Users' Conference the Mall of America Grand and D. Lynch, and was con­ Coverage for The 1995 HP Handheld Hotel directly at 612-854- verted to HP 100/200LX Palmtops Users Conference (see pg. 6, 2244, fax: 612-854-4737. (You NoteTaker format by P. The SystemSure insurance Vol.4, No.2, 1995) will be must mention the HP Hand Verbruggen. policy is a no deductible held the weekend of August Held Users Conference when policy that protects your 5-6, 1995, at the Event you are making reserva­ Palmtop against theft, fire, Center of the Mall of tions.) Conferences accidents, power surges, America Grand Hotel in and Services and natural disasters any­ Bloomington, Minnesota, WI01D L! OO/200LX where in the USA and U.S.A. Since 1979, 20 of PDA Conference

W!01. ~100/200LX j Canada. Coverage is for these conferences have been Scheduled for European Sections replacement value and is sponsored by an enthusias­ August 5-6, 1995 For CompuServe's available for Palmtops, tic group of HP handheld The PDA Developers East HPHAND Forum desktops, other portables, calculator and computer '95 conference will be a tech­ CompuServe HP Handhelds and printers. SystemSure users - the conference is nical conference for devel­ Forum introduces two new has been approved in most not connected with Hewlett­ opers of PDA products. The European sections; HPHAND states - contact company Packard in any way. The two day event, hosted by Francais, and HPHAND for details. conference fee is $75 U.S. if Creative Digital, Inc., and Deutsch. HPHAND Francais, your registration is received co-sponsored by Geoworks, Section 20, is a French language Availability ..... •... .• ...... Now by June 1, $85 if received by Inc., plans to present: Pricing July 1, and $95 thereafter or • An in-depth technical if purchased at the door. understanding of the most HP News Banquet ticket reservations popular handheld pIa t­ ($20 U.S.) must be received forms, their development HP and AMD to work together to by July 1, 1995. environments, and the com­ develope advanced handheld devices Conference Organizer Craig panies behind them. Finseth has a new E-mail • Information on what it Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett-Packard I address. Disregard the E­ takes to succeed as a PDA Company have annouced that they will join forces in I mail addresses published in software developer. the development of the next generation of handheld the Marchi April 1995 issue • Insights into wireless

computer devices. AMD is a leading developer and I and contact Craig at technologies, wireless devel­ manufacturer of integrated chips used in desktop, [email protected]. oper tools, and service notebook, and handheld computers. AMD and HP providers looking for devel­ will work together on creating high-performance inte­ CONFERENCE opment partners. grated chips combining advanced PC functionality REGISTRATION • A glimpse at new tech­ and communications capabilities. Though not an official spon­ nologies that will impact the Although specific information on the devices to be sor, Thaddeus Computing PDAmarket. developed is not available, these lower-power, highly­ has volunteered to handle Confirmed speakers integrated chips are ideal for the handheld market. conference registration. To include: David Elder, presi­ The HP / AMD relationship bodes well for Palmtop register for the conference dent of Psion, Inc., and users, underscoring HP's continued interest in devel­ contact Colleen Rodibaugh Gordon Mayer, President oping more powerful handheld devices. at Thaddeus Computing at and CEO of Geoworks, Inc.

MAY / JUNE 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS

CONFERENCE senting your product in the Availability ...... Now index for the Marchi April REGISTRATION Tools Showcase, contact: Pricing issue (Pg.55, Vol.4, No.2, 95) . Registration fees include Creative Digital, Inc., 293 4 or more persons ...... $225 each The information should breakfast, lunch, and breaks. Corbett Ave., San Francisco, 3 persons ...... $295 each read: Correct Quotes - The cost of registration CA, 94114, U.S .A .; Phone: 2 persons ...... $395 each $NA, Instant library of quo­ before June 1, '95 is $325, 415-621-4252; Fax: 415-621- 1 person (DC, NY, LA, only) ... $395 tations. (See page 16), through July 10 is $400, and 4922 ; BBS: cdi@s lip.net or CONTACT: Computer Instructors Contact: SoftKey, Inc., USA; after July 10 is $450. 74774.50@ compuserve.com Corporation, 2320 South Eads Sf. , Phone: 800-523-3520; Fax: Arlington, VA, 22202, USA; Phone: 404-427-1150. HOTEL REGISTRATION -r'MI100/200LX 800-481-5040 or 103-486-2222,· Fax: The conference is being held Seminars on 103-486-1244; CompuServe 10: .10'1' 100/200LX at the Sheraton Tara Hotel, HP Palmtops (10642,641} Phone Number 1657 Worchester Road, The Computer Instructors Correction for Framingham, MA, 0170l. Corporation (see page 12, Project KickStart Phone: 508-879-7200; Fax: Vo1.4, No.2, 95) is now locat­ Updates and The phone numbers for 508-875-7593. Single rooms ed in Washington, D.C. Corrections Experience in Software's are $89 per night, doubles c.1.c. class list should Project KickStart on page 48 are $99. A limited number of include ACT! for the -10'1" 100/200LX of Best Tips 1995 (Products rooms will be held until July Palmtop (not just the 95LX). Advertised in this Issue of the 14th. Mention Creative c.1.c.'s clients have includ­ Correction for HP Palmtop Paper), should Digital or PDA Developers ed, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Correct Quotes read: Phone: 800-678-7008 or East to get the best rate. For and others. They hold semi­ The product information for 510-644-0694; Fax: 510-644- more information, to regis­ nars throughout the USA. Correct Quotes was not 3832. ter, or to inquire about pre- included in the Product

---=----~.- ---=---~~'LXTM QU------= ~-==- 1j1ping aid for the HP Palmtop Your Palmtop Access to the World™ QUICK/LX learns the words you type most often, then • Send Faxes and Postal Mail suggests them after you type just a few characters. The • Send 'd? Receive Electronic Mail suggestions are displayed in a box on the screen. You can ignore the suggestion and keep on typing, or accept • Read the latest News it with the press of a single key, and QUICK/LX will 'd? Stock Quotes finish the word. QUICK/LX can also be used to correct your most common typos! QUICK/LX works in programs under the System Manager and in text-mode DOS applications. QUICK/LX can even be used to enter Macros that work in both the System Manager and DOS Now you can have the world of electronic communications in the (unlike the built-in System Macros.) QUICK/LX also comes with a DOS version for your desktop computer. of your hand with acCIS'" and CompuServe®. acCIS automatically I ~ - -, ------, - uploads and downloads messages quickly. You can read and write messages off line, saving on connect charges and phone bills. acCIS This ie an exaJIIPle of' the use of QUICK/LX. To accept the suggested word. press lhg "cursor- right" kgy. is the only CompuServe access program that is designed specifically for your HP Palmtop computer. By using acCIS to join the HPHAND r~~~)\~~ ~~:r~~£~~s O;o~t 1C~{lJ'a't;ci the suggestion when forum on CompuServe you can correspond directly with Palmtop "-Suggestion made by QUICK/LX experts and programmers from around the world and easily download software directly to your Palmtop. In addition to the Palmtop version, you receive a copy of acCIS for your desktop or laptop PC at no extra cost. 1Il!II!II.m!IIl!Il!llDIIIllDmlllIIIiliIiIIlIlDII!iIlIlmlmlIm:m:I_1IiEl!IlII Example qf"using QUICK/LX in MEMO C===. SHIER Systems & Software, Inc. QUICK/LX: Only $39 plus shipping. r 920 Hampshire Road, Suite A-29 ~ 'c::==~ Westlake Village, CA 91361 VISf Also available from SHIER Systems & Software: - Phone: 805-371-9391 Custom cables to connect your HP Palmtop Computer to a wide variety of serial peripherals. Examples include: ~;:=~ Fax: 805-371-9454 r[...,,;;;;;~ ~ Pocket , serial printers (including the Citizen PN60 -. CIS: [74777,2477] =_O--=:JJ . ~ and Pentax Pocketlet.) Prices start at $35 - call for details.

16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 1995 x: :: " • -:1 _ PalrnConnect

This connectivity software lets you run Windows versions of PhoneBook, Appointment Book, and NoteTaker on your desktop PC, and keep them synchronized with your HP Palmtop files.

By Mark V. Scardina PalmConnect File Edit View HotJ;tync! Window Help Applications specifically designed for HP Palmtop users are few and far between, therefore when I heard that Palm Computing, Inc. had devel­ oped a connectivity pack that gave Windows users desktop versions of Phone, Appt, and NoteTaker, I was interested in putting the product through its paces. Palm Computing has made a name 9 :00 0De sign Presentation 10:00 for itself with their highly acclaimed 11 :00 o John one-on-one Meeting A1 Update Presentation Graffiti handwriting recognition soft­ 12:oop B1 Call Jane 1 :00 oAIPha Project Review ware for the Newton, Zoomer and 2:00 3 :00 Magic Cap PDAs. Quite different 4:00 from hand writing recognition, 5 :00 PalmConnect is a Windows applica­ PalmConnect's applications screens in Windows on a desktop PC tion that provides connectivity between your HP lOO/200LX and your desktop Pc. with Windows.) For lOOLX users, changes in both Palmtop and PC ver­ PalmConnect includes "HotSync!", PalmConnect includes the necessary sions of your files and have them rec­ a one click solution to backing up LapLink Remote Server application onciled automatically (for PHONE, and synchronizing your Palmtop software which is transferred to your APPT, and NoteTaker). However, no files. The synchronizing feature is lOOLX using Zmodem in Datacomm. synchronization exists for the useful to those who keep an Once you are connected you can Database or Quicken files_ Appointment Book on their Palmtop, use the "HotSync!" icon to create a The PhoneBook presentation is and another on their desktop. Daily backup of your Palmtop'S files on useful as it shows both a column or weekly as you merge the two your Pc. PalmConnect does much view and the details of the high­ Appointment Book files, the syn­ more than backup your files. lighted record simultaneously. chronizing feature resolves conflicts Windows versions of your Phone­ Unfortunately, the speed-locate caused by appointments scheduled Book, Appointment Book and Note­ capability allowing you to jump to a Taker files are provided along with in the same time slot. The Synchro­ record by typing the first letters is the ability to merge records bi-direc­ nizing feature also works for not supported_ Additionally, the PhoneBook and NoteTaker files. tionally. This allows you to make PalmConnect is available with or without a serial cable, or as an ABOUT THE AUTHOR: upgrade for HP Connectivity Pack Mark Scardina is Software Product Manager for ACE Technologies. owners. It utilizes a serial cable and He is also Sysop of the HP Handhelds and OmniBook Forums on the LapLink Remote Access drivers, CompuServe and the author of numerous utilities. His CompuServe as does the Connectivity Pack, to IV is [76711,732] establish a link between your Palmtop and Pc. (See the sidebar on page 19for tips on running Laplink

MAY I JUNE 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 REVIEWS: PalmConnect

PageUp and PageDown keys do not move the highlight bar, forcing you to either use the mouse or the arrow keys to navigate the list. MacLinkPlus/ The NoteTaker also displays the details of a highlighted record on half of the screen allowing you to see HP Palmtop the Note field adjacent to the column view. The Appointment Book's presenta­ tion is fixed, displaying your appointments and events on the left and ToDos and a calendar on the right. There is only a daily view, no weekly or monthly views. PalmConnect's backup capabilities . are similar to the HP Connectivity Pack in that it can backup a complete e Missing Link copy of the directory structure of each drive on your Pc. Use PIIlmtop flIes on your It does add a history feature, Mllcintosb - lind vice versll which keeps track of files that have Backup your palmtop on your Mac ... already been backed up. When you Backup your entire Palmtop on your Mac -with just a click of a mouse! MacUnkPlus will move all of your do subsequent backups, Palm­ Palmtop mes onto your Mac. The directory structure will remain the same on the Mac as it was on the HP. Connect does not backup files that Don't retype all those names ... have not changed, saving time in the MacLinkPlus can translate your phone book mes onto your HP. No need to retype all that information! And you backup process. can translate your HP Phonebook names back into your Mac phone book as well. PalmConnect also has a file exclu­ No excuses for missed appointments ... sion feature that lets you specify Appointment book alanns don't do and good if your not at your desk to hear them. With MacUnkPlus, you can which files you want to backup and convert your Mac appointment book mes (such as, Now Up to Date or DateBook Pro) into the HP which you want to exclude. So, for Appointment Book fonnat. Now your appointments -and your alarms -will be on the road with you where example, you can set the backup fea­ they belong. ture to exclude specific individual Manage your notes ... files, or all files with a specific file Take Memos from your Palmtop and convert them into Mac word processing documents (such as, Microsoft extension (e.g., .EXE, .COM, etc.). Word, ClairisWorks, etc.) Your formatting such as bold, underline, etc. will remain intact. You can also convert and other non-data files. word processing mes from your Mac into HP Memo meso The Automatic mode backs up and Don't leave your numbers behind. .. synchronizes everything without In addition to PIM and Memo translations, MacUnkPlus can also convert your Mac spreadsheets into Lotus 123 you having to monitor the situation. fonnat on your HP. Fonnaning and fonnulas all remain intact. Once you've made changes on your Palmtop, you can convert your me back into Mac fonnat! The Manual mode causes the back­ up process to query you when it Databases, too ... finds a duplicate of the file to be Use your HP databases in FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Works database, and other Mac database programs. All of backed up, asking which file you your data and its formatting, such as, date and time will be translated. want to keep. Unfortunately, the lack Everything's included! of ability to tag files and directories Just connect the two computers with the included serial cable. MacUnkPlus/HP Palmtop will do the rest! for backup makes the Manual mode tedious. CIJl' for more informlltion: These limitations aside, Palm­ (800) 733-0030 Connect does allow you to easily Supports keep your files synchronized. HP 200LX DATAlIZ Conflicts in your Appointment Book HP lOOLX 55 Corporate Drive· Trumbull, CT 06611 or Phonebook are handled manually, HP 95LX Tel: (203) 268-0030 Fax: (203) 268-4345 but if you synchronize on a regular

18 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY /JUNE 1995 Using Lap Link Remote with Windows on your Desktop PC Easy File Transfer By Mark Scardina 4. Increase your lower DOS memory before Between Your Many users have reported problems getting launching Windows. Palmtop and Desktop LapLink Remote Access (LLRA) running on Since this Windows resource is not of a their PCs. Since PalmConnect also uses this predefined size, the amount of free memory engine, Here are some tips in case you run that you have prior to launching Windows will into this problem. govern the amount of DOS allocatable mem­ ory you have under Windows. If you have Insufficient Resource less than 540K (run MEM.EXE to find out) Memory Problem you most likely can create more space by The most frequent problem reported is that loading some of your drivers and TSRs into LLRA displays an Insufficient Resource upper memory or extended memory. Utilities memory error when you attempt to launch it. such as EMM386 (included with MS DOS), Add the SCT CL680 Card-Link to This error is a bit ambiguous, because there QEMM, 386max, and Netroom can do that your desktop PC: are many types of Windows resources. It for you. does not refer to the USER or GDI ~ Fast-80, 000 Bytes/sec Resources that most status programs dis­ ~ Easy to use-works just 5. Shell to DOS and return to Windows. play, but to the amount of DOS allocatable like a floppy disk drive memory that is available below 1MB. This tip pertains to those that get this error ~ Convenient-plug-in LLRA requires lOOK of this memory in intermittently - if LLRA works when you installation to your order to load LLRA2 and LLRA3. I have only first start Windows but stops if you launch it parallel printer port found two utilities that report on the availabili­ later. As you use Windows, the lower DOS ty of this type of memory. Manifest from memory can get fragmented. Shelling to ~ Reads /writes SRAM and Quarterdeck (included in QEMM ver. 7.5) DOS will clean up this memory and should FLASH cards displays this under its WindowslMemory permit you to launch LLRA. option. Syslnfo from Central Point Software If none of these help, you may be able to Only $189.95 (included with PCToois For Windows) dis­ get some clues from the fact that programs plays it under WindowslMemory as well. and drivers need this DOS memory when Steele Creek Technologies, Inc. Of course knowing you have less than the they must be accessible in a DOS shell from 14035 Appling Lane needed lOOK and being able to do some­ Windows. This is why Network drivers cause Charlotte, NC 28278 thing about it are two very different issues! a problem. Phone or Fax: (704) 588-1780 Here are some tips that will help you get up and running: Serial Port Access Problem basis it should not be too cumber­ The other main problem area concerns 1. Load LLRA 1, LLRA2, and LLRA3 before access to the serial port. LLRA creates a some. launching Windows. \TSI\TSI.INI file that tells it how and where to PalmConnect is not a full replace­ This method almost always works as access the serial port. It consists of entries ment of the Connectivity Pack. It LLRA doesn't need to load anything extra such as the following: after you launch Windows. Its only drawback does not support synchronizing is that you lose about 74K of memory when Quicken files. Import and export [COM1) shelled to DOS. If you are using LLRA only abilities are limited to dBase (*.DBF), Enabled.Redir=Yes for periodic backups, this is the best solution Default=3F8,4 Comma Separated Value (*.CSV), and you can simply create a batch file to do and Tab Separated Value (*.TAB) file this. TransferMode=Standard Address=3F8 formats and only with PHONE and 2. Launch Windows with WIN /N to prevent IRQ=4 NoteTaker files. However, it does network drivers from loading. Type=Serial provide a quick way to enter data in Baud=O If you are running a Windows For its supported applications as well as Workgroups network, it will need to load its drivers in the same area that LLRA wants to If you are unable to get connected, try keep them in synchronization. Its use. This is guaranteed to cause a changing IRQ=# (IRQ=4 in the above sam­ backup capability is more flexible Resource error. If you absolutely need both ple) to IRQ=POLLED. This will not give you than the Connectivity Pack. Finally, at the same time, then use Method #1 the highest speed but will resolve conflicts PalmConnect is a true Windows above. between other input devices such as your application and should be investigat­ mouse. 3. Reduce your display resolution. For those of you using Windows NT or ed by anyone looking for Windows The amount of allocatable DOS memory is OS/2, I am afraid I have heard of no reports connectivity with their Palmtops. directly impacted by the resolution and num­ of LLRA successfully running with either of ber of colors you are using. Try running these two, and Traveling Software (the pub­ Windows Setup and selecting the standard lisher of LLRA) does not support it under Product Index: page 47 VGA driver or reducing the resolution of your those operating systems. specific video driver.

MAY /JUNE 1995 THE HPPALMTOP PAPER 19 User to User Discover the "Patience" to play solitaire; take a look at the new HP 1000CX DOS Palmtop; Hal and others give HP advice on how to advertise the HP Palmtop.

By Hal Goldstein the game more readable. The 1176 good and your eyes are OK, the tells the Palmtop to allocate 176K display is acceptable but border­ Solitaire of system RAM for the game. line. Secondly, if you store the pro­ I haven't played solitaire in years. The main program file occupies gram on the A drive, you may not However, recently the combination 61K of disk space. You can also be able to access help or the scoring of finding PATIENCE .COM iJ for include an optional 99K help file. history. I used the ASSIGN com­ my Palmtop and lots of travel The nice thing about including the mand (ASSIGN C:=A:) to remedy changed that pattern. Frankly, I help file is that when you press I!:!l this. I could use HELP and Score don't understand the human fasci­ you can access the rules of the History for a while, but then I nation with placing cards one on game. couldn't get it to work properly. top of the other in strict accordance Playing the ten PATIENCE The third problem is that the share­ with a specific set of rules. games is easy, as each has a similar ware author has disabled the Setup Granted, some skill is involved, but user interface. Moving cards is feature. That means if there are fea­ there are better games for exercis­ easy, as the following example will tures tha t make the screen more ing brain muscles. (See Vo1.4 No.1 show. visible or allow you to run it from Pg.20). Even so, I became hooked your A drive, you won't be able to on Patience. test it before registering. Even There are ten games of solitaire given these shortcomings, Patience to choose from in Patience, as is a virtue on the HP Palmtop. viewed from the opening screen. The HP 1000CX In the last issue we published an announcement from HP about Klondike solitaire game screen their new DOS-only HP 1000CX Palmtop Pc. We received a num­ ber of queries requesting more Klondike is the most common form information and recently got an of Solitaire. The above screeh evaluation unit from HP, so here Patience solitaire opening screen menu shows a Klondike solitaire game in are more details. progress. In the above screen, to The HP 1000CX is a 1 megabyte move the 6 of Hearts in stack 7, to HP 100LX without the built-in There is a lot to like about this the 7 of Clubs in stack 4, type 7 4. If applications. It even looks like the program. Set it up in Application their was an Ace in stack 1 you HP 100LX. It has the HP 100LX Manager and you can run it with­ could move it to the foundation, by black colored case and green Fn out exiting the built-in applica­ typing 1 f. key (as opposed to the greenish HP tions. The Path statement in the There is even a Cheat mode in 200LX case and its purple Fn key). AppManager setup screen should some of the games, not that any­ The ZOOM, PRT SCR, and Fn fea­ look like this (assuming the main body ever cheats in Solitaire. When tures were left in tact on the bottom PATIENCE program file is stored you are finished, the computer row. Missing, however, are the in C:\PATIENCE): scores how you did and records the Date, Time, Cut, Copy, and Paste results for future reference. functions. The Menu key is there, c:\patience\patience.exe 111176 As good as the games are, the but blank. The HP 100LX blue implementation on the Palmtop is application keys have been The II is an undocumented not perfect. First, the cards are replaced by white keys with the AppManager switch that makes small on the screen. If lighting is shifted values (!@#$/\&O.

20 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY / JUNE 1995 When booting on the the HP 1000CX, one gets the classic DOS /' '" C> prompt. Check out the sidebar /. E&B Company ~ . on the next page for a list of the • software built into the D drive of Computer Leather Cases 'P the HP 1000CX. Protect your palmtop As the sidebar shows, the with this zippered case, This practical and and carry it in your small case is 1000CX comes with Laplink suit pocket ideal for your Palmtop Dim.: 6.5" x 3.7S" x 1.375" Dim.: 6.88" x 4.15" x 1.S" (16.5 x 9.5 x 3.49cm) Remote, the basic DOS commands, (17.5 x 10.8 x 3.8cm) Black leather* Black leather* and a few other built-in goodies. Regular-54S.00 Regular.ssO.OO The HP 1000CX was created for $39.95 $44.95 vertical market developers with

DOS applications ideally suited for Protect your palmtop the Palmtop's size and price. with this small and Carry your Palmtop beautiful case with a pager Dim.: 6.5 " x 3.75" x 1.7S '" The HP 1000CX is sold in lots (16.5 x 9.5 x 4.4cm) or Connectivity Pack Notepad Included Dim.: 9.75 " x 4.5 " x 1.75" of fifty to OEM developers. Users Black leather'" (24.7 x 11.4 x 4.4cm) Regular - $60.00 Black leather* interested in single unit purchase Regular - SSS.oo can contact EduCALC (800-713- $49.95 ~.",,,,,,..... 6526 or 714-582-2637; Fax: 714-582- 1445) or Globalink (800-255-5660 or 703-273-5600; Fax: 703-273-3866). OEM developers can contact their HP Palmtop distributor or a local HP sales office. Only 1 your HP Omnibook, or your Palmtop and a megabyte are available, but per­ organizers portable printer, Dim.:S " x6" xr or a cellular phone, haps with a large enough order, (20.3 x 15.2 x S.lem) Notepad included or bidirectional modem HP would create 2 megabyte ver­ Black or burgundy leather* Dim.: 11.7S" x 7. 2S ~ x 2 . S ~ Regular - $69.95 (29.8 x 18.4 x 6.4km) sions. $64.95 ,.___ .. Regular in polyester - 549.95 ...... 1 Lealber - SI30.00 Slim and Elegant! The Advertising the ideal case for carrying ,------­ and protecting your HP Palmtop Palmtop, portable Many of us have become HP Protect your HP printer, and Omnibook with the connection cables, or Palmtop evangelists. We use the smallest case your , and available much more! Palmtop all the time, we keep dis­ Dimensions: 1l.Swx 7.0" x Dimensions: 13" x 11 " x 2.S" 1.75" (29.2 x 17.8 x 4.4km) (33 x 27.9 x 6.3Sc:m) covering ways to use it to make us AvaiJable in black lealher* AvaUable in black leatber* Regular - 574.95 Regular - 8170.00 more effective, and we don't $69.95 $160.00 understand why HP doesn't adver­ Futura tise the darned thing. When we Included Features 30 50 60 75 100 130 150 175 bubble to our friends, they are Specially designed for lIP 95, tOO, and 200LX skeptical. They see it (perhaps Specially designed for HP Omnibook (300 · Su only) rightly) as our toy, and they don't Firs Sharp. Casio BOSS, Apple Newlon. Psion. etc. filS Conrura Aero. Gateway 2000. etc. know why they've never heard of Fits on airplane table it. Pen/pencil hokfer Pockets for PCMeIA. business. or credit cards 10 There have been several HP ad Pocket for checkbook. bills. etc. campaigns, but not a lot of Notepad resources have been invested in Eltema.l pockets for tickets and more Internal file folder Palmtop advertising. The most Pull out mouse pad (see picrures) recent advertising appears in con­ Pouch for cables and shoulder strap sumer money-management maga­ Computer can be attached via Velcro (included) Snap in tray fortbc HP9S. 200. or lOOLX (optional) zines such as Money, Kiplinger eaBCompany

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22 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY / JUNE 1995 The copy of both ads are well­ as an inexpensive computer rather including brochures and ads. written and benefit oriented. than an expensive organizer. He can be reached C/O Foster However, I don't think there is The second asset that should be and Foster, 104 South 2nd St., enough of a graphical or verbal tie exploited in an advertising cam­ Fairfield, lA, USA; Phone: 515- between the main graphic and the paign is the unrestrained enthusi­ 472-3953; Fax: 515-472-3146.) body copy to invite people to read. asm for the Palmtop by many You can see our approach One has to be pretty sophisti­ users. Palmtop use is quite person­ on page 26. What do you think? cated to appreciate the value of the al, and that human element should As long as we are discussing HP Palmtop from an ad. To date, be emphasized in the ad. It is not advertising, we have always most Palmtops have been sold by the Palmtop per se that is sold but wondered why HP doesn't word-of-mouth (HP has not the relationship between the per­ advertise its excellent Palmtop aggressively advertised the prod­ son and the machine. That is its accessory line with us. HP sells uct or even had it well-distributed). strength. That should be the service contracts, storage cards, If I were to design the ad for emphasis. the Connectivity Pack, connec­ HP, I would put the emphasis on We at The HP Palmtop Paper tivity cables, and HP StarLink. its two most important assets. First decided to take a shot at "how The HP Palmtop Paper seems it truly is a "computer in your HP should advertise the like a perfect medium to com­ pocket". Secondly, users love it. I Palmtop". Freelance graphic m unica te the benefits of these think HP should invest its limited designer George Foster (who important Palmtop add-ons. ad resources in advertising to the I've worked with for years and group that has been most effective who designs our HP Palmtop so far in spreading the word: expe­ Paper covers) agreed to design Product Index: page 47 rienced computer users. Computer an ad according to my specifi­ Share/Freeware Index: page 48 (and perhaps business) publica­ cations. (George specializes in tions are the best platform for these book covers, but does the whole ads. The Palmtop can be marketed range of graphic design work

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ACEBFAX for HP 100!200L)( ...... $29 )(JACK 14.4K/14.4KFax/modem + ACEBFAX ...... $229 ModemSaver ...... $29 CableCard ...... $1 0 External 14.4K Pocket/Fox Modem + Direct cable ...... $269 External 2.4/9.6K Pocket/Fox Modem + Diect coble ...... $139 ACT! for HP Palmtops version 1.1.1 Best Selling Contact Management now available for the 95/100/200LX ./ High speed reliable transfers with ActWin/ DOS ./ Store up to 4,000 contacts and 400 activities ./ Doily and weekly calendars for quick reference to activities ./ Multi-scheduling capabilities: calls, meetings, and to-do's ./ Customized contact record fields to suit any business contact Custom Block Nylon case ...... $19 ./ Import and Export capabilities including the HP Phonebook Custom Block Leather case (shown} ...... $39 Deluxe Block Leather case (shown) ...... $49 I ACTI for HP Palmtops version 1.1.1 (C1255) ...... $89 • Executive Block Leather Portfolio ...... $59 CASE SPECIAL! SAVE 10% with any purchase of $50 or more BAn-man version 2.0 Battery Management Software for HP 100/200LX

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"It is awesome what can be done on the little " My powerful 486 Windows notebook gathers dust thing. I practically run my business on my HP on a shelf, but I never leave home without my HP 200 LX using several custom databases, Quicken, Palmtop! My Palmtop's always there for planning, Lotus 1-2-3, HP Calc, and, of course, Phone Book recording, recalling, reading, searching, finding, and Appointment Book. Amazing how many using and learning, all for a fraction of the cost of times a day it comes in useful." my notebook." MARIo IGREC ROGER H. HOWE, CPA PRESIDENT, INGREC LTD., BATON ROUGE, LA WORLAND, Wy

"IT'S MY ENCYCLOPEDIA." "IT'S ALWAYS WITH ME." " I am NEVER without my HP Palmtop. It helps me "It's there in my car, on hikes, at breakfast, at work. keep track of everything I need to live, including all Nobody notices, but it's ALWAYS there! I have never my appointments, todo list, important phone numbers, owned (nor seen) a tool that was so versatile and still as train schedules, my journal, quotes, area codes, CDs, ready at hand. All I have to do is feed it a couple ofAA check register, ad infinitum. It lets me jot down batteries every month or two." thoughts, tryout a new idea in a spreadsheet, or STEVE TRAINOR develop a new database anywhere." VP FINANCE, S.S.S.C., BIG BEAR LAKE, CA HEATHER HOLLICK STAFF ANALYST, MET LIFE SAN FRANCISCO, CA The HP 200 LX Palmtop PC It's easy to put a computer in your pocket! Just call 1-800-443-1254 ext. 611 FliOW HEWLETT® .:~ PACKARD for more information.

Software must be DOS-based, CGA screen-compatible. Pocket Quicken is a trademark of Inuit,lnc. Lotus and 1-2-3 are U.S. regisatered trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation, MS-DOS is a U.S. registered trademark of MicroSoft Corporation. © Copyright 1995 Thaddeus Computing, Inc. How Users Think HP Should Advertise

We asked members of the HP Handheld Forum on CompuServe how they thought HP could Break through "PDA" thinking improve their HP Palmtop advertising. Here are some of the responses we gathered. HP needs to produce a first-class advertising campaign geared to raising the consciousness of potential users who are currently stuck in the "PDA" mode of thinking created by Apple Newton Laptop in my shirt pocket advertising. Apple created a market for its product by advertising and not by the product itself For me, the formula is simple: The HP 200LX is an IBM compatible "laptop in my shirt pocket." (which seems to be diametrically opposed to HP's approach). Nothing else matters. Having a laptop in my pocket means I can compute literally anywhere, any HP needs to create "PL 1" (Palmtop as Laptop in your pocket) consciousness. If HP does not time. I can use WordPerfect 5.1 on my Palmtop, Lotus 1,2,3, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, create the "PL 1" market through adroit advertising, the current LX customers are not going to be or any of countless other DOS-based programs. The fact that the HP Palmtop is there when you particularly successful in propagating LX use. You and I know that the HP Palmtop is far more than need it makes it even more usable than a pricey laptop. a PDA-type Personal Information Manager. But people who haven't bought one don't know that. Edward A. Caine I've tried to tell many intelligent people just what the HP Palmtop really is. To date, I know of only CompuServe 10: (73051,3722) one person who has acquired one as a result - and I'm a persuasive sort of guy. Edwaid A. Caine Address mass market CompuServe 10' (73051,3722) I strongly feel that HP has been missing the mass market. They need to talk about specific prob­ lems and their solutions. HP needs Palmtop vision David Shier I don't know what HP's vision for the Palmtops is, but I think it has been underestimated and mis­ CompuServe 10: (7503o,3374) placed. Without a vision there can not be any commitment. The CompuServe HP HAND Forum could help HP form a vision. HP would find that there is a "goldmine" here in the HP HAND Forum, It's there when I need it not only from a marketing standpoint, but from a support standpoint as well. It doesn't take a 'rock­ Here's the marketing angle: I'm able to accomplish real work with it while sitting in the yard or down et scientist' to figure out that a Palmtop, this forum and The HP Palmtop Paper equal a VERY mar­ by the lake or when on trips. It fits in my pocket and I can use it conveniently. are just to ketable package. Where else could HP find all the "free advertising" that goes on in this forum? unwieldy for my tastes. Allen Tucker Fred Kaufman CompuServe 10:{7472O, 1470) CompuServe 10: (7256o,36) Palmtop "Swiss Army Knife" The key is "Personal Information Management" The Palmtop really is more like a Swiss Army knife than anything else. You can depend on it to Personal- because I always carry it with me and it is instantly accessible. help you out of a hairy situation. Information - I have lists of: all the books I have read since 1985, my CD library, bank account Richard R Liu numbers, schedules for the local public transportation system, area codes in the US, videos I have CompuServe IOP00103, 1771) rented in the last year, books and videos that have been recommended to me. Management - I can add books, reschedule appointments, look up an area code, all with the Don't waste money advertising stroke of a few keys, and always in the same place, the HP Palmtop. I don't know if LXs really appeal to the "masses". Current users are a pretty techno-orientated Brian Hollick bunch, who like fiddling with oits, bobs, and bytes. We measure battery life, write programs, want CompuServe 10: (71023,464) to know what the latest driver from ACE actually does, and log on to CIS to discuss it all! Many people think of computers as things with Windows and mice. They don't want DOS, per­ Convince them they don't need haps wouldn't even know what to do at C:I>. I think the market for the HP Palmtop is small and a full-sized keyboard and big screen those who want this sort of thing go out and find out about it. Why waste money advertiSing? The marketing "problem" for HP is that business travellers believe they need the full size keyboard Jeremy Pryda/ and big screen of a laptop. You only NEED a laptop if you need VGA graphics. Otherwise, the CompuServe 10:{100325, 1315) size/weight advantage of the palmtop makes it the overwhelming favorite. Lee Buck Oh where, oh where can I find one? CompuServe 10: {7643O, 1067j I very much like the concept of tne Palmtop but would prefer to at least place my hands on one before deciding that it is suitable for my needs. No place in town (Huntsville, AL, U.S.A., population Focus on mass market 160,000) that stocks the Palmtop except for Service Merchandise, which had one 1MB 200LX I am not a pocket protector type. I'm tired of lugging a notebook around and a huge printout of my behind a glass panel and no, I couldn't play with it! phone book and calendar. Focus on me. GarySpiers Sue Buchheil CompuServe 10:{74603,3001) CompuServe 10: (76535, 1134) Market to professionals_ The HP Palmtoli is "HP's Laptop in Your Pocket!" HP should concentrate on these people. For example, my use of the HP in the hospital has gener­ How about a picture of a hassled flight attendant desperately trying to serve dinner to a harassed ated much interest amongst many of the attending physicians, most of whom would be willing to businessman crammed into the window seat and trying madly to pack away a 7 Ib ThinkPad, while plunk down a few 100 dollars on this device if spoon fed the information. If HP gave out a few HPs seated next to him is a happy 100/200LX user eating dinner, with his LX in his shirt pocket: "HP's to key people in these settings (same goes for business and financial markets) and provided some Laptop in Your Pocket Solved That Problem. "Or how about a series of pictures featuring business support (Le., an HP representative who visited once a week for a few months) they would have men and women in real life contexts looking up from their LX's happily but quizzically with the fol­ more orders for HPs then they would know what to do with. lowing questions and answers: Sieve Zweibel CompuServe 10: (71543, 1345) 'WordPerfect? Sure ... HP's Laptop in Your Pocket!" "CompuServe? Sure ... HP's Laptop in Your Pocket!" Current users best advertisement. "Internet? Sure ... HP's Laptop in Your Pocket!" The best advertisement for the HP Palmtop is done by those who currently have one. Why doesn't "Lotus 1,2,3? Sure ... HP's Laptop in Your Pocket!" HP use a method which proved to be successful for CompuServe. Reward current users for recom­ "Quicken? Sure ... HP's Laptop in Your Pocket!" mending the product to friends. ''Toy? Not on Your Life ... HP's Laptop in Your Pocket!" Yves Leurquin CompuServe IOP00276,3573) The possibilities are endless! I think we should have a contest to provide HP with some advertising ideas. Palmtop needs better literature Edward A. Caine I think it is unreasonable to expect the retail sales force to suddenly get better trained, but HP could CompuServe 10: (73051,3722) provide much better deSCriptive literature at each store display. They could offer a 30-day money­ back guarantee like Dell does. (How many people could part with a Palmtop after using one for 30 Make it available and tell people about it days!) They could provide videos on the operation and features of the machine to folks who call an Here in Germany there is no advertising, no availability in local stores, and almost no one here 800 number. They need to push the "XT in Your Pocket" angle in addition to the built-in applica­ knows about the Palmtops. Of course Sharp, Psion, and others are everywhere and are aggres­ tions. It would also help if their own telephone sales staff were more knowledgeable about sively marketed. The HP can be 'special ordered' from a few stores. See the difference? machines. Thomas Rundel Viclor 0 Roberts CompuServe 10' {100023,2477j CompuServe 10' (70413, 1423)

DOS Compatibility and Standard PCMCIA slot Palmtop street vendor? I finally decided on the HP Palmtop over the Psion for two reasons: DOS compatibility and a stan­ Sometimes I wonder if I should buy a bunch of the 200LX's and set up a cart in the middle of a dard PCMCIA slot. I did not want to get stuck going down a narrow, windy, one-way, expensive busy mall. I would have a flashy setup with units for the people to play with and demonstrations of proprietary street. No other computer offers as many features (ROM programs, PIM applications, the built in and additional programs. And with the knowledgeable sales person (I know that is an database, DOS compatibility, long battery life, quality keyboard, etc.) in such a small package. oxymoron) being me, I bet I could sell a bunch of these marvels. Sian Dobrowski Sian Dobrowski CompuServe 10:{71031,2162) CompuServe 10' {71031,2162j.

MAY / JUNE 1995 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 27 PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter Card

Slip this PC Card in your HP 100/200LX Palmtop PC and carry your LAN terminal in your pocket, wherever you go.

By Tom Gibson Silicom PCMCIA Ethernet SPE files and run any of the network Card is an ethernet adapter card DOS software (provided the soft­ Local Area Networks (LANs) link a that comes with specially developed ware will run on an XT class group of computers together, allow­ Support Driver software, allowing machine CGA, 8086 CPU, 640k of ing their users to communicate and the card to work with the HP system RAM). With these cards you share important information. There 100/200LX. The card lets you con­ connect to your LAN and have are different "protocols" or systems nect the HP Palmtop to all major access to E-Mail and other network and rules defined for this purpose. Network Operating Systems, includ­ resources when other terminals are Ethernet is one of the most common. ing Novell DOS 7, Netware Lite not available. It is also very handy LAN capability is becoming Workstation/Server, Windows for for trouble shooting the network increasingly important, but till Workgroups 3.10 (NDIS), Windows when you have a terminal that is not recently, Palmtop users have had for Workgroups 3.11 (NDIS), LAN working and need an emergency problems interfacing with Local Manager 2.0, LAN Manager 2.1, portable terminal. I tested the Area Networks. About the only Banyan Vines 4.X (NDIS), Lantastic EtherNet SPE Card on our Novell practical solution was to connect an 5.0 with NDIS support, Lantastic 6.0 Netware 3.11 system. The LAN por­ HP Palmtop via serial cable to a (NDIS), FTP PC/TPC (Packet), and tion of the EtherFlash card is identi­ desktop PC that was itself connect­ FTP PC/TCP NDIS. cal and should also work on the HP ed to the LAN. This approach was The other card mentioned in the 100/200LX Palmtop Pc. cumbersome and slow. January /February 95 issue was the A more direct connection to the Silicom PCMCIA EtherFlash Card, Connecting the LAN was the solution to the prob­ a PCMCIA combo card that comes HP Palmtop to a LAN lem and the card slot was the obvi­ with the same LAN connectivity fea­ Both the Silicom EtherFlash PCM­ ous choice. Data transfer between tures as the SPE card, and 1MB or CIA and Ethernet PCMCIA cards the Palmtop and a card in the slot is 2MB of Flash memory built in. [Note: corne with cables to connect to much faster than serial or infrared Silicom is still modifying the system 10BASE-T (twisted pair) and port data transfer. Unfortunately, driver software to allow the lOO/200LX 10BASE-2 (thin coaxial) systems. earlier versions of PCMCIA ethernet to access the Flash memory on the card. Silicom tech support tells us that the adapter cards were designed for At present, only the LAN capabilities of coaxial conection draws too much full-sized desktop computers and the EtherFlash Card can be used.] power from the Palmtop and does ' notebook computers. They did not Either of these cards will allow not work reliably. The Ethernet work with the HP Palmtops because you to connect your HP Palmtop cards also corne with a 3.5" diskette of battery requirements . directly to your LAN to exchange containing the necessary PCMCIA

Silicom Ethernet ABOUT THE AUTHOR: adapter cards Tom Gibson is the Director of Information Systems and Silicom is the first company to Manager of Fullfillment at Thaddeus Computing in Fairfield, develop PCMCIA ethernet adapters lA. (In other words, he makes sure you get your copy of The compatible with the HP 100/ 200LX. HP Palmtop Paper.) Tom lives with his wife Julie and his 2 We first mentioned two of these sons Raymond and Ryan. He has a BS Degree in Accounting PCMCIA cards on page 10 of the from Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh, PA and is an avid golfer playing to an 8 handicap when his career permits. January /February 1995 issue. The

28 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 1995 software drivers (SEFHP.EXE for was able to log onto SYSCOM, the was go to the location I wanted to the EtherFlash card and SPEHP systems administrator utility that is test, connect the cable from the .EXE for the Ethernet card), a quick used to manage the network. wall socket to the adapter in my installation guide, and the users 100LX, reboot so my Palmtop manual. Once you have installed would recognize the adapter, and the necessary software and config­ run the "STARTNET.BAT" batch ured your Palmtop for the Ethernet file. card, as described in the sidebar on If I got a ''CONNECTED TO the following page, you're ready to connect up to your LAN. SERVER THADDEUS" message and then the F:\LOGIN> prompt, I The installation process creates a Systems Administrator screen displayed on batch file named STARTNET.BAT the HP 100lX knew that the connection was that automatically loads the appro­ valid. priate software, accesses the LAN's I was able to run other applications

"".... " ...... n ... Suou .. file server, and presents you with from the Palmtop as long as they ~!!!~i;h!·~~;ft~~:~~I:. ~::~.[i." . "';.!, ~~:~:,.~ ....." •• the log-in prompt. When I want to would run in the limited amount of g~~~I;~~;~f~1~~:~~~~~~~:~:~;~:'2 L ""'.~ ...... "" .,. ... D.. ~ Z . 1Z <.3 ... 1') connect to our Local Area .c.c.P!OO" ...... -.,.U ...... ,01' 11 ...... _ ...... base memory available on the " "n." •••• 0 .1 ......

II U .."" ...... - .. T .... DDCUII WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, Magel­ ~ ' '' . '' '~ 1. Remove the Flash memory card lan, and even our accounts reciev­ from my Palmtop's card slot and able package. insert the Ethernet adapter into the Network F:\lOGIN> prompt displayed at bottom of HP 100lX screen Palmtop's card slot. If there was a computer at that 2. Reboot my HP Palmtop by location that was having problems pressing ICtrll-I ALTI-I DELI. This caus­ connecting to the network, the es my Palmtop to restart and con­ chances were that the problem was figure itself according to the com­ with the LAN card in the comput­ mands in the AUTOEXEC.BAT and er. This was very nice for me, CONFIG.SYS files on my HP 1OOlX connected to our lAN runs the because the LAN cards in the desk­ Palmtop's C drive. DOS version of Magellan tops sometimes go £lakey, especial­ ly when the computers are being 3. Connect the card to the LAN TESTING NETWORK NODES using the cable that comes with the moved all over the place. It was We recently enlarged our location, system. much easier using my Palmtop for moving some of our offices this than lugging around a desktop 4. Go to the DOS C: \ prompt on upstairs in the building next door, PC to try to attach to the network. my Palmtop, type starnet and and rearranging office locations in press I ENTER I. our previous building. This can be BACKING UP MY PALMTOP a real nightmare for a network I've also used the Ethernet adapter From the log-in prompt I enter my supervisor! There are many things card in my Palmtop to backup name, my System password, and that have to be thought out includ­ Palmtop files to the network serv­ I'm up and running on the System ing the running of new cables to er. I can move, copy, rename etc. ready to exchange files and run the new offices and to the new files from my Palmtop to the file network DOS software, provided locations within the old offices. server and vice versa. I was limited that software is compatible with We contracted with a company in the amount of data I could send the HP Palmtop. to run the new lines for us, but they to my Palmtop because was I using were not network specialists, so I a 1MB 100LX. This is one area Uses for an HP Palmtop where the extra space available on as a LAN node was responsible for making sure that the connections were valid and the C drive of a 2MB has a big advantage. RUNNING DOS APPLICATIONS operable. I found this to be very easy using Silicom's PCMCIA It seems a little strange at first to Product Index: page 47 see the network files and programs Ethernet adapter. All I had to do on this tiny screen, but it works. I MAY / JUNE 1995 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 29 User Profile: A Week in the Life of a CPA

This CPA on the go uses the HP 200LX to balance his books -as well as his life!

By Ray Kump Week -The week the project must Client - The name of the client. be completed (e.g. 1= this week; 2= I am a Certified Public Accountant next week; 3= in three weeks, etc.; 9 Priority - 1 is highest priority, 5 in my own practice and have used = I'm not sure, sort this project to the lowest. computers to help me do my work end of the list. since I graduated from college and Task - The task to be completed earned my certificate. Missing Info - The box I check if I (e.g., 1/ 1120 FYE 9-941/ means IRS I first became interested in the need more information to complete form number 1120 Fiscal Year End HP Palmtop when I saw a review of the HP 95LX in PC World. I thought this project. September, 1994.) having Lotus 1-2-3 and Solver on the same machine would be the absolute Staff - Initials of the member of my Type - The type of task it is. tool for me. With the improvements staff that this project is assigned to. of the 100LX and a flashcard for Time Est - The amount of time (in mass storage - the computer revo­ CI # - I assign client numbers to hours) that I think the project will lution that took over our desks was each client. take. now in the palm of my hand.

Preparing for the week Database: PROJ. GDB Data IteM 95/16/95 11:97 aM on Sunday Evening D Done t:!eek [[] D tlissing Info .st.aff Irjk 1 My typical week actually starts on C1 It ~ Client. !Johnson Novelties Priorit.y I[] Sunday evening when I review the Iask 111205 FYE 12-94 upcoming week. I start by reviewing T~e IRet.urn H my Project database (PROJ.GDBIO), J!ue Dat.e 13/15/1995 Done Dat.e 1 one that I created using the 200LX's at. 5DC built-in Database application. It con­ NDlO [ChOCk wilh GODrgO tains all open tax returns and pro­ jects - e.g., financial statements, estate work and planning, financial planning and pension work - that I am working on, except for individual returns I'm working on during tax Data Item screen for Project Database season. (I keep them in a separate database file.) The Data Item screen for m y ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Project database is shown on this Raymo1ld J. Kump, c.P.A. graduated from Hofstra University with page. The data fields in this database a BBA in public accounting, and joined the firm of Coopers & are as follows: Lybrand at their New York City office. In 1983 he started his own practice, Kump Associates c.P.A., P.c., 111 Smithtown Bypass, Done - The box checked when the Suite 207, Hauppauge, NY. 11788. He and his wife Marianna and project is completed. their two S01lS are all Palmtop users. You can reach him at 516-360- 3215 or on CompuServe at [71773,1274].

30 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY I JUNE 1995 Due Date - Date by which a project I review the Project database date of the ToDo. For example, I plan must be completed. subset which shows my work only. It on doing the Johnson Novelties cor­ shows projects with "rjk" in the Staff porate tax return 11205 for FYE Done Date - Actual completion box and sorts the projects by week (Fiscal Year End) 12-94, on Monday, date. order, and then by priority. I can see so I move the cursor to that entry if the work load for the next month is and press ~-Q] . After BUDDY Notes - Mise. notes on the project. realistic. If not I will change m y places "Johnson Novelties 11205 FYE plans, delegate more work, plan on 12-94" in the Description field in the I use the Note field of my Project working overtime, or some combina­ To Do list, it moves to the Date field database to document phone calls tion of the three. and calls up the calendar. I move the cursor to Monday and hit enter. I regarding projects, dates I requested When I'm ready to schedule a enter ToDos for this week only. certain information I need, if data is day for any particular To Do, I use ToDos for the following week are missing, or other items of interest for the "Link" feature added to the HP entered next Sunday evening. planning purposes. It is not a field I 200LX by Buddy 2.0 ij. This Buddy As I plan my week I keep in use often as most of the projects are feature lets me specify a "clip" that mind the time I have allocated for self explanatory, such as tax returns, will copy pre-specified data fields to the clipboard. I highlight the desired field visits, office time, correspon­ ledger work, financial statements, dence, and telephone calls. I repeat estate work, etc. item in my Project database and the ~-I!I procedure for each project I also keep a NoteTaker file of press ~-Q]. BUDDY copies the information to the clipboard, opens due this week. If there is room in the client notes, phone calls, and related Appointment Book, switches to the current week I will include some of matters so that I have a record of To Do screen, enters the clipped the projects that are coded for week important items. This way the infor­ 1/21/ . information as a ToDo, moves the mation is always available even after By sitting down once a week and cursor to the Date field, and calls up the project is done. Actual material reviewing my projects, I find I keep the calendar so that I can enter the to be placed in the client's file for on track. The HP 200LX is always permanent records is usually on paper - I use this NoteTaker file as my memory jogger. A CPA firm is run by tax dead­ lines, and the Week field is an attempt to anticipate work deadlines Hp·200LX Palmtop PC and avoid urgent last minute crunch­ => NEW with 200LX! Intuit Palmtop QuickenTM Carry With you your bank/check, credit card and cash account es. Sometimes it works and some­ batances. 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MAY /JUNE 1995 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 31 HOW TO USE: Life of a CPA there so I constantly add to the ToDo what the client really wants. press 1!22) and instantly have the list and the Project database. I am The New Business database has information displayed as a graph. also able to rearrange my schedule the following data fields: and still not loose track of work in process. Once I focus on the week's Next Date field - The date to take goals I can begin to deal with its the next action on this entry. The inevitable changes. database sorts on this field.

A Week Action Type - This is a category in the Life of a CPA field. It tells me what type of activity is required on our next contact. Here Mortgage Interest Payment Comparison are the category types I use. FU - shown as a graph MONDAY AM: Out the Starting Gate Follow-up; KIT - Keep in touch; This makes it easier to see that the I wake up in the morning and make MW - Meeting with; TC - total amount of money spent on a 30- the coffee. (This has not yet been Telephone call; RTC - Return tele­ year loan is more than twice that automated by the 200LX. Hopefully a phone call; TCFP - Telephone call spent on a IS-year loan. The graph future model will correct this over­ financial planning; Corr makes the point more effectively sight.) Correspondence than just numbers and is a very effec­ I spend most of my time outside tive way to present financial infor­ the office visiting with business The New Business Database also mation. clients so it helps to know where I'm includes data fields for name, going. The first thing I do is review address, phone number, description G_ my appointments and ToDo's for the of the individual's business, etc. I day. I also review my New Business tNCRM TOTAL". document each contact I have with tNT PMTS PM! INT 15 VS JB Database (NEW-BUSN.GDBiJ)­ 15 146 an individual in the Note field - 39 324 another one I created using the dating and timing each entry by Palmtop's built-in Database - and ------pressing ~-I] (Date) and ~-O see if any items require attention (Time). Mortgage Interest Comparison screen show- today. After I have previewed the day's ing comparisons by year appointments and ToDos, I read my I only have to enter the amount of

f~::i;r~:;:' ~ ACli:~-r'=' b 0Cl ? jj'~:~:~l:: E-mail and CompuServe Forum the loan in cell B7, and the interest Neue\, Aclion 1 5~l UP IniLlal ""soling I Tohphone 1516 tal-45GB I Tel" 2 i I activity. I use a Zoom 14.4 Pocket rate in cell C7. All other lines are cal­ FirsL NMe ibAvld I Last. Haft" !bark I modem and acCIS, navigation soft­ culated based upon this first line Businoss I I j,. Addrllu 1 1545 Trov Llno ROAd I ware for CompuServe. One of the entry. The columns in the spread­ Addrvu 2 i I cit.y !wlliow I ShLo ~Zip~ most important features of acCIS is sheet represent the following: Years ==.;J:=rIlDmllJUIEII~U:~-«mm...l j that it lets me download and review = the length of the loan term; Loan = New Business Database messages and Forum activity off-line, the principle amount of the mort­ Data Item screen saving me needless connect charges. gage; Int = the interest rate of the loan; Pmts = the monthly payment I use this New Business database to SAVING A CLIENT MONEY amount for the mortgage portion keep track of new clients or addition­ ON A IS-YEAR MORTGAGE only (excludes payment amounts for al services needed for existing clients While doing the normal routine real estate taxes and insurance); - financial planning, retirement accounting work, a client asks me Incrm Pmt = the difference of the planning, setting up pension plans, about the difference in payments on total payment amount compared to a etc. If a client expresses casual inter­ different mortgages. The client 30 year mortgage; Total Int = the est in a pension plan, or I feel it intends to stay in this house indefi­ total interest paid over the life of the would be good to talk to the client nitely, so I ask if he has considered a mortgage (field shown in graph). about a pension plan based on what 15 year mortgage. He hasn't given it Now the client wants to know I've seen on his or her tax return, I much thought because of the higher enter it in the New Business data­ how the different mortgage pay­ monthly payment it would require. I ments would impact his personal tax base. This way I don't forget new switch to Lotus on my Palmtop, load business opportunities and I can fol­ return. I call up my Individual Tax my Mortgage Interest Comparison Planner spreadsheet. We review the low up at a more appropriate time. It spreadsheet (MRTG-INT.WKIiJ) projections and I have an answer for may be literally years before a client and compare the difference in actual him. Providing answers when my decides on hiring me or putting in a interest dollars paid over the life of a pension plan. This way I have a 15 year and a 30 year mortgage. I client asks them is the real power of record of what was discussed and the Palmtop computer.

32 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY / JUNE 1995 After I finish my work with this quarterly from the print out in the and strategies, and not the number client I record the time spent and a client file. crunching. description of the work done, on This client asks me about the tax We review some options and I TimeSlips, the program I use for time implications of sharing some of a show him the tax he would owe if and billing. I installed TimeSlips large inheritance he received with his we implemented the changes. Based (Ver.3.4) by copying the main files children. After reviewing the size of upon this, the client asks that I pre­ from a desktop to my Palmtop. his new estate I realize we need to do pare a plan to lower his estate taxes. I TimeSlips has a smaller remote pack­ some estate planning. I call up my switch to the Project database and age that can interface with a desktop Estate Tax Planner spreadsheet and enter this as a project, do a quick version. I plan on getting the remote review the estate tax he would owe check of the current and next 2 week packages for my Palmtop and my now. This template lists the various items, and give him a target date. My staff to facilitate the billing process. categories of assets and liabilities in a client asks if he were to raise his way similar to the actual IRS estate salary, how much would be eaten up UNRAVEUNG THE MYSTERIES tax Form 706. The template calcu­ by taxes. I have a program, JTAX­ OF ESTATE PLANNING lates both the federal and state estate PLUS (1995 version), which calcu­ The next client I visit has a very tax due. It is relatively straight for­ lates gross to net payroll, so I call it involved sales and cash receipt jour­ ward and contains four columns to up for another quick answer. nal. I use a Lotus spreadsheet to do comparisons amongst the various After I finish my work I record automate the calculations between planning options. my time, and head back to the office. the various entry categories, summa­ The bulk of my work is in deter­ I return the days calls and update my rize the journal entries, and prepare mining what his taxable estate is. Appointment Book and ToDo list. a worksheet for the sales tax return. I Once the taxable estate is deter­ Before I call it quits for the day, I print the template to my portable mined, the template eliminates all review the ToDo list for today and printer and file it in the Sales Tax file. the tedious calculations and allows tomorrow, the next day's appoint- The sales tax return gets prepared me to focus on the tax implications :Plllmtop Project Plllnner! 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MAY /JUNE 1995 THE HPPALMTOP PAPER 33 HOW TO USE: Life ofa CPA ments, and fine tune the schedule. through a serial/parallel converter children, different strategies to lower As I am packing up to go home, I and an automatic switch box, and their taxes, or ways to reduce their backup the information from my put it into a new client folder. I add a estate taxes. I enter these in the New Palmtop to the desktop using a reminder to my ToDo list for the fol­ Business database for follow up after DC95/DCS95 program found on the lowing Tuesday to make sure we tax season. Next I need to review tax exempt HP 95LX Connectivity Pack software have received the supporting paper­ work from the lawyer. status regulations for an upcoming and the Kcopy utility described on The rest of today is spent mostly appointment. I call the information page 20 of the Sept/ Oct 1993 issue of doing personal returns. A s I am up on my CCH (Commerce Clearing The HP Palmtop Paper. Then I preparing, reviewing ,and releasing House) tax law CD-ROM. I realize I download the day's Forum activity tax returns for printing, I am updat­ will not be able to digest all this from CompuServe to my Palmtop for ing my Q&A Individual Return data­ now, so I download the appropriate review at home. base. I update any of the following code, regulations, and analysis to my fields as necessary: 200LX for later review. While view­ TUESDAY: A Gift Tax • Interview date ing the file I will make notes in a Estimate Over the Phone • Sent to keypunch date NoteTaker file about particular The following day is spent in the • Keypunched date points to bring up with the client. I office. I receive a phone call from a • Reviewed date use the BUDDY bookmark feature to lawyer who needs gift tax returns • Printed date keep track of where I am in the file as prepared for a new client, where • Given to client date I cut and paste information to the substantial prior year gifts have been • Disk # of client data NoteTaker file for future reference. made. If the taxpayer has made gifts in prior years there are special calcu­ While preparing returns, I note any WEDNESDAY: Sorting Out lations to determine the amount of address changes and update the a Real Estate "Opportunity." database on the spot quickly and gift tax to be paid currently. The Today is spent in the field with a lawyer wants to know, based upon effortlessly on the HP 200LX. This is client. As I'm doing routine work, he preliminary numbers, what kind of the same database from which I asks about an investment opportuni­ actual out-of-pocket dollars his client download the Individual Phone­ ty in real estate. Someone offered can expect to pay. Based upon his Book data. him a building and he is wondering rough estimates I call up my Lotus I check my Open Return list to if the price is right. As we review the Gift Tax template and give him an make sure I don't miss any returns offer and the projected expenses, I answer. He asks me to prepare the tha t are ready for review. I have prepare a quick on the spot Lotus appropriate returns and says he will macros set up to quickly bring up a template summarizing the projec­ fax me the information I need to list of: all clients interviewed and not tions, and using various vacancy complete them. I add this new client sent to keypunch; keypunched rates. I use HPCalc's TVM function to my Client database on my desktop returns not reviewed; and reviewed to calculate the monthly mortgage, Pc. I use Symantec's Q&A program returns not printed. and use some Solver equations I wrote for real estate values in rela­ (Ver. 3.3) on my desktop PC to keep I can print the Q&A Open tion to rent receipts and net cash a database of all my clients. Q&A is a Returns database reports to show: flow. (I wrote the Solver equations to flat file manager like the Palmtop'S • Clients interviewed and not use some ideas I found in the book Database -- adding fields to it and prepared for keypunch Ratios in Investment Real Estate, by printing reports from it is very easy. • Prepared for keypunch and not keypunched Edric Cane, PhD.) (See CPA.ZIPIii.) I have Q&A on my Palmtop as Using the TVM function and a well, but PhoneBook is the fastest • Keypunched and not reviewed • Reviewed and not printed very conservative growth rate net of way for me to retrieve the data. inflation (e.g. a growth rate of 5% • Printed and not returned to About once a week I transfer the con­ with an inflation rate of 3%, yields a client tents from the desktop to my growth rate net of inflation of 2%) • Reports missing information Palmtop Phone Book (via an ASCII we calculate what the projected file and GDBIO Iii). value of the building and the rent While reviewing the returns, I take I add the lawyer's project to my receipts would be in 15 years. Based Project database and print the gift tax note of any clients that may need on this data the client is able to deter­ projection to my laser printer help with college planning for their mine what he feels is a fair counter

34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 1995 spent mostly in the office working on GIVE YOUR PALMTOP BAR CODE individual and corporate returns. CAPABILITIES FOR: However, I have an appointment on Friday with someone starting a new • INVENTORY business. As we review the various questions he has about starting a • DOCUMENT TRACKING business, I ask him how much he needs to sell in order to break even - in other words, what it takes for his sales to cover his expenses. Infrared Serial Adapter He has a vague idea, but can't be For Your 200LX specific. I explain to him that a good • Supports lIP Connectivity Pack for 200LX business plan is an involved and • "Point·and·shoot" data transfer very important process, but we can • Fas~ reliable and easy to use do a quick analysis right there, to get a rough idea of what it will take .. I _ Extended enter his variable expenses and hIS Systems® fixed and overhead cost information 5777 North Meeker Ave. Boise, ID 83713 into another Lotus template I wrote Tel: 800·2J)·7,7bor 208·)22·7)7) Fax 4O~'87·9170 (BREAKEVE.WKllij). The outcome Our systems are "turn key," complete with all the spends on clients, and has found t~e hardware and software necessary to print bar code labels, shows that the price he is consider­ PIM functions to be invaluable In scan bar codes and transfer data into PCs or MACs. ing is too low for the amount that he keeping track of the work that needs will be able to produce and sell. He to be done. She also uses the same CORVALLIS is grateful to have this information SYSTEMS spreadsheets and Solver equation before he started the work. Based SALES that I do, for client analysis. At the upon this information, he revises his 919 N E 2nd Street, Corvallis, Oregon 97330 beginning of the week I copy the Telephone: 503.752.4419; 1.800.733.5017; sales price and his marketing plan to projects she is responsible .for, fr~m Fax: 503.752.7037 insure the sale of more units. Of my Project database to a fIle WhI~h course, implementing the marketing we transfer to her HP Palmtop VIa offer to make, and which is ul­ plan is always easier said than done, the infrared port. We also exchange timately accepted. The important but at least he knows what he has to our personal phone books and thing here is that the client makes the do. decision. They rely on us as accoun­ appointment books to keep each tants to provide them with the analy­ other up to date. sis to be able to make an informed The power of the HP 200LX for decision. me is that it lets me run projections The client now asks me about a on the spot efficiently. By developing new machine he purchased and and storing templates, Solver equa­ financed with a loan. I call up an tions, and databases on the HP 200LX, I am building my knowledge amortization program on my Business Break Even template Palmtop, Easy Amortization, and Fixed Cost screen base and my tools daily. And I have enter the details. His loan payment is the ability to stay on top of projects, deadlines, and promises. The HP not fixed, but varies over the life of At home after dinner I read the mail Palmtop is a great tool. It lets me the loan, something Easy from CompuServe's HP Handhelds manage my business like never Amortization takes into account. I and Toshiba Forums while watching before. print the schedule and am able to fin­ TV. I will tryout what I've learned This article was written on my ish my work at the client's location, and downloaded from the Forums, Palmtop. If I had had to sit at a desk rather than having to continue back and experiment with some of the in the office using the desktop. and write this article, it would never programs. . have happened. Remember the desktop? My wife, Marianna works WIth me at the office and used to wonder THURSDAY, FRIDAY, & SATURDAY: why the HP 200LX was always at my Product Index: page 47 Ending Up the Week side. Now that she has one. She uses Share/Freeware Index: page 48 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are her machine to record the time she

MAY / JUNE 1995 THE HP P ALMTOP PAPER 35 Blaze Through HOllie Study Course With NoteTaker

This basic introduction to NoteTaker shows how one person used his Palmtop to finish his course work in half the normal time.

By Rich Hall LCC Liturgy. Question 7 discussed I'd pull out the Palmtop and press the differences between liturgical Memo. I usually kept YEARl.DOC By day I am the managing editor of expression and private devotion. open in Memo, the cursor resting on The HP Palmtop Paper. On evenings For the first year, I opened a the question I was working on. I'd and Sundays I am a priest in the Memo document (YEAR1.DOC) and review where I was, and start Liberal Catholic Church (LCC). In entered all the questions sequential­ answering the question (or read fact, I was ordained a priest May 14, ly, organized by units, titles and from the reference material as need­ 1995, as Technical Editor Robert question numbers. At the beginning ed). Roney and Associate Editor Paul of each unit I would put references I tended to look at the questions Merrill were feverishly sweating for the required and optional read­ first, and then read the reference away, putting the finishing touches ings (course pamphlets, books, and material with the question in mind, on this issue. other reference material). The screen taking notes on the Palmtop in In preparation for the priesthood, I for the beginning of a unit looked Memo. I would eventually get to a recently completed a four-year something like the one shown here: point where I felt I could answer the home study correspondence course question completely, or partially. I on religion and the LCC. I was able would then answer the question,

I)gar Onl!, Unit 4 : •• lilur!N to complete the course in about one­ 049.91:11 -. t\Qaninll' and Purp051i1 cutting and pasting material from 112. Discus!! definition, and l'IlItlnings of lhll following as and-a-half years using my HP CDl'lparlld Lo lilurg\j: the notes. When I was finished with C7. In whal Wtlilll is thll lilurgical IIKPrllssion diffennL frol'! thll privalll' IWvolion? 100LX Palmtop Pc. I kept the course Parlial Answllr: Liturgical IIKprllssion is collllclivl! IlIcprlission . the question, I would delete any left­ For Lhll grouP Lo focus collllcliul!, cohllrqnl spiritual IInllrV\I em an\l proJlld. , Lhll proJllct !'Iusl bll organized &rid Sill in for" so QYllrllOnll knows what Lo do . XII conlinu" hllrll 1(11 questions with me in Memo and Krll:aEBJIwmm~Il!riIlIl':ImDI!lIm:lmm::!lDII!llBIH1'l]I . over notes and go on to the next NoteTaker and leveraged free time question. to blaze through the course. Here's Year one questions displayed in Memo If the home study document was how I did it. not open in Memo, I used an Fn-key I kept a pamphlet, book, or other System Macro that would open Keeping questions with reference material with me. When I Memo, load the home study docu­ me all the time, in Memo had some spare time during the day, ment, and do an F4 (Find) on "xx" to The course was divided into four years with six or seven units per ABOUT THE AUTHOR: year each covering a different topic Rich has been Managing Editor of The HP Palmtop Paper since area. Each unit had an average of its first issue in 1991. He has an undergraduate interdiscipli­ nary degree in Mathematics and Literature, and a Master's five questions (some units had as degree in Education. He and his wife Lucinda have two children, few as one question, or as many as Robert, age 9, and Ella, age 6. Rich and Lucinda are active mem­ 37). For example, unit 4 of year 1 bers of their church and community theater in Fairfield, Iowa, discussed the development of the their home since 1979.

36 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY /JUNE 1995 take me to where I left off. I leave the "xx" characters in the docu­ ment next to the question I'm +00 Readings Year 3 ••••••••• 30 QUESTIONS IN YEAR 3 +3/04/041.001 ********* Unit: 4 -- Early Liturgy Paper working on so I can use the Find +3/04/Q 1 *ANS* 1 . In the liturgical refor~s of feature to quickly go to the ques­ +3/04/Q 1 COMPLETED 1. In the liturgical refor~s of +3/04/Q 2B PARTIAL, COMPARE TO LCC MASS tion. I'll also leave "xx" in the mid­ +3/04/Q 3 PARTIAL PARTIAL 3, BACK TO PAMPHLET +3/08/080.001-1 ********* Unit: 8 -- Practice Paper: 08 dle of partially answered ques­ +3/08/CH1 COMPLETED CH I: 1. Why do we need ser~ons tions, with notes reminding me +3/08/CH2 COMPLETED CH II: 6. Discuss the i~portanc +3/08/CH3 CH 3:9/10. What is in particula what I have to do to complete the +3/08/CH3&4 CH 3&4: 12. Is it possible to t question. For example, I had the +3/08/CH3&5 COMPLETED CH 3&5: 13. Discuss structure a following note embedded in an un­ ~·mL·!!Ialltl'JII~JmiII.1t!m'E1!IIII!!II!:CIm! ~_ finished question: "xx read pam­ ToDo Database, All Items list view, no Datacard displayed phlet 140.001 for information on St. Thomas Aquinas xx". When I year, unit, and question number shown at the top of this page. had completed an entire year I'd (i.e. 3/04/1 for year three, unit 4, When I wanted to work on a do an "xx" search to find any holes question 1; 3/14/111 1 for year three, question, I would highlight it in the I'd left in the document. unit 14, III 1 of subsection III ques­ All Notes screen and press I!I) to tion 1). display the Full Screen Note. NoteTaker refines In the Category field I entered the The Note field contained the que­ the process status of the question. I entered stion, the reading reference, notes As handy as this method was, the COMPLETED if the question was and ideas on the answer, and final­ year one and two documents done; I left it empty if I hadn't ly the answer. You can store up to became very large. Moving around worked on it yet; PARTIAL if I had 32K of information in the Note in them using page up and down, partially answered it; and ANS if I field, plenty of space for a detailed or finding my place with F4 search­ had looked the question over and answer. es seemed to take forever. For the knew I could answer it without any third year of the course I switched further reading or research. Entries Subset feature over to NoteTaker and entered with ********** in the Catagory field displays finished each question as an individual indicate general notes, reading or completed questions note. lists, etc. The main NoteTaker As I mentioned above, when I fin­ In the Title field I entered the screen for year three looked as ished a question I would mark the

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MAY / JUNE 1995 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 37 HOW TO USE: Home Study Course

Category field as COMPLETED, displayed in brackets at the top of faster on my SOMHz 486 desktop. PARTIAL, ANS, or leave it blank. I the screen to the left of the words Spell check and used NoteTaker's Subset feature to All Notes). I'd then press [~~) format on the desktop see how many questions I had fin­ (Subset), select Unfinished to dis­ When I finished each year's course ished, or to display questions I play the unfinished questions (9, of study, I had to send it in to my needed to work on. For example, to again displayed at the top of the mentor for his feedback and create a subset that would only dis­ screen). I'd pop over to HP Calc and approval. This meant that I had to play questions with the COMPLET­ divide 9 by 37 to get .24, indicating create a hard copy of the work and ED status marked in the category that 24% of the questions remained edit, spell check and format it. As field, I followed these steps: unanswered, 76% were completed. good as the HP Palmtop is, a desk­ top word processor is better for 1. From NoteTaker's All Notes The system works well these tasks. screen I pressed [!:~) (Subset) ~~ on a desktop with the When I completed each year I (Define) to get the Define Subset HP Connectivity Pack would first back up the NoteTaker Screen pictured below: The big advantage of using the HP .NDB file and then save all the - Palmtop was that it was there with year's questions and answers to a me all the time, allowing me to catch text file using NoteTaker's print to ~ ill. I I Calagor.,. previously wasted moments of file capability. From the main spare time. It's amazing to discover N oteTaker screen I would press how many wasted 5-minute periods I MENU, HIe rrint to get the following I, there are in one day. But spare Print dialog box. moments were not enough for this Define Subset dialogue box .T~~ .. tCISVHl HilS ~ll ~ot'5(1/4l) a~/I6I~5 9 project. I had to schedule larger ------Pr'~~ 2. I tabbed to the Category field, blocks of time for writing, reading pressed the down-arrow and high­ and research. lighted COMPLETED and pressed I used my desktop PC for these I ENTER'. scheduled periods of time. Fortu­ nately I have a PCMCIA card reader NoteTaker print dialog box 3. I pressed ~ (OK), gave the sub­ and the HP Connectivity Pack on set the name Finished and pressed my desktop system. I stored my ~again. home-study related NoteTaker files In the "Print" sub-box I would select on my Palmtop's A drive Flashcard. All Items. In "Style" I would select 4. When I highlight Finished and When I wanted to work on my desk­ Custom and then All Fields in the press I ENTER, or 1!!21 and the main top, I'd turn off my Palmtop, pull pull-down menu. In the "Print to" screen only displays questions the card out and insert it into the box I would select File and finally marked completed. drive on my desktop Pc. I would press ~ (OK). NoteTaker prompt­ start the Connectivity Pack software ed me to enter a file name. I did so To create the Subset that displays running on my desktop, start the and pressed ~ again. This proce­ unfinished questions, I would fol­ desktop version of NoteTaker, press dure printed the entire NoteTaker low the above steps, substituting - [!E!) file Open and load the COMPLETED (minus sign in front NoteTaker file from the Flashcard in file to a text file, which I could load of COMPLETED) in step 2 above, my card drive. into my desktop word processing and give the Subset the name With NoteTaker up and running program for spell checking, editing Unfinished in step 3. on my desktop, I was able capitalize and formatting. To get a quick idea of how I was on the desktop's full-sized keyboard doing on a particular year, I'd note and larger, easier-to-read screen to Other uses down the number of questions for improve my productivity. In addi­ for this approach that particular year, displayed in the tion, the Connectivity Pack versions This system could be applied to any All Notes field (37 for year three, of the built-in software run much home study or correspondence

38 THE HP P ALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 1995 course successfully. Keeping the steps 1, 2, 3, etc. so they appear in 70% of my 160-plus page home course and questions with you all the right order in the All Items view. study course was completed on the the time helps you capture answers Use the categories for the status of HPPalmtop. and inspirations when they come. each step (COMPLETED, IN PROG­ The bottom line is that the HP You could also write a novel or RESS, TO ASSIGN). You might also Palmtop was there when I needed it. non-fiction book with this approach. put the initials of the people respon­ It was there at lunch when I finished Each chapter is an individual Note­ sible for that step or targeted com­ early and had a few moments to Taker item. Category field for status pletion date in the Category field. spare. It was there at the dentist's of the chapter. Note field for outline Use the Note field for a description office when I was waiting for my of the chapter, notes on references of the individual step, resources appointment. It was there during needed for the chapter, outline and needed to complete it, people in­ Star Trek: The Next Generation rough drafts of the chapter. Remem­ volved in it, and a final report on the intermissions. It was there in my ber, the Note field can hold 32K completion of that step. pocket during the day when bytes of text (about 10 type-written answers to questions popped into pages). You may have to use more It was there! my head. than one entry for large chapters. I've heard people say that the HP It was there, ready, willing, and This general approach could also Palmtop is great for taking short able whenever I needed it. be used for project management. notes, but is poorly suited for work­ Divide any project into discreet, ing on longer documents. I did use a clearly-defined steps and enter each desktop for the final edit of my step into NoteTaker. Number the course, but the first draft of at least

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MAY /JUNE 1995 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 39 was not offered for the 100 j Palmtop 200LX). This seemed ideal is His Newspaper for those working solely Thus. after you follow their be entered directly into a I save $225 per year by can­ with a Palmtop with no con­ instructions to setup cc:Mail text file and edited by any celing my subscription to nection to a desktop Pc. on the Palmtop, sending word processor. the local newspaper, partly However, I recently learned mail to the Internet is just a Dave Hearne as a protest over poor cover­ that the Dock 101 has been question of filling out the CompuServe 10: [75414,33J age of national and interna­ discontinued. Is any other To:, cc:, bcc: and Subject: tional news, but mostly external keyboard now fields, writing your mes­ Language Assistant because of the last two available for use with the sage, and hitting ~ to send. on the HP Palmtop paper carriers on my rural 100j200LX? When you're near a phone I have a question concerning route! I replaced the paper Also - scanning text into you just plug in your your recent article in the HP paper with my Palmtop the 200LX, both at remote modem and hit ~ to con­ Palmtop Paper, "The HP electronic newspaper, cour­ locations with a simple nect. cc:Mail then calls Palmtop as a Reference tesy of acCIS scripts and hand-held scanner and at a palmtop.com, uploads your Tool" (Pg.14, Vol.4, No.2, Gilles' Vertical Reader. It fixed location with a flatbed message(s), downloads any 1995). Regarding the doesn't cost money in my scanner would be fabulous. E-mails that may be there Language Assistant 5 pro­ area, so I get my newspaper What devices and software for you and disconnects you gram, you give instructions for free, and it fits in my are available to make this a again. Very smooth and fast, on page 15 to install SP AN­ briefcase better. reality? and the real beauty is: You TOOL.EXE as a stand alone Also, a note on Thanks for your excellent have all you need on your program on the Palmtop. As CompuServe's connect magazine; the devotion of HP already! The monthly a life-long student of French, charges - nearly all the U.S. your contributors is evident fee is $9, and you can get I was excited about this, telephone long distance in every page. more info from: palmtop.com; especially since I have companies now bill in six Donald Garve/mann 934 Del Rio Court Milpitas, French5, otherwise not second increments, with a New York, NY. CA 95035; Tel: 408-450-3467; installed on any other com­ six second mInImum. E-mail: [email protected] puter. I followed your (Sometimes you have to [The Dock 101 is discontinued PS: Neither I, nor my Application Manager path specify this.) However, but at the time of this writing employer, has anything to exactl y, replacing SPAN­ CompuServe is still round­ (April 15, 95) Key Tronic still do with palmtop.com, I just TOOL with FRENTOOL ing up to the next whole had over 900 in stock. tried it, and liked what I .EXE. I keep getting an error minute, with a one minute According to Key Tronic, at the saw. message: "couldn't load minimum. This didn't mat­ rate they are currently selling, Jesper E. Siig string resources." What does ter before off-line readers that supply should last at least Internet 10: this mean? I did not install had been invented, but it six months. The 101 comes [email protected] the other files of the pro­ sure does now. Everyone with both a 95LX and a DOS gram for space reasons; do I should protest to driver. So if you connect to a Genealogy need other related files? Is it CompuServe via E-mail! 100j200LX you will have to & Biography Software a memory issue? Please John Combs run it from DOS. In reference to your article, help-this looks like a good CompuServe 10: [72376,3553J This might be useful if you Using the HP Palmtop as a idea. are using a DOS word process­ Reference Tool (Pg. 21, By the way, I am a great [I am told by a supervisor of a ing program or PIM. But it Vol.4, No.2, 1995), I use fan of your magazine-this local telephone company that will not work with the built-in Family Tree Maker Ver.3.0 issue is superb as is this par­ whole minute billing adds applications like MEMO and genealogy software. I also ticular article, my problem about 20 % over six second APPT. We don't know of any use a Windows version of not withstanding. Keep up billing prices - Paul.} other Palmtop compatible the program. An important the great work and thank external keyboards. If at some feature of the program is a you. What Happened to point you do have access to a utility to convert your Barry D. Rock External Keyboards? desktop, you can run a pro­ genealogy database to GED­ CompuServe 10: [70410,1553J For the HP 200LX Palmtop, gram like RemKey il to access COM file format so that it two possibilities haunt me the keyboard of your desktop. If can be read by other geneal­ [Unfortunately, you need more - easy keyboard data entry anyone has information about ogy programs. then FRENTOOL.EXE to run and scanning. another Palmtop compatible Another program by Ban­ the program. All the dictionary A year ago, I learned that external keyboard, please let us ner Blue that I have loaded information is contained in Key Tronic Corporation know. in my Palmtop is Biography MICROT AC.LEX. My SP AN­ offered its DOS (and Win­ Also, let us know if you have Maker. The program guides TOOL .EXE is 242K. The dows) compatible Dock 101, information on a DOS based you through a series of Spanish MICROT AC.LEX is a keyboard with full sized scanner. We're not aware of questions you ask based 1.6MB. I was able to run the keys, serial port connector, one - Paul.} upon events and interests of program using the switches I and a viewing platform on the person you are writing wrote about in the article with which to place the 95LX for about. The answers can then just those two files - Hal.} which it was developed (it

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[Tips by Rich Hall, unless otherwise face by creating a large black rectangle the Month view on the 95LX, press I ESC! noted. Many are elaborations on tips in the center of the screen, with small from APPT. To go to the Month view on found in the APPS.INI and NOTES. NOB white rectangles for eyes and a nose, the 100/200LX, press I!:) from APPT. files in the HP 200LX.j and a long thin rectangle for a mouth. From the Month view on the 95LX or The possibilities are endless. 100/200LX press I < DownArrow > ! to move The ICN200LX commands are as forward one week or I ! to move IAppManager I follows: backward one week. Then press IENTER! to return to the daily view. - 100/200LXj Q= Quit the program . Change order of AppManager L= Load an existing .ICN icon file into the program. application icons S= Save an .ICN file you just created or modified. R= Display a blank icon screen. You can change the order of applica­ F= Full rectangle: Start drawing a dark rectangle. tions icons in AppManager. Start E= Erase a rectangle. AppManager and use the arrow keys to C= Copy an existing rectangle. highlight the icon you want to move. P= Paste the last rectangle you copied. Then press I!:) (Order) and move that 1= Invert: Start drawing a white rectangle. icon to the desired position. You'll notice that as you move an icon to an Appointment Book monthly view, There is a small cursor in the large left­ adjacent position, you exchange posi­ HP 100/200LX hand box. Use your arrow keys to move tions with the icon originally there. it to where you want to start drawing When you are finished moving an icon, your rectangle. Press£ (Full Rectangle) The HP 100/200LX provides a simpler press I ENTER!. and then use the arrow keys to create a way to go forwards or backwards exact­ rectangle the desired size and shape. _ 100~OOLX J ly one week. From the main Then press IENTER! and the rectangle Appointments screen, press ~­ Customizing Icons on appears. I < OownArrow > ! to go seven days ahead and the HP 1 00/200 LX Repeat the process of creating, eras­ I H ! to go seven days When you install a new program in the ing, and moving rectangles until the behind. Application Manager, you can give it screen is the way you want it. Then your own icon. There is an icon editing press S to save the icon and give the program on the HP 200LX ROM disk icon file you are about to create an 8- .1O,.:'[100/200LX 1 called D:\BIN\ICN200LX.EXE (also letter name (the program will automati­ available for the HP 100LX as ICON cally add the file extension .ICN). Save Deactivate alarms .zIP ij). Later on you might want to add the icon with the same filename as the There may be times when you don't the icon program to the AppManager, .EXE or .COM you are installing, but want the Appointment Book alarms but for now, just pOint to it in Filer and with an extension of ICN. going off (e.g., at the theater, during an press I ENTER! to run it. You'll get a screen For example, if you want an icon for a important meeting, talking over dinner that looks like this: program called Q.EXE residing in the with a special friend, defusing a bomb). A:\BIN directory, call your icon There are some different ways to deac­ A:\BIN\Q.ICN. When you add the appli­ tivate the alarms on the HP Palmtop. cation in AppManager, your nifty little icon should appear in the list of icons to 1. On either Palmtop go to the appoint­ choose from! Save an icon with the ment and press I DELI to delete it. If you same path and name as the application use the Cut feature of the 100/200LX, you are adding to AppManager, but with make sure you quit Appointment Book D an .ICN extension. completely. If you cut an appointment You can change icons in Databases, without quitting Appt, the alarm for the Main ICN200LX screen displaying Phonebooks, and Notetaker files, too. cut appointment will still sound at the drawing box and command menu The antique phone, quill and inkwell, appointed time. and roll-top desk that appear in the 200LX DataCard can be replaced with a 2. On both the 95LX and the 100/200 LX The menu of options are displayed on customized icon of your own design. you can disable individual appointment the right of the screen at all times. The alarms. Check your appointments - if left hand box is where you create your one comes due during the concert, icon. The smaller box between the two IApptBook I highlight the appointment and press will give you an idea of what the icon IENTER! to go to the individual appoint­ will really look like. .1019 [100/200~X : ment display. Tab to the Alarm section The program works by drawing rec­ Jump one week ahead or and disable the alarm. On the 95LX tangles of different sizes and shapes in behind in Appointment Book press I ! to toggle between dis­ different locations on the screen to cre­ On any HP Palmtop, you can go to the able and enable. On the 100/200LX ate an image. So, for example, you Month view, move to the desired date uncheck the "Enabled" box. could create an icon displaying a crude and return to the daily view. To go to

42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY IJUNE 1995 3. On the 95LX you can close all appli­ The information, from left to right, is: If you use different passwords for dif­ cations but Filer and press IMENU! ferent files, keep careful records. Also, System to go to the DOS prompt. No Dirs: The number of subdirectories in with individual password protection the the directory that you are currently dis­ alarms will sound while you are in DOS. file is actually encrypted. This has two playing. As soon as you type exit and press significant side effects: If you forget the IENTER! to go back to System Manager, Files: The number of files in the directo­ password there is no way to recover the any alarms that came due while you ry currently displayed. file; If the file gets corrupted there is no were in DOS will sound. way to recover the file, even with the Bytes: The number of bytes used by password. So, in addition to keeping 4. On the 100/200LX exit System the files in the directory you are current good track of your password, keep good Iy displaying. Manager completely - Go to App­ backup copies of your important files. Manager and press IMENU! Application Bytes Free on Disk: The file storage Ierminate All ~. No alarms will sound space remaining in the current disk. Robert Roney while you are out of the System Editor, HP Palmtop Paper Manager. When you want to reenable Users of the 100/200LX version of the alarms, from the DOS prompt type Buddy have the Dirs: information 1jI01" 100/200LX 100 on the 100LX, or 200 on the 200LX replaced by RAM:, the amount of and press IENTER!. Any alarms that came System RAM available to run programs. Everything you type due will immediately sound. is in capital letters? If everything you type comes out in 5. Mute all alarms on the 100/200LX - caps, you've got the Caps Lock on. If From the main Appointments screen, you're in MEMO on the HP 100/200LX, press IMENU! Qptions.Jieep and check 'UdWl 100/200LX you'll see the word "CAPS" in the black the Mute box. When the concert is over, data bar at the top of the page, above uncheck the Mute box to activate the Password protect the tab ruler. alarms. individual files To disable the Caps Lock, press on the HP Palmtops ~-@) (zero, not the letter 0). 100/200LX A tip on page 59 of the Sep/Oct 94 APPT, other programs issue showed how to password protect 1jI01'W[ 100/200LX I save data automatically the entire 95LX or 200LX (not the When to Quit an application Appointment book, Phone Book, and 100LX). You can also password protect Generally, you don't need to quit one NoteTaker, save your data each time some of the individual files on the HP application before going to another. It's you make a change or addition. You Palmtops. faster to leave the commonly used don't have to press ~ or IMENU! file applications open when you switch to .save. In fact, Save keys don't exist in Lotus 1-2-3 on the another application. When you switch those applications. You must save in HP 95/100/200LX Palmtops back, you'll find yourself right back Lotus and Memo. However, you can set Lotus 1-2-3 on all three Palmtops has where you left off. However, there are up memo to auto-save by opening its own password protection for individ­ exceptions: Memo and pressing IMenu! Qptions ual files. When saving a Lotus spread­ .setup and checking the Auto-save box. sheet that you want to password pro­ 1. It is best to quit any applications that tect, enter the filename followed by a use the serial port (for example, blank space and the letter P. Then Datacomm, Filer, and cc:Mail) to save IFiler I press I ENTER! and Lotus will ask you to battery life. enter and then verify a password. From 100/200LX j then on, you won't be able to load this 2. On the HP 95LX you'll have to quit all spreadsheet without the password. For built-in applications to exit to DOS and Status line displays this reason, it is important to write down run a DOS program. Conversely, you space left on disk your password somewhere or use one have to quit the DOS program to go Open FILER on the HP 100/200LX and you won't forget. back to the built-in applications. you'll see the Status Line just above function key labels. Individual file protection 3. If you have too many built-in applica­ on the HP 100/200LX tions open, you may run out of available You can password protect individual system RAM and not be able to open LOCllli files from within the built-in applications any more applications. In this case, you !iliA'"?'. "Vh :~~. b~Ni"!Vt-A. 10Bbuddw c:al'l 52,486 94 · 03· 01 3:54 (PHONE, APPT, MEMO, etc.), on the 10Bbudd.., e)ll'l 38.752 94 - 03- 01 3:56 may have to quit one or more of the 10flbuddy ien 2B0 93- 12- HI 3:21 HP 100/200LX. With the application and :ttD;~;~ ~:k 2~~ ~~ : ~~ : ?~ l~;~~ open applications in order to run anoth­ autoll.lle bllt. 286 94- 84- 13 12:1'17 c,!IIllnow doc B 94- 85- 12 11:45 the desired file open, press IMENU! file clock 11)11'1 1.852 91 - 18- 83 13:58 er program. clQ~l!flr COI'I 656 94 - 81 - 22 1 :88 : clo~l!flr doc 1.596 94 - iU - 22 1:813 Password. I I • ~ 1 ~JUIm~IDIIDII!I!II!IIIIlmI!IDEmIIIIBD:II.:m:II[!1]!I!1D! Then enter and verify the password. 4. Generally, if you don't use an appli­ You cannot open this file again without cation very much, it's probably better to Filer screen status line above F-key entering the proper password. These quit it when you're finished using it. This labels displays drive information passwords are also case sensitive. helps avoid running out of system RAM. To delete the password protection of This line gives you some useful infor­ a file, open it, press IMENU! file mation about the drive that Filer is cur­ Password, and leave the new password I Share/Freeware Index: page 48 rently looking at (if your screen is split, empty. it's the drive the highlight bar is under).

MAY / JUNE 1995 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 43 ...... QUICK TIPS ......

IApptBook I When the PAT.EXE pro­ for DOS version 3.0 on my IDOSI gram runs, it checks the C drive with excellent 100/200LX ] PAT.CFG configuration file results. I use it and a Mega­ [ 100B OOLx l and finds that the alarm hertz 14.4 PCMCIA modem Add many custom "GetUp" is associated with to communicate with the alarms to Palmtop Alternative compiler the alarm file OUV812.SND. mail system we use at work. The Appointment Book for dBase programmers PAT plays OUV812.SND I compressed the main pro­ I suggest experienced HP application allows only one and then displays the mes­ custom alarm at a time gram file with DIET and now Palmtop dBase program­ sage you specified, "Time to the total space occupied for mers check out an xBase (ALARM.SND). If you want go!" PAT also displays a to change the sound of your all essential files is about compiler named FORCE. graphic of a finger pointing custom alarm you have to 240K. This program is a native at the message, which is code compiler that for the save your original ALARM specified in the GetUP defni­ Essential MS Mail Remote files most part follows dBase III .SND with a different name, tion in PAT.CFG. create a new alarm and syntax. It creates ultra small save it as ALARM.SND . File nameFile size executable program files. Gilles Kohl has written a The proverbial "Hello, DOS utility program named ACCESS.GlB ...... 586 World" program is some­ PAT.EXE (archived in PAT C850S0RT.GlB ...... 795 thing like 3K in size. Data .ZIPiJ) that lets you easily CONNECT.EXE7 ...... 940 files are also in dBase III for­ select from a number of dif­ CONNECT.GlB ...... 695 mat although indices are not. I code commercially ferent sound files and asso­ CONTROl.MAI ...... 8 PAT.EXE alarm displaying graphic with FORCE for the Laptops ciate a unique alarm with dif­ DEFAUlT.SCR2 ...... 144 of finger pointing and message and Palmtops and have ferent appointments. PAT ''Time to go!" ERRORMAI.GlB ...... 11520 found it invaluable. .EXE can also display a INBOX.GRP ...... 8 Scott Sturgeon message and a .PCX file INBOX.KEY ...... 560 You can edit the PAT.CFG NorthEast Infomation Systems graphic when the alarm file in MEMO to create INBOX.MBG ...... 2436 goes off. CompuServe 10: (10403,33411 alarms for different occa­ INBOX.NME ...... 135 To use the PAT alarms sions and assign a unique MAIl.EXE ...... 103638 [ 1OO /200LX J you first create a directory sound file, message, and MAll.ICN . .. . •. . •...... 200 on your C drive named PAT graphics file to each one. MCI.GlB ...... 4 and then copy all the PAT Control TSR programs The only limitations are that NETPO.GlB ...... 133 files found in PAT.ZIP into on the Palmtop the message in the OUTBOX.KEY ...... •. . •.. •. . .. .560 Many TSR programs can the C:\PAT directory. To use Description field must be a particular alarm with an OUTBOX.MBG ...... 812 interfere with each other and short. Only 24 characters POBOX.KEY ...... • ...... 560 sometimes with other DOS appointment, press ~ to will display in the pop-up add an appointment and POBOX.MBG ...... 4988 or System Manager pro­ message box. Most impor­ RNETWORK.GlB ...... •...... 19930 grams on the HP Palmtop type the following line in the tantly, the alarm won't sound Description field: SMTP.GlB ...... •...... 4 (TSR means Terminate and if you have another DOS TRANSFll ...... • . . •...... 1603 Stay Resident and includes program running. So you Ic:\pat\pat.exe TRANSMIT.EXE . .. . •...... 33198 such Palmtop programs as have to remember to quit USGNERIC.SCR ...... 2044 HELV100, Magnify, and any DOS application when USHAYS24.SCR ...... 1972 InfoSelect.) The Ic:\pat\pat.exe portion it's not in use. of the command runs the USPPER96.SCR ...... 2404 Usually, to get rid of a Robert Roney TSR program that is interfer­ PAT program when the Technical Edilor HP Palmtop Paper alarm would normally go off. Total: ...... 198877 ing with another program PAT finds the alarm name you would have to reboot the HP Palmtop (press 1C1R.1- you specify in . So if IDataComml The screen displays are you want the alarm named okay but not that great. All I!ill-~). If the TSR was loaded from your AUTOEX­ "GetUp!" to sound at a par­ [ 1OO /200LX J the functions found in the EC.BAT file, you would have ticular time and have the Windows version are also to remove the TSR com­ message "Time to go!" dis­ there in the DOS version, MS Mail mand line from your played, you add the follow­ on the Palmtop although you will find some ing line in the description AUTOEXEC.BAT file before There is an E-mail program functions are located under field of the appointment: rebooting. called MS Mail Remote that different menus. I found that the latest ver­ works on the 100/200LXl I Bob Perry Ic:\pat\pat.exe getup! Time to go! sion (3 .5) of TSRCOMiJ , am using MS Mail Remote CompuServe 10: (71431,21031 worked well on the HP

44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY/JUNE 1995 Palmtop. It contains a pair of ware you have loaded onto Association and The Royal file is still not listed, Tab to programs (MARK. COM and your Palmtop most likely and Ancient Golf Club of St. the Directories listing and RELEASE.EXE) that let you came from secure sources. Andrews, Scotland. For the make sure you're in the remove a TSR from memory If you want to be cautious, purist of the game, this is directory where your Phone­ without requiring a System you could use a virus detec­ mandatory reading! No more Book file is located. reboot. You simply run tion program to scan an exe­ arguments on the course - Highlight your Phone­ MARK before running your cutable file on your desktop break out your Palmtop and Book file and press I ENTER! to TSR. This marks the memo­ PC before installing it on the settle the issue! GOLF.zIP load your Phone Book file ry position of the TSR and Palmtop. Then you don't also includes a collection of into the Database applica­ stores the information need­ have to have the virus scan­ Golf Humor. tion. ed by RELEASE to remove ning software on the James Cummiskey the TSR from memory. Then Palmtop. CompuServe 10: f12111,2266} 4. Press IMENU! file Modify run your TSR. Stan Dobrowski Database. When you want to CompuServe 10: fl1031,2162} remove the TSR from mem­ IPhoneBookl 5. Press I~ to go to the ory, run RELEASE. This [This is very prudent Business phone field. restores the system to the advice! I had a virus attack [1OO/2ooLx] state it was at at the time the my HP Palmtop after con­ 6. Press ISHIFT!-luP-ARROW! to MARK was made, by releas­ necting to a LAN via the View additional move the field up in small ing all the memory above, 100LX Redirector and down­ lines in PhoneBook's increments until it is touch­ including the last MARK. loading data. I ran one little Note field ing the field above. If noth­ MARK, RELEASE, or program on the LAN to Since I put quite a bit of ing happens, press ~ and any subsequent TSRs access my A drive and information in Phone Book's then try ISHIFT!luflAffON! again. should not be loaded or exe­ BOOM! The virus was Note field, I found it inconve­ cuted while SYSMGR is named something like "Shb" nient to see only the top two 7. Do this with each field loaded. or so, and it gave false 110 lines of a Note in the full until all the fields are touch­ Lee Buck errors after corrupting the record Phone Item screen. I ing. (If you move it up so CompuServe 10: (16430, 1061/ disk drive's FA T (File can of course press I!!I to that the lines of the two Allocation Table). Not pleas­ display a full screen view of fields are touching they will ant. the Note field. show up as thick solid lines (M!SCJ I used F-PROT Ii to Alternatively, I load my between each field, and clean the A drive successful­ Phone-Book file into the you'll be able to see four 1100/200LX ly, as well as the C drive. built-in Database application , lines in the Note field. If you The C didn't show any and increased the Note field move the fields so that the Virus protection errors, but the virus was display in the Phone Item lines overlap they will show for the Palmtop? found on it, and sent to screen by another 2 to 3 up as a thin line between The HP Palmtops are oblivion. I lost just one small lines by removing the empty each field in the normal dis­ immune to boot sector and file on the Palmtop, and a lot space between all the fields. play and you will be able to COMMAND.COM viruses. of time and patience. Two Because there is no change see five lines displayed These viruses cause their diskettes were destroyed on to the order of the fields, 3rd instead of four. You may like damage by attaching to the the desktop. So, a virus can party translation software one display more than System's startup files. Since attack any executable file, will still work. another, so experiment with these files are in the perma­ although it cannot infect any Here's how to remove each.) nent ROM memory, which of the non-writable files in the blank spaces: can't be changed, the virus ROM. 8. Press I!!l IDOWN-ARROW! to cannot plant itself. AviMeshar 1. First backup your PHONE expand the vertical size of However, it is true that Compu-Serve 10: f11414,2112} .PDB file! the Note field. any EXE, EXM or COM file on the C drive (RAM disk) *I01IE' [ 1OO /200[)( l 2.0pen the Palmtop's .... 1'h_, IIw-I ..... I Hpe could be infected by a virus. Database application (press 81t...... l. hll flU, C.l 'V c.. ~ In order for files on the C Rules of Golf ICTRL!-IA-O\IE! or I!) Data .e.ase). Addr ...l Add'Ut Z drive to get infected, you " Lv c.... Sle1' for your Palmtop Hoh 1..... lnfo.... U""LI ... (3121747-4448 ~n::~ m"'H ..t ~4B would have to run an infect­ For you fellow "palm-golfers" 3. Press IMENU! file Qpen to lourilll.. r. txl S98 ing program on the Palmtop here's yet another way to fill access Database's Open or on a PC that was con­ up that unused flashcard File dialog box. By default, Modified PhoneBook with Note nected to the Palmtop via a space. GOLF.ZIPIi con­ only .GDB Database files field displaying four lines drive redirector (e.g. LapLink tains two ASCII text files for will be listed. The Phone­ Remote is the redirector in the golfer who is savvy Book file has a .PDB exten­ the 100LX and the 100LX enough to bring his Palmtop sion. Type *.PDB in the "File 9. Finally, press ~ to save Connectivity Pack, or to the course. The text file to Open" box and press the changes and I MENU! Quit DCS95 from the 95LX includes the complete "1994 IENTER! to display any Phone­ to leave the application. Connectivity Pack). Rules of Golf" as approved Book files in the current It may look a bit Most of the DOS soft- by the United States Golf directory. If your PhoneBook cramped in the beginning

MAY / JUNE 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 45 but after you get used to it Pocket Quicken is not able you already have one avail­ Press ~ (OK), enter a you'll enjoy being able to to read the QIF File. If you able, you can use it to serve name for the subset, and view four or five lines in the look into the QIF file you will the same function. Here's press I ENTER'. Highlight the Note area. see something like this: how I did it: subset and press I ENTER' to Wee-Meng Lee 1. Connect the serial cable view the subset cities. You Internet 10: !Type:CashD20.1.94T 60.00LMeal" from the Palmtop to the seri­ can enter 31 characters in leewm @hpsgmxl8.sgp.hp.com al port of the desktop PC . the country field counting Following the D is the date Make sure the Palmtop commas and spaces. I got in European format (20th of application is set to print to five countries in one subset IPocket Quicken I January, 94). In this case the serial port. using these five countries Pocket Quicken is not able with very short names - to import the record. If you 2. On the desktop, run a ter­ Chile, Iran, Ghana, Guam, 200LX 1 change the date part of the mina.l emulation program and Iraq. line to D01.20.94 Pocket like Procomm and set it to You can also use the Limits on size of Quicken can import it cor­ "log" (copy) the terminal ses­ built-in Subset Selection numbers in Quicken rectly. If your Palmtop is set sion to the printer. (Check Language (SSL) to define Pocket Quicken has a size to display European dates that the baud rate in Setup your subset. The advantage limitation on the largest and after it is imported, it will dis­ matches the baud rate in of SSL in this example is smallest numbers that it is play this record in Pocket Procomm.) that you can enter more built to handle (999,999.99 Quicken as 20.1.94 Meal than 31 characters of coun­ and -99,999.99). For most 60.00. The terminal program will tries. U.S. users and those in Werner Mitteregger send everything that comes SSL is a simple pro­ countries that have a curren­ CompuServe 10: 100022,2261 in through the serial port gramming language that lets cy unit that is close to the back out the desktop PC's you define more complicat­ U.S. dollar's value, this is [The problem developed parallel port to the printer. ed subsets. After you press not much of a problem. even with the U. S. version of Stanley Dobrowski [!!J (Subset), ~ (Define), However, for countries with Quicken when users would CompuServe 10: (11031,2162) press ~ again to go to the currencies that are common­ mix date formats on the General Subset Entry box. ly transacted in the millions, screen and render their QIF In the area titled "SSL Pocket Quicken will have files incompatible with desk­ IWorldTime I Statement" you enter your limited value. In these cases top Quicken. SSL subset definition. The you can use a Lotus work­ The "fix" is to switch the r100 /200LX ] syntax for the subset criteria sheet check register like screen date format to used in the above example CHEKBOOK.WK1 (a com­ Month/Day/Year on your Sort for More would be as follows: mercial Lotus template) or a desktop Quicken before you than One Country DOS program compatible import or export. Since the You can set up a subset in (Country#"Chile"ICountry#"lr with the HP Palmtop that will desktop QIF file date uses World Time to list the cities an"ICountry#"Ghana"ICountr handle larger numbers than the screen format, this will of more than one country. y#"Guam"ICountry#"lraq") Pocket Quicken can. align the desktop QIF format This could, for example, be Robert Roney to what Pocket Quicken useful if you want to list all You can expand the search Editor HP Palmtop Paper expects. the cities in four South criteria to additional coun­ MilhwVQ7-~' American countries you'll be tries by adding them to the 0:rrpJSeMJ1D:f74247, 1144} visiting on a business trip. end of the iist. For example, You could enter a category to add Brazil to the list, key Quicken import type in each city's Category in the following immediately files need matching IPrinting I field, then use the Subset before the close parenthesis date formats feature to sort by that at the end of the above text [The following applies to ".,.'1100/200LX 1 Category. But entering dif­ string: Pocket Quicken on the ferent categories in the 200LX and the stand-alone Connect Palmtop to Category field takes time. ICountry#"Brazil" vrsion on the 100LX.j Printer using a Here's another way to set up If you use Pocket desktop PC as an a multi-country subset: For more on using the Quicken as a companion to alternative serial-to­ Subset Selection Language, the desktop version of parallel converter 1. From the All Cities screen see "SSL" in the Index of Quicken for Windows 3.0 You can use a desktop or in World Time, press ~ your HP 100/200LX User (U.S. or German versions), laptop PC as an alternative (Subset), ~ (Define), tab to Guide. you will find that it is not to a serial-to-parallel con­ the Country field, and enter Paul Merrill possible to import a QIF file verter for printing. Of course each country name followed Rich Hall made on the desktop PC serial-to-parallel converters by a comma and a space as Editors, HP Palmtop Paper when using a date format are much smaller, more shown in the following for­ other than Month/Day/Year. portable and less expensive mat: Although the Date and than buying a PC. But PCs Product Index: page 47 Country formats may be the connected to printers can be Country, Country, Country Share/Freeware Index: page 48 same on both computers, found almost anywhere. If

46 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY/JUNE 1995 Product Index Contact information for products mentioned in articles. See Advertisers Index, next page, for additional product references.

HP PRODUCTS USA; Phone: 503-151-2002 TYP'e II Combo MS Mail Remote (1 work station) Contacts: Authorized HP computer dealers NOTE: Prices listed are suggested retail (10Base-T & 2) - $279 -$139 worldwide (Le. the same place you can pur· price. Connector to ali major Network Operating E-mail software. (See page 44) chase an HP LaserJet). To locate an autho­ Systems. (See page 28) Contact: Microsoft Corporation, USA; (See rized dealer in the USA, cali 800-443-1254. Contact: Silicom Connectivity Solutions, Inc., listing for DOS) You can also purchase the 95LX & OTHER PRODUCTS USA; Phone: 800-414-5426 or 206-882-1995; 100/200LX and its accessories from ACE Fax: 206-882-4115. Netware Lite - $99/node Technologies at 800-825·9977 or 408·734- acCIS 3.0 - $69 Networking software. (See page 28) 0100; Fax: 408-734·3344; EduCALC at 800· On 2MB SRAM card - $329 Family Tree Maker Novell DOS 7 - $99 677·7001; Fax: 714-582-1445. Global Automates CompuServe acx:ess. (See page 32) DOS Ver.3.0 - $NA Contact: Shier Systems & Software; DOS Ver.4.0 - $54.99 Network . (See page 28) Connections at 608-752-1537; Fax: 608- Contact:Novell, Inc., USA; Phone: 752-9548. Phone: 805-311-9391; Fax: 805-311-9454' Windows Ver.2.0 - $54.99 CompuServe 10: [15030,3314) , CD ROM - $69.99 800-453-1261 or 801-429-1000; Fax: 801- HP 38G - $79.95 Genealogy database. (See page 40) 429-5155 (HP FI200A) BanyanlVines Operating System Contact: Banner Blue Software, USA; HP 200LX 2MB - $699 Ver.S.O (1-10 users) - $3,000 Phone: 800-381-2158 or 510-194-6850,' Fax: Palm Connect - $49 (HP Fl061A) Networking software. (See page 28) 510-195-4488. Connectiv~ software. (See page 17.) HP 200LX 1MB - $549 Contact: Trellis Netware Services, USA; Contact: Palm Computing, USA; Phone: (HP Fl060A) Phone: 800-193-3390 or 508-485-1200,' Fax: Flash RAM Cards - $Varies 800-88/-1256 or 415-949-9560; Fax: 415- HP 1000CX Palmtop PC - $449 508-485-3310. 175MB - $3,245 949-0141 (HP F1203A) PCMCIA memory storage cards. (See page 5) HP OmniBook 600C PC Biography Maker Ver.1.0 - $29.99 Contact: Sundisk Corporation, USA; palmtop.com - $9/mo. 486DX2I50 170MB HD - $Varies Biography writing assistant. (See page 40) Phone: 408-562-0595; Fax: 408-562-3403. E-mail subscriptions. (See page 40) 486DX4175 260MB HD - $Varies Contact: Banner Blue Software, USA; Contact: palmtop. com, USA; Phone: 408- HP OmniBook 4000 PC Phone: 800-381-2158 or 510-194-6850,' Fax: Force Ver.2.4C - $195 450-3461; Fax: 408-321-3603 486DX4/100 520MB HD - $Varies 510-195-4488. xBase compiler. (See page 44) 486DX2I50 260MB HD - $Varies Contact: Sohware Evolution Corporation. USA; Phone: none; Faxes: 1/3-350-9910 or Pocket Quicken - $69.95 HP StarLink Service - $Varies CCH Tax Law CD-ROM - $Varies Stand-alone version of Pocket Quicken for Current laws and page 34) 804-222-1510,' CompuServe 10: 16660, 1024 Wireless messaging service, for 'one-stop tax niorrnation. (See looLX users. (See page 46) Contact: CCH, Inc., USA; Phone: 800- communications solution." Contact: 800-917- Contact: Intuit,· Phone: 800-354-4023; 835-5224 or 312-866-6000,' Fax: 312-866- HP Palmtop Paper, Back issues LINK. Fax: 603-295-3015; Intemational' 415-858- 3608. Contact: Thaddeus Computing, USA; 5MB.12v Flash Card - $499 Phone: 800-313-6114; Fax: 5/5-412-1819. 6095. (HP Fl 012A) with Stacker 3.0 data com­ pression software (not for the 95LXj. CompuServe - $Varies Online information service. (See page 32). InfoSelect DOS Ver.2 Q&A Ver.3.3-$NA 10MB/12V Flash Card - $879 Regular price - $149.95 Ver.4.0 - $399 (HP Fl 013A) with Stacker 3.0 data com­ Contact: CompuServe USA; Phone: 800- HP""Palmtop Paper special Database and fil e management software. e"~s~ion software (not for the 95LX). 848-8199 ext 231, or 614-457-0802 -$69.95 (See page 34) Dictionary/Thesaurus ~149.95 Personal information manager. (See page 44) (HP Fl005A) Correct Quotes - $NA Contact: Symantec Corporation, USA; AC/DC Adapter (HP F1011A)-$39.95 Instant library of quotations. (See page 16) Contact: Micro Logic, USA; Phone: Phone: 800-441-1234 or 408-253-9600,' Fax: Contact: SoftKey, Inc., USA; Phone: 800-342-5930 Ext 112 or 201-342-6518; Fax: 408-252-4696 USA/Canada (Opt. ABA) 20/-342-0310 Europe (Opt. ABB) 800-523-3520,' Fax: 404-421-1150. Australia (Opt. ABG) JTAXPLUS - $Varies Quicken for Windows Ver.4 Un~ed Kingdom (Opt. ABU) dBase III ver. 3+ - $695 Regular - $29.95 dBase IV ver. 2.0 - $805 Calculates gross to net payroll. (See page 33) South Africa (Or.t. ABQ) Contact: Parkerware Associates, P.D. Box Deruxe - $49.95 PC Connectivity Cable - $24.95 Database programs. (See page 44) Rnancial management software. (See page 46) Contact: . Borland International, USA; 6, Franklin Park, NJ. 08823, USA; Phone: (HP Fl015A) Connect 95LX and 100/200LX None; Fax: None. Contact: Intuit, USA; Phone: 800-624- to DOS compatible PC. Phone: 800-331-0811 or 408-438-8400,' Fax: 8142; Fax: 415-852-0155; Intemational' 415- MAC Connectivity Cable - $24.95 408-439-9119. LAN Manager Ver.2.01 - $595 858-6095. (HP Fl 016A) Connect 95LX and 100/200LX Dock 101 - $99 Networking software. (See page 28) to ARpie PCslMACs. Contact: A T& T Global Information Extemal keyboard. (See page 40) Smart Level- $Varies 95LX Connectivity Pack - $119.95 Solutions, USA; Phone: 800-631-2600; Fax: Electronic level. (See page 12.) Contact: Key Tronic Corporation, USA; (HP Fl001A) 513-445-4184. Phone: 800-262-6006 or 509-928-8000,' Fax: Contact: Macklanburg-Duncan, USA; 100/200LX Phone: 800-762-7853; Fax: 405-557-3568 Connectivity Pack - $119.95 509-921-5224. Language Assistant Series (HP Fl021B) French.!. German, Italian, Spanish TimeSlips Ver.3.4 - $NA (HP Fl021C) International DOS5.0-$NA -$/9.95 ea. 100/200LX Connectivity DOS 6.0 - $59.95 Accounting software. (See page 33) Document translation. (See page 40) Contact: TimeSlips Corporation, USA; Pack Software Only - $70 Operating System. (See page 19) Contact: Globalink, USA; Phone: (HP Fl021-60002) Contact: Microsoft Corporation, USA; Phone: 800-285-0999 or 508-168-6100.' Fax' 800-255-5660 or 103-213-5600; Fax: 508-168-1660 ' . Connect/Adapter Kit - $24.95 Phone: 800-426-9400,' Fax: 206-635-6100,' 103-213-3866. (HP F1023A) 4 adapters for connecting the Canada: 800-563-9048; International.- 206- 1OO/200LX to modems, printers, and PCs. 936-8661. LANtastic Ver.5.0 - $Varies User's Groups for the HP 100200LX Accessory Cradle - $79 Networking software. (See page 28) Palmtop (HP Fl 027 A) Connects the l00LX or 200LX Easy Ammortization - $89.95 Contact: Artisoft, Inc., USA; Phone: See box on page 13, this issue. to U.S. Robotics World Port V.42bis Modem. Ammortization software. (See page 35) 800-233-5564; Fax: 602-610-1101. Skytel pager, and other .l'roducts. Contact: REM Software, Inc., USA; Windows for Work Groups - $74.95 95LX Accessory cradle - $60 PhoneiFax: 800-231-1321. Magnify - $19 IncIucing WIIldows Ver.3.1-$149 (HP Fl006A) Screen magnification software for the HP Operating System wilh network capabilities. HSDL-1000 Infrared Transceiver EtherFlash PCMCIA Card 100/200LX. (See page 44) (See page 28) Module (1-999 units) - $5.47 ea. Type II 10Base-Twith2MB-$419 Contact: ACE Technologies, Inc., USA; Contact: Microsoft Corporation, USA; (HSDL-l000) IrDA compliant, integrated Type 1110Base-2 with 2MB - $449 Phone: 800-825-9911 or 408-134-0100,' Fax: TYP'e II Combo Phone: 800-426-9400,' Fax:206-635-6100,' drop-i~ IR module. (See page 15) 408-134-3344. Canada: 800-563-9048. Inti: 208-936-8661 Service Agreements (10Base-T & 2) 12MB - $479 For U.S. HP Palmtop users. Units must be Connector to ali major Network Operating Megahertz 14.4 FaxlModern card Systems plus flash memory. (See page 28) Zoom 14.4 Pocket Modem - $269 under warranty to extend. -$219 Portable modem. (See page 32) PCMCIA fax/modem card that works in the 95LX, I-year extension - $50 Contact: Zoom Telephonics, USA; Phone: 95LX, 3-year extension - $135 Ethernet SPE PCMCIA Card 100/200LX. (See page 44.) 800-631-3116 or 611-423-1012; Fax: 611- 1001200LX, 2-year extension - $85 Type 1110Base-T - $219 Contact: Megahertz Corporation; Phone: 423-9350 Contact: HP, Corvallis Service Center, Type 1110Base-2 - $239 80/-320-1000,' Fax: 801-320-6002

MAY / JUNE 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 HOW TO CONTACT US Products advertised in this issue ofThe HP Palmtop Paper There are a number of ways to get in touch with The HP Palmtop Paper staff. You can write, mail us a disk with your COMPANY (PRODUCT) ...... •.. •.• •...... [PHONE/FAX NUMBERSj .. PAGE NUMBER comments, send CompuServe mail, fax, or call. Our mailing address and contact Accurite (Floppy drives for 100/200LX) ...... [408·433·1980: Fax: 408·433·1716J .. 39 ACE (ACE) ...... [800·825·9977 or 408·734·0100: Fax: 408·734·3344J .. 24·25 information is: (Palmtop/Omnibook Products includes: ACT! for HP Palmtops; ACE<->FAX Fax Software and Modem Bundles; ACE <->LlNK File Transfer Software; BATTman Battery Monitoring and Data Protection Software; Carrying Cases; Thaddeus Computing, Inc., Desktop Card Readers; Acoustic Modem Couplers; HP 200LX Palmtop Systems; HP Color OmniBook Software; P.O. Box 869 or 57 E. Broadway NiMH Batterries; Printers and Accessories; X·JACK Megahertz Modem Bundles.J Fairfield, IA 52556, U.S.A. (ACE DoubleFlash Plus - FlashRAM to 80MB)...... back cover Phone: 515-472-6330 or 800-373-6114 Bach Company (FlashRAM & Fax Modems) . . ... [800·248·2224 or 415·494·6660; Fax: 415·494·1995J .. 22 Brownstone (Option Trading System) ...... [800·642·7116; Tel/Fax: 908·654-7108J .. 22 Fax #:515-472-1879 CSS (Barcode system) ...... [8oo·733·5017or 503-752·4419; Fax: 503·752·7037J .. 35 CIS ID: Hal Goldstein, [75300,2443] DataViz (MacLink Plus) ...... • . . . . • ...... [800·733·0030 or 203-268·0030; Fax: 203·268·4345J .. 18 Internet: 75300.2443-compuserve.com E&B (Leather Cases)...... [800·896·2273; Inti: 916·344·5047; Fax: 916·782·9306J .. 21 EduCALC (Accessories Catalog)...... [800·713·6526 or 714·582·2637; Fax: 714·582·1445J .. 14 TO ADVERTISE in The HP Palmtop EI Dorado (HP 200LX and Accessories) . . . . [800·227·8292 or 41 5-494·6600; Fax: 415·494·1995J .. 31 Paper contact Brian Teitzman or Margaret Envoy Data (PCMCIA Products)...... [800-368-6971 or 602·892-0954: Fax: 602-892-oo29J .. 9 Martin. EXP Computer (ThinFax Modem) ...... [8oo-EXP-6922 ext. 641 or 714-453-1020; Fax: 714-453-1319J .. inside back Experience in Software (Project Kickstart) ...... [800-678-7008 or 510-644-0694; Fax: 510-644-3823J .. 33 TO SUBSCRIBE, change address, or clear Extended Systems (Desktop Infrared Intertace) ...... [800·235-7576 or 208·322·7575: Fax: 406-587·9170J .. 35 up any problem with your subscription, (JetEye Infrared Printer Intertace) ...... 37 contact our subscription department Global Connections (Palmtops & accessories)...... [608-752-1537; Fax: 608-752-9548J .. 33 (Director Sharon Dilmore, CompuServe lnmax (CGA VGA Graphics Pack VisionJ . . . .. [604-980-9991; Fax: 604-985-5597J .. 37 ID: 176125,1773]). IntelliLink (Windows Connectivity Pack).. . . [603·888·0666; Fax: 603-888-9817] .. 4 Intuit (Pocket Quicken) ...... [800-781-5999 ext. 810 253 or 520·295·3220; Fax: 520-295-3015J .. ll MicroGram (Card Software Development SystemJ ...... [Phone/Fax: 415-747-0811J .. 37 Technical Support Opus 63 (Liberator Shoulder HotsterJ. . . [8oo-588·0PUS or 718-706-6787: Fax:718-706-7034J .. 39 Palm Computing (PalmConnect)...... [800-881-7256 or 415-949-9560; Fax: 415-949-0147] .. 5 HP Technical Support - HP offers these Shier Systems (acCIS - CompuServe access program & Quick/LXJ ...... [805·371·9391; Fax: 605·371·9454J .. 16 options: Smart Modular (FaxModem - Memory) ...... [510-623-1231: Fax: 510-623-1434J .. inside front Steele Creek Tech (Card-link Drives) . . .. [Phone/Fax: 704-588-1780J .. 19 • FREE TECHNICAL SUPPORT- is Thaddeus Computing (HP Palmtop Paper) ...... • ...... [600-373·6114 or 515·472·6330; Fax: 515-472-1879J .. 8 offered to all PalmtoP users and is avail­ (HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK)...... 41 able by calling 503-757-2004. • FREE AUTOMATED SUPPORT is offered 24 hours a day by calling 800 -443- 1254. • REQUEST FAXED OR MAILED INFOR­ MATION - 800-752-0900. Shareware and Freeware Index (Ma~/June 1995) Software on The HP Palmtop Paper ON 01 K or CompuServe) On-Line Support- offered by these bul­ letin board services. PRODUCT FUNCTJON CJS FORUMVLIBRARY TYPE PAGE

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