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1. lt RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus o o Portable Vectra HP 150 IBM PC and compat Maker columns are of a fixed predeter mined width and the formulas for calculating each cell can only be viewed one cell at a time With T Master you specify the column widths and locations and you type the formulas at the edges of the spreadsheet where you can No other application that I know of matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master David Hughes Contributing Editor The Portable Paper see them at all times Very helpful in getting your spreadsheets to work Also unlike other spreadsheets you can imbed explanatory text anywhere you like another bene fit of T Master s text oriented ap proach to program integration T Master s relational database manager competes with database only products like dBase III It s easy to select and combine data from two or more files set up cross tabula tions from data on disk and gener ate ad hoc reports T Master s data communica tions capabilities include many you would expect to find in sophisti cated stand alone communications programs Yet they re easy to use even if you ve never done data communications before Note our version of T Master has its data com munications portion customized to the Portable Plus T Master includes a DO
2. Volume 2 Number 6 THE Port More on the new Py Portable ve Publisher s Message 3 Letters Portable Plus Free Upgrade 3 Problems Overseas 2000008 4 Condor 3 On The HP150 and Plus 5 Software For Transferring Files 42 110 Portable Vectra Update 6 Portable External RAM Disk 7 Plus Updates and Upgrades 8 The Portables Battery o 424 se4eade an esa 8 Environment Space and PAM ENV 40 IMO e reres dt hed ten eee eeas awn ek eee 40 PAM and DOS Overhead 40 Diskpack Vs Pack 2 0 00 000 eee eee 40 Foundations Getting Started with TERM 10 Getting Started with PC2622 Reflection 1 12 Profiles The HP110 Near The North Pole 16 BOOS o hbe eaa aaie cdg bt ee eee ones es 16 Tidbits From Paul Grimmer 17 The HP Portable Portable Plus Users Newsletter November December 1987 able Paper E o H PDu ette A fast Sial file News From Personalized Software New Products 0 0 00000000 ce eee 20 Which Memory Option to Choose 20 ROM NEWS side saora oS ae EES PES 22 Price Reductions 0 0 004 23 PICIO i220 Sema Ge ee Re bs ea ogee 26 Portable Equipment Exchange 26 B Drive MultMate 3 31 Professional Word Pro
3. HP150 And The HP9114 I have a question regarding 150 110 com munications I have the HP150 com munication card that allows me to access the 150 disks through the 110 I under stand that IBM PCs can be used to control the HP110 disk drive HP9114 Can I con figure the 150 to access the HP9114 too Since my 150 does not have a double sided drive I would like to be able to ac cess the 110 s 9114 drive Albert A Fiore Westminster CA Hal I have not kept up with all the revisions of the HP150 However I know the original HPI50A that could only read single sided disks can NOT access the HP9114 s double sided disk capacity The HP82905 And Graphics If you can sketch the outlines of a flow chart can I assume you can print it if the printer is compatible I currently have the old HP 82905 Epson MX 80 and am seriously considering the HP2225 I ve thought of the B version but I m thinking about attaching the printer to the RS232 But I haven t really worked out all the consequences yet I have two issues of The Portable Paper now and I have read and re read them several times Each time I glean a bit more information from them The value of sharing information about the Portable produces and promotes more and better usage You re definitely doing a terrific job I m lucky I discovered The Portable Paper Bernard G Wright Goleta CA Hal The HP incarnation of the MX 80 HP82905 was not designed to
4. Copyright 1987 Personalized Software all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or her own investigations and deci sions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsbility or liability for the use of information contained herein POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 415 592 8097 If you would check this out I suspect you could add it to your list of products Bob Sloan North Oaks MN Hal I doubt seriously that the disk drive will work To get the mouse to work would require another development ef fort If any reader ever gets a mechanical disk drive other than the HP9114 to work with either Portable be sure to drop us a note THE PORTABLE PAPER ThinkJet Address Labels What is the best way to do address labels gt with the ThinkJet and the HP 110 Thomas C Riddle New York Hal On the HP110 you can use Lotus to create a macro to generate mailing labels That is what I did for the first two issues Of The Portable Paper Several of our products listed in the back of this issue might help 101 Macros For Lotus 1 2 3 has an addressing macro You could also use Condor Jr on the HP110 Condor 3 on the Plus to store and create maili
5. Edisc space The gain will be the difference between 1024K and the OK 128K 256K or 384K that you replaced In addition you will still have either the 128K 256K or 512K that was built into your Portable Plus So for example right now you might have 896K of System Memory Edisc space That would mean you have a 512K Portable Plus with 384K in your memory drawer Alternately you might have 512K of System Memory Edisc space If your memory drawer is not empty than you probably have a 128K Plus and a memory drawer con taining 384K of memory In the last example if you put a 1 Megabyte RAM drawer in your 128K Plus you would have 1024K 128K or 1152K of System Memory Edisc space instead of 384K 128K or 512K The advantage of the SoftWord drawers is that you can build a system with even more memory The disadvantage is the cost Instead of adding 1 Megabyte of RAM you could add the SoftWord 2 Megabyte RAM card Alternately on your 128K Plus described above instead of removing the 384K RAM drawer you could remove the software drawer Then you could replace it with a SoftWord 1 Megabyte RAM 8 socket ROM drawer This would give you 1 5 Megabytes of RAM 1024K 128K 384K In addition you would still have room for 8 ROM sockets room enough for Lotus MemoMaker Time Manager Reflection Webster and RightWriter in ROM The HP software drawer comes with room for 12 sockets For a complete explanation a description of
6. Note that if you do not specify file names TERM assumes you want to send a file called termsend and capture a file called termlog UPLOADING A FILE Assuming you are connected to another computer you are ready to send the file you just specified Initiate the transfer by depressing f2 To Host DOWNLOADING A FILE An ASCII download is just as easily accomplished as an upload Pressing fl From Host causes everything that gets sent to your screen to be captured in the file you designated If the file that you specified in the From Host to file field already exists it is destroyed and new infor mation is written to the file If the file doesn t exist it is created Alternately you can press Shift fl From Host and new incoming data gets appended at the end of the file An appears in the FROM HOST when you are replacing a file anda appears in the FROM HOST label if your are appending to a file LOGGING OFF Proper log off procedures are designed to alert the host that your session has ended This procedure is very impor tant and can save you money especially if the system charges an access fee and may take several minutes before recognizing your session has abnormally terminated Disconnecting the modem can be a bit tricky since some information services e g CompuServe will re prompt for a logon Some services automatically discon nect the modem If your system doesn t automatically disconnect for you type slowly
7. TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature ae Personalized Softwar P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 WorldPort 2400 and WorldPort 1200 are trademarks of Touchbase Systems Inc Hayes is a trademark of Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc Carbon Copy PLUS is a trademark of Meridian Technology Inc battery indication with the charge indicator reading 80 to 100 This chemical change is called sulfation and is com mon to all lead acid batteries including car batteries The difference is that some chemistry can be done to reduce the non reversible effects in sealed batteries For example the Panasonic battery in the 9114 disk drives has a much better chemistry in this regard NEW BATTERIES AVAILABLE Corvallis has decided to switch battery vendors and in the next few months will be publishing a service note to han dle battery replacement I don t recommend trying to re form the Gates battery unless you are familiar with lead acid batteries and have skills needed to keep the charge rates under control The new batteries will be available in the fall time frame delays due to the quantity needed by HP so for the time being keep your portable charged as high as possible above 40 at all times and definitely above 35 if at all possible Corvallis has also suggested a procedure for replacing batteries which avoids memory los
8. puter beeps and the file transfer screen disappears Depress the User System key to clear the command line prompt from the bottom of the screen and a carriage return to tell CompuServe that the file transfer session has ended If you wanted to send a file to another computer or upload a file to CompuServe you would use the XR filename command CAPTURING TEXT ON THE SCREEN INTO A FILE If you are in CompuServe or logged onto another com puter often you want to put into a file whatever flashes across your screen This is particularly the case if you want to read electronic mail or if you want to download a sim ple ASCII text file from the other computer Here are two methods Press User System to get the main menu Then press fl device control Press f3 to devices If f5 TO PRINTER has an asterisk in it press f5 to remove the so that the screen information will not be sent to your printer Press f2 TO DISK and enter the name of the file to which you want the data sent Now press fl device control Then press fl device modes Press 3 LOG BOTTOM until an appears in the block Until you take the asterisk out of the LOG BOTTOM box everything that appears on your screen will be cap tured in the file Alternately you can give three commands Press User System Now press f6 COMMAND LINE Type in the following three lines with a return after each line CLOSE PRINTER OPEN MYFILE APPEND LOG MYFILE is the name of
9. At your option it will display each occurrence or replace the occurrences either selectively or globally Edit two files at once THE EDITOR will display two separate portions of text at the same time one above the other You can view and edit two parts of the same file or even two different files simultaneously Backspace delete You can erase the last character with a single keystroke No limit on file size If you re an HP110 Portable user you re no longer confined by MemoMaker s 819 Line limit You can have as large a file as internal memory allows File merge You can merge two or more files to gether with ease Compressed and expanded You re no longer restricted to bold and underline You can imbed control charac ters in your text to tell your printer to print all or part of your text compressed expanded bold underlined or whatever else your printer can handle Unlimited line length Your files are no longer limited to 80 characters per line This means for ex ample you can print 132 character lines on your ThinkJet printer in compressed mode Lines per page You can specify the number of lines per page using the control codes required by your printer Easy in easy out You can exit from THE EDITOR run another program then type a one word command and be back in THE EDITOR in a flash exactly where you left off This includes exiting and returning from DOS which means y
10. L Check LI MasterCard J VISA U Company purchase order Card Cardholder Signature Expires F Personalized Exe Software PO Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 Prices guaranteed through December 31 1987 ORDER FORM Retail Price 139 00 99 001 Subscriber Price N A N A Product Qty The Portable Paper Check one Total 3 Year Subscription 2 Year Subscription 1 Year Subscription New subscriber Renewal Begin with 1 JJan 1987 1 Current issue Back Issues indicate numbers Time Manager Pack HP Calculator 2 1987 Subscriber Disk 3 10 unlabeled Sony disks and case 10 colored disks Rainbow Pack 10 colored disks Monochrome Pack Specify color N A N A 7 504 7 504 29 95 9 95 35 955 9 95 35 955 199 95 179 00 379 00 89 95 39 95 79 95 99 95 209 00 49 95 89 95 89 95 75 95 15 99 179 95 62 95 89 95 29 95 89 95 129 00 84 95 SUBSCRIPTIONS 64 90 44 95 ie 44 95 99 95 232 00 99 95 ice Carbon Copy Plus Portable Plus Version p 20 Carbon Copy Plus Portable Vectra IBM PC Version p 20 Condor 3 Plus HP150 only p 21 Condor Junior HP110 Portable only p 21 DOS Tools Portable Utilities Vol 1 The Editor p 31 The Editor The Formatter p 31 Flowcharting II Portable Plus only The Formatter p 31 HPDuette p 20 HP9114 Empowerer Power Supply p 19 HPrint Link HP IL Conn
11. Norton for IBM PCs THE NORTON UTILITIES are a time saver for you and a life saver for your data Use them just once and you ll wonder how you ever did without them Order your copy at no risk today NORTON UTILITIES DATA RECOVERY DISK MANAGEMENT THE NORTON UTILITIES 4 0 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers THE NORTON UTILITIES ADVANCED EDITION includes version 4 0 150 129 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 a hard disk or for users who might Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER In order to run Reflection you need to have at least 144K of system memory configured in PAM s f6 System Config You need 156K if you have Shelp installed One important safety valve within Reflection If you ever are in some screen and you don t know what to do press the User System key next to f5 That brings you back to the main Reflection menu CONFIGURING REFLECTION In order to successfully connect your Portable Plus with another computer you must tell Reflection certain things that is you must configure Reflection Unlike the Portable Plus built in TERM program Reflection does not use the PAM configuratio
12. THE ANSWER You can also import graphics screens into SKETCH from Lotus or any other graphics program SKETCH doesn t limit the size of your dreawing area to the size of your screen The total drawing area is 70 bigger than the screen on the Portable Plus and more than 150 bigger than the screen on the Portable As you move the cursor past your screen s borders SKETCH automatically shifts you into the areas that were off screen Now you might be expecting that all these great features come at a high price in terms of memory space But they don t The entire program takes up only 44K As I said Paul Grimmer of Southern Software has done it again USING IS BELIEVING No matter how fired up you might get by reading about SKETCH or looking at the few samples we ve shown of what it can do there is no substitute for actually getting your hands on this wonderful pro gram and trying it out for yourself se Satin Na aie ees cursor up or down This shows that you simply by pressing NNV U or D You also upside down mw can set the cursor t speed and can tog in gle between a faster WOTZ3bUTp Fue aptam speed and a slower you warnt ROM News NEW ROM OFFERINGS HP Calculator We will be offering two new ROM backups The first is the HP Calculator program that we give away on the 1987 Subscriber s disk Many users really like this program which appears like an HP Calculator on the Plus screen It h
13. THE TOOLS NEEDED The following is a list of the required tools ICs and a terse procedure to expand the 272K RAM of the HP110 to 512K It must be stressed that opening up a machine for the pur pose of modifying it definitely voids the HP warranty To complicate matters further HP Corvallis has recently decided not to repair any machine that contains evidence of having been modified by the user Such units will be returned unrepaired As a result HP110 units with the ex tra RAM will no longer be serviced by HP should they fail after the modifications are in place It is therefore strong ly suggested that units still carrying a valid warranty not be tampered with in any way Again do not attempt the following modifications if the proper tools are not available or if you lack con siderable experience in IC soldering and de soldering as well as the knowledge to handle static sensitive CMOS digital ICs The HP110 service manual provides a step by step procedure for disassembling and re assembling the machine These should be followed to avoid unnecessary damage to the case and the PC boards The service manual also provides schematics and component locator diagrams to facilitate the modification process Tools required Grounded temperature controlled solder iron with narrow tip and set at 700 750 degrees F Low static solder sucker or vacuum powered desoldering station No more cutting and pasting Now you ca
14. chase a product on ROM provided you already own the product on disk If you pur chased a disk product from us Personalized Software we have that in our records If you purchased a product elsewhere you must show us proof of purchase before we can sell you the ROM Backup Also it is important that you read and adhere to the licensing agreement that comes with the disk based version of the SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM Here are the programs we re offering on ROM Backup For product details see individual ads elsewhere in this issue Note that in many cases you can save space in your ROM drawer by buying two or more programs on the same chip All our ROMs come with complete easy to follow installation instructions IMPORTANT You must own or order the disk versions of any products you buy on ROM Backup To order use order form inside back cover Product Notes Size of ROM Prices Shelp Includes improved version of note extraction 32K 55 program SideWinder Does not include any of the utility programs that 32K 55 come with the disk based version of SideWinder The Editor 64K 95 HPDuette Contains HP half of software 64K 95 HPCalculator No disk purchase necessary 64K 95 HPrint 64K 95 Shelp SideWinder Same versions as on 32K ROM chips see 64K 95 above plus SideWinder enhancement utility Sketch R 64K 95 Turbo Pascal Includes RUN COM which can save 10K of disk 64K 95 space from any program you compil
15. each machine A null modem cable is supplied with Duette For the PPlus Platte River Associates plans to in clude a 9 pin gender changer connector that makes the required pin conversions between the PPlus 9 pin serial and a 9 pin IBM PC AT or 25 pin IBM PC serial port This connector was not available for my testing so I used an HP cable that made the null modem connection Running Duette Duette must be run on both machines The user interface of both versions is identical as would be expected The in itial menu offers the choices of Send File Receive File File Commands Configuration and Quit DUETTE The menu interface is the Lotus style sliding light bar with an explanation of the highlighted choice shown on the line below A selection can be made by moving the cursor or pressing the first letter of the choice It is best to put the two machines next to each other so that the screens can be compared and selections made from each machine s menu The keyboard on each com puter is used to control that machine The files to be transferred are selected on the sending computer from a listing of files in a single directory Unfortunately it is not possible to send files from more than one directory at a time The menu structure of Duette is logical and intuitive Just follow your nose to find the proper operation Star ting from the main menu select send files and that menu appears From
16. exceptionally fast Even in the desktop market it is dif ficult to find a word processor with this many useful features at this low a price For the Portables THE EDITOR simply can t be beat See for yourself Order your copy risk free today THE EDITOR 99 95 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE S30 THE EDITOR and THE FORMATTER together Only 99 95 total Portable Paper subscribers only Note The user manual itself is a challenge and no technical support is available We therefore recom mend THE FORMATTER for strong computer users or those already familiar with text formatters If you need any of the features listed above and if you re willing to spend the time it takes to learn the commands THE FORMATTER is for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER 59 95 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers See Software on ROM ad THE EDITOR gives you all these great text editing features and more Search and replace Just tell THE EDITOR what word or phrase to look for and it will find every place you ve used it
17. no However software is provided to create a temporary Edisc out of available memory That Edisc goes away when the machine is turned Off My discussion with HP Corvallis indicates that an op tional non volatile Edisc could be designed to fit in one of the four expansion slots Similarly a board to take ROMs could be designed for one of those slots My guess is that HP will design such boards if the demand is high or if the Vectra sells well HOW ARE WE GOING TO SUPPORT THE PORTABLE VECTRA Starting next issue The Portable Paper will expand its coverage to include the new Portable Vectra We will con tinue full coverage of the original HP Portables and also add articles tips tricks tutorials and product reviews relating to the Portable Vectra As in the case of the HP110 and Portable Plus there will be much overlap in other words many of the articles will apply to all three machines The Portable Paper will be a richer publication We will also continue our policy of creating identify ing and supplying products for HP Portables On the Vectra front we will sell the best software available for the ma chine Perhaps more importantly we will be working with and encouraging third party vendors to fill those four slots available to Portable Vectra users with useful products duette An HP IL card inside your IBM PC or com patible computer lets you transfer files to and from your HP portable computer It s a good
18. other consolation here is that you can now purchase most IBM software on 3 1 2 disks There is also software available that will allow you to transfer data between the Portable Vectra and an IBM PC that are connected together via a serial interface The only problem there is that you have to buy an HP serial interface card because the Port able Vectra only comes standard with a parallel interface So when it came right down to it 5 1 4 would have been much easier for me PERFORMANCE Although it only runs an 8086 at 7 16 Mhz HP claims they have done some optimizations that make it as fast as an ATSNUTIHAADEYD INTCTAADETN 1N07 2a THE PORTABLE PAPER IBM AT in certain cases Unfortunately I had only limited software at my disposal and couldn t run any benchmarks My feeling after I was all done is that the performance is completely adequate You will spend most of your time waiting for the disk drives not for the CPU All the applica tions that I ran are ones that I also use on my 8 Mhz Vec tra AT clone at work and I noticed very little difference in CPU performance COMPATIBILITY I was very impressed with its IBM compatibility The Port able Vectra is an IBM XT compatible I ran The Editor an outliner a series of memory resident software packages Lotus 1 2 3 and some games All of these ran fine There were two games however that crashed the computer This concerned me so I hunted down an IBM XT and tried them on
19. s a solution COLOR CODED DISKS from Personalized Software They re high quality C ITOH disks and we re offering them at the following dis count prices to Portable Paper subscribers non subscriber price is 44 95 per set of 10 disks From Personalized Software Rainbow Pack 10 disks one each red yellow green dark blue light blue orange maroon red orange pink an beige Monochrome Pack 10 disks of sam color choose from red yellow green light blue and maroon Set of 10 disks 39 95 2 or more sets of 10 disks 35 95 each To order Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card informatio exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 633 HP150 users Be sure to indicate single sided disks on your order form if necessary FOLD HERE BUSINESS REPLY MAIL FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO 1047 FAIRFIELD IA Postage will be paid by addressee Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED INTHE UNITED STATES FOLD HERE Are you a Portable Paper subscriber Yes U No What kind of computer do you use check all that apply C HP110 Portable L Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP150 touchscreen L IBM PC or compatible Specify size of disk LJ 3 LI 5 IMPORTANT Check here if you require single sided 312 disk L Method of payment
20. the program to the HP Portables RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra m Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC and compatibles 60 DAY MONE Y BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date cere ae Personalized Softw P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER When this occurs files are stored in non contiguous blocks of memory Even a single file may be stored in several pieces scattered throughout the disk Normally you don t care about this fragmentation When you access a file DOS finds all the pieces and puts them together for you However disk access is a little slower Since the electronic disk is so fast you won t notice this slight increase in disk access time But you might notice something worse sometimes even though DOS reports lots of empty Edisc space PAM s f6 System Config will not let you diminish Edise space and increase Main Memory The problem on both Portables is that Main Memory must be contiguous so the non contiguous blocks of Edise space can t be allocated to it THE SOLUTION USE DISKPACK OR PACK You can solve this by using DISKPACK or PACK How do they differ PACK rearranges the files on your HP Portable Edisc and nowhere else putting them in contiguous blocks of memor
21. where it is bundled with IBM PC compatible computer systems NOT FOR EVERYONE T Master is not for everyone The T Maker Company has told us that their most satisfied users are computer oriented people for whom increased productivity is im portant as opposed to casual com puter users who might not appreciate the time and effort T Master can save them let alone its elegance If your computer is an important part of your work life and if you re willing to learn a new and much easier way of functioning then we urge you to try T Master for your self If within 60 days you feel T Master is not for you simply return it for a full refund But remember T Master must be experienced It has a unique way of doing things and a feel that s all its own Order T Master today It may change the way you use your computer T Master For Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP150 295 00 279 95 for Portable Paper subscribers T Maker HP110 Portable 295 00 199 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER download a file type in the name of the file you want the downloaded information to be sent to at the FROM HOST to file field In order to enter the name of the file on your Edisc or HP9114 drive that you want to send upload press Return and you will be at the next field TO HOST from file When you are done press f3 File Names again
22. you d like to For that matter in some cases it doesn t last long enough to do half of what you d like to According to Hewlett Packard you get up to 40 minutes of continuous usage before the battery dies We ve Plugging in the HP9114 doesn t help either That only recharges the battery it doesn t let you keep working WE HAVE THE SOLUTION The official HP suggestion is to buy another battery pack and keep both plugged in When one loses power replace it with the other This seems clumsy to us What if you want to do several hours of disk intensive work At Personalized Software we have a better solution the HP9114 Empowerer The Empowerer is special power supply RECOMMENDED FOR and plug The Empowerer into the open slot and into your wall outlet It s that easy To run your HP9114 to your heart s content order your HP9114 Empowerer today HP9114 Empowerer 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER HP110 Portable le Portable Plus o Portable Vectra HP150 IBM PC and compat that will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just re move the battery pack never gotten more than 20 Just format ting disks transferring files or running disk intensive software and getting it to work can be a major triumph Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit
23. 00 Turbo Toolbox p 29 0 000 000 0000 aaa aa 69 95 62 95 Mouse Cable p 23 0 0 0 0 0 0000 30 00 0 20 00 Turbo Tutor p29 iraa e fee owed ipa 8 ow OO ig able alec 34 95 Padded Case for Printer Disk Drive BO 9D ens hea BID WorldPort 1200 modem p 9 2 0 0 199 00 000 179 00 Padded Case for HP Portable Plus Ot 2 Gos 6 betes 56 95 Acoustic coupler 3800 1200 baud 59 95 56 95 Pertmaster shart Pe aoe in elects Baw eS oes 695 00 499 00 9 volt AC adapter for modem 0 99 orya bios 6 95 Pertmaster Demo aana aaa aaa aaa aa BODO bee ard 50 00 vable to connect Portable to Modem 30 00 0 20 00 PANCRAS 24 Se Aaa aye ees ea E a peeked ited 49 95 Seen ee 44 95 WorldPort 1200 to WorldPort 2400 MEP E sn aos Saeed tant ee eis atten atthe OB OG Seinen 34 95 Upgrade Kit p 9 0 0 0 00 00000 199 00 179 00 Specify whether HP110 Portable Plus HP150 or IBM PC Price of Pertmaster Demo applicable to cost of Pertmaster SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM BACKUP To order any of the following products on ROM Backup simply write the product name and price on one of the blank lines in the ROM Backup section at the bottom of the IMPORTANT You must own or order the disk versions of any products you buy on ROM Backup See inside front cover for complete information on ROM order form Backup Service Size of R
24. A for Abort thus preventing Milestone from saving this informa tion If there is sufficient interest in putting Milestone on ROM despite this limitation we will be happy to look in to the matter further The cost for the two 64K EPROM backup chips would be 145 We ll Put Our ROMS in Your Drawer When we sell ROMs we send them inside a ROM installa tion device with clear instructions for installation It is not difficult and may take you a half an hour if you have not done it before However if you prefer we would be hap py to install the ROMs for you You can send us your Portable Plus and we ll install the ROMs and send it back the day after we receive it An easier solution is for you to send us your ROM drawer To send us your ROM drawer first back up your A drive Then just take out the two screws on the side of the ROM drawer and slide out your ROM drawer Pack the ROM drawer well and mail it to us with 28 to cover over night shipping back to you and our labor costs We ll insert your ROM order in your drawer and ship back your unit the day after we receive it However call first so that we know it is coming and to insure that we have your ROMs in stock If you want to send us your whole Plus you ll need to A WORD ABOUT THE MICROSOFT MOUSE The Microsoft mouse has only 2 buttons but costs 100 more than the 3 button Logitech mouse Nevertheless the Microsoft mouse may be your best bet if you want the IBM
25. Both are at their best doing fancy fonts ona LaserJet though I consider MultiMate slightly better MS Word does have a way albeit less than ideal of snaking text through multiple columns our version of MultiMate does not But MultiMate implements indentation and tabs bet ter FILE CONVERSION This can be a big issue because both use their own file format MultiMate cOmes with a separate conversion utility to handle all conversions in cluding IBM document interchange format Unfortunate ly this utility is prohibitively huge around 200K for routine ASCII file conversions MS Word can easily import ASCII files and it outputs them by one of two imperfect methods You can save a file as unformatted so word wrapped paragraphs become single long lines or you can print a file through the PLAIN printer driver which adds blank lines at each page break MultiMate has a TTYCRLF printer driver which works about the same way but it also creates bold and underline by backspacing and retyping SPELLING CHECKER MultiMate comes with a dic tionary disk for its built in speller MS Spell is a separate product SPEED Both are fast Since MS Word runs in graphics mode the display sometimes lags and the Shelp utility 28 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 won t work POPULARITY MultiMate is still the most popular but MS Word is second due in part to its early introduction RELIABILITY MS Word has many minor annoyances and one major bug the program
26. It looks like dBASE II but behaves like a Turbo Pascal programming environ ment When I m trying to organize my hard disk at work I like the Hard Disk Manager used in conjunction with the Directory Scanner shell programs Both of these programs cost less than 20 for registered copies under the shareware marketing concept When I want to send elec tronic mail or swap software over the phone I like another shareware product Telix Then of course there are all the memory resident programs such as Sidekick that make life in the computing world a little more nerve racking I still favor 1 2 3 for spreadsheet use but I m looking forward to getting a copy of JOE This spreadsheet is a brand new street legal clone of 1 2 3 for the unbelievable price of 18 Finally when I get down to programming I still reach for Turbo Pascal However I will most likely make a switch to Turbo C this year to satisfy the demands of my college s advisory committee And although it sounds like i ve selected all the soft ware that anyone could ever use I can t stop there One of my duties is to evaluate new software for use in our educa tional training programs For instance I just received a copy of a program call ed the Heavy Duty Word Processor for Lotus 1 2 3 Bi Intelligence Inc the publishers of HDWP claim that it will work on any machine that can run 1 2 3 The good news is that HDWP does indeed work on the HP110 The not so good new
27. PC compatible graphics software it comes with If you already own a Serial Microsoft mouse or would like to buy one there s no need to buy the Logitech Mouse as well to use the Microsoft mouse with your Por table Plus all you need is our Portable Mouse Software and a cable to connect the mouse to your Plus 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield TFA 52556 515 472 6330 RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Fronabie Pus o HP O IBM PC and compatibles send us 58 to cover costs and overnight shipping Price Reductions TURBO PASCAL Borland International recently announced version 4 0 of Turbo Pascal They are not offering a version for HP machines We will be investigating the possibilities of get ting at least some of 4 0 to run on the Portables In the meantime Borland still makes 3 0 for HPs available and has lowered the price from 99 95 to 69 95 We will sell it to subscribers for 65 They have also kept the HP Turbo Tutor version priced at 39 95 35 95 for subscribers even though they raised the price of the IBM version Our version of both programs includes extra disks customized for the HP Portables Our Turbo starter kit which include
28. Plus 5 Lotus templates 6 Games 7 New DOS tools 8 A file to toggle HP and Alternate mode from DOS 9 Lots more Clear instructions are included right on the disk Se P 17 Power Cube Powers and recharges up to four HP devices HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held etc from a single wall outlet PrinterTalk and Format110 MemoMaker Enhancers PrinterTalk lets you change type styles in the middle of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and much more Formatl10 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more Private File Protects your letters documents and data files by scrambling your file so only you can understand it ee eee UEO 9 teense EARNERS IEROSIN OEEO E A na i i 3 Project Management Packages All 3 work on the HP110 Plus Vectra HP150 and IBM PC Project 8 9 10 a Lotus template helps you manage small to medium projects Milestone is also for small to medium projects On HP110 you need to scroll to see entire Milestone screen Pertmaster is for medium to large projects specify which machine See center spread 2 Megabyte RAM card A giant leap in memory size for the Portable Plus Simply remove your existing RAM drawer and replace it with this card Works with any Port able Plus with 512K of built in memory We will acce
29. Portable Plus display I set both my Port able Plus and the Portable Vectra side by side on the table in my hotel room and looked at both Because of the higher resolution that the Portable Vectra has 640 by 400 the characters look real crisp The contrast however was about the same or a little worse than you get with the Port able Plus The contrast is easily adjusted by a little slide switch that is on the display Since the screen is larger on the Portable Vectra you have to fight the reflection prob lem more than on the Portables It was easy to find a good position to view the screen on the Portable Plus but was more of a challenge on the Portable Vectra Hal Based on these comments it was the opinion of our Corvallis contact that Cliff s unit had neither the anti glare piece that covers the screen nor the latest version of the screen The nicest thing about the display is that it is easily detachable This allows you to connect directly to a monochrome RGB or enhanced graphics monitor This allows you to use the Portable Vectra at work without the eye strain that you get from LCD units The worst thing about the display is the color mapp ing Color on the LCD is shown by different shades of gray As you can probably imagine gray shades on LCD displays work terrible Almost every software package I tried had some color combination in it that made the text impossible to read even in the best light There is some help how
30. as I have seen it Abhor Retch Ignite In this way you can retain total control over the program and it can t abort unless you want it to I rewrote it and uploaded the new version It is all written in INLINE code my first at tempt at INLINE assembly Pretty good 3 With my newfound skills in assembly now about 4 weeks old I have written some Turbo stuff using INLINE as well as some standalone programs They include a a pop up printer configuration program intended primarily for the QuietJet LaserJet and PaintJet Portable Plus only b I redid a program called OFFPLUS that i checks for a password on the command line when you run it ii reports the battery iii jpowers down and iv when you press a key to power up if you had entered a password it will not let you continue until you enter it Portable Plus only c I wrote a small program in assembly that shells to MemoMaker It converts the Backspace key into a deleting ATAOWMTECAADED INECERNDED 1007 17 THE PORTABLE PAPER Backspace key rather than being essentially a left arrow key d a set of Turbo procedures to control the beeper on the Portables I even have the Portable Plus playing a pretty good version of the William Tell Overture e some Turbo fastwrite and QwikPrint pro cedures for both the Portables I didn t fully appreciate how slow DOS really is until I bypassed it Ed We ll be putting some of these on the 198
31. have in effect two built in disk drives the A drive and the C drive that s on the card By stor ing copies of critical data and programs on both drives you protect yourself against disaster if your A drive becomes corrupted which as you may know can happen WHOLE NEW MACHINE The minute you install your new SoftWord card s your Portable Plus becomes an entirely new machine You ll be able to run large applications like WordPerfect or RightWriter or even an entire integrated package like T Master and still have plenty of room left over to manipulate large There is one potential drawback to using a C drive Card You cannot directly back up your C drive to an IBM PC or HP150 that has an HP IL in terface card if the PC or 150 has a hard disk of more than 10 megabytes In such cases you can back up your C drive to an external disk drive or to your A drive and then copy your files to the PC or 150 from there data files all without the need for an external disk drive In addition you ll enjoy the faster access time that comes with RAM stor age and the convenience of not hav ing to hassle with disks all the time You should of course continue to use disks to back up your files occasion ally as a safety measure So don t bury your disk drive too far back in your closet DOUBLE GUARANTEE SoftWord s RAM cards are manufac tured to extremely high standards by a company in the Nethe
32. instantly recalled and inserted into your document with a three character mnemonic Unlike Microsoft Word s glossaries which are loaded into mem ory MultiMate s libraries are simply attached to the docu ment you re editing It is also possible to add delete edit and print library entries And you can leave all your libraries on an external disk drive and save Edisc space ADVANCED POWER TOOLS The Advanced Utilities enable MultiMate to share informa tion with other programs this gives MultiMate an edge over other popular word processors The Advanced Utilities features several important tools the Printer Tables Editor Key Procedures Editor Document Recovery and File Conversion You can use the Printer Tables Editor to develop new printer drivers and character width translation tables for non supported printers and sheet feeders or to modify ex isting printer drivers It is easier to use than the Microsoft Word or WordPerfect printer tables editor The Key Procedures Editor allows you to view modify or create MultiMate key procedures or macros It is probably easier to create a key procedures macro from within MultiMate than from the Editor nevertheless it is a utility that may be useful in editing complicated macros Document Recovery attempts to recover lost or damaged pages of your document in the unlikely event of a system crash It also attempts to restore the file header of your document if you have a temporary lo
33. is needed WHAT CAN BE TRANSMITTED USING TERM TERM by itself may be used to transfer ASCII files Ex amples of ASCII files include 1 MemoMaker files saved as ASCII files press f2 document file when saving MemoMaker file 2 a Lotus file saved as a print file using the Print File option 3 any The Editor file not contain ing foreign characters 4 an MS Word Print File TERM can also save to a file ASCII text that is sent to it from another computer Here are simple rules for determining what material can be transferred to and from the Plus using TERM and your modem To determine if you can send a file using TERM go in to DOS from PAM Issue the command type filename where filename is the name of the file you want to send If you see readable text you can send the file ustng TERM If garbage appears on your screen or the system locks up you can return to PAM by holding down the contrast key for 15 seconds The criterion in regard to whether you can receive a file or a flow of text with TERM is also simple Any material that you can read on your TERM screen as it flashes by can be saved to a file on the Edisc or HP9114 disk drive CONFIGURING TERM Before running TERM you must configure the com munications parameters to match the requirements of the host system The host system is the other computer or information service that you dial up and log on to In other words both computers must be speaking the same
34. it The amazing thing was that they crashed the IBM XT as well The exact same symptoms occurred on both I feel very confident that the Portable Vectra is at least 99 compatible with the IBM XT COMMENTS ON THE MODEL CS 20 When I returned the Portable Vectra to HP I had a chance to use a prototype of the model CS 20 The hard disk made all the difference in the world The machine just seemed to fly I believe the hard disk has an average seek time of about 70 ms Although it s not the fastest hard disk around it s significantly faster than floppies Another important note is that the model CS can NOT be upgraded to a CS 20 You must decide whether you want floppies only or a floppy and a hard disk CONCLUSION The Portable Vectra provides full IBM compatibility with desktop performance in a portable package It is not well suited for extensive traveling but makes a good PC to take home from work on weekends to get some extra com puting done If I were to make a choice between the dual floppies or the hard disk I would not hesitate the hard disk is the only way to go The display is tolerable pro viding you don t run many applications that use a lot of color In any case if you plan to use it for extended periods of time a monitor is the only way to go The Portable Vec tra is competitively priced as far as portables go If you don t need the portability you will get more for your dollar in a desktop PC As for me when I
35. journal for scientists engineers and others who use HP technical com puters Each monthly issue includes programming tutorials new product updates applications features and technical trouble shooting USING WALKER RICHER amp QUINN S REFLECTION SERIES FOR THE HP 2622 and 2392 COMMUNICATIONS PCI delivers the news and Training USING EXECUTIVE MEMOMAKER FOR THE HP 150 SVP Software Video Productions Training courses for the HP computer user Software Video Productions offers USING EXECUTIVE MEMOMAKER for the HP 150 and USING WALKER RICHER amp QUINNS REFLECTION SERIES for the HP 2622 and 2392 Communications Up to date training techniques and individualized instruction at affordable prices SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Name Title Company Address City State Phone Equipment O Check enclosed O Bill me LI Charge to VISA MasterCard American Express Card Signature Expiration Date Zip Mail to PCI Publications amp Communications Inc P O Box 399 Cedar Park Texas 78613 9987 U S A 800 531 5093 or in Texas call 512 250 9023 Check one box O The HP Chronicle US 38 Foreign 72 O HP Design amp Manufacturing US 42 Foreign 78 O Please send me more information on HP training videos PP 11 86 THE PORTABLE PAPER extra RAM disk is also better protected against data corrup tion The HP110 operating system will never
36. language See Communication Basics Vol 1 No 4 P 28 In order to configure TERM you must enter f5 10 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 Datacom Config from the main PAM screen The cursor keys allow you to move freely from field to field The high lighted parameter may be changed with the f3 Next Choice or f4 Previous Choice function keys If you use the internal modem configure the values in the column labeled modem The values in this column must match these same values in the other computer In formation services such as CompuServe will tell you their requirements In the case of CompuServe fS Default Values should work The internal modem turns ON when TERM starts and turns OFF when TERM exits Therefore if you have an internal modem you can leave the last line in the menu Power To Interface as off Depress f8 Exit to return to the main PAM screen For more information about possible configuration parameters consult the Datacom Configuration Parameters table on page 9 7 of the Portable Plus Owner s Documentation PAM s f6 System Config You must tell PAM what kind of modem you use Depress f6 System Config from the main PAM screen and move the cursor until the Datacom Interface selection is highlighted Use the Next Choice key to select Modem in order to use the internal modem or Serial to use an external serial modem STARTING TERM TERM may be started from DOS or the main PAM screen by typing term
37. market Dual chat windows allow local and remote users to type at the same time without garbling messages The remote control functions are password protected to prevent unauthorized use of remote computers The entire program is memory resident Specify Portable Plus or Port able Vectra version CompuServe Starter Kit Gets you started on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP Forum Includes 25 worth of free time and CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today Seep 21 Condor 3 and Condor Jr Database programs customized for the HP Portables Enter data sort search manage files and print address labels with ease Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and Portable Vectra It allows limited report writing and is highly memory efficient Condor 3 runs on the Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 It is a fully relational system allowing you to combine data from two or more files It includes advanced report generating capabilities data transfer to and from Lotus 1 2 3 and other applications and much more Seer 26 Disk Conversion Service We will convert your data to and from single sided double sided high density 3 inch and 5 inch formats at a reasonable cost DOS Tools Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 Well over 50 excellent public domain programs that enhance DOS all tested on The Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clarity and ease of use and includes examples index and ta
38. more to us via CompuServe one week Paul proves that he ts prolific not only writing useful software for the Port ables but prolific writing useful information for Port able users As most of you know Paul has his own company called Southern Software He has contributed much to the HP user s library for HP handheld computers Fortunate ly for Portable users he obtained an HP110 in early 1986 gt Since then he has filled important gaps by writing four programs for the HP Portables His best selling product SideWinder allows users to print spreadsheets or any ASCH file sideways to the ThinkJet printer Paul then exploited the graphics capabilities of both Portables and the ThinkJet with his Power your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and HP hand held from a single vion e wall outlet To ThinkJet or 2nd disk drive To wall outlet Can t plug your Portable ThinkJet The fifth is a conventional AC cord that HP9114 and HP hand held into the same plugs into the wall and powers the other wall outlet because the recharger cubesare four too big Here s the solution Get rid of that tangle of extension cords The Model 110A Power Cube Recharger power strips or whatever else you ve been from Summit Concepts putting up with Order a Model 110A Power The Model 110A has five power cords Cube Recharger today Four are HP cords that plug into your HP Model 110A Portable Thinklet HP9114 dis
39. of your computer Unlike the normal IBM version of Duette Duette for the HP includes two versions of the program The differences in the PPlus serial port and screen make the second version necessary Thus it is necessary to install the program twice once on each machine For the IBM version the install program asks you to select either color or monochrome COMI or COM2 J and the default transfer speed On the PPlus this is shortened to selecting the default transfer speed selecting from turbo transfer mode 57 600 baud standard 9 600 baud or universal 1 200 baud The pure IBM version of Duette supports transfer Whether you want to learn programming or you re a seasoned programmer the best programming language for your HP Portable or Portable Plus is Turbo Pascal Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 in this issue nh l and our Turbo Pascal Starter Kit is the best way to buy it Here s why The Pascal programming language was originally designed for use at the college level in teaching the fundamentals of computer programming Borland Inter national enhanced the language making it practical for actual programming use Their version is called Turbo Pascal Today Turbo Pascal is the programm ing language taught at most universities The reason is that its underlying struc ture fosters good programming habits It forces you
40. print graphics From talking to The Portable Paper s Looking Glass columnist Ed Keefe I believe it is technically possible but not easy Many readers report they pick up a great deal from The Portable Paper by reading back issues a second and third time This is especially true for novice users many of whom say that most of The Paper is over their heads We do try to pack as much good information in as understandable a form as we can All back issues are still available Support Needed For Engineers I appreciate The Portable Paper and the software available through your organiza ton lam a teaching dean in an engineer ing college and travel worldwide as a consultant Hence the need for the Port able Plus Software programs like Lotus 1 2 3 and Microsoft Word are very important in my work But I also need engineering oriented software I must write my own programs for design and analysis calculations I am looking for word processing software which uses subscripts superscripts and Greek characters I have not found anything that works on the Portable Plus I also want a graphics routine that plots algebraic equations or fits a least square curve through a series of data Recently I came across a L tus 1 2 3 compatible program which does just what I want I found it in Personal Computing Tools Inc 101 Church St Unit 12 Los Gatos CA 95030 408 395 6600 I am interested in your com ments regardi
41. print your spreadsheets or any other text file sideways on your ThinkJet This means you can print your 60 column by 53 row spreadsheet from your Portable as one long print out without cutting and pasting See P 22 Sketch A graphics program for the HP Portables Lets you draw free form using cursor keys Also draw lines boxes circles by pressing a single key Five character sets can be displayed normally sideways or even upside down Entire screen can be printed on Thinkjet at virtually any enlarge ment Screens can be saved for future use Screens can also be imported into Sketch from Lotus and other programs Only uses 44K of memory Soft Padded Cases Roomy rugged high quality highly padded cases to protect your ThinkJet HP9114 and HP Portable when traveling Seer 20 Statistix A comprehensive statistical package that s easy to learn and use Runs on the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 and IBM PC compatibles Data can be entered from keyboard or imported from spreadsheet or database files Includes multiple regression most standard parametric and non parametric tests p values plots histograms and much much more Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit First video game designed for the Portables Time Manager The highly acclaimed Portable Plus ROM based Time Manager pro gram in a 3 4 disk version for the HP110 Portable Does not run on Portable Plus Available to Portable Paper subscriber
42. programming career for the Portables 10 Ihave been dabbling with both MicroSoft s MASM and also a shareware assembler I got from CompuServe called A86 Other than the fact that the author of A86 is more than a tad obnoxious I really like his program It allows you to bypass about 99 of the garbage that Microsoft requires and it can produce a COM file direct ly If you think enough of your readers would be in terested I could write a short review both run on the Portables It may be beyond the majority of subscribers some of it is still beyond me 12 SEP 87 17 04 CDT DUETTE Hal I was able to optimize Duette for you so that you will be able to fit it on a single 64K EPROM I don t know how long it will be before Turbo Op timizer will be released for the generic MS DOS version so this may be a good way to get it going quickly since by definition I have the rights to Optimize anything I want since I modified it with their permission They may be willing to support the Portables and HP150 with it since the new version of Turbo Pascal 4 0 will have its own routines built in for unused code removal and I don t think it will run on a generic MS DOS PC Turbo Optimizer will then only be worthwhile for those of us who use MS DOS Turbo Pascal 3 01 13 SEP 87 02 43 CDT HPCALC amp MOUSE Hal I just played around with HPCALC on the 1987 Subscriber s disk for the first time It is pretty neat I also played
43. restric tions and examples of what can be done with SoftWord drawers see the two page ad in this issue No matter which drawer you choose installation is a snap First you need to back up your files onto an external disk Then remove the two screws on the end of your existing drawer You may use a small flat blade or a Torque screwdriver Slide out the old drawer and slide in the new Put the screws back in Touch the contrast key for a few seconds Wait Then format the A drive as requested by pressing fl That s it I doubt seriously if either HP or SoftWord prices will come down significantly in the next year The non volatile RAM chips used are expensive HP must have bought a great number of chips to afford selling the drawer for what it does The HP drawer retails for 995 We sell it for 795 The SoftWord 2 Megabyte drawer retails for 2995 subscribers pay 2695 The SoftWord 1 Megabyte RAM 8 socket ROM drawer retails for 1995 we charge 1695 to our subscribers Replacing the drawer yourself is simple no matter which drawer you choose At last Graphi for the Portable and Portable Plus by Hal Goldstein President Personalized Software Paul Grimmer has done it again He s the author of two of our best selling pro grams SideWinder the sideways printng program for the HP Portables and LINK the program that lets you transfer data back and forth be tween HP hand helds and Portables printers and other periph
44. the file to which you want the data sent Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 179 See ROM Backup ad in this issue MN Mi h THE Intelligent Grammar and Style Checker RightWriter is a new tool to help you produce lean powerful BUSINESS WRITING RightWriter uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to flag errors in GRAMMAR STYLE USAGE and PUNCTUATION RightWriter is the first office auto T mation package aimed at Son producing better writing not more writing m Messages are Inserted directly into text to point out possible errors and problem areas Easy to Use only one command to learn your word processor does the rest Works with Leading Word Processors including MemoMaker The Editor MS Word WordPerfect MultiMate and WordStar RightWriter is an ide is long overdue a whose time oe Phil Wiswel gt RightWriter is an ex ell PC Magazine eye opening software packa oe CO The documentation a Word Management best I have seen among the Readability Index measures the reading grade level of the docu ment using the D O D RightWriter 95 00 standard Flesch Kincaid 89 00 for Portable Paper subscribers formula RightWords Dictionary Extension for RightWriter 29 95 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed order form or send che
45. the two parameter lists match depress f6 SAVE TO DISK and then return You ve now saved the internal modem configuration parameters to your Portable s Edisc as file pe2622 cnf PC2622 or reflectl cnf Reflection Before pressing return you could have typed another name for your configuration file Note that when Reflection initially starts it uses com munication parameters found in file pe2622 cnf or reflectl cnf if the file exists You have now told Reflection how to configure your modem properly so as to make proper connection to another computer You still must tell Reflection how it is to act as a Terminal That is you must tell Reflection how to have the screen behave as it receives information from the other computer If you just pressed f6 SAVE TO DISK then PC2622 but not Reflection owners press f3 terminal config Remember that if you get lost press the User System key From there press f3 config keys There are two pages screens of Terminal settings within Reflection and three within PC2622 All but one of the settings in these pages can be ignored 14 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 Press fl terminal page 1 if you have PC2622 and f3 ter minal page 1 if you have Reflection The very first setting Remote to PC2622 or Datacomm port Reflection is the only essential one You must inform Reflection whether you are using your internal modem called com2 in Reflec tion and modem in PC2622 Otherwise tell it you are
46. to Lotus 1 2 3 you would not be covering it as heavily as you might otherwise Since the release of version 2 0 and Symphony the coverage of version 1 0 by Absolute Reference and Lotus has been drastically reduced therefore I have let my subscriptions to those magazines lapse Since those of us with Portables can not upgrade please reconsider and in crease your coverage of version IA The Portable Paper is extremely valuable to me and it brightens my day when I receive it in the mail Keep up the good work Carl Noll Riverside CA HP110 In A Manufacturing Environment We Use the HP110 a great deal in a manufacturing environment We find the configurable terminal to be especially convenient as a DNC link for machine tool program transfer This allows us to create machine tool programs in our engineering department with our HP Vectras doing the CAD and then with the HP IL Link Card we load the resultant code into an HP110 The code is then car ried to the appropriate machine tool con troller for upload The advantages over hard wire DNC schemes are obvious Christopher G Black Ithaca NY Staying Charged Abroad I am having two problems with my other wise wonderful Portable Plus Both have to do with traveling abroad The first is the difficulty sometimes impossibility of recharging the battery in Europe Even when using a standard Franzsus or other make conversion kit to lower the currency from
47. us ing an external modem called coml in Reflection and serial in PC2622 If you leave this setting to the default coml and you are an internal modem user get ready to be frustrated You will not be able to type on the Reflection screen until you change Remote to Datacom port to modem or com2 The other value we suggest you change in the Ter minal menu is Backspace key Tab to the Backspace key and press fl NEXT CHOICE to select BKSP This action causes the backspace key to act like the left cursor key Otherwise you cannot use backspace to back up when logged onto another computer You may consult the manual or experiment around with other settings When you ve completed this con figuration menu select f6 SAVE TO DISK and then the first page of the terminal configuration The second and third page of the terminal configura tion isn t necessary for our purposes but you will find the Answerback message field in terminal page 2 a convenient place to store your CompuServe ID and password For ex ample you could put 72257 714 MY PASSWORD in that field For even greater security you can change the Con ceal answerback message field to YES LOGGING ONTO COMPUSERVE In this example we assume you want to log on to Com puServe However you will go through similar steps when you want to log on to or download files from any computer Plug the telephone jack into the modem in back of your Plus or into your external modem Dia
48. us but do not want to install them themselves we can do it See details in What s New From Personalized Software column Problems Overseas I received at last your parcel with past issues and all the software I asked for Although you did send it by air mail for an expensive 50 it remained in customs for more than one month On the other hand the Turbo Pascal ROM arrived separately earlier unfiltered by customs due to small value I would suggest that for big parcels you should send by regular mail to keep postage fees low Obviously from now on I will order small amounts at a time to avoid taxes J found a lot of pleasure in the back issues Of The Portable Paper discovering more on my Portable Plus However I was very disappointed by the inability of Shelp and Typing Whiz to work properly with a French keyboard Quick typing on a QWERTY keyboard is useless for me Shelp is even more incompatible as ex porting results from the calculator con verts the figures into the corresponding accentuated letters of the French key board 34567890 becomes amp e elca which is hard to decipher and taking notes causes similar problems The SKETCH software works cor rectly except for the and keys which are mapped to the QWERTY keyboard too This can be overcome by annotating the adequate keys but this is a general software development problem you should take into account One of the bonuses of buying HP i
49. utilities that have to be deleted from the ROM chips in order to save space Also if your ROM drawer gets full you can remove a ROM chip and still run the corresponding program off your disk drive EASY TO INSTALL We supply a ROM insertion tool makes in stallation simple plus clear instructions with diagrams LIFETIME MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Our ROM Back Up Service comes with a life time guarantee If a ROM proves defective at any time as long as you own the computer in which it is installed we will replace it at no charge In addition our regular 60 day guarantee of satisfaction also applies If within 60 days you are dissatisfied with a ROM Back up product for any reason you may return it for a full refund However we don t think you ll be dissatisfied You ll find these ROMs to be fast reliable and an incredible boost to your productivity Whatever your reason to free up valuable memory space to minimize the need for an external disk drive or for sheer con venience order one or more of our best selling programs on ROM Backup today To order enter products and prices in special ROM Backup section at bottom of order form in back of this issue W ABOUT ROMS A ROM Read Only Memory is a microelectronic chip that stores programs or other data Once information is burned in to a ROM it cannot be altered A different form of ROM called an EPROM can be altered once information is bur
50. version of Carbon Copy Plus is included The retail price for the Portable Plus version of Carbon Copy Plus is 225 Subscribers can order it for 199 95 by using the order form in back of the issue Meridian Software is located at 1101 Dove St Suite 120 Newport Beach CA 92660 714 476 2224 STATISTIX Last issue in the letters section we published Brendan Kel lys minireview of a full featured statistics program Statistix Our readership has responded enthusiastically to the news of the product so we are adding it to our price list It retails for 169 and we will sell it to our subscribers for 159 The program works on the HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 Which Extra Memory Option To Choose Now that it is possible to add a megabyte 1024K or more of memory to the Portable Plus many of you have called us with questions about which option to choose You also wondered if we think prices will continue to come down There are basically three choices to expand memory If you have customer files sales records inventory or lots of anything that you need to keep track of you need a database management system DBMS If you want a sophisticated DBMS that even a beginner can use try Condor 3 or Condor Jr Condor 3 runs on the Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 Its smaller cousin Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and Portable Vectra only Both versions let you set up a database in a single step simply by typi
51. with it using the Mouse and it works very well One thing I like to do since I have a Microsoft mouse is to leave the serial port turned off except when I actually use it For others in this environment I offer the following batch file which works well if both SKETCH and HPCALC are on ROM and or on EDisc sk 20 40 70 70 hpcalc sk 0 type a doskeys What calc bat above does is turn on the mouse with the Select key as the left mouse button and Return as the right button Now when HPCALC runs I can use the mouse exclusively since I can even enter numbers using the mouse point to the number and press the left button When I exit HPCALC the batch file goes back into SKETCH just long enough to turn off the serial port The last line types a file containing my function key definitions block cursor definition etc and is optional This may be of some use to The Portable Paper subscribers 17 SEP 87 SUBJ MISC Hal You re probably going to get tired of getting these let ters but I find that it is a very convenient way to pass along tips ideas etc that may be of some use in The Port able Paper THE HP9114 EMPOWERER If you ve been frustrated trying to use your HP9114 external disk drive only to have the battery quit before you ve finished your work then you know the problem Now you need the solution THE PROBLEM The charge on your HP9114 battery doesn t last long enough for you to do all
52. with the say commands Of course it should be on 3 1 2 disks Any ideas from your side Rudolf J Sommer Nussbaumen Switzerland Hal With all the dBASE add ons there must be some kind of report generator that will work on the Portables Does anyone know We sell Condor 3 which has Report generation capabilities dBase II files can be transferred into Condor 3 files 44 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 Thanks to so many of you who are willing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an opportunity to share tips answer questions discuss other products trade free software and Lotus templates and meet other professionals As you will notice some areas have more than one contact person and some major areas have none If you are in a missing area and would like to organize a group contact us If your groups combine also tell us We will publish this column each issue keeping it up to date Write Local Users Groups Box 869 Fairfield IA 515 472 6330 California Southern California We meet 2nd Thur 7 9 at HP sales office 5161 Lankershim Blvd North Hollywood Request PORTOVEC Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 San Diego Stephen L Eyre 619 452 8530 Dan Butterfield 619 470 3551 San Mateo Santa Clara Counties San Francisco Bay Area BAYCHHU HP Laptops amp Handhelds meet 2nd Sat of the month Contact Jim Horn 707 523 4890 eve or Michael Felsenstein 415 564 8279 eve Herbert L Hamerslough D
53. word processor can feel better or more comfortable than another It s your decision MultiMate is businesslike yet a pleasure to use It of fers considerable productivity and power and rivals other word processing products currently available for the Port able Plus Because of its many enhancements file handl ing speed and extensive printer file format support it may be the best word processor available for the Portable Plus MultiMate Verses MSWord By Mtke Steed I am primarily a MemoMaker user because almost every thing I do will be sent via electronic mail and needs to be in plain ASCII form Since my attachment is to Memo Maker perhaps the following comparison of MultiMate and MS Word word processors for the Portable Plus will be more objective MEMORY REQUIRED MS Word 140K MultiMate 152K despite its being executed directly from ROM VERSION MS Word 1 1 old lacks outliner and many other features MultiMate 3 31 relatively up to date The former has been customized by HP to have function key operation the latter uses Alternate IBM mode and is very similar to the IBM version EASE OF USE I wouldn t call either program easy to learn or use because of their many features The two keyboard maps on MultiMate are essential The menus and function keys on MS Word make startup a little easier but the chinese keyboard user interface on MultiMate is pro bably faster for the frequent user POWER
54. write over this memory since it does not know the memory is there To activate the extra RAM disk hereafter referred to as drive D first a copy of the Edisc driver is copied into drive A from an external disk drive Next a CONFIG SYS file must be created to contain the line DEVICE RAM110 SYS This file tells the HP110 to look for the Edisc driver called RAM110 SYS in drive A and install it whenever the machine is rebooted Then the user reboots the machine by pressing lt SHIFT gt lt EXTEND CHAR gt lt BREAK gt During the reboot a message shows up brief ly indicating that the driver has been successfully installed and is now memory resident The driver actually looks for the extra RAM to be at its intended place Attempting to HP110 512K RAM EXPANSION SCHEMATIC SAMUEL H CHAU 11 26 86 SAC16 19 U12 1___SA16 U12 2___SA17 U12 3___SA18 TO NEC 43256 12L U17 6__LM 32K X8 SRAM U17 4_ ALE U17 3 SA19 Scag NC U41 20 U43 20 U45 20 U47 20 49 20 US1 20 74HC138 MAT1 15 gt few ic m zZ ise 7 CS oO lt aen x x gt U40 U51 Wo 0 CALE 11 1 2 3 1 0 1 vH uil 3 AD14 2 po ijl MAL MA6 5S 1 0 3y 15 WDA PADIS 3h mi MALS 6 0 1 0 4V 16 HD4 t rm 16 MAL2 MA8 3 17 170 5V 17 uD yi9 MAII 8 32767 1 0 6 Vie woe AD10 6 F royi__14 _MA10 MAIO 24 9 107V 19 MD7 i mi 13 MAS MAI 21 10 1 0 8V AD8 ae p nol 12_ MA 1 f Eea MA13 2 12 32K xg SRAM POLI
55. 220 to 110 I don t get a recharge This makes the Plus almost unusable since one battery charge NOVEMBER DECKEMRER 1087 42 THE PORTABLE PAPER just won t last more than a few days In particular I have this problem in Switzerland France and England Have any ideas Is there a device that will step down directly from 220 to the machine s voltage without having to use an in termediate converter The second problem is that I have not found a way to use the Portable Plus s communications facilities from Europe or Asia I have the built in Term program as well as the PC2622 but not Reflection At first I thought the problem was due to a difference in frequencies or tone pitch I have had proprietary telephone equip ment But even if I dial the phone myself and connect the computer once I get the proper computer tone in the United States on Easylink for example Iam unable to establish and maintain communications I have heard rumors of an acoustic coupler that automatically converts tones and frequencies but have not been able to find one Donald R Harkleroad Atlanta GA Hal We ll see what our readers have to say Two suggestions though See The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 3 page 38 Portable Self Sufficiency for a strategy of hooking up a 12 amp 12 volt battery to the Portable and peripherals Also ac cording the Touchbase Systems which produces the WorldPort 2400 Baud modem the Radio Shack aco
56. 415 340 8811 E 415 323 9618 Los Altos Mountain View Marge Sutton D 415 949 0509 E 415 948 0627 Colorado Colorado Springs Dan Ritt 303 528 8080 Denver Call Bob Pressey 303 777 0326 Georgia Atlanta Call Brian Walsh D 404 394 2500 E 404 399 6842 Hawaii Honolulu Rodney Y Fukuya if interested 808 945 3111 Indiana Indianapolis Bob Glass 317 638 2326 Iowa Mid Iowa Ed Keefe D 515 964 6644 E 515 964 7064 Southeast Iowa Hal Goldstein 515 472 6330 Minnesota Minneapolis St Paul John Ferman 612 822 1372 Maine Yarmouth Every last Tue 6 30 US Route one Yarmouth ME 04096 846 5497 North Carolina Charlotte and surrounding area John Jacob 704 334 3468 Texas Houston Thomas R Page D 713 759 4259 E 713 528 7138 Utah Utah County Donna Hoover D 378 4421 E 375 4812 Washington Eastern Washington Northern Idaho Western Montana and possibly Western Washington Bob Sandberg 509 466 4999 Eastern Washington Stephen S Warner D 509 534 1588 E 509 535 3322 Western Washington Portable Plus 150 Vectra users meet first Thursday 7 9 p HP sales office Bellevue Pete Ross 206 342 8875 Portable 40 amp 50 series 7 9 p second Wed UWash computer center Seattle Bob Moore 206 543 7879 Washington D C Greater Washington D C Area 8 00 PM Third Monday of Each Month Ballston Tower 1 800 N Quincy St Room 519 Call to confirm and to say Hi William F Cross D 202 696 4112 E 703 845 9508 Australia 8 Avoca
57. 8 Subscriber s disk 4 I have been working with TurboPower Software to extend their very fine program package called Turbo Op timizer to work on Turbo Pascal programs written with generic Turbo Pascal v3 01 the one we use on Portables I have it working and they are evaluating what I have done It speeds up programs by 5 15 but the major ad vantage is that it can throw away unused code both in the user s area and also in the run time library I have a few programs that ended up being less than 100 bytes but these are special cases As an example of what to expect I have run SKETCH 45 700 bytes through the package and it came out 38 000 bytes HPrint was reduced from 50 127 bytes to 42 000 This will really be nifty for owners of the Portables limited RAM on the Portable and limited ROM slots on the Plus 5 I am reworking LINK It will be significantly enhanced The most significant change will be that it will make the PC able to be all HP IL devices AT THE SAME TIME They told me it couldn t be done but it can you gotta trick the HP IL chip 6 SKETCH is next Major changes contemplated in clude a much larger vertical drawing size up to 960 dot rows to allow full page graphics a condensed file format drawings of 960x640 dots take up 60k as is an op tional status line on the bottom row containing much of what is on the current status screen now the up down pen can be one toggle key w
58. 8K HPIL RS 232RAM Disk 445 419 CMT RD256 01 256K HPIL RS 232 RAM Disk 595 535 CMT RD512 01 512K HPIL RS 232 RAM Disk 895 799 Corvallis Microlechnology can be contacted directly at Corvallis MicroIechnology Inc 895 N W Grant Ave Corvallis OR 97330 503 752 5456 Updates and Upgrades for the Portable Plus LOTUS 1 2 3 VERSION 2 01 Send 195 plus tax and the glossy front cover from your 1 2 3 manual to DMK and order 45539 64001 Version 2 01 consists of three ROMs the third is optional and con tains help messages MEMOMAKER A 02 00 TIME MANAGEMENT amp A 03 CD Send the back cover of your Time Management manual to DMK order 45504 64002 60 plus tax The new ROM uses the label Time Management in PAM instead of Time Manager Note The original MemoMaker has serious bugs Before updating you might check with your local service center aS a service note may allow for a free update REFLECTION 1 from PC 2622 Send PC 2622 supplemental disk to DMK order 82861 64002 135 plus tax Note It is my understanding that there is little reason for U S PC2622 owners to upgrade GW BASIC adds Portable Plus version Send the master disk to DMK order 45450 63002 42 plus tax 8 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 REV BBBBBB SYSTEM ROMS ROM upgrades must be done at the Field Repair Center The charge is 300 Press CTRL Shift Break to see the ROM ID displayed briefly Note If your Plus hangs up or otherwise a
59. 9 35 29 25 Portable Paper 2 year 99 99 88 81 70 63 52 45 Portable Paper 3 year 139 139 124 114 99 88 73 63 DOS Tools 50 40 36 32 28 26 24 22 And ROM Backup 179 169 152 135 118 110 101 93 Duette 100 90 86 81 77 75 73 71 And ROM Backup 195 185 175 164 154 149 144 139 The Editor 100 80 72 64 56 52 48 ae And ROM Backup 195 175 157 140 122 114 105 Norton Utilities 100 90 80 74 72 69 67 a a Advanced FI 129 133 114 107 103 99 96 a 89 79 77 And ROM Backup 278 268 28 235 219 211 202 194 27 SHELP 55 50 45 40 35 32 30 SideWinder Utils 80 70 65 61 56 54 52 Shelp SideWinder Disks And ROM backup Turbo Pascal And ROM Backup 168 106 isi 123 134 136 136 Ls T Master aoe 279 261 243 BF 216 207 Deca Whiz i kuy kaa Ea And ROM Backup 145 135 it 108 94 88 81 74 Webster Sper 80 70 66 62 58 56 54 52 And ROM Backup p 249 233 217 201 193 r PA Webster RightWriter And ROM backups 533 517 436 407 378 363 349 Shelp Format110 Editor SideWinder PrinterTalk And SuperROM backup 474 368 327 286 266 245 225 WorldPort 2400 amp cable 2400 amp cable 389 339 328 293 288 2 ECCETTO nn RAM card EX Ea Eos 2559 2491 2457 2423 ESA l ae RAM 8 Socket ROM 1995 1695 1660 1625 1590 1572 Da a HOW TO ORDER Use the chart above to determine the discount price If you do not find the product you want listed on the chart contact us for discount pricing Enter the desired quantity on the order form i
60. By Rich Burmeister Corvallis Micro Technology CMT makes small light weight RAM disks which may be of interest to HP110 and Portable Plus owners who want a truly portable alternative to the HP9114 disk drive for program and data storage The RAM disk is like the 9114 in that it can be plugged into any Portable for file transfer it is like the Edisc in that files are transferred directly via the HP IL loop rather than through removable disks 56 95 for Portable Paper subscribers HPDuette with cable for Portable Plus 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Duette 2 0 To use Duette 2 0 you ll need to install an HP serial adapt er card available from Hewlett Packard in your Portable Vectra You connect this card to the serial port on your desktop computer using the serial cable that comes with the program HPDuette is for the Portable Plus It transfers data at 57 600 baud To use HPDuette you connect the 9 pin serial port on your Portable Plus to the serial port on your desktop computer using the serial cable that comes with the program 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Some notable features of the CMT RAM disks are 128 256 or 512 Kilobyte capacity Dust proo
61. CompuServe wants my ID I press CTRL Extend Char i and out pops my ID and password The subtle distinction between fl From Host and Shift fl From Host is important If you are logged onto a com puter and you want to save some of the information that comes on your screen periodically be sure to use the Shift fl option With this option you can capture incoming data by pressing Shift fl From Host Then you can temporarily stop saving information to the designated file When you press Shift fl From Host again the new information will be appended to the file Otherwise every time you turn on fl From Host you destroy whatever was in the file up to that point Finally if you have trouble sending or receiving infor mation try pressing f5 Auto Lf Before I dial up Com puServe I always press that key otherwise I can t read my EMail CONCLUSION TERM adds basic terminal capability to the Portable Plus Coupled with the PPTERM program it may be all you need in the way of communications software on the Portable Plus With this introduction you ll find the Portable Plus Owner s Documentation provides very good information pertaining to the operation of TERM Getting Started With PC2622 Reflection 1 By David Hughes And Hal Goldstein INTRODUCTION HP sells the Walker Richer amp Quinn ROM based com munications package Reflection 1 for the Portable Plus Reflection 1 works either with the Plus internal 1200 Baud modem or with
62. In education this time of year brings with it the start of new classes new students new challenges In the computing world this time of year brings with it the announcement of new computing hardware new software and again new challenges I look at the students in my six computer classes and reflect that at best about half of them will contribute something worthwhile to the field of computing I read about all the new computer products that have been announced and reflect that less than half of them will contribute to the state of the computing art Much of the new hardware and software will not meet the challenge of the computer market place Most of it will vanish from the scene Nonetheless I always start each academic year with a sense of hope Maybe this year s students will be dif ferent Perhaps most of them will succeed Likewise there is always hope that this year s com puter products will be the start of something big WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED NEW PRODUCTS NEW DECISIONS Many of you know that Borland International has an nounced several new software products Foremost among these is a new version of Turbo Pascal Borland has also an nounced a new word processing program Sprint and a spreadsheet program Quattro And this is what one soft ware company alone has accomplished I d like to try this new software but regrettably none of it will work on the HP110 or Portable Plus Like m
63. LSI oe ADO 15 B2C82 MAI4 26 13 1 WR27 27 CE 20 he 2567 install the driver in an unmodified machine will result in an error message The driver program also deteets the first time it is installed and promptly cleans up the extra RAM and generates a proper disk structure to make it a valid RAM drive After the reboot finishes drive D will be usable in very much the same way as drive A except that the size of drive D is fixed Since many large application programs require much user memory to run with the presence of drive D the HP110 can be configured such that a minimum amount of RAM 16K is left in drive A while allowing user memory to be at its maximum size of 256K Such a small drive A still leaves enough room for the Edisc driver as well as several small files Essentially drive D can take the place of drive A as the principal RAM disk Another advan tage of this configuration is that unless the battery is com pletely depleted the contents of drive D are guaranteed to be intact even if the machine goes through a crash or a reset that corrupts or destroys the contents of drive A If 34 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 this happens all that the user needs to do to reactivate drive D is to reload the Edisc driver into drive A and reboot the machine The only other means of corrupting the extra RAM disk is through a user program and this scenario only occurs frequently when the user is developing debugging
64. OM Price Size of ROM Price Best of DOS Tools 41 ina asda Two 64K ROMs 128K 129 Shelp SideWinder 0 0 00000000 cee 64K 95 The Editor D 3 eee ere ee re rer ee re GAK auai 95 SideWinder P BO mae puant hoo bo a e ea ey e A a 55 UP ACUO eer E a a E o e 64K 95 DRELCH AUD 22 Pts 2 05 colle ei ae aA Sirk wok wih ee ea 64K 95 PU DUCHE 20 4440 mi wewiaedaceu ated Oe meee 8d 64K 95 Super ROM center spread te ab he ch He de EENET E EE E ete ar 149 The Editor Mini PrinterTalk Formatl10 Shelp and SideWinder Turbo Pascal p 29 ag oa auaa tk bho 5S tig Goda oie Woe 64K 95 RightWriter p 15 Two 128K ROMs 256K 179 A WHIZ 3 42 5 ote dhe eel Vo ith Cee hem ote EEE 64K 95 ONC cv te ind 8 aca aka ee ee ee gr ARNA 32K 55 Webster s Spelling Checker Back cover Two 128K ROMs 256K 179 a This version of SideWinder does not include any of the SideWinder utilities b Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version included on the PrinterTalk disk It is functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for most applications Our Products and Services in Brief Seer 20 Carbon Copy Plus For Portable Plus and Portable Vectra a highly rated program that does both data communications and remote control for operating a remote computer from the keyboard of a host computer The data com munications functions are among the easiest to use on the
65. STEM As with most integrated pro grams T Master lets you share data between applications for example you can insert a spreadsheet into a report you re typing or can take in formation from a database and move it into a spreadsheet all without leaving the program However with most other in tegrated programs you have to exit the module you re in e g word pro cessor load another module e g PORTABLE PLUS USERS You ll need 296K of main memory to run T Master plus 135K Edisc space for the core system plus the following amounts for storage of the various parts word processor 53K speller 151K database and Spreadsheet 135K data communications 35K chart making 52K misc utilities 60K You can if you wish run the various parts of T Master off your external disk drive HP110 USERS T Maker an earlier version of T Master runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive The pro gram runs beautifully T Maker doesn t support data communications but it does include word processor spelling checker database spreadsheet scratchpad and simple bar charts It is easily the most com prehensive program available for the HP110 spreadsheet work in the second module then import the result back into the first module In addi tion each module presents you with different commands a differ ent environment and often a dif ferent feel Not so with T Master T Master
66. St S Yarra Victoria Australia Nigel S Ball 03 267 8344 Central America I would be happy to form a users group either Spanish or English Apartado Postal 1587 Tegucigalpa Honduras England Trafalgar House Grenville Place Mill Hill London NW7 3SA England Tim Cullis 01 959 4359 Netherlands Mr R M Franquiner Menthenbergseweg 13 NL 6816 PR Arnhem The Netherlands Spain Club de usarios HP 110 Pont Reyes S A A la aten cion de D Enrique Serra Ronda Universidad 15 08007 Espana mee e ee e a a m D e pe ee a adan PD i aa ies G S a add a a e m a a a a n Hign Quality 372 Regular Disks Why pay 69 for 10 disks in a fancy shrink wrapped box with lots of artwork We ll sell you quality Sony disks without the Sony labels or Sony boxes packaged instead in an ergonomically designed library case at no extra charge 4 95 value Portable Paper subscribers pay only 3995 for 10 unlabelled disks Price to non subscribers 64 90 Now only 29 95 Lifetime Warranty If a disk ever proves defective return it to Personalized Software and we llsend you two good ones Name Title Company Address City State Zip Telephone Disks at a Discount Colored Disks _ 4 Ever find yourself hunting through disk after disk reading label after label just to locate the one you re looking for Ever wish the right disk would just pop up and identify itself Now there
67. Type whatever you want into it exit to your appli cation and then recall the notepad whenever you want No more having to scribble notes on paper to remind you of phone numbers things to do or bright ideas Choose Key Macros and you can assign strips of up to 31 typewriter characters to any of the 26 letters in the alphabet This saves you having to type the same phrase over and over again Example If you type United States a lot you could assign the entire phrase to the U key Just move the cursor to U in the Keyboard Macros menu and type United States To recall United States simply press Ctrl Extend char then U Presto United States appears at the cursor location in your application Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to P A M and without having to save your application file When you turn your computer back on you ll be in the same place in the same application with no data lost All the capabilities of IBM PC programs like Borland s SideKick and SuperKey Certainly not but Shelp s the only such program for the Portable Plus It s a clean easy to use and highly useful helper you ll want at your fingertips always Shelp runs on the Portable Plus only It works with Time Manager MemoMaker Reflection 1 Lotus and any other non graphics program Shelp does not run with MS Word Shelp was written by Randy Salo the former HP e
68. able plus it took 12 seconds from Edisc on the Portable Plus it was less than a second This is especially noticeable because you use the floppies for everything One very nice thing is that the floppies are almost com pletely silent I would feel perfectly comfortable using them in a library Hal when I confronted Corvallis with Cliffs result they were truly surprised Fortunately they were able to clear up the mystery since they have a copy of our Editor disk They checked out Cliff s claim and it indeed took 14 seconds to load The Editor from our disk into the Portable Vectra Then they copied The Editor onto a Portable Vec tra formatted disk The Editor is supplied by us on an HP formatted disk The Portable Vectra now loaded The Editor in four seconds using the standard IBM format The floppies are in a little spring loaded compartment that you access by pressing a little button above the keyboard The floppies can be used with the compartment shut but HP advises that you should always leave it open for heat reasons I had brought only a limited amount of software with me and the reason for this is that all my IBM software is on 5 1 4 disks Since the Portable Vectra does not have a 5 1 4 drive and one can t be purchased I had to transfer any software I wanted to use to 3 1 2 floppies This won t be a problem in the future for I believe 5 1 4 floppies are on their way out but it won t happen any time soon The
69. aborts when you press the Tab key during printing or file access Our data suggests MultiMate is much cleaner By Jim Scheef What Is Duette Duette is a utility for transfering files at high speed be tween a Portable Plus and an IBM PC compatible via the serial ports of both machines How fast is high speed The test results shown below indicate that it is as fast as the HPIL card in copying files from a Portable Plus to an IBM PC Is it the answer to all of your dreams Probably not Si but it has one absolutely fantastic feature it works on the HP Portable Plus I must state here at the start that this review is based on a beta version of HP Duette Platte River Associates has assured me that the production version will perform the same as the beta version We ve heard that before but the changes the program needs before release are purely cosmetic Also a serial null modem cable is supplied with Duette I did not have one of these but instead used an HP cable Duette is easy to use When I received the HP version I wanted to try it as soon as possible Being a typical computer professional I never read manuals unless absolutely forced to To my pleasure I found that I was able to install both the IBM and HP ver sions of Duette and transfer a file without opening the manual Intuitive was the first word I thought of when using the program The first step in using Duette is to install it to fit the configuration
70. address space It occupies addresses 44000 7FFFF HEX while the RAM itself is mapped to 00000 43FFF HEX Now that several years have passed since HP designed the HP110 present IC technology offers a RAM chip that holds 4 times the capacity of the chips used in the HP110 without any increase in physical size It is with these 32K byte static RAM chips that the HP110 memory can be ex panded to 512K Unfortunately such a task is not easy for 32 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 a typical user since it not only requires plenty of time pa tience and care but much hardware expertise especially in terms of soldering and unsoldering techniques as well as a comprehensive set of electronic tools THE MODIFICATION PROCESS The hardware modification process to expand the HP110 memory to 512K basically involves disassembling the machine isolating the memory PC board from the case unsoldering 18 RAM chips from the board replacing them with 12 of the higher density chips soldering about two dozen wires onto the board and finally putting the machine back together for testing Of four machines that had been successfully modified the average time taken was 8 hours The desoldering of the RAM chips was especially difficult since the IC pads on the PC board can be damaged rather easily Having the correct tools and the expertise to use them properly is a must The additional wiring required is also tedious and time consuming and some wires need to
71. an external modem Originally this same package was called PC2622 Reflection 1 represents a minor upgrade of PC2622 The product is a powerful terminal emulation package especially valuable to those who want to use the Plus as a terminal for the HP3000 and other large multi user com puters In this article unless otherwise indicated Reflec tion and PC2622 are used synonymously Reflection can also be used for file transfer to other computers and for logging onto information services such as CompuServe Although it is not difficult to perform these feats how to do so is not obvious The formidable looking manual does not help the situation What follows is a cookbook approach with examples showing how to transfer files and how to capture data that appears on the Reflection screen GETTING STARTED There are two ways of starting Reflection from PAM start HP Reflection or VT Reflection PC2622 users start HP Terminal or VT Terminal These two options represent two types of terminals that large multi user computers recognize Unless you are logging on to an HP3000 or are familiar with HP terminals you are probably better off using the VT option from PAM since VT terminals are more common THE NORTON UTILITIES are among the most helpful utilities I ve run across I use them myself every day and in my opinion they re a must Erased your files amp Se 4 _vell worth t
72. and simple instructions for run ning the program on the Portable Plus and HP150 A special utility allowing WEBSTER S to run on the HP150 is included on the disk 0 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330
73. apted to the 110 by LMI POB 10430 Marina del Rey CA 90295 I also have an XT with an 8087 math chip a graphics card and an HPIL card but I do all my programming on the 110 Once the program is running it is easy to modify it for public domain FORTH on the XT Floating point math runs about nine times faster on the XT but this doesn t matter during development If I could only keep one of the machines it would be the 110 Microsoft Macro assembler also runs well on the 110 although some of the in terrupts do not match IBM s Cliff Looyenga should give us a run down on these FORTH has its own assembler anyway and the LMI FORTH Assembler fits the 110 I have Basic and Turbo Pascal for the 110 but never use them any more In fact I am busy translating old programs into FORTH so that I won t even have to think about other languages You might want to let your readers know about this Charles K Stidd San Diego CA Hal I contacted LMI labs who said they have just taken the HP110 version and the HP150 version off their price list However they still have some in stock The Portable Plus can run the HP110 ver sion with no problem However the Forth editor assumes the screen is 16 lines rather than 25 lines The cost of LMI Forth is 150 If subscribers want to order LMI Forth through us then the cost becomes 139 LMI can be contacted at 213 306 7412 IBM Clone as 5 1 4 Peripheral to Portable I found your n
74. ar style to the current HP Portables PAM looked a little different and perhaps more con venient for DOS users The DOS prompt A gt appears at the top of the screen followed by the PAM applications PAM already knows about most of the top selling software packages ranging from Lotus 1 2 3 to WordPerfect to ThinkTank Therefore setting up PAM is usually just a mat ter of pointing the cursor to the names of these popular products no extra file like pam mnu has to be created HP promises a 6 10 hour battery life Although it is a different battery like the original Portables the battery is lead acid Therefore it should be kept as fully charged as possible The battery gauge indicates charge Unlike the battery indicator in the original Portables which runs a software simulation of battery usage the Portable Vectra gauge detects the actual battery discharge level It takes a maximum of 12 hours to charge the Portable Vectra battery 100 The Portable Vectra cannot run HP110 or Portable Plus software that was specifically customized to the Portables It runs all IBM PC software However users comfortable with such programs as MemoMaker Executive Card Manager and of course Lotus 1 2 3 will have no problem making the transition to The Portable Vectra HP sells Portable Vectra versions of that software Finally many readers have asked if the Portable Vec tra contains an electronic disk similar to the HP Portables Unfortunately
75. as many mathematical statistical and financial options that are contained in several HP calculators It works especially well using the Logitech mouse The cost for this 64K EPROM is 95 No other purchase is necessary since the disk based version was free HPDuette The Portable Plus side of HPDuette the new serial file transfer program is available on a 64K EPROM backup for 95 The other IBM half of the program must be loaded independently on an IBM PC If there is sufficient demand we can probably put the IBM half of the program on a se cond EPROM However users must then figure out a way of transferring the IBM half to the IBM so other files can be transferred This is a ROM backup so the disk based version of HPDuette must first be purchased 99 95 or 89 95 to subscribers See the review and ad in this issue for more information ON THE ROM FRONT WordPerfect On ROM Many many of you have requested that we put Word Perfect 4 2 on ROM Here is the good news and the bad news The good news is that the WordPerfect Corp gave us 22 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 SKETCH lets you save part or all of any drawing for future use or you can print directly from the screen onto your ThinkJet or QuietJet pages Remember with our money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied with SKETCH within 60 days you can return it for a full refund Why not order a copy today SKETCH graphics program 80 75 95
76. assembly language programs Since the HP110 operating system does not append the string D to the DOS environment variable executable programs stored in drive D will not be found and executed if just called by name when the current drive is drive A To fix this a file called PAM ENV can be created to contain the following lines COMSPEC B BIN COMMANDCOM PATH B BIN B D A PROMPT T H H HSH HS H P S The first line is mandatory The second line ensures that DOS will also search drive D for executable files The third line simply makes the MS DOS prompt in the HP110 look like the default DOS prompt of the Portable Plus The main disadvantage of drive D is that its contents are not externally accessible via HPLINK This is because the HPLINK program cannot possibly anticipate the ex istence of an additional RAM disk in the system and work with it Currently the Edisc driver provides the only means to take advantage of the extra RAM Ideally the additional 240K should be part of drive A But since the operating system in ROM was hard coded to recognize only 272K of RAM it must therefore be extensively modified to use all 512K of RAM as either user memory or drive A In par ticular the BIOS will need to be rewritten to a large extent This is at best a difficult task since the HP110 ROM BIOS source code is not available from HP So for now the on ly way to use the extra 240K of RAM is to make it into a RAM drive
77. be soldered onto IC pins which have been lifted off the pads But if you are the hardware type and you own an HP110 you may still think the memory expansion is worth attempting yourself What follows is intended for the more technically in clined Of the 272K of RAM the 18 8K 8 RAM chips to be removed correspond to CPU addressed 20000 43FFF HEX The resulting empty sockets now make room for twelve NEC 43256 12L 32K 8 static RAM chips which then occupy addresses 20000 7FFFF HEX thus increas ing memory to 512K and fill up the unused void in the ad dress space Six of the sockets remain empty on the board Because the 32K 8 chips have two more address lines than the 8K 8 chip the net that was defined as a chip enable for the 8K 8 chip must be rewired into an address line for the 32K 8 chip This net is on pin 26 of the RAM chips Pin 1 is unused on the 8K 8 chip but since it serves as address line A15 on the 32K 8 chip a wire must be used to link up all the pin 1 s and it is connected to a pin on the 82C82 octal latch that supplies the demultiplexed MA15 address signal The address decoding logic must also be modified to handle the larger RAM chips This is achieved by remov ing 3 decoder chips and replacing them by 74HC138 3 of 8 line decoders with some of the IC pins lifted to realize the required wirings When this is done the machine can be re assembled to be tested TESTING AND ACTIVATING THE NEW MEMORY I have w
78. ble of contents SeeP7 Duette A software program that lets you transfer files back and forth at high speed between your HP portable computer and an IBM PC or compati ble desktop computer without the need for an HP IL card Duette 2 0 is for the HP Portable Vectra HPDuette is for the Portable Plus Each version comes with proper serial cable Seer 31 The Editor The Formatter separate packages The Editor Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace editing 2 files at once embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right justify Easy to use Uses less than 40K Versions for HP110 Plus HP150 Vectra and IBM PC all on master disk The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multiline headers footers page numbers table of contents glossary capabilities and more Works with almost all print ers Note Manual is in draft form no technical support available seer 19 HP9114 Empowerer A hardware product that prevents the HP9114 disk drive from running out of juice in the middle of your work Plug Empowerer into your HP9114 and a normal wall outlet and you can run your HP9114 forever Flowcharting II This program creates professional looking flowcharts and organiza tional charts using 26 flowchart symbols in 95 sizes Wide variety of text fonts for creating labels both inside and outside the shapes Easy to add and delete lines without dis
79. board from the rest of the machine 2 Using a grounded temperature controlled solder ing iron and low static solder sucker unsolder and remove Available on ROM Backu PP TROP E CE CRETE bo aana G ta Guit P to Print L te head 8 to Saue Select te toggle block Curger keys to mova E RENANE Simply fill in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs whatever sideways characters you wish Sketch amp Print lets you make line drawings on your screen using the cursor and function keys It s a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a child Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the screen 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder For a complete graphics software program see ad for Sketch in this issue Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 105 rows for QuietJet Printer ICs U16 U36 U51 and U65 U67 U36 U51 and U66 U67 are 28 pin 8K 8 CMOS SRAMs U65 is a 16 pin 74HC139 and U14 U16 are 16 pin 74HC138 decoders 3 Solder twelve 12 28 pin NEC 43256 12L 32K 8 CMOS RAM chips onto the System PCA using the now
80. calculator and microcomputer equipment and supplies ata 10 to 25 discount However we specialize in HP Portable equip ment and supplies Accordingly our dealer will stock HP Portable Pluses HP Portable Vectras ThinkJets LaserJets HP9114 s and all of those hard to get supplies software and ROMware for these portable computers and peripherals We want to be the only place you shop for HP Port able equipment Remember we take your used Portable and HP150 equipment in trade See the four page insert with this issue of The Portable Paper or call 515 472 6330 WE BUY AND SELL USED HP EQUIPMENT HP equipment is well built and lasts for years We will pur chase your used equipment or take it as a trade in when you purchase new equipment from us We sell used equip PA a ment that is in good to excellent condition offering you a 30 day money back guarantee if you are dissatisfied See the four page insert with this issue of The Portable Paper or call 515 472 6330 B Drive Built in Software in ROM MultiMate Do PLUS MultiMate 3 31 A Professional Word Processor for the Portable Plus By D Hughes DESIGNED FOR SERIOUS WRITING Fortune 1000 companies consider The MultiMate Profes sional Word Processor a word processing standard The Processor has a reputation for being friendly clean reliable and hard working Managers find it easy to use and master for word processing tasks And in the hands of the s
81. card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 How many times have you wished you had a second external disk drive The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software is selling HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial discount See enclosed four page brochure for details Shelp Tip The Shelp program has some obvious limitations which we hope to address soon with a new pop up pro gram but I have found the key macros to be useful One tip I have is that you can enter a carriage return into a key definition which lets you effectively chain DOS com mands into one keystroke For example suppose I wanted to first reset my DOS function key assignments by type ing a file I have named doskeys then do a directory listing and then do a verify delete with vdl com from the DOS Tools disk of all of the files I have with an extension of bak I can assign all three of these to one key in Shelp as follows note that lt er gt represents a press of the Return key type a doskeys lt cr gt dir lt cr gt vdl bak lt cr gt If I assign this to the d key in the Shelp key assignments each time I press CTRL Extend Char d from DOS all three tasks will be done The only limitation I have found is that when one of the tasks you are chain ing to requires keyboard input it will read one or more of
82. cess But what if he didn t continue to write books and the WP sat moldering in the corner gathering dust Solution the total computer I figured I could always put my recipes on it grin The minute Boots dad opened his mouth I knew we had a problem We just didn t speak the same language He explained to me that he had booted up the sets con figured the peripheral systems formatted the C disk in DOS chkdsk ed out the Command Com programs inter nal and external put in a number of batch files checked the parameters for the external drives and generally had everything ship shape Wrong If anything should have been programmed and formatted it was me Mind boggled I thanked him and he left Full of en thusiasm and determination I sat down at PPlus it look ed less intimating than Vectra and in my language turned it on Shock I couldn t see a thing on the screen except a series of faint letters I placed it north south east and west with lamps turned on off and half way Nothing I flipped the lid up sideways and almost upside down still nothing Back to my cat friend Then came a series of discussions on monitors and we settled on an Amdek Now at last I could see something The problem here was there had to be an in terface gadget which in turn required a veritable cat s cradle of wires leading all over the place in what I learned was a loop with the interface somewhere in the middle Labe
83. cessor 26 MultMate vs MSWord 0 4 28 A Drive Whatis DuUeCtte wc si hte tees ded aate Ce BR ADS 28 Base OO SE bck aha cha See ee ae eee es 28 Benchmark Results 02 00000 30 Special Feature Adding Memory To Your HP110 32 Through The Looking Glass Start Of Something Big 36 New Products New Decisions 37 Wizardry First Look At The Portable Vectra 38 User Groups sos 6 bee eh eke eH es 44 USED HP PORTABLES AND PERIPHERALS yles s We W W yse YP rae PO e buy them We sell them We guarantee them p60 9 Dine No longer using your HP Buying used HP Any used item you buy from us can apa Jets Portable or peripherals equipment makes sense be returned within 30 days for a full apr we ariel Turn them into cash You know HP quality refund pA Cow ceS through The Portable Even used HP machines Y geo ea Equipment Exchange can serve you well for coinde Prices fluctuate so years Call for current oP goe call us for current prices a mor 0 figures Ky oye PA yr DOT ay 515 472 6330 LEI WN OE enero ENa g okt he Portable Equipment Exch arane gt For good buys on used and new HP The Portable Equipment Exchange equipment see our 4 page brochure enclosed with this issue a division of Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software 7 GOOD REASONS TO BUY NEW HP EQUIPMENT FROM US
84. ck or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Jim Pile Soft Sector Uncommon Word List lists misspelled slang and uncommon words RECOMMENDED FO HP110 Portable Portable Plus R e O e Recommends never Porabie Vecta ie CE o decides RightWriter is a HP150 writing aid The final decision is always left for the Portable Pius to you RightWriter is a trademark of DecisionWare Inc WordStar is a trademark of MicroPro International Corporation MultiMate is a trademark of MultiMate International MS Word is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation WordPerfect is a trademark of WordPerfect Corporation It is possible to save the above three commands in a Reflection command file Such a file can be invoked from the Reflection command line The details are be yond the scope of this article However you are now at the point where the manual may now make some sense to you LOGGING OFF COMPUSERVE Properly logging off of CompuServe is important for ac curate billing Unless you log off with the keyword bye from a main CompuServe prompt CompuServe may not detect the logoff until several minutes have elapsed After you log off CompuServe displays the disconnect message and the elapsed time online Now you may disconnect the modem from the phone line by depressing CTRL Shift f2 CONCLUSION Reflection 1 is a powerfu
85. com mand that lets you string other commands together and execute them sequentially in batch mode without intervention It is surprisingly simple for exam ple to set up a DO command that will perform the following func tions at the end of every month Compile data from selected data bases construct a bar graph insert the bar graph into a monthly report and address copies of the report to a selected list of recipients TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 When you realize that you can or chestrate all this by means of single DO command entireli automatically you begin to see the incredible productivity and powe that T Master offers At only 29 for the entire package or even les if you re a Portable Paper sub scriber T Master is easily the bes software value available HOW COME HAVEN T HEARD OF IT The T Maker Company develope of T Master chooses to remair small They do not advertise bul prefer to let T Master be known by word of mouth This has workec well because of the high level ol user satisfaction According to a re cent survey 12 out of every l T Master users highly prefer the program over other integratec packages they re familiar with T Master is widely distributed ir Europe and the Far East
86. cts are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 Turbo Pascal and Turbo Tutor are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc built in text editor We are now offering Turbo Pascal ina special 32 disk version for yoursPor table or Portable Plus ready to install from PAM Although you may purchase Turbo all by itself we recommend our Turbo Pas cal Starter Kit It s ideal for novice and intermediate programmers alike The Starter Kit inludes Turbo Pascal Borland s Turbo Tutor and our own special disk Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Here s a rundown on each Turbo Pascal Our ver sion of Turbo Pascal is customized to both the HP110 Portable _ Wa and the Portable Plus at no extra charge 1 The customization authorized by Bor land allows the Turbo editor to use all the normal Portable editing keys Ex tend Char Delete Line etc This saves you from having to learn many of the commands particular to WordStar Turbo Tutor is a well 4 written interactive tu T torial that includes a manual and a disk 4 The manual covers not just the funda mentals but many fine points of Pas cal programming as well it is of value even to advanced programmers The disk in cludes every example covered in the manual already keyed in and ready to use Note neither the IBM ver sion nor the HP150 version of Turbo Tutor will run on the Portables
87. cts strange ly again check with your authorized HP service center they may upgrade you at no charge REV B INTERNAL US MODEM Field Repair Center decides if they ll charge for the update or not according to guidelines on service note DISPLAY UPGRADE From grey to green screen 45711 60955 350 Call Cor vallis Repair Center at 800 782 8884 to schedule upgrade MEMORY UPGRADE From 128K or 256K to 512K internal memory 45711 60956 1100 Call Corvallis Repair Center at 800 782 8884 to schedule upgrade GOLD CONNECTORS BETWEEN TWO MAIN CIRCUIT BOARDS Units with serial numbers before 2635A00000 have tin plated connectors unless they ve been repaired or up graded since mid August of 1986 These connectors will eventually corrode leading to intermittent unpredictable behavior and loss of files Take the unit to a Field Repair Center for replacement of the connectors covered under extended warranty or return it to Corvallis for one of the upgrades mentioned above and it will be done automatically PORTABLE PLUS TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL UPDATE Included in all Technical Reference Manuals shipped after 1986 45559U 49 or buy the whole manual 45559K for 100 DMK HP Direct Marketing Division PO Box 60008 Sunnyvale CA 94088 800 538 8787 Attention Software Updates Note HP entities should buy the cor responding product instead of the upgrade as the cost will be lower Outside the US call your local HP sales
88. doesn t have modules in the usual sense Instead almost everything is done using the word processor it s the heart of the system T Master s different func tions spreadsheet database etc are in effect aspects of the word processor that have special powers Instead of leaving the word pro cessor to create a spreadsheet that you then have to import you simp ly create a spreadsheet with all the computational power you need right where you are Same for a database Using vir tually the same commands as for typing ordinary text you can set up the structure of the database enter data sort search generate a report and insert that report into your document And that s why T Master is so comfortable You always interact with it in the same mode which is basically just to type And what you type is ordinary text or numbers or simple English like instructions With T Master you re always on familiar territory SPECIAL FEATURES Here are just a few of T Master s most special features The word processor includes over 100 different functions You ac tivate these either from menus or by means of simple typed commands On line help is available at all times Highly suitable for desktop publishing T Master s word pro cessor handles text in columns and lets you view reduced size layouts of entire pages The spreadsheet is different from any other With most spreadsheets the auf T Master
89. don t and typos of all kinds spellling becomes spelling etc If you re not sure of a word you can even spell it the way sounds and chances are WEBSTER S will supply the correct spelling Fenomenon gets corrected to phenomenon for example In addition WEBSTER S will let you preview a list of all questionable words before displaying them in context this saves you time because it lets you eliminate words from the questionable list or add them to your auxiliary dictionary before you begin the editing pass John Dvorak writing in the San Fran cisco Examiner called WEBSTER S the BULK RATE U S POSTAGE PAID FAIRFIELD IA PERMIT 218 best spell checker we ve seen in a long spell Henry Kisor of the Chicago Sun Times has called WEBSTER S the best proofreading software on the market We agree with them both and we think you will too Order your copy at no risk today Webster s Spelling Checker on 3 2 disk customized for the Portable Plus and 69 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Webster s is available on ROM backup for an additional 179 See ROM ad in this issue for important details Te WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER works with any file produced by the Editor WordStar and MemoMaker It also works with ASCII files produced by MS Word and Word Perfect Our version of WEBSTER S includes a custom ized 3 5 disk
90. e HP Portables WordStar Professional 4 0 With over 125 new features the latest version of this highly popular word processor now includes an undo feature on screen display of boldface and underline multiple line headers and footers keyboard macros line and box drawing improved spelling correction and overall higher speed Works with Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 Note Built in 220 000 word thesaurus does not run on the Portable Plus seee9 WorldPort Portable Modems The WorldPort 2400 is a battery powered highly compact 4 x2 x1 lightweight 6 5 oz full featured external modem that transmits data at 300 1200 and 2400 baud Faster than HP s internal modems the WorldPort 2400 is fully compatible with the industry standard Hays AT Command Set and with both the CCITT and Bell communications standards The WorldPort 1200 modem transmits at 300 and 1200 baud Portable Plus users At last A great spelling checker available on ROM Webster s web stars n The spelling checker rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine Dec 24 1985 and now available from Personalized Software for the Portable Plus and HP150 Customized on 312 disk by special arrangement with Simon amp Shuster Inc PC Magazine rated eight leading spell ing checkers for ease of use flexibility speed overall program size thoroughness and accuracy WEBSTER S NEW WORLD SPELLING CHECKER came out on to
91. e above appears as a single line in the PAM ENV file File Creation Error Explained When you re trying to save or copy a file on your A drive it s possible to get an enigmatic error message synonymous with File Creation Error In such a case it is probably NOT time to reformat your system or take your system in for repair There are several possible reasons The most perplexing one is caused by the file limit in your A drive root directory You may have a maximum of 64 files in the A drive main directory If you try to save or copy a file to a directory with 64 files you will get the Can t Create File message If you are unaware of this limitation the message can cause much frustration since you are sometimes able to save files after you have deleted a few files and sometimes not Users sometimes think there is something wrong with their machine and take it to a repair center The solution is to delete files or create subdirectories see the DOS manual a book on DOS or Vol 1 number 2 of The Portable Paper You will also receive this error message if you try to write to the external disk drive with no disk inserted or try to write to a non existent subdirectory Turn On From the Wiz Have you ever noticed that sometimes you need to press a key more than once to get the your Port able to wake up from sleep mode I am told this is because the Portables check the keyboard only every 1 2 second to see if i
92. e be tween 4 2 and 4 1 and for many users it might be worth giving up a few features to get the product in ROM If a ma jor company can commit to ordering 60 or more Word Perfect 4 1 s from us on disk and on ROM and WordPerfect lets us burn a previous version of their prod uct then we can probably go ahead Milestone On ROM We have taken a preliminary look at the possibility of put ting the Milestone Project Manager on two 64K ROM Top rated mouse adds convenience and fun for Portable Plus users Move a mouse around on your desk and the cursor moves around the screen It s easier than cramping your fingers on the arrow keys especially if you move the cursor around a lot with Lotus say or with your word processor For creating freeform graphics a mouse is a must The best mouse we know of is also one of the least expensive EDITOR S CHOICE It s the LOGITECH MOUSE model C7 from Logitech Inc and it runs beautifully on the Portable Plus when coupled with a PORT sells for 100 more only has two buttons With our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE you can assign a different keystroke to each of the buttons You can also assign a different set of three keystrokes for each of your ap plications Our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE also lets you control the distance that the cursor will move for a given movement of the mouse TRY IT AT OUR RISK Not sure you ll like using a mouse with your Portable The only wa
93. e it would be sub jected to rough handling and cold weather Long lasting battery power was essential since I work for months at a time in camps on the sea ice with no AC power and occa sionally on Soviet vessels with 220 volt AC power When HP came along with the Portable it was as if they had designed it with me in mind My projects on the sea ice include studies of ringed seals polar bears and bowhead whales March April and May usually find me camped in a tent on the ice of the Beaufort or Chukchi sea The temperatures get as cold as 30F with windchill factors to 70F tough on computers and biologists Travel generally is by snowmachine tough on computers and kidneys My Portable has taken all of that abuse well I simply put it in a daypack before mount ing asnowmachine and in the colder weather I add a hot water bottle and a few pieces of thinsulite for insulation I doubt there is a laptop with built in mechanical disk drives that could take that punishment While camped on the ice I enter data into Lotus 1 2 3 since it resides on ROM and requires no disk drive I usual ly leave the disk drive on land in a nearby village or laboratory and when it s opportune I copy the data from my A drive to a disk At the same time I can communicate with the University s mainframe using the modem and ter minal communications software with all its glitches By early June Iam back in Fairbanks at my university office where I transfer
94. e run from the command line of DOS with output of errors and line numbers using standard DOS output I don t know yet how large the pro gram is so I don t know if it will be an Edisc or RAM prob lem Rumor has it that it will require 256k to run and the program will be around 100k It has a number of good additions when compared to the existing compiler It can handle files greater than 64K object files can be linked to it there is no need for a separate 8087 version apparently you can detect the presence of the 8087 chip and switch inside the program between an 8087 library or an 8087 emulator during run time it removes unused code and the compiler is more efficient producing faster more compact code My guess is that Portable users won t be able to use it very well due to the RAM Edisc requirements and the fact that a separate editor is required Portable Plus users with 512k RAM will be able to use it fairly well with a separate editor such as The Editor See ya Paul w ra a ee L owa w a a a a en ao THE PORTABLE PAPER Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter PO Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 dealin bmd secon Sarena dlrs mien oai am set p 1 k Ah phh jih pa Ain ih G A eaaciaiaints By Hal Goldstein New Products HPDUETTE If you have ever wanted to transfer Portable Plus data to or from an IBM PC or AT compatible without an HP IL link card we have good
95. e shipping and handling costs see box near bottom of order form e Shipping is FREE for U S orders over 200 5 Calculate total 6 If paying by check or money order e Make payable in U S funds to PERSONALIZED SOFTWARE e Place check and order form in an envelope and mail o If you d rather have us pay the postage e Fold order form so panel addressed to Personaliz ed Software is on the outside e Tape shut and drop in mail To order any of the following products or others described in The Portable Paper but not listed on the opposite page simply write the prod uct name and price on one of the blank lines in the MISC section near the bottom of the order form Retail Price Subscriber Price Retail Price Subscriber Price CompuServe Starter Kit 39 95 0 35 95 RightWords dictionary extension HP9114 Empower with Battery Pack 225 00 199 00 for RightWriter p 15 0 00000 29 95 29 95 Formatll0 p 31 aed os okt em tees te Berks Daehn kee oO Ona ee ae 35 95 SideWinder without utilities p 35 0 69 95 e808 ws 59 95 Mouse Logitech p 23 o a aaan aoaaa aaa aaa TAO O08 ses ht he 99 95 Tiger NOK 029 detrei oo ele cd thawte ec en a On eed 32 95 29 95 Mouse Microsoft p 23 0 00 000 195 00 174 95 Turbo Pascal Programs for Portables p 29 49 95 0 44 95 Mouse Software p 23 0 000 TOO osease 60
96. e the trace connecting pin 26 of U40 U51 is isolated from the rest of the RAM chips it should be connected to U7 pin 18 This provides address line MA14 to the 32K 8 RAM chips only 9 Cut the short traces connecting U7 pins 1 and 2 to logic ground Connect U7 pin 1 to U11 pin2 Connect U7 pin 2 to UII pin 3 This provides buffered CPU multiplexed address data lines AD15 and AD14 to latch U7 10 Re assemble the HP110 according to the service manual instructions It should be noted that at this time the cost of the NEC 432506 12L RAM chip is approximately 13 This means that the RAM chips alone will cost over 150 The 150ns version is somewhat cheaper and although they have not been tested with any machine I expect they should work without any problems The HP part number for the HP110 service manual is 00090 90021 After re assembly if the modifications were done in correctly chances are that the machine will not even wake up normally If this is the case the only solution is to re open the machine and check the wiring for correctness as well as for shorts cold solder joints and broken traces The latter is frequently caused by careless desoldering of the original RAM chips Cracked or torn traces must be pat ched with wires If the machine will wake up properly with the con trast key then the next step would be to run the memory test to make sure the added RAM functions properly It may also be necessary to run either the built
97. e with Turbo Typing Whiz 64K 95 Best of DOS Tools Contains selected utilities from Portable Utilities 128K 129 Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools super ROM Mini Printerlalk is the abbreviated version in 128K 149 The Editor cluded on the PrinterTalk disk it is functionally Shelp equivalent to PrinterTalk for most applications SideWinder Shelp and SideWinder are the same versions as Mini PrinterTalk on the 32K ROM chips see above Formatt10 RightWriter 256K 179 Two 128K ROMs Webster s Spelling Also includes two useful utilites DiskPacks and 256K Checker New Mode at no extra charge Two 128K ROMs 179 Utilities included in the Best of DOS Tools ROM Backup are as follows For program details see Portable Utilities ad in this issue PACK VDL MOVE WHEREIS PRNGONF DIRS CLEAN TY TJETA CHANGE SQPG COPYNEW ARCE RENDIR ASK MOVEALL FDUMP DUMP TMA OFF TEE DIRALL CYPHER FCOPY ARC520 Note ARC520 is shareware the author normally requests a 35 contribution However you do not need to send any money We ve already paid your user fee X NEW iii iii software you buy because the same agree ment applies to the corresponding ROM Backup In most cases this means you may use the software on only one computer sys tem Remember you are buying a backup copy of your software not a second copy Having to buy both the disk version and its ROM Backup is not without advantages For one thing many disk products include extra
98. ecting Software Logitech Mouse System for Portable Plus mouse software cable p 23 101 Macros For Lotus 1 2 3 Milestone Mobile Recharger Norton Utilities Version 4 0 p 13 Norton Utilities Advanced Edition p 13 Power Cube Recharger p 17 Printerlalk Formati10 Project 8 9 10 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM Card 1 yr guarantee Plus only center spread 2 Meg RAM Card 1 yr guarantee Plus only center spread RightWriter p 15 Shelp works on Portable Plus only p 41 SideWinder Utilities p 35 Sketch p 22 Statistix p 20 T Maker Recommended for HP110 p 11 T Master Plus HP150 p 11 Turbo Pascal p 29 Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Pascal Tutor Pascal Programs p 29 T 50 95 50 95 aii PRODUCTS ALPHABETICAL 1 995 00 1 695 00 2 995 00 2 695 00 95 00 89 00 55 00 49 95 79 95 69 95 75 95 159 00 199 95 279 95 69 95 65 00 159 85 139 95 20 95 60 95 WordPerfect Specify Plus or HP150 gi 299 00 The Word Plus Recommended for HP110 p 41 150 00 99 00 WordStar 4 0 Portable Plus or HP150 only 495 00 299 00 WorldPort 2400 Portable Modem p 19 389 359 008 339 319 008 MISC ROM Backup Product Description For ordering instructions see page 40 Price Qty Total Important Please read and initial already own or am ordering the disk based versions of the programs included in my ROM Backup order If not purchased from Personalized So
99. egabyte RAM A drive Card will only work in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory i ue Plus 2 5mb of main Edisk memory can only be partitioned as 512K main memory mb Edisk Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER happy to convert disks from one format to another for 9 50 per disk if you supply the formatted destination disks The one restriction is that the source disk cannot have more data on it than will fit on a single destination disk For example to convert a 3 1 2 double sided HP disk to a 5 1 4 IBM format the 3 1 2 disk cannot contain more than 360K of data If you do not want to supply the formatted destina tion disk then you must add the following to the 9 50 charge depending on the type of destination disk 3 1 2 single sided 260K 3 3 1 2 double sided 7OOK 4 5 1 4 IBM 360K 2 3 1 2 high density 1 44M 6 Add the following shipping charge per order UPS ground 2 UPS 2 day air 4 overnight rush 15 Our Fall Catalog By now you should have received our Fall catalog with over 50 products for the Portables If you didn t get a catalog or if you want more to share with others just give us a Call Portable Equipment Exchange WE SELL NEW HP EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES EVERYTHING IN STOCK Personalized Software by special arrangement with Hewlett Packard and a local HP dealer is now able to sell new HP equipment We sell all HP
100. empty sockets for U40 U51 Sockets for U36 U and U66 U67 should be left unpopulated 4 Solder a 74HC138 decoder chip each into the U14 and U16 sockets with each chip having pins 1 2 3 and 5 lifted to a horizontal position 5 Solder a 74HC138 decoder chip into the U65 socket with the following modifications pins 1 2 3 5 and 15 lifted pins 11 13 and 14 clipped no connection pins 4 6 7 8 9 10 12 amp 16 soldered normally onto the PCA 6 Complete the wiring on all lifted IC pins as shown on the schematic This includes U14 pins 1 2 3 and 5 U16 pins 1 2 3 and 5 and U65 pins 1 6 and 15 U14 U16 and NOVEMRER DFCFMRER 1987 25 d100 JUaUIdOJaAaq SNOT JO syreWlapen paS ore E Z pue snog C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER U65 together forms the new address decoding logic for the 32K 8 RAM chips 7 Connect pin 1 of all twelve 43256 12L RAM chips together and connect them to U7 pin 19 U7 is a 82C82 oc tal latch Do not unsolder it Avoid making the wires un necessarily long This wiring provides the address line MAI5 to the RAM chips 8 Cut the trace to pin 26 of U40 U51 This is a bit tricky since one must locate the exact position for cutting so that only U40 U51 pins are isolated This is because we want to rewire pin 26 only on U40 U51 But the trace on the PC board surface connects so many RAM chips together that one must be very careful in locating the pro per cutting point Onc
101. erals Now he s developed SKETCH a fab ulous graphics program designed for both the HP110 Portable and Portable Plus CURSOR BECOMES DRAWING PEN Using SKETCH couldn t be simpler Put SKETCH in draw mode and your cursor becomes a pen The pen can either be up or down When it is down it draws wherever you move it When it is up you can move it around the screen without affecting the drawing You set the speed in an instant The pen also has an eraser Just press E and when the cursor is down it will erase whatever it encounters DOZENS OF HANDY FEATURES But that s just the beginning SKETCH also lets you draw diagonals boxes circles and arcs each with a single key If you have a mouse you gain even more convenience Move the mouse in any way Je you want and the cursor follows instantly See ad on the Logitech Mouse for the Por SATURN table Plus in this issue SKETCH also lets you fill closed shapes with light or dark solid or even invert the entire screen light areas become dark and vice versa with a single keystroke With SKETCH you can create text in any of 5 different character sets and place the text any where in your drawing including sideways or even VA Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See Software on ROM ad in this issue ii p ii ONT 2YWy
102. erious writer MultiMate is a powerful tool FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS Two fundamental concepts guide the design of today s word processors document orientation and page orienta tion Document oriented word processors treat your file as one continuous scroll Page oriented word processors treat your file as a series of discrete pages Document oriented word processors may load the en tire document into the computer s available memory or if there is insufficient space page the document through a file buffer They may automatically display page breaks i e WordStar and WordPerfect or wait until you number the pages i e Microsoft Word MultiMate unlike its document oriented competitors is page oriented It holds only one page of your document 26 Convert your data for just 9 50 per disk Send us your source disks and formatted destination disks and we will copy the former onto the latter for just 9 50 per disk If you d rather have us supply and for mat the destination disks the costs are listed at the right Note A source disk cannot have more data on it than will fit on a single destina tion disk For example to convert a 34 doubled sided HP disk to 51 4 IBM format NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 the 3 disk cannot contain more than 360K of data To order write clear instructions on the order form in back of this issue or on a separate piece of paper Please include the following amounts f
103. es double spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells addressing form letters and printing labels automatically Customized for Lotus 1A and Lotus 2 01 Mobile Recharger Lets you recharge your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held com puter etc from your car s cigarette lighter seP 13 The Norton Utilities Customized For The Portables Allow you to recover deleted Portable files and organize your electronic and external disks Peter Norton has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra 3 disk formerly available only on 5 disk with each package sold The disk includes The Norton Utilities and instruc tions for running The Norton Utilities on the Portables and the HP150 Both version 4 0 and the Advanced Edition are now available 1987 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk Includes 1 DISKPACK a disk packing utility whose commercial equiv alent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s Calendar Utility 3 HP Calcu lator program 4 C Drive Copy Utility 5 Game and Lotus templates Clear instructions are included right on the disk 1988 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk Contains 1 New utilities for Time Manager including an expanded Calendar program and an automatic mail merge utility 2 Some of the best public domain software and shareware for the HP Portable Vec tra 3 A password program to protect usage of the HP110 Portable 4 TERM xmodem program for the Portable
104. ess schedules for the bands The ruggedness and portability of the 110 are for me far superior to anything else on the market Which leads me to my question I have read numerous letters and articles comparing the 110 and Portable Plus in terms of screen and memory size availability of software and ease of expan dability But no portable is worth a byte unless it can take the stress of the road Before I upgrade to a Plus I want to know how well built it is how durable I have heard from some dealers that in the Plus some shortcuts were taken that multi pin connectors tend to corrode and that wir ing is a little sloppy What is the Plus epair rate and the satisfaction factor of Plus owners among your readership I would like to include another modem among those that have proved to work with the 110 the Migent 1200 baud pocket modem This is a very com pact lightweight battery operated unit that comes with a connecting cable you ll need to buy a 9 pin male to male adaptor and AC adaptor It has auto dial and memory features but I haven t been able or needed to use them Contact MIGENT Inc 865 Tahoe BI P O Box 6062 Incline Village NV 89450 702 832 3700 Are there any suggestions for a modem suitable for use in the U K and on the European continent How about for Australia Ira Seigel Santa Monica CA Hal Some Portable Plus customers had problems with the early Portable Pluses However HP
105. ever HP provides a setup program that allows you to select the shades of gray for each of the colors With this you can optimize the gray shades for best reading I didn t have this program with the unit I used so I can t tell you how successful you can be with it Hal Corvallis told me that the setup program is quite flexible In fact it is possible to create a batch file containing a setup com mand for each program you run to maximize viewabili ty Also once again Cliff probably did not have the latest screen There is another alternative and that is most software allows you to configure for monochrome monitors This would be a real pain if you wanted to use a color monitor at work but use the LCD at home Another thing I tried was playing the public domain game called Sopwith This game lets you fly a little bi plane around shooting at little buildings The game ran fine but since it had so much movement the LCD creates what I d call shadows This made everything look blurry and I couldn t even see the bullets I was shooting In other words I wouldn t recommend the display for playing any action games KEYBOARD The keyboard on the Portable Vectra is wonderful It feels much like the Vectra desktop keyboard It has all 12 func tion keys and a numeric keypad that doubles for cursor control Unlike the Portables the keyboard has key roll over Key rollover is the feature that allows you to type the next key you wa
106. f usable in severe environments Very low power consumption 9 volt battery Completely solid state The CMT RAM disks were designed primarily for use with the HP 41 HP 71 and HP 75 With these machines the CMT RAM disk can operate in two modes In single mode the RAM disk appears as one device on the HP IL loop In multiple mode the RAM disk appears as multi ple devices each device having 128K bytes For example the 512K byte RAM disk appears as four external disk drives normally C thru F With the Portables unfortunately the RAM disk can only operate in multiple mode Therefore a 512K CMT RAM disk would look to the Portables as four 128K disks For this reason we think that a 1 megabyte memory board is a better alternative for Portable Plus users much more memory at a slightly higher price Since the HP110 doesn t have plug in memory drawers the RAM disk provides a reasonable means to expand its memory CMT was unable to explain why the RAM disks can not work in single mode on the Portables Their technical support staff was more familiar with HP 41s and HP 75s One minor problem with the CMT RAM disks is their speed programs load at about the same speed as they would from a HP9114 Another problem with the CMT RAM disks is their documentation It is too technical for many users and assumes familiarity with HP IL and RS 232 operations Fortunately installing and using the RAM disks is very easy Ba
107. followed by a Return The TERM terminal emulation screen immediately appears Several function keys appear at the bottom of the display used for controlling ASCII text uploads and downloads filenames local remote operation automatic line feed terminator half duplex local echo display func tions and exiting the program The functions of these function keys are explained in detail on pages 9 10 and 9 13 through 9 16 of the Owner s Documentation LOGGING ONTO AN INFORMATION SERVICE OR OTHER COMPUTER Logging onto an information service is often the first at tempt to communicate with another computer via modem Type the following command to dial the modem and call the other computer ATDT telephone number ATDT must be all caps followed without spaces by the digits of the phone number The modem will ring once to let you know it s dialing If you re successful the modem should respond with either CONNECT or CONNECT 1200 Most information services require you to enter a user ID and a password Your company may have an electronic mail system word processor with file transfer capability or general purpose computing facilities available for your use Be sure to review system specific procedures for a suc cessful logon TRANSFERRING FILES After logging into your office PC CompuServe or other computer you are ready to upload a file send to it the other computer or to download a file receive it from the other compute
108. for Portable Paper subscribers RECOMMENDED FOR HP 110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra po i me uo IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software permission to sell both a Portable Plus ROM backup ver sion and an HP150 version that uses the HP IBM PC emulator The bad news is that the main version of 4 2 is about 11K too big to fit on two 128K ROMs According to the Portable Plus technical reference manual 256K is the maximum size for a program Similarly the speller and thesaurus are too large to put on additional ROM chips Reader Dr Sergio Biguzzi has been in contact with WordPerfect asking them to produce a version just a lit tle bit smaller WordPerfect says that it may be available at the end of the year but all their resources are dedicated to putting out WordPerfect 5 0 From what I gather I doubt if that version will work on the Plus I also rather doubt that WordPerfect will want to produce a smaller version of 4 2 but it is possible if we can commit to a certain number of orders The other obstacle for putting WordPerfect on ROM is the fact that we must order 500 pairs of 128K chips to get one copy and our costs for those 1000 chips have risen Therefore we need to sell close to 100 pairs to cover our costs One solution to the size problem is to burn version 4 1 into ROM There really is not that much differenc
109. ftware have enclosed proof of purchase Subtotal lowa residents add 4 tax Shipping and handling see box at right TOTAL HUM BAUKUP p 2 Initials NEW European Customers Instead of ordering through us you may contact our European distributor SoftWord Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey GU20 6BW England Phone In England Bagshot 0276 75440 In Europe 44276 75440 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE lf within 60 days you are dissatisfied with a subscrip tion or product for any reason you may return it for a full refund Should you become dissatisfied with a subscription after the 60 day period we will refund the unused portion of your x subscription SeeYYYYYY 1 Includes free 1987 Subscriber Disk 2 Available only to subscribers 3 Available only to those whose subscriptions include at least one 1987 issue 4 The 750 includes shipping Alternatively you may mail in a formatted disk and a 39 self addressed stamped envelope to receive the software at no charge 5 Subscriber price for colored disks Rainbow or Monochrome Pack is 39 95 for one set of 10 35 95 each if total order includes 2 or more sets of 10 Cir cle price that applies 6 Lower price is without cable for connecting to HP Portables Circle price that applies FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 FAST DELIVERY In most cases you will receive your ship ment within 2 3 days of when we get yo
110. g I use it daily instead of Memo Maker and I ve silently given thanks to its author Ed Gilbert many many times Just afew minutes with THE EDITOR that s all it takes to be up and running and I think you ll be a fan of his too In addition to the many great features listed to the right there are five more I especially want to emphasize 1 THE EDITOR s Lotus like menus make it incredibly easy to use The Formatter THE FORMATTER gives you advanced formatting capabilities that even THE EDITOR can t handle like multi line headers and footerseautomatic hyphena tion you can even add your own words to the built in dictionary euser specified page length and line lengtheautomatic page numbering tables and charts table of contents generationeand more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special for matting codes into your EDITOR MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer 2 THE EDITOR creates ASCII files which means you can send your files to and from almost any other program or computer without special formats or codes 3 THE EDITOR will automatically back up your files to protect you against mistakes When you save a file THE EDITOR saves not just the current version but the previous one as well 4 THE EDITOR takes MAMMA up less than 40K of ee dae 5 THE EDITOR loads forte vera S and saves files and IBMPC and compat executes commands
111. hack has a 9 pin serial mouse available Oct 30th at 50 See p 12 of their new computer catalog They also have an external 3 1 2 drive 5 1 8 by 64 by 2 1 8 inches at 180 for the drive and 75 for the IBM software The drive is by Purple Computing the ad says 120 400 bytes which must be a misprint This might be the replacement for the 9114 drive that we have all wished for p 84 of Jameco s 1987 catalog 1355 Shoreway Rd Belmont CA 94002 THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume two Number six November December 1987 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Department Editors Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Editorial Consultant Jim Karpen Contributing Editors Richard Burmeister Sam Chau Molly Glen Paul Grimmer Bill Hassell David Hughes Brendan P Kelly Jim Scheef Mike Steed Art Director George Foster Typography The Word Form Corporation Technical Advisors Richard and Frances Burmeister Circulation Rita Goldstein Frances Kempton Glen Frank Larry and Susan Baldozier The Portable Paper ISSN 0886 9138 is published bimonthly by Personalized Software at R R 4 Box 310 Fairfield IA 52556 Sub scription rates one year U S and U S posses sions 55 Canada Mexico add 3 surface mail 6 air other countries add 6 surface mail 18 air Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circu lation and Advertising Offices PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330
112. han offered by transportables such as the Compaq line There are several features that we did not discuss or emphasize in our discussion last issue of the Portable Vec tra First of all the HP Portable Vectra comes standard with a built in handle however a carrying case is optional The Portable Vectra has a rugged clamshell design it folds up like a clam with forward facing disk drives It most close ly parallels the new IBM PS 2 model 30 in performance One nice feature is that it contains an alarm to automatically power on and power off the system That way for example you can easily program yeur Vectra to transfer files or pick up your electronic mail in the middle of the night The alarm is triggered by the built in real time clock There is a slot for an 8087 coprocessor on the com puter s main mother board but such a chip for the Port able Vectra is not yet available HP is probably waiting for an CMOS 8087 chip that won t drain the battery as much as the current NMOS chips The Portable Vectra comes with a special program called forl50 that will format disks readable by the HP110 and HP150 Portable Plus and Vectra disks are inter changeable The Portable Vectra can read any HP Portable or HP150 disk The HP110 cannot read the regular Portable Vectra formatted disks The twelve function keys of the Portable Vectra s ex cellent keyboard are located on top of the keyboard in a 6 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 simil
113. he WorldPort 2400 uses a standard 9 volt transistor radio battery it s included with the unit A fresh battery will keep the WorldPort humming for 8 10 hours You can extend battery life by operating the unit from a wall outlet whenever possible using the optional AC adapter The WorldPort 2400 draws no power from your Portable s battery DOUBLE GUARANTEE In addition to our standard 60 day mon ey back guarantee the RECOMMENDED FOR 2 x1 WorldPort 2400 costs less than HP s internal modems is faster and can be used with more than one computer HP110 Portable Portable Vectra 2 Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC and compatibles 2 WorldPort 2400 comes with a 2 year manufac turer s warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship The WorldPort 2400 offers portablility relia bility well designed features and ease of use Order yours risk free today Retail Subscriber Price Price WorldPort 2400 modem 359 00 319 00 with Carbon Copy PLUS software WorldPort 1200 modem 199 00 179 00 without software Cable to connect modem to HP Portables 30 00 20 00 Acoustic coupler 59 95 56 95 300 1200 baud 9 volt AC adapter 6 95 6 95 Upgrade kit WorldPort1200 WorldPort2400 199 00 179 00 includes Carbon Copy PLUS software 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details
114. he price The Norton Utilities It happens to the best of us One slip of a finger and a whole week s worth of text or data is past history But not if you have THE NORTON UTILITIES Just type qu for quick unerase give the first letter of the name of the file you erased and the file gets restored Miraculous as it sounds in many cases that s all there is to it How can a deleted file get unerased fi pet Or Lo SO l s eye Zon yw Simple The file isn t really deleted in the first place When you delete a file all that actually gets erased is part of the file s directory en try That s why it only takes an instant to delete an entire file Without a directory en try DOS can t find the file but THE NORTON UTILITIES can Now what about those cases where you can t possibly recover a file because you ve already partially overwritten it with other files Surely THE NORTON UTILITIES can t help you then Wrong they can THE NORTON UTILITIES won t recover the entire file of course but they can help you restore the portions of the file that still remain on the disk It s done with a powerful utility called nu that lets you display change and capture to a file any information on any disk In complex cases you may need to do some detective work but nu will help you find whatever remains on the disk thereby saving you from countless hours of retyping lost data In my opinion the ab
115. he transfer operation and before I inserted the target disk I tried to recover by starting over Everything went well until near the end I got a Data error writing drive C error message I Retried and got the same message Then I hit Ignore and the transfer was completed However I have a feeling that I messed up something and that the program will not run correctly My initial work with the program seems to indicate all is OK but I have not yet begun to really exploit its capabilities Finally I am mystified by the Data er ror writing drive C message I have also gotten at the very end of making a backup On testing the backup disk always seems OK Can anyone help James D Small Alexandria VA Hal lIt is a good idea to write protect any disk you copy by pushing down the little tab in the lower righthand back side gt of your disk with your fingernail or pen cil If you have two disk drives by all means enjoy the luxury of not having to constantly swap disks To make a backup using two HP9114 s make sure the blank target disk is formatted in the same way as the source disk single sided or double sided Then do a diskcopy c d and the whole thing goes by itself I think there is a bug on the HP110 that causes the message Data error writing drive C to be displayed even though there is no error If Dise write verity is on in PAM s System Config then this error message may incorrectly be displayed
116. hich will free up a mouse button undo feature will be streamlined e g the screen will not be saved restored each time a cursor key is pressed par tial screen areas will be able to be moved around the draw ing by dragging it around similar to the rubber band line and finally partial screen loads will be much quicker bit mapping logic improvement 7 HPrint will be upgraded when a we get some more user feedback and b the capabilities of PaintJet LaserJet graphics and a new printer I can t discuss yet are worked in By the way I have a PaintJet loaner and it is really im pressive Not much use with Portables though other than color text a la HPrint 8 Southern Software now offers the following for the QuietJet a RAM chip installation b complete italic downloadable fonts c NLQ SideWinder prints sideways in a downloaded sideways NLQ font rather than graphical ly and d a character maker program font download control 9 Upcoming projects A pop up HP printer font con trol package Portable Plus and IBM a generic Turbo Pascal pop up for Portable Plus and possibly the HP110 if mouse driver author Bill Saltzstein and I can get just a bit more technical poop publishing a library of Pascal routines for the Portables Several of which were described above I don t know yet whether there will be a charge for 18 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 the library nor how much the charge would be That may close out my
117. ile management system Typing Whiz Better than almost any typing tutor program on the market designed specifically for The Portables and the HP150 Immediate numeric and graphic feedback of your progress Inside front cover Used HP Portable Equipment The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Soft ware buys and sells used HP Portables Portable Pluses HP9114s HP ROMs and RAM drawers for the Portable Plus Because of HP quality used HP products are a great buy 30 day return policy on all used equipment we sell SeP1 Volume Discounts Corporate buyers users groups and HP dealers Order products and subscriptions from us in quantity and save Back cover Webster s Spelling Checker Rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine this spelling checker packs a hef ty 110 000 word dictionary into just 207K of disk memory Webster s shows you incorrect spellings in context and suggests corrections also lets you preview questionable words before you edit Exceptionally easy to learn and use Customized for the Portable Plus and HP150 WordPerfect 4 2 Disk based Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 version of the best selling word processor Includes spelling checker and thesaurus SeP 41 The Word Plus An excellent spelling checker with a choice of two dictionaries 45 000 words and 35 000 words plus the ability to input additional words and abbreviations of your own Also does word counts Customized to th
118. ility to recover lost files alone makes THE NORTON UTILITIES RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra o o But there s even more to the pachage THE NORTON UTILITIES HP150 IBM PC and compat Version 4 0 and Advanced Edition are also an excellent disk management sys tem Here are some examples of what you can do 4 Let s say you want to sort directories and files physically on disk either by name ex tension size date time or by any combina tion of these Just use the ds disk sort com mand I use this one to sort my electronic disk files by size all the time Then when I display the directory the larger files come at the end of the list and I can see at a glance which ones to move elsewhere to free up any needed amount of disk space Or let s say you remember putting the Indispensible PC Magazine Don t compute without it The New York Times You ll bless this disk Peter McWilliams The Personal Computer Book Personalized Software is authorized to distribute THE NORTON UTILITIES on 312 disk customized for users of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 phrase a penny saved is a penny earned into a text file on your electronic floppy or hard disk but you can t remember which file it was or even which directory How to find it No problem Just type ts for text search specify the
119. in diagnostics or the disk based diagnostics to ascertain the functionali ty of the original memory If the memory test passes the machine truly contains 512K of RAM Otherwise some re work will be necessary It should be noted that the 32K 8 RAM chips do draw a higher standby current This of course affects only sleep mode But it means that when the machine is powered down it is drawing a current that is higher than expected by PAM This is true even though the machine now has 6 fewer chips than before Consequently the PAM battery level display will be inaccurate to a certain degree To get a feeling for the change in accuracy run the battery down until the LOW BATTERY warning message shows up then look at the battery level It will most likely be higher than the figure indicated in the owner s manual But more im portantly users should be aware that modified machines will not last as long in storage because of the higher stand by current drain by the 32K 8 RAM chips As the technology improves newer versions of this chip may of fer significantly reduced power requirements The HP110 RAM expansion scheme represents the 36 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 most significant improvement of the machine s perfor mance since the machine s introduction and for HP110 owners it is certainly a cheaper upgrade path than buying another portable at least for those who possess the right technical expertise If you are an HPO owner and
120. ions with the loop and trying to be neat about the whole setup I had put the printer on top of the disk drive It had simply refused to run Even I could see the problem of the disk drive on top of the printer That solved the very first time I tried to format a disk PP threw out another curve in the form of Warning You Are Formatting Your C Disk You Will Lose ceed Stunned I sat back considered this last _ straw recovered a slight bit of composure and timidly typed N It was then that the idea occurred to me that perhaps a one liner book in large print words of one syllable understandable language step by step outline form and graphic illustrations maybe cartoons should be written about the computer world HP and HPPLUS have tried and I have tried to com municate with each other We have gone through a factory quantity of printer paper to communicate with each other As a matter of fact a great step in this direction has been hooking into CompuServe Now I feel that Big Twinkle and I really do talk to one another and she he has become my friend blue blanket and companion But how about Little Twinkle Guess what My modem in PPLUS won t work must be sick no one can figure out what is the matter and I m now back to square one Move over Boots I m jumping into the case with you Lots Of Tidbits From Paul Grimmer Paul Grimmer sent the following series of letters and
121. ives at 300 1200 and 2400 baud A MYRIAD OF FEATURES The Worldport 2400 has a wealth of features you would expect to find in a desktop modem several times its size EXTRA BONUS FOR USERS OF THE IBM PC AND NEW HP PORTABLE VECTRA Included with the WorldPort 2400 at no charge is the acclaimed communications and remote control software package Carbon Copy PLUS retail value 195 The program also comes free with the World Port1200 WorldPort2400 Upgrade Kit Carbon Copy PLUS will not run on the HP110 or Portable Plus but both WorldPort modems will run with HP s communi cations software namely the Terminal program for the HP110 and TERM and Reflection for the Portable Plus The 4 x For example the WorldPort 2400 has auto dial auto answer and both pulse and tone operation It comes with a standard modular phone plug for connecting with the telephone line It offers non volatile storage of up to 20 commands And it is fully compatible with the industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with the HP110 s Terminal software and the Portable Plus s TERM and Reflection software Since a modular plug is not always available the WorldPort 2400 also has a built in interface for an acoustic coupler The coupler an optional extra runs at 300 and 1200 baud The unit is compatible with both the internationally ac cepted CCITT communications standards and the Bell communications standards recognized in the U S T
122. k drive s or Power Cube Recharger 89 95 HP hand held HP41 71 75 series 80 etc 84 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Copyright 1987 Personalized Software drawing program Sketch He is perhaps proudest of HPrint which allows merging of text and graphics prints ThinkJet italic performs mailmerge and in general makes full use of the ThinkJet and QuietJet printers Finally he became a leading HP IL expert by writing Link software which allows data transfer between all HP IL devices All of bis products are available through Per sondalized Software When he s not developing software he works as an engineer for Conoco Date 09 Sep 87 17 14 CDT From Paul Grimmer South Soft 71370 1303 Subj miscellaneous Hal Just a few comments to let you know what is going on in Anchorage 1 I have gotten hooked on CompuServe In a way I m glad I didn t get on it until recently since I would be total ly broke by now if I had 2 There is a tremendous amount of good material for Pascal programmers on the Borland CompuServe forum I will make a disk of some of the really good stuff that works with the Portables and send it to you In general all of the uploads include source code so even if it doesn t run at first it is easy to fix it An example includes a critical error handler that lets your program control DOS critical errors i e the ones that generate Abort Retry Ignore or
123. l Com puServe with the internal modem by typing the following command Substitute your local CompuServe number or the number of the computer you want to dial Shelp users as discussed in the TERM article can assign a macro key to this command ATDT12701581 Note ATDT MUST be capital letters Press Return You should hear the Plus s speaker ring once There will be silence until the modem responds with a successful con nection CONNECT 1200 If the phone is busy the modem will respond with BUSY if there is a ring but no answer RR will be returned Assuming that CompuServe has answered and you received a CONNECT 1200 it should respond with some node ID that you can ignore Press return and CompuServe will respond with HOST NAME Type CIS for CompuServe Information Service Following the prompts CompuServe will ask for an ID and a password If you have previously loaded your password into the Answerback message field during configuration depress the User System key to get the main menu Then press f2 then f6 ANS BACK return You re logged on DOWNLOADING FILES USING XMODEM Let s say you ve joined the CompuServe Hewlett Packard PC forum just type go hp at any CompuServe prompt and THE PORTABLE PAPER follow the directions for joining the forum During a browse of dlll Data Library 11 you have found a file called mf com you d like to download Before we proceed with the actual download session
124. l program for the Portable Plus Mastery requires several hours of practice and review of the procedures presented in the manual Additional features such as user defined function keys and a robust command language automate the logon process and should be studied for even greater convenience THE PORTABLE PAPER PORTABLE PROFILES Let us profile your or your company s use of the Portable Tell us about your interesting or unusual application of The Portable Or share a description of how you use The Portable let other readers benefit from your experience Give us a call ask for Hal or send us a draft on paper disk or via CompuServe Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52256 515 472 6330 The HP110 Near The North Pole Brendan P Kelly may be the northernmost user of the HP Portable He uses his Portable to study whales polar bears and seals near the North Pole in conjunction with the University of Alaska Fairbanks I bought my 110 in November 1984 mainly for my work as a Research Associate with the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks For the past 11 years I have been studying marine mammals in Alaskan waters mostly the Beaufort Chukchi and Bering seas I needed a personal computer for word processing for data storage and analysis and for communicating with main frames and other PCs Furthermore I needed a computer which could be taken on field trips wher
125. ls were the answer Red and green labels greens for the inputs and reds for the outputs Or ports whatever BUT due to the series of arguments misunderstand ings calls back and forth to HP itself delays in delivery dealer inability to explain anything about how anything worked in plain language HP discontinued the dealer ship Now I was up a creek in a leaky canoe without a THE PORTABLE PAPER paddle My nineteen hours of free instruction were down __ the drain Head unbowed undaunted and determined I made the decision to settle down and wade through two volumes of wisdom on how to work MS WORD You wouldn t believe the trauma involved in learning how to control a little flashing light i e cursor according to the book Trying to be friends with my machines I decided to call it cursor Big Twinkle Vectra and Little Twinkle PPLUS Twinkle jumped here and there without notice and generally caused havoc fragmenting my worked over text into a thousand pieces at just a touch of the finger My two volumes of instructions had markers on every page notes in every margin and acquired a dog eared look More frantic frustrated calls to HP were made But now came the problem of saving to a disc or disk No way could a disk be formatted Back to another dealer in Connecticut Solution a deceptively simple one not to be found in any book don t put anything on top of the disk drive In my tribulat
126. memory 12 ROM sockets and 2mb of C drive memory EXAMPLE 4 3 5 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card and 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory Gives you 1 5mb of main Edisk memory 8 ROM sockets and an additional 2mb of electronic disk storage EXAMPLE 5 4 5 megabytes 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card and 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory Gives you 512K of main memory and an additional 4mb of storage No ROM sockets are available in this configuration Adding Megabytes With Memory Expansion Cards Portable Plus rear view Main memory A drive 384K in RAM drawer 640K main Edisk memory Main memory A drive 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card 1 1mb main Edisk memory Main memory A drive nnn s ROM drawer 12 ROM sockets Main memory A drive 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card 1 5mb main Edisk memory Main memory A drive 512K 2mb Edisk 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card Compartments at bottom of Portable Plus c drive 4 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card C drive 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card C drive 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 1Can be partitioned in any ratio in normal manner with maximum main memory of 512K 2 A 2 m
127. more in line with the new IBM PS 2 model 30 It will operate faster than the PC and XT but will never run the new OS 2 Operating system And even though the new HP portable can have up to 6 megabytes of expanded memory don t expect that to be continuous memory The major advantage in picking the Portable Vectra is that there is a wider range of software from which to choose AND YET MORE DECISIONS Selecting software is a full time job in itself There is a wealth of software already available for the new Portable Vectra Not only are there commercial programs such as Lotus 1 2 3 and Word Perfect there are also hundreds of programs in the shareware market from which to choose I will be eager to discover if my favorite PC programs will run on the Vectra Currently I like Galaxy 2 2C for word processing It s very fast easy to use and costs less than 50 for a registered copy It s the only shareware word processor that uses the Turbo Lightning spell checker For more complicated writing I prefer PC Outline another shareware program edibm is the IBM PC version of The Editor for the HP110 It s my choice for writing DOS batch programs and memos When I want to do quick calcula tions PC Calculator gives me a programmable RPN calculator that is very much like an HP 12C 16C and 41C combined It too is shareware and costs 25 for a registered yersion For database management I currently like VP Ihfo from Paperback Software
128. n Duette s manual yes I finally did read it It covers most questions thoroughly in an easy to under stand style The One Minute Tutorial is sufficient for ex perienced users Succeeding sections cover all phases of the program in increased detail The appendices describe error messages troubleshooting cables and customer ser vice All this fits comfortably in 22 pages The table of con tents easily serves as an index The HP version includes an extra README file that explains the differences between the HP and IBM versions of the program Duette requires 148K minimum main memory to run I find that a main memory setting of 168K allows room for SHELP and buffers 12 It is not copy protected and is sup plied on both 5 25 and 3 5 diskettes Both diskettes are in IBM format IBM to Plusto IBM to HP9114 to Plus IBM HP9114 IBM 124K Byte File Transfered Using Duette 30 29 71 69 Using HP IL Link Card 35 32 40 58 Using XModem 9600 Baud 183 26 Files 258K Transferred Using Duette 93 61 234 191 Using HP IL Link Card 82 62 107 108 Units are time in seconds All files transferred to and from the IBM PC were stored on a RAM Disk All files transferred to and from the Portable Plus were stored on the Edisc Files transferred to the HP9114 disk drive using Duette were first transferred to the Portable Plus and then via the HP IL connection to the HP9114 The Editor Now available on ROM Backup f
129. n defaults available from the main PAM screen via f6 Datacom Config You must recon figure from Reflection The first concern when getting your Plus ready to talk to another computer is to make sure both computers are talking the same language See Communication Basics Vol 1 No 4 P 28 That means both computers must agree On such parameters as the speed of transfer the characteristics of each unit of data being transferred error checking and so forth Note that when you are calling an information service such as CompuServe you are talking to another computer Once VT Reflection has been load ed from PAM begin configuration by selecting f3 config keys In PC2622 first press the User System key next to f5 to get rid of the help screen Now press f2 labeled modem config in PC2622 and COM in Reflection A configura tion menu appears showing the various communications parameters that may be changed For example CompuServe usually requires the follow ing settings Baud Rate 1200 Baud Parity Even Pacing XON XOFF Stop Bits 1 In order to successfully com municate with CompuServe you must use the tab key and the fl NEXT CHOICE f2 PREVIOUS CHOICE keys to ex actly match the Reflection 1 parameters to CompuServe In general you must match the other computer in all these parameters If in doubt try the default settings 3 first and work from there The variables on the left are most subject to variation After
130. n print it sideways 3 z z rs Now we by hd a aw gt ome ae ws da a 2 A O gt gt a v l M SE SE Ta A OE 7 Oe ie Ae Ua e aa ann Sie hg a Cae SBE RO SNS I pe ROM Backep fg Fs UYUREUEEHUEE QUMMMNU URI EH 0 PENH NEB HH HEE 2 uu YH for the Portable Plus 2a 35 3B be 32 Ue 36 Fe ES WS TG Te BS TE 3S Bee BS 3 5 TE HE OE 7 eB 3 Oe Te FE 78 Be 3 a aE EE HE See Software on ROM ad EHUB PPERR EEE REP ER BERR EEE REG E EEE RRR HHH 1 BUH in this issue S O iD i di ESHER SSS SP d2 io STEN Ta Te Ta Fa Se Dea Sea 5 BE Sf SF IT RE RE RA EZ SE YE RE Mg ET BE IE EL BE RS pe Rz ER SE Tt ue tae FF ITET EC SIRE RE RZ ESSE TE BE LSE g2 ge St gr at zz RE SES is Fe te TS 32 2 to 32 i2 TE Se Es fe i2 Fe Fs TE I5 22 ts Ts 22 ir ces FS St IP WE SS TE 22 i2 tS GEER GE CSE p2 TT BT BE TE TE TE e yet us rin INDER SideWinder is published by Southern Software RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra OPTIONAL EXTRAS Southern Software of New Orleans creators of SideWinder have also created two companion utilities that work only on The HP Portables SideChar lets you create your own sideways characters At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable HP150 IBM PC and compat Portable PLUS and ThinkJet And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers It s called SideWinder and it s perfect fer Lo
131. n the back of this issue or use company purchase order PRICES GOOD THROUGH DECEMBER 31 1987 4 una wR AEU TF I EUL BR VE UCR EU E LUJ CLIC Je Our best selling Portable software now on ROM chips Pack your favorite programs into just a few slots in your ROM drawer E Save valuable memory space E Eliminate need for disk drive Custom ROMs available too Now you can simultaneously free up memory space in your Portable Plus and save yourself the trouble of using a disk drive How It s simple Some of our best selling software products are now available on ROM Backup as many as five products per chip Insert one or more of our ROM Backup chips in your ROM drawer and you ll never have to load those programs again It s the ultimate in convenience It s much faster than running programs off a disk drive And it leaves your computer s internal memory free for data and other programs ROM BACKUP HOW IT WORKS Before we could offer software on ROM to our customers we thoroughly researched the field locating the most reliable sources of Roms and ROM services In addition we have formed special ROM agreements with our leading software sup pliers including Borland International Tur bo Pascal Simon amp Schuster Webster s Spelling Checker and Southern Software SideWinder For numerous legal economic and logistical reasons we offer ROMs to youasa Backup Service This means you may pur
132. nd publish the results Please keep us in formed Plus In China To Study Dinosaurs I want to thank you for The Portable Paper and all the product support lama new subscriber and have digested all the issues I learned more from the 10 issues J have read than from all the HP Com municators and manuals well maybe not the manuals I bought a Plus to take to China fora three month research trip on dinosaurs and primitive mammals What I took with me was an HP 220v charger a small 220v 110v transformer and the set of 4 converter plugs by Franzen of Canada to adapt the charger to various sockets I got my converter plugs at a luggage shop in St Paul but they are often advertised in airline sales magazines It took care of all my needs in Beijing Shanghai Xian Guangzhou and Nanxiong Didn t lose a byte on the whole trip despite at least 5 power outages and lord knows how many brown outs I now use it as my regular computer I do have one small problem with the thing As a result of a misspent youth in high power rifle competition I am 80 deaf above 2 kilohertz I can t hear the beeps Is there a way of permanently lowering the frequency of the beep in the Plus and the 110 to a frequency I can hear I recently ordered Sketch and a mouse and driver Sketch is here and fun but the mouse and driver are not I am really looking forward to them I did find some interesting stuff looking through catalogs Tandy Radio S
133. ndles multiple file transfers subdirectory transfers and DOS wild card RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable a Portable Plus a o pe o Portable Vectra HP150 IBM PC and compat Duette and HPDuette are registered trademarks of Platte River Associates Inc We have already instigated the creation of two valuable Portable Vectra products which we hope to of ficially announce next issue The first is a portable hard disk for the Portable Vectra A 50 bus extender card is be ing designed to fit in one of the Vectra slots 10 Megabyte to 96 Megabyte rugged portable hard disks easily connect to the card That hard disk can be moved from Portable Vectra to Portable Vectra to IBM Compatible desktop com puter as long as the computer has this inexpensive bus ex tender card Therefore this portable hard disk can be used as a hard disk as a backup medium or as a way to transfer large amounts of data from one machine to another The other product being developed now is the Port able Vectra equivalent to the mobile recharger that we already sell for the original HP Portables Vectra users will be able to run or charge their Portable Vectra battery off the cigarette lighter of a car We have many other ideas and are very much in terested in yours Over 80 percent of the products we sell for the HP Portables came about directly from the knowledge and experience of our readership Lightweight Portable External RAM Disk
134. ne screen a serious drawback However we would like to increase the screen contrast We have tried one of the Axonix backlight modifications but were not satisfied The short battery life an noying power supply buzz and illegibility of the screen with no backlight or bright incident light were simply too many minuses to accept A better solution for us would be a replacement screen of the blue and gold super twisted type now being used on many portables We have been unable to find a source for such a modification If you are aware of a possible supplier or have an alternative suggestion we would much appreciate your advice Douglas DeHart Portland OR Hal I dont know any solution Ac cording to HP Corvallis when they found a supplier for the Portable Plus screen upgrade they looked into doing so for the HP110 Apparently no one makes high quality sixteen line screens that will work in the HPI10 Looking For Report Generator I own a Portable Plus with 512K in the memory drawer and MS Word Lotus 1 2 3 and MemoMaker Time Manager in the software drawer I also bought dBASE II for the Plus and copied it to the Edisc So far I ve not yet had the time to fully ac quaint myself with dBASE II especially the say commands So I m only using REPORT FORM for my simple reports I m now looking for a report generator nothing fancy which can do more than the one in dBASE II and also will work faster
135. ned in EPROM stands for Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Although blank ROMs are in general less expensive than blank EPROMs the initial burn in costs for ROMs are much higher ROMs also require a much longer lead time to produce than EPROMs Currently EPROMs that can be run on the HP Portables come in 16K 32K and 64K sizes ROMs are 128K We use EPROMs for our 32K and 64K backup chips and ROMs for our 128K packages Copyright 1987 Personalized Software PUBLISHER S MESSAGE This issue completes our sec ond full year of The Portable Paper We have received many kind words from you and we appreciate them greatly but notice that this issue contains about 40 reader contributions This mutual sharing has been the basis of our success The Port able Paper and its publisher Personalized Software has become the focal point for sharing the knowledge and experience of Portable users Also the origin of most of the Portable products we sell has come about from your insights contributions and needs The entire Personalized Software staff which has grown from 2 to 8 this past year feels that you are a pleasure to work with You are most patient and understan ding with us even when you have had to wait months for a back ordered product I believe that whatever natural selection process has taken place HP Portable users are a A Hal Goldstein Looyenga and David Hughes who have given
136. need a portable I m still going to reach for a Portable Plus k3 ar 110 continued from page 9 You can hear this if you place a radio next to the Portable tuned to a weak station Pressing a key will create some hash and then it will stop after one second In the Power Save idle state the CPU draws about 80 mA or 110 mA with the RS 232 modem port turned on Environment Space and PAM ENV Revisited By Richard Burmeister One small correction to the article in the last issue of The Portable Paper entitled Out of Environment Space When editing the PAM ENV file to add the dummy variable to the environment space the name of the variable must be in upper case i e the line should be DUMMY abcdefghijkIlmnopars Some readers have called in to say that they are run 40 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 ning out of room for all of their PATH entries since they have so much software on ROM Normally PAM only looks at the first 80 characters of a line in the PAM ENV file To force PAM to read another 80 characters of a line in your word processor insert a line feed character CTRL J ASCII character 10 before column 80 on a line For example here is the PATH line from my PAM ENV file PATH A A UTILS B DT2 B DTI B MEMO TM B HP82863K B SW_SHELP lt LF gt B EDITOR B TURBO B 45548K B BIN B BIN ETC Please note that in the above lt LF gt represents the line feed character Also note that th
137. nelle InfoWorld and other files not created by Condor Over 150 000 Condor programs are cur rently in use We think the Condor peo ple have done a fabulous job of packing an enormous amount of database power into an incredibly easy to use system We urge you to try Condor 3 or Condor Jr at our risk today Condor 3 e5002 495 00 379 00 for Portable Paper subscribers Condor Ji sreo esaeo aan 99 00 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Condor 3 MEMORY REQUIREMENTS Condor Jr Condor 3 requires only 128K of memory to run The entire program including the report writer fits in less than 360K Since each command is in its own file you can save memory space by deleting any commands you don t need Condor Jr is even more memory efficient the main program is only 25K and you add in dividual 10K programs for each function you wish to use the HP 1 Megabyte RAM Card the SoftWord 2 Megabyte RAM card and the SoftWord 1 Megabyte RAM 8 socket ROM card Whichever option you choose you will great ly expand your current system memory and electronic disk capacity If you choose the HP card you most likely will replace your current memory drawer on the bottom of your computer leaving the software drawer containing your ROMs in place The current memory drawer contains either OK 128K 256K or 384K When you replace your current drawer with the 1 Megabyte 1024K drawer you will gain System Memory
138. news Thanks to the urgings of our readers of Hewlett Packard and of The Portable Paper Platte River Associates have modified their program Duette to run on the HP Portable Plus Just connect one end of the serial cable that comes with HPDuette into the nine pin serial port in back of the Portable Plus Plug the other end into the serial port in back of your PC or AT compatible Run the HPDuette on the Plus from your Edisc HP9114 disk drive or EPROM backup Run the other half of HPDuette on the IBM The program is as easy to use as the HPLink card You don t even need the manual to initiate fast 57 000 Baud data transfer The program takes about 64K of disk space and retails for 99 95 and for 89 95 to Portable Paper subscribers For a reader review of the product and an ad see other parts of this issue Thanks to some help from Paul Grimmer at Southern Software we will be able to shrink the HP half of the pro gram so that it fits on a 64K EPROM backup chip for the normal 95 backup fee HP110 users there is still hope We have to convince Platte River Associates that there is enough of a market for them to devote the engineering resources to produce an HP110 version and keep the price the same If you can commit to buying an HP110 version give us a call or drop us a note be sure to indicate that you want the HP110 ver sion when developed Alternately you can bug Dr Jay Leonard of Platte River Associates directly by calli
139. ng 303 469 7765 CARBON COPY PLUS Portable Plus users at last there is an easy to use full featured communications package alternative to Reflection 1 Thanks to a large corporation who ordered Carbon Copy Pluses for their sales reps using Portable Pluses Meri dian Software produced a version of this IBM PC program to run on the Portable Plus We have not received a copy of the program yet but we hear good things Carbon Copy Plus can be used in two ways First of all it functions as a terminal so that you can log onto informa tion services like CompuServe or MCI or onto your home or office computers From the reviews I have read and Meridian Software s literature the program is easy to use 20 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 and it is simple to transfer files back and forth Carbon Copy Plus really shines when both com municating computers are running the program Those of D you who have used HPLink cards connecting your IBM PC compatible with a Portable will be at home with this soft ware One computer runs a master version of Carbon Copy Plus and the other the slave version of the software The master computer lets you run remotely the computer load ed with the slave program as easily and completely as if you were seated at its keyboard This is similar to running HPLink on your Portable where the PC is the master and the Portable the slave The other interesting thing about Carbon Copy Plus is that both the master and sla
140. ng labels A box of HP ThinkJet mailing la bels part number 51630L can be ordered for 18 95 from HP your dealer or us How Many Portables Has HP Sold Are you or your readers aware of the number of HP110 units sold before the computer was discontinued Claude A Cartee Framingham MA Hal AHP is very tight lipped about sales figures My educated guess is that be tween 20 000 and 30 000 HPI10 s and about the same number of Portable Pluses have been sold HP by going more mainstream with The Portable Vectra is hoping for a much stronger presence in the Portable marketplace At the same time by lowering the price of Pluses coupled with increased exposure they hope to boost Plus sales Condor 3 On The HP 150 and Portable Plus I own and use both the Hewlett Packard 150B desktop computer and the Hewlett Packard Portable Plus Before I purchased the Portable Plus I used the 150B for word processing for analysis of financial information using Lotus and for database management The database used with the HP150B is Condor Corporation Recently Condor 3 was upgraded to version 2 11 11 This program runs on the HP 150 using the IBM PC emulator This version also runs on the Hewlett Packard Portable Plus without any modification This program runs in the HP console mode if the function keys are not used and runs on the Portable Plus in the alter nate mode if you wish to use the function keys Obviously those use
141. ng a picture of the in put form right on your screen You enter and modify data or even revise the database structure simply by typing right on the same form Unlike other database systems you simply tell Condor what to do not how to do it and you tell it using simple English like statements such as LIST CUSTOMER BY NUMBER NAME STATE Database management made easy AND COMPUTE TOT SALES TO DATE As a result it takes only one fifth the time to compute display sort search or report on your data using Condor as com pared with other database systems such as dBASE II Most users find they can create and begin to use their first database within minutes after opening the package Condor 3 but not Condor Jr is a fully relational DBMS That means you can use Condor 3 to compare select and combine data from two or more files Condor 3 also lets you create your own custom report formats Condor Jr in cludes a LIST com mand for limited re EZET port writing You can transfer data back and forth from Condor 3 to Lotus 1 2 3 print files IBM PC and compat WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY If you want a database you can use immediately without even opening the manual Condor 3 is the DBMS to buy Jim Morgan Data Base Advisor a textbook example of what a database manage ment system should be James Perotti PC Magazine for a straight database l II take Condor Jerry Pour
142. ng this program and the Portable Plus I realize the engineering market is much smaller than the business and per sonal computing markets but I hope that organizations like yours will recognize our needs and give us some support J B Hadler Webb Institute of Naval Ar chitecture Glen Cove New York Hal I wish I could help but I can only point to partial solutions I m pretty sure that the Computing Tools program will NOT work on the Portable Plus due to the different way graphics are displayed on the Plus and the IBM PC However see the article in Vol 2 No 5 about HPrint for a solution albeit a little awkward to your superscript subscript and Greek character problems Also see the SKETCH review in Vol 2 No 4 for possible solu tions to curve fitting Powering Portable Modems Abroad I purchased a Migent pocket Modem and found it virtually unusable until I discovered that a single 9v battery simp ly doesn t provide enough power in less than ideal operating environments Ob viously the AC adapter provided isn t a solution in the field especially in a 220v field The answer is a standard six cell bat tery pack using AA cells wired to a stan dard plug for the AC adapter input The Migent unit then works fine at both 300 and 1200 baud in U S and Japanese ports and with any number of extensions on the same phone line The battery pack takes up little room and seems to run forever Also the Migen
143. ngineer who authored MemoMaker on the original HP Portable Shelp 9 55 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 day no risk trial If after 60 days you are dissatisfied with this product for any reason you may return it for a full refund To order use the postage paid form at the back of this issue or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Of all the spelling checkers I ve used I like The Word Plus best Jerry Pournelle Author of Chaos Manor column Byte Magazine THE WORD PLUS works with MemoMaker The Editor and other word processors that can produce ASCII files things Webster s can t do For example e It can find all the words with a given prefix or suffix or even find words that rhyme e It can do a global search and replace on multiple words in a single pass e Additional utilities within THE WORD PLUS will count the frequency of each wo in a file and alphabetize the words in a fi automatically If you ve ever worried about spelling errors or embarrassing typos worry no longer Order THE WORD PLUS It s fast it s friend ly and it never forgets a spelling THE WORD PLUS 150 124 for Portable Paper subscribers Special price 99 95 Our version of THE WORD PLUS includes a 3 5 disk and simple instructions for customizing
144. nkJet fonts from MS Word but unfortunately I am not an MS WORD user For hints you might see the Foundations column in this issue Final ly you should find the pricing of many HP Portable products in our Portable Equipment Exchange brochure that ac companies this issue of The Portable Paper Another Letter Quality Printer This letter is being typed on a Panasonic RK T34 typewriter with an RP K100 inter face I thought you might like to know of another quality printer available for the HP110 Jobn B Jacob Charlotte NC In The Boonies I can t tell you how thrilled I was to receive my first copy of The Portable Paper today I have literally read every line In addition to all of the really useful information it has such a friendly helpful tone perfect for a self taught novice such as I For the past year and a half I have been an extremely frustrated HP110 user here in the boonies I have had absolute ly NO customer service catalogues etc and any time I have needed help I have had to make as many as 10 very long distance calls before I found ANYONE who was willing or able to help Up until now my nearest supplier has been in Guatemala and this has meant a six month wait extremely high costs a plane trip hotels and the inevitable shopping spree So yes I certainly do want to subscribe Attached is my order form A J MacGregor Tegucigalpa Honduras HP Engineer On ThinkJet Paper I am a Quali
145. not already on their disk Since they seem to have the technology this is an excellent opportunity for The Portable Paper to enter into some sort of agreement with them I have two cases for the Portable I use Both cases have had their zippers break in the same way the zipper slider came off its track There is any easy though delicate fix for this Put the slider at the end of the track where it normally would be when the case is open Using vise grip pliers very lightly squeeze the rear of the inside of the case part of the slider Initially you should barely squeeze it at all when the plier handles reach the end of their travel Put some light oil on the slider and try it if it still jumps its track tighten the screw on the pliers less than one eighth of a turn and try again The worst that can happen is that you will still have a useless zipper For those trying to run Time Manager from DOS don t It leaves soft keys set that MemoMaker uses I ve gotten all sorts of Time Manager pieces into the middle of a memo Keith Schaefer Craryville NY Data Error Reading Drive C I have a problem with The Editor I have two disk drives However in making a backup copy of the disk I decided to follow the instructions on formatting a single sided disk and to copy using one disk drive In the process I inadvertently hit the Return key with the source disk still in drive C This occurred after I completed two thirds of t
146. nt without having to first let up the key you are presently typing For example if you want to type the word to on the Portables you must release the t before you can press the o On the Portable Vectra you can press the o even while you are still holding down the a gs The only thing that I dislike about the keyboard isn t HP s fault The keyboard is laid out much like the new IBM PS 2 family One of the features of the IBM PS 2 keyboard is that they have moved the control key below the shift key The caps lock key is now where the control key used to be This is terrible when using wordstar or Turbo Pascal which both use the control key for cursor movement It is also inconvenient when trying to use control s and control q for screen flow control After typ ing on it for a few hours I started getting used to it but it takes much longer because you have to physically move your hand off the home row All the new Vectras that HP is selling have this new keyboard I m going to be hunting for some keyboard remapping software real soon now DISK DRIVES The worst part about floppies is that they re slow HP tells me that they are not as slow as the floppy drive is for the Portables but I m not convinced I tested the speed with The Editor which is a 39k program for the IBM version and a 40k program for the Portable Plus version Loading The Editor on the Portable Vectra took 14 seconds and on the Port
147. o 128K of data or software on ROM A DRIVE AND C DRIVE Each kind of SoftWord card comes in two different varieties A drive and C drive The difference lies in how the RAM memory on the card is used in your system RAM that s on an A drive Card be comes part of your Portable Plus s main Edisk memory the internal memory you partition using the P A M System config menu RAM that s ona C drive Card doesn t affect your Plus s main Edisk memory instead it func tions as electronic disk storage just as Reflection Lotus 1 2 3 Turbo Pascal 8 ROM sockets Webster s Spelling Checker MemoMaker Time Manager Available from Personalized Software drawers Any of the SoftWord cards can be installed in either of these two compartments All you do is remove whatever drawer may be in there and replace with a SoftWord card Note We will accept your old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase Please call for current trade in prices Once installed the extra RAM on the SoftWord cards works exactly like ordinary Portable Plus memory only there s lots more of it HOW TO CHOOSE The examples in the box at the far right will help you examine your op tions For most users the ideal con Super ROM 1 by contrast a 2 Meg abyte RAM A drive Card must be used in place of an existing RAM drawer 3 With a C drive Card in your system you
148. obs during lunch and afternoon break when Iam away from the computer MultiMate s spelling checker highlights each misspelled word with a flashing place mark The spelling editor searches for and corrects the misspelled words You can even spell check a single word sentence paragraph or block MultiMate features keyboard macros key procedures and an alternate keyboard I use the macro facility to schedule print jobs and automatically reformat documents Since MultiMate supports the IBM not HP character set you can use the IBM extended character set to enhance your text with math symbols and line draw ings INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY If you are a prolific writer and can fill a 20 Mb fixed disk B Drive THE PORTABLE PAPER in a year you ll appreciate MultiMate s document summary screens and library functions They help you stay organiz ed and in control Document Summary Screens identify pertinent infor mation about the creation and contents of every docu ment Since MultiMate supports up to 20 characters in the document name you can easily implement an advanced cataloging scheme There are fields for author s name ad dressee operator key words and comments The system records statistical information such as creation revision date time editing total session and keystrokes Libraries are special files which store up to 128 en tries of frequently used text Each library entry is limited to one page and is
149. office for information The Portables Battery By Bill Hassell PROBLEMS WITH SEALED LEAD ACID BATTERIES Remember the nifty battery indicator that keeps you from losing memory Ever seen LOW BATTERY and yet the charge indicator is almost 100 The LOW BATTERY in dicator is very important it shows the actual battery voltage and is therefore accurate However there are a cou ple of problems with batteries The first was a manufactur ing change that increased the battery charging rate inside the Portable The service note is 45711 07 for serial numbers below 2537AXXXXXX The second is a characteristic of sealed lead acid Gates batteries Once the battery charge goes below about 35 chemical changes begin to occur that cannot be reversed with normal charging The longer a battery is left below 35 the more changes occur These changes reduce the capacity of the battery and therefore shorten the effective life of the battery This appears as a low 2400 baud portable modem for your HP Portable Weighs only 62 ounces If you do data comunications with an HP Port able or Portable Plus you ve probably found the internal 300 or 1200 baud modem to be too slow Until now the only solution was to buy a bulky external modem and lug it around wher ever you go A better solution is the Worldport 2400 It measures a trim 4 x2 x1 it s rugged it weighs only 6 ounces including the battery and it sends and rece
150. ond that you might even want to make your own contribution to my computing art by buying my recent books An Easy Course in Using the HP 16C 14 95 and Computer Science On Your HP 41C 24 95 from Grapevine Publications Ed Grapevine is located at PO Box 116 Corvallis OR 97339 The books can also be ordered from Educalc 800 633 2232 Ext 344 or 714 582 2637 THE ULTIMATE REFLECTION WHAT WILL REALLY BE USEFUL So here Iam at the start of another year It would be nice just to sit back and reflect on the successes of past years That kind of reflecting does not advance the art or prac tice of computing Likewise with computer software and hardware It would be comfortable to stay with the old time worn soft ware and hardware That kind of decision will not help es WIZA by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga awa RY Hal As you read this review on the Portable Vectra keep in mind that Cliff had a prototype unit I asked Corvallis to respond to some of the points Cliff raised about the Vec tra The Corvallis response is in italics in context First Look At The Portable Vectra This last month has been quite a month I spent a week in Las Vegas for Interex an HP computer users convention and less than a week at home before a trip to Corvallis Oregon I just got back from Corvallis yesterday and tomorrow I m off to Canada Besides all that this column is due tonight I did pick up a lo
151. only our 3 disk version will RECOMMENDED FOR _ HP110 Portable re Portable Vectra a Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC and compatibles WordStar is a registered trademark of Micropro International Corp Turbo Pascal Pro grams for the Porta bles is a great supple ment to Turbo Tutor Based on the princi ple of learning by example the disk contains more than 50 sample Turbo Pascal pro grams and every one of them runs on the HP110 or the Portable Plus The programs range in length from ten lines of code to hundreds and from simple temperature conversion games arith metic to advanced input output graph ics and more Every program is included on the disk so you don t have to key in any of them they re ready to run or to be incorporated into your own larger Pascal programs If you re into or getting into the highly productive world of programm ing our Turbo Pascal Starter Kit will help you become an expert Order your copy of this dynamite programming package at no risk today Portable Paper Subscribers The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit saves you 30 off the price of the three products purchased separately Retail Subscriber price price Turbo Pascal Starter Kit 159 85 139 95 includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Turbo Pascal 69 95 65 00 Turbo Tutor wn 39 95 39 95 Pascal Programs f
152. or return shipping Amounts are per order not per disk UPS Surface ise aly ke Meee es UPS Second Day Air 4 Overnight rush next day delivery 15 Cost including disk Type of formatting and destination disk conversion service 31 2 Single sided HP 12 50 disk 260K 3 Double sided HP or IBM 700K 514 Double sided IBM 360K 312 High density HP or IBM 1 44mb 13 50 disk 11 50 disk 15 50 disk in memory at a time If you start a new page or go to another page MultiMate first saves the page you re current ly using and then retrieves the new page The document file remains closed uniess a page change is requested by the system or by you This may seem a rather disjointed way to do word processing in a the fast paced business world However page orientation offers the greatest safety in the event of a power failure There is little chance of losing your document USEFUL TOOLS FOR THE WRITER If safety isn t enough to encourage you to investigate this product perhaps MultiMate s many powerful features and menu driven user interface will MultiMate s user interface is completely menu driven This may turn off some users who prefer a modeless word processor a la WordStar but the MultiMate system is not cumbersome The menus are intended for non editing chores such as printing file handling print merging spell checking and system default changing You can con
153. or the Portable Plus for an additional 95 in this issue It s way beyond MemoMaker You won t believe all the word processing features this 99 95 program contains and it takes up less than 40K of memory only 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers by Hal Goldstein Let s face it MemoMaker is an adequate word processor but it has its limits No search and replace No simple way to merge files No destructive backspace key To delete the last character you have to use the left arrow key and the deletion key s No compressed or expanded printing No but why go on If you use Memo Maker you probably have your own list of things you wish it could do Well we have good news Now there s an easy to use text editor that runs on the Por table and Portable Plus that will satisfy almost every item on your wish list And the program comes with a built in bonus It also runs on the HP 150 IBM PC and HP Vectra which means that now you can use the same program and files on your desk top that you use on your Portable The program is called THE EDITOR It does everything MemoMaker does plus a heck of a lot more And you don t have to go to the expense of buying WordStar for the Portable or MS Word for the Plus to go beyond MemoMaker s capabilities THE EDITOR s most valuable features are listed on the chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR is a real blessin
154. or the Portables 49 95 44 95 Turbo Pascal on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 95 00 95 00 ROM Backup version includes RUN COM a utility pro gram that can save 10K of disk space from any program you compile with Turbo Note You must own or order the disk version of Turbo in order to purchase the ROM Backup ver ston See ROM Backup ad in this issue for details 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software See Software on ROM ad THE PORTABLE PAPER speeds up to 115 200 baud However Platte River found this speed unreliable on the Portable Plus so the highest speed on the Portable Plus version is 57 600 baud The very last question of the install program is whether you want to install Duette in the current directory This is very convenient when installing from an HP9114 Start the in stall program from the C drive and at the current directory question enter n o The program will then prompt for an alternate which can be the A drive The configured copy of Duette will be written to the PPlus Edisc The Serial Connection Once the program is installed the PPlus and the desktop computer must be connected through the serial ports on
155. ost new software it works only on IBM PCs and compatible computers In the midst of my wishing for a portable computer that would let me explore some of this new software Hewlett Packard has announced the Portable Vectra Those of us who need a portable computer can now have PC compatibility and HP durability while still keep ing our portability HP has offered us a choice We can either stay with our 110 or Portable Plus or move over to the Vectra line of computers HP would undoubtedly prefer that we make this a both and rather than an either or choice Upon reflection this is a weighty decision The HP110 and Plus already have most of the characteristics of an ideal laptop computer They have ruggedness long battery life continuous memory software in ROM rapid start up at the touch of a key light weight HPIL quick connections These features are what attracted many people to portable computing I think of them as HP s contribution to the computing art Apparently HP has abandoned many of these features with the Portable Vectra in favor of more complete PC compatibility As a result the use of built in disk drives means more weight less ruggedness shorter battery life and slower start ups The apparent lack of HPIL circuitry in the Portable Vectra means that neither the ThinkJet printer nor the 9114 disk drive will be directly usable with the new computer From what I can surmise the Portable Vectra is
156. ote suggesting the use of an IBM PC compatible to access a 5 1 4 disk drive very interesting May June 1987 p 34 Ihave thought about doing the same thing given the very high price of the Steinmetz and Brown drive This would give me easier access to other kinds of software and printers available here in Brazil Would I need any extra software for my Portable Plus to make the link I would like to see very detailed simple in structions on how to link up these two computers What kind of software would the IBM PC compatible need I would also like to know if there is any way I can use the expanded or expanded compressed print fonts with my MicroSoft word processor and Think Jet Printer Why doesn t HP advertise the Port able Plus more It is such a great piece of equipment but most of my friends from international agencies and on the con sulting circuit have never heard about it HP seems to be trying to keep it a secret It would also be helpful for overseas readers if you listed estimated prices of some HP hardware it isn t always easy for us to dial an HP representative David Michael Vetter Brazil Hal The HP IL Link card for the IBM PC HP82973A 150 or HP150 HP45643A 175 comes with software for the PC or HP150 HPLink software is built into the Portables Just type hplink from PAM or DOS and the Portable becomes a peripheral to another Port able HP150 or IBM PC I m sure it isn t hard to use Thi
157. ou can delete copy and rename files while running THE EDITOR Right justification and automatic paragraph indent A simple command right justifies your text and at the same time automatically indents your paragraphs however many spaces you wish Undelete Erased something you want back No problem A simple command will un delete the last line or block of text deleted Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change upper case to lower case and vice versa without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar and in terms of the convenience and in creased productivity you gain I feel that THE EDITOR isa truly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER Hal After three years of saying it is impossible to upgrade the HP110 s memory Sam Chau figured out how to do it The following article explains how to modify your HP1I10 and add 240K of memory That 240K becomes a second C or D drive Edisc Unfortunately do ing the upgrade yourself requires expertise and voids any HP warrenty Unless you really know what you are doing don t even think of doing this upgrade yourself Once you do physically alter your machine all HP warranties are Off Furthermore HP is under no obligation to repair your machine even if something totally unrelated to the modi fication eventually occurs In a future iss
158. owever if you do not have access to either of these sources and would like to explore what one or two of these programs have to offer just send a formatted disk for each program along with a stamped self addressed mailer to Ed Keefe c o FastAid Co 314 SW Logan Ankeny IA 50021 I will be glad to pass along a copy of one or two programs for no charge Some shareware will be available on the 1988 subscriber s disk is big for a battery operated computer If you have a brief case put it on your lap and flip up the lid As you might have guessed it s next to impossible to use in a laptop en vironment such as a car or plane The Portable Vectra is designed to have the power of a desktop but can be easi ly taken home and set up on your kitchen table At twice the weight of the Portable Plus it gets heavy quickly so I wouldn t recommend it for you bicyclers The Portable Vectra has a handle that pops out at the top of the lid This makes it real easy to carry around with out a carrying case The only problem is that when you set it down it promptly falls over Which in my case was on my toes This is unfortunate since this means that anytime you want to take a break from carrying it around you must lay it down flat or find something to lean it against In the lid are two storage compartments each can hold 3 floppies This is convenient since their is no perma nent Edisc and no ROM based software Everything you do mus
159. p for a number of good reasons First there s sheer size WEBSTER S contains over 110 000 words in its dictionary five times the number in Hayden s Speller 21 2 times as many as in The Word Plus yet WEBSTER S dic tionary and main program take up only 207K of disk memory Second WEBSTER S isn t just easy to use it s positively a pleasure It reads your files at high speed then displays every questionable word in context highlighted At the same time in a window off to the side it gives you a list of possible correct spellings A simple menu gives you the following options E Accept the word as is Hi Replace the word with one of the sug gested spellings E Enter the correct spelling manually RECOMMENDED FOR eede feet Portable Plus HP150 M ae The Portable Paper Personalized Sottware P O Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 M Add the word to an auxiliary diction ary of frequently used words Replace all other occurrences of the word Look up the spelling of any other word at any time WEBSTER S also lets you mark in your text any spelling corrections that change length of a word this lets you quickly locate portions of text that may need refor matting WEBSTER S will automatically locate double repetitions like and and It can correct transpositions itme becomes item missing apostrophes dont becomes
160. pe is sent to Personalized Software Dos Tools is with the HP110 letters continued from page 5 your article I would like to address your comments and hopefully help your readers better understand HP s position HP has one approved source of InkJet paper We have investigated other sources of paper and based on a study of many different criteria we believe that the paper we have selected best meets our require ments We inadvertently shipped the non approved paper with some orders The paper that you felt is of better quality did not meet all of HP s requirements and was therefore not approved to be shipped to our customers Unfortunately you and other HP customers were disappointed when you reordered paper and found out that HP was only shipping HP approved paper This non approved paper can be identified by an 8 5 in the right hand border Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused Please be aware that the QJ manual states that for best results use HP recom mended InkJet paper only All paper should be tested for satisfactory feeding registra tion and print quality This is not an all in clusive list of requirements for InkJet paper and we expend great efforts testing paper and HP products throughout the life of the products I hope that this has been of some help to you and I thank you for your patience Harry McLean Quality Engineer Hewle
161. phrase and the program will display every occurrence of the phrase iden tifying each occurrence by directory and file Or let s say you can t remember which sub directory you put a given file into Instead of hunting for the file manually just type ff find file and specify the name of the file and the directories to search through The program does the rest Other useful features include the fa com mand which lets you change file attributes for Here s why By Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper example to make erasable files unerasable or vice versa and the fs command which tells you the total file size of a group of files I often use it to find out the total disk space occupied by my Lotus worksheet WKS files or by all my text files from a given project Because of their great helpfulness and ease of use THE NORTON 17 oneal iain ii UTILITIES are already 4p110 users and HP150 users who a best seller in the IBM have 256K machines We recom PC market Personal mend the Advanced Edition of THE ized Software is author ized to distribute them need to retrieve blocks of text from on 3 1 2 disk for users oo of the HP110 Portable 0 Portable Plus and HP150 All it takes is a few keystrokes to customize THE NORTON UTILITIES to your machine just follow the simple customization instructions included on the disk Also included in our package are the standard 5 1 4 disk sold by Peter
162. pt your old RAM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase See center spread RAM ROM Card A megabyte of RAM plus four pairs of ROM slots Add the RAM ROM card to your Portable Plus and you have a megabyte of extra RAM in addition to space for Lotus Reflection Webster s Spelling Checker MemoMaker Time Manager and SuperROM 5 products on one ROM chip We will accept your old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase seep 15 RightWriter Flags errors in grammar style usage and punctuation inserting com ments directly into your document Also produces overall critique strength of delivery use of jargon grade level Works with most word processors Also available RightWords dictionary extension utility it has 7 auxiliary dictionaries business computers engineering etc and also lets you add words of your own to Right Writer s built in dictionary ser 2 Software on ROM Many of our best selling programs are available on ROM chips via our ROM Backup service Portable Plus only Saves valuable electronic disk space minimizes need for disk drive Custom ROMs also available seer 41 Shelp From within almost any program Shelp gives you immediate access to a notepad and calculator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros that is assign up to 31 characters to a single keystroke Writ ten exclusively for the Portable Plus SeP 35 SideWinder This program allows you to
163. q e pees l Big discounts 12 25 off retail prices Z Immediate delivery Virtually all Portable related items are in stock and are shipped the next day 3 Liberal trade ins on all used HP Portable equipment Want to upgrade from HP110 to Portable Plus from HP110 or Portable Plus to Portable Vectra Call for current trade in allowances 4 Free shipping on all orders over 200 For good buys on new and used HP equipment see our 4 page brochure enclosed with this issue 5 No sales tax portable Plus ROMS HP Portable Vectras Portable Vectra d if you re outside of lowa Peripherals an 6 30 day return policy a 4 Megabyte Memory provided warranty card has not been sent and Cards equipment remains in new condition HPOI14B Disk Drives i rinters J One year HP warranty m ee through the HP dealer that Hewlett Packard has Laser we supplies authorized us to work with HP Printe BM Hp iL Cards for 515 472 6330 MHP DESCR yos uters Calcu Oo Accessories The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 a Personalized ZA Software Products that make HP Portables smarter PO Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 VOLUME DISCOUNTS If your company users group or dealership needs 3 or more of any of our products You can save significantly Portable Paper 1 year 55 55 49 45 3
164. r PREPARING TO TRANSFER Either before or after you have logged on you must tell TERM the name of the file you want to upload or download Press f3 FILE NAMES If you want to T Master it may be the only program you ll ever need a And it may be the most comfortable program you ve ever used It may sound strange to call a com puter program comfortable but that s the best way we ve found to describe T Master And the other part is true also T Master may be the only program you ll ever need That s because T Master has with in it virtually every business appli cation you can think of including word processor spelling checker file manager spreadsheet database manager numerical scratchpad graph making data communica tions desktop publishing and even more There are of course other in tegrated programs on the market that combine a number of applica tions in one T Master however is the only integrated program that runs on an HP Portable In terms of capabilities T Master also happens to be one of the best But that isn t what makes it so special You see T Master isn t just a very gt good program It is an entirely unique program It s one you simp ly must get your hands on before you can appreciate its incredible richness and elegance and the sheer thoughtfulness that went into its creation THE HEART OF THE SY
165. responsible for international clients in all of Central and South America a total of 10 countries and 12 offices I spend over 40 percent of my time traveling I literally could not do the job without the Portable Plus ThinkJet and 9114B I create presen tations analyze research carry complete files of all my work since June 1985 and run my office group by modem back in New York Having over 1 years of work at the touch of a button is a powerful resource indeed No other computer could do this for me In many countries power sources are extremely unreliable and I can t charge up But with 20 hours on the Plus and an extra battery pack for the disk drive I can work intensively for 3 to 5 days and never have a problem In that time I am always able to find a place where I can charge up My down time caused by flight delays connections and air time has dwindled to nothing I can literally work anywhere ex cept in the shower I am going to upgrade RAM on the mother board and get the new 1 Meg RAM board and the HP screen improvement I think the prices are outrageous but if I want to be more efficient I have no choice My wish list from HP is probably the same as others IBM compatibility reasonable prices better support hard disk card and just some plain old interest in us Michael Cannon New York City We Need A Better Screen We are generally pleased with our HP110s for office use and do not even find the 16 li
166. right in the middle of your appli cation Lotus in this example SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc The Word Plus A great spelling checker and more Especially recommended for the HP110 Portable HP110 Portable users There are several reasons why THE WORD PLUS is your best bet in a spelling checker First of all THE WORD PLUS fits into your machine Its dictionary has 45 000 words but you can use a 35 000 word dictionary instead this saves 30K of memory space On the HP110 this leaves 40K for your document The full dictionary and main spelling program take up about 165K Second THE WORD PLUS comes with a carload of useful features In fact it offers most of the same word replacement features as Webster s a top rated spelling checker that runs on the Plus see ad in this issue What s more THE WORD PLUS even does some Portable Plus and HP 150 users Also see ad for WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER in this issue The menu gives you 4 choices Calculator Notepad Key Macros and Off oe Choose Calculator and get a 4 function calculator that works just like a pocket calculator with memory You can save results in ten paste results at the different storage cursor location in registers and retrieve whatever application you them again with two were using when you quick keystrokes invoked Shelp Choose Notepad and a scratch pad pops up on your screen
167. ritten a simple memory test program which will test only the extra 240K of RAM available after the modifications It is a quick way of finding out whether the changes were done correctly Since the HP110 operating system always thinks the machine has only 272K of RAM the additional 240K of memory is therefore not accessible from either main memory or drive A To take advantage of the extra RAM it is defined as an additional RAM disk by means of an installed driver program This extra RAM drive is accessed in exactly the same way as the built in drive A p and takes on a drive letter that is after the external drives defined in the PAM configuration menu For example if the HP110 is set to handle one external disk drive C then the extra RAM shows up as a 240K drive D Any access to the contents of drive D is channeled through the installed driver which must be present in drive A at all times The News Chronicle launches gleetronic publishing AP HAR Series 52 not altogether pow CPU The HP Chronicle The only newspaper devoted exclusively to HP 3000 computer users Each monthly issue includes the latest news productivity tips new products help columns and classifieds Scientific Data HP s new CAD system 8 bridge from S te 2 dimengions MAP Seer fOr Torey Vertre s Enhanced Graptits Oppiay Hetto serial ties HP Design amp Manufacturing The
168. rlands that has more than seven years of experience in designing and fabricating memory expansion devices for Hewlett Pack ard hand helds and portables Relia bility is assured by extensive testing All SoftWord cards come with a one year manufacturer s warranty cover ing parts and labor Should a problem develop simply send the card to us and we will ship it to and from Soft Word at our expense In addition the cards are covered by our own money back guarantee If you are not satisfied with a SoftWord card you can return it within 60 days for a full refund By boosting your Plus s memory in to the megabytes you gain the ulti mate flexibility in portable computing Order one or more SoftWord cards risk free today 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 2995 2695 for Portable Paper subscribers 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card or C drive Card 1995 1695 for Portable Paper subscribers IMPORTANT Be sure to specify A drive Card or C drive Card on the order form Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Non U S Customers Please order directly from SoftWord Here is their full product line and price list prices include shipping and insurance 384 RAM Card 0 575 Y2 Megaby
169. rs of the Portable Plus and the HP 150 can benefit from the versatility of using the same database pro gram disks and data on both computers Condor 3 is an easy relational database to use Iam very pleased with its use If a backup for this program can be burned onto either ROM or EPROM chips please advise of the cost Allen A Lefkovitz Chicago IL Version 2 11 11 of Condor III is available on 3 1 2 disk from us for 495 379 for subscribers Condor Jr is available for HIP1I10 users for 99 95 89 95 to subscribers Try FORTH Here is my check for renewal The reason for this letter is to salve my conscience I should have said something long ago about the value of the HP110 for program ming in FORTH FORTH is the best language there is It can do absolutely everything graphics higher math instrument recording and control even word processing Its only major disadvantage is that it is fragile you can blow yourself out of the water This fragility is inescapable because the user has complete management of the computer s memory he is bound to mismanage it frequently with loss of everything in memory and need for a cold reboot The 110 with DOS is ideal because the reboot and reload takes only a few seconds as against two or three minutes plus disk changes on an XT The memory loss is trivial in either case because FORTH programming is always written to disk before it is tested My FORTH software was ad
170. s although they always recommend a full backup before swapping bat _ teries The procedure is to plug in the charger first turn the unit off from the PAM screen f8 and then replace the bat tery with the charger left plugged in This usually retains the memory with no problems The new battery number is 45711 60990 and should be available by now Copyright 1987 Personalized Software TECHNICAL INFO ABOUT YOUR BATTERY A number of technical types always want to know internal stuff so here are some details on battery voltages and cur rent drain With the charger plugged in the battery will measure about 7 6 volts and then change to about 7 2 to 7 4 after a few hours If the battery has been heavily discharged its charger may not reach these voltages for several hours Low Battery indicator will be displayed when the battery reaches 5 8 volts This may take as long as 8 minutes to show up especially when using a battery substitute such as an external power supply Low battery shutdown comatose mode occurs at 5 6 volts Loss of memory will occur will occur below about 5 volts The Portable s sleep current is only 220 uA 0 22 mA and is difficult to measure if the meter has more than a couple of ohms resistance Use a precision 1 ohm resistor in series with the battery s metal plate the brass stud isn t always connected and the computer s power strap This is not recommended except for trained technician
171. s since the battery is quite powerful and can melt small metal probes if shorted Maximum sleep current should not exceed 285 uA If more current is detected the unit needs repair When the Portable is running the current is about 150 mA or 180 mA if the RS 232 or modem port is turned on There is an idle mode which occurs if the Power Save Mode is On In this mode the CPU is halted internally after waiting in the keyboard input loop for more than 1 second continued on page 40 RY SNE TOE FINI Mm LIAN ANENA oe ee eee THE PORTABLE PAPER Foundations By Hal Goldstein The Foundations column contains material that we feel every Portable user should know We assume the reader is a novice computer user however readers novice through expert should find at least some of the material covered here useful If you would like to write articles for this column or want us cover some topic in this space please contact us Getting Started With TERM By David Hughes and Hal Goldstein Many Portable Plus users simply want to transfer files to other PC s or make use of commercial services such as CompuServe or MCI electronic using their built in or ex ternal modem These users do not require the sophisti cated terminal emulation capabilities that come as part of HP s ROM based communications package Reflection 1 formerly PC 2622 TERM built into every Portable Plus and a public domain program called PPTERM may be all that
172. s Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor and Pascal Programs for the Portables has been reduced from 159 95 to 139 95 HP9114 EMPOWERER The Empowerer allows you to run your HP9114 off normal AC current instead of from its battery We found a new sup plier and have been able to lower the cost significantly The Empowerer formerly sold for 145 and for 129 to subscribers Now it sells for 99 95 and for 89 95 to subscribers We have discontinued selling the battery option Disk Conversion HP users must contend with many different formats and disk sizes especially if they want to be compatible with the IBM PC world For those needing the service we will be Add Megabytes of RAM and ROM your Portable Plus Leave that bulky disk drive in your closet Now your 9 pound Portable Plus is all you ll ever need to run your programs and access your files With the advent of the Portable Plus Hewlett Packard solved almost every problem of computer portability The machine is rugged weighs only 9 pounds stores software on ROM chips and has non volatile memory But as every user knows the Plus has one major drawback limited memory space Until now if you need ed even a modest amount of space for data files and application pro grams you were forced to carry an external disk drive though it were an external disk drive Usually it will be the C drive but if you have an HP9114 plugged into your system the memory card becomes
173. s is that most people will not want to use it on the HP110 not as long as there is MemoMaker HDWP is a collection of Lotus macros that you load into a worksheet with the File Retrieve command These macros although cleverly designed still force you to enter text at the top of the screen and then drop it into the worksheet Other macros in HDWP format the text and rearrange it for printing In short HD WP is NOT one of the recent crop of 1 2 3 add in programs HDWP costs 45 My immediate reflection is that HDWP is no contribution to the state of the computing art However if you are interested in offbeat uses for 1 2 3 let me offer you a computer science tutorial written entire ly with Lotus macros If you ever wondered how com puters add and who hasn t you may find the program boole wks to be amusing if not amazing BOOLE will show you how to design a binary math adding machine that does not use a single sign nor even an sum func tion BOOLE is my own effort but it s yours for the ask ing along with a formatted disk and a self addressed stamped envelope That s what I call a contribution Once you have used it you can File Save it right along with NOVEMBER DECEMRFR 1987 47 THE PORTABLE PAPER your copy of Heavy Duty Word Processor On the other hand if you find boole wks to be fascinating you might also like to read my article To Tell the Truth in the August issue of Lotus magazine Bey
174. s much as 14 faster This is using the 57 600 baud turbo speed recommended by Platte River Times are shown in Table I for transfers at the top speed from the PPlus to the PC with the files originating on both the 9114 and the PPlus Edisc For some reason this direction worked faster Error Checking Duette was able to trap every error I threw at it and even caught me a few times For example you are warned if you are about to overlay a file of the same name during a transfer Logic errors such as trying to send files when no files have been selected are also politely noted In this area I found Duette to be quite complete Is It Perfect Of course Duette isn t quite perfect What would I change After using the product for several days I do have a wish list First since simple backup of the PPlus s Edisc will be a primary use of Duette in our environment I would like to have the option to use the DOS archive bit to select files during a transfer This would make daily backups to a desktop a matter of less than a minute Since my PPlus has only 512K a complete backup each time is practical but for a PPlus with 2 Megs of memory an incremental backup would be much faster The other major enhance ment would be the ability to control both computers from one keyboard It would also be nice if a PAM MNU file were included to make use on the PPlus a little easier On the plus side Platte River Associates has done an excellent job o
175. s only I Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter seep 11 T Master and T Maker T Master is a fully integrated word processor speller relational database manager spreadsheet file manager and communications package Also includes graph making It runs on the Portable Plus and Portable Vectra without modification and on the HP150 with a PC emulator T Maker is an earlier version of T Master it runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive T Maker does not include the communications module Both programs are more integrated than any other package on the market Our reviewer says there is no other application I know of that matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master seeP 29 Borland Turbo Pascal Customized For The Portables Turbo Pascal the HP Portable programming language of choice outstrips others in price performance compatibility memory con sumption and programmer environment The WordStar type editor alone is worth the price Borland has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra disk customizing the Turbo editor to the HP110 and Portable Plus s editing keys The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Pascal Tutor 2 0 and Portable Pascal Pro grams a double sided disk with more than 50 program examples for the Portables Also available Turbo Toolbox includes Pascal sort and search routines that create database f
176. s the care that HP takes of this kind of details for its foreign customers You should advertise the prod ucts with restrictions and define a policy for your software developers Alain Girard France Hal I am sorry for the shipping and software problems caused to our non U S customers If we ship ordinary mail our products may take three or four months to arrive Each country seems to have its own characteristics as to what gets slowed down or taxed in customs France is one of the worst Delays in Canada and England have been caused by postal and customs employee slowdowns On the other hand many of 4 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 our non U S customers have been pleas ed with how quick and fair our service has been We charge whatever the post office charges us for shipping even though it takes us considerably more time to fill customs forms and process non US orders UPS delivery is also possible but is more time consuming for us and ex pensive although faster than airmail If you give us shipping instructions we ll do our best to follow them Alternately European customers can order our prod ucts from David Birch of Softword in England see upper right corner of Order Form in back of the issue Unfortunately we do not have the resources nor usually access to the source code of the program itself to customize our products to each Euro pean keyboard We will try to identify what software works to what degree a
177. service centers normally fix those problems at no charge see David Speltz s letter next Until the screen update on the Plus I preferred the HP110 However now there is no question that the Plus ts a superior machine because of memory potential screen size and the capacity to put in ROMs according to your needs The machine is just as rugged as the HP110 User satisfaction with the physical machine itself is high and the Plus repair rate is low In fact the Port able Plus repairs more easily and cheap ly than the HP110 since the Plus is more modular and considerably easier to take apart Portable Plus Free Upgrade Here is a good reason to own a Hewlett Packard Portable I have had trouble with lockups and have had modem difficulty with my 3 year old Portable PLUS At no charge Corvallis 1 replaced the modem with Rev B 2 upgraded the ROM to BBBBBB 3 upgraded MemoMaker Time Manager to Rev 2 4 replaced the tin con nectors to the motherboard with gold Big Blue doesn t do that for us little guys On another note I am an amateur radio operator I use the Plus and used the 110 before in amateur radio communications I have found IBM amateur radio software that works on the Plus Would you or any of your readers like information on this application I have been reading some of the older copies of The Portable Paper and it as tounds me that on every reading I pick up something new or I develop an idea tha
178. sically you just have to install the batteries plug it in format the new disks tell PAM how many new disks you BTA TH FIN L EN a ie AA a A AA ee THE PORTABLE PAPER have with System Config and you re in business Given the limitations of the CMT RAM disks we con sider them a viable program and data storage transfer medium for HP110 owners but probably not for Portable Plus owners We will offer them for a limited time for the prices given below If there is sufficient interest we will add them to our regular line of products Device Description Retail Subscriber CMT RD128 128K Byte HPIL RAM Disk 345 329 CMT RD256 256K Byte HPIL RAM Disk 495 469 CMT RD512 512K Byte HPIL RAM Disk 795 745 RS 232 INTERFACE One very interesting option available with the CMT RAM disks is an HP IL RS 232 interface This device emulates HP s 82164A HP IL RS 232 interface and contains the RAM disk Two types of cables are available DTE Data Terminal Equipment and DCE Data Communications Equipment Typically the DTE cable is used for communications with printers plotters and modems Some notable features of the HP IL RS 232 interface are Programmable settings baud rate stop bits word length parity etc Settings retained when power off Male 9 pin DB connector same as IBM AT serial port Here are prices for the CMT RAM Disks with the RS 232 interface Device Description Retail Subscriber CMT RD128 01 12
179. sider MultiMate a clean screen word processor since it con sumes only two lines of the display for messages essential document information and modifier key status The re maining twenty three lines of display are for text You use function keys but they aren t displayed The package in cludes two colorful keyboard overlays You can very easily perform basic editing tasks such as COpy move insert delete search and replace with MultiMate s many powerful standard editing features You initiate these commands in a deliberate and controlled manner and thus prevent mistakes It is possible to undo an editing command before it is carried out And help is only a keystroke away MultiMate supports more than 200 different printers Not only can you have fixed spacing with fixed fonts and proportional spacing with proportional fonts but you can also have proportional spacing with fixed fonts In addi tion you can enhance your text with multiple line headers and footers print merge and printer enhancements such as subscript superscript bold underline shadow and enhanced text The advanced features of MultiMate help both the novice and professional writer You can merge data from random or sequential data files with the Merge command You can access the Printer Queue which supports delayed printing from anywhere in the program I use the delayed printing feature to increase my productivity by scheduling all print j
180. solution to the data transfer problem provided you only use one desktop computer But if you ever need to transfer data between your Portable and someone else s desktop computer you re stuck or at least you were until now Because now there s a way to do it with software usage It lets you use DOS commands such as type list rename and erase without hav ing to exit the program And it transfers data faster than you can with an HP IL card Duette is easy to use too Simple menus and easy to understand help screens are available at all times n For true convenience in file transfer to and from your Portable Plus or Portable Vectra order Duette today Duette 2 0 with cable for Portable Vectra 59 95 it transfers files both ways between your HP Portable and your desktop computer without an HP IL card due f f Cv comes with a serial cable and two disks you load one disk into your portable computer and the other into the desktop There are two models to choose from Duette Version 2 0 is for the HP Portable Vectra It trans fers data at 115 200 baud as well as at lower baud rates It s a program called Duette Together with a special serial connecting cable that it comes with Duette is all you need to transfer files at high speed both ways be tween your Portable and any IBM PC com patible desktop Duette performs complete error checking during the transfer process to ensure data integrity It ha
181. ss of power File Conversion provides a comprehensive set of con version tools which allow you to easily share MultiMate files with other word processing systems databases and spreadsheets It supports the following conversions DCA Permits transfer to from the DCA Document Content Architecture revisable format file commonly us ed by many IBM office systems including the DisplayWriter dedicated word processor WANG Permits transfer to from dedicated Wang Pro fessional Word Processors and Wang Professional Com puters 123 Permits a one way transfer from a wks or wk1 worksheet file 123 directly to a MultiMate document DIF Permits a one way transfer of data from the DIF Data Interchange Format to the MultiMate document format COMM Converts a MultiMate document to an inter mediate 7 bit format for transmission through a modem without using any protocols When the MultiMate docu ment is translated at the other end all formatting and function characters are preserved BRT SNE TINE AEA ETN L Se ANNA ENAT a A A mee THE PORTABLE PAPER In addition to these formats File Conversion provides VCDIF Visicalc Data Interchange Format and ASCII con versions CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Today s word processors offer many enhancements and refinements that can dilute the true flavor of the product It is wise to match your needs with the capabilities offered by a program The choice is often subjective since one
182. t hadn t arisen before In reading Vol 1 No 2 tonight regarding the disadvantages of using PACK with subdirectories I think I can explain some of the data loss prob lems I have encountered But I believe there is an alternative I routinely back up using the XCOPY program you provided on the 1987 Subscriber s disk After refor matting the Edisc and reloading access time seems to have been enhanced con siderably I just wonder if that routine is a roundabout way of Packing when one has subdirectories I would like to purchase the RAM ROM drawer Here are some ques tions that I need answered How do you handle the exchange of the ROM drawer I do not want to take it out until the new one can be installed I am so impressed with the EDITOR that I really do not need NOVEMRER DECFMRER 19087 a THE PORTABLE PAPER the MS Word ROM I have I also have an IBM with Wordstar and send my EDITOR files to that if I need fancy printing or editing Can you install SuperROM and Best of DOS Tools in my new RAM ROM drawer David Speltz CompuServe ID 76054 1022 Shaker Heights OH Hal If any reader is having similar problems with their Plus see your local authorized HP service center Copying or XCopying files onto a blank disk ts indeed a way of packing a disk We will be happy to install ROM chips in any RAM ROM drawer ROM drawer or Portable Plus we sell In fact for those readers who would like to pur chase ROM chips from
183. t be on a floppy unless of course you purchase the model CS 20 which has a built in 20 meg hard disk The Portable Vectra has a little green LED that goes on when you have the computer on Since the Portable Vectra doesn t have a timeout power off like the HP Portables do the LED serves as a gentle reminder that it needs to be turned off The LED can be seen when the lid is closed as well POWERING UP I opened up the lid and turned the computer on to see what would happen Since there was no floppy inserted in any of the drives the computer couldn t boot up but it did do something quite clever It drew a little picture of the Portable Vectra and another one of a floppy It then pro ceeded to show you that a floppy needs to be inserted in the left drive Once I inserted the floppy it promptly booted me up into PAM I then hard reset the computer and timed how long it takes to boot up from floppy It took 14 seconds compared to 4 ona Portable Plus the Portable Plus takes 9 seconds if you have a floppy inserted in the ex ternal floppy drive DISPLAY The Portable Vectra is the first computer I believe to have a 12 inch display and an aspect ratio the same as a desktop PC This results in a larger characters Also when graphics software draws circles they look like circles instead of eggs The technology used for the display is called super twist which gives you a much greater viewing angle than you get with the
184. t has the added advantage of a built in second jack for a telephone instrument This modified power supply might solve similar problems for WorldPort 1200 and other portable modem users who REALLY want to be portable William C Sexton Long Island New York Another Formatter Let me share a discovery with you Long ago I purchased Hayden s Writer from HP HP35154D this was before anything else was available for my HP110 I found the THE PORTABLE PAPER program to be riddled with bugs causing one lockup after another As you may know the program is divided into modules However the formatter a file named fmt ovr about 21K can be load ed and used with MemoMaker and Editor files Simply rename the file fmt com It works fine and has capabilities not available in PrinterTalk and Format110 Of course it requires embedded commands that make it awkward to use Robert Grigg Davis CA Other PC Clones With HP IL Cards You asked several issues back for the names of IBM PC clones that work with the HP IL card HP82973A Here are two 1 Multitech AT compatibles 900 910 and 2 Microport s UNIX System V AT If DOS 2 11 formatted 5 1 4 disks are not used then copy must be entered on the clone side with HPLink running on the HP110 C M Waite Sollentuna More Coverage Of Lotus 1A Please In one of the early issues of The Portable Paper you indicated that since there were several other publications dedicated
185. t is time to wake up The way to get your Portable or Portable Plus to wake up first time every time is to use the contrast key This key is directly connected to the on off circuitry PAM and DOS Overhead When you try to read a file or run a program that takes 100K of RAM memory to run the system may lock up and not load the program or may claim that there is not enough memory The reason is that if you run a program from from PAM you need enough memory not only for your applica tion but also to account for the system overhead of 4K for PAM and 27K for DOS That is why you need a minimum of 131K in RAM to run the 100K program Diskpack Vs Pack By Rich Burmeister After several hours of creating new files and erasing old files on your computer the disk becomes fragmented THE PORTABLE PAPER Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus See Software on ROM ad in this tssue Instant Access Pop ups for the Portable Plus Calculator e notepad macros and more A great easy to use productivity booster If there s one program every Portable Plus owner Should have it s Shelp Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper i ii Ii f It s a program called Shelp shell help and it runs on the Portable Plus from within any non graphics program Here s all you do Press Ctrl Shift Extend char and up pops the Shelp menu
186. t of good information while gone and I even managed to meet Hal One of the most exciting things I managed to do was bortow a Port able Vectra from Hewlett Packard for a few days THE FACTS The Portable Vectra comes in two models a CS which has dual 3 1 2 floppies and a CS 20 which has one floppy and a 20 megabyte hard disk Both come with 640K bytes of RAM and a processor speed of 7 16 megahertz It has four slots able to take more memory I O or anything else that someone decides to make for it The battery life is rated at 10 hours for the model CS and about 4 hours for the CS 20 The unit I got was a prototype model CS that had gone through extensive shock testing THE EXTERNALS The first thing that struck me about the Portable Vectra was its size It s about the size of an average brief case which 38 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 prepare this year s group of students It s time once again to reflect on what has been worthwhile in the past and to decide what is of worth in the present As it is with new students so it is with new computer products The question always remains will either con tribute anything useful to the field of computing Only time will tell A word about the shareware programs mentioned in this article remember that none of the shareware pro grams work on the current HP110 or Portable Plus All of them are available on local or regional remote bulletin boards or through local PC users groups H
187. te RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 800 Upgrade to 1 Megabyte 500 1 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 1200 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 1800 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card or C drive Card 2 aaau aaa yada 1200 UK residents please add Value Added Tax at the ap plicable rate SoftWord Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey GU20 6BW England Telephone National Bagshot 0276 75440 International 44276 75440 Here are some ways you can use SoftWord s A drive Cards and C drive Cards to expand the capacity of your Portable Plus Note 1 megabyte 1024K Portable Plus s built in memory EXAMPLE 1 1 64 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 256K of built in memory and 384K of extra memory purchased from HP Gives you 640K of main Edisk memory 8 ROM sockets and an additional 1mb of C drive storage EXAMPLE 2 2 1 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card and 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 128K of built in memory Recommended for users who may need more than 8 sockets filled with software on ROM Gives you 1 1mb of main Edisk memory 16 ROM sockets and an additional 1mb of C drive storage EXAMPLE 3 2 5 megabytes 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory and HP s ROM drawer Gives you 512K of main Edisk
188. the D drive EASY TO INSTALL AND USE At the bottom of your Portable Plus there are two compartments designed to hold HP s RAM and ROM expansion AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO USE figuration will either be the one in Example 2 or Example 4 Note If you only purchase one Soft Word card we recommend you get the C drive variety rather than the A drive variety There are three reasons for this 1 If you reset your Portable Plus using the Battery Reset button you will lose whatever is in the A drive memory but what s in the C drive memory will be re tained a 1 Megabyte RAM 8 Socket ROM Card 2 A C drive Card allows you to utilize whatever extra RAM drawer memory you may already be using for your A drive see Example wherever you went Now all that is changed Be cause now you can boost your Portable Plus s memory by as much as 4 megabytes How There are many ways to utilize the 8 ROM sockets on a 1 Megabyte RAM ROM card Here s one combination of programs you might find useful Simply by installing special 1 or 2 megabyte RAM cards in the bottom of your Portable Plus MEGABYTES PER CARD The RAM cards have been developed by SoftWord of Sur rey England As SoftWord s exclusive U S distributor Per sonalized Software is currently offering two kinds of cards e2 Megabyte RAM Cards e Megabyte RAM ROM Cards containing 1 megabyte of RAM and 8 sockets for ROM chips Each ROM socket can hold up t
189. the data from Lotus to dBase II and or Statistix for analysis Then I need only use Word star on my Portable to write the reports papers and next year s proposal 16 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 Boots Molly Glen CompuServe ID 73250 2264 could be thought of the Erma Bombeck of the computer world Every mishap that could befall a novice user seems to have befallen Molly Despite these adversities Molly has emerged heroically with ber sense of humor in tact I like cats And I decided to like this guy He kept his cat Boots in his monitor carrying case The long awaited day had finally dawned and he brought his station wagon loaded down with my HP Vectra Laserjet Panasonic KX P1080i Thinkjet Turbo 150 power backup MaynStream 20 tape system Hayes modem HP 9122 drive a caseload of books and my HP PORTABLE PLUS This represented megabucks and an as tounding display of knowledge on paper Now I could run General Motors single handedly with my fabulous equipment By way of explanation here I would like to say the reason we bought this equipment is that my husband has written two novels one about murder and sex and the other about terrorists in a hotel in Hawaii would you believe I do his typing and have cranked out thousands of pages of prose on an IBM Selectric Anticipating the possibility that he might write his third fourth and fifth books we decided to get some sort of word processor to facilitate the whole pro
190. the rest of the keystrokes Shelp stuffed into the keyboard For example you could not put vdl bak as the first item above since VDL asks for confirmation before it deletes each matching file Escape Character in MemoMaker Also it was mentioned in The Portable Paper that you can t enter the Escape character into MemoMaker on the Portable Plus This is not true Most lower ASCII characters ie from 1 31 including ESC ASCII 27 can be entered by pressing Ctrl and the appropriate character For example to enter an ASCII 2 which MemoMaker will interpret as a bold character when the file is reloaded later press CTRL B The Escape character is ASCII 27 which is entered as CTRL since the character is the character just after Z the 26th character of the alphabet One important note here MemoMaker will save your escape sequences pro perly in ASCII mode only If you save a file containing escape sequences in Document mode MemoMaker will enclose each special character of which ESC is one in a special two character sequence i e an ASCII 27 special ASCII 28 This is not good but shouldn t be too much of a problem since lower ASCII characters are not usually entered directly into a document file Turbo Pascal v4 0 I don t yet have Turbo Pascal 4 0 but I have gotten some answers on its possible use on the Portables The editor definitely won t work since it uses direct screen writes The compiler can b
191. their own time to contribute to The Portable Paper Their writings may be labors of love but faced with our deadlines writing for us at times becomes just plain labor I ap preciate the intelligence and enthusiasm they bring to The Portable Paper Starting next issue we will expand The Portable Paper to include the HP Portable Vectra I think you will find that expanding our discussions to this new IBM compatible machine will enrich the understanding and appreciation of your own machine and help you better understand the whole portable and IBM compatible industry At the same time we will continue to improve our coverage of the HP110 and Portable Plus Included with your issue is a questionnaire Please fill it out and add any comments how we can better serve you We have carved out a very small market niche and we can continue to be successful only if you find our products and services of value Please mail your completed question naire in the postage paid envelope Enjoy the holidays special group of people Special thanks once again go to Ed Keefe Cliff How Good Is The Plus Thanks for putting out such a helpful in formative and readable Paper it has greatly improved the usefulness of my 110 for me Iam a tour manager for various rock bands and constantly use my 110 on the road for electronic mail tour budgets alphabetization of guest lists and along with my ThinkJet printing itinerary up dates and pr
192. there all operations relating to sending files are performed First select the files to be sent from a direc tory listing Individual files are selected by pressing the space bar A subset of the directory may be shown by enter ing standard DOS wildcards Function keys may be used to select or deselect the entire list of files shown Once the files have been selected the send option puts the pro gram in transfer mode At this point the other computer should be in Receive mode and the file transfer can pro ceed It s much more difficult to describe than to do especially without pictures Benchmark Results The table below gives the average results of my benchmark tests So that others can check my results I used common ly available files in these tests The single file is the nu exe 124K from the Norton Utilities Advanced Edition The multi file transfers used all of the files on the 1987 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk approximately 258K To eliminate disk drive speed as a factor in the tests all transfers were to from a ram disk on my IBM PC XT which is souped up to 7 38Mhz your mileage may differ and runs a NEC V 20 HPIL transfers used the PC DOS xcopy 30 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 command from the 1987 subsciber s disk to get the best possible results The results can be summarized by saying that Duette is faster than the HP IL almost all of the time In the fastest test PPlus Edisc to PC ramdisk Duette was a
193. to return to the modem s command mode the modem responds with an OK if it has acknowledged your request and then ATH to hang up the modem If you have trouble doing this you can always disconnect the telephone cord momentarily It s not very professional but it works if your is repeatedly swallowed by CompuServe TRANSFERRING OTHER FILES If you want to transfer programs Lotus ee files MS Word files MemoMaker document files you cannot use the TERM program directly However CompuServe HP forum system operator Mark Horvatich 76703 4163 wrote a utility PPTerm available on the CompuServe HP forum to complement TERM PPTerm uses the XModem protocol and allows you to transfer these files to and from other computers PPTerm will be available on the 1988 subscriber s disk that we will be sending out by the end of the year If you are desperate send us 7 50 for the PPTerm disk or a formatted disk with self addressed stamped envelope and we will put on PPTerm files for free OTHER HINTS AND A SHELP TRICK The keyboard macro facility in the Shelp program sold by Personalized Software can be used to save typing the same logon strings For example I Hal Goldstein have 12 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 assigned the d key for dial to ATDT12701581 my CompuServe phone number The i ID is assigned 12257 714 MY PASSWORD When I call CompuServe first I press a la Shelp CTRL Extend Char d and out pops the phone number When
194. to think in a modular way You create self contained well defined units and put them together to make a full working program GREAT WORKING ENVIRONMENT Turbo provides you with an exception WRL ally good programmer s environment One aspect of this is Turbo s built in text editor It s a sophisticated WordStar work alike that in itself is worth the price of the program Another aspect is Turbo s compiler In addition to being uncommonly fast an amazing 80 100 lines per second it is also uncommonly helpful If the com piler encounters a mistake in a program it stops compiling gives you an error message returns you to the editor and takes you to the place in your program where the error occured The external environment for Turbo 4 is also excellent There are numerous books articles public domain programs and even a CompuServe forum devoted to helping people use Turbo to full ad vantage With all these advantages and more it s no wonder that Turbo Pascal is to day s best selling programming language for the IBM PC THREE PIECE STARTER KIT CUSTOMIZED FOR THE PORTABLES For Portable and Portable Plus users there s yet another enormous benefit Turbo Pascal takes up less than 40K of memory and that includes its powerful Compiling a program means getting it to meet the rules of syntax Imposed by the programming language A program will not run until it can be compiled All Borland produ
195. tt Packard Company Camas WA Software For Transferring Files Disk compatibility is of major concern to any HP Portable user As I wrote before I ve been able to use some equipment belong ing to my employer to transfer files to an 42 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1987 39 95 to subscribers IBM readable 5 1 4 disk For the average Portable user this technique is cost prohibitive Even so it has led me to con tinue my quest for an inexpensive file transfer technique The goal has been to be able to use the same 3 1 2 disk in both an HP Portable and an IBM PC or compatible The answer is a commercial software program called SmartDisk It is produced by Software Research Technologies 2130 South Vermont Ave Los Angeles CA 90010 213 737 7663 and costs 24 95 Using this software I ve been able to read the root directory of most HP Portable 700K formatted disks The subdirectories do not seem readable The format that reads these disks is for an ACT Apricot DS 3 1 2 drive There are several formats on this software for reading HP150 3 1 2 disks but they do not seem to work They do for mat the disk in what they call an HP150 DS 3 1 2 format Such a disk is usable by the Portable You can access its files by using SmartDisk on an IBM PC or compatible with 3 1 2 disk drives In addition the SmartDisk manual states that Software Research Technologies will update for free any format
196. turbing the rest of the flowchart Shrink Screen feature lets you view up to 14 x 11 chart on 25 line screen Runs on Portable Plus only HPrint Takes text ASCII files you ve created with MemoMaker The Editor or other word processors and prints them on an HP printer Comes with italic type font for ThinkJet Also allows bold underline compressed expanded subscripts superscripts headers footers page numbering double space and much more all of which you specify from a sim ple menu or by means of sensible control codes HPrint also does mail merging and it lets you create your own graphic characters integral signs Greek alpha etc LINK HP IL Connector Software A software program that lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other HP IL device Now you can access your main computer HP Portable HP150 or IBM PC its unlimited storage capability and all its peripherals from your HP41 71 75 or series 80 hand held SeP 23 Logitech Mouse for the Portable Plus A 3 button mouse for the Portable Plus bundled with our proprietary Portable Mouse Software and special connecting cable Using the mouse instead of arrow keys to move the screen cursor makes using your Plus easier and more fun The Logitech mouse was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 Useful in themselves and also as learning tools for novices and experts alike these macros include recalculating rang
197. tus 1 2 3 print files MemoMaker files or any other text ASCII file that s too wide for a normal page Just type in the file name and SideWinder does the rest printing up to 53 rows sideways for as long as your paper supply lasts You ll never need to cut and paste again SideWinder s high quality graphics characters are indistinguishable from ordinary characters and SideWinder prints just as fast as your ThinkJet can In addition a built in mini text editor lets you get inside your print files and easily create double width characters and underlines SideWinder 2 2 969 95 59 95 for Portable Paper subscribers for the Portable Plus SideWinder 1 01 owners may upgrade to current version 2 01 which supports 8 chars inch by sending Personalized Software 7 50 or by mailing a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and the SideWinder master disk Anti static workstation mat with wrist strap Flux core solder preferably with water soluble flux TORX T 8 screwdriver Tweezers needle nose pliers small flat blade screwdriver Xacto knife wire stripper IC extractor 28 or 30 gauge insulated wire wrap wire ICs required 12 NEC 43256 12L 120ns 32K 8 CMOS static RAM 150ns versions will also work 3 74HC138 CMOS 3 8 line decoders STEP BY STEP MODIFICATION PROCEDURE Procedure 1 Disassemble the HP110 according to the service manual instructions and isolate the System PCA memory
198. ty Engineer at Hewlett Packard Vancouver Washington Division I read your article about HP and Think Jet QuietJet paper some weeks ago by Sergio Biguzzi and it has taken me this long to get all of the facts pertaining to continued on page 42 NOVEMRER DECFMRER 19087 5 THE PORTABLE PAPER Portable Vectra Update For a first look at the Vectra see the Wizardry column where our Wizard Cliff Looyenga describes his initial ex perience using the Portable Vectra WHY THE SLOWER PROCESSOR Although HP has its 8086 IBM XT compatible micropro cessor running at maximum speed many readers have asked why HP did not choose a faster Alike 80286 micro processor The answer is that HP wanted to provide a true battery powered portable one that could last up to ten hours without recharging That kind of battery life has not been possible for 80286 based laptops Several weeks after HP announced the release of the Portable Vectra Harris Corporation announced a CMOS version of Intel s 80286 that can power a unit up to six hours on battery We can expect to see battery powered portables with the Harris microprocessors at the begin ning of 1988 THE PORTABLE VECTRA S UNIQUENESS HP sees the Portable Vectra filling a need in the fast expanding portable marketplace The Portable Vectra is for those who desire the performance and the physical characteristics of a desktop computer but still want more size and weight portability t
199. ue Sam Chau discusses a method for speeding up the Portable Plus processing speed The change involves switching the Portable Plus CPU for another CPU Unfortunately such an upgrade also voids HP warranties and mean that HP is under no obligation to service the unit Expanding the HP110 s Memory Capacity By Sam Chau 1200 Murchison Drive Millbrae CA 94030 415 692 8710 Two major weaknesses of the HP110 computer are the lack of sufficient memory and the ability to expand it For a machine that runs MS DOS a total of 272K of RAM just isn t enough especially when it must be shared by user memory and a RAM disk Fortunately through a bit of research and experimentation a method has been found by which the capacity of RAM of the HP110 can be ex panded from 272K to 512K The following is a description of why it works and how it can be done First a little technical background The 272K of RAM in the HP110 is physically contained in 34 static RAM in tegrated circuits on the main printed circuit board inside the machine with each IC holding 8K bytes of memory It was due to the large size of these RAM chips that made it impossible for HP to design the HP110 with significant ly more than 272K of RAM The HP110 itself however was designed to handle a maximum of 512K of RAM Conse quently an HP110 contains only 53 of the maximum amount of RAM addressable by the CPU In more technical terms there is a void in the 8086 processor
200. ur order we RRRRRRRKRRKRKK SHIPPING AND HANDLING Portable Paper subscriptions anon Subscription prices include U S Second Class mailing Non U S subscribers please add the following amounts for each subscri Mexico and Canada face mail Other countries 6 surface 18 air tion year All other products in North America Add 4 for one item 7 for more than one item FREE SHIPPING FOR US ORDERS OVER 200 Outside North America Add 3 surface mail 10 airmail We bill or charge non US orders for the actual postage if it exceeds these amounts anu LEER LESTE SNES SIE EERE NUTS SOLS IN NINO How to Order TO ORDER BY PHONE Call 515 472 6330 between 9 00 am and 4 30 pm Central Time Monday through Friday or use CompuServe EMAIL ID 72257 714 TO ORDER BY MAIL 1 Fill out your name etc on the reverse side of the order form e Be sure to indicate your disk requirements 2 Locate desired items on order form e Subscriptions are at the top e Products are next and are alphabetized e The blank lines near the bottom labelled MISC are for you to write in special instructions or to order miscellaneous products not listed on the form e The last section of iat the order form is for ordering software on 1 ROM backup See below Personalized Software 3 Fill in desired quantity of each item e Please pay special attention to footnotes 4 Calculat
201. ustic coupler for the Model 100 is the best around We sell this coupler which is listed on the Additional products sec tion adjacent to our order form My Prayers Have Been Answered When as a hobbyist I bought the Portable Plus a year ago I fully realized that its ma jor disadvantage was the lack of software support However the advantages of com pactness portability and the advent of the super twist screen coupled with the realization that the Plus is a fully capable PC seemed to far outweigh its prob lems My hope was that as the installed base for the Plus grew so would the availability of reasonably priced quality software My prayers have been answered Not only is your magazine an invaluable resource of information but your soft ware products and hardware improve ments by HP and others are unlocking the full potential of the Plus In particular your latest issue was a revelation ROM based software graphics 1 and 2 Meg RAM drawers even a Mouse My friends no longer laugh at the Plus The only ob jection they can now seem to come up with is that it is not a true IBM compati ble Who needs it with the excellent sup port your company offers As far as Iam concerned The Port able Paper is as essential to me as my Edisc Let the doubters eat TANDY Neil L Henderson Rocklin CA Another HP Fan I work for an international advertising agency I m based in New York and am
202. ve versions are memory resi dent That means you can for example write a response to electronic mail in your normal word processor and then send it by invoking Carbon Copy Carbon Copy Plus represents the first memory resident program Shelp is ac tually a device driver that has been ported successfully to the Portable Plus This meant quite a bit of extra unforseen work from the Meridian Software people The only restric tion is that Carbon Copy Plus must be run from DOS not PAM As soon as you exit to PAM you must restart Carbon Copy Plus If you do run Carbon Copy Plus on both ends you are required to purchase a second version To that end Carbon Copy Plus won t work if it tries to talk to a version with the same serial number If we put the program on ROM this is a point that will have to be worked out with the manufacturer since the cost of a ROM version would rise dramatically if we have to burn a new version for each ver sion of Carbon Copy Plus sold Based on my conversation with the programmer on the literature from Meridian Software and on the highly favorable reviews in other publications we are going to put Carbon Copy Plus on our price list InfoWorld reviewed it on May 11 1987 and gave it 8 3 points out of 10 which is very high for an InfoWorld review We have been told that Meridian Software will be ship ping the Plus version November 1 For those who order the 2400 Baud WorldPort modem a free copy of the IBM
203. would like to upgrade your machine give us a call If there is a reader competent to upgrade HP110 s as described above also give us a call If there is a demand we ll see if we can have the upgrade done I imagine we will charge between 450 and 650 for the upgrade Remember however HP may refuse to fix any machine that has been so altered Personalized Software 515 472 6330 By Ed Keefe Reflections In A Looking Glass Reflecting is something that portable computer screens do very well Yet in another sense of the word we humans also excel at reflecting Our kind of reflecting puts us at least one notch above our computers Thus far I have not heard of a computer that can reflect upon and answer such questions as Whats happening What am I actually trying to ac complish or Is it really worth it So while viewing my own reflection in the looking glass of my 110 s screen Ild like to share with you a few reflections about what s happening in the portable com puting arena and in my own area of the computing world WHAT S HAPPENING COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG What s happening Well it s autumn the leaves are turn ing red and gold It s the start of a new year at school It s also the season for computer companies to release new products Now I know there s more happening than this but let me reflect upon the last two events They have several things in common
204. y so no space is wasted Unless you have the ROM B version on the Portable Plus DO NOT use PACK on an Edisc which has subdirectories The early version did not work properly with subdirectories Also DO NOT use PACK on any disk besides the Edisc PACK does not come DISKPACK works like PACK except that it contains no bugs for Portable Plus useage packs a disk more efficiently than PACK Each file is packed contiguously PACK simply puts all the files in a contiguous block However parts of an individual file may be scattered throughout the entire block works on nearly any DOS disk as well as on the Edisc WARNINGS DISKPACK may not work correctly on hard disk systems running DOS 3 2 or higher e g some HP150s Also like ALL disk packing programs it may destroy installed copy protected software like Lotus 1 2 3 version 2 01 Therefore it is a good idea to make a back up copy of the disk you intend to pack before using DISKPACK One last warning the HP9114 battery drains fairly quickly with intensive use Therefore make sure it is ful ly charged before using DISKPACK PACK is available from Personalized Software on the Time Manager Pack HP Calculator disk or the DOS Tools disk and DISKPACK is on the 1987 Subscriber Disk Each disk but DOS Tools is available to The Port able Paper subscribers for 7 50 including shipping or for free if a formatted disk with self addressed stamped envelo
205. y to find out is to try one Remember you can order any product Plus risk free today Don t forget to order our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE and cable too you ll need them to run either mouse with your Portable Plus Portable Plus Mouse Systems Logitech Mouse Portable Mouse Software Cable 219 00 179 95 for Portable Paper subscribers oes o o o For pricing of individual components and Microsoft Mouse see Additional Products opposite the order form in this issue ABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE program devel oped exclusively for us by Bill Saltzstein The LOGITECH MOUSE was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine January 27 1987 3 BUTTONS EASY TO CUSTOMIZE from us use it for 60 days and then return it for a full refund if you are not completely The LOGITECH MOUSE offers high resolu satisfied tion precision tracking and a convenient Order a Logitech 3 button design The Microsoft mouse which or Microsoft mouse for your Portable See ad for Sketch the graphics program for the Portable Plus in this issue chips It should be possible but there is at least one prob lem When Milestone starts it asks for today s date and your name when you exit from Milestone it tries to write this information to itself Since ROM is Read Only Memory the attempt to write fails and you get the message Write protect error writing drive B Abort Retry Ignore and your only viable option is to press
206. you ll probably want to know how to find dlll Just type dl or the corresponding number from the forum s func tion menu depress 11 and a carriage return when the data library menu appears this corresponds to the general in terest data library Since we already know what file we want all that is left is to instruct CompuServe that we want to download a file initiate the transfer with Reflection 1 Type dow at the Data Library Disposition prompt and enter the name of the file mf com At the Data Library Pro tocol Menu prompt select XModem On CompuServe you are given menus for these options so the above in structions are not as bad as they sound Once CompuServe has displayed the transfer initiated message it s our turn to set up for the transfer To ac complish this depress User System to get Reflection 1 s main function keys and then select 5 COMMAND LINE Type the following at the Command A prompt XR filename g filename is the name of the file you want to download mf com into You can use the same name mf com if you wish A file transfer screen appears and the Transfer In Progress message appears in the lower left hand corner of the display once the transfer has commenced Note XModem is a commonly used error checking file transfer protocol for text and binary files Additional file transfer statistics can be viewed by depressing the f4 SHOW STATS key When Reflection 1 completes the transfer the com

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