An Independent publication for sers 0 HP Palmtop Computers Publisher's Message .........................•...• 1 U.S. $7.95 Letters to the Editor .............................. .4 llHE HP Palmtop News .................................. 6 Connectivity pack software update corrects Pocket Quicken synchronize/merge feature; HP Palmtop/OmniBook repair and exchange in Canada; New, full· featured, fast, color HP OmniBooks; Revised PC Card standard; HP reduces desktop and server prices. HPPalmtop New Products and Services .................. 9 ~Paper Portable Printers and Fax/Modem/ Flash Memory combo cards Lighten the Travelers Load ............................... 13 Smaller is better when you're on the road. New light-weight portable printers and faxl modem & flash memory combo cards will help you lighten your load. Breakthrough Let the Games Begin! .......................... 20 In the mood for some serious fun? Here's a rundown on some of the best games available for the HP Palmtops. Products for JetEye PC Provides HP Palmtop Users with Infrared Link to Their Desktop PCs ......................................... 26 Extended Systems JetEye PC interface lets you set your HP Palmtop or OmniBook down Palmtop Travellers ... next to your PC and transfer files back and forth without hasseling with cables, memory cards, or card readers. TTTT Two New Palmtop Wisdom ................................. 2-3 Personal effectiveness using the HP Palmtop. Contains tips on managing new ideas, finding phone numbers when you need them, time FaxIModeml management, and building wealth. User Profile: Engineer on the Road Flash Memory with the HP Palmtop PC ...................... 30 His home and office are in Alabama and he's temporarily assigned to White Sands Missle Range In New Mexico. Read how he Cards and manages it with his HP Palmtop PC. Manage Your Time and Get Control of Your Life .•.................•.. 34 Use the HP Palmtop and these techniques Two New to manage your future, instead of being managed by it. Through the Looking Glass Start an application and load its data file in one step ................ 38 Ed shows how to activate an undocumented autoload feature built into the HP 200LX. FILER.INllets you highlight a file in Filer and press ENTER to start the corresponding application with the highlighted file loaded. Programmer's Corner: . TIPI: A Small Programming Language for Small Computers ......•.•. 43 T1PI2.0 is a small, structured programming language written to run on small DOS-compatible portab{es like the HP Palmtop PCs. 02 Basic Tips ....................................... 50-51 Quick Tips ....................................... 52-54 HP I'almtop Users' Groups .................•. 9 Product Index ....................................... 55 Advertiser's Index ................................ 56 o 7447083112 9 Files on Jan/Feb ON DISK ................... 56 YOUR HP PALMTOP JUST TOOK A UANTUM LEAP. With just one SMART move, your Hewlett-Packard provider- this powerful multifuntional card has all Palmtop can jump from a portable organizer to a the performance features you need: 4MB or 6 MB mobile communications center. The Fax Modem & flash memory; 14,400 bps fax; 2400 bps modem; HP Memory Multfunction Card from SMART Modular Laserjet compatibility; as well as auto-dial and Technologies enables this transformation by answer functionality. SMART has also made combining industry standard fax & modem capabili­ installation as easy as possible, getting you up and ties with powerful, on-board flash memory-all on running in seconds, sleep and standby modes for the same streamlined PCMCIA Type II-compatible prolonged battery life, and our comprehensive card. By coupling fax, modem and memory functions five-year warranty. in a single card, All told, the Fax Modem & you can easily Memory Card from send and receive SMART is a Calaveras the data-intensive County-like leap forward communications that, before now, were for palmtop computing and beyond the reach of palmtop computing. serious Hewlett-Packard In keeping with our reputation for 100LX and 200LX users like you. PCMCIA innovation--and as a leading PC Card Think. Think SMART SMART Modular Technologies ©1995 SMART Modular Technologies. Inc. All rights reserved. SMART Logo is a trademark of SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. t= 45531 Northport Loop West, Fremont, CA 94538 All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. - Toll free: 1-800-536-1231 • Tel: 510-623-1231 • Fax: 510-623-1434 Publisher's Message The HP Palmtop Paper It's hard to believe but this issue begins our fourth year publishing The HP Palmtop Paper. Almost four years ago HP introduced its "computer in your pocket," the 512K HP 95LX, as a Lotus 1-2-3 machine with some DOS compati­ bility and a useful suite of built-in Volume four / Number one applications. At the time, for an addi­ tional $400 you could buy a 512K Executive EditorlPublisher memory card to store more data. Hal Goldstein Throughout the months and years the Managing Editor HP Palmtop and accessories evolved. Ricnard Hall Today for about the same total pur­ Technical Editor chase price you can buy a true DOS Robert Roney compatible 2 Megabyte 200LX with a Department Editors richer suite of applications and a 10 Ed Keefe Megabyte card (20 compressed) for Mark Scardina extra storage space. Contributing Writers Al Harrington The cover story unveils more of Tad James how the usefulness of the HP Palmtop Cl!pers Jones Chris Lott has evolved. First of all, both Smart Kent Peterson Modular Technologies and EXP Com­ David Shier Top: Hal Goldstein puter have introduced fax/modem & AdvertisinlZlMarketing Bottom: Robert Roney and Rich Hall Flash memory storage cards. This Brian 'feitzman means you can use your Palmtop and Margaret Martin Diane Wimett the card as a communicator without external accessories. The storage space on the card means there is room both for fax Circulation Sharon Ash and modem software and for the data you want to send and receive across phone Sharon Dilmore lines without having to borrow space from the built-in Palmtop C drive. Cindy Ericson Tom Gibson Secondly, Citizen and Penta x have introduced the first portable printers well­ Tiffany Lisk suited for the HP Palmtops. (When I show off my Palmtop, the most common Colleen Rodibaugh question I hear is, "Can you print from it?"). Because of size, easy cable connection, Executive Advisor and capabilities, these are the first printers I would take in my travels as an HP Rita Goldstein Palmtop companion. The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) is But what about fun when you are on the move, you may ask. Turns out that there published bimonthly by Thaddeus Computing Inc., at 57 East Broadway Avenue, Fairfield, are lots of game possibilities for the HP Palmtop as you will read in Capers Jones' IA 52556. Second-class postage paid at Fair­ article. One game that didn't get mentioned is the ancient Chinese/Japanese game of field, Iowa. Subscription rates payable in U.S. dollars, checks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by Go. This is an elegant game, with simple rules, where two players take turns placing credit card - one year: $39; two years: $69. stones on a 19 x 19 board. The object is to surround the other without getting Postage: U.S. and U.s. possessions free; Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other coun­ surrounded yourself. Philosophies of life and even popular novels have been written tries add $18 per year. Please allow four to about this game of complexities and intricacies greater than chess. I recently six weeks for receipt of first issue. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, Marketing and Adver­ discovered a version that works quite nicely on the HP Palmtop, "Many Faces of Go" tising Offices: P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA by Ishi Press (see Product Index, page 55). The program lets you play on different 52556. Telephone: (515) 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. Copyright 1995, Thaddeus Comput­ sized boards and has tutorials and commented games for both beginners and ing, Inc., all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without writ­ experienced players. I have spent hours in airports locked in battle with the computer ten permission. Reasonable efforts are made totally absorbed. to provide accurate and useful information, but the reader must make his or her own I'll let you page through this issue to discover the rest of the goodies. (Hint: investigations and decisions; the Publisher 200LX users check out Ed Keefe's Looking Glass column where a useful undocument­ and Editorial Staff cannot assume any respon­ sibility or liability for the use of information ed HP 200LX feature is revealed and extended.) contained herein. After supporting the HP Palmtop these past three and a half years, people ask us, POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to 1'he HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: "Don't you run out of material," and "Don't you get tired of writing about the HP Thaddeus Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 869, Palmtop?". Frankly. I am more excited and impressed today about the HP Palmtop Fairfield, IA 52556. and what it can do for me than I was when we began this publication. The possibilities of a DOS computer in my pocket seem endless. As we (HP Palmtop users) continue to discover and invent more uses for our pocket computer, we will continue to report the findings in these pages. JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 1 The editors of The HP Palmtop Paper welcome you to HUMAN Palmtop Wisdom. Palmtop Wisdom takes the latest think­ RELATIONS ing about leadership, human relations, time manage­ Finding phone numbers ment, finance, self-development, travel, and enter­ when you need them tainment and shows the concrete application of these There is a simple practice that I guarantee will payoff handsomely. concepts using HP's lOOj200LX Palmtop pes. Whenever you make a new contact, We welcome your feedback, ideas, and contributions. find yourself calling a new number or writing a new address, ALWAYS enter that information into HP Palm­ top PHONE book! By Hal Goldstein your categories, Books, Son, Mkt, If you think you may forget who Boss.