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1. 149 cing CONTACT Micro Information Services Inc 215 Islip Ave Islip NY 11751 USA Phone 516 277 6737 Fax 516 277 0509 System 95 Survey Card Turns the 95LX into a complete data collection and field geometry device for surveyors Functions in clude data collection off center shots multiple readings for angles and distances offset radial and slope stakeout survey adjustment sunshots horizontal vertical and spiral curves earthwork triangle solutions and more Connects to any Total Station via special cable not included for downloading data Availability n x dee loi gn tone eh CPUS LE ROM Card Runs under No ISIN Letra ack Pa erem A13 695 Total Station connector cable 75 specify type of Total Station CONTACT Tripod Data Systems 1853 SW Airport Road Corvallis OR 97333 USA Phone 800 426 8026 or 503 753 9322 Fax 503 757 7439 Or EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 Upgrades Updates Corrections DERIVE Version 2 5 A new version of Soft Warehouse s Mathematical Assistant software provides more algorithms for solving equations factoring polynomials integrating expressions and alge braically simplifying expressions A new pseudo random number genera tor has been added along with the abililty to import analyze and plot raw numeric dat
2. Peripherals PISIS 12112 iar ads Serial Parallel adapters cables 8 Printer Comparison chart 10 Drive95 Station95 12 Creating Cables DOS Connection Stacker ACE DoubleCard 17 Lotus Agenda 20 User Profiles On the Road and Around the World News From HP 512K 95LX Price Decrease 25 Using COMM 25 95LX to 95LX Communications 25 HP 95LX Support Alternatives to CompuServe America OnLine Prodigy 29 Columns User to User Breakthrough Make any program System Compliant 30 Sound on the 95LX 31 95LX as TV Remote Contro 32 Lithium AA Batteries 32 Looking Glass Creating Custom TopCard 33 Mathematical Mood 34 Savvy User Suggestions for the visually impaired 36 Analyzing STAT WK1 36 Programmer s Corner DERTWE anc eh oiu rea pb a Getting Started Files and FILER 41 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 o P 6 OD BOGS Wl isascscenaceson Qulek TAGs 2 6 Palmtop Paper On Disk Advertiser s Index 5 U S 7 95 os i a Printers for the HP 95LX A look at four light weight battery powered printers for on the road or at home The Canon bubble Jet 10e the Citizen PN48 the Diconix 180si and the Seiko DPU 411 Introduction by Rich Hall We continue to rece
3. Connectivity IN APP95 ALT F10 MENU CTRL F10 CHAR If you use HP s Connectivity Kit you will need to run 95 on your desktop computer This allows you to run desktop versions of the 95LX s built in appli te Your oe computer does not have or CHAR keys Whenever you are using any xd the desktop versions of the 95LX built in applications and you need to access those keys press 0 for MENU and CTRL F16 for CHAR For example if you re in the desktop ver sion of MEMO and you need to quit the application press 10 to access MENU Quit BI Filer USING FILER S SPLIT FUNCTION TO VIEW C AND A DRIVE AT THE SAME TIME In FILER you can use the Split function to simulta neously view the contents of two different directo ries on the same drive Let s say you wanted to compare the contents of your C drive and the CA DAT directory In the C drive press F7 Split There will now be mirror images of C drive High light _DAT and press ENTER Now you see the contents of DAT on one side of the screen and the basic index of C drive on the other You can view the complete contents of either drive by pressing F7 Full so long as the highlighting is on the side of the screen you wish to view The same principles work if you want to look at the C and A drives at the same time Press F7 Split and you will see two C drive screens Now press F5 Goto A ENTER The side of the split screen w
4. Oct 30 Chicago IL Nov 27 London UK Classes 9am 5 pm Tuition 295 day Call for additional cities and dates or for Custom Group Sessions Computer Instructors Company 202 829 4444 202 722 5195 Fax Washington DC 800 487 5040 ry of your built in C drive If you see another name press F5 C4 to Goto the root directory You should now see in the upper left Now look under to see the list of subdirectories and files FIL ER always lists the subdirectories before the files If you haven t yet created subdirectories of your own the first line below will list the _DAT subdirectory followed by lt DIR gt indicating that _DAT is a subdirectory not a file followed by the date and time HP originally created the subdirectory Your screen will look something like this SRS SSSA a ee HaDirs VN Irc re et hash SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 41 COLUMN Getting Started The first column in FILER always contains the name of the directory or file up to 8 characters The second column contains the file or directory name extension Even though the FILER screen shows one or more blank characters between a name and its extension the correct filename consists of the up to 8 character name followed by a peri od followed by the extension e g CHKDSK EXE There are no spaces in between Now move the cursor to DAT
5. calculus e Pilots in both 2 0 and 3 0 Solves equations exaclly problems and it plots beautifully too 2000 Years of Mathematical Kinov ledaGe on a Disk s Symbolic malh from algebra through Simple letter driven menu interface Understands vectors and matrices Split or overlay algebra amp plot windows Displays accepted math notation Does arithmetic to thousands of digits 7 Jw Joft Warchouse HONOLULU HAWAII RIVE i a registered trademark of Soll Warehouse Inc System requirements PC version MS DOS 2 1 or later only 512Kb RAM and one 3 5 or 5 25 disk drive Suggested retail price is 250 ROM card version Hewlett Packard 85LX Palmtop computer Suggested retail price is 289 Contact Soft Warehouse for a list of dealers ask al your local computer store software store or HP calculator dealer Dealer inquires are welcome Solt Warehouse Inc 3650 Waialae Avenue Suite 304 Honolulu HI USA 96616 3236 Phone 808 734 5801 Fax 735 1105 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 31 COLUMN User to User the William Tell Overture the Lone Ranger theme Further its medley selection contains another 40 themes including Auld Lang Syne California Here I Come God Save the Queen Dance of the Mario nettes the Alfred Hitchcock Theme and the Carmen Habanera If you expect CD quality sound you will be disappointed However
6. combination Due to the time required to load Agenda and the fact that Agenda is very slow when shelled to DOS from System Manager applications you may want a way to add new items to Agenda that does not require opening the program This can be done by creating a MEMO file that has all the required assignment and date information in the item para graph separating each item by a double carriage return running the memo file through the TXT2STF program 61K uncompressed or 34K if you compress it with DIET and importing the resulting STF file into your AG file This lets you easily enter new items from System Manager Note Do NOT use the automatic import STF file option It will substantially increase your file loading and saving time If you spend most of your time in DOS an alternate approach to adding new items is to use the Items accessory in Metro This will automatically create an STF file that can be imported CAUTION Metro will hang your machine if you try to pop it up over any System Manager application I have also created a view for my 95LX with sections for Meetings today or earlier calls today or earli er with a column for inserting phone book names so that phone numbers pop up in an adjacent column and todo or follow up items that are due or overdue today This reduces the amount of view changing that has to be done while minimizing the size of the View to improve response Note that Dat
7. gram and offers it as a shareware product now called Mercury I found a copy of Mercury ver sion 2 09 on the same bulletin board that serves Derive users Mercury has some unique fea tures that might make it useful for the HP 95LX For example it s one of the few programs that will let you choose the serial port for print er output It supports over 30 differ ent printers including the Laserjet Mercury demands a color moni tor to produce graphs However in the absence of such a display you can tell Mercury to list the coordi nates for such a graph and store the list in a file The coordinates can then be imported into Lotus 1 2 3 for graphical analysis We ve included a copy of MRC RY209 ZIP kl on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK for those who would like to experiment with this program Mercury requires an 80 X 25 screen so expect to spend a lot of time scrolling around the small screen of the HP 95LX Also as with any new piece of software be sure to back up everything on your HP 95LX before using it If you feel that the program has merit you might give the author a call and suggest that he modify Mercury for use on the HP 95LX My first attempt at making such a suggestion met with a cool recep tion The price of 49 is not unrea sonable Ed Keefe is an author program mer computer science instructor and long time contributor to support publications for HP computers He is the president of the FastAid
8. Margaret Martin Circulation Kelly Johnson Rene LaReau Marni Adams Signe Wilson Diane Wimett Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper is pub lished bimonthly by Thaddeus Computing Inc at 57 East Broad way Avenue Fairfield IA 252556 Second class postage pending at Fairfield Iowa Subscription rates hayama in U S dollars checks awn on a U S bank or by on it card one year 39 two years 69 Postage U S an US poe sessions free Canada Mexico add per year other countries add 18 per year Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive ditorial Circulation Markang nd Advertising Offic P O Fairfield IA 52556 ele eon 2519 472 6330 AX 515 472 1879 Copyright 199 2 Thaddeus Computing Ier all rights reserved No part of publication may be without written permission Rea sonable efforts are made to pro vide accurate and useful informa tion but the reader must make his or her own investigations and decisions the Publisher and Edi torial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for me use of information contained here POSTMASTER dc Send pei address cha The HP Palmtop Paper etn 0 Thaddeus Computin Inc Box 869 Fairfield 52556 Russian TopCard Thanks for publishing my letter in the May June issue on page 42 I still have not found a Russian text editor however I have created a TopCard file RUSSIAN PCX with the R
9. dead time be tween file transfers the 95LX does not see any aclivity in 3 min utes it will shutdown and you will lose connection between the 95LX and the desktop Some people mistakenly believe that it is a prob lem with the batteries they are us ing but have seen this happen With the 95LX no matter what bat tery is in use You can use TimeOut or 95Buddylil to reset the timeout period for more than 3 minutes and this should eliminate the problem John Crea CompuServe ID 76636 3676 DOS Tips CREATING HELP FILES FOR DOS APPLICATIONS This is a suggestion to those using DOS applications on the 95LX Typically the help files tend to be large and contain too much or improperly for the 95LX formatted text If your application has macros and can execute a DOS command you can creale a text file with the help info you need formatted for the 95 Then using a utility like RE EXE E create a macro that invokes it and your help file This creales pop up help screens that work very well on the 95LX Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 71551 467 DECIDE SYSTEM CONFIG AT BOOT UP I ve been experimenting with useful little application that picked up on the CompuServe PCVENB forum called BOOT SYS Basi cally BOOT SYS allows you to decide at boot time which configu ration to run and then sorts out which commands device drivers to load It works great on my Compaq _ desktop allowing me to choose whe
10. m BS OO HOOHEHEHERHEREROO OO QHOOHDHOHDHOHOHOHEOHO OHEHO HOO O HO DHO HO HO HOO HO HG OH EU a aiu er rallel Port We know of four battery powered serial to parallel adapters available for use with the 95LX GA 935 Serial to Parallel Adapter 99 Uses a 9 volt replaceable battery to give you up to 250 hrs of service Manufacturer s estimate you can use a rechargeable battery but must recharge it outside the unit using your own recharger Connects directly to the 9 pin end of the HP Serial Cable on one end and a standard Centronics printer port on the other Greenwich Instruments 3401 Monroe Road Charlotte NC 20205 USA Phone 800 476 4070 or 704 376 1021 Fax 704 335 8707 Palmprint Serial to Paralle Adapter available Nov 92 159 Comes with an intemal battery that can be recharged in 6 hrs by connecting the Palmprint to the 95LX s AC adapter Fully charged battery gives you 45 60 hrs of use manufacturer s estimate Connects directly to the 9 pin end of the HP Serial Cable on one end and a standard Centronics printer port on the other Palmtree Products 145 Washington Street Norwell MA 02061 USA Phone 617 871 7050 Fax 617 871 6018 Paralink3 Serial to Parallel Adapter 59 95 Approx
11. of VDE and switch back and forth between these applications WHAT S THE CATCH The only other thing needed for these revised DOS based programs to become system compliant is for the HP 95LX user to install a ver sion of SWITCH marketed by ACE Technologies The SWITCH program contains a Systems Manager enhan cer Those of you who installed our free Subscribers Disk may under stand this The Subscribers Disk automatically installs Mark s SYS MGR EXE which fixes problems that impede running existing dedi cated system compliant EXM soft ware more advanced version of this program SWITCH COM will be packaged with SWITCH and will allow software that has made Mark s specified minor changes work just like a system compliant application This is good news for developers and users alike We ex pect to have quite a bit more detail by the next issue of The HP Palm top Paper Note that current users of SWITCH will be able to upgrade for a nominal fee If you are a developer and want to discuss this with Mark contact him at his CompuServe ID 76711 732 or call Mark at 415 681 9672 Now on the lighter side Sound and the HP 95LX Those of you who played with Ramon Santoyo s U SOUNDSE were perhaps surprised to learn of the HP 95LX s capabilities to pro duce sound There are a number of freeware and shareware programs available that allow the HP 95LX to speak Be thrilled by the Lone Ran ger three minute
12. 997 7 using the Blue Application keys you enter command line param Popular DOS programs like ACT eters when you launch DOS can be launched directly using a programs from Filer Q 1 hot key without closing other 95LX E applications SWITCH also provides In addition SWITCH comes with EE Ay a block cursor capslock display easy installation and installs on Mni ast ud des and much more SWITCH even lets your HP 95LX automatically r f RA your default C _DAT 408 428 9722 FAX 408 428 9721 SWITGHI 1 0 eorr eint 49 SWITCH and Direct Launch are trademarks of ACE Technologies Inc ACT is a trademark of Contact Software HP 95LX is a trademark of Hewlett Packard Co Publisher s Message Our focus this issue on peripherals X contains a contradiction The advantage of the HP Palmtop is its size we can take it everywhere we go However there 4 are times when we want to print memo or spreadsheet directly read a file from a 3 1 2 disk into the 95LX or plant the HP 95LX in one spot To accomplish this we need peripherals twice the size and weight of the HP 95LX We succumb to this contradiction of size this issue and take a look at portable printers a portable disk drive and a docking station all well suited for the HP 95LX Hal Goldstein Also i particular you ll notice an expanded New Products section Finally based on many requests we are starting a technical suppor
13. Bubble Jet engine and case as the basis of their printers Printing from the HP 95LX 1 To connect the 95LX to a serial printer use HP s Serial Interface Cable HP uivalent The 4 pin end goes into the he end connects to the serial port of You will also need a 9 to 25 pin adapter to connect the 9 pin end of Diconix 180si serial port Los ie ipa printer most printers do not have serial ports check printer manual if you are type of 0 3 g 8 2 Configure the 95LX Press Printer Config Name and select either the Epson FX80 IBM Proprinter or HP LaserJet depending upon which selection your printer emulates check your printer manual if you re not Make sure your interface is set to M Make sure the Baud rate on your 95LX is set the same as your printers usually 9600 3 ure the printer Printer settings are very standard and you may want to skip this step and come back to it if your print test fails To configure the printer make sure the printer s baud rate is same as the 95LX A is using the character 1 stop bit no OX X Nobis software handshak ing ciat and hardware handshaking 4 Turn the printer on Off and on again if mue changed settings in 3 above ke sure the printer is on line 5 Test print Press PRT SC Shift 10 send your current screen to the printer You may have to take the printer Off Line and press t
14. Card Drives External and internal card drives for your desktop PC These drives let your desktop read your 95LX memory cards and facilitate data transfer and backups The internal card drive can accept up to 4MB of Flash memory for additional file storage capacity V 22 9 46 4 ACE 5 4 NOW Pricing EMCD P an external drive with parallel port interface 380 MCD2B Fd an internal drive with room for up to 4MB of additional Flash memory MCD2B FD 810 1MB Flash Simm module for internal drive 165 CONTACT Computer Modules 2350A Walsh Ave Santa Clara CA 95051 USA Phone 408 496 1881 Fax 408 496 1886 Modems amp Accessories Konexx Koupler Acoustic Coupler The Konexx Koupler Model 203 is a battery powered acoustic coupler that is used to connect computer modems to the telephone system via the telephone handset The Koupler allows consistent data transmission speeds up to 9600 baud 9 volt battery powers the Koupler for up to 30 hours of modem use The package includes RJ 11 modem connection and an R type adapter rp Ets 149 CONTACT Unlimited Systems Corp Inc 5555 Magnatron Blvd Suite J San Diego CA 92111 USA Phone 800 275 6354 or 619 277 3300 Fax 619 277 3305 Light Top Acoustic Coupler Light Top is a battery powered aco ustic coupler used to connect com puter modems to the telephone sys tem via the telephone handset It weighs less than 5
15. I found the tunes genuinely enjoy able and appreciated the novelty THE 95LX SPEAKS Robert Williams the physician who wrote last issue s profile found a program called TALKER EXE Hi TALKER lets you type a word into your 95LX and have your 95LX attempt to pronounce it You can type anything name a profound pronouncement or a four letter word Type your phrase and then press and the computer at tempts to enunciate what you just typed in If you know ahead of time what the computer is trying to say it seems to do a reasonably good job However normally it is difficult to understand the 95LX s speech pat terns and interpret what is being said Some phrases come out better than others Dave Marsh s sound program SNDPLAY EXE does a better job in 95LX speech synthesis The pro gram was written explicitly for the 95LX s sound capability Unfortu nately SNDPLAY limits you only to sound patterns that have already been created For example you can clearly hear Hal the computer from 2001 Space Odyssey tell Dave in a soft calming voice I am complete ly operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly You can also understand bass voiced Darth Vedar telling the emperor As you wish In addition there are prepro grammed sounds for the Three Stooges dog barks a baby greeting his father and others all with sur prising clarity Another program BEBACK COME picks out one small sound phrase an
16. PROM This is a PROM that can be erased with a long dose of intense ultravio let light EPROMs have small win dows in the top through which the UV is sent in normal use a piece of tape covers the window to pre vent unintentional erasure More expensive less dense than PROMs but mistakes aren t as expensive EEPROM Electronically erase able PROM Same concept only it can be erased electronically Flash RAM A new kind of EEPROM which allows the chip to be modified byte by byte Flash RAM seems to be breaking the traditional tradeoff between flexibility and cost with densities much higher than EE PROM yet with lower costs Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 Set Up OPTIMUM RAM DISK SYSTEM RAM SIZE Dividing up the 95LX s RAM memo ry between the RAM Disk and the System RAM is done from SET UP press System Memory and use Right and Left Arrow Keys You have to consider how you use the 95LX when deciding how to divide up the RAM If you have a lot of data and only use the built in applications set the System RAM at the minimum need ed to run the applications about 250 300K That way you have the largest possible RAM Disk to store lext data and config files If you have some big programs and very little data to store then set the System RAM as high as you can 394K for the 512K 95LX and 640K for the 1MB version This allows you to run larger programs There may be a multitude
17. Seiko Instruments U S A Inc Electronic Components Division 2990 W Lomita Blvd Torrance CA 90505 a Phone 310 51 7 7770 Fax 310 517 Other Printers The August 1992 issue of PC Maga zine and Vol 10 Issue 6 of Computer Buyer s Guide amp Handbook re viewed some additional portable printers We already mentioned the Brother HJ 100i and the StarJet SJ 48 based on the Canon Bubble Jet but marketed by different companies The DECjet 1000 and the Kodak Diconix 701 are two 7 lb parallel printers that exceeded the 5 lb weight limit criteria we set The Diconix 701 was one of PC Magazine s Editor s Choice award winners page 327 of the August 92 issue It has better print quality than the Diconix 180si and comes with a built in sheet feeder We do describe the features of the DECjet 1000 and the Diconix 701 in the Printer Comparison Chart on the next page The Toshiba ExpressWriter 201 was also listed by PC Magazine It is small and slow with two internal fonts and Epson LQ emulation only Toshiba has recently gone through a restructuring and the company representative I spoke with said that the ExpressWriter was being discontinued These additional printers have parallel ports only which means that if they work with the 95LX you ll need a serial to parallel port adapter to connect them We have not tested any of these additional printers and can make no guar antees that they work with the 95LX even with a serial
18. a multitude of office PCs He uses his 95LX for appointment schedul ing taking job related notes writing memos communicating with the office and CompuServe and data communications trouble shooting Order Information Adapters Connectors Cables 4 prong is Phone Connector Male Serial Connector Retail ren haga ren hae Unterminated 95LX Serial Cable CNRC MM DAL OI DIR RN E 12 95 Contact EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna CA 92677 USA Phone ey Sedet or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 Contact Macronix 1344 Ri San Jose CA 95131 USA Phone 408 453 8088 Fax 408 453 8488 Pocket Modem s USA and Canada only Phone 800 442 4774 or 805 497 DOS CONNECTION Stacker Stacker File Compression Software and the ACE DoubleCard 2 0 Install Stac Electronic s Stacker and you can double the storage capacity of your RAM Card The ACE Double Card is a RAM card that comes with a pre installed ready to go version of Stacker for the 95LX The Double Card also lets you compress your 95LX s C drive ACE also offers DoubleCard 2 0 Software that easily turns your existing RAM card into a DoubleCard By Mark Scardina Data compression software has been around for some time Programs like DIET El PKLITEH and 7 have been used by programmers and novices alike to reduce the size of files in order for them to take up less space on floppy or hard drive Files
19. also take up less time trans mitting over expensive communica tions systems Saving file storage space is an especially important topic among 95LX owners This month we will look at Stacker 2 0 the most popular com pression product for the PC market Stacker burst on the scene a few short years ago and quickly set the standard for hassle free data com pression With version 2 0 s ability to be used on removable disks use on the 95LX finally became possible Using Stacker Stacker 2 0 can only be used on the 95LX s RAM card and of course your PC s hard disk Its installation on the 95LX requires following a very specific procedure presented in the accompanying sidebar Once Stacker is installed and mounted it becomes transparent more on mounting Stacker below The user simply saves a file to or re trieves it from the Stacd RAM card and Stacker takes care of the rest Typical users can effectively double their RAM card space with no discernible performance penalty DIET on the 92 Subscribers Disk On The HP on Disk PKLITE PKL103 ZIP on the Jan Feb 92 issue PKZIP PKZ110 EXE on the Mar Apr 92 issue Stacker is loaded before any other programs are run It uses about 45K of System memory to perform its file compression duties While this is higher than DIET see page 18 Fall 91 issue Stacker does not require any space for temporary files Once Stacker is set up it auto matically compresses files sav
20. and press to reveal a whole new world of files The upper left part of the FILER screen indicates that we are now in the C NDAT subdirectory Listed on the screen are the files in the C X DAT subdi rectory et Y Mis 5 Bt i os EI irs Lp nn neu FILER screen in DAT Upon entering the C X DAT subdi rectory in FILER the highlight bar rests on the first line below C _DAT the one with two periods followed by View Up The two periods at the beginning of that line stand for the parent directory in this case the C root directory Press ENTER when the cursor is on the two dots and FILER moves us back to the C root directory If we had saved our MEMO file as NOTES we would find NOTES TXT in the C N DAT subdi rectory we mentioned earlier the full filename would include the path and be C _DAT NOTES TXT This name contains complete infor mation about the file Its name extension and path where the file is stored FILER Commands Once we have a clear understanding of how files are named and stored we can make full use of the built in FILER program As with all the built in applica tions we can get a quick intuitive overview of what FILER can do by simply examining the function key labels at the bottom of the main FILER screen and by pressing the MENU key For the remainder of this article let s first look at a few o
21. are to the hard disk RAM Card Memory and File Compression You will need the following files in your A AGENDA directory A EXE AGENDA EXE AGENDA RI and PLANNER AG or XXX AG if you ve renamed Planner Actually AGENDA EXE is op tional but it allows you to shell to DOS The AGENDA EXE file con sumes very little room compared to the other files Because Agenda uses overlays PkLite cannot be used to reduce the disk space required DIET does not make any sense for file compres sion because it needs unused disk space at least as large as the largest uncompressed file in this case 662K this requirement more than offsets any compression savings Stacker does offer some space savings but it takes twice as long to load Agenda and 20 longer to SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 HP 95LX Palmtop Software Pocket Sales Force A powerful flexible and interactive database program Simple to use Pocket Sales Force will instantly control and plan the vital areas of sales activity lead and enquiry main tenance contact follow up dates letters and mailshots Improves customer ser vicing reporting and strategic marketing 20 fully user definable fields plus full contact history Sophisticated single and multiple criteria search filters Hot key access compliant with 95LX built in applications Lotus 1 2 3 interface Available Now TO ORDER or for more information contact C M Software Business
22. as COM and EXE files have compression ratios that range from 1 5 1 to 1 8 1 For example a ratio of 1 5 1 means a 15K file would be compressed to 10K Lotus WK1 files range from 3 1 to 8 1 These variations make the exact determi nation of space remaining in your Stacker drive impossible When the drive is first created Stacker is optimistically told to anticipate an average compression ratio of 3 1 This is higher than most people get but it insures that there are a large number of entries in Stacker s file table in case some one happens to keep a large number of small files on their card If you have a 1MB card you can test this by running chkdsk a from the DOS prompt It will report that you have of free space Again this is based on an overly optimistic com pression ratio Don t believe it and do not use Chkdsk on a Stac d RAM card again for checking free space Stacker provides SCHECK EXE for this purpose Stacker Gives Approximations of Storage Space Remaining Once you start saving files onto your Stacd RAM card you may observe some unusual reports by the DOS DiIRectory command or FILER s Directory Status command Your bytes remaining on disk figure may decrease in incre ments not directly related to the size of the file stored It may even go up when you add a file and down when deleting one These unusual reports are due to the fact that Stacker can only guess the compressibility of files you
23. e Serial pa e Utilize over 100 famous quotes Connect the HF e Includes Making an Impact e Easily transfer files and Cames95 Communicai The ULTIMATE St Board Games for the HP S5LX e Chess Checkers Tetris 2400 baud FAX Mod Backgammon Invaders e Serial Connectic e Challenge the 95 or an opponent e Conneci e Best graphics available e Multiple skill levels Sparcom Corporation e 897 NW Grant Ave Corvallis OR 9 Dealer Distril ns by seme Docking Station for the HP 981 e Highest quality available Contemporary design Increase memory e AC MN tn i ja E DEM Exceeds PCMCIA specifications e Instant connection to your PC or Mac ME Bette r system performance 256 9199 159 512K 5299 239 1MB 9229 359 2MB 97X9 629 e Strong compact lightweight Docking Station UN mw the Station95 plus Drivedo nectivity Software 31 2 Portable Disk Drive separate connectivity Pac e Rechargable batteries allel converter 4s e Low cost memory option JoLX to ANY printer e Transfer files between your ications HP 99LX PC or Mac HP 95LX and your PC e Works with PCs and laptops ion Station95 1 Basic lon ML Basic LX Docking Station e Create your own custom applications ides e Easy to use programming language m e Parallel printing port e Generate HP 95LX System Manager 1 AC power adapter compliant programs vity s
24. editor and your knowledge of alge bra to write out the complex ex pression Beyond Calculus Derive goes beyond calculus to give you a jump start at solving first and second order differential equations Some solutions can be done exactly while other solutions may be ap proximated through the use of other functions and series Derive comes with several utili ty files which contain add in func tions that extend the capabilities of the program The functions include Bessel Elliptic Gamma Fresnel Legendre Hypergeometric Hermite and Zeta UTIL Forth Version 2 4 The 95LX Toolkit For Programmers And Non Programmers Harness all the power of your 95LX with UTIL a System Manager compliant implementation of the Forth language Even if you are not a programmer you ll make use of the sample programs that include games music and useful utilities Create System Manager compliant loaders for your favorite DOS programs or shell to DOS with a hot key using the UTIL EXM loader The easy to use patching tools let you set the Alt Arrow and Cursor Tracking functions for the loaded program The package includes a comprehensive User s Guide and many source code examples UTIL includes a Forth compiler 8086 assembler decompiler and disassembler to turn your 95LX into a portable software development system Create compact System Manager compliant executable applications and standalone COM programs Or use the tools to access t
25. files e g NOTES TXT or BUDGET WK1 A program file is an application or a program For example HPTRIS EXE is the program file for the Tetris game included on the Subscriber s Disk and CHKDSK EXE is the DOS Check Disk program you ll find built in on the root directory C of your 95LX Looking at Files and Directories from FILER Now let s enter the built in FILER application by pressing FILER key Examine the upper left of the FILER screen just below the double lines FILER lists here the name of the directory or subdirectory you are currently viewing You will probably see C the name of the root directo Palmtop Training Classes Learn HP 95LX tips techniques and short cuts in I day hands on seminars HP 95LX A Vision of Possibilities System Manager SetUp Appt watch Phone Memo Lotus basics HP Calc Connectivity Pack SkyStream pager Overview of Shareware for the 95LX Lotus 1 2 3 for the Palmtop Spreadsheets database graphics ACT for the Palmtop Contact calls meetings things to do Custom Executive Training available Sales Force Integration Workshop Using ACT to act as a company Bring your own 95LX or test drive one purchasable after class HP related products will be available to try out Intro to HP 95LX Seminar Schedule Oct 9 12 Los Angeles Nov 2 San Francisco CA Nov 6 Iowa City 1 Nov 11 Kansas City MO Nov 13 Dallas TX Oct 28 Philadelphia PA Nov 20 Denver CO
26. found in the root directory of the C drive Add the following line to the end of your CONFIG SYS file be sure to press after you type in the line DEVICE DRIVE95 SYS If you don t have a CONFIG SYS file you can copy over the one found on Drive95 s software disk or create a new CONFIG SYS file containing the above line While Drive95 is a useful addi tion to the 95LX there are some things you should be aware of Drive95 size 7 x 5 x 2 is bulky compared to the 95LX and this makes traveling with Drive95 less than optimal Also as mentioned Drive95 connects via the serial port and serial port data transfer can seem a bit slow at times Prices Torrance Lower FAX 310 370 3265 5 800 462 4309 ge rms OCTOBER VR RUF ae THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 13 Another problem more an an noyance is that when you discon nect Drive95 it seems that some of the built in applications load more slowly I assume this is because you still have the device driver loaded and the 95LX spends some time looking for Drive95 before starting the application I found that it took 2 to 3 times longer to start some applications Drive95 works with the 95LX an HP 48SX calculator or an IBM compatible personal computer David Hayden is the Product Manager of Palmtop Applications for Lucid Corporation of Dallas Texas USA Order Information Drive95 329 95 External 3 5 floppy drive that connects to the 95LX s
27. of gradations between and B so you may have to experiment to find the right balance Frank Nagle CompuServe ID 71140 1253 Ez 95Buddy on Jul Aug issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK RE EXE TimeOut and COMTO EXE on 92 Subscriber Disk All others on Sep Oct 92 issue THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 51 HOW TO CONTACT US There are a number of ways to touch with The HP Palmtop er staff You can write with your comments send CEDE Serve mail fax or call Our address is Thaddeus Computing Inc The HP Palmtop Paper PO Box 869 or 57 E Broadway Fairfield 52556 U S A Fax 515 472 1879 Phone 515 472 6330 or 800 373 6114 Products Advertised in The HP Palmtop CompuServe ID Hal Goldstein 75300 2443 To advertise in The HP Palmtop Pa per contact advertising sales director rian Teitzman To subscribe change address or clear up any problem with your subscrip tion contact our prec Ian depart ment Director Kelly Johnson Technical Support sex Ais ens Thaddeus Com pu c Fax us your pro and we ll call you back with the an swer see page 15 this issue for more information Customer rates per minute we long distance USA 2 00 Cana 2 35 Europe D DER Memory Cards software amp hardware To Wireless Information Service an Economic Communit South America Africa 3 50 Asia anter Europe Australia Function Application
28. ounces and is powered for 40 hours of use with 4 AAA batteries Light Top allows data transmission at speeds from 2400 to 9600 bps 111 oo eestor Orn eas NOW Pridng 145 CONTACT Coml1 Data Communication Corp 5120 Avenida Encinas Suite C Carls bad CA 92008 USA Phone 800 289 2661 or 619 431 5606 Fax 619 431 5744 Wireless Communication The Data Lite Portable Satellite Terminal Data Lite is designed to connect the 95LX user to the INMARSAT C satellite system providing 95LX users a worldwide data link to send and receive information sig 25 2 24 10 000 CONTACT Mobile Telesystems Inc 300 Professional Dr Gaithersburg MD 20879 USA Phone 301 41 7 6210 Fax 301 590 8558 PagerPac This software runs on IBM AS 400 multi user computer and allows users of the AS 400 to send messag es schedules spreadsheets and other data through an information service to the 95LX via a mobile receiver like the HP SkyStream or the Motorola NewsStream Receiver Lone riso da np 000 NOW Sea under SysMgr Not for 95LX Via asrh stQtej qyAVAXA Call CONTACT Business Partner Solutions Inc 2 Salt Creek Lane Suite 214 Hinsdale IL 60521 USA Phone 708 323 9292 Fax 708 323 9330 Phone as of Oct 15 800 645 BPSI SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE PALMTOP PAPER 45 a PRODUCTS INC just got personal p How Make world leaders in GPS and c
29. printer the battery is 8 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 for other uses outside my Sergio Casanova Peripherals Printers acceptable for a printer of this type See print sample previous page It has four fonts Prestige 10 Prestige 12 Helvetica and Gothic each is available in either draft 68 cps or letter quality 21 cps The 180si accepts both sheet paper manual feed or fan fold paper tractor feed You can also print transparencies although you need to be careful in your choice of transparency to be sure that it will take the ink The 180si emulates the Epson FX 85 or the IBM Proprinter both of which are options on the 95LX This means that print modes such as superscript subscript underline italic and bold are all possible if you use a word processor that supports those features MEMO does not The printing action is very quiet The 180si uses 5 NiCd C bat teries which are neatly tucked away inside the paper roller The batteries are recharged by the prin ters power supply and the printer can run on either the power supply or the batteries Kodak says the batteries will give you 50 minutes of printing but I have not tested this I assume this would depend on the charge status and memory of the Ni Cd cells It takes about 10 hours overnight to recharge the fully depleted batteries Memory refers to the fact that Ni Cd batteries if repeatedly only partially charged lose the
30. proto col To understand the following chart in COMM press MENU Set tings Config and you will see the following screen ees d ds e E h Terminal Other capti ure icatio Settings Er Gd T pe rity bea p 22 Echo piggies Dupl ull eee 123 23 4567 TR x late t Script RYE COMM Configuration Screen The chart lists the parameter in the COMM config screen followed by an example setting the setting neces sary to log onto CompuServe fol lowed by an explanation PARA SAMPLE Explanation METER SETTING Port Interface Comi this is the only wire serial port on the 95LX Baud 3 2400 this assumes your current mo dem operates at 2400 baud Stop 1 1 stop bit is sufficient 2 stop bits might be used to slow down transmission The start bit is automatic Parity Even Bit used for error checking This setting matches that used by Compuserve Char 7 This will provide for the lower 128 chars Dial Type Tone Pulse will also work with touch lone phones but tone will not work with rotary phones Number This is the phone number Terminal Emulation VT100 This is most appropriate for the 95LX on Compuserve Wrap On Readability is enhanced when long lines are wrapped at 40 character increments Bcksp Bcksp It is a matter of choice whether you want the cursor to delete as it backs up or simply to back space Other Echo Disable Echo enabled may cause yo
31. the file In other words NOTES is really saved as NOTES TXT If we had been in Lo tus 1 2 3 and saved a file as BUD GET 1 2 3 would have appended the extension WK1 to it making the file BUDGET WK1 Similarly the Phone Book application appends the extension PBK to a saved file and the Appointment Book ABK Actually the absolute real name of the file contains its entire directory or path The complete name of the MEMO file we saved above is not NOTES or NOTES TXT but C _DAT NOTES TXT Whenever a MEMO file is saved it automatically by default gets saved to the HP 95LX s built in sub directory C X DAT The 95LX also saves PHONE APPT and HP CALC files into C X DAT Lotus 1 2 3 files are by default saved into the root C directory The Subdirectory and The Root Directory The main directory built into the HP 95LX is known as the root di rectory and is denoted as C Any directory can have within it two different types of objects Files and additional directories known subdirectories Subdirectories in turn can have within them files and subdirectories The HP 95LX comes with the C root directory and a DAT subdirectory built in Both C and C _DAT already contain files It also comes with a hidden directo ry C _SYS There are two types of files data files and program files When you save a document from MEMO or a spreadsheet from 1 2 3 you are creating data
32. the menu is always active In addition pressing tab key as well as the space bar will move the highlighter from one menu option to another Like 1 2 3 you can also press capitalized letters to pick menu items SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE PALMTOP PAPER 37 COLUMN Programmer s Corner EUM A ath es HP 9SLX Version 2 86 Copyright Ge UI bn Tan and 1991 onalulu Hawaii US Press H for help ee DERIVE screen with Lotus like menu _ Pressing the right and left arrow keys doesn t change menu items as it does in Lotus Rather the right and left arrow keys make different parts of a math expression appear in inverse video If there are no math expressions in the display and you press the arrow keys to choose a menu item nothing will appear to happen This different way of using the arrow keys takes some getting used to There is one other feature of Derive that takes some getting used to as well For instance there is no easy way to edit an incorrect entry In 1 2 3 you can press F2 Edit key and change a cell s contents With Derive to correct an entry you use the arrow keys to highlight part of a math expression Then you must choose the Manage Substitute menu option and enter the correc tion Derive then makes a copy of the expression on a separate line If you have several corrections to make you wind up with multiple copies of the formula each one slightly more correct t
33. to parallel adapter We would welcome feedback on positive experiences you ve had with the portable printers you use with your HP 95LX SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 9 6661 HMHOLOO 5 HudVd dOLW IVd dH AHL QT Reviewed and Mentioned but not tested Printer Comparison Chart citze Piet Diconi ios seseneuari Star Micronics Decet Dorn w serial port RR D erp n Other Cables 5 needed Serial cable HP Serial Cable Serial cable Serial Hm Serial Citizen KB48 cable adapter C w Paralink3 Serial Cable rial cable comes in HP F1001A Connectivity Pack or HP 82222A Serial Cable C w Paralink3 C w Paralink3 C wf Paral C w Paralinid C w Paral C 9 to 25 pin computer adapter HP Connectivity Kit P Printer adapter Modem adapter both from HP 82224A Adapter Kit Options Available I o oos NA Carrying Case NECEM Ph sical Desori ion UN CE CCOUSG 7 AC ad AC adapter Included in package with printer senis in addition to manuals connect cable connect cable A 1 ink cartridge ink cartridge Size of printer inches cm 1 9 12285 2117 35 2x108 amp 65 6 19x 5x 13 5x 8 TTT 48x31x216 5x297 89 5 27 4 165 16 i 203 6 1 29 7x 1
34. to repeatedly reach back and touch it to confirm it was still there Also it is possible to drop a RAM Card and pair of spare batteries down in the bottom of the pouch and still fit the 95LX with full coverage The material is stretchy enough to for give this and the bottom just shows a slight out pouching when the spare AAs are down there I will have to give this product a 10 for ingenious design and execution in a simple belt pouch for the 95LX I can seriously rec ommend it without reserva tion price 19 95 for more information see page 35 Robert S Williams CIS ID 76167 2773 re On Palmtop Paper ON DISK Sep Oct 92 STOP Before you buy another of batteries BAT Im an and NiMH batteries If you are tired of throwing away batteries BATTman will allow safe hassle free use of rechargeables on your 95LX Palmtop paper August 1992 Every combination of BATTman works flawlessly and I never Palmtop paper August 1992 once lost data Features e provides 200 more capacity than standard NiC ds Rechargeable to 1 000 times er memory effects and non toxic our environment Like hundreds of other 95LX users start using BATTman battery management software with NIMH Nickel metal Hydride rechargeable batteries and SAVE BATIman 3 5 floppy aSRERHSHRARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSRRRPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGS BATIman with two Ni metal Hydrides s
35. tpe 9 Pf FHEE Catalog fv oft Warehouse ANGE ACE Technologies Inc EduCALC AiR 27953 Cabot Rd Laguna Niguel CA 92677 800 677 7001 EXT 102 714 582 2637 TEES A Cant my FAX 714 582 1445 and all incoming data will be saved to the file until CTRL F5 is again pressed closing the file The Data comm configuration menu provides three options for the Capture fea ture The None setting captures all data refer to the manual for details on Filter and Map XMODEM and KERMIT are similarly straightforward XMODEM has no options KERMIT has a few Refer to previous discussion of these two protocols or the Owner s manu al for specifics 95LX SUPPORT Alternative info Systems Alternatives to CompuServe Although far less comprehensive than CompuServe Prodigy has an easy to use graphical interface and no access charges for PC and Mac users America OnLine also features an easy graphical interface and has just started a HP 95LX forum for Mac and PC related issues Introduction By Hal Goldstein I am a great fan of CompuServe and its HPHAND forum as a support vehicle for the HP 95LX It is the best source available for fast an swers to perplexing problems for discussions about the 95LX and for a library of 95LX free and share ware software However there are less expen sive easy to use electronic informa tion services available We discuss two here Prodigy an
36. willing to spend an hour recompil ing his program can make his DOS based program work in conjunction with the 95LX built in applications Naturally for such a program to run on the 95LX it would still face limited disk space and system mem ory and have to conform to the non standard 40 x 16 graphics screen Mark tells me that he now has the highly touted shareware editor VDE and shareware communica tions package COMMO working with the built in applications In fact Mark has the blue MEMO and COMM keys starting VDE and COM MO rather than MEMO and COMM There are already a number of com mercial programs such as Grandview InfoSelect Agenda and Wordperfect 4 2 that run reason ably well on the HP 95LX These too could work in the System Manager environment alongside Phone pointment and 1 2 3 The manu facturers of these products would only have to re compile their pro grams with Mark s minor changes The beauty of Mark s plan is that once these programs are re compiled they remain MS DOS EXE or COM program files They run as before on a PC compatible and from DOS on the 95LX What Mark does is create an additional 1K EXM file so that the program runs with the built in applications Unlike MENU 95 supplied on the Subscribers Disk these modified programs have all the characteristics of the built in applications Given enough System Memory you could open PHONE 1 2 3 and say this special version
37. wire to pin 2 the yellow receive wire to pin 3 and the red ground wire to pin 7 Don t confuse the insulated wires with the ground wrap an uninsulated copper wire in the cable Use the above instructions if you want to construct a cable to connect the 95LX to a MODEM If you want a custom cable to connect the 95LX to another PC you ll need to reverse the wires connected to pins 2 and 3 on both the 25 pin or 9 pin connector You reverse wires when connect ing to a PC because you want to connect the Transmit data pin of one computer to the Receive data pin on the second computer When you send your message through a modem the phone company conve niently crosses the send and receive data through its network This is necessary even for normal phone On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Sep Oct 92 GVCMOD 95 on the Fall 91 issue communication so that your voice which is transmitted from the mouthpiece on one end is on the earpiece on the other side When you connect to a local PC you have to cross these wires yourself I hope this gives you the neces sary information to go forward but once again BEWARE DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK You may invali date your warranty on any products you may connect to this modified cable Frank Nagle is MIS Telecom munications Manager for Micro Linear a semi conductor manufac turer in San Jose California USA He is responsible for DEC VAX 6310 equipment Rolm phone switch and
38. without any problems Steven White CompuServe ID 100036 145 LOTUS 123 MACROMANAGER ADD IN WORKS ON 95LX have been using the Macro Manager add in from Lotus 2 2 for about 8 months without knock wood any problems uses macro library file of about 14K that has almost all the macros use a daily basis in it think this add in is VERY useful because have to duplicate all these macros in each spreadsheet Ronald Vieceli CompuServe ID 73310 3663 50 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 APPT MACRO TO GET LISTING OF DATA FILES If you keep all of your APPT PHONE and MEMO data files ABK PBK and TXT in one direc tory say you can use the following User Defined Function Key Macro to get a file listing of the data files while you are in the application Menu FO BkSp 9 times C DATA Enter This assumes that you use the standard extensions ABK for the data files The above example as sumes that the data files are stored in the DATA directory of the C drive If the DATA directory was on your RAM card CADATA would be replaced by A DATA Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 71551 467 MACRO FOR BACKING UP APPOINTMENT BOOK This macro automaticaly saves changes for the appointment book closes the application and creates a file backup in card A It could be easily adapted to any other applica tion RAM card should be installed and the 95LX switched
39. 011 44 438 815222 AmEx Visa MasterCard Accepted MADE ET 121 London Road Knebworth Herts SG3 6EX United Kingdom _STAT WK1 I had planned to give a detailed analysis of the STAT WK1 spread sheet contained in the 95LX s ROM but unfortunately my eyes aren t up to it If you want to review it you re on your own To retrieve the spread sheet enter Lotus and press MENU File Retrieve Then use your arrow keys to highlight _STAT WK1 and press ENTER Let me give you some tips that will help you analyze any spreadsheet Read and follow directions Try a sample problem Examine the formulas Examine the macros Enhance and customize the spreadsheet to meet your needs Incorporate the knowledge you gain into your spreadsheets m Step six is most important It is why you are doing steps one through four Step five is great if you need the spreadsheet All writers develop a unique style and this includes writers of spreadsheets The style of STAT is very different to that of EXPENSE analyzed on page 31 of the May June 92 issue The most distinctive feature of STAT s style is its diago nal organization where each page of the spreadsheet is below and to the right of the previous page much like the diagonal red or black squares on a checker board I can not bring myself to use the diagonal organization When I first learned to use spreadsheets memo ry was conserved by cramming everything in the upper
40. 115 U S Comes with a replaceable 5 4 volt battery that will give you about 36 hours of printing connected to the Citizen PN48 user review and 100 hours when connected to the Canon Bubble Jet manufacturer s estimate Leave unconnected to printer when not in use or you will drain the battery Connects to the 95LX serial cable via the 9 to 25 adapter that came with HP Connectivity Pack Other end connects directly to a standard Centronics printer port Widget Software 121 London Road Knebworth Herts SG3 6EX UNITED KINGDOM Phone 44 438 815444 Fax 44 438 815222 Smart Converter Serial to Parallel Adapter 160 000 Lira Approx 135 U S Uses a standard 9 volt battery manufacturer does not recommend using rechargeables Comes with software so it can also be used with the HP 48SX Calculator One end of the adapter connects directly to the 9 pin end of the HP Serial Cable The other end terminates in a 25 pin female port that fits into the 25 pin male end of a standard Centronics printer cable Distributors in Europe and South Africa Contact ForCALC below for information ForCALC Via Varese 67 41100 Modena ITALY Phone 059 440404 Fax 059 304490 CABLES AND OTHER ADAPTERS HP Connectivity Pack serial cable software adapter 99 95 Part HP F1001A Includes serial cable connectivity software and one 9 to 25 pin adapter for connection to PC Available through HP dealers and other vendors Contact information
41. 98 Weight of printer with battery in Ibs kg Bact 29 13 2010 46 21 29 7 0132 a ee a ee Times Roman Times Nordic adapter connect cable 1 ink cartridge OE 2 wall A 1 en SPECIAL FOR THE HP 95LX Contact and client tracking Calendar management Expense tracking e PC Connectivity Cable included for easy data integration e Report generation e ZAPCARDS wireless business card exchange e International versions available Ibe Portable Way To Control Your Day CONTACT SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL 1840 Hutton Drive 200 Carrollton TX 75006 214 919 9500 or Toll Free 1 800 365 0606 214 919 9750 Fax InterSystems House Tangier Lane Eton Berkshire SL 6BB ENGLAND 44 0 753 830727 Fax 44 0 753 833317 1992 Contact Software International ACT for tbe HP 95LX lets you take control of your day while you re on the go This powerful contact manager keeps all the details about your contacts and your calendar at your fingertips ACT even tracks and reports your expenses The innovative ZAPCARDSS feature lets you exchange business card and other contact information wirelessly with other ACT HP 95LX users And it s all fully integrated and easy to use Based on best selling ACT contact management software this powerful version was designed specifically for HP 95LX users like you And it s easy to upload and download information to and f
42. Assignment conditions and actions On does not affect loading and View changing time but does slow down text mat ching You should keep your item en tries as short as possible and enter details in notes to the items to minimize response time Reading entries is much easier if you do the following First high light the section head press MENU View Column Width Then use the Left Arrow key to reduce the column width making the entries narrower than the 95LX screen width and press ENTER Use the ALT Arrow Keys to scroll the 95LX window on the 80 x 25 Agenda page Note that turning the 95LX sleep mode off does not give any performance improvement over the above approach and will only con sume batteries more quickly It will take about 20 seconds to load your Agenda file It will take 10 to 20 seconds to change Views While this is about three times as long as a 386 machine would take it is certainly acceptable perfor mance Advanced Users Only If you must apply actions and condi tions other than text matching after an item is modified or a new item is entered you can either leave the Assignment conditions and actions On or you can use Utilities Execute and select Apply conditions Against Marked items and Apply actions to New assignments only Utilities Execute against all items and all assign ments takes forever on the 95LX You can apply conditions only to a highlighted item by pressing the
43. BER OCTOBER 1992 specifically for you based on your personal profile 27 Letus show you healthier lifestyle for you and your family Call us today 4 1 800 732 7707 or 719 598 5276 MIRIC amp L CORPORATION Video available to domestic market only NEWS FROM HP News HP is decreasing the price of the 512K 95LX The rest of this article looks at the HP 95LX s built in COMM program and the meaning of various settings It then shows how to connect two 95LX s via modem By HP Palmtop Support From the Factory Price Decrease for 512K 95LX The retail price for the 512K unit in the USA as of Sept 1 1992 is 550 The 1MB 95LX will remain at 799 Some others countries have reduced HP 95LX prices Interna tional users should check with local sales office Using The 95LX COMM Program CONFIGURING COMM The HP 95LX user can use built in COMM with a modem and phone line to communicate with other computers COMM user can send upload or receive download files from a remote computer across the country or even across the world He can leave electronic mail or even carry on a conversation with a user at the other computer The challenge in data communi cations is to make sure the comput ers on both ends of the phone line are speaking the same language That is both computers and their modems must know the speed baud rate data is being transmit ted according to what rules
44. C adapter and one inkjet cartridge Five NiCd C cells will cost you about 15 from Radio Shack Additional inkjet cartridges run about 19 95 The inkjet cartridges it uses should be avail able from the dealer you buy the 180si from the same cartridge as used in the HP ThinkJet portable printer and should also be available from your local HP dealer The size is 5 08 x 27 4 x 16 5 cm 2 x 10 8 x 6 5 inches which means that it can fit into a brief case al though it is a tight fit It weighs in at 1 3 kg 2 9 lb without the batter ies the battery brings the weight up to about 1 8 kg 4 lbs The 180si comes with an external 9V DC power supply The print quality though not comparable to a laser printer is SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 7 Serial to Parallel Adapters Cables and other Adapters The HP 95LX comes with serial and infrared data interface ports Most printers come with parallel interfaces In order to connect the 95LX to a parallel printer a device called a Serial To Parallel Adapter must be used These adapters must draw power from some source to operate The 95LX has precious little energy lo spare and does not furnish external devices power through its serial port Many but not all printers can furnish serial to parallel adapters enough power to operate Unfortunately portable battery powered printers don t have a lot of energy to spare either and tend not to be able to power these adapters This i
45. CIA Credit Card Size Format Q Integrated Terminal and Facsimile Software Compatible with CompuServe Genie Dow Jones and MCI 15375 Barranca B 101 Irvine California 92718 2400 1200 and 300 bit sec Data Rates 4800 2400 bit sec PalmFax m Lifetime Guarantee CompuServe Genie Dow Jones and MCI are trademarks or tradenames of their 1 800 453 0550 Order Information Cannon Bubble Jet 499 Includes AC adapter connect cable ink cartridge 50 for rechargeable battery 25 for additional ink cartridges Quiet good print quality Needs 95LX Serial Cable HP F1001A or HP 82222A and Serial to Parallel Adapter Depending on Serial to parallel adapter used may also need the 9 25 pin printer adapter from the HP Serial Cable Adapter Kit HP 82224A or the 9 25 pin computer ter from the HP Connectivity Pack HP F1001A CONTACT Canon USA Inc One Canon Plaza Lake Success NY 11042 USA Phone 516 488 6700 StarJet SJ 48 499 Based on Bubble Jet engine and case Improved font and paper handling 13 addi tional scaleable typefaces Not useable from MEMO 50 for rechargeable battery 25 for additional ink cartridges CONTACT Star Micronics 420 Lexington Ave Ste 2702 25 New York NY 10170 USA Phone 212 986 6770 Brother HJ 100i 499 Virtually identical to the Bubble Jet 50 for rechargeable battery 25 for additional ink cartridges CONTACT Brother Internat
46. Calculator Application ete ehe da Demo Tests fo see if A VREMOTE works on your entertainment Demo Flat file database limited demo ve rsion Entertainment The Terminator tel you 1 be back Entertainment Music for the HP Technical Support HP offers these options m 90 DAYS FREE SUPPORT is of fered to all 95LX neers and is available by 503 75 m FREE UTOMATED SUPPORT is offered 24 hours a day by calling 800 443 1254 6 MONTH SUPPORT CONTRACT for n D you Jg a toll free number and 6 m mited support Call 800 4 YER 900 NUMBER SUPPORT available on a pay as you go basis first minute free 620 2 00 ope mune thereafter Call How to submit an article The richness of The HP Palmtop Pa comes from the contributions of 9 users We and your fellow Vp wel come your submissions We do not offer payment for articles your reward is knowing that you ve helped others If you have Yom idea and want to go for it it in via Compu Serve EMail i 75800 2443 or send disk or hard copy to Hal Goldstein or Rich Hall at the at Re address Alternative ly you can send an outline of your idea We will try to guide as to when and whether we would use the article and contact you if we clarification or have any s We may want to use an article but for a variety of reasons you may not see it for many months Also please under stand that we cannot promise to run If you pecially if ite es y u wri a Palmtop top
47. Compa ny 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe ID is 75300 3667 E on The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Sep Oct 92 Manhattan Consulting Presents External Pocket Modem 2400 BPS Hayes Compatibility Useable with all PC s HP 95LX Compatible Includes All Connectivity Accessories for and PC s Case Batteries Cables PC Software Introductory Price of Only 79 99 Call 818 996 9264 and place your order now Requires HP Serial Cable Plus S amp H Tax CA Residents SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 35 _ COLUMN Savvy User The Savvy User Tom makes some design suggestions for the visually impaired gives some advice on how not to bend AC adapter prongs and lists some tips on analyzing the built in_STAT WK1 or any Lotus worksheet By Thomas R Page Years ago I had what I thought was a horrible bout with the common cold As it turns out I was infected with the Histoplasmosis fungus which in most cases causes respira tory distress but with some unfor tunate individuals me can cause scarring on the retina of the eye This can lead 20 or 30 years later to vision problems which I am now experiencing The Histoplasmosis fungus ts common found in the accumulated droppings of birds pigeons poultry and bats Over 50 million Ameri cans have been infected by this fun gus My ophthalmologist recom mends that those people who have had a Histoplasmosis infect
48. EY The software PTR95 ZIP is available on the July August issue of The HP Palmtop Paper DISK or directly from Ariste Software 1523 Fifth Avenue San Rafael CA 94901 USA Phone 415 459 1519 CompuServe ID 73027 3067 Using BATTman with the Subscribers Disk I had some initial difficulty using the 1992 Subscribers Disk on my 95LX I had installed the BATTman battery management pro gram ACE before I re ceived my disk and was using Stacker on my drive RAM card I also had been using Drive95 I made these discoveries 1 I had to have the Drive 95 device statement before the Stacker de vice statement in CON FIG SYS in order for the hot keys to operate 2 I had to install BATT man and ask it to by pass the setup screen upon Reboot I had to use command line op tions at setup and add line as the last TSR on the AUTOEXEC BAT I hope this is useful to some of our friends I also would like some help I come from Kuwait and in the Middle East Saturday is the first day of the week Maybe someone knows a way to change WEEKABK which only recognizes Sunday and Monday as possible first days of the week Adnan Al Bahar London UK LEO on the HP 95LX Not many 95LX users have heard of LEO It is a scien tific text editor with a TeX file as its output Thanks to Everett Kaser who gave me the correct parameters I have succeeded in loading LEO on my 95LX I can now write real math f
49. Eure ka I wondered if it would work on the HP 95LX It took me about half an hour to resurrect it color it black and white and resize the display so it would show up in the HP 95LX Once it was installed on the 95LX it took me a couple more minutes to key in the simultaneous linear equation problem and push the button to start the solution Eureka The Solver Version 1 0 Name of input file A LINEQN EKA 4 3 Y 25 16 X 9 Y z 100 Solution Variables Values X 6 2500000 Y 00000000 iniriniricinininininininininininininininininininininininininini On the other hand the solution to the dual crop problem took an as tounding two and a half minutes to run to completion Here s what the problem and its solution looked like Eureka The Solver Version 1 0 Name of input file A FARMER EKA P 30 X 100 Y P X Y s 100 X 4 Y 2160 10 20 21200 gt 0 Y gt 0 Solution Variables Values 4400 X 80 00 Y 20 00 Confidence level 85 4 All constraints satisfied If you have access to a copy of Eure ka The Solver you might want to try the same experiment Sad to say Eureka is no longer being sold by Borland When the software company decided to focus its energies on spreadsheets and database programs it released Eu reka back to its original author Roger Shlafly of Real Software Roger has rewritten the pro
50. HE HP 95LX have a simple BATch file that accomplishes a backup using DSC 95 echo assuming HP95 is running DSC95 EXE od 9595 xcopy d V s e v xcopy c commicpack bckupic s e v dc95 U run it every night without fail feel a little better all day Greg Witek CompuServe ID 72611 2114 SYSTEM RAM REQUIRED TO RUN DCS95 EXE To run the DOS connectivity utility DCS95 EXE on the 95LX requires the System RAM to be at least 242K Anything smaller causes error messages doesn t work Phillip Simpson Clayton Victoria AUSTRALIA BACKUP TO FLOPPY DISK SIMPLE On page 19 of your July August issue you indicated that only more experienced users will be able to transfer directly to floppies am far from experienced but was able to figure out a very simple procedure Once you have started APP95 and are in the remote mode switch to split screen with your highlight bar in your desktop s half of the screen Put a floppy into the PC press F5 the Goto key and type in the ap propriate drive letter of your PC s floppy drive usually A or B You can then highlight the desired files on either side of the split screen and transfer them back and forth by pressing F2 Copy create a directory on the floppy disk with a name like BU081792 BU backup 081792 August 17 1992 then back up the entire 95LX into that directory of th
51. I tried graphing it See page 48 this issue for more on Derive Hal Other Language Versions of Connectivity Kit My primary language is Spanish but I bought the English version of the HP 95LX Since my English isn t that great I want to buy the Spanish version of the HP Connectivity Kit The dealer I purchased my 95LX from says he s never heard of these foreign language versions of the kit and requests that I send him the HP part number of the Spanish version so that he can order it I can t seem to get the information from Hewlett Packard I wonder if you could find out the part number for the Spanish and other language versions of the HP Connectivity Kit and print them in an up coming issue of The HP Palmtop Paper Ivan Villamil Morel Washington D C USA As far as we know there are no other language ver sions of the HP Connectivity Kit Rich SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 43 LETTERS Continued Possible to Change Date Sequence on International 95LXs I have an International English 95LX serial prefix ABB How do you set the date sequence to be DD MM YY when viewing files in the filer Can it be done without creating an AUTO EXEC BAT file If not HP should put it on their list of things to do Gary Oliver Milsons Point NSW AUSTRALIA Drive95 Problems with 1MB 95LX Since switching to a 1MB 95LX I find that I have difficulty going from FILER to DOS wh
52. N E information on how to upgrade LI your call ACE Tech ACE Technologies Inc nologies 2880 Zanker Road 103 San Jose CA 95134 U S A 408 428 9722 FAX 408 428 9721 Stacker LZS is a trademark of Stac Electronics DoubleCard DoubleRAM and ACEcard are trademarks of ACE Technologies Inc Take Control and Directly Launch DOS programs New Introducing SWITCH with Direct Launch SWITCH is presently the closest thing to an all in one utility for the 95LX Palmtop Paper August 1992 Create EXM loaders for Single key access popular DOS programs to menu items Up to 48 EXM Biome a pr og rams B J C agenda K Assign DOS and D apcalc L hex calc watch EXM programs to E b cursor M hptris week abk Veuve G battman spellin y cardcopy P startre ae CES to serial po NR Djbattman commo act 6 tu remot P iz spellinat switch ix t Fern Space Hl arm EN T Ut 95LX Control Panel Additional menu for up to Idle time out control 48 DOS programs SWITCH Direct Launch For more information and Menu driven and easy to use user Now with the new Direct Launch how to order call interface gives you instant access feature you can launch a DOS to all of your HP 95LX programs plus program from Filer directly while a powerful control panel SWITCH other applications are opened allows you to run DOS programs A new prompt option even lets 800 825
53. P P O Box 81270 Pittsburgh 15217 USA Phone 412 422 4134 Fax 412 422 4135 Macintosh Connectivity Kit Transfers ASCII and Mac personal information manager data between the 95LX and the Mac Includes translators for PowerUp Software s Address Book Plus PowerUp CaLa Ndar Claris Hypercard Portfolio Systems Dynodex and Borland Sidekick for Macintosh Includes Mac to 95LX cable See Advertising page 26 27 Availability Sept 15 1992 ae ree ewe Floppy disk LT cy SySMgr wok bs No az acus af o P RID 25 89 95 CONTACT Sparcom Corporation 897 NW Grant Ave Corvallis OR 97330 USA Phone 800 827 8416 or 503 757 841 6 Fax 503 753 7821 CompuServe ID 75320 2440 EFMS Bg Everyone s File Management Sys tem is a flat file database EFMS has user defined screens indexes simple report generation and up to 32 700 records file Availability 2s NOW Medium zones a eg S Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No avr WikTeAE ERE Rd CREEK 39 ricing CONTACT Charles Kingston Box 564 Elms ford NY 10523 USA Phone 914 949 7870 Mileage Database program that tracks car mileage remembers previous routes for reuse and keeps a running total of mileage and expenses Availability NOW Medium yr s Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No 35 CONTACT Genus Software Corp 1625 Rich
54. Profile gend us a black and white photo of yourself d fec The AP Paim dee CM Software Ea s this issue and included in other issues of The HP Palmtop Paper On Disk or the 1992 diese Disk 95BUDDY ZIP 55 en lets ou ree MU CMCALC EXM ath Calculator DAILTO ZIP Jun diallones on the 95LX DIET Disk File c GVCMODSS PKL103 ZIP PKZ100 EXE of ZIP COM e Fat 1991 HP Pan Per ON DISK v 20 files issue of The HP Jan Feb 92 HP of The HP Palmtop Paper The CILE 52 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 From Palmtop To Deskto The best name in Macintosh file transfer and translation is now the best source of Macintosh connectivity for your HP Palmtop Introducing MacLinkPlus for the HP 95LX The complete solution for backing up transferring and translating files between your Palmtop and the Mac s desktop MacLinkPlus contains the full library of translators the software to connect your Palmtop to any Mac a serial cable as well as built in communications to allow connections via modem With just a few clicks you can backup and transfer files Then use our fast accurate translators to convert your Lotus 1 2 3 Memo Appointment and Phone Book files to and from most popular word processing spread sheet and database file formats for the Macintosh MacLinkPlus for the HP 95LX is available now at a special introductory price of ju
55. RAM Memory Cards DoubleCard uses Stacker data compression software to provide users twice the capacity of a standard memory and allows users to compress their intemal RAM disk DoubleCard 2 0 Software Turns your existing RAM card into a DoubleCard Upgrade an existing ACE RAM Card without the DoubleCard Software on it to a DoubleCard 2 0 89 CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road San Jose CA 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 19 DOS CONNECTION Lotus Agenda Lotus Agenda on the HP 95LX Agenda lets you enter random information and reorganize it later This article tells you how to set it up and enhance its performance on the HP 95LX By David Hamachek Lotus Agenda has unique capabili ties for text data base management It allows you to enter random infor mation now and reorganize it as you desire at a later time Agenda is a program that may be personalized to meet individual needs but the amount of time needed to personal ize it is not insignificant Fortunate ly Agenda is adequate for most needs without this effort System Memory Agenda requires at least 435K of System RAM to operate on the 95LX The more available the faster it runs A 1MB 95LX is necessary to prevent Agenda from being intolera bly sluggish Agenda loads three times faster on a 1MB 95LX than on a 512K machine System RAM shou
56. S DOS or MS Windows PCs Plugs right into the printer port Pass thru feature retains printer operation Model TMD 500 reads and writes SRAM cards TMD 550 SRAM amp FLASH cards Fully PCMCIA JEIDA compatible with the industry s broadest range of card supplier and platform support It s quick and easy Isn t it time you put one on your expense report Call 716 889 4204 for further information OEM Dealer inquiries welcome ThinCardDRIVE isa denk of Databook Inc for a wayfaring calculus engine Derive will more than meet that need But what about those times when the rest of us encounter math beyond the capabilities of CALC or 1 2 3 or our own level of mathemat ical training If all we want to do is put some numbers in a formula and crank out an answer quickly then the quick est answer to our problem is to use CALC s Solve routine However suppose you re con fronted with a problem that in volves the solution of two or more linear equations You know the kind of algebra that says if 4x 3y 25 and 16x 9y 100 what are the values of x and y Hmmm CALC solves that kind of problem but the solution s not that intuitive Or how about something like this A farmer wants to maximize profit by planting two crops on 100 acres of land The total time spent planting and caring for the crops can t exceed 160 hours and the 34 THE PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 DATA BOOK second crop
57. TE Remote Control Software C1065 29 4 THE PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 Universal Train mode To order CALL 800 825 9977 ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road 103 Son Jose Caltfornia 95134 0 5 A Printers continued from front cover Back row left to right Seiko DPU 411 Diconix 180si Cannon Bubble Jet Front row Citizen PN48 and the HP 95LX The Canon Bubble Jet 10ex The Bubble Jet is an inkjet printer for those who want laser like output at an affordable 9 cents per page and don t mind lugging around a 4 6 lb printer the size of a notebook computer With the addition of an optional sheet feeder you could even use the Bubble Jet as your primary printer provided you do not need continuous form capability The Bubble Jet comes with a parallel port only and needs a serial to parallel adapter to connect to the 95LX By Sergio Casanova After a few trials with the office s Epson printer I decided I wanted a printer for my desk at home I com pared the quality of the Canon Bubble Jet with the quality of the Kodak Diconix 180si I decided on the Canon a parallel printer The BJ 10e weighs 4 6 lbs 2 09 kg with battery pack and measures 12 25 x 8 5 x 1 88 inches 31 12 x 21 59 x 4 78 cm Although larger than any of the other print ers in this article it s still pretty small about the size of a notebook computer The BJ 10e co
58. Unit 1 33 Sandford Road Littlemore Oxford OX4 4XT U K Tel 44 865 748875 Fax 44 865 748873 change Views when Stacker is used The first three files mentioned above require 834K uncompressed and 569K after being compressed with Stacker In addition you need room for your file say 125K uncompres sed or 70K compressed Agenda also needs roughly 100K for tempo rary files total of 1 059K uncom pressed or 739K compressed not counting Stacker You should also consider including AG CHK EXE and AG CHK RI these files allow periodic checking and repair of minor data base file damage simi lar to using DOS s Chkdsk but at a cost of an additional 61K of disk space uncompressed or 43K com pressed Performance Enhancement Open your AG file in Agenda and select F10 Menu Then press File IE on the 1992 HP Palmtop Paper Subscribers Disk Properties highlight Auto assign set tings and press lt Spacebar gt Then turn Assignment conditions Off and Assignment actions Off Leave Text matching On and leave Apply conditions set to Auto matically Then press ENTER twice to return These settings will speed up Agenda substantially while still making automatic assignment to categories based on the text of items that are entered or imported Con trary to advice elsewhere do not set Apply conditions to On demand it will double your loading and View changing time Leaving
59. a generated by SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 APPLICATION BUILDER FOR THE HP 95LX With QAPalm you can create custom data collection and viewing applications for your palmtop on your PC without programming Uses an easy screen painting approach Transfers data to dBase and Lotus 123 formats Demo avail able QA SYSTEMS INC 220 East 42nd Street New York N Y 10017 1 800 945 1717 212 599 1717 Fax 212 599 2614 instrumentation spreadsheets da tabases and other programs The new version automatically selects the appropriate technique for solv ing first and second order ordinary differential equations in a single step and expands support for high er level special functions This ROM card version can be uploaded to run on a desktop PC Vie RA ECCE e NOW oo goa Hie rane wars ROM card Runs under SysMgr No su 289 grada varies call CONTACT Soft Warehouse Inc 3660 Waia lae Ave Suite 304 Honolulu HI 9681 6 USA Phone 808 734 5801 Fax 808 735 1105 New Media Corporation Correct Phone Number The number listed on page 40 of the July August issue is wrong The correct phone numbers are 800 453 0550 or 714 453 0114 Fax 714 453 0114 Personal Computer Systems Correct Phone Number The phone number listed on page 40 of the July August issue LoanSTAR contact is wrong The correct num ber is 503 665 6990 Memory Ca
60. a text TXT file from one 95LX to another select from the files displayed after pressing the sequence Transfer Text Send Transmission is virtually instanta neous The file will appear directly on the screen of the receiving unit If the file cannot be fully viewed in the screen use the cursor movement arrows to scroll the display as nec essary CAPTURING TEXT To retain data received by the 95LX in a file whether it be simple key EduCALC Your 1 connection for HP 95LX accessories EduCALC has everything you need for your HP 95LX Whether it s a double RAM card the latest software disk drive or a carrying case for your 95 you ll see it in the EduCALC catalog All products at Deep Discount Prices And in our catalog you ll see the latest from suppliers featured in The HP Palmtop Paper FOR THE T PACKARD A DATABOOK P m Ups HB a tia board activity or TEXT transmis sions use the Datacomm CAPTURE feature To initiate a capture from within Datacomm press and hold until the menu appears Press and release Capture and the display will prompt Save incoming data as C _DAT CAP Any existing capture CAP files will also be displayed Type a file name or select an existing file The display will return to Datacomm 28 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 HEWLETT E ER PALMTREE in psc edel
61. abase It is an information orga nizer based on the concept of an office filing cabinet KIV can be used for virtually any text or data based application including note taking and outlining special reference field allows you to associate a particular entry with a key word This feature makes KIV suitable for project management applications Other features include file import and export printing searching and on line help Availability 4 046 50 er zl NOW CS es Floppy PAN Runs under SysMgr Pria ae eee wn 69 95 CONTACT Lucid Corportation 101 West Renner Road Suite 450 Dallas TX 75082 USA Phone 800 92LUCID or 214 994 8100 Fax 214 994 8103 FieldWritR This product is the field component of ReportWritR a generic inspection 48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER management system FieldWritR accepts downloaded inspection sche dules collects information cites violations prints site reports and uploads results to the main program running on a PC FieldWritR must be used with ReportWritR Availability vana aas NOW CONTACT Digital Inspections a division of XENERGY 800 NW Starker Ave Suite 48 Corvallis OR 97330 Phone 503 752 7233 Fax 503 758 3666 MicroCoach Football game statistics software 95LX Includes offense and defense stats as well as computer aided tactics for play selection ttam emt NOW MOOIME Floppy s Runs under
62. ability to hold a full charge The battery will remember the level to which you ve been charging the batteries and only accept that level of charge in the future The connection to the 95LX is made using the serial cable from the HP Connectivity Pack HP F1001A and the 9 to 25 pin Printer adapter that comes with the HP Serial Cable Adapter Kit HP 822244 The printer adapter has a small printer icon on it I paid 399 Canadian Dollars the Diconix 180si with serial inter face retails for 419 in the USA This makes the 180si competitive with other portable printers I looked at The Diconix 180si is a very con venient portable for the 95LX It definitely beats having to cart an HP Laser IIIP around Infor mation Diconix 180si 419 Includes AC adapter and one ink cartridge tractor and sheet feed capability Reasonable but less than laserjet output Serial port printer not requiring a serial to parallel adapter Needs 95LX Serial Cable that comes with the HP Pack HP 1001 or Serial Interface Cable HP 82222A and the 9 10 25 pin printer adapter that comes Company Personal Printer Products 907 Elm Grove Road Bldg 14 Rochester NY 14650 800 344 0006 or 716 724 USA Phone 3592 Fax 716 726 3108 Seiko DPU 411 This 2 pound serial port thermal printer produces draft quality output on 40 column thermal paper rolls The DPU 411 could be useful to t
63. ad on average about 1 2 3 4 of a page of writing Although some people wonder how an adult can use such a small keyboard I had no difficulties adapting to it Daily updating of client reports required discipline but was well worth the effort When I returned home I transferred my MEMO file to the LTE 286 and gave the file to my secretary She retrieved it into WordPerfect 5 1 corrected spelling mistakes and syntax errors and then adjusted the document to a standard company format Instead of spending hours on the client report I had the 16 page document completed within 30 minutes of re turning to my office Its great to have MEMO in your pocket ready to go at a mo ments notice I now prepare the basis of my monthly report in real time When something significant happens I retrieve my current monthly file and update it At the end of the month I give a copy of the file to my secretary who again checks spelling and syntax and then formats the report accordingly Once again productivity is im proved for both of us Appointment Book vs a Paper Diary One of the benefits I find using a written diary is that it s very easy to jot down notes and appointments during phone calls or meetings written diary not only gives me a permanent record of appointments it also gives me the freedom to jot down mental doodles graphic representations of my ideas Be cause it s not easy to doodle on the 95LX making a tot
64. age good description of a C program is func tions using other functions Derive contains two special functions ITERATES and IF These functions along with a complete set Call for Articles In the first issue of The HP Palmtop Paper we invited programmers and developers to write an article for The Programmer s Corner We know that programmers are busy people and that it takes time to draft a techni cal article for publication Nevertheless the invitation still stands We d really like to hear from other programmers especially those who have tried their hand at designing System Manager compliant programs for the HP 95LX The kind of stuff we re looking for is the kind of stuff you wish you had read before writing a system compliant program The guidelines for writing an article are simple Express what you ve accomplished in a straightforward manner A small amount of commented code is acceptable If the code is too long we can print the highlights in The HP Palmtop Paper and put the full source code on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK HP and Lotus have not fully documented the workings of the 95LX However such missing documentation has always been more of a challenge than a drawback for true hack ers right Let us hear how you ve accepted that challenge Send article proposals to Ed Keefe FastAid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeny 50021 CompuServe ID 75300 3667 or to Hal Goldstein Thaddeus Comput ing I
65. al and 12 V 175 mA maximum This is ideal for using square 9 volt alkaline batteries and the ability to use voltage of either polarity is Ei On the 1992 Subscribers Disk wonderful for those of us who are not electrical engineers For just a few dol lars I obtained at a local Radio Shack they are most everywhere a small plastic box four 9V battery snap connec tors a little wire four spring metal 9V battery holders and a coax type barrel plug Using cyanoacrylate glue Super Glue or Krazy Glue affix the holders to the bottom of the box One could screw down the battery hold ers of course but ce menting them in makes for a neater appearance Cut a personally conve nient length of 24 gauge or better double stranded insulated wire With a hot nail or drill poke a whole in one end of the box I used a nail heated over a gas range to poke the hole because I didn t have a drill and because melting leaves the hole with smooth edges which will not fray the wire insulation Solder the leads from the snap connectors IN PARALLEL to one set of ends of the double wire Some clear silicone rubber sealant works well to insulate the sol dered connections Solder the other ends of the double wire to the coax plug Use a little more silicone there to avoid any shorting and screw the plug back together Be sure to put the wire THROUGH the hole in the plastic box BEFORE soldering the leads t
66. al switch from a hard diary to an electronic diary is requiring some effort For the last seven years I have been using the Danish TIME Sys tem Ilike its integrated Time Man ager that supports the creation of doodles and diagrams My job in International Sales requires the use of such graphics to convey concepts across language barriers Although the 95LX s Appoint ment Book has an excellent Time Manager it lacks graphic capabili ties One of the first problems I had with APPT was that it didn t graph ically display a whole week s worth of appointments at one glance This was solved by Ehood Baratz s excel lent utility WEEKABK But I still can t doodle on the 95LX so I carry a small Spiral notebook along with the 95LX On it I draw doodle and write down little throw away notes the kind of non permanent information I don t want to store on the 95LX It s not a perfect solution but it works May be somebody should develop a little graphics program for the 95LX Another problem I ve noticed with APPT is that my APT files grow very rapidly Every week now I use the HP Connectivity Pack to Merge my current Appointment Book with a backup copy I have on my notebook computer s hard disk I am building a comprehensive Calendar Year diary on the hard disk of my notebook computer It is very easy and quick to search this for notes and appointments using the Find feature of the Connectivity Kits PC version of Appoin
67. allow users to create Stac d C drives The DoubleCard comes in four sizes 1 2MB 3MB and 4MB These are the effective file storage sizes Their physical size is half their stated size Simply insert the DoubleCard reboot your 95LX and you have a Stac d A drive A DoubleCard puts files you don t want to compress on the B drive a non Stac d portion of the RAM card Of particular note The CONFIG SYS file resides on the unStac d B drive while the AUTO EXEC BAT file must be placed in the Stacd A drive Any program called from the CONFIG SYS must also reside on the B or C drives The inquisitive among you may wonder about the unusual locations of the startup files When the 95LX is booted up DOS first goes to the un Stacd A drive and finds the CONFIG SYS file It loads the pro grams into memory and goes to the C drive to launch COMMAND COM When Stacker comes back to look for your AUTOEXEC BAT file it has already auto mounted so the HP 95LX finds and executes your AUTOEXEC BAT file in the Stac d portion of the RAM card on the A drive UnStac d files on the RAM card such as CONFIG SYS are now found on the B drive If you frequently reboot without a card you can keep a second set of startup files on C which will only be read if a card is not present when you reboot Creating a Stac d C drive or a Stac d A drive if you purchase the DoubleCard software is easy using the DoubleCard s automatic instal lation
68. an be used in stand alone form to compress your COM and EXE files before placing them on C drive Finally you should not overly concern yourself with the reported free space until you are within 100K of your remaining disk space At this point the space left will be more closely approximated by the DIRectory and File Status reports described above Do not try to save files to your very last byte Stacker keeps an 8K buffer in case you alter a file that it previously had stored Stacker s operation is internally complex in order that it may be transparent to you In my opinion the decision on whether to use it is based on two factors The size of your RAM card and the type of files you store on it Since Stacker re quires that you have STACKER COM 44K on the RAM card it doesn t make sense to me to use it on 128K or 256K cards You can use DIET version 1 4 to further reduce the size of STACKER COM to about 30K This would leave 482K available for 18 THE PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 your Stac d drive on a 512K card 1 recommend against keeping STACK ER COM on the 95LX s C drive If STACKER COM gets corrupted which is always possible on the C drive you will lose access to your drive until you can download a fresh copy of STACKER COM The small savings in disk space is not worth it Stacker is a good choice on 1MB or greater cards On 512K cards it s Installing Stacker 2 0 on the A Drive RAM Card 1 W
69. ards St Salt Lake City UT 94115 USA Phone 801 487 6220 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 MAIL ORDER HENRI Guaranteed Lowest Prices MOM will beat any documented price by at least 5 and still provide NAME BRAND CARDS FULL HP95LX COMPATIBILITY LASTEST REVISION LEVEL E ALL CARD TYPES AND SIZES FREE BATTERY ONE PRICE CASH OR CREDIT SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CALL 800 497 9152 FAX 817 488 3796 HP is a registered trademark of Hewlett Packard Company Educational E Z Arithmetic Modules series of twelve modules for stud ents parents and adults that cover the basic concepts and computations involving whole numbers whole numbers bases fractions decimals measurements percents integers Each module consists of a man ual that contains all the study hints terminology definitions con cepts methods model problems and exercises necessary to master that module s topics User friendly soft ware on disk provides an endless amount of easy to use drill problems for practice and reinforcement The following modules are avail able Whole number basics Whole number operations Whole number base basics Whole number base operations Fraction basics Fraction operations Decimal basics Decimal operations Measurements Percent basics Percent problems Integers See Advertising page 32 On The HP Palmtop Paper Disk Sep Oct 92 Availability scans Oct 1 1992 Mediti 25 Lacke am
70. ays take the 95LX with me anyway Additions and Improvements I have now added a 512K RAM Card to my 95LX so that I can have backups of all my critical data After all who wants to loose an expense report before it is submit ted I am also considering the pur chase of a stand alone serial disk drive like the Sparcom Drive95 This will not only let me to carry more data on an inexpensive 1 44 MB disk but will enable me to do a total backup of data while traveling The addition of Drive95 will also let me transfer files data to another computer via the 1 44MB disk This might come in handy if I needed to print out some pricing information but the only printer available was parallel and connected to a clients desktop PC See page 17 for more on Drive95 Conclusion In conclusion I have found the HP 95LX an invaluable tool for anyone who is traveling on business in volved in sales or involved in the management of data or ideas out side the office I expect to find and learn of even more ways to improve my productivity using my 95LX One thing is certain just as I al ways need a passport and credit cards on a trip so will the 95LX always be part of my travels Originally from New Zealand Phillip Simpson now lives in Mel bourne Australia with his wife Jill and two young boys Mark who is 5 and David who is 3 Phillip worked in the diagnostic segment of the Health Care Industry for approxi mately 15 years and is
71. below HP Serial interface Cable TATAA TTT OTRAS 35 Part HP82222A Serial cable only for the HP 95LX Contact information below HP Serial Cable Adapter Kit 15 Part HP82224A Printer and modem adapters for the serial cable of the 95LX Contact information below Hewlett Packard Company 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto CA 94304 USA for location of nearest dealer U S call 800 443 1254 International Contact your local HP sales office Modifying the Bubble Jet to Power a Serial to Parallel Adapter Us HE Pepe Doc hes nok varied Mia prone This job is better suited for the technically inclined Modifications like this can void the manufacturer s 50 proceed at YOUR OWN RISK Ri You need a battery powered serial to parallel adapter with the Canon BJ 10 because the printer does not supply energy to the extemal converter This is not because the voltage requirements are too high but because Canon didn t design the Bubble Jet to do so checked the connections inside the Paralink 3 and discovered that the 5 volts necessary to power Paralink can be supplied from the outside pin 18 of the parallel connector of the printer In fact this pin was not connected in the Cannon BJ10 opened the case of the Bubble Jet printer and connected the 5 volt lead from the pin connected to the Voltage regulator to pin Now leave the converter inserted in the printer and use power from the
72. d America OnLine thanks to the contribution of subscribers David Shier and Craig de Fasselle From what I hear the only other electronic source with strong HP 95LX activity is the aca demic community s network Inter net discussed on page 16 of the Jan Feb 1992 issue If anyone has more current or complete informa tion please send your comments to me for publication The Prodigy Information Service By Dave Shier Prodigy ID CXBG88A CompuServe ID 75030 3374 quick scan through any issue of The HP Palmtop Paper makes it clear that CompuServe commonly referred to as CIS provides a wealth of information and general support for the HP 95LX While CIS has far more to offer the HP 95LX users than any other information service if you are not a member you may wish to compare the servic es before selecting one Prodigy is an on line service available in the U S a joint ven ture of IBM and Sears To use Prod igy often abbreviated as P you must have an Apple or IBM compat ible computer and a modem Prodigy also requires the use of a proprietary access program run ning in graphics mode therefore it is not possible to access Prodigy from your HP 95LX The main advantages of Prodigy over CIS is its lack of on line access charges and its ease of use body can run Prodigy including small children who love the graphic interface and find it entertaining Prodigy has a small number of special inte
73. d be easy to add one in some future version Sparcom confirmed that they are considering adding a card drive or even a hard disk drive to Station95 but emphasized that it was only a possibility at this time gt esa gt Y e due P Jo um Cale J m F T I dtm ES ey x J 5 s 4 one c 2 y L A 4b s 4 P AN HP 95LX HELPS YOU KEEP UP WITH YOUR BUSINESS ADD SKYTEL NATIONWIDE MESSAGING AND YOUR BUSINESS CAN KEEP UP WITH YOU With SkyTel s SkyStream service the HP 95LX palmtop PC can receive important information in seconds Like a Lotus 1 2 3 spreadsheet update from the home office A message about last minute changes to an important presentation Or good news about winning a big order So no matter how fast you re moving your business can keep up To learn more about the HP 95LX and SkyStream Nationwide Messaging call 1 800 456 3333 ext 0178 12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 Am A subsidiary of Mtel Order Information Station95 59 95 Docking station that makes it easier to link your 95LX to your desktop PC and your AC adapter CONTACT Sparcom Corp 897 NW Grant Avenue Corvallis OR 97330 USA Phone 800 827 8416 or 503 757 8416 Fax 503 753 7821 Drive95 This 3 5 floppy disk drive is also from Sparcom It connects to the 95LX via serial cable and accept
74. d echos it in the 95LX Run BEBACK COM on the 95LX and you will hear the Terminator Arnold Schwartzenegger in his Austrian accent state be back Sound on the HP 95LX is still a novelty with limited usefulness The programs dedicated to specific sounds can be quite life like but the programs are relatively large and give the user no flexibility Pro grams such as TALKER 30K don t take up much disk space but the quality of the sound is severely limited Music seems to take up much less disk space than speech synthesis So for example the phrase Ill be back takes 12K where Ed Keefe s music medley of 25 songs takes 15K The other limitation known by those of you who have tried to use the HP 95LX as an alarm clock is that the volume is low Music plays the loudest but in general you need to put the 95LX to your ear to hear clearly what it is trying to say THE 95LX CHIRPS You Star Trek fans remember the chirping sound when Captain Kirk uses his communicator to talk to the Enterprise Well Dave Goodman has just the thing for you Run STARTREK COM and you will see a nice United Federation of Planets logo appear on your screen UNITED FEDERATION OF PL United Federation of Planets Logo Now turn the 95LX off and on again and you ll hear your HP 95LX communicator chirp Thank you Dave from Hal Control Your Home Entertainment Center from the HP 95LX Some of the best HP 95LX program ming mi
75. d other operating systems NADIE 9355 23 Ne M F NOW Media jo desktop PC POS foo drin dir rr ag Call CONTACT SCM Microsystem GMBH Fraunhofer Str 11A D 8033 Martinsried GERMANY Phone 49 89 8598702 Fax 449 89 8595806 USA CONTACT Computer Modules Phone 408 496 1881 Fax 408 496 1886 Memory Cards and Drives SCM Microsystem of Germany of fers a number of memory card relat ed products including 128K to 20MB FLASH 128K to 4MB SRAM and EPROM cards and internal and external memory card drives for your desktop PC Pricin CONTACT SCM Microsystem GMBH Fraunhofer Str 11A D 8033 Martinsried GERMANY Phone 49 89 8598702 Fax 49 89 8595806 USA CONTACT Computer Modules Phone 408 496 1881 Fax 408 496 1886 Memory Card Drives Designed for desktop computers these drives fit in a standard 3 5 floppy disk drive bay Comes in one and two card slot models Includes 8 bit adapter card Contact end of next product Memory Card Designer s Kit Includes a guide to memory card system design example software a universal memory card drive with 68 pin connector internal a 512K SRAM and 512K Flash ROM card Avsidabilty 2 NOW Pricing One card drive 395 Two card drive 690 Designers Kit 595 CONTACT Adtron Corp 128 West Boxelder Suite 102 Chandler AZ 85224 USA Phone 602 926 9324 Fax 602 926 9359 Memory
76. dy to plug in and use A rapidly growing number of customers have already chosen Active DATA memory cards for use in their palmtop systems We continually receive praise from our customers about our products and unbeatable service Anyone can claim to have great service and products but it s often difficultto believe without proof or personal experience we have proof We have happy customers from one end of the world to the other SkyStream Receiver Mobile Data Link U S ROBOTICS WorldPort FAX Modem When you choose Active Dara not only will you receive our Ultra High quality products and unparalleled customer service but you will also receive the most competitive prices in the industry U S ROBOTICS WoridPort Modems 1 800 223 0503 TOLL FREE ORDER LINE Dual Battery System Ultra High Quality eo m BY CN ACTIVE T Low Cost EE n lt CONSUMER SERVICES DIVISION 4642 East Chapman Ste 304 Orange CA 92669 ACTIVE DATA is a trademark of Memory Inc All other trademarks are recognized Phone 714 997 7718 FAX 714 997 0238 Coinwriaht 2199 Memare ine All rinihts reserved
77. e book views do not allow adding sections so in order to do this you will have to create your own sec tions and have the sections sorted by start time Datebook Views in crease loading and View changing time substantially but do allow faster movement within a view I have other views for meetings and calls through the end of next month to allow faster scheduling of meet ings or revisions to existing entries All methods of date browsing are extremely slow in Agenda on the HP 95LX and you should avoid them Conclusion Agenda will be slower than on your desktop machine but it can work adequately on the 95LX and adds significant capabilities over the built in PIM applications Stacker slows down loading time substan tially but offers considerable disk space savings David works for an Archi tect Engineering firm that designs power plants He uses Lotus Agenda to keep track of tasks assigned to his staff as well as to the major outside organizations involved in a project Agenda supplements other project organization and control tools David s CompuServe ID is 73700 2250 PALMTOP DATABASE Improve your productivity with palmtop software built to satisfy your specific needs We create database solutions for the tracking of products people and resources on the HP 95LX Our relational database is so small you won t need a RAM card We provide Rapid development usually under a month Custom repo
78. e ER Floppy disk Runs under No Pricing each module 49 95 Available for moet popular computers and calculatora CONTACT E Z Software P O Box 500 Midwood Station Brooklyn NY 11230 USA Phone 718 434 2304 Financial Real Estate LiveLine HP LiveLine HP is a realtime quote display service which monitors all U S equities indices futures and options Displays 30 issues on your screen plus a quote line to access any issue s price Running ticker displays trade price and volume Portfolio system includes total prof itloss and market value Hourly intra day rankings of most active issues percentage gainers losers and historical graphs are also in cluded Software includes Kermit comm program Must have 95LX and a 1200 2400 baud modem Availability Runs under No Pricing Minimum 25 per month 6 per hour in Chicago metropolitan area 9 75 elsewhere in the USA CONTACT National Computer Network 1929 Harlem Ave Chicago IL 60635 USA Phone 312 622 6666 Fax 312 622 6889 Running TOTAL Running TOTAL software comes with Grand TOTAL real estate appraisal generations software for desktop PCs Running TOTAL al lows on site appraisal data collec tion walking the user through the questions URAR appraisal form On screen prompts can be answered with single key responses Warnings are given if critica
79. e flop py disk If something goes wrong with your 95LX files you can reload the contents of the floppy disk directory back to the 95LX effortlessly When you are done reloading to the 95LX just reboot and EVERYTHING is exactly as it was now only backup files that have changed since the last backup A batch file or DOS connect is not needed and a novice can do this easily The backup takes me less than 5 minutes a week now and it has been a life saver on several occasions Jeffrey Zorn Farmington Hills MI USA CCMAIL REMOTE WORKING ON THE 95LX You must use version 3 2 have the program and associated files on the root directory of a 1MB RAM card A invoke the program with remote a msgsize 10 comm int14 The A is required to keep the pro gram from asking you to insert disks cards The MSGSIZE 10 limits the maximum message size to 10K The COMM INT14 is re quired to circumvent a 95LX hard ware bug find must run at 2400 baud maximum Don t forget to enable the serial port serctl with cur sor tracking dispctl k c and set current directory to A before running Paul Laughton CompuServe ID 70313 2755 DATA TRANSFER WHEN THE 95LX S OPERATING ON BAT TERIES ONLY have limited access to an addition al AC outlet in the room where keep my desktop computers and lend to do file transfers without connecting the 95LX to an AC ad apter The only thing you need to walch out for is
80. ed to the RAM card whether you re work ing in DOS or in the built in appli cations Mounting Stacker Stacker creates one huge file on your RAM card It then fools DOS into thinking that this file is a sepa rate disk drive allowing you to save files to and retrieve files from it In reality your RAM card will have two files on it STACVOL DSK the huge file mentioned above and STACKER COM the Stacker pro gram that fools the 95LX into thinking STACVOL DSK is a sepa rate disk drive STACVOL DSK is a hidden file that doesn t show up in Filer or with the DOS DIRectory command You must mount Stacker in order to have the 95LX see STAC VOL DSK as a drive This is done by executing the following command from the DOS prompt stacker a This command can be placed in your AUTOEXEC BAT file so that every time you reboot the 95LX Stacker is mounted NOTE You must remount Stacker after inserting each addi tional RAM card Once your card is mounted you can view the contents of STACVOL DSK as a normal looking disk drive SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE PALMTOP PAPER 17 DOS CONNECTION Stacker file structure From FILER press F5 GoTo A ENTER If you have un compressed files on your RAM card 1 e files in addition to STACKER COM and STACVOL DSK you can view these by pressing F5 B ENTER Compression Effectiveness Different file types cannot be com pressed equally Executable files such
81. en I m also using Sparcom s Drive95 If I go to DOS and then try to go back to the FILER with EXIT ROM BAT it takes a very long time to finally get back to FILER When I use the 512K ver sion of the 95LX it goes back to FILER right away The same FILER to DOS delay happens when I m using a CONFIG SYS file on the 1MB 95LX but again not on the 512K Any suggestions I have another problem with Drive95 Its user docu mentation says that I can backup the 95LX from FIL ER to Drive95 tagging the desired files and copying them over But I don t un derstand how this is possi ble since Drive95 is seen as the G drive and this can only exist outside of SYS MGR Do I have to register DRIVE95 SYS Drive95 s device driver in the APP COM list for it to be able to have Drive G and FILER open at the same time closing warning The other night I fell asleep working and my wife moved my 95LX to an armchair When I wake up the main batteries were dead because I fell asleep without putting the 95LX back to FILER after having connected it to Drive95 Always put the 95LX out of backup mode before falling asleep or leaving the 95LX Alfred Herz Monterrey MEXICO Use to Split the screen in FILER Then press G to Goto the G drive in FILER Hal Velcro s 95LX to Car Dashboard Siill Waiting for Mac Connectivity Kit Ive been using the HP 95LX at home and on the road since last October and have fo
82. erial port CONTACT Sparcom Corp 897 NW Grant Avenue Corvallis OR 97330 USA Phone 800 827 8416 or 503 757 8416 Fax 503 753 7821 256 KB 99 MEMORY CARDS Imaging d pom ASK THADDEUS New HP 95LX Technical Help Service Call or fax us your problems we ll call back with the answers Need help using your HP 95LX You re not alone Each week we at Thaddeus Computing get dozens of requests for technical assistance on the HP 95LX b Or MAIL it to We re the publishers of The HP Yu THADDEUS Palmtop Paper and recognized experts on the 95LX In response to these requests we are pleased to introduce ASK c Or CALL 515 HP ASK TH THADDEUS Technical Help Service 515 472 7584 You will reach an answering machine that will direct you to read the information asked for It s a fast efficient and economical way to solve your HP 95LX problems HERE S HOW IT WORKS 1 Photocopy the Technical Hel Request Form below Save the blank on the form 3 Get the information to us by one of the following methods a FAX it to 515 472 9595 Fairfield IA 52556 USA If you mail your form please keep a copy for yourself 4 A trained ASK THADDEUS special ist will respond by phone to discuss Robert Roney Director of our ASK THADDEUS Technical Help Service e ies and back up all zum m before the call AFFORDABLE RATES All ASK THADDEUS services wi
83. erred to as 6 GMT on your HP 95LX EODEM 3 Dt Type of credit card C Mastercard C VISA Credit card no Exp date Cardholder signature PLEASE ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS About your HP 95LX Purchased from Amount of memory 512K C 1 Do you have a RAM card C Yes C No Do you have an external disk drive C Yes O No Subscribers Disk successfully installed C Yes C No h About yourself Circle one Novice Intermediate user Advanced user Country or U S State Page 1 of 3 Do you use an IBM PC C Yes C No If Yes circle ALL the following items that you have Desktop Portable 286 386 486 Connectivity Pack 4 Do you use a Macintosh Yes If Yes circle ALL the following items that you have MacPlus SE Macll MacPortable Connectivity software 5 Do you subscribe to The HP Palmtop Paper Yes O No If No please fill out the following Profession Company Address City State Zip Country 6 Describe your problem IN DETAIL on separate page s Include symptoms and any recent changes you ve made in your system Fax call or mail the above information to us as instructed in this ad We look forward to helping you ASK THADDEUS Box 869 Fairfield 52556 USA PLEASE NOTE The ASK THADDEUS Technical Help Service is designed to help you get the most out of your 95LX Palmtop PC The information we pr
84. ers can do the same thing using MS DOS DEBUG on 2 1 Rename MNU95 EXE to MNU95 B N and put MNU95 BIN on the HP 95LX C drive 2 ze aon the following lines called a DEBUG script in caps exactly as written below Save the file as b a x C XMNUSS5 BIN 108 OF 171 F6 E 172 155 34 1566 RCX 15EF W Q Enter DOS from FILER At the DOS prompt enter the command C _SYS DEBUG lt C XFIX SCR 4 EXIT to retum to Filer and rename MNU95 BIN to MNU95 EXE V ipd please send us 2 00 5 overseas stating the disk size and we will send you a new disk with a corrected THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 in this issue Mark Scardina takes a new look at data compression Mark shows us how Stacker and the ACE DoubleCard can literally double the amount of disk space on RAM disk and even on the built in C drive We also take a brief look at alternatives to CompuServe American OnLine and Prodigy You will also find the usual assortment of tips and discussions of other products in The HP Palmtop Paper Volume one Number five September October 1992 Executive Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Hall Department Editors Tom Pa Ed Ke Mark Scardina Contributing Writers Sergio Casanova EIE Cradduck David H de Hamachek vid Hayden FE P Nagle Robert Newins Dave Shier Phillip Simpson Copy Editor Carol Vowell sing Marketing ei Pader Sweeney
85. etting the attribute to black and picking Paintbrush s fat brush shape lets me erase the whole area in a few sweeps I also select View Zoom in and select a portion of the picture to magnify so that I can fine tune the picture pixel by pixel Below is TLG PCX TopCard PCX file I created with Paintbrush EDWARD FEFE z Fast iT AM nkeny eee 500 CIS 5300 3667 Customized TopCard o on 95LX s screen Transfer the finished picture to the HP 95LX and use Setup Owner to make the new file pop up in place of the normal TOPCARD PCX file If you leave the Owner File name as C _DAT TOPCARD PCX and move your new PCX file to C _DAT TOPCARD PCX be sure and use Setup to delete any info in the Owner window Otherwise it will be superimposed on your new TOPCARD You might also paint the upper right and lower left corners of your PCX file solid black to leave room for the time and date and the Press a blue application key message In A Mathematical Mood While doing research for this month s Programmers Corner arti cle on Derive I began to wonder what other math programs would work on the HP 95LX Granted CALC and 1 2 3 will solve many of the real world math problems that most of us will ever encounter And for the true mathe maticians if there is a need On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Set Oct 92 The desktop ThinCardDRIVE transfers data effortlessly between Palmptops and M
86. ever is the only program that can produce 3 D plots on the HP 95LX For example the following graph was produced using the function BESSEL_Y_ASYMP n z SQRT 2 pi z SIN z n 1 2 pi 2 This is the ninth function in the BESSEL MTH file The Grids were set for 15 rows along the x and y axes The graph was Centered at x 5 and y 0 and the Length set tings were x 5 and y 10 It took about one and a half minutes to load the file and pick the function another minute to set the plot pa rameters and approximately 3 min utes to produce the graph a z Smet DERIVE Graph Who is DERIVE For If you re the kind of person who keeps threatening to relearn all the math you ve forgotten over the past decade then Derive will serve as a great learning aid Attention VARs OEMs Call Us for Factory Direct OEM dys HP 95LX Palmtop 1 MB Personal Computer HP 95LX Accessories race Sail cable ira 3 pin to Spi Serial Cable 9 Ad to 24 pin 82224 Driva95 3 5 External D Deliveries Derive seems to be used most widely as an educational tool Sev eral books have been written to support Derive They all have a classroom setting in mind The best of these books is Ex ploring Math from Algebra to Calcu lus with Derive by Jerry Glynn MathWare 604 East Mumford IL 61801 Jerry also runs an electronic bulletin board for Derive users If you re an engineer
87. f the function key labels at the bot tom of the FILER screen FILER FT Help As in the other built in applications the F1 key provides help Here is excellent advice whenever you run any appli cation on any computer Always study the computer screen for the instructions it provides Secondly form the habit of exploring and utilizing an application s help facili ty even if you don t always under stand what is being said In com plex programs such as Lotus 1 2 3 the help facility is invaluable and saves lugging around a huge Lotus manual One hint in exploring FILER s help facility After pressing Fi Help move cursor to Filer commands or Function keys by pressing the Down Arrow key two or three times Then press ENTER FILER F2 Copy The F2 key allows you to copy files There are many reasons you might want to do this but I ll list just two here as exam ples First you could create a MEMO template This is a file with some standardized text or formatting you intend to use over and over Let s say you create a correspondence template consisting of a few blank lines followed by the word Dear followed by a few more blank lines and ending with your name ad dress phone number and fax num ber You save this template in MEMO with the name LETFORM You can use the template by entering FILER and pressing F2 to make a copy of LETFORM You are then prompted to Copy letform to lype a new name
88. f you are interest ed in being the forum leader please contact Craig de Fasselle Compu Serve ID 76500 1440 or AOL screen name FLOWI13 America Online supports Mac intosh and PC computers and In spite of sparse HP technical documentation Mark Scardina has come up with a method to quickly and easily make software System Manager compliant For fun Hal explores programs that create words sounds and music on the 95LX By Hal Goldstein Some Technical Documentation Please The Hewlett Packard Lotus cre ation of the HP 95LX seems even more extraordinary now 1 years after its introduction Despite all that we read in the computer press about the explosion of the Palmtop marketplace there is as yet no real competition for the 95LX No exist ing palmtop matches the built in capability or compact size of the 95LX Given the leadership position of the HP 95LX and the uniqueness of the Lotus System Manager we would have thought by now com plete technical information needed 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER by developers small or large would be available Furthermore we have heard complaints from small devel opers that they have not been able to access the free technical informa tion that HP has been able to pro vide Not providing access of tech nical information to small develop ers is a big mistake Already the best HP 95LX software we have seen has been produced by the dedi cated individual programmer as o
89. for B bit char no parity this is a type of Checksum scheme where you basically can t go wrong XMODEM The Xmodem protocol requires 8 bit characters no parity in the Settings Config screen Other settings must match the configuration of the host device There is no Option menu for Xmodem Send and Receive are the only choices 95LX to 95LX Communication with Modems For each HP 95LX you need an HP 82222 Serial interface cable HP 82224 80003 modem adapter a modem access to an analog phone line not necessary when using acoustic interface The simplest communication between two 95LX s gives you effec tively the equivalent of two cans connected with a string The rules for this arrangement are few Baud char and parity must be the same on both machines Echo enabled allows the user to see what is being THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 25 Eus Solutit E c Databxcharge Macintosh Connectivity Kit LE e Link the HP 95LX to the Macintosh i e Easy file transfer 95LX lt gt Mac e Phone and appointment file conversion e HP 95LX System Manager compliant e System 6 and 7 compatible e Includes software cable and manual PoriumPal Connectiv resentation Manager for the HP S5LX ww All the features e Master the of public speaking e e Automate your presentations No need to purchas e Stay organized on time and to the point
90. han the previ ous one DERIVE Does Arithmetic Derive not only does symbolic math it also crunches numbers and how For example if you ask Derive to simplify the factorial of 100 i e 1 2 3 100 the program will quickly respond with the complete answer 9332621544394415268169923885626670049071 5968264381621468592963895217599993229915 6089414639761565182862536979208272237582 51185210916864000000000000000000000000 If you use the Derive function PMT 1 090 12 2 12 1200 to compute the monthly payment on a two year loan for 1200 at 10 APR you can have Derive give you an approxi mate or exact answer If you tell Derive to show an approximate answer you ll get 55 3739 However if you tell Derive to solve the problem you ll get a horrendous ratio 97017233784872162402203715694511008214 0348256092810 17520386581481318268762179694511008214 034825609281 By default Derive shows decimal quantities in a ratio format This is a more accurate representation since it contains no rounding errors Derive achieves this remarkable accuracy without a math copro cessor DERIVE Does Algebra To get a better idea of how quickly or slowly Derive does symbolic alge bra I chose the classic compound interest formula v 14i Anep 14i t 14i 4ne1 i 0 where v is the present value p is the fixed payment n is the number of periods is the periodic interest rate and f is the future value By default De
91. haps due to odd cursor keys or screen control Emmet Jones Corvallis OR USA CompuSrv 971750 1226 Derive I bought DERIVE and have thoroughly enjoyed it I wish it were system compli ant but am nevertheless enormously pleased with it Its been a real learning experience to work with this unusual program With its built in intelligence it may or may not do what you want it tries to guess and often guesses right but not always When it doesn t it may still be possible to coax it It s an experience I tell you The 2 and 3 dimensional graphing is at least as much fun as any game and can be quite instructive I Calendar Supplement for the hp95 Important dates worldwide Lunar Solar and Time Zone days a National Holidays 7150 countries Religious days 6 major religions Holiday details s What s closed Database and Utility Functions Merge Select Files Records Calendar amp Phonebook Databases s Battery voltages and left Change file and directory protection s Many other built in functions Traditions gifts National facts Small and easy to use Menu driven user interface e Usually lt 20K on line 135K max 25 includes floppy disk on line manual 1 year of calendars and database program with built in system utilities Visa MC US412 422 4134 Made in the USA by ASP never realized just how interesting is the simple function f x y x y until
92. have not yet stored It does this by looking at the average compression ratio of files already stored and using that figure to compute an anticipated free space figure If you only have a few files on your disk adding or deleting a file can have a major impact on the average com pression ratio and thus the space available report For example you could reduce the bytes free some 200K by storing a 50K file that had low compressibility More surpris ing you could store a highly com pressible worksheet and actually increase the bytes free report Stacker does provide a utility called SDIR EXE which reports the com pression ratio of each file However the bottom line is that you will never know precisely the amount of remaining disk space until you actually use it While this may appear as a dilemma let me outline a strategy that I have used success fully for the last 8 months File Storage Strategy When to Use Stacker The first point to remember is that data files your most irreplaceable files are also your most compress ible Since the drive is much safer than the C drive it makes sense to use the drive for your data stor age This maximizes RAM card use while affording the greatest level of protection Secondly remember that executable files are easily replaced and have the least compressibility Therefore placing as many as possi ble on C drive makes the most sense This is where DIET or PK LITE c
93. he Form Feed button to eject the page from the printer If this test works you re ready to go Print Test Fails Troubleshooting sure printer is On and On Line sure the connection between the 95LX is correct and tight Go back to points 2 amp 3 Make sure the 95LX and printer are configured 95 Buddy users see 95B ee Manual to make sure PRT Jis enabled or test printing MO SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 5 Peripherals Printers m Brother International markets the HJ 100i Ink Jet Printer virtually iden tical to the Bubble Jet m Star Micronics markets the StarJet SJ 48 According to a very favor able review in the Laptop Buyer s Guide amp Handbook Vol 10 Is sue 6 Star Micronics made changes in the firmware and soft ware which improved font han dling paper handling and print quality Unfortunately the 13 additional Bitstream FaceLift typefaces included with the Star Jet are impossible to use with the 95LX s built in MEMO program Both clones retail for 499 plus 50 for battery and 25 for additional ink cartridges the same price as the Bubble Jet These machines are essentially identical to the Bubble Jet and require a serial to parallel adapter to connect to the 95LX Since all three are essentially identical printers check street prices to find the better deal NOTE We have not tested the 100i Ink Jet Printer or the StarJet C PCM
94. he built in graphics capability of your 95LX explore memory and much more Here s what a few of the current users who can upgrade to Version 2 4 for only 10 say about UTIL The loader capability is a real bonus on the 95LX Good job Worth it for the examples alone Thank you for a fine program I love this package Great software package Thanks UTIL is a perfect match for your 95LX and at a list price of just 70 it s a real bargain 80 outside U S A and Canada To order your copy call today Essex Marketing Services Inc 272 Old Farms Road Simsbury CT 06070 U S A Phone 203 651 8284 Fax 203 651 7926 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 COLUMN Programmer s Corner DERIVE Does Graphics Without a doubt the most fascinat ing part of Derive is its ability to produce graphs of extremely com plex functions Not to take away from Derive s ability to plot 2 D graphs but rath er to show the power of HP CALC s Solve function I took all 18 func tions from Derives PLOT2D MTH demo file and imported them into Solve Solve was able to plot 12 of the 18 functions immediately The other six contained hyperbolic and unsup ported trig functions Converting COSH SINH etc to their exponen tial equivalents allowed Solve to plot those expressions as well Fur thermore Solve has a much better interface when working with these types of graphs than does Derive Derive how
95. hink it has any merit While Prodigy will never be a substitute for CompuServe if you have to share a single on line ser vice with your family up to six SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 29 HP 95LX SUPPORT Alternatives members per household can have sub accounts at no additional cost or if you need to have a fixed cost regardless of access time Prodigy could be the answer The more of us HP 95LX users there are on Prodi gy the better the support will be HP95 Forum on America OnLine AOL By Craig de Fasselle AOL ID FLOW13 CompuServe ID 76500 1440 In your July Aug issue of the Palm top Paper an excellent newsletter Earl Morton asked about a HP 95LX forum on America Online AOL I have talked to AOL about this and by the time you read this America Online will have established a sec tion for 95LX users A number of COLUMN User to User User To User 95LX shareware programs have already been uploaded to AOL Al though final location for the palm top group was not established at press time interested parties should look for the new group within their computer hardware forum keyword Mac Hardware or PC Hardware Look for an announcement or folder regard ing the HP 95LX palmtop users group We are looking for a volunteer to be forum leader This individual will receive free online time from AOL so there will be no costs in volved to anyone contributing their time and talents I
96. hose who only need to print out short draft quality notes By Rich Hall We first heard about this printer from G ran Th rnblad a Swedish subscriber see page 37 Jan Feb 92 issue The DPU 411 is relatively easy to set up but is not able to signal the 95LX to stop sending data when its printer buffer is full This means that if you try and print a file larger than about 3 pages 7K the buffer overflows and the Seiko starts printing garbage This may not be a problem if you are printing small text files but Lotus WK1 and Phone Book PBK files can easily grow to over 7K bytes This draft quality printer comes with an AC adapter and one roll of thermal paper Additional rolls of thermal paper are available from your Seiko dealer 5 rolls for 13 The DPU 411 comes with a serial port and connects easily to the 95LX using the HP Serial Cable that came with the Connectivity Pack HP F1001A and the 9 to 25 pin Modem Adapter that came with the Serial Cable Adapter Kit HP 82224A However because of print buffer problem mentioned above this printer has limited usefulness for the 95LX Information Seiko DPU 411 Printer 240 Small thermal printer with serial port Useful for printing draft quality notes files 7K or less Needs HP Serial Cable HP F1001A 82222A and the Modem Adapter that comes with the HP Serial Cable Adapter Kit HP 82224A Modem adapter 7K memory n CONTACT
97. intbrush s drawing tools or select Text Fonts to enter text into the picture Remember that black and white will be re versed on the HP 95LX If you want to have black text on a white back ground you have to create white text on a black background in Paintbrush To create a black back ground select the Paintbrush fill icon shaped like a paint roller Then click on the solid black box on the color bar Finally position the fill icon in the small drawing box and click to fill the entire drawing area with black To select white text click the Text icon on the tool bar small box with the letters ABC in it Then click the white box on the color bar Any text you now enter will be white Save your work with the PCX extension and use ZIP COM or another file transfer program to on the 1992 HP Paper Subscribers Disk transfer it back to the HP 95LX _DAT subdirectory Go into SET UP press FILER and press Own er Picture File and move the cursor to the PCX file you just cre ated Exit SET UP and the other built in applications and the new PCX file will appear on the screen when you turn the 95LX on You can modify your existing TOPCARD PCX file also Use ZIP COM or the APP95 file transfer program to copy TOPCARD PCX from the 95LX to your desktop Click File Open and select TOPCARD PCX The file will appear on the Paintbrush screen You can modify and save it as described above TopCard fi
98. ion or have lived in a high risk area have their retinas examined by an ophth almologist for signs of a past infec tion My vision difficulties have caused me to consider ways the 95LX might be used or modified to assist people with a vision impair ment One of the first things that comes to mind is the Dialtonekd program mentioned in this column May June 92 issue page 31 With Dialtone you can hold your 95LX up to the speaker of a touchtone tele phone and let the 95LX dial the phone by making the touchtone beeps Dialing a phone is one of the most difficult tasks for me at pres ent It would also be nice if pro grams such as Phone Book could be modified to display larger charac ters I think this program and the HP Calculator program could be modified to effectively display larger IE on The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk May Jun 92 characters The numbers on the 95LX s calculator display look pretty wimpy compared with the numbers on my old HP 12E calculator Although I would not change the size of the 95LX I think a new version with fewer larger keys makes sense especially the more commonly used keys I also think that newer versions of the 95LX should be designed so that it is easier to install custom ROM chips This would make it easier for specif ic users including those of us with a vision impairment to customize the Palmtop Enhancements for the visually impaired would benefit others Sure a brigh
99. ional Corp 200 Cottontail Lane Somerset NJ 08875 6714 USA Phone 908 356 8880 Fax 908 469 5167 SJ 48 with the 95LX but since the hardware is virtually identical to the Bubble Jet you should be able to connect them to the 95LX via a serial to parallel adapter The Citizen PN48 The PN48 s combination of laser like output and small size make this 2 6 Ib printer the right choice for on the road printing However its high operating cost 36 cents page for the single strike ribbon slower operating speeds and lack of sheet feeder make it a questionable choice as a primary printer The PN48 comes with a parallel port only and needs a serial to parallel adapter to connect to the 95LX By Bob Newins The Citizen PN48 is a diminutive laser quality printer with an op tional NiCd battery pack that lets Print Samples Diconix 180si ABCDEFGHIJ Citizen PN48 ABCDEFGHIJ Cannon BubbleJet 10ex ABCDEFGHIJ Seiko DPU 411 Thermal Printer ABCDEFGHI J abcdaefahiij HP LaserJet ABCDEFGHIJ 6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 abcdefghi j abcdefghi j abcdefghi j abcdefghij 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 1234567890 Do you really need a printer on the road Even the lightest of printers will triple the weight you carry on the road There are already millions of computers and printers all over the world in the businesses you visit and in the hotels you stay in Here are some alte
100. it The HP cable had three wires Red White Yellow and a ground wrap wire wrapped around the others used to shield them from interfer ence and act as a ground wire You can purchase an Unterminated 95LX serial cable with the end al ready cut off from EduCALC for 12 95 See Order Information box next page I used a continuity checker to determine which signals were con nected to which wires and then HP 95LX Serial Cable a connected it to a four prong RJ 11 modular phone adapter on the cut end of the HP cable I then connect ed the new modular end of the HP cable to a 9 pin communications connector RJ 11 to male 9 pin adapter and attached it to a Mac ronix Fax Modem I was operation al I also have an RJ 11 to 25 pin male adapter for use with a Practi cal Peripherals Pocket Modem In the months been using this set up Ive encountered no problems connecting to my home office PC 386 33 megahertz IBM clone a notebook PC and various modems I ve successfully connected to a Macronix Fax Modem I ve also connected to the Practical Peripherals Inc Pocket Modem PPI PM using a non ap proved modification to the PPI bat tery pack If you feel comfortable with a few cut wires it really isn t a large task to accomplish the above More information on modem modification can be found in PM2400 95ld or TINYMO 95igi two text files in Li brary 6 of the HP Handheld forum of CompuServe Modificati
101. ith MEMO create or edit a file named CACONFIG SYS Add the following lines to the file remember the space before each DEVICE A STACKER COM M 0 SHELL C COMMAND COM P 2 With MEMO create or edit a file named C AUTOEXEC BAT Add the following lines ECHO OFF PROMPT P G A STACKER COM ECHO Press CTRL C to go to DOS ECHO Press any key to go to SYSMGR PAUSE gt NUL SYSMGR 3 Temporarily clear enough space on your 95LX s C drive to have 105K free with at least 300K of system RAM 4 Copy from your PC to CA the following Stacker 2 0 files SCREATE COM SCREXEC EXE SCREXEC2 EXE 5 Back up all of your drive files and then format the RAM card by pressing FIER Format ENTER 6 Copy the Stacker 2 0 file STACKER COM to your A drive T Press CTRL ALT DEL to reboot At the prompt press CTRL C and Y to go to the DOS prompt 8 Enter SCREATE A r 3 c 4 to create Stackers hidden disk file on your RAM card A message will appear indicating SUCCESS 9 Press CTRL ALT DEL to reboot and go to SYSMGR and you will now have a Stacked A drive IntelliLink Not Just File Transfer Data Translation amp Reconciliation HP Connectivity DOS Windows 3 x Pack Add In 69 95 99 95 99 95 Sidekick 2 0 Word Perfect Office dBase Paradox Calendar Creator ACT PackRat Current Excel Word for Windows 1 2 3 for Windows IntelliLink Inc 98 S
102. ith the highlighting on it will now show the contents of the A drive Split screens are extremely helpful in Copying or Moving files in Filer With Split screens you can see the computer actually do the work 99 14 92 18 480 am 5 Local FILER s Rm Soren BACKING UP YOUR FILE FILER s ability to copy rename or otherwise manipulate your files makes it the application you ll use to back up files Let s say you want to keep a backup copy of your Phone Book and you do not have a RAM card Enter FILER move the cursor to _DAT and press ENTER This moves you into the directory where your Phone Book file is kept To find your Phone Book look for the file s with the 3 letter PBK extension i e MAIN PBK or something like that If you re not sure of the name of your Phone Book press PHONE Your phone filename will be listed in the upper left of your PHONE screen Back in FILER put your cursor on the name of your Phone Book file Press F2 COPY type in C and finally press ENTER You have just creat ed a back up of your Phone Book on the main C drive Find that backup file by first moving your highlight bar to the line at the top of the screen the one that says View Up Press and you will be back in the main C directory Move the highlight bar down the list until you find your backed up Phone Book file If anything ever hap pens to your Phone Book you have a back up copy as of today s date in yo
103. itten and how can I get a copy of it P M Smith Springfield OR USA Does Palmtop Resources Exist In the July August issue of The HP Palmtop Paper on page 42 you mention a company named Palmtop Resources from Dallas Texas USA Their tele phone is not in service and a friend of mine in Dallas tried unsuccessfully to lo cate their office we use several of the programs listed in the de scription of their services I am very interested in know ing if they truly exist Lee C Stinson Gauting GERMANY Palmtop Resources is no longer in business It was taken over by Memory Card Associates see page 48 The Pouch for 95LX Phil Richardson just sent me his special 95LX version of The Pouch I have tried it out and find it perfect for unobtrusive carrying of the 95LX on the belt This case really fits the 95LX like a glove I m happy The Pouch is a small belt pouch made of nylon faced Neoprene material similar to the material SCUBA wet suits are made from The material is a very durable closed cell foam rubber bonded to a thin black spandex material facing both sides The mate rial is about 3 mm thick overall and provides a bouncy protective enclosure for the 95LX The construc tion is very well done and high quality 1 5 wide nylon strap runs over the top of the pouch and secures with a velcro closure It is so light weight that I forgot I was wearing the 95LX on my belt I had
104. ive letters asking which printers are most suitable for the HP 95LX Portability ease of use print quality and price were the key issues in our minds so we looked at battery powered portable printers under 5 lbs that could connect easily to the 95LX Two of the printers discussed have serial ports and can connect directly to the 95LX The others have parallel ports and must use a serial to parallel adapter to connect to the 95LX What follows is the experience of different 95LX users If any subscriber has feedback on these or other printers please drop us a line One final note on list price Manufacturer s suggested retail price and street price may vary 25 or more so you may want to shop around Continued on page 5 Thaddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 2nd Class pending Fairfield Iowa 52556 at Fairfield lowa Forwarding and Address Correction Requested Now DOUBLE your capacity with DoubleCara New Introducing DoubleCard 8M Now up to 8MB of RAM NEW DoubleCard 2 0 now doubles both your standard RAM cards and your HP 95LX internal RAM disk Now with DoubleCard 8M you can store over 8MB on your HP95LX DoubleCard 2 0 ACE Technologies introduces DoubleCard 2 0 with its unique new DoubleRAM feature DoubleRAM together with the patented Stacker LZS data compression technology now doubles both the capacity of your RAM cards and your HP 95LX s internal RAM disk How does if work DoubleRAM comp
105. l items are left blank Data is then downloaded into a desktop PC run ning Grand TOTAL Availability NOW Mediu Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No Pricing Grand TOTAL with Running TOTAL for the 95LX 995 CONTACT la mode 1015 Waterwood Pkwy Suite Edmond OK 73034 USA Phone 800 252 6633 or 405 359 6587 Fax 405 359 8612 Health Related Assurance Kinetics This service assists pharmacists or physicians in calculating proper dosages and tracking dosing sched ules of 20 commonly monitored drugs gentamicin theophylline digoxin etc Software programs contain the latest findings in phar macokinetic research Also includes 24 hour consulting service Availability NOW WAGE Lbs eae ae ate ee RAM Card Runs under SysMer een Pee ee n Yes Pricing software and training 1 850 CONTACT Data Med Clinical Support Services see contact below Assurance Nutrition This service provides precise enteral and parenteral nutritional analyses for pharmacists or dietitians In cludes software for analyzing and assessing patient data Includes the latest findings in nutritional re search and 24 hour consulting Availability NOW uror e n ehh RAM Card Runs under SysMgr Soe TIS T EET Yes Pricing software and training 1 850 CONTACT Data Med Clinical Support Services see co
106. ld be set to 626K and Agenda should be run from DOS not from the SYSMGR shelled to DOS with out any large TSR programs loaded in other words you must create or modify a file called A AUTOEXEC This file must contain the following lines 9 PATH C C _DAT C _SYS A PAUSE Press Ctrl C to DOS without TSRs REM load TSRs here SYSMGR Each time you want to start Agenda and again when you ve exited Agenda save any open files then press CTAL ALT DEL to reboot your machine At the prompt press CTRL C Y AGENDA and if you want to run Agenda Press any other key at the prompt to start the built in 95LX applications You must also create or modify a file called A NCONFIG SYS so that it has the following lines make sure you have a blank space before E and P 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SHELL COMMAND E 512 BUFFERS 8 You will also need another file called A AGENDA BAT that has the following lines DISPCTL C A CDIAGENDA AGENDA A AGENDA PLANNER AG DISPCTL CDI These three files can be created in MEMO Despite the fact that expanded memory will speed up genda on desktop machines do not use an EMS simulator on the 95LX The simulator just adds one more disk read and write operation in memory that is no faster than the 95LX RAM and actually slows Agenda down On a desktop machine in contrast read and write operations are much faster to EMS than they
107. le imported into Paintbrush Serial and Parallel Connectivity Kit a ee S and Hard Disk for HP 95LX Finally a connectivity kit for the HP 95LX that does it all This innovative kit from BSE includes a serial cable hard disk interface and parallel port for fast plug and play connectivity BSE s kit is more than just a serial to parallel converter it s a true IBM compatible bi directional high speed parallel port Now you can conve niently connect to your printer or to BSE s Flashdrive portable hard disk system in just seconds The Flashdrive is rugged and easy to use with a pass through Flashdrive 25 add up to 130MB port for the printer and internal rechargeable batteries Convenient 5 hour operation and optional 220 240V input V The Flashdrive is tiny at only 1 5 tall and less than 1 516 including batteries Available from 20 to 130MB Awarded May 1992 The Flashdrive is tested and approved by Toshiba NEC Sharp IBM Poget Atari Tandy and many others You can use the Flashdrive with any PC using DOS 3 0 or above Complete hard disk systems cost 20 times less per MB than a RAM card The BSE Company 602 527 8843 Available at EduCALC SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 Column Looking Glass SOME TIPS Select View Cursor position and Paint brush displays the coordinates of the position in the picture you are working on This may help you keep track of where you are I ve found that s
108. left corner of the spreadsheet Memory man agement has improved since the days of VisiCalc and 1 2 3 Release 1A Today the diagonal organization may be used without significant if any memory penalty but I still don t want anything in cell GA3382 it s just too far away from cell Al I did not find any hidden cells in STAT This is another element of style Some spreadsheet writers try to protect the users of their spread sheets from the inner workings of the spreadsheet by hiding key areas of the spreadsheet I never liked hidden cells They cause more trou ble than they save If you remem ber in EXPENSE the cells contain ing the macros had to be unhidden One interesting feature of _STAT is its macro subroutines Subroutines save memory by elimi nating repetitive codes There is a small penalty in execution speed when a subroutine is used instead of repeated code but it is not signif icant and is far outweighed by the advantages of using subroutines To create a subroutine separate the common code and assign it a range name The subroutine is called in macro code by enclosing the subroutine range name is brack ets for example print It is a good idea to assign a meaningful name to the subroutine Examination of the macro code in _STAT shows that the program mer was a bit of a smart aleck He assigned meaningless single letter range names to his subroutines He may have wanted to save memory but the sa
109. lems 22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 m The size and weight of the 95LX make it an ideal travel com panion I always carry 4 spare batteries but even with these weight is no problem All countries sell the bat teries so I never have any wor ries about running short I carry the extra 4 batteries merely as a convenience for the long plane trips a precaution and to test my real battery usage I have a plain label inside my battery cover and record when ever I change batteries I usual ly change the batteries at the 25 level Even on a busy trip the batteries last 2 3 weeks m With the size of the 95LX I no longer have any security wor ries In the evening when I go out for dinner I can either take the 95LX with me in a jacket pocket or check it into the hotel safety deposit box along with my passport tickets traveler s checks etc m The value of the 95LX means that it is now covered by my normal travel insurance The money saved has been ear marked for other 95LX accesso ries naturally The cost of the 95LX is such that it doesn t need to be for mally imported exported into such countries as India Tracking Expenses I have now completed the design of a spreadsheet for the 95LX that enables me to maintain accurate expense records in 10 separate cur rencies plus my domestic currency The spreadsheet also converts ex penditures back to my domestic cur rency which helps
110. lex math formulae to Pascal code DERIVE Does Calculus If you re up to speed in Calculus you can probably write down the solution to the following formula in a couple of seconds dx a ba With Derive the solution is avail able at the push of a few keys Just choose Calculus Integrate from the menu and enter the expression When the integral appears tell the program to simplify it A couple of seconds later the answer will appear ATAN b x 2 a 2 a b Now tell Derive to find the in definite integral of x a 3 b 3 x 5 with respect to x Once the process is started you can go get a cup of coffee and read a chapter from the Derive User s Manual Come back 8 minutes later to pick up the answer The complete solution takes 25 lines to print We won t do that here Derive makes no claim at being fast just accurate A Nuisance Sometimes as in the case of the 8 minute solution above an expres sion will extend beyond the right side of the screen At that point it becomes a real nuisance to try and see the missing information You can use the arrow keys to highlight parts of the equation and slowly display what you re missing To speed up the viewing pro cess you can switch the screen from graphics mode to text mode The display won t look as neat but it will give you access to the full 80 column screen Occasionally even that won t help The only recourse is to save the formula in a file and use an
111. ll be billed to your credit card We pay the long distance charges for our hone call to you Rates for our ASK DEUS Technical Help Service depend on your location as follows AN SU 2 00 min Canada 2 35 min European Economic Community 3 25 min Mexico South America original for future use the problem and possible solutions 3 50 a 1 As requested on the form sure to list Eastern Europe Fill in the information as directed 3 alternative times we may call you AGSURIS cris ardere 4 00 min Be concise but complete If we have complete information we will do any necessary research in advance This research will be done off line at no cost to you 9 IMPORTANT Our ASK THADDEUS specialist may ask you to try one or more possible solutions over the phone For this reason be sure to Note We will deduct 7 00 from the cost of this service for any inquiries about installa tion of your Subscribers Disk ASK THADDEUS Technical Help Request Form To ASK THADDEUS FAX 515 472 9595 ANSWERING MACHINE 515 472 7584 From Your Name Daytime phone no Evening phone no amp Fax no Best times to call you Please list several hours on each of 3 weekdays We can call you between 9 00am and 5 00pm US Central Time GMT 6 West ref
112. me check on spending patterns EXPENSES ZIP All expenses are entered a se quential receipt number is given by the spreadsheet I enter that num ber on the receipt and then store El on The HP Paper on Disk Sep Oct 92 the receipt in a large envelope Basic details about the transaction are entered along with the currency The conversion to domestic currency is automatically made As these con versions are made a total of all expenses in domestic currency is made at the top of the spreadsheet Australian taxation laws and the policy of my company requires the dissection of expenses into a number of categories e g travel meal accommodation etc I have therefore included columns for these categories and am able to dissect the expenses as I enter them into the spreadsheet On my last trip I was away for 30 days visited 12 cities and en tered 132 separate items By the end of the trip the file was about 57K and still small enough to easily fit on the C Drive File saving took about 9 seconds but that inconve nience is minor compared to the amount of data captured and the improvement in productivity pro duced by the spreadsheet When I arrived back from the trip I transfered the file to my LTE286 enlarged a few of the col umns and then printed out an expense report accurate to within 50 cents Using MEMO for Reports On my last trip prepared daily client reports using MEMO Each client h
113. mes with an AC adapter a connect cable and one ink cartridge and lists for 499 The optional NiCad battery pack good for about 18 pages of printing when fully charged lists for 50 A replacement ink cartridge costs 25 Battery and ink cartridges should be available from the dealer you purchased the Bubble Jet from The Bubble Jet is a quiet print er providing 360 dpi dots per inch resolution on plain bond paper envelopes or transparencies Built in fonts include Courier and Prestige Elite if you configure the printer and the 95LX for Proprinter emulation and Sans Serif and Roman if you configure them for Epson LQ 510 emulation Pro printer and Epson FX 80 emulation are available on the 95LX Epson technical support said that Epson FX 80 emulation on the 95LX should work for an Epson LQ 510 compatible machine like the Bubble Jet To access these fonts you ll have to print from a DOS word processor such as VDE or from Lotus 1 2 3 This is because MEMO cannot send the necessary control characters to change fonts The Bubble Jet only comes with a parallel printer port Because of this you must use a serial to paral lel adapter to connect it to the 95LX Depending on the serial to parallel adapter you use you may also need one of the pin adapters from the HP Serial Cable Adapter Kit HP 822244 See sidebar page 8 on serial to parallel adapters Bubble Jet Clones Two other manufacturers use the Canon
114. nc Box 869 Fairfield 52556 CompuServe ID 75300 2443 of logical and relational operators make up Derive s small program ming language To create a Derive program you just build a set of related functions and save them in a file It is possi ble to write programs in Derive However programming in Derive is not easy and it s likely that every one but die hard enthusiasts will find it next to impossible to master this feature of Derive DERIVE Does Pascal If Derive is difficult to program perhaps it could be used to help write programs in a standard com puter language One of the menu options hints that Derive will save a set of functions as a Pascal file To check this out I chose the compound interest formulas derived above and saved them as a Pascal file I expected to get a Pascal pro gram that could be tweaked com piled and run Not so Instead of a Pascal program here s what ap peared in the file v POW 1 i n p 1 i t POW 1 i n 4 i f 0 nzLN p i t amp 1 f i v iep i t 1 LN i41 t v i p POW i 4 n fi p i p 4 POW i 4 n p i v POW i 1 n 1 POW i 4 n i t 1 i v p t p POW I 1 n i f p t pz0 Other than substituting Pascal s POW function for Derive s oper ator very little coding was done by Derive Saving the same file as a BASIC and a Fortran file produced compa rable results In short Derive might be useful for converting extremely comp
115. nce carriers data abbre viated medical histories allergies and patient care notes Medical Rounds tracks the time spent with each patient It captures patient charges for services provided in cluding a program for determining the new physician evaluation and management services CPT codes Medical Rounds comes with an HP version with full user documen tation as well as a PC version on floppy disk Availability NOW Medium Kad Risks ROM Runs under SysMgr Bd a M af M AS No edo era ida eee eens 399 Demo disk 0 25 CONTACT The Medical Mind 897 Poplar Church Road Camp Hill PA 17011 USA Phone 71 7 737 2550 Fax 717 763 0768 Pocket RD 11 This nutrition software for nutri tion health and fitness profession als calculates sorts organizes and graphs clinically relevant data and prints client and personal reports It includes 12 program sections Weight loss exercise analysis body composition nutrient analysis with more than 5 000 foods diabetic and renal calculations enteral and par enteral nutrition and many equa tions on determining appropriate nutrient intake levels Avala S o 0 of Sky eee NOW Medium Floppy disk or ROM Card Easy Printing From Your Palmtop The GA935 Printer Converter lets you print directly from your HP 95LX on virtually any parallel printer It uses the standard HP cable The Printer Converter is powered a
116. nd totally portable battery Available from most HP dealers For your nearest dealer contact Tel 704 376 1021 _ 704 335 8707 Toll Free 1 800 476 4070 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 Runs under SysMgr Pricing floppy disk version ROM Card version CONTACT Poly Bytes Inc P O Box 770070 Coral Springs FL 33077 USA Phone 305 344 0501 Fax 305 344 0522 PVT Terminal The PVT patient visit translator Terminal software turns the 95LX into a pocket sized data collector that assists the physician in record ing procedures and services with patients The software will suggest the appropriate 1992 Evaluation amp Management CPT code for billing purposes Specialized CPT code modules are available additionally for OBGYN pediatrics and cardiol ogy with others in development Customized orders will be honored Availability 22 o a NOW IY s aus Tasse eatem st RAM Card Pacing under SysMgr s Yes Val d die dA pa Pd dO d A rr nia 499 Specialisad CPT modules 200 minimum order or 2 per code CONTACT JA DE JA Inc 600 Fairmount 305 Towson MD 21286 USA Phone 800 272 3590 or 410 296 4117 Fax 410 296 2422 Personal Info Managers Keep In View Keep In View KIV is a full fea tured Personal Information Manag er PIM specifically designed for the HP 95LX KIV is a cross be tween an outliner and a free form dat
117. nds have teamed together to create myREMOTE a software package that lets you use the HP 95LX to control your TV VCR CD 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 E Z Arithmetic A comprehensive course for Students parents and adults Learn review or drill all aspects of arithmetic for math tests and courses Easy to use manual and software Amiga Atari ST Apple HP 48SX HP 95L X IBM Mac TI 85 versions Concepts definitions methods and terminology fully explained with lots of model problems and exercises Includes detailed course outline For complete information write EZ Software Dept PT1 P O Box 500 Midwood Station Brooklyn New York 1230 player and so on via the HP 95LX IR port Dave Goodman who has written some of the best shareware utilities for the HP 95LX has teamed up with The HP Papers Mark Scardina and ACE Technology s Andy Fu to develop the 29 package We will take a detail ed look in a future issue If you want to test to see if your remote controlled equipment is controllable from the 95LX you can download RMTEST ZIP amp from CompuServe or find it on this issue s HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Lithium AA Batteries Available at These Locations The Eveready Battery Company announced the retail availability of the Energizer Hi Energy Lithium L91 AA Battery As discussed in previous issues these batteries at least double the HP 95LX battery life The following retaile
118. nfused with the Subscriber Disk that you receive free in June with each year s Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper 800 373 6114 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 Phone Fax Country Luxembourg amp Belgium BYTECOM France PalmSoft Germany W amp W Prods 0 22 02 42021 Netherlands ELDATA 31 0 20 6247284 31 0 206325111 32 0 10 223455 32 0 10 241730 144 76 11 00 1 40 26 94 32 0 22 02 32794 The annual Subscriber Disk is one or two 360K floppies containing 081 744 0022 some of the best freeware for the HP 95LX no shareware UK Supplyline 081 744 0045 p ma PERIPHERALS Cables Creating Customized Cables For The HP 95LX An HP 95LX user adds an RJ 11 phone connector to the HP Serial Cable to better fit his connectivity needs Phone Jacks add Flexibility This information is provided for you to use at YOUR OWN RISK The procedure described involves modifying the HP serial cable HP 2222A also comes with the HP Connectivity Pack HP F1001A By Nagle CompuServe ID 71140 1253 Because of the size and length of the HP serial cable and the need for a multitude of adapters 9 to 25 25 to 9 male to male female to female null modem etc I quickly decid ed that there must be a better way to solve the connectivity puzzle I cut the 9 pin end off the HP cable the 2nd night I had
119. nit sitting on your desk and your connected to an AC adapt er and linked to your desktop PC via serial cable d 1 Station95 docking station Station95 should be particularly useful to those who use their 95LX at a desk and who come and go a lot i e for those who need to con nect and disconnect their 95LX often Station95 retails for 59 95 That s not very expensive especially X e gt 7 SAAD w 3 em A Pow A Success date Mor EE RR e a Y LOU MEG e LS lt n 1 lt i z v s gt gt 7 UR eS lt u SN PN when you consider that a serial cable and AC adapter comes with the unit an HP Serial Cable and AC Adapter would cost you 50 If you already have a serial cable and AC adapter Station95 may seem a bit redundant especial ly if you don t connect and discon nect that often But the mere fact that it s there on your desk so easy to connect to tends to encourage its use I use it all the time and the money I save on batteries should quickly pay for Station95 Station95 is a very lightweight hollow black box about 1 5 tall 8 long and 4 5 deep 3 8 x 20 3 x 11 4 cm It has a memory card slot in the left hand side but there is no RAM card drive in Station95 at this time It appears that Station95 was designed so that it woul
120. nning total with HP CALC s List Function QUICK SHIFTING BETWEEN CARDS When viewing individual cards in the Phone Book you can switch from one card to the previous card or to the next card by pressing lt Shit gt and then pressing PG UP or PG DN This will make it easy to compare entries SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 49 aaa QUICK TIPS 444 ES Lotus ENCRYPTING DATA AND HIDING FILES One way to protect your sensitive information is to keep it in a Lotus worksheet and save it with a Pass word To do this when saving the worksheet type in the name you wish to save the file under followed by an empty space and the letter P Then press ENTER You will be prompted to enter a password see page 6 11 of the HP 95LX User s Guide The password is required to retrieve the worksheet into Lotus and the sensitive data is not visible with any hex file editor like Norton Utilities A LOTUS spreadsheet damage recovery program called RESCUE has an included program that will rescue a forgotten password Another way to encrypt data is to use a file compression program like DIET Marc Schiffring CompuServe ID 72311 173 Michael Gilchrist CompuServe ID 73557 2232 BASE DATABASE WORKS WELL ON 95LX installed an old copy of BASE Lotus add in on the 95LX It pro vides a full XBASE type database on my 95LX which seems to work well can move between MEMO PHONE APPT and Lotus
121. now employ ed by Trace Scientific as their Inter national Sales and Marketing Man ager such he travels to most parts of the world to visit new and current customers Trace s products are used all around the world to assist clinicians in their diagnosis by providing high quality and accu rate biochemical test results A long time computer user his first computer being a Commodore Vic20 Phillip is a committed Lotus 1 2 3 convert Other hobbies include water skiing power boating and 4WD off road He is currently re building an old 1970 Series IIA Land Rover You ve Heard About The Software Now xt me The Personal Food Analyst the first professional level nutritional software for the consumer is now available for demonstration on video cassette absolutely FREE no obligation Order the software with the video and you can try it FREE for 30 days The Personal Food Analyst software is designed exclusively for the HP95 and the video is designed to show you exactly how the software can contribute to a healthier lifestyle You ll see how the built in database of over 4 000 foods and 27 nutrients can help you analyze your daily food intake and improve your eating habits The Personal Food Analyst also displays the nutritional and caloric values of your food intake throughout the day numerically or graphically and compares it to dietary goals created ZDt 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEM
122. ntact below Point Of Care Software This product allows 95LX users to interface with other PC based soft ware systems from Data Med and is only useful with those systems The following Modules are available AvallabiBie 222334 i14 sores Mediupi d vu ad dana Runs under SysMgr e Pricing for Point of Care Software with Assurance Homecare System 850 Assurance Long Term Care System 850 Assurance Nursing System 850 Assurance Respiratory System 850 Assurance Rehabilitation System 850 CONTACT Data Med Clinical Support Services 2331 University Ave SE Minneapo lis MN 55414 USA Phone 800 STAT 911 or 612 378 2930 Fax 612 378 2930 Manager s Assistant Depart mental Information System Manager s Assistant software turns the 95LX into a point of care pa tient data collection device for re spiratory physical and occupational therapists Availability NOW ii sisisi ik iiki Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No Pring Duis aa 1 595 CONTACT MediSerue Information Systems Inc 1615 West University Dr Ste 138 Tempe AZ 85281 USA Phone 800 279 8456 or 602 966 6800 Fax 602 956 6735 Medical Rounds Menu driven information organizer that provides a physician with up to date patient data wherever he or she may be Stores patients person al and admission information ad mitting and referring physicians and insura
123. o one end and the barrel plug to the other I didn t the first time and had to do it over PRESTO You have a small external battery pack which should power the 95LX for a long time when AC isn t conven ient I haven t gone long enough to see how long it will last and I suppose I will have to use a cheap voltmeter to see how the batteries do Im not even particularly handy with a soldering pencil but I managed The toughest part was find ing a glue which would fasten the battery hold ers to the inside of the box because I didn t want to use screws Paul O Bartlett CompusSrv ID 76625 150 Be Careful Prying Open the 95LX s Case There was an article in the March April issue Continued on page 43 Control VCR Stereo with the 95LX Introducing myREMOTE Up to 100 commands TAB Play gt Fast F User programmable Macro commands orwa HLT U UCR Ah DEL Clear Cancel BRLT T TU Single Key access To your remote functions gt Use ARROW ke ENTER gt Send E dit D elete Insert I rain CALT C Multiple files for different remotes Timer Record CD RPRLT S STEREO Program Display TU UCR Choosez Select Set to select item myREMOTE lets your 95LX replace all of your IR remote controls The built in programmable macro commands and time delay control even allow for unattended operations myREMOTE works with wide variety of remote components myREMO
124. o an 80 column comma delimited ASCII data file suitable for use with a database program The Abkasc created re cords contain all the HP data fields plus two fields which can be used to create indexed database records Availability lapwegenepe aa NOW TUE neat ka Ice te e Rie Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No Phan eB n o5 ucc ceu 2 ca Rr Eus 15 CONTACT UniSource Inc 671 Cedar Street Longboat Key FL 34228 USA Phone 813 383 0194 Fax same evening hours Also available on the HPHAND forum of CIS Calendar Supplement for the HP 95LX This supplement to APPT s calendar lists holidays and important dates worldwide lunar solar and time zone days national holidays for over 150 countries religious holidays for 6 major religions zodiac days and more Know the important days in the country you are visiting The calendar Supplement also performs database operations merge append and delete calendars choose include and remove entries works on the 95LX s calendars and 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER phone books Includes system utili ties for battery life file protection and more Includes manual floppy disk with system utilities calendar databases calendar and phone book control program menu interface AMATUS URS decr Wwe Ba edita i NOW BO oc cor LE CLE Y wa ee Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr rs S sida va No BB Bod B B OB B B B S BS B P P B B 4 ricing 25 CONTACT AS
125. oftware e Portability program anywhere e Powerful graphics functions formation call 800 827 8416 S 30 503 757 8416 FAX 503 753 7821 CompuServe 75320 2440 PA itor inquiries welcome CORPORATION News from HP No other settings will influence this simple mode of communication Use the Settings Config command to make select the matching param eters Connect both HP 95LX s to the modem and phone line On the receiving HP 95LX press Connect Now type ATA in caps This puts the receiving HP 95LX in auto answer mode On the dialing HP 95LX press MENU Connect Now type in caps ATDT where is the phone number for the receiving unit After the command to call the other modem is issued the response on each should be caler DH HAC ORE connect 2400 pena aaa connect 2400 At this point any keystrokes from either machine will be displayed on the other With Echo enabled users will have their keystrokes displayed on their screen also FILE TRANSFER To transfer files between 95LX s the configurations must match each other TEXT transfer is the simplest means of transferring files From COMM type MENU Transfer Text Options Char must be set for 8 bit data in this mode Throttling 0 and Pacing None default is the simplest configuration to use Refer to the user s manual for variations to these options To send
126. omputer technologies work together The GPSpac from GESSA integrates the most powerful Palmtop PC on the market the HP 95LX from Hewlett Packard with Rockwell s NavCore V state of the art five channel GPS receiver Simple but functional COMPLETE SYSTEM HP 95LX Palmtop PC GPSpac w transit case 1290 Battery pack 195 Software on 2 Mega SRAM Card 799 LIST 698 CALL OR FAX PALMTREE FOR SPECIAL PRICING M SGPs 145 Washington Street Norwell MA 02061 Phone 617 871 7050 Fax 617 871 6018 Third Party Products Software LapMap LapMap is a moving map display for pilots Attaches your 95LX to your on board Loran or GPS receiv er and LapMap shows where you are where you will be and your projected ground track relative to airports navaids and special use airspace LapMap supports several models of Loran and GPS receivers Availability sae wees NOW SOU ave e ew aa al ROM Card Runs under SysMgr No CEREALES TERES 495 00 CONTACT Peacock Systems Inc Civil Air Terminal 4325 Bedford 01730 Phone 800 533 1012 or 617 274 8218 Fax 617 274 8130 Built in Applications d ons Abkrp and Abkasc amp Abkrp translates 95LX Phone Book PBK files into an 80 column report on the default printer or a format ted ASCII data file which can be modified with any text editor Abkasc translates 95LX Phone Book files int
127. on of the GVC Mini Modem is described in GVCMOD 95H and on page 2 of the Fall 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper Communications Connector a Connects Lo Communications Connects to 951 Connector Connects to Modem Fax HP 95LX Serial Cable modified with RJ 11 jack to connected to Modem 16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 Creating a Cable to Connect to a Modem or PC Every piece of hardware with a serial port needs the following mini mum configuration in order to send and receive data wire for trans mitting data a wire for receiving data and a third wire for ground to establish a marking point for posi tive and negative signals The HP serial cable has a white transmit data wire a yellow receive data wire and a red ground wire Different modems have different types of serial ports either a 9 pin or 25 pin male or female port The HP 95LX Serial Cable already has a 9 pin female connector on one end with the white transmit wire con nect to pin 3 the yellow receive wire to pin 2 and the red ground wire connected to pin 7 If you wanted to make a custom cable for your modem you would have to cut that off and attach the appropriate serial connector to that end If you were to attach a 9 pin male connector you would attach the wires to the same pins as with the female 9 pin connector If you were to attach the cable to a 25 pin RS 232 connector you would solder the white transmit
128. or physi cist who wants math functions in a palmtop format then Derive may meet 8046 of your needs Finally if you re a programmer who does technical programming and want a way to check your algo rithms for accuracy then Derive will more than do the job If you re looking for C code that will let you have the numeric accu racy of Derive without the learning curve of a new program let me recommend BCALC BCALC amp is a calculator program that gives accu racy of up to 1075 digits without 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 HEWLETT PACKARD HP 48S SX Scientific Expandable Calculator Hu s SX Accessories n 3a M 482215A 128 RAM Exp 4TDS 256K TDS 256K Expansion Call for information amp Pricing on SPARCOM amp TRIPOD DATA SYSTEMS CALL TOLL FREE 1 800 227 8292 24 Hour Phone Fax Message Center 415 494 1995 recourse to a math co processor Its best feature is that it comes with complete source code for all its math routines BCALC is available in the BPROGB forum on CompuServe If you have an HP 48SX calcula tor hang on to it Although the 48SX and Derive share many of the same capabilities each has unique positive qualities I like the 48SX for its dedicated keyboard and Derive for its compact size and accuracy Please don t ask me to choose one over the other Until next time Happy Pro gramming Ed Keefe is an author program mer com
129. ormu las on my 95LX and have them output as TeX files You need to load FAST LEO EXE LEO CFG and the font files from the V350 directory to the 95LX Then retrieve LEO CFG the LEO configuration file into MEMO and add the follow ing line VIDEO MODE20 128 240 B000 You need to do this through MEMO another text editor not through LEO SETUP the LEO setup program which will not accept these parameters I also found that I needed to increase the right margin The only drawback is that the LEO menus are too large to read so I keep a reduced photocopy of them in my pocket LEO is sold by ABK Software 4495 Ottawa Place Boulder CO 80303 USA Phone 303 494 4872 Massimo Ferri Dept Mathematics U Bologna ITALY GWBasic v 3 23 on ihe 95LX I have used MS Basic for many years so when I recently got my 1 95LX I wanted to use it on the Palmtop Using PKLITE I reduced GWBASIC EXE to 64 5K I transferred the file to my BIN directory and it seems to work within limits The graphics and sound statements do not work but screen and color commands are OK I use screen 0 and color n 0 yields the following for n 8 blank 9 underline 10 normal 25 blink underline 26 blink In addition color 8 7 inverse and color 16 7 blink inverse Locate commands work so cursor position is OK The function keys work normally for LIST RUN LOAD SAVE etc but the line editing fails per
130. ovide is advisory only and is correct to the best of our knowledge Thaddeus Computing Inc is not responsible for any loss of data time or money or for any expense whatsoever resulting from the use or implementation of our services Any outcomes from use or non use of our suggestions are the sole responsibility of the recipient You ve read it in print now get it on disk The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 5 great benefits even the printed version doesn t have Now you can receive The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK with every printed issue Here are the benefits 1 Locate items of interest fast Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK contains the entire editorial content of the corresponding printed issue The text is stored in ASCII format and is readable by any word processor To locate an item of interest just do an automated search for any keyword The information you re looking for will appear on your screen instantly But fast access to items of interest is only the beginning because you also get 2 Access to almost every freeware and shareware program mentioned in the printed issue That s right virtually every freeware and shareware program mentioned in each printed issue is included in the corresponding HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK along with documentation These programs are useful Many of them have been written or specially adapted just for the HP 95LX To give you an idea just how useful these prog
131. pitbrook Rd Suite 12 Nashua NH 03062 Tel 603 888 0666 Fax 603 888 9817 a good choice as long as you don t store too many executable files on the card A 50 50 mix of data and executable files will probably deliver good performance COM or EXE file can be com pressed an additional 1046 of its original size by using DIET to com press the file prior to saving it on a Stac d A drive For example an 80K file saved to a Stac d disk takes up 60K of disk space If you DIET the file first and then save it to your Stacd disk it takes up only 52K This is 8K less than if the file were only Stac d 10 of the original file size of 80K Stacker reports com pression of DIETed files as having a 1 1 compression ratio Because of this your average ratio and there fore space remaining is reduced ACE DoubleCard 2 0 and DoubleCard 2 0 Software Stacker 2 0 has two drawbacks First of all you can t use it for files on C drive Second of all it must be mounted i e you must go to DOS and enter stacker every time a different Memory card is used ACE Technologies recently released the DoubleCard 2 0 a RAM card with a proprietary version of Stacker that auto mounts whenever the card is inserted In addition DoubleCard 2 0 comes with a program that lets you Stac the C drive and password protect the RAM card ACE has also released the DoubleCard 2 0 Software to turn existing RAM cards into Double Cards and
132. pposed to larger software entities Once again we implore Hewlett Packard and Lotus to make avail able for some reasonable fee all the technical information needed by developers to write good 95LX appli cations Good 95LX oriented soft ware can only sell more HP 95LX s SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 features an easy to use graphic interface for the Mac and Windows Access for DOS or Apple II users is hierarchial The software for either computer is free and can be ob tained by calling AOL at 800 827 6364 or writing America Online 8619 Westwood Drive Center Vienna VA 22182 9806 The free software sup ports offline Email composition scheduled log ons and unattended downloading of pre selected files at any time free trial membership is offered AOL s fees are 5 95 per month which includes one hour of free online time Online charges are 5 00 per hour from 6 00 pm to 6 00 am weekday evenings 5 00 per hour all day and night on weekends and holidays and 10 00 per hour during weekdays Mark Scardina to the Rescue While we continue to urge Hewlett Packard and Lotus to publish this technical documentation particular ly on System Manager contributing editor Mark Scardina of The HP Palmtop Paper may have come up with an alternative solution Mark tells me that he is crafting a meth od for developers to quickly and easily make their software System Manager compliant What that means is that any developer who is
133. program You simply place HPDC EXE and DCFMT EXE on your card and run HPDC HPDC creates a G drive along with your normal now smaller C drive In other words C now contains the unStac d uncompressed files and a portion of the original C drive contains the Stac d files There appear to be two limitations with using this configu ration Once created you may no longer partition the C drive without destroying the G drive Also the G drive may not have an APNAME LST file The real beauty of using the DoubleCard is that it is truly plug n play You can freely mix ROM and regular RAM cards and the DoubleCard always auto mounts A 4MB card with a 1MB G drive pro vides a whopping 5MB of storage on the 95LX Mark uses his 95LX for PIM E mail entertainment and program ming sophisticated audio video systems Mark is the new father of twin boys congratulations Mark and Lydia welcome to the world Thomas Alexander and Peter Nicho las Scardina Mark is a computer consultant based in San Francisco specializing in palmtop based appli cations He can be reached at 415 681 9672 or CIS ID 76711 732 for commercial projects Order Information Stacker 2 0 Data compression software that can double the amount of data you can store on your hard drive 149 CONTACT Stac Electronics 5993 Avenida Encinas Carlsbad CA 92008 USA Phone 800 522 7822 or 619 431 7474 Fax 619 431 0880 DoubleCard 2 0
134. puncture resistant poly urethane keyboard membrane standard 9 pin serial port auxiliary power port and an intelligent charge circuit with timer High capacity NMH battery available Availability na feck teu oy dune Ss NOW PriHE loxeekzschsinas idv Aia 300 CONTACT CSS 919 NE Second Street Corvallis OR 97330 USA Phone 800 733 5017 or 503 752 4419 Fax 503 752 7037 Wallet Carrying Case Made of premium men s wallet lea ther with shiny brass corner guards this case holds credit cards memory cards notes checks and your 95LX Velcro holds case closed Availability woes NOW Pricing 2638 43 95 CONTACT EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 RAM Cards amp Drives 4Maker 4Maker is a 4MB SRAM Memory Card that comes with a pre instal 44 THE PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 led software program that lets the 95LX access the card This is a 4MB card not a 2MB card with file com pression software Availability NOW Medium 4MB SRAM Card Runs under SysMgr Yes pue get v PN PLA ELS Call CONTACT Altec Electronic GmbH Vahren walder Str 205 7 D 3000 Hannover 1 GERMANY Phone 49 511 63088 36 Fax 49 511 63088 49 Flash Filing System Software Software for your PC that enables FLASH memory cards to emulate a floppy disk under DOS an
135. puter science instructor and long time contributor to support publications for HP computers He is the president of the FastAid Compa ny 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe ID is 75300 3667 on The Palmtop Paper on Disk Sep Oct 92 Getting Started Files and FILER In this issue we review fundamental concepts File name extension data file program file path directory default We apply this information by examining directories in FILER by using the FILER HELP COPY DELETE and RENAME function keys and by considering file naming strategies By Hal Goldstein In the last two Getting Started columns we examined the two es sential concepts an HP 95LX user must know to safeguard and orga nize his data Files and directo ries Because these concepts are so fundamental let s spend a little time reviewing them using a con crete example File Names Suppose we took some meeting notes in MEMO We wisely decide to save that information into a file by typing File Save followed by the arbitrary file name like NOTES The file name could have been any eight character name The charac ters in the name could have been letters numbers or other special characters such as underline or dash blank spaces not allowed Examples of legal names include 12XYZ BEAUTY and MAIN RPT Because we are saving notes from MEMO the 95LX automatically adds the file extension TXT to the name we give
136. r activilies UTILITIES 95BUDDY Lets you launch an application by selecting its data file in FILER change default directories and more OUTLINE PLUS Outliner and text editor LOADMAKER Run EXE COM or BAT files while in a built in application FINISH ZIP Completes word after you type first few letters ATO Automates CompuServe activities Allows you to perform functions off line saving you line charges GAMES ENTERTAINMENT AG ZIP Chess and Space Invaders good graphics KLONDIKE 7 pile game of Klondike Solitaire DIVDSK Checkers Go Moku Tetris Othello Mastermind Adventure and 9 other games Enjoy MUS95 amp SNDPLAY Music quotes sounds on the 95LX Please add 30 shipping for a one year subscnplion 60 for two years Add 5 shipping for each issue ordered individually You may pay by credit card check or money order Check or money order must be in U S dollars drawn on a U S bank Or order from one of our European distributors Contact them for pricing in local currency TO SUBSCRIBE Plus travel organizer language compilers screen printing utilities other games and lots more See Issue 0 p 36 Issue USE THE ENCLOSED 1 p 43 Issue 2 p 44 Issue 3 p 48 Issue 4 p 48 and CARD OR CALL US Issue 5 p 52 for complete listings TOLL FREE OW DOES IT COMPARE WITH 800 373 6114 THE SUBSCRIBER DISK Thaddeus Computing Inc The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK is not to be co
137. rallel Adapter Also needs Citizen KB48 adapter to connect proprietary Citizen printer cable to the Serial to parallel adapter Depending on serial to parallel adapter used may also need the 9 25 pin computer adapter from the HP Connectivity Pack HP F1001A CONTACT Citizen America Corporation P O Box 4003 Santa Monica CA 90411 U S A Phone 800 477 4683 310 453 0614 Fax 310 453 0614 The Kodak Diconix 180si The 180si is a four pound ink jet printer for those who want letter quality 190 dpi output at an affordable 12 cents per sheet The 180si is the only portable printer we found with tractor as well as sheet feed capability The 180si comes in a serial port version making it simpler to connect to the 95LX Magic RAM MANUFACTURER OF SRAM Cards for HP95LX PCMCIA 2 0 amp JEIDA 4 1 256KB 512KB and 1 m Dual battery backup system Fast access time 100ns Write protect switch B Low power consumption m 8KB Attribute Memory option OEM inquiries welcome Distributors Dealers Wanted Custom IC Card Private Labeling Coop Advertizing Technical Support MD Aaic RAT 1850 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90057 PHONE 213 413 9999 FAX 213 413 0828 By Trevor Cradduck The new Kodak Diconix 180si print er successor to the Diconix 150 Plus is a very satisfactory light weight portable printer The package includes the printer A
138. ramming techniques I think you will find that EXPENSE is somewhat the odd one The others appear to be very similar I have one suggestion that I think will significantly improve STAT Replace the menu that iden tifies the various macros on the spreadsheet with a macro menu invoked by pressing ALT M There is no reason to waste valuable work sheet display with a menu Having only to remember the name of one macro no matter what spreadsheet you are using is also easier Tom works for a natural gas pipeline company in Houston Texas and was one of the first to use PC s in the natural gas industry He has been a regular contributor to sup port publications of Hewlett Packard computers for many years Tom s CompuServe ID is 76011 3655 run from It still must be load ed into RAM System Memory be fore it runs To get the program up and running requires at least 234K bytes of working memory Any extra memory is used to hold data and intermediate results Derive is strictly a DOS applica tion and as such will not pop up over any other program As a mat ter of fact when it s running Derive takes over the entire computer The Look and Feel of Lotus Derive uses a Lotus like menu to perform its operations However Derive s menu system is just enough different to make using it slightly bothersome at first For one thing Derive s menu is at the bottom of the screen rather than at the top Also
139. rams can be we ve summarized the contents of recent issues see box at right Please note l If you decide to use a shareware program you are required to pay the shareware author his fee Fees usually range from 5 to 45 a fraction of the FREE BONUS Each 1992 subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK includes Issue 1 Fall 1991 absolutely FREE If you have already purchased Issue 1 you may deduct 33 from the price of your 1 year or 2 year subscription Outside U S and Canada deduct 38 Customers outside North America cost of equivalent commercial programs 2 We are unable to support you in using The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK software 3 Saves you time and money Dozens of man hours go into collecting organizing modifying and documenting the programs in each HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Having the disks saves you the time and expense of doing all this work yourself 4 in depth descriptions of advertised produc Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK also includes detailed descriptions of some of the products advertised or listed in the printed issue This helps you learn more about products of interest without having to call the manufacturer 5 It costs so little The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK consists of 2 4 360K floppy disks that you will receive along with each printed issue of your regular subscription to the newsletter The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK does not include prin
140. rd Associates Take Over Palmtop Resources All products and services previously offered by Palmtop Resources see Jul Aug issue page 42 are now of fered by Memory Card Associates 241 Curtner Ave Q Palo Alto CA 94306 USA Phone 415 856 0920 eee BASIC IPS 9 This section focuses on the 95LX s built in applications giving tips of a more basic level We are interested in your feedback on this section Is it differentiated enough from Quick Tips Do you have any tips Please write The Editor The HP Palmtop Paper Thaddeus Computing 57 E Broadway Fairfield 52556 Appt TIMER AND STOPWATCH IN APPT The 95LX has a Timer and Stopwatch built into APPT Timer can be set to beep in a specific amount of time warning you of an upcoming meeting or to stop boiling the fudge Stopwatch can be used track efficiency at work or time the 400 Meter relay at Barcelona Press to enter Watch The highlight bar will be resting on Stopwatch You can time any event to the hundredths of a second by pressing F to Start the stopwatch and F6 again to stop it Pressing F4 resets the time Press Down once to move to Timer Enter the number of hours and minutes you want e g 9 nine minutes 1 13 one hour and thir teen minutes Then press F6 to start the timer and F again to pause it A digital readout to the right will count down the remaining time and Timer will repeatedly beep when you run out of time
141. recious data everything since the last backup Very few hotels have security boxes large enough to take even a Notebook computer In addi tion I discovered that most stan dard travel insurance doesn t in clude electrical equipment with a value greater than about 2000 This meant I had to purchase addi tional insurance just for the SLT or LTE for 500 approximately the same cost as my regular global insurance A third problem I ve discovered is India which imposes a high im port duty about 150 on comput ers of this value A computer must be formally imported and subse Phillip Simpson quently exported Such a procedure adds about one hour to customs clearance If your computer is lost or stolen in India you not only lose the machine and data but you have to pay 150 of its declared pur chase price when you leave the country One final problem had with international travel has been in accurately tracking expenses It is not unusual to visit 8 10 countries in a 21 day trip so I need to track expenses in 8 10 currencies Previ ously this was all done with pains taking paperwork in a diary I even tually transferred this laborious task to a spreadsheet Enter the HP 95LX In August 1991 I purchased my 95LX and have taken it on two lengthy overseas trips Never again will I need to take any other com puter with me The 95LX met all my basic requirements plus ad dressed some of the above prob
142. resses your internal RAM and creates a new RAM disk as G drive in any version HP 95LX With at least 800KB capacity this new RAM disk is 100 Compatible with all your HP95LX and DOS applications Additional Features DoubleCard 2 0is now compat ible with other PCMCIA based DOS Palmtops and PC based memory card drives Double Card mounts automatically when it is inserted In addition a password feature is provided to protect each DoubleCard for additional privacy Extra Software included DoubleCard 2 0 with DoubleRAM DoubleCard 1M up to 1MB 2001 DoubleCard comes bundled with DoubleCard 2 up to 2MB A2002 DoubleRAM B Cursor Block DoubleCard 4M up to 4MB A2004 Cursor ACE Universal DoubleCard 8M to 8MB A2008 Card Format utility and a diskette of shareware programs for the HP Standard RAM memory Cards 95LX ACEcard 512K TORIS ACEcard MB sc emm TID We believe in the quality and MUN M RT reliability of our products so much DoubleCard Software Upgrade that DoubleCard now comes with DoubleCard 2 0 Upgrade C2200 a lifetime warranty In addition you will receive five years of free For more information and card batteries directly from ACE how to order call Upgrade now available If you already own an ACE gt Up card or any RAM cards 800 625 9977 for the HP 95LX you can now upgrade to a DoubleCard together with DoubleRAM For
143. rest bulletin boards BBs similar to the CIS forum mes sage sections Questions and com ments regarding the HP 95LX are posted on the Computer Club BBs The best topic to use is Hardware Sys tems although Palmtop messages are often found under the topic Other PC Topics Currently most of the messages regarding the HP 95LX seem to be from new users or those evaluating the various palmtops However I hope to see some of the program mers and power users who fre quent the HPHAND forum on CIS posting messages and answering questions on Prodigy While most folks on Prodigy will tell you that CIS is far too costly be aware that you get what you pay for Prodigy can be a bargain but like any bargain it comes with limitations Prodigy s limitations start with the slow interface I have often heard Prodigy referred to as Plodigy It s particularly annoying that much of the wait is due to Prodigy painting advertisements on the bottom 1 3 of the screen But re member you are not paying for the on line time Prodigy also does not post public messages immediately but instead reads them first to as sure that offensive messages are not posted This delay of 4 to 12 hours makes it difficult to follow a conver sation n additional limitation is the inability to post a response to any message other than the one which started the subject although you can always post a new message that is not a reply or reply to any mes
144. rint er settings The PN48 is a thermal fusion printer that produces 360 dpi near laser quality output at 24 cps characters per second The PN48 prints letter quality only no draft option The PN48 comes with Cou rier and Times Roman type faces The PN48 is more expensive to operate than some printers sin gle strike ribbon costs 4 99 which works out to be about 36 cents per page The multistrike ribbon also 4 99 should help to lower per page costs but may also decrease print quality as it is reused The PN48 is a parallel printer which makes it necessary to use a serial to parallel adapter to connect it to the 95LX I used the Paralink 3 by Widget which needs a Citizen cable adapter part KB48 to con nect to the PN48 s proprietary printer cable The other side of the Paralink 3 connects to the 9 to 25 pin computer adapter that came with the HP Connectivity Kit HP F1001A This connects to the Connectivity Kit serial cable which connects to the 95LX serial port The Citizen PN48 with single sheet feed 36 cents per page out put and a 25 page battery life is not ideal for volume printing But if you want laser quality printing while on the road this is lightest least hassle solution around Order Information Citizen PN48 469 PN48 Professional 549 includes carrying case laser cartridge and rechargeable NiCd battery pack Needs 95LX Serial Cable HP F1001A or HP 82222A and Serial to Pa
145. rive uses single letters to represent variables If you wish you can change this to use more meaningful names for vari ables Having keyed in the formula I told Derive to solve for each vari able in terms of the others Here are the results neLN p i te1 i v i p i te1 VLN i 1 tz v i p i 1 n f i p ip 1 i 1 n pzi v i 1 n f 1 i 1 n i t 1 i v p t p 1 nsi f p t pz0 T ins for each solution n 13 seconds b Au T seconds p T seconds 184 sec 3 minutes To see if Derive could handle a function made up of other functions I declared the following two func tions 2 1 3 3 6 I put the two functions together in one function FXY a b FX a FY b I could have used x and y instead of 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 a and b but I wanted to see if I could confuse the program Then I entered the expression FXY 3 2 and told Derive to Simplify it The correct answer 21 appeared in less than a second Next I keyed in the expression FXY rs and told Derive to Simplify that The solution r 2 r s 3 3 s 7 appeared a couple of seconds later Finally I told Derive to solve this expression for r After 14 seconds here s what appeared 3 4 9 4 3 1 2 Programming DERIVE The ability to create functions that use other functions is the tip off that Derive contains the rudiments of a programming langu
146. rnatives to carrying a printer along with you 1 Postpone all unnecessary printing chores until you get home 2 Download files via modem to your office back home and have your assistant format print out and send your correspondence wherever it needs to go You ll need to carry a serial cable 9 25 pin modem adapter and the modem along with you 3 Transfer the file you want printed over to someone else s computer and have them print it out on their printer You ll need to carry a serial cable and file transfer software with you 4 Use someone else s printer You ll need to carry a serial cable serial to parallel adapter and the HP adapter kit with you to connect directly to someone else s printer 5 Carry a small portable fax modem with you and fax the page you want print to a local fax machine in the hotel lobby or at the business you re visiting You ll need the fax modem serial cable and the necessary adapters you print up to 25 pages on a fully charged battery single pages only no tractor feed The 2 5 lb 1 2 kg printer measures 11 5 x 2 x 3 5 inches 29 x 5 x 9 cm The PN48 comes with an AC adapter connect cable and one multi strike ink cartridge An optional NiCd battery 95 provides 25 pages of printing when fully charged Additional print cartridges cost 4 99 apiece Battery and ink cartridges should be available from your PN48 dealer The PN48 can emulate IBM Proprinter one of the 95LX s p
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148. rs will merchandise the battery two per pack starting in September 1992 KMART and Walgreen Drugs na tionwide U S and Payless stores Northwest U S Check in the pho tography sections of these stores for the batteries IIl on The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Set Oct 92 or on the CompuServe HPHAND forum COLUMN Looking Glass Through The Looking Glass Ed shows how to use Windows 3 1 on your desktop to customize your 95LX TopCard opening screen By Ed Keefe Using Windows 3 1 Paintbrush Program to Create TopCard PCX Files Are you getting tired of the same old TopCard on your 95LX Would you like to have a TopCard of your own design Perhaps something that looks like your business card If the answer is yes then you might like to try your hand at de signing just such a card Here is a recipe for creating a unique Top Card file using the Paintbrush pro gram from Windows 3 1 Activate Windows 3 1 and dou ble click on the Paintbrush icon When Paintbrush is active pull down the Options submenu and se lect Image attributes to change the size of the drawing area Go to the Units box of the Im age Attributes dialog box and click on pels In the Colors Box select Black and white Set the width to 240 and height to 128 Click OK to lock this in You should see a small rectangular box in the upper left corner of the work area Windows Paintbrush Screen after changing drawing area size Use one of Pa
149. rts User documentation Training amp support For a free demo disk call or FAX Bei a iud a e U Software 714 850 1767 FAX 714 850 0843 3001 Red Hill Ave Bldg 4 Ste 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 21 USER PROFILES On the Road and Around the World This International Sales and Marketing Manager traded in his notebook computer for a 95LX He uses the Palmtop to track expenses write client reports keep confidential price lists record flight and meeting schedules and keep customer information By Phillip Simpson Trials of Traveling I am the International Sales and Marketing Manager at Trace in Melbourne Australia and as such I am required to travel overseas Over the years I have used Lotus for pricing and cost calculations budget forecasts etc When laptop computers arrived I thought all my dreams had come true I have used the Compaq SLT 286 laptop and the Compaq LTE 286 notebook both of which have proved excel lent though heavy workhorses However I have discovered a number of limitations with these computers First of all even the LTE notebook seems to become increasingly heavy on a long trip Extra batteries and AC Adapter compound this problem Secondly these devices are large and visible enough so that security becomes a major consideration when traveling If I lose the computer I lose more than a piece of hardware I lose p
150. s DOS formatted 720K or 1 44MB disks With Drive95 attached to your 95LX you can read from or write to a floppy disk or run a program from the floppy disk Drive95 Floppy Disk Drive Drive95 is battery powered and runs 10 15 hours on a single charge It also operates off of an AC adapter which is included along with a serial cable and software Because Drive95 connects via serial port data transfer will be a bit slow It took Peder Sweeney HP Palmtop Paper Marketing Man ager 11 minutes to back up the files from his 1MB 95LX onto a E floppy disk via Drive95 This is not a fault with Drive95 it s just the nature of the serial port Drive95 uses Kermit On the positive side Peder mentioned that Drive95 works at any angle upside down sideways etc Although he did not test this he thought it would be possible to back up the 95LX without any problems while it and E Drive95 were clunking around in his briefcase To make Drive95 work with the 95LX you must first copy the file DRIVE95 SYS from the 3 5 floppy disk that comes with Drive95 onto the C drive of your 95LX and then install it on the Palmtop This de vice driver software tells the 95LX how to work with Drive95 Follow the instructions on page 1 4 of the Drive95 User s Manual to copy DRIVE95 SYS over to the root directory of the 95LX C Then use MEMO to modify your 95LX s CONFIG SYS file
151. s F3 Delete FILER Rename Suppose you use the HP 95LX to regularly take notes at three different meetings Your staff meeting project meeting and an investment club meeting You keep these notes in three separate files STAFF TXT PROJECT TXT and INVEST TXT Later on you decide to develop a more consistent naming convention for your note files You want to change the name of STAFF TXT to MEETSTF PROJECT to MEETPROG and INVEST to MEETINV To re name STAFF for example go into FILER and move your cursor to STAFF TXT Then press f8 to re name type in MEETSTF TXT and press ENTER In em issues we will contin ue to look at how FILER can help us organize and safeguard the precious work that we perform on the HP 95LX LETTERS Continued from page 4 page 7 about opening up your 95LX If you pry the case apart as suggested be tween the MENU and keys you run the risk of damaging the flexible cable just inside I did and it cost me 183 18 to repair the 95LX It would be better to pry just outside of these keys in the area of the alignment pins for the con nector William W Heathorn Folsom CA USA PRT95 You have written that a shareware program called PRT95 by Todd Cary can print the Phone Book in a variety of formats see Ju ly August issue page 5 response to item 2 of Some Questions How can I contact him Please note that I have no modem Ahmet G Ozisik Istanbul TURK
152. s king of the hill If an HP palmtop becomes the 12C of the executive suite HP will reap many benefits Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 WHEN HARD RESET FORMATS DISK hard reset press Shift Ctrl lt gt does not automatically refor mat and erase the files on the RAM disk Anytime the 95LX boots the BIOS checks the disk If every thing is OK the boot continues or the user is prompted to initialize disk for a hard reset If there s something wrong with the data on the hard disk RAM disk corrupt ed will be displayed and you will be asked if you want to Initialize disk If the RAM disk cant be found for example your main and backup batteries died at the same time and you lost everything the 95LX will go ahead and format the disk without prompting you Everett Kaser CompuServe ID 70662 2540 EI Memory Cards DIFFERENT MEMORY CARDS Let s see if can run through the alphabet soup of memory ROM Read Only Memory The first one costs 500 000 but the 2nd one only costs a buck Buy lots Lowest cost highest density memory chip PROM Programmable ROM can be burned with any SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 information you want but it can only be done once Per unit cost is higher than ROM and density isn t as high but there s no massive setup cost You do need a PROM bumer a specialized piece of electronics EPROM Erasable
153. s of the William Tell Overture train the 95LX to say a colleague s name or reminders distinctly hear the call of trumpets or the Terminator saying be back The good news is that these programs work on the 95LX The bad news is that the volume quali ty and understandability vary greatly Specific phrases or sounds can be quite clear at the expense of disk space and lack of flexibility in producing the sounds you wish THE HP 95LX SINGS Contributing editor Ed Keefe re NS Version cently sent me hours worth of music playable on the HP 95LX in a file called MUS95 ZIP To give you a flavor of what s on the collection here is a menu which allows you to choose which piece you would like to play ws F E 2 x 2x a E NEUE RSS UN LER RO fhe Blue Danube E The E edt ainer E G Birt au ae i Moonlie opt B R aras 1 Bach H Sleeping Beaut Z 55 Texter 4Or press 0 to quit um pus E Menu of songs available As you can see you can choose from Mozart to Scott Joplin s Entertain er from the Godfather Theme to Ii U SOUNDS on 92 Subscribers Disk MUS95 ZIP On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Sep Oct 92 issue compact with more DERIVE A Mathematical Assistant is now available for palmtops through 486 based PCs The DERIVE program solves both symbolic and numeric
154. s the case with the Citizen PN48 the Canon Bubble Jet and its clones The serial to parallel adapters listed here come with an internal battery to provide the power needed to run the adapter They were designed with the 95LX in mind They connect between the 95LX and the printer You may need additional adapters to change gender or to go from 9 pin to 25 pin connectors Before connecting the 95LX to a printer make sure both units are switched off A typical connection might look something like this PLEASE NOTE You may need additional adapters depending on the printer and serial to parallel adapter you use The Paralink 3 needs the 9 to 25 pin adapter that came with the HP Connectivity Kit HP F1001A to connect to the 95LX serial cable The PN48 printer needs a special adapter to connect its proprietary cable to any of the serial to parallel adapters Citizen Part KB48 The serial printers don t need a serial to paralle adapter but the Diconix does need 9 10 25 pin printer adapter HP Serial Cable Adapter Kit HP 82224A and the Seiko needs the 9 10 25 pin adapter that came with the Connectivity Kit The 9 end of the ser ial cable connects to the ser al to parallel HP SSLX Serial Cable Connects to HP SSLX Serial Port The Ser al to Parallel t Connects to the Printers ORDER INFORMATION This aereple of text fora t printer ard f reu can rpa Iha you re atty Gin miei Te cross all of you
155. sage via private mail Finally Prodigy does not support the up loading or downloading of files Pro digy does now offer the Ziffnet ser vice at an additional charge Prodigy starter kits are general ly available at software sources including retail software vendors and Sears stores You can find these kits bundled as premiums with other software or hardware such as modems The price of a start up kit depends on the source The monthly cost of Prodigy is from 9 95 to 12 95 depending on how many months you pay for at one time In addition some services such as on line bill paying and stock purchases require an additional premium Software installation is as sim ple as any software package I have seen In most cases the user will be able to accept the default values during install After the initial installation any update to the Prodigy software is sent to you automatically when you log on Learning Prodigy is easy The user can simply select the sections from the menus like CompuServe or use commands which are listed on the screen to JUMP to a specific section or to FIND a keyword The on line editor that comes with Prod igy is limited and Prodigy does not support uploading of messages However a third party add on al lows uploading and downloading of messages and contains an editor with a spell checker I just ordered this package on line 19 95 When I get it I ll check it out and let you know if I t
156. say LETJOE Then go to MEMO and retrieve LET JOE You can write your letter to JOE without having to bother typ ing your name and address phone and fax Another essential use for the F2 Copy key is in backing up your files For example suppose your phone book is saved in the C _DAT subdi rectory as MAIN PBK You can back 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 this up on your RAM card if you have one by entering FILER and moving your cursor to MAIN PBK in your C _DAT directory Then press F2 type and press ENTER Your phone book would now be copied to your drive If anything ever hap pened to your built in C drive you would have a backup of your phone book as of the last time you used the F2 Copy command to back up MAIN PBK If you don t have an drive you can make a copy of your phone book to the C root directory by pres sing F2 typing C and pressing ENTER This method is not as safe as copying a file to the drive since you would lose both the main and backup PHONE files if the C drive gets corrupted However this method still protects you from inad vertently destroying or corrupting your main phone book in C DAT The backup on the root drive could save the day FILER F3 Delete Suppose you no longer needed the NOTES TXT file that we created in MEMO earlier space on the 95LX is precious To delete NOTES you would simply move the cursor to NOTES TXT and pres
157. ss For more information on our products and how to order call 800 825 9977 ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Fonker food Suite 103 San Jose Calitomia 95134 U S A A08 428 9722 FAX A08 428 9721 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 3 LETTERS Continued Lotus Built in Zoom Scaling I was reading the let ters section of the Ju ly Aug Palmtop Paper In user problem 6 from John Garret in England the simple solution seems to be to use the built in zoom scaling of the 95LX to blow up the screen so the axis labels are readable in Lotus graphs Just press the blue key to in crease the readability of the scales no need for manual rescaling The plus and minus keys function to zoom in and out of graphics screens on the 95 wheth er in Lotus or the Solver Lee Buck New York NY USA Make External Battery for the 95LX I have fallen in love with my HP 95LX even though I have barely scratched the surface of its capabilities It has already replaced my wrist watch my Day Timer my ad dress phone book a scratch pad and with Gene Dorrs CMCALC EXM my program mer s calculator However the battery life is finite and using an AC adapter is not always convenient I got the idea to make a small external battery pack HP Customer Support representative Michael Johnstone informed me that the DC power re quirement for the 95LX was 7 8 minimum 9V nomin
158. st 99 Call 1 800 733 0030 and order today with Visa or MasterCard and we ll ship free any where in the US Or mail us a check for 99 US currency drawn on a US bank DATA account And we ll show you the fastest easiest way from your Palmtop to the desktop THE DATABRIDGE SPECIALISTS gt DL All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders DataViz Inc 55 Corporate Drive Trumbull CT 06611 203 268 0030 FAX 203 268 4345 MEMORY CARDS PHOTO BY ARTHUR ZIPPEL PHOTOGRAPHY INC INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY WITH AN ACTIVE DATA MEMORY CARD At Active Data we specialize in memory cards for palmtop systems Our ACCESSORIES cards range in density from 256K to 2MB with higher capacity designs in R amp D FOR THE 951 to meet the expectation of our customers today as well as in the future AC Adapter HP Serial Port Cable Kit HP Connectivity Kit Serial to Parallel Converter HP infrared LaserJet Printer Link HP Dictionary Thesaurus Card Quality is very important to us at Active Data All of our cards comply with the PCMCIA and JEIDA standards in fact Active Data is a member of the PCMCIA To meet the power requirements of many palmtop systems we use low power semi conductors in our cards In addition to production testing we do considerable application testing of each card in the system it will be used in Active Data memory cards arrive at your door rea
159. t service called ASK THADDEUS Call or fax your problem After researching a solution we will call you back In order for this service to evolve and be of service to you we need both your feedback and your patience See page 15 for more details IMPORTANT NOTE TO MENU95 DISK USERS VERSIONS 1 03 AND EARLIER If you use MENU95 HP 95L tae ig nal chance hat a bug in the HP 9LX can damage les and evra the entire C drive Thanks Mark Scardina who identified the problem and THE PROBLEM you run a program with a COM extension from DOS such as BATTCK COM If you have less then 64K of System DOS should tell yeu not enough memory Instead Q5LX DOS runs the program and can possibly destroy a C drive file or even the entire C drive Data error reading drive C message Normally this isn t a problem Sacra oben and Ratan MENS f ve more than 64K of System RAM However f you have a number of elect and then run MENU95 there may be less than 64K remaining If you then run a COM program such BA K COM from with under 64K remaining there is possibilty that corruption wil take place Mark Scardina has come up with the solution which will protect the C drive when you run COM files from MENUSS Altematively you can use the COMTOEXE EXE program described on page 9 of the Subscriber Disk manual where you ll read that we thought we had solved the COM problem with MENUO5 do the following Non English HP 95LX own
160. takes 4 times as many work hours as the first crop The total investment must be less than or equal to 1 200 Typically the first crop costs 10 per acre and gives 30 profit while the second costs 20 and yields a profit of 100 per acre The question is how many acres of each crop should be plant ed Don t bother to push the blue CALC key for this type of problem You might try 1 2 3 instead but once again the solution though possible is not something for the mathematically disinclined One of the few computer pro grams that could solve such a prob lem is an old workhorse from Bor land International The program is called EUREKA The Solver Eureka was released in 1987 and for its day it was quite novel It used a technique of solving math problems by making repeated guess es at a solution and checking to see how close each guess was It would keep on guessing until it ran out of time or computer memory PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT If you drop your HP95LX while it s in the POUCH this bouncy cocoon may save its life Resilient neoprene amp nylon Sturdy belt loop Optional shoulder sirap Velcro closure on front 19 95 includes shipping Mastercard amp VISA The PoUch 535 Suffolk Dr Tucson AZ 85704 1 800 727 6824 FAX 602 742 6006 CALC uses this same technique to solve some problems that don t lend themselves to a direct solution Since I still had a copy of
161. ted issues A year s subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 6 issues is just 139 Shipping is included for North American customers That s less than 24 per set of disks It s a great buy even if you only use one program per disk Individual issues of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK are 33 within North America so a year s subscription saves you 92 b 7A ou can save ar addi ronal 49 by subscribing for two years for 259 4 Ie Satisfaction guaranteed Should you ever become dissatisfied with The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK just let us know The unused portion of your payment will be promptly refunded ith m mu INE x l TREMENDOUS VALUE Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK contains the complete editorial content of the printed issue descriptions of advertised products and virtually all the freeware and shareware mentioned in the issue To give you an idea of the tremendous value this represents here are just a few of the highlights of the software included in recent issues of The Paper ON DISK Instructions and utilities for accessing all programs are included on each disk WORD PROCESSING VDE Compact powerful text editor a great alternative to MEMO VDE LX ZIP Makes VDE work like WordPerfect COMMUNICATIONS COMMO ZIP Full featured communications program richer scripting language than the 95LX s built in program easier to automate you
162. ter higher contrast display would be a big help for me with my current problem but it would bene fit others with less serious visual problems and even make the 95LX easier to use for the general popula tion Curb ramps were originally designed for people in wheelchairs but benefit delivery men Just so programs and computer hardware that benefit the visually impaired can help people with normal vision Avoid Bending the Prongs On Your AC Adapter I used to throw the power adapters used with my various portable toys in a briefcase giving no consider ation to their protection Conse quently I spend a lot of time straightening bent prongs I have discovered an almost elegant solu tion to this problem an extension cord end Female extension cord ends may be purchased at the electrical sup plies section of your local hardware store Plug the transformer into one of those and it will protect the prongs from bending 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 Print to Parallel Printers from the HP 95LX Paralink 3 is for those times the AP need to int to a parallel printer from 5LX Just connect one end o Paralink 3 adapter to our mer s 36 pn female parallel port the other to 95L X via the serial Cable from the Connectivi ack Paralink 35 ba battery powered and works n most parallel printers It s light small and easy fo car Paralink 3 retails for 59 95 To Order Call 011 44 438 815444 Fax
163. ther to use HIMEM SYS or QEMM SYS etc had an idea that it would be just the thing for the 95LX to boot into DOS or SYS MGR and yes it actually works No more adding and deleting the SHELL command line in the CON FIG SYS file lan Wells CompuServe ID 100020 734 XTREE PRO FAMILIAR FILE MANAGEMENT Use Xtree Pro as your file and disk manager It allows files to be edited which earlier Xtree versions do not Xtree Pro is simpler and requires less disk space than Xtree Gold Transfer XTREE COM XTPRO CFG EXE and XTPRO 01 from the Xtree Pro disk to your 95LX Use XTRPCFG EXE to set up the dis play for the 95LX Then you can delete it Use COMTOEXE E to convert XTPRO COM to an EXE file Move around the Xtree 80 column display with the ar row keys Xtree will treat the addi tional drives as network drives This 15 shown when you run DCS95 on your PC Gary Oliver Milsons Point NSW AUSTRALIA Misc NEW 95LXs IN THE WORKS When Who knows Leaks about new products five six months ahead of schedule are pretty rare 2 3 months is more typical It s a safe bet that HP is working on follow up products the success of the 95LX and the stumbling of competitive products make it imper ative that HP seize this opportunity If HP can stay on top of the techno logical heap they can repeat their success in the calculator markets where even though they may not sel the most they are clearly recognized a
164. thout buming up while all bets are off if you use Ni Cds Victor D Roberts CompuServe ID 70413 1423 DEFECTIVE MAIN BATTERIES DECREASE LIFE OF BACKUP BATTERY If you have an intermittent short in the main batteries which is not unrealistic for the new style alka lines you may be using the back up battery more than you expect If you find yourself going through backup batteries try changing your main battery brand Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES The 95LX is built for alkalines It has no recharging capabilities and its internal battery logic is set for discharge rates of alkaline batteries and may not give you enough warn ing when using rechargeable batter ies Those who choose to use re chargeables will have to develop their own plan for switching the batteries often enough to prevent memory loss Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 Connectivity CORRECTION CONNECTIVITY PACK S MERGE DOES NOT WORK ON THE 95LX The tip published in Quick Tips page 46 July August issue is erroneous was taken from a message wrote but had not tried the technique Another Compu Serve forum member tested it and found that it did not work don t understand the reasons but appar ently the desktop versions of the built in applications do not run on the 95LX Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 AUTOMATE BACKUP OF T
165. tment Book I then use APPT s Remove function to discard appointments and to dos every 6 8 weeks Using Other 95LX Features While traveling I use all features of the 95LX I use APPT to record igz On the 1992 HP Palmtop Paper Subscribers Disk PALM REFERENCE PHYSICIANS amp MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS Now There is a tool that gives you the flexibility and instant access you need to manage all of your journal references using less than 100K of memory on your HP 95LX Q PALM REFERENCE Take control of your references today for only 1 95 disk version i 149 ROM version To order call or FAX LIIIGIHITIHIOIUISIE Software 714 850 1767 FAX 714 850 0843 3001 Red Hill Ave Bldg 4 Ste 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 23 DOS CONNECTION Lotus Agenda flights meetings and appointments I use APPT s Note facility to high light key points for each event I use PHONE to keep customer information phone numbers fax numbers addresses and any special information like the name of their secretary etc I use LOTUS for customer pric ing files This enables me to accu rately quote prices in the field be cause I can carry accurate costing details The password protection system on the 95LX plus password in Lotus gives me the confidence to take such sensitive information outside the office If I must attend to the needs of nature partway through a meeting I can alw
166. to English language The name of the appoint ment file use is CALENDA1 ABK and its path is C _DAT CALEN DA1 ABK You can change the name and path to suit yourself This macro also assumes that UP already exists MENUJqy ENTER y FILERHF7 RIGHT FS a backup ENTER LEFT F5 c daticalenda1 abk ENTERHESC F2 ENTER y MENU q Jos M Lafora Gar a HP Espa ola Madrid SPAIN Battery BATTERY LIFE Over the last six months tested the battery life of four different kinds of Double A batteries In each case used the 95LX 1 hour per day and used the serial port once a week did not connect the 95LX to an AC adapter during the tests Average life in EvereadyiAlkaline Energizer MEL 29 Eveready Lithium Energizer 58 Gates EnergyMillenium ida 7 No battery warning was given due to the quick drop off at the end of the battery life Because of the short life the serial port was used only once Marty Mankins Take It With You Orem UT USA PUTTING NON ALKALINE BATTERIES IN BACKWARDS CAN DAMAGE THE 95LX According to an HP Tech Support person the 95LX does have re verse battery protection but the circuit has been tested only with alkaline batteries and HP will give no assurances that it will work or not self destruct if a user installs Ni Cds or equivalent That is if you install alkaline batteries backwards the circuit will protect the 95LX wi
167. und it to be quite an amazing piece of hardware I had to chuckle a bit the first time I took my HP through the metal detector and the security officer asked me what it was and why I had a strip of Velcro on it I showed her that it was a PC and told her the Velcro was used to attach it to the dash of my car She smiled and said okay I m in charge of a com puter center and use a Mac My corporate life has been changed with this little box since I tossed my Day Timer Boy was that scary Ive been using the HP Connectivity Pack on my Mac running a PC emu lation package called Soft AT It runs quite well and allows copying and pasting if you have at least 8MB of RAM Fred Dugach Cleveland OH USA CompuSrv 70375 1401 _ THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS What s New New Non HP Products designed to work with the HP 95LX By Richard Hall and Hal Goldstein In the last five issues we have listed over 200 hardware and software products and other 95LX related services already available from third party manufacturers and developers We will continue to list 95LX hardware software books videos training and services as we discover them Vendors should send us information EC 95 Environmental Case This durable aluminum case is suitable for those using the 95LX in harsh environments It provides sealed protection from the weather dust and shock while allowing the HP 95LX to remain operational Includes
168. ur entries to appear twice on the display this does not affect communication with Compu serve Duplex Full Full duplex provides for simulta neous two way communication Flow Enabling both means of flow ENQ ACK control assures the most trouble free data exchange possible on the 95LX some CompuServe users report these settings better left OFF Press Settings Save to save settings Retrieve them with the Settings Use command SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1992 SELECTING THE PROTOCOL When information gets transferred between computers via a modem both computers must agree on what the data that comes across the phone lines means All information that gets transferred between com puters gets transferred as a series of l s and 0 s These and 0 s make up the content of what is being transferred and the punctua tion The punctuation is necessary so the 1 s and 0 can be properly encoded and decoded on each end The set of rules defining the punctu ation is called the protocol The HP 95LX COMM program supports two common protocols supported by many communications packages XMODEM and KERMIT KERMIT Kermit is one of two protocols built in to the 95LX to facilitate the transfer of files Press Trans fer Kermit Options You will see only two Kermit Options to configure File binary or text will be chosen depending on the type of file being transferred during binary transmission configure
169. ur main C drive directory If you have a RAM card be sure to back up your PHONE APPT or other crucial files to it Instead of copying the files to C as instructed above copy them to ERS Ee E iler 89 14 92 18 58 ocal Hobirs ma s E i Maren ue Testes m t HP Calc KEEPING A RUNNING TOTAL HP CALC s LIST function has many uses whether you re out shopping at the grocery store or want to keep track of expenses on a family trip With HP CALC up type MENU List If there are any items on the screen clear it by typing Erase Data Now start entering your items Suppose you are grocery shopping type in 2 33 for item 1 and 7 63 for item two and 2 47 for item 3 What you ll see on the list is item 1 item 2 item 3 showing the amounts we ve just typed in At the very bottom of the screen the total is 12 43 Now suppose you were retuming some bottles for their deposits Lets say you ve got 25 bottles and you get a nickel 05 back for each bottle Type 25 05 and press F10 You press F10 when you want to subtract from the list Since we re getting a refund for our deposits we ll subtract it from the total We press F10 and enter 1 25 as the 4th item in the list The total now reads 11 18 You can also press F3 DELETE to erase an item or move the cursor to an item number and press F4 INSERT to insert an item into the list a ru
170. ussian word for hello on it Copy the RUSSIAN PCX file to your 95LX s C _DAT directory rename it TOPCARD PCX and you ll see the following card on your 95LX when you turn it on You rename the file CARD PCX so that the 95LX treats it like its own TopCard and allows the information you enter in the Owner information section of SET UP to ap pear along with the image Ileft the inside of the frame blank for this reason You can also go into SET UP press Owner Picture File and enter RUSSIAN PCX to get this image to show up on the screen If you do it this way however the information you entered in Owner will not show on the screen I put a picture of a flying saucer on the right side of the frame I couldn t get rid of the Press a blue application key message at the bottom line Ahmet G Ozisik Istanbul TURKEY Keeping Score with the 95LX Besides being an avid read er of The HP Palmtop Paper and user of the HP 95LX I am a Tennis buff While watching the Canadian Open and the Volvo Inter national Tennis Tourna ments I noticed the umpire keeping score with the HP 95LX In fact the 95LX got a plug of sorts during the Canadian Open when the announcers explained how much easier and faster it was to get the match stats by down loading the info kept by the umpire from the 95LX to a PC printing it out and giving it to the media My question is what program do they use was it specially wr
171. vings using this technique are minimal You should take a look at all the spreadsheets in your 95LX There is probably something that can be learned from each of them COLUMN Programmer s 1 Programmer s Corner Ed reviews DERIVE a 95LX program that solves symbolic mathematics from algebra to calculus as well performing numeric functions and plotting 2D and 3D graphs By Ed Keefe DERIVE Mathematical Assistant for your HP 95LX In 1982 Microsoft licensed and sold a program called muMath for the new IBM PC The program did something amazing for its day It solved math problems symbolically on a microcomputer Eventually Microsoft stopped selling muMATH and released it back to its authors at Soft Ware house Since then the program has been entirely rewritten and re named Derive Mathematical Assistant for your Personal Computer Now with Derive available for the HP 95LX it is possible to put 2 000 years of math in the palm of your hand DERIVE on the HP 95LX The HP 95LX version of Derive comes pre installed on a ROM card The card contains all the relevant files from the desktop version of the program The card also contains two other programs RAMCRAM which squeezes as much working memory out of the 95LX as possible and FORWARD COM which lets Derive print on a parallel printer through the serial port of the 95LX via a desk top computer Derive does not Compare the overall styles and prog

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