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1. Read this list It may look long and bo ing b an incredible amount of da b ef f ort t Its a list of the more than 50 programs on Port able Utilities Disk Vol ume 1 DOS Tools Each program performs a spe cific task to make life with your Portable more enjoyable and productive The programs are all in the public domain which means that if you search ed long enough you could find them for free on var ious electronic bulletin boards in magazines and in the archives of local user groups But consider this Even if you had the time to track this many programs down what about evaluating them and making sense of the documentation It would be a formidable task but we have good news You don t have to do it we ve already done it for you Thats right we ve combed through hundreds of public domain utility programs that run on the Portables and HP150 and have selected only the best ones for inclusion in Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools We ve not only made sense of the document ation but in many cases we ve actually rewritten it A printed 65 page user manual con taining program documentation _ and plenty of examples in included with the disk The manual is conve niently indexed by subject so all you have to do is look up the name of the task you want done You don t have to ADDCOL COM Joins two files horizontally by appending corresponding lines
2. Volume 2 Number 3 THE The HP Portable Portable Plus Users Newsletter Portable P aper May June 1987 e e oS 7 Special Feature i EEE Peripherals Publisher s Message l LOTUS AO peah pe aibua oboe se aa 16 Letters Foundations auaa aaaea aaa 18 Condor Junior On HP1IO aaua auaa aaa aaa 1 Special Feature Peripherals Software Excellent Backup Routine 2 Introductio sch ce Sem ve Gm i et i Meg dees 20 Communications And Battery Life 2 QuietJet Evaluation ouaou aaua 20 Time Manager Hint 58 Low Cost Portable Letter Quality Printer 24 Portable Self Sufficiency 38 HP Portable Users Two Portable Modems 26 Utilizing Line Drawing Character Sets 39 Portable Plus Mouse 29 Terminal Benchmarks 40 Kodak Datashow System 30 r ee en an en SEN EOP RE ee Kodak Datashow Systemi 21 uy aacs Rhea os wa as 1 o Huene PAM Using HP Plotters And The Portable 31 HRCA DHE a ee ER AA A Ane 5 Don t Buy The Brooklyn Bridge 33 Graphics Programs For The Portables 3 HP IL 514 Disk Drive Aint No More 34 Product News From Personalized Software 4 Ba E fe 8 OL Oe ee te ete 5 l The HP9114 Empowerer 34 HP Bulletin Board oaa dang ad ak Bon eA 8 Padded C 4 IBM 3 Disk Compatibility
3. See P 28 Whether you re a Lotus spreadsheet a Memo Maker memo or almost any program Shelp gives Shelp ou immediate access to a notepad and calculator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros A A that is assign up to 31 characters to a single Ss keystroke Written exclusively for the Portable PLUS NUE NK EHS EY RERUN UN ee See P 31 This program written specifically for the HP Portables the HP150 and the ThinkJet printer allows you to print your spread sheets or any other text file sideways This means you can print your 60 column by 40 row spreadsheet on the ThinkJet from your Portable as one long printout without cutting and pasting SeeP3 Sketch A graphics program for the HP Portables Lets you draw free form us ing cursor keys Also draw lines boxes circles by pressing a single key Fill shapes with light or dark solid Five character sets can be displayed normally sideways or even upside down Entire screen can be printed On ThinkJet at virtually any enlargement Screens can be saved for future se Screens can also be imported into Sketch from Lotus and other pro grams Only uses 44K of memory SeeP8 Soft Padded Cases Roomy rugged high quality highly padded cases to protect your Think Jet HP9114 and HP Portable when traveling Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit First video game designed for The Portables SeeP 19 Borland Turbo Pascal
4. 8 reales opera aaa aeeses Profiles Power CUDE RRC CN ITC CE Ve ciae saaa Yl oe aes BS 34 The Portable Plus As A Sales Tool 10 MODI Re Caangce ieee ates i AEN i The HP110 In A Conference Environment 12 Through The Looking Glass PLUS Notes LIN K For HP IL Computers Reviewed 35 1 2 Megabyte RAM Drawers Now Available 13 Wizardr DF ais Se Raa eRe pee Bh ek ei a 37 EPROM ROM Backups Available Soon 14 Classified S 3 ick poeta hatte tae gh G8 23 36 Portable Plus Connection To IBM 16 HP Portable User Groups 39 Great news 10r rortavie rius Users 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 soft ware products are now available on ROM Backup as many as five products per chip In sert 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
5. ARC512 ARC Archived ARC file compression and library utility ARCE COM Extracts ARChive files from ARC 5 12 and previous versions ASK COM Adds interactive capability to batch files Prompts user with message and waits for yes no response BEEP COM Makes a beep sound CHANGE COM Changes or displays file attributes read only archive system hidden CLEAN COM Converts WordStar HP150 or Portable Plus MemoMaker document files to ASCII and removes control codes COPYNEW COM Backs up files if no identical file on the destination disk Also backs up whole directory structure creating matching subdirectories CPU COM Displays computer s clock speed CVTBIN COM Converts files from ASCII to binary when downloaded with CompuServe READ command CYPHER COM Enciphers and deciphers a file to keep it confidential DIRALL COM Displays attributes and pathnames for ALL files on a disk DIRS COM Gives total disk space occupied by a set of files DUMP COM Dumps and edits a disk or file in hexadecimal and ASCII FDATE COM Changes the time date stamp on a file FDUMP COM Lists a file in hexadecimal and ASCII FF COM Sends a form feed to the printer FGREP COM Searches a group of files for a specified string HC COM Converts binary files to from hexadecimal ASCII files HP IBM COM Does a best fit translation from HP ROMAN 8 character set to IBM PC Line Draw character set IBM HP COM Does a best fit translation from IBM PC Lin
6. Bugs Documented The Portable Computer Division Product Support depart ment of Hewlett Packard is making available Software Status Bulletins for computer products manufactured in Corvallis The Software Status Bulletin SSB produced by the STARS system documents all known problems for products covered in the bulletin The Corvallis site manufactures three different lines of computer products A separate SSB has been produced for each product line The SSBs available are as follows Series 80 products part number 5955 8680 MS DOS products part number 5955 8625 covers the HP110 and the Portable Plus HP UX products part number 5955 8681 covers the Integral PC The SSBs must be ordered through User s Library Hewlett Packard 1000 NE Circle Blvd Corvallis OR 97330 503 757 2000 Note these publications are not on the Corporate Price List and cannot be ordered through any other means The cost for each SSB is 15 plus any applicable state and local taxes The User s Library can accept phone or ders for customers with a Mastercard or Visa credit card Otherwise customers may send a personal check to the User s Library For customers in other HP divisions the User s Library will generate an intra corporate invoice giv en the division number and a billing account and location HEWLETT PACKARD Authorized Dealer List Special 636 00 396 00 19 95 79 50 495 00 29 00 99 50 Our Ad was designed using De
7. THE PORTABLE PAPER your disk To upgrade your disk send Norton some kind of proof of purchase or registration card or master disk plus 25 for version 4 0 or 39 for The Advanced Edition As a courtesy to our customers we will copy the new version of The Norton Utilities onto 31 2 disk if necessary Send us proof of upgrade a formatted double sided or two single sided disks and a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and we ll put the new version on your disk Alternatively you can mail us 7 50 and proof of upgrade and we ll send you the appropriate disk please mention if we can use a double sided disk Peter Norton Computing can be contacted at 2 0 Wilshire Blvd Santa Monica CA 90403 213 453 2361 RightWriter RightSoft has announced an upgrade from RightWriter 2 0 to 2 1 RightWriter now checks grammar and supports MemoMaker MS Word MultiMate and WordPerfect All of you who purchased RightWriter 2 0 from us this year can upgrade by sending us 7 50 to cover the cost of the disk shipping and handling I haven t seen the upgrade yet but I believe it includes a new manual For the convenience of our readers we have worked out arrangements with RightSoft so that other owners re quiring 3 disk can upgrade through us You need to send us the normal upgrade fee of 29 95 In return we ll send you the new manual and the software on 31 2 disk If you prefer to obtain the upgrade from RightSoft you can se
8. 69 95 62 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RUNS ON HPPonamie O Forano pus IBM PC HP Vectra B 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE 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 IA 52556 515 472 6330 makes one of the two computers the controller and the other a device That way files can be transferred back and forth without using any communications software a sim ple DOS copy command can be used to make the transfer For those of you with HP IL cards in your PC s it works similarly White Crane Systems sent me a review copy to test out I had to get a new cable made since the cable enclos ed with The Brooklyn Bridge wasn t compatible After about an hour of fooling around with my Portable Plus and Compaq Deskpro I gave up I discussed the product with HP IL expert Paul Grimmer author of SideWinder Link and Sketch and serial port expert Bill Saltzstein author of the Plus serial mouse driver They both told me that there are major incompatibilities between the way the HP im plemented its serial port on the Portables and the way the IBM PC serial port works Furthermore the HP110 and the Portable Plus implement the serial port differently and the HP110 approach is not well documented The product would have been ideal for Portable users who use their Portable in
9. 7 puke snjo7 105 rows for QuietJet Printer problems as I did you can call 716 458 0177 Alternative ly you can talk to Kathy Hubbard at Pacific Crest Software in Corvallis Oregon the home of the HP Portable 503 754 1067 They are the folks that supplied the DATASHOW for HP to check out Using HP Plotters and The Portable By Paul Grimmer If you use a printer such as the HP 2225B or the HP7475A plotter HP IB or RS 232 interface with your HP110 you have the option of making Lotus 1 2 3 plots on the printer or on the 7475A plotter on 8 x 11 or 11 x 17 paper Port able Plus users should be able to adapt this information to your system While this allows great flexibility in plotting it causes two problems 1 Lotus allows for only one default graphics configuration file graph cnf so you must have separate disks for each MAY JUNE 1987 31 THE PORTABLE PAPER plot type or be willing to change the plot parameters each time you use PrintGraph 2 The owner s and Lotus manuals do not adequately describe how to set up the 7475A plotter from either a serial device i e RS 232 or plot parameter standpoint Below is a description of a technique to generate plots using any of the above devices and have them all be on one disk and also appear as items to select from PAM The general strategy is to create more than one graphics con figuration file and rename the one needed to graph cnf by activating a batch file from
10. Customized For The Portables Turbo Pascal the HP Portable programming language of choice out strips others in price performance compatibility memory consump tion and programmer environment The WordStar type editor alone is worth the price Borland has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra disk with their product customizing the Turbo editor to The Portables editing keys Also available Turbo Pascal Tutor 2 0 a step by step interactive tutorial on Turbo Pascal programming and Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor and Portable Pascal Programs SeP 27 Typing Whiz Better than almost any typing program on the market designed spe cifically for The Portables and the HP150 Immediate numeric and graphic feedback of your progress SeeP 14 Webster s Spelling Checker Rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine this spelling checker packs a hefty 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 Excellent user interface exceptionally easy to learn and use Customized for the Port able Plus and HP150 WordPerfect 4 1 Disk based Portable PLUS version of the best selling word processing package Includes spelling checker and thesaurus SeP 15 The Word Plus An excellent spelling checker with a choice of two dictionaries 45 000 words and 35 000 words plus
11. Since the HR 10 uses a daisy wheel print mechanism you will find it noisier than the ThinkJet 60 dB A scale Also it is extremely slow compared to the ThinkJet 12 characters per second vs the ThinkJet s 150 characters per second That means printing letter quality on your HR 10 will take more than 12 times longer then printing on the ThinkJet The HR 10 comes with a sprocket wheel feeder that allows for fanfold paper It can print bold underline superscript and subscript however as described in Foun dations you must use software capable of supporting these features The HR 10 runs off of normal A C power only it is not battery operated The HR 10 weighs 13 2 pounds and is 16 5 wide by 11 3 deep by 5 16 tall From time to time there seems to be shortages of these printers in the U S The Brother HR 10 retails for 349 Printerlalk takes up 39K disk space Shorter 25K version sufficient for most applications included A on PrinterTalk disk AN Personalized Software s Hal Goldstein and ii L IN ace n EA Morona users Now you can take advan tage of all your printer s features not just bold and underline PrinterTalk Version 1 2 A an easy to use software package from Personalized Software prints your MemoMaker files allowing you to e Change attributes type styles anywhere within the files you print Bold underline italic compressed EX panded
12. Solution 2 sells for 199 to Portable Paper subscribers other wise it s 225 Both solutions are custom made Both solve the HP9114 battery prob lem And both will let you finish your work 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 Seu Personalized Softw P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 412 6330 Please allow 3 4 A for delivery 515 472 6330 for details two megabyte RAM drawer for The Portable Plus see Plus Notes he concurred with John Buchanan with his use of diskpack on the HP150 DOS 3 2 However he found a workaround to save all his hard disk files He diskpacked his HP150 hard disk using DOS 3 2 and seemed to have lost his files However he put a DOS disk in drive A and used the sys command to put the DOS back on drive C and all was well David warned that if the HP150 is turned off first a couple of dip switches on the disk drive must be switched see manual so that when the system is turned back on it boots off the A rather than the C drive PAST ISSUES OF THE PORTABLE PAPER If you began your subscription to The Portable Paper some time after the first issue Jan 1986 you can still get a complete set of Portable Papers Just send us 44 the two year fee 99 minus the one year cost 55 Well ad just your subscription so that it covers exactly all 1986 and 1987 issu
13. Turbo Pascal p19 agos s89 TCS alphabetical Products section of the already own the following programs on Turbo Pascal Programs For The Portables p 19 49 95 order form Write your ROM backup order disk Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Pascal Tutor Pascai Programs p 19 17995 aago in the ROM Backup section at the bot Turbo Pascal ae 3 2 os 33 he Tngwheipan tg s tom of the order form The Editor Webster s Spelling Checker works on Portable Plus only p 14 0 99s O27 ee Printerlalk WordPerfect Portable Plus only disk based Step 4 Be sure to initial the statement on Format110 _ The Word Plus p_15 the order form just beneath the ROM ET E 235 1997 199 1797 To order the ROM Backups you want you would first have to order the disk 2K and 64K ROMs will be shipped to you based versions of the programs you do by June 1987 128K ROMs by August If Ot yet have on disk namely Backup section MISC you pay Dy crediocont we Don cee see open eee a for the ROM Backup part of your order Shelp ea ny O WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER JAIEK 8127 1 2777 until we ship If you pay by check youcan SideWinder or SideWinder Utilities SueeR ROM ep ra ITFA Subtotal B C 2 H iowa residents add 4 tax ass Shipping and handiing see 50x at right _ TOTAL EGF Important Piease read and initial already own or am ordering the disk based versions of the programs included in
14. an HP150 I loved the HP110 from the start for its portabili ty and power and for some intangible reason that I have never been able to verbalize To connect the beauty HP110 to the beast 75 pound LaserJet EPERE an HP92221P serial printer cable To create the conditions so that my HP IO could talk to the LaserJet I went into PAM s f6 System Config to set Printer Interface to Serial I exited and went into PAM s f5 Datacom Config and set Serial port to RS 232 Plus users just use the Serial column After consulting the LaserJet manual I determined that I should set the baud rate to 9600 the word length to 8 bits stop bits to and parity as none The default values were used for the rest of the settings So in general all you have to do to use a serial printer is use the right cable the HP92221P in almost all cases and make the correct settings Your serial printer manual will tell you what settings and cable pinouts are required I have heard of very few problems making a serial printer work with a Portable as long as the cable and the config uration settings are correct 18 MAY JUNE 1987 Readers often ask me what letter quality printer should they buy for the Portable Since any serial printer should work the answer varies When buying any piece of hardware or software the best approach is to sit and write down your requirements In the case of the serial printer for your Portable you might look at some of the f
15. battery dies Touchbase Systems indicated that this was a design compromise I found that the modem would become unable to dial or carrier detect before the low bat tery light turned on The WorldPort survived several informal drop tests with no detectable damage The most severe of these was from a desktop to a hardwood floor A WARNING The WorldPort 1200 contains delicate CMOS circuits that can be easily damaged by static electricity Although fac tory settings are acceptable you may wish to disable auto answer Should you open the modem to change this switch do not attempt to remove the circuit boards The most delicate components are on the bottom You have been warned I wasn t and I got to test a second modem THE PORTABLE PAPER eed Saat feedback sired mn 30 fine to help r each gye your typing s ractice practice num ds Sey whatever 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 LA 52556 515 472 6330 Available on EPROM ROM Typing Whiz is one of the better typing programs on the market and is priced competitively If you want to learn or improve your typing buy Typing Whiz Typing Whiz is on my highly recommended list Dave Mark L A Scrug Notes newsletter WHAT THE LIGHTS MEAN Four indicator light
16. config false assuming failure regs ax 09 command to configure the loop intr 54 regs call hpil primitives if regs flags and X 9 then begin no error oldsecs time secs set timeout to secs if oldsecs lt gt then config true end end ekekeke keekeekee keekeeke kkk kiekkkikkikkk This function searches the loop starting at the address STARTADDR looking for a device with an accessory id of ID If the ID is xF only a class match is performed only the top four bits are compared with the device accessory IDs If a matching device is found its address is returned else 1F is returned ADDR FIND STARTADDR ID RRERRERERREERERER EEE RR ERERECEEREREERSEOSRRERAS function find startaddr id integer integer type registers record ax bx cx dx bp si di ds es flags integer end var regs registers find 1f assume failure if id lt gt 254 then begin regs ax 9109 command for find device regs bx startaddr shl 8 or id intr 54 regs if regs flags and J 9 then find lo regs bx return address end end There are many HP IL services that are available of which I only covered two here If you have the Portable Plus technical reference manual all the services are discussed there I have written a set of Turbo Pascal pro cedures that has routines to call just about all of the HP IL services available ve sent the disk with those procedures to Hal Goldst
17. whatever your printer supports e Control numerous print functions including number of copies lines per inch lines per page spacing including double triple quadruple automatic page numbering e Avoid paper waste by preventing annoying form feeds e Use your HPIHO as an electronic typewriter PrinterTalk connects your keyboard directly to your printer Great for labels envelopes short notes any small typing task e Perform advanced features supported by your printer such as superscripting and subscripting CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR PRINTER PrinterTalk stores the escape sequences command codes that tell your HP printer how to perform attri butes and print functions Escape sequences are already built into PrinterTalk for ThinkJet LaserJet and car tridges and other HP printers and you can easily customize PrinterTalk for any other printer as well SPECIAL OFFER FastAid s Ed Keefe Team Up Put the _ MemoMaker enhancing utilities of PrinterTalk amp Format110 to work for you The MemoMaker Enhancer It does the things you wish MemoMaker could do RUNS ON HP Portable ca Portable Plus e HP150 IBM PC HP Vectra pe Available on EPROM ROM SINGLE KEY OPERATION Instead of a hard to use intricate series of control codes a single labelled function key sends commands to your printer Simple help screens in plain English tell you what to do and all commands are summarized on a sin
18. 1200 with the information in the manual but I had no difficulty WHICH ONE TO BUY At the present time the WorldPort 1200 is the best 1200 baud solution for Portable users I have not used a Plus and therefore have not had the opportunity to test its internal modem but I think that if I had a Plus I would opt for the HP internal modem After all we are only talking money and an internal modem has got to be more convenient than any external modem Another option is to continue to use my Ven Iel exter nal modem I don t consider this a reasonable Portable solution except for the fact that I ve already paid for it because the Ven Iel is not portable I could also replace the 1200 baud Ven Tel with a 2400 THE PORTABLE PAPER baud model This is not an unreasonable alternative since it doubles my speed without increasing the excess baggage At this time I do not consider the Modem 1200 an op tion because it will not work with programs such as CIS110 and Kermit that address only the serial port and because it lacks the accuracy of the WorldPort 1200 I like the idea of an HP IL compatible modem I have wanted one ever since J got the Ven Tel modem If Firmware can solve the I O and accuracy problems and if they would upgrade to 2400 baud to make the larger size worthwhile I would consider it a real contender In a future issue I will discuss techniques for using an external modem with an HP110 Ed The Modem 1200 can be ord
19. Data Transfer This is a useful feature for software developers and is much like the feature found on the LaserJet 8 Print Buffer The ThinkJet has a 1K print buffer versus the 2K buffer that comes standard in the QuietJet You can buy additional RAM from HP to add an additional 16K of buffer to the printer although installation of the two 8K chips is not user installable I did it anyway in about an hour The chips cost 45 each from HP The enlarged print buffer is very nice but the best feature provided by the additional RAM is that it allows more downloaded characters or even an entire downloaded font Whatever RAM is not used for the downloaded characters font is automatically used as additional buffer 9 Downloadable Characters The QuietJet can accept up to 10 draft characters or 4 NLQ that can overlay on top of the characters currently in use If you need a special character or two and can sacrifice one or more of the standard characters this can be a very useful tool As previously discussed the owner s manual is not very clear on this topic We at Southern Software have developed and are currently testing a program to do all of this for you 10 Downloadable Fonts With the additional RAM avail able for the printer you will have the option of down loading many characters as described above or even a whole font Unfortunately there are no fonts available at the present time other than an italic set our company h
20. Displays and restores range names for Lotus worksheet ROMAN8 WKS Provides ability to enter any Roman character into Lotus worksheet SDL COM Produces directory listings sorted by name size date or extension SEPARATE COM Breaks large text files into smaller files for MemoMaker SM COM SpaceMaker Converts EXE files to COM files and thus saves disk storage space and disk access time SQPC COM Squeezes files to make them take up less space Unsqueeze with TY TEE COM Causes a program or file to be output to both the screen and a file or printer TJETA COM Configures ThinkJet printer easily from the HP Portable TOWS COM Converts ASCII document files to WordStar and Portable Plus MemoMaker format for editing and reformatting TRANSLIT COM Converts one or more characters of one file to different character s and copies result to second file TREEDIR COM Displays names of all files in each directory along with date time and file size TRIM COM Extracts selected columns from a file TY COM Unsqueezes files squeezed by SQPC VDL COM Allows user to selectively delete files from a group of files Program lists files one by one and asks user whether to delete WAIT COM Delays execution of a batch file until specified time WD COM Saves and restores the working directory WHEAROUT COM Gives percent of wear on disk in HP 9114 disk drive WHEREIS COM Searches disk to find the specified file APPENDIX A Describes the contents of
21. Memory Edisc space form at the back of the issue Condor Junior now retails at 99 95 We ll sell it to subscribers for 89 95 Next Year s Taxes For the past three years I have used the Lotus tax templates from Siron Systems 13445 SW Cresmer Dr Tigard OR 97224 503 655 2743 This program is supplied on 5 4 disks which I transfer from my IBM via the HPLINK program and board I clear the Edisc to a minimum and set memory at maximum 252 or 256 then go into Lotus and use the FD c r FR and proceed The program has lettered forms A B C D E F G R SE and W and numbers 2106 2119 2210 2441 3468 3903 4136 4255 4562 4684 4835 4952 4972 5695 6251 and the standard 1040 It is interactive and seems happy with the 110 Printouts from the ThinkJet seem to be ac ceptable to the IRS I only load those programs that I need The use of Lotus on ROM seems to reduce the size of memory required so that about 200K will do the job The price of the personal version I use is 20 I like to test programs written for IBM computers on the 110 Some run easily others have screen problems and some tie the 110 in knots Before trying an IBM program that has not been run on the 110 I recommend copying your Edisc to a floppy John Henderson Federal Way WA Excellent Backup Routine I ve enclosed a listing of a batch file that I ve been using for a while At the end of each day all I have to
22. Plus p 8 Power Cube Recharger p 16 Printerlalk p 25 Printerfalk Formati10 p 25 Project 8 9 10 RightWriter p 13 Shelp works on Portable Plus only p 28 SideWinder Utilities p 31 Sketch p 3 Turbo Pascal p 19 Turbo Pascal Programs For The Portables p 19 Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Pascal Tutor Pascal Programs p 19 Turbo Tutor p 19 Typing Whiz p 27 Webster s Spelling Checker works on Portable Plus only p 14 WordPerfect Portable Plus only disk based The Word Plus p 15 WorldPort 1200 Portable Modem p 21 1 Year Subscription SUBSCRIPTIONS gt ALPHABETICAL PRODUCTS ROM Backup Product Description 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 Software have enclosed proof of purchase rare Initials ROM BACKUP inside front cover X NEW AN ORDER FORM Retail Subscriber Price Price Qty 99 001 N A 55 00 N A 9 20 N A N A 64 90 44 95 44 95 99 95 49 95 99 95 229 00 59 95 159 90 145 00 80 00 69 95 99 95 29 95 99 95 150 00 39 95 59 95 89 95 49 95 89 90 99 95 95 00 55 00 79 95 80 00 99 95 49 95 179 95 39 95 49 95 79 95 495 00 150 00 235 199 7 N A 7 004 7 904 29 95 39 95 35 958 39 95 35 95 89 95 39 95 79 95 209 00 49 95 99 95 129 00 75 95 62 95 89 95 29 9
23. S includes a customized 3 9 disk and simple instructions for running the See ROM ad issue Available on EPROM ROM If you must reset your battery nothing gets lost on the RAM Disk Card drive If the A drive demands you reformat it because it has somehow become corrupted the data on the RAM Disk Card drive is safe Maybe you want to store the information on the RAM Disk Card or install it into a different Plus The RAM Disk Card will retain its information for at least six months in dependent of a Portable Plus Installation is easy Remove your old drawer if you have one and insert of SoftWord s The operation is sim ple and the manual is clear and thorough Here are the prices in English pounds as of April 2 1987 A 384K Memory Card costs 575 The rest of the pricing is the same whether you prefer a Memory Card or a RAM Disk Card 500K 1 2 Megabyte 800 as Upgrade to 1000K 1 Megabyte 500 1000K 1 Megabyte 1200 2000K 2 Megabytes 1800 We will be SoftWord distributors of the cards in the U S You must call us Personalized Software 515 472 6330 for current pricing The pricing will de pend on the value of the dollar in relation to the English pound as well as any import fee required by law However we will provide a 10 discount to all U S subscribers Non U S subscribers should contact SoftWord direct ly You may also be eligible for a 10 discount we are not sure yet Tell them
24. The QuietJet comes standard with both a serial RS 232 and parallel Centronics connector The logic of the printer allows incoming data on either line without hav ing to physically switch between the two connectors As a Portable user you will immediately notice that there is no HP IL connector on the back There is also no HP IB connector for which I believe HP is getting a lot of heat from other sources so I will not get into this sub ject here I have approached HP regarding both the logic of the HP IL exclusion and also the possibility of adding it They did not perceive a significant market for HP IL chose not to invest the time money to provide it and do not plan to provide it I consider this to be the most significant overall drawback of the printer I think HP has left out a signifi cant number of new users and also those of us who want to upgrade Apparently the problem is not the HP IL con nector itself but the belief that any HP IL device must be battery powered like the HP IL ThinkJet and 9114 disk drives I believe that most Portable owners would gladly trade battery power for the other enhancements of the QuietJet versus the ThinkJet PAPER HANDLING SYSTEM This is an area that has been improved greatly over the ThinkJet The most obvious change is that there is a knob on the side that allows manual movement of the paper in a forward and reverse direction a welcome change For ward movement with the ThinkJet
25. a chart Revise a diagram Unfortunately the software that comes with the wo ue WWM Iz HF HE 1 28 28 32 Ua GE 2 is 32 TE Ee TS TE Ea Se SE Sk 3B so 33 tr es 8 sf rz E E GE TE iE TE fe te 12 TE EGE E 2 BE SE ae an aS EE EE Es SE Ef UE ter iir ee SE Pe SS 2S s Ta ee Se eee ee if 44 aa raat on At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable Portable PLUS and Think et And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers Its called SideWinder and it s perfect for Lotus 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 2e2e2 969 95 59 95 for Portable Paper subscribers KODAK DATASHOW does NOT work with the Portable Plus That means you could not use the Portable Plus and KODAK DATASHOW software to create a slide show bas ed on a series of images the software captures However according to HP you CAN use the system to project
26. a new font from escape sequences My company Southern Software has written and is testing a new pro gram that will do that for you However many word pro cessors such as WordPerfect allow great flexibility in switching between fonts and I do think the average user of these programs would like to know how to switch be tween the various built in plug in and downloadable fonts The manual does not even get into the discussion of what exactly a font is much less how to switch between them In addition the QuietJet is similar to the LaserJet in that two complete fonts are active at all times a primary and secondary and you can switch back and forth be tween them by sending only one character to the printer But the manual does not even mention this The bottom line analysis of the owner s manual is that it is very good for novice users Advanced users will perceive it to be adequate until they discover if ever that many capabilities are left untouched PAPER SIZE AND PRINT WIDTH The ThinkJet has a very narrow range of paper sizes available Since the pinfeed wheels and friction rollers are in fixed positions the ThinkJet can effectively use only 8 wide paper The QuietJet can use paper from 4 wide to 8 wide and the QuietJet Plus can use paper from 4 to 15 wide Currently I know of no ink jet paper that is less than standard width but wide paper is available The difference in paper widths is the only dif
27. an HP110 try to imagine what it would be like to have 272 Kilobytes of ex tended memory for your handheld computer And if that is not enough memory you can even use the hard disk in your desk top computer for data and program storage LINK will let you create a pseudo disk in part of your hard disk This pseudo disk has its own directory and can hold up to 8 4 Megabytes of information That s MEGAbytes not Kilobytes LINK will also let your handheld computer use any and all printers If you already have a good printer for your PC at work you will not have to buy an HP IL printer for your handheld computer The same holds true for modems and other devices that can be hooked to a desktop computer All of them are now aecessible to your handheld computer For those of us who have ever tried to do extensive typing on either the HP71B or 75C LINK has one more surprise You can now use the keyboard on your laptop or desktop computer in place of the tiny keys on your han dheld computer This will work for a 71B right out of the box For the 75C you will need either an Extended I O ROM or a program called KEYBOARDIS What More Could A Person Ask For There is a lot more that I wish the LINK program would do a that it does not do I wish that I could write programs for the HP41C on my HP110 and transfer them to the handheld computer for execution Moreover now that I have most of my HP41C and 75C routines stored on pseudo disks I wish
28. an IBM formatted disk then data can be lost I am sure readers and HP will add or correct this explanation if need be As a matter of fact Jonathan Feinstein of Chicago sent me quite a few details from his experimentation with IBM DOS version 3 2 formatted 3 2 disks the Portables use DOS version 2 1 Iuse a PC AT running DOS 3 2 with an IBM external 3 2 disk drive I first formatted a 3 2 disk on the PC drive using DOS 3 2 then transferred two 5 disks full of data onto that disk using the copy command Next I took the disk and inserted it into my HP9114B To my sur prise the 9114B attached to my Plus had no difficulty reading the disk Furthermore I was able to use diskpack from the 1987 subscriber s disk Then I copied files from my A drive onto that same 3 disk without difficulty Both chkdsk and PAM indicate that the full 730K is available for use What this means is that the Portables are at least data compatible with the IBM Convertible and probably the other DOS 3 inch machines What I do not know is whether DOS 3 2 will allow HP format disks to be ready by the Convertible and compatibles As I told you in our conversation I tried reading the HP PAM formatted disk on a Zenith 181 and it did not work Chkdsk treated the files as lost chains so it is prob ably possible to retrieve them in this manner if necessary With respect to the possibility of formatting disks to the 3 2 format
29. and standby use I also purchased the recommended electric charger CH12FA800 by Elpower for 44 65 It comes with a male cigarette ligher end plug same as the MNR 2 mobile recharger from S O S I purchased a female cigarette lighter oy end that I connected with the approp riate connectors to the Technacell battery Now with the SOS mobile recharger I connect the battery to my Portable or my peripherals THE PORTABLE PAPER I have now used my Portable Plus for 40 hours its battery remaining at 100 charge The 12 volt battery has not need ed recharging The Portables use very lit tle current 1 or 2 amps in two hours of constant use It will last a long time and if needed an overnight charge will again last for days and keep your Portable always charged 99 or 100 Fantastic This setup works as well with the disk drive and printer batteries I never use wall plugs any more and can work wherever I like which is very convenient in my line of work Henry Warren Palm Beach FL Hal The battery weighs 11 pounds It is 8 38 by 2 75 by 5 5 The S O S charger can now be purchased through us using the order form in the back of the issue Henry insptred us to see if we can make some sort of product out of bis idea maybe with carrying case maybe even with HP9114 Empowerer capabilities We ll report on any progress Printing Pointers Here are a couple of helpful hints Use li quid paper to m
30. as smgraph but with 11 x 17 paper specifications Note also that pam mnu has had four lines added to it to enable all of the above to occur with the press of a key PLOTTER SWITCH SETTINGS 1 RS 232 On the back of the plotter make the following switch settings S2 0 no parity Sl 0 irrelevant if 2 0 there is no parity check D Y D endline mode MET US US irrelevant program resets A4 A3 A4 Grrelevant program resets B4 B3 0 These four set 9600 baud with 1 stop bit B2 a Bl Q 2 HP IB The only required switch settings are to make sure the address is the same as that specified in PAM for an HP IB plotter USING THE PLOTTER WITH LOTUS When you have loaded the utilities disk and are in PAM you will see two new choices as menu items Big Plot and Small Plot As you may suspect choosing one of these will bring up the PrintGraph program actually graph exe on the disk with different plotter configurations Note also that you still have the PrintGraph choice which is the pro gram with your old printer specifications in it HP 2225B etc Before you run either Big Plot or Small Plot note that 1 The 7475A plotter can come in either serial RS 232 or HP IB The plotter designation is in System Config f6 from the main PAM screen It must be set according to what devices you have Your choices are a If you have an HP IB type plotter e g Opt 002 you mus
31. by Touchbase Systems Inc is a much more standard device since it connects to the serial port It is designed io plug directly into standard male or female 25 pin RS 232 connectors which are available as options Unfortunately it does not appear possible to equip it with a 9 pin connector and connect it directly to the Portable s serial port There are two reasons for this First the 9 pin connec tor is simply not strong enough to support the weight of the modem And second there are probably not enough Portable s to support a manufacturing run of 9 pin units Therefore a short adapter cable is required to connect the WorldPort For testing I used an HP92221M cable and a gender converter since the test modem was equipped with a male connector USING THE WORLDPORT 1200 The first thing I tried after connecting the WorldPort 1200 modem to my Portable was typing c call ibmxtk2 office 1200 to see if this cigarette pack size Hayes compatible would use existing configuration and autologon files stored on my external disk to call the IBM PC down the hall The call went through just as if I had used my Ven Iel modem I transferred this set of configuration files to the A drive and tried to call the PC again using the very same files on the A drive Imagine my frustration when the Port able went into autologon and stalled This failure is the result of the perhaps the only truly quirky characteristic of the WorldPort 1200 It is turned
32. conjunction with different PCs at work or in travel They would not have to install a HP IL card in every PC or have to depend on communications software in the PC and Portable If we get enough interest perhaps Bill Paul Wizard Cliff Looyenga or one of our readers might undertake the project Alternatively maybe we can get White Crane to modify their product for Port able users In fact just before our deadline I got a CompuServe MAY JUNE 1987 33 THE PORTABLE PAPER note from Gary Goodman He called White Crane Systems who said they will CONSIDER making a version for the HP110 and or the Portable Plus They would like to know what the market is I don t know Would you like such a product HP IL 51 4 Disk Drive Ain t No More By Hal Goldstein For the past year I have been hearing about an HP IL5 4 disk drive that can be used to format IBM disks I finally talked to Jeff Brown of Steinmetz amp Brown 2675 Univer sity Ave St Paul MN 55114 612 646 2478 Jeff told me that they were just getting out of the business of manufac turing HP IL 51 4 drives and they had sold all remaining units The disk drives used to sell in the neighborhood of 650 I talked to Jeff about the possibility of our company Personalized Software manufacturing the units He seem ed open to the possibility and said he would send us a unit to examine soon In thinking about the idea I am having second thoughts Since IBM P
33. few complaints from HP9114B owners about running out of battery power When I started Personalized Software and had only a few products my wife and I would make the disks on our sole HP9114A You can imagine how frustrating that was to try to format and copy software in any quantity using that unit My solution was to have an electrical wizard friend of mine Norm Brown build me what we now call an Empowerer The HP9114 Empowerer plugs into a nor mal AC outlet and also into the male plug inside the HP9114 where the battery normally resides Many many disks later I am still using that same prototype Empowerer 34 MAY JUNE 1987 and that same HP9114A My fried Norm builds each Empowerer He describes the step by step procedure in Vol 1 Nos 3 and 4 of The A Portable Paper We charge 129 to our subscribers and 145 to non subscribers for each unit If you prefer you can purchase an additional battery We modify the battery so the Empowerer plugs into it and powers the HP9114 You can use the normal HP charger to recharge the battery The Empowerer with battery costs 199 225 to non subscribers Padded Cases By Hal Goldstein In our January February issue we reported on some soft padded cases we saw at COMDEX for carrying your Think Jet HP9114 and Portable Since then we ve had a chance to check them out more thoroughly and we really like them They re FieldPro cases made by Amberst Interna tional 540 N Commercial St
34. files to allow at least two times the file size remember to allow room for data entry and sorting during the session then operate with the data file on drive A and the Condor Junior pro gram external Overall Condor Junior and its bigger brother Condor are excellent user friend ly database programs If you have a need for a database while using the HP110 this is the choice Also The Editor is every bit as good as you advertised It only took a couple of days of routine office work with this pro gram to start realizing its flexibility Good job Keep up the good work M A Koerber Florissant MO Condor Junior has just had its price decreased by 100 Because of the en thusiasm of a number of readers we decided to add the program to our order you or your company use the HP110 and Portable Plus as well as your comments for the Letters section This issue also represents another step forward in Per sonalized Software s goal of servicing you the HP Portable user There are a number of new products on our order form In addition we are now offering a backup ROM ser vice to Portable Plus users for most of our software In this issue you will see that more and more products are becom ing available through HP and third party vendors to meet Finally in this issue you will read that Portable Plus owners assuming money is no object can actually con figure a Portable Plus to four and one half million bytes 4 5M of
35. four hour class Tasks that normally intimidate even experienced users are simplified Dialing into and logging onto a remote computer is as easy as making a menu selection and pressing the Connect Computer key Pressing one more key allows the user to log on using either the RS 232 port for a 9600 baud direct connection or the modem for a local call 800 number call or long distance call using a credit card number Sales reps access HPDeskManager HP s electronic mail system to communicate with any of their 80 000 fellow employees Price and availability information for over 400 000 HP products including parts and support products is as close as the nearest phone The sales rep simply logs onto an HP3000 system then keys in a full or partial product number product description or product family Sales reps view order status information using Ex ecutive Card Manager on the Portable Plus Once daily the Portable Plus dials a remote HP3000 and transfers order status information from an Image 3000 database to the cardfile on the Portable Plus Plans call for adding several tools to round out the system AdvanceMail a program that allows the sales reps to create send and receive messages without a constant connection to an HP3000 will be added later this year Other tools include a sales funnel management system automatic lead distribution and tracking a budgetary quote system and expert configuration systems Hal lIn the next is
36. glossy sur 40 MAY JUNE 1987 faces is the STABILO 80008 A11 for paper glass plastic and metal You can erase and write over glossy labels on a 312 disk with relative ease Rolf R Schmitt Baltimore Hal See Gary Goodmans letter that follows Terminal Benchmarks In response to Mike Driver s question about the speed of data transfer with the HP110 in The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 6 p 11 and John Jacob s reply in Vol 2 No 1 p 2 I did some checking on my own The investigations centered primarily around the HP110 s built in Terminal pro gram and used either Kermit or Smart Com on an IBM PC The results are shown below ASCII UPLOADING HP110 Terminal Pro tocols On uploading to Kermit on an IBM From 1200 baud to 19 200 baud the transfer rate remained constant at 120 characters per second It appears that the Terminal program has a throttle in it which limits the speed HP110 DOS COPY lt filename gt AUX uploading to Kermit on an IBM PC The transfer rate in characters per second is about 1 10 the baud The rate leveled off at 9600 baud which is probably as fast as the HP110 or IBM could go ASCH DOWNLOADING HP110 Terminal Protocols Off downloading from Smart Com on an IBM PC From 2400 baud to 9600 baud the transfer rate remained constant at 230 characters per second I do not know whether this is a limitation of SmartCom or the Terminal program At 4800 and 9600 baud the down
37. headings and doublespaced text Not the most practical solution but a way to do it In Lotus while you are defining a range pressing period moves the cur sor around the corners of the range The combination of using a period in this way along with the cursor keys adds to your flexibility when defining a range Questions 1 Is it possible to create the telephone symbols and on the 110 2 What are the use and application of the console mode and font Choices HP or Alt 3 Is it possible to create and print the special characters shown on the template included in the back of the manual How Michael Felsenstein San Francisco HP Corvallis 1 The and are not usable in the 110 Terminal phone field 2 HP and Alt Alternate on the Plus refer to the codes sent by your keyboard to the program and to the character set used on the display In Alt mode the Portable emulates an IBM PC These modes can be set in PAM or set by escape sequences 3 Most but not all of the characters shown in the appendix are available from the keyboard by holding down the Extend char key and pressing another key The others can only be generated programmatically David Hughes 2 From pp 1 10 of the Technical Call during day Blue Chip Computer System 9701 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles Elmar M Gomez 213 553 3393 San Diego Stephen L Eyre 619 452 8530 San Mateo Santa Clara Counties San Francisco Bay Area BAYCHHU HP La
38. 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 Finding A Letter Quality Printer By Hal Goldstein When I left HP in 1984 I brought with me an HP110 and a LaserJet printer This combination was even more unusual then both the HP110 and the LaserJet were new in the marketplace and lasers printers and DOS laptop computers were not yet popular I do not really recom mend this awkward combination however showing how these two machines can work together will illustrate how to connect either HP Portable with most any serial printer How did I come to select those two machines At HP I had used a high capacity Laser printer with the HP3000 so I knew something of the quality of print silence and speed that a laser printer affords Often we are judged by external appearances and I felt that the ability to produce high quality output would serve me well no matter what I ended up doing In fact the LaserJet proved invaluable to me It allowed me to send out professional looking direct mailing pieces at a small cost Many of you received my first batch in August 1985 asking you to subscribe to the The Portable Paper Iam not really sure why I bought an HP110 rather than
39. on and off by the presence or absence of a terminal ready TR signal from the computer About 1 10 of a second is re quired for the modem to become operational after it receives TR The delay that resulted from using the C drive to load files into the terminal program was sufficient to allow the WorldPort 1200 to become operational before receiving commands from my computer Using the Edisc caused signals to be sent to the modem before it was ready This problem was solved by adding a W2 as the first command in my autologon files thus causing the computer KE to delay before sending a command to the modem A W1 delay was tried but was not sufficient I was able to use the WorldPort to do everything for which I have used my Ven Iel This has included both local and long distance transfers of files between my Portable at various locations and PCs at various locations Files were successfully downloaded from CompuServe using CIS110 and a file was uploaded to CompuServe using Terminal and Xmodem protocol Even though the Portable is a less than ideal host I was able to use the auto answer feature of the WorldPort One especially nice feature of the WorldPort is its use of the extended Hayes 2400 commands and result codes rather than Hayes 1200 commands and codes This enables the modem to display results codes on the screen indicat ing busy lines and the absence of dial tone An X4 com mand is sent to the modem to activate these extend
40. ree ee ene ee eee Ce eee ene 6 PHONE pie aa EQuipmecni L Check enclosed O Bill me O Charge to VISA MasterCard American Express Card CE Xpiration Date Signature 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 C The HP Chronicle US 38 Foreign 72 O HP Design amp Manufacturing US 42 Foreign 78 C Please send me more information on HP training videos Exploit the HP Portable Plus with up to 4 Megabytes of user memory All the storage space you ll need for even the longest business trip and all inside the computer Just copy all your software amp data into the PLUS and leave that bulky floppy disc drive where it really belongs at home or in the office Each Memory or RAM Disc Card comes RAM Disc Drives complete already installed in a plug in No longer limited to the standard EDisk drawer Remove a blank drawer fromthe inside the PLUS you can now add 4 1 or i bottom of the computer and inundertwo 2 Mb fast access electronic drives The minutes you re ready to exploit the full unique lithium battery backed up design power of the Portable PLUS If youre protects and retains data on the disc even if really hungry for memory plug in two 2 you reset the computer To use the disc Megabyte drawers and with 512K built copy a special driver file from the supplied inside the PLUS y
41. sa JE oa oro o 5 TE a E IE IA Se Se te fe Te T gt te Fa Da gt i e T be Fe 3e Sa Fe To Ta 3e B gt Ta Is We Ime be Se Te JZ 22 ge g2 E2 S227 2E tag B7 22 58 E BT BE EZ ER ES SE So BE FE g2 ge st BT Bt RS Rg Zeis ieis z3 iP g Tl 32 SE TR CSS Fe fe as te Ts Trgi 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 POSTEO TREPP CERREN E arus a ta Quit P te Print L te heat G te Save Select te toggle bioch Cureor kez ta wova Simply amp 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 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 diop zuawdoj aaq snjo7 jo syzeulepes poraysigai aie
42. subdirectories HP110 SOURCE 123DEMO found on the DOS Tools disk UTILS DOC Reprints on disk The Portable Paper Vo 1 Issue 4 Utilities article Gives practical examples of many of the files on the DOSTools disk RUNS ON HP Portable Portable Plus e A160 oa IBM PC HP Vectra o Available on EPROM ROM 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 for your stand Given the state of the art in writing and test ing software there s no guarantee that every item of software works as doc umented without a hitch However most of the test ing and evaluating was done by Hal Goldstein publisher of The Portable Paper and by Gary Good man and Thomas Page Anyone who has read Gary s and Tom s articles in past issues of The Port able Paper already knows of their conscientiousness and thoroughness So look through the list If even one program proves useful DOS Tools could pay for itself immediately With more than 50 docu mented and tested pro grams to try out and use it s the bargain of the cen tury Order yours today Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools 49 95 39 95 for Portable Paper subscribers in this issue
43. than the ThinkjJet presumably since the printhead is moving faster I rate the noise levels of the printers as roughly equal QUALITY OF CONSTRUCTION The QuietJet is constructed using HP s traditional high standards While there are certain to be exceptions the printer should enjoy the same low service rate that the ThinkJet has had Although you probably do not intend to drop your printer it is comforting to know that if it is dropped or banged around it will still function properly SIZE The QuietJet printers are wider and taller than the Think Jet but smaller in depth The QuietJet is almost 5 tall which combined with the fact that it has a knob on the side makes it difficult to put in most briefcases although that was not one of the design objectives One annoying feature of the QuietJet is that the power module is not an integral part of the printer instead it is a separate box about 3 on a side that sits in the middle of the power cord The external module does make the printer lighter but this is offset by the fact that there is an extra item to move with the printer It certainly makes the printer less portable Apparently the reason for the ex ternal power module is to enable easier approval in the various electrical classifications and because it is cheaper to build I am disappointed with this apparent shortcut and compromise in quality and hope that HP corrects it in future versions CONNECTIONS
44. the costs for HP prod ucts are high If we all support Personalized Soft ware hopefully Hal and his staff can con tinue to bring new software and hardware plus the endless information on the inner workings of the 110 and Plus They have done a bang up job since the start Jack H Sparks Downey CA Thank you Jack We want to continue to expand our product line and keep the costs reasonable This is not always a simple task since our volume ts relatively low and as we expand our product line our overhead increases The best way for all of you to help is not only purchase our products but to get your friends or cor porate colleagues to subscribe and pur chase our products We offer generous discounts for volume purchases High Quality 3 2 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 39 9 F 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 ll send you two good ones Name Title Company Address City State Zip Telephone at a Discount Colored Disks Ever find yourself hunting through disk after
45. theoretically can do no harm to the magnetic domains on the disk but may damage the semiconductors in ROM or RAM The radia tion is so weak in the domestic airport machines that it is unlikely this will ever happen I ve never taken the system abroad What you ve got to watch out for is electromag netic radiation magnetic fields from motors trans formers and magnets which can make a disk useless R W Richards the Saudi Wanderer tells us I have had a Portable since 1984 Or is it 1983 Time flies when you are having fun in Saudi Arabia My HP110 has been around the world with me a number of times and I ve never had data lost when pass ing through airport x ray machines As a general rule I re quest a physical check of the unit but this is not always approved Disks which I carry with me on occasion have never been known to lose data either Airport security peo ple usually agree to let the disks be physically checked if asked I have forgotten from time to time though and they MAY JUNE 1987 7 THE PORTABLE PAPER r Highest quality j soft padded cases for your ThinkJet and HP9114 Field Pro cases safe convenient way to carry your portable printer disk drive and computer Rugged lightweight roomy fully padded abrasion resistant washable Stylish soft blue grey color The Printer Disk Drive Case holds your ThinkJet or 9114 you may want to buy two The Portable Case holds your HP110 or Po
46. there was a way to call up the directories of these pseudo disks and have them appear in the display of the HP110 There isn t a way to do this yet With the present version of the LINK program the HP110 can function either as a pseudo disk or a remote display not both at the same time My next wish is that the mistakes in the user manual would be eliminated I spotted a few typing mistakes in the manual More significantly Gary Goodman a frequent contributor to The Portable Paper informed me that For Sale Classified ads are 50 per word plus op tional 5 for bold headline maximum 30 characters Ads must be received by the 5th of every other month beginning February Complete Portable System For Sale Portable HP 9114A ThinkJet with cases Excellent condition Make offer John Rothbarth 314 291 8540 We ll Sell Your Software We ll manufacture market and distribute your high quality Portable software 36 MAY JUNE 1987 CLASSIFIEDS including Lotus templates Hal Goldstein Personalized Software POB 869 Fair field IA 52556 515 472 6330 We Convert Disks We will convert your 5 1 4 disks to 3 1 2 or vice versa Send us formatted disk and source disk 9 50 per source disk Add 4 for second day delivery Personal ized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 Sell Me Your HP9114 Pll buy your used HP9114 if it is in ex cellent condition Hal Goldstein PO Box 869 Fairfiel
47. 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 suppliers including Borland International Turbo Pascal Simon amp Schuster Webster s Spelling Checker and Southern Software SideWinder For numerous legal economic and logistical reasons we offer ROMs to you as a Backup Ser vice This means you may purchase a product on ROM provided you already own the product on disk If you purchased 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 you buy because the same agreement applies to the cor responding ROM Backup In most cases this means you may use the software on only one computer system Remember you are buying a 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 To order use order form inside back cover Prices See order form f
48. whatever is currently on the Portable Plus screen Therefore you can give a real time presentation chang ing the contents of the Portable s screen as you talk One final caveat making the system work with the Portable Plus requires an additional Analog TTL converter Any DATASHOW dealer is likely to have them One made specifically for the DATASHOW is from Wolsten Computer Devices 201 678 0008 The DATASHOW retails for 1170 The converter costs an additional 180 You can call Kodak at 800 325 7495 and at the tone dial 7495 to find a local dealer If you experience phone gt gt tpi fis woot Til iy LLES i i 0b 00 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 No more cutting and pasting Now you can n print it sideways gt m gt gt a s gt gt Y S gt o a x gt sod bea hi vat Vee T H ol w st 3z a BE BEWHNWUER HET 2 uy u tu ws Se we Za tae BS Se oe oe vr Se me u Sc Se Se SS SSS iT TEE ES TE TS TB MP2 tf if Te rs GE TE TE ES We 35 WB TE PE TE TE ee oe oem bo 3u ne ee Be Se 8 ao am ma pa rne pa mu mo mo mm 9 S a eee a REGE Ee pp lE geig qe REE EEE EIEI D Eiu 3 is ce f a or g PI oE is GA iS oe IS ie
49. you are a Portable Paper subscriber Contact David Burch SoftWord Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey England GU20 6BW Phone International 44276 75440 National Bagshot 0276 75440 14 MAY JUNE 1987 program on the Portable Plus and HP150 EPROM and ROM Backups Available Soon From Personalized Software We are now offering a ROM and EPROM backup service We will be putting our best selling products on ROM or EPROM In addition under certain conditions we will be able to provide custom backup service for your particular application EPROMs and ROMs are computer chips that fit in the back of your Portable Plus in the ROM drawer along with Lotus your word processor and whatever else you ve got tucked away HP110s do not have a ROM drawer Instead of your programs or data residing on a disk or in RAM that same information gets burned etched onto a chip You can now order much of our software on pre programmed chips You install these chips yourself quite easily We ll sup ply clear instructions You need a torx screwdriver with size 8 head to open the odd looking screws sealing your ROM drawer You can probably find one at your local hardware or discount store Then it is a matter of properly lining up the centipede type legs of your ROM or EPROM with the holes in a slot in the drawer Push down the ROM and you re in business EPROMs are erasable and can be programmed by relatively inexpensive machiner
50. 1200 baud built in to the Plus is a simplified communica tions software program called Term Portable Plus owners also have the option of buying a ROM chip containing a more sophisticated communications program called Reflection formerly called PC2622 26 MAY JUNE 1987 The modems that Thomas Page describes in his arti cle are external 1200 baud modems that are small enough to be considered portable For HP110 owners a 1200 baud modem means significantly faster data transmission than the built in 300 baud modem provides Portable Plus owners without an internal modem may wish to consider an external portable modem One reason is lower price as compared with an internal modem Another reason is that if you own several computers in stead of buying a separate modem for each one you can use the same portable modem with all of them WHAT S IN THE MARKET For the past three months my Thomas Page Ven Iel modem has been gathering dust in a corner Instead I have been using two small battery powered modems with my HP110 I found especially interesting the Modem 1200 manufac tured by Firmware Corp since it connects to the HP IL in terface loop rather than the serial RS 232 port HP IL is much nicer than RS 232 because the cables are easier to connect more flexible and cheaper and because connec tions are more stable who takes time to screw down an RS 232 connector The WorldPort 1200 formally WorldLink 1200 manufactured
51. 3 267 8344 England Trafaigar House Grenville Place Mill Hill London NW7 3SA England Tim Cullis 01 959 4359 Netherlands Mr R M Franquiner Men thenbergseweg 13 NL 6816 PR Arnhem The Netherlands Spain Club de usarios HP 110 Pont Reyes S A Ala atencion de D Enrique Serra Ron da Universidad 15 08007 Espana MAY JUNE 1987 39 THE PORTABLE PAPER I have enclosed a few simple batch files that define the function keys as line drawing characters If there is interest perhaps you will print these in a future issue Paul Grimmer s new program SKETCH and related utilities are excellent and among other things it is possible to load the different fonts encoded in the Plus ROM and to capture for further editing and graphics display Sergio Biguzzi New York My Clock Is Off My T key sometimes will not register when struck repeatedly To correct this problem I take the key cap off and all is fine But I can t find anything wrong with the key Lately it also happens with another key Is there a simple way to adjust the 110 clock Mine gains over 30 minutes per day Jim Keersemaker Livingston Manor NY HP Corvallis If the 110 is gaining 30 minutes per day the PPU is probably very confused Copy all your files to a backup disk then reset the PPU with the button in the battery compartment In the Plus you must remove the battery jumper for about a minute If this doesn t fix tt the hardware ne
52. 5 89 95 129 00 37 95 56 95 84 95 44 95 59 95 89 95 89 00 49 95 69 95 75 95 89 95 44 955 149 00 35 95 39 95 69 95 299 00 129 00 199 179 7 Size 8 Price Qty Subtotal lowa residents add 4 tax Shipping and handling see box at right TOTAL Total Total RRRRRRRR amp 60 DAY Ss 2 MONEY BACK amp gt GUARANTEE A If within 60 days you are A 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 subscription VBVVVVY exe es cee SO SI ms se see ee cae ees ee cs ee os es SS ee ee ee ee eS es L ee ee ee ee a Svesyeyyyy 1 Includes free 1987 Subscriber Disk 2 Available only to subscribers 3 Available only to those whose subscriptions include at least one 1987 issue 4The 7 50 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 is 39 95 if you purchased any other Turbo product from Personalized Software 6 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 7 Lower price is without cable for connecting to HP Portables Circle price that applies 8 Indicate 32K 64K or 128K or 2x128
53. All Borl and products a are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 credit card to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 92996 515 472 6330 39 95 for Portable Paper subscribers if you purchase any Turbo product from Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER the document and take better advantage of your printer s features I initially wrote PrinterTalk so that I could make use of different LaserJet typefaces Let us know of successes and failures with serial printers Share your enthusiasm for your Portable printer connection with other readers drop me a note _ Peripheral 3 Introduction By Hal Goldstein When I first conceived of this peripheral issue of The Port able Paper I was thinking more in terms of printers and maybe disk drives However as the issue began to manifest I was truly surprised to find all the hardware products that support and can work with the Portables And we are not even considering in this issue HP video interfaces and the HP cassette drive mentioned in past Portable Papers We hardly mention the HP9114 and the major article discussing the ThinkJet uses the ThinkJet on ly as a point of reference So what is left to talk about Read on Paul Grimmer starts us off by talking about the new HP QuietJet printers Paul really deserves a great round of appreciation from Portable users When I began The Port able Paper readers continually asked me how can I print my
54. C compatibles have come to be pric ed so low you can purchase an IBM PC compatible with a single disk drive for less than you could have bought the Steinmetz amp Brown unit For another 250 you can pick up a monitor and an HP IL interface card If you can get the card to work you have the 514 drive required for data transfer to your IBM PC or compatible As a by product you have yourself an IBM PC compatible computer Drop me a note as you find lower priced IBM PC clones that work with the HP IL card We ll see how much it will cost you to buy that HP IL 51 4 disk drive IBM PC compatible peripheral for your HP Portable The HP9114 Empowerer By Hal Goldstein I would be remiss if I did not mention our product the HP9114 Empowerer a peripheral of a peripheral As many readers have noted although the HP9114 disk drive is a well built rugged machine it has a serious flaw it only runs off its battery unlike the HP Portable and the Think Jet it cannot run off AC power and sustain itself Conse quently if you perform any disk intensive operation the disk drive might run out of juice in the middle of the Operation HP s initial suggestion was to buy a second battery pack and keep it charged Then they updated 4 ROM in the original HP9114A and that helped some Then came the HP9114B which is built to run twice as long on its battery as the original HP9114 I have not had a chance to use the HP9114B but I have heard only a
55. Cards A RAM Disk Card is a self sufficient unit powered by a lithium battery Like the Memory Card it can reside in the space for the memory or software drawer on the bottom of the Plus When you operate the Plus the RAM Disk Card becomes an elec tronic disk onto itself For exampie if you are not con nected to the HP9114 disk drive the RAM Disk Card becomes the C drive If you are connected to the HP9114 or other disk drives it automatically becomes the D or E drive _ 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 Ry mation package aimed at producing better writing not more writing Messages are Inserted directly into text to point out possible errors and problem areas Easy to Use onlyone command to learn your word processor does the rest o e Ri k a o is pee ts an idea whose time including WordStar Volkswriter PFS write MultiMate and others Phil Wiswel PC Whiter i S an excellent low Cost E pening software package Inside W sje Ti ord Mana Readability Index he Ta amentation i is among the SA measures the reading est have see grade level of the docu ment using the D O D standard Flesch Kincaid RightWriter formula 89 00 for Po
56. E PORTABLE PAPER assuming the dollar doesn t drop any more against the yen The HP9221P serial printer cable needed to connect the Brother to your Portable retails for 40 Local dealers probably will not have them in stock but you can order through them If you prefer we can order one for you Write in the name of the printer in a blank line in our order form at the back of the issue The Portable Paper subscribers pay 329 which includes shipping for the printer and 30 for an equivalent cable HP Portable Users Two Portable Modems By Thomas Page Introduction By Edward Goldfinger INTRODUCTION WHAT S A MODEM By way of introduction to this article a modem is a hard ware device that sends and receives digitally encoded in formation over telephone lines Telephone lines were designed for voice analog communication In other words a modem lets your computer communicate with other computers including CompuServe and other elec tronic bulletin boards When a modem sends data it must first encode the data for outbound transmission this is called modulation To receive data the modem must first decode it decoding incoming data is called demodulation A modem is by definition both a modulator and a demodulator and this is how it gets the name modem In addition to a modem you also need communica tions software in order to talk to another computer This software handles a number of details so that you can easi
57. ING II program seems easier to learn but there are more features in SKETCH Both pro grams are pretty intuitive Since both programs operate in graphics mode Plus users cannot use memory resident Shelp with them Therefore you can save 12K of internal memory by disabling Shelp temporarily rename the con fig sys file FLOW CHARTING II costs 229 209 for sub scribers and SKETCH costs 80 75 95 to subscribers The products can be ordered using the order form in back of the issue Product News From Personalized Software NEW SPELLING CHECKER DISCOVERED TRADE IN POLICY FOR PLUS OWNERS GOOD DEAL FOR HP110 USERS Several weeks ago a reader called up to say he got Webster s New World Dictionary Spelling Checker Simon amp Schuster to work on the Portable Plus I remembered reading very favorable reviews about the product So I ob tained a copy and after some experimenting did get the program to work on the Portable Plus and HP150 It won t work on the HP110 however I love the product It s fast contains a large dictionary and can be used without reading the manual We negotiated a royalty agreement with Simon amp Schuster As of this writing we have come to a verbal agreement in which we obtained the rights to offer the 4 MAY JUNE 1987 product both on HP 3 disk and on backup ROM The main advantage of Webster s over The Word Plus the other spelling checker that we offer and that works on both Portabl
58. K for Webster s Spelling Checker 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 your order SHIPPING AND HANDLING Portable Paper subscriptions Subscription prices include U S Second Class mailing Outside the U S add the following amounts Mexico and Canada 3 surface mail 6 air Other countries 6 surface 18 air All other products In North America Add 4 for one item 7 for more than one item FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 Outside North America Add 3 surface mail 10 airmail We bill or charge non U S orders for the actual postage if it exceeds these amounts May June 1987 VISA How to Order TO ORDER BY PHONE TO ORDER BY MAIL Call 515 472 6330 between 1 Fill out your name etc on the reverse side of the 3 Fill in desired quantity of each item 9 00 am and 4 30 pm Central Time order form e Please pay special attention to footnotes Monday through Friday or use e Be sure to indicate your disk requirements 4 Calculate shipping and handling costs see box CompuServe EMAIL ID 72257 714 2 Locate desired items on order form near bottom of order form e Subscriptions are at the top e Shipping is FREE for U S orders over 200 e Products are next and are alphabetized 5 Calculate total e The blank lines near the bottom labelled MISC are 6 If paying by che
59. OM 64K ROM 135 for first ROM 54 for each addditional ROM 128K ROM Minimum order 100 units Please call for prices For details call or write for our free information sheet How To Order Custom ROM Backup Further discounts are available for orders of 10 or more identical ROMS ABOUT ROMS A ROM Read Only Memory is a microelectronic chip that stores programs or other data Once informa tion is burned in to a ROM it cannot be altered A different form of ROM called an EPROM can be altered once information is burned 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 ae ae mea AEE ne AUA Je are much higher ROMs also require a much longer lead time to produce than EPROMs Currently EPROMs that oe Se eee aes MOVER eee FOUMP can be run on the HP Portables come in 16K 32K and Note nE a E ee ae We use EPROMs for our 32K and 64K backup chips ARC520 is shareware the author normally requests a 35 contribution However you do not need to send any money We ve already and ROMs for our 128K packages paid your user fee PUBLISHER S MESSAGE You should enjoy this issue I did Paul Grimmer Thomas Page and Ed Keefe outdid themselves with informative reviews in this peripheral issue When you read their articles on printers portable modems and peripheral c
60. P cable and try it See if your Portable soft ware works with the printer to meet your needs If you buy a serial printer other than HP the PAM System Config values of Print Pitch Print Line Spacing and Printer skip perf are useless and should be set to the default No Config Controlling your printer s features such as lines per page bold and underlining become of func tion of your software If you have MS Word you should be all right Extra printer drivers software that supports dif ferent printers can be found in the HP forum in Compu Serve for MS Word With MemoMaker you probably will be able to use underline and bold When printing MemoMaker imple ments bold by typing a line backspacing and retyping that same line again Similarly MemoMaker produces under line by backspacing over text and the typing the underline character Certain printers do not recognize the backspace character so bold and underline will not work Laser printers such as the LaserJet will not produce bold print by this overstriking method However for 90 of the printers MemoMaker bold and underline should work fine Other word processors such as The Editor allow you to embed in the document the printer codes that the printer requires to access its capabilities Text formatters such as Printerlalk Formatl110 and The Formatter adver tised elsewhere in this issue will print MemoMaker Editor or other ASCII files In doing so they allow you to form
61. PAM SETTING THE PLOTTER CONFIGURATION FILES 1 From PAM select DOS Commands 2 Use a backup copy of the HP110 utilities disk which contains PrintGraph and insert the disk in the drive 3 Type in the following lines note that this assumes that you have the printer configuration file as in a Lotus plot device in e graph cnf which is the way you received the disk from HP Items in brackets are comments do not enter c change to the C drive copy ygraph cnf a 25graph copy a 25graph del a 25graph now you have 2 copies of graph cnf on C graph run the PrintGraph program 4 Within the PrintGraph program change the settings in dicated below Device HP7475A A4 Interface Plotter Page Size Length 11 Width 8 5 Size Manual Top amp Left Margins 0 25 Width 7 Height 10 Rotation 90 Pause amp Eject Settings irrelevant 5 Save the settings Configure sub menu and exit the pro gram Then type copy graph cnf a smgraph copy a smgraph del a smgraph now the 82 x 11 parameters are in c smgraph graph restart the PrintGraph program 6 For B size paper go back into the PrintGraph program and set the following Device HP7475A A3 Interface Plotter Page Size Length 17 Width 11 Size Manual Top amp Left Margins 0 25 Width 16 Height 10 Rotation 0 Pause amp Eject Settings irrelevant 7 Save the settings and exit the program Then type ren graph cnf biggraph now the 11 x 17 parameters
62. ROM cramming and some trickery we are creating a SuperROM We managed to get five of products onto one 128K chip SideWinder Shelp The Editor Mini PrinterTalk and Format110 The other ROM backup product I am excited about is Webster s New World Spelling Checker I have had many requests for putting a decent spelling checker on ROM and I think Webster s is the best I can t wait to put the two 128K Webster s chips into my Plus If you want us to make custom ROMs call us to obtain an instruction sheet In general if you want us to back up commercial software you must obtain permission from the manufacturer You may spread your application across two or more 64K EPROMs You must allow an extra 2K for directory space and 1K for a pam mnu file Furthermore the actual space required by any file MUST be a multiple of 1024 1K Compute the actual space by doing a DOS dir listing of your file Then round up to the nearest multiple of 1024 So for example if your file takes up 3924K bytes it actually takes up 4096K 4 x 1024 on the EPROM More details and examples are available when you ask for our Custom Backup sheet 16 MAY JUNE 1987 Portable Plus Connection To IBM By Scott Orono HP has announced a new product SNALink 3270 for the Portable Plus Now Portable Plus users can remotely link up to IBM mainframes and access data either in terminal or file transfer modes without any local cluster controllers or protocol con
63. Shelp wee ee ee ee G55 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 day no risk trial f after 60days 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 SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc The WorldPort 1200 by means of these indicator lights gives more feedback than any built in modem I did not find myself dependent on any of these indicators ex cept the High Speed light Knowing if the modem is on is important for conserving batteries in both the modem and the Portable USING THE MODEM 1200 Before I could use the Modem 1200 from Firmware I had to modify my terminal configuration files to indicate HP821064A in the device field And since the Modem 1200 supports only the Hayes 1200 commands I had to change the X4 command in my logon files back to X1 While I was doing this I eliminated the W2 command since the Modem 1200 is on all the time this delay is not required I was able to use the Modem 1200 to transfer files bet ween my Portable and PCs at several different locations Unfortunately the error rate was significantly higher than with the WorldPort or Ven Iel Communication with CompuServe was impossible with the Modem 1200 Large numbers of spurious characters appeared on the screen while just browsing around Despite this I attem
64. Software that s us will distribute SoftWord s products in the U S and offer 10 discounts to subscribers of The Portable Paper Now let s examine the different product offerings 1 MEGABYTE RAM MEMORY DRAWER FROM HP Hewlett Packard has announced a 1 Megabyte RAM drawer part number 82992A The new memory drawer when in stalled in a Portable Plus with an internal memory of 512K provides over 1 5 Mbytes of CMOS static RAM memory The new drawer is compatible with all previous and cur rent versions of the Portable Plus and requires no modifica tion to the portable computer The new drawer lists at 1695 and includes the Mega byte of memory For customers with lower expansion memory requirements the 128K RAM drawer 82981A 395 and the 128K RAM card 8298A 250 remain available THE PORTABLE PAPER ENGLISH COMPANY OFFERS VARIETY OF OPTIONS Last issue we mentioned that David Burch of SoftWord in Windlesham Surrey England had come up with greater capacity RAM cards Indeed he has SoftWord sells RAM cards for the Plus in various forms These cards are already installed in a plug in drawer included in the price SoftWord has two kinds of memory The first kind is what you are used to Plug in SoftWord s card and you have increased your Memory Edisc capacity SoftWord calls these Memory Cards These come in 384K 500K 1000K and 2000K cards Alternatively SoftWord supplies 500K 1000K and 2000K RAM Disk
65. 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 Its 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 oO _ ability to recover lost PGLUNST CS files alone makes THE HP Portable NORTON UTILITIES well worth the price But there s even more to the pachage THE NORTON UTILITIES a cs IBM PC HP Vectra o are also an excellent disk management sys tem Here are some examples of what you can do 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 thi
66. The HP110 in A Conference Environment By Rolf R Schmitt Rolf R Schmitt has used an HP110 at his desk and on his daily commute to work by train between Baltimore and Washington since 1984 He authored the original version of the RPN calculator spreadsheet on the 1987 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk My high expectations for the HP110 were first put to the test when I took three just arrived 110s one HP9114A disk drive and one HP2225 ThinkJet printer to an out of town conference Lotus 1 2 3 was used for conference registra tion assigning our company s five conference participants to workshops and managing my travel voucher complete with limits on my allowable per diem MemoMaker was even more heavily used for note taking ahd for the transformation of notes into conference findings and recommendations Drafts could be revised quickly and reconsidered by the participants leading to a more time ly better thought out conference proceedings The participants who used the HP110s generally had experience on microcomputers but none had previously worked with a laptop portable Everyone adjusted quick ly particularly since I could give them the HP110 set to MemoMaker They merely hit any key did their typing and gave me the machine to store and print the results On ly one minor case of workspace deletion was recorded The HP110s had more than enough ROM and RAM to be away from me and the disk drive for extended periods The HP110
67. ThinkJet If you want to utilize the larger graphics area of the QuietJet you must buy the QuietJet driver from Phoenix Technologies 1 800 FOR DRVR for 25 I have ordered one but not yet received it so I am not sure if it will work with Release 1A that Portable users have built in however it will work with Release 2 For those of you who want to write programs specif ically for the QuietJet or who want to develop printer drivers for programs that do not offer them for the Quiet Jet you will find the section of the manual on program ming and escape sequences adequate except for the section on downloaded characters which is very confus ing and which is also being rewritten by HP The impression that the manual leaves you with is that the QuietJet is an enhanced ThinkJet printer for many users this is adequate Unfortunately however the printer is much more powerful than the manual indicates espec ially in terms of fonts and downloadable characters Many features are covered only briefly in the manual or not at all In fact the printer is somewhere between the Think Jet and the LaserJet printers HP apparently decided that knowledge of the enhanced features was best left to pro fessional developers since they myself included are the only ones who can get information on all of the printer s capabilities To some extent this is a good policy since the typical user will not need to know the mechanics of how to create
68. Z On the ThinkJet the character is smushed so that the height of the character is still 12 dots but on the QuietJet the character height is 12 dots plus the ascender This means that the total character height can be as great as 16 dots which the printer must do in two passes Ascenders occur mainly in international characters HP responded to com plaints from international users that these characters were smushed by making them taller The net effect is that print speed is impaired when you use these characters and also if you print at eight lines per inch the characters run on top of each other PRINT FEATURES All of the features of the ThinkJet e g underline bold wide graphics etc work on the QuietJet with no modi fication except one Display Functions mode which is very rarely used and is very similar In addition the QuietJet offers the following addi tional features 1 Near Letter Quality NLQ This is why I bought the printer The character sets are very high quality Although draft is about 3 3 times faster this is excellent for final copy quality You will find that you save a lot of time and ink by printing your document in draft before using NLQ 2 10 Pitch The ThinkJet could not print at 10 characters per inch only at 12 The QuietJet can print either in nor mal mode Also since wide is the current pitch divided by two 10 pitch normal enables 5 pitch printin
69. ales reps are doing just that HP has begun applying sales force automation techni ques using the Portable Plus The program internally known as the Field Productivity Program FPP is design ed to provide HP s sales force with a competitive edge that allows sales reps to be more productive and to respond to customer inquiries more quickly Sales force automation is designed to overcome bar riers in the sales process its solutions should provide tools and techniques that change how sales problems are ad dressed Late in 1985 HP identified three needs that could help its sales people reach their full potential quick access to up to date order status information an efficient means of communicating with other HP people and remote ac cess to price and availability information In early 1986 HP s U S Field Operations launched an automation pilot project involving over 100 sales reps Sales reps using the Portable Plus recorded a 27 increase in customer contact time during the first eight months of the pilot project Reaction from the field has been positive The Port able according to Joyce Terpenny of the Parsippany NJ of fice saved me from losing a 35 000 deal I accomplished in five minutes what it used to take me a day to do Bob 10 MAY JUNE 1987 Richardson HP Boulder says The ability to access HPDeskManager really pushes communication and pro ductivity light years ahead of regular phone tag Custo
70. ark the upper side of the IL plugs and add a short line on the smaller to indicate INPUT They can then be plugged together like an extension cord To keep the paper from advancing when it is not supposed to Make a hook from an old bicycle spoke leave the side with thread to either put on the screw or a small Scotchloc Drill a small hole for the hook in front of the pressure bar maneuver the long end of the hook through the hole and engage the pressure Thanks to so many of you who are will ing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an opportunity to share tips answer questions discuss other pro ducts 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 miss ing 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 Re quest PORTOVEC Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 Los Angeles County Southern California bar into the hook which should have enough spring action to keep the pressure bar captive Install the nut or Scotchloc with a dab of cement This permits one to create single space
71. as not yet released Iam very disappointed with HP for their policy on RAM chips and fonts The sockets for the chips are difficult to get to after the printer is assembled and HP does not believe there is enough demand for larger print buffers or alternate fonts to warrant installation of the chips in the factory where the cost would be an awful lot less than we have to pay retail for them Other printers in this price range offer alternate fonts and I believe this can will be one of the best features available for the QuietJet 24 MAY JUNE 1987 11 ROM fonts One of the two RAM sockets can be used for a 64K ROM which can contain additional fonts equivalent to all of those that are already built in to the printer As with the RAM chips HP does not perceive a market for this and in fact has no ROM chips other than a demo ROM We are investigating the possibility of pro viding this as a third party service OVERALL RECOMMENDATION From a technical standpoint the QuietJet is a well built printer that offers many features not found in the Think Jet In particular the paper handling system NLQ capabili ty speed and multiple built in character sets are strong points Also HP has offered excellent support to me as a software developer although they cannot possibly offer this degree of aid to a large number of users On the negative side are the following no HP IL or HP IB connectors a cheap external power module high pri
72. at Turbo Pascal Customized To Your HP Portable or Portable Plus at No Extra Charge Turbo Pascal is clearly the Portable and Portable Plus pro gramming language of choice Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable epe THE ENTIRE SYSTEM INCLUDING EDITOR CONSUMES LESS THAN 40K Turbo Pascal is superior in terms of price EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A peroralee PROGRAMMER THE WORDSTAR TYPE portability to other machines EDITOR ALONE IS WORTH THE programmer s environment PRICE OF TURBO PASCAL memory consumption When You Buy From Personalized Software You Receive 10 Subscriber discount Other Borland Additional disk developed with permission of Turbo Pascal _ Borland International that customizes the products s Turbo editor so it can use the normal Portable Extend Char editing keys The disk includes programs to access m Portable graphics Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor and Pascal Programs for Portables TURBOPASCAL ph asco sega Retail subscribers Turbo Pascal 99 95 89 95 tur a Toolbox oe Turbo Tutor 39 95 35 95 ee habe Toolbox 69 95 62 95 management syst m Pascal programs for Portables 49 95 44 95 Starter Kit 179 95 149 95 Turbo Tutor Disk and manual for learning Turbo P ascal Includes many features for experienced users Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover of this issue or send check or
73. be in control What this implies is that users of HP handheld com puters who also have an HP110 or Portable Plus or even an HP150 or PC compatible with an HP IL Desktop Link Card can now control these larger computers with their small computer A Bevy Of Benefits As I mentioned before one of the drawbacks of an HP41C or Series 70 computer is its single line display Until now to see more than a single line at one time owners of these machines had to buy an HP IL Video Interface and a video monitor No more Now with LINK you can use the video displays of the HP Portables as full 80 column multi line displays for your handheld computer Amazingly you do not need any extra hardware on your desk Furthermore if you have access to a desktop computer that has an HP IL card installed you can even use the monitor on this machine And your handheld computer can even take ad vantage of a monitor with color capabilities Imagine a full color 80x25 display for your HP41C Another limitation of handheld computers is their shortage of memory This has always been a problem for people who used their handheld computer to collect large 4 at amounts of data Surveyors salespeople statisticians and quality control people all fall into this category In the past the solution involved buying a digital cassette drive ora A gt disk drive Now with LINK you can use the Edisc of your HP Portable For those of you with an HP41C and
74. can produce ASCII files Our version of THE WORD PLUS includes a 3 5 disk and simple instructions for customizing the program to the HP Portables RUNS ON a CT Cc Portable Plus IBM PC HP Vectra o GO 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 aan Personalized Softwar P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 The cost per ROM chip is less than the cost per EPROM chip However EPROM chips can be ordered one chip at a time whereas to be cost effective you need to order at least 100 copies of the same software on ROM Copies of EPROMs are also much less expensive than the original master copy once a master is made I spent quite a lot of time researching the area and try ing to come up with the most flexible solution in terms of product offering Offering ROMs solely as a backup service seemed the best solution overall What follows is a brief explanation of our reasoning There were many variables to take into account First of all we certainly do not want to violate any licensing agreement with software manufacturers Consequently we obtained permission from all the manufacturers or authors of software we intended to put on backup If you intend to back up any of our software independently you must obtain our permission When we talk to a manufacturer we explain t
75. can work with subdirectories usable with Edisc external disks hard disks Com mercial equivalent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s Calendar Utility Prints WEEK AT A GLANCE calendar from Time Manger s appointments list to the ThinkJet 3 ThinkJet Cartridge Tester 4 C Drive Copy Utility Copies file from one disk to another WITHOUT having to copy file first to your Portable 5 Other surprise goodies 6 The PLUS HP Calculator program also comes on this disk SeeP 19 Portable Pascal Programs These 600 000 plus bytes of Turbo Pascal routines and documenta tion for Portable and Portable Plus users include programs that access Portable graphics and sound plus business statistic utility game and other routines Great for beginners and professionals alike SeeP 16 Power Cube Powers and recharges up to four HP devices HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held etc from a single wall outlet SeeP 25 PrinterTalk and Formati10 MemoMaker Enhancers These two independently developed programs expand the formatting capabilities of MemoMaker With Printerlalk you can change type styles in the middle of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and much more Formatll0 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more Purchase both products at the same time and receive a 33 discount subscribers on
76. ce for the wide carriage version overpriced and difficult to install memory expansion no available addi tional fonts in either RAM or ROM and an incomplete owner s manual On a 1 10 scale I give the printer an 8 5 for technical merits but only a 5 for usefulness for HP110 Portable Plus owners It has the potential to be an outstanding printer if HP will allow us to use it to its full potential Paul Grimmer president of Southern Software is one of the world s leading experts on the HP ThinkJet the Quiet Jet and the HP IL interface He is the author of the only sideways printing program from the Portable to the ThinkJet and QuietJet SideWinder He also wrote LINK software that facilitates transfer of data between all HP IL devices His newest release is SKETCH a free form graphics program for the HP Portables Low Cost Portable Letter Quality Printer By Hal Goldstein If you are in the market for a letter quality serial printer for your Portable I suggest you first read the discussion in this issue s Foundations sections Also please send us the names and prices of any letter quality printer that you have working with your Portable that you are happy with One possible choice that has come to my attention is the Brother HR 10 daisy wheel printer In general Brother has a very good reputation for low cost quality printers The HR 10 has a flat button panel with indicator lights somewhat similar to the ThinkJet panel
77. ce have two or three buttons on their top Each button is assigned a key stroke So for ex ample on a three button mouse in Lotus you might define button 1 as button 2 as the ese key and button 3 as Return With a little practice you could easily traverse through the Lotus menu with those three keys moving the cursor horizontally across the Lotus menu options to make the desired choice I am writing this article using our word processing product The Editor with a Microsoft Mouse attached via the Plus s serial port in back of the Plus Bill Saltzstein wrote a program a device driver that enables a Portable Plus user to use a mouse with almost any application on the Plus Unfortunately the mouse won t work with the original HP110 Portable Bill told me that there is not enough documentation on the HP110 serial port to write the software Bill sent me his software for evaluation He wanted my comments and wanted to know whether I would be MAY JUNE 1987 29 THE PORTABLE PAPER willing to market the product for him Here are some of my first impressions and my comments to Bill on the preliminary version I had two opposite reactions using the mouse with the Plus I am not an experienced mouse user On the one hand there is a kind of freedom using a mouse to move around the screen The whole hand and arm comes into play when using a mouse Without a mouse the physical activity when using the Portable is limited to fin
78. ck or money order for you to write in special instructions or to order e Make payable in U S funds to PERSONALIZED miscellaneous products not listed on the form SOFTWARE e The last section of e Place check and order form in an envelope and ia the order form is for mail ordering software on e If you d rather have us pay the postage Personalized Software ROM backup See e Fold order form so panel addressed to Personaliz special instructions ed Software is on the outside below e Tape shut and drop in mail ORDERING PRODUCTS ON ROM BACKUP See inside front cover for complete information on ROM Backup Service Step 1 Select the software programs for Example s 1p 8 which you want ROM Backup from the list Step J Let s say you wish to purchase p 16 p 84 95 below the following ROM Backups g renee ao SSS ee one aos 4495 Turbo Pascal 3 Printerfalk Formati10 p 25 89 90 5995 Step 2 If you do not own the disk version Webster s Spelling Check O A T ts a of each program you have selected deter a ea aa _RightWriter p 13 95 00 aso oo hich disk ill dt d Super ROM The Editor Mini Printerfalk Shelp works on Portable Plus only p 28 so 4995 f BAL 9S cn rere E gars Wigatg BERS ES Formatt10 Shelp and SideWinder SideWinder Unities p 31 7995 s S277 l Fe _ Sketch p 3 sooo zs Step 3 Enter your disk order in the Step 2 And let s assume that you
79. cond you should bring an adequate supply of prin theads and ThinkJet paper with you not to mention ex tra ink cartridge printheads The darkness of output on the ThinkJet paper is significantly better than on bond or xerox paper Third remember that the ThinkJet uses a NiCad bat tery instead of lead acid and should not be recharged until the low battery indicator comes on It may be wise to carry an extra battery if you plan to use the printer away from electrical outlets for extended periods PLUS Notes By Hal Goldstein 1 2 Megabyte RAM Drawers Now Available For The Plus Imagine 2 5 Megabytes of RAM available to divide between Edisc and internal memory A megabyte is 1000K or 1 000 000 bytes or characters of memory That s nearly 10 times the RAM capacity of the original HP110 Imagine fur ther that you use both drawers for RAM and you already have 512K of built in memory With two 2 Megabyte RAM drawers you could carry around with you 4 5 of RAM Who needs to carry around disk drives with that kind of storage potential The good news is that 1 and 2 Megabyte RAM drawers are now available The bad news is that they are very ex pensive HP is offering anew 1 Megabyte RAM drawer for 1695 SoftWord of Surrey England now has 1 and 2 Megabyte RAM drawers and several other interesting prod ucts The 2 Megabyte drawer costs about 1800 English pounds or about 2880 assuming the dollar doesn t drop any more Personalized
80. ct so I will quote directly from the DATASHOW literature and then report how it works with the HP Portable Plus I do not know how it works with the HP110 The KODAK DATASHOW system simplifies the pro jection of microcomputer images It is a simple fast reasonably priced way to make and show computer generated images that match the clarity of conventual transparency cells Now it s easy to make computer generated screen images equivalent to transparency cells and present them in room light to hundreds of viewers All that s required is an ordinary transmissive overhead projector the KODAK DATASHOW system and a host IBM PC compatible com puter with color graphics adapter compatible RGB port You create screen images in advance on your IBM PC save the digitized screen images on diskette and later project them in autoshow sequence You can also call up and present individual screen images by remote control at your initiative Or use the DATASHOW system to display in put from the host PC keyboard at any time during the presentation The KODAK DATASHOW System includes a liquid crystal display LCD panel a Projection Pad a hand held wireless remote control device and operating software It connects using the serial port If you need real time modification of projected screen images while the presentation is in progress use the host computer s keyboard Add or delete text Update a spreadsheet formula Resize
81. d IA 52556 515 472 6330 HP110 700 ThinkJet printer 225 Disk drive 375 Call Jim Keersemaker 914 439 3972 Wanted Dow Jones Spreadsheet Link HP45511D for HP110 Contact Rod Sharp Box 2169 Santa Fe NM 87504 505 988 2305 Brand New HP IL ThinkJets 295 We obtained several unopened HP IL ThinkJets from a now defunct computer store We ll sell them while they last for 295 Hal Goldstein 515 472 6330 many of the 71B example programs in the user manual contained errors Gary s opinion was that novices would not catch these errors and might think that there was something wrong with the LINK program Veteran users of the 71B will be able to debug these BASIC programs but could spend a good deal of time doing so Gary did agree that the LINK program was well designed and trouble free and should be usable by owners of HP handheld com puters In spite of the user manual s shortcomings I am still sold on LINK The program is easy to use and does everything that the advertisement says it will But beyond its performance and ease of use there is also a touch of Mad Hatter Logic in the LINK program Ordinary com puter logic says that it is O K for a more powerful com puter to control a smaller computer LINK says just the opposite That appeals to my sense of irony We The People In Order To Form A More Perfect Link But more than anything else the LINK program
82. d 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 up less than 40K of memory 5 THE EDITOR loads and saves files and IBM PC HP Vectra executes commands Available on EPROM ROM 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 RUNS ON HP Portable e Portable Plus o HP150 e 99 95 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 IA 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE 30 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 adready 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 l
83. directly on the Portables it would seem that all that would be necessary would be to move a copy of the 3 2 format utility over to the Portable I have tried this with 3 1 utilities but got a wrong DOS version error message There must be some way around this error possibly one of the other portable manufacturers Toshiba etc using DOS 2 11 has a solution Below is a summary of the technical information that I retrieved using Norton Utilities DOS 3 2 Formatted DOS 2 1 PAM Formatted 3 5 IBM Disk 3 5 HP Disk Storage Capacity 720 000 Bytes 693 000 Bytes Sector Size 512 Bytes 512 Bytes Track Size 9 Sectors 9 Sectors Disk Size 80 Tracks 11 Tracks Sides 2 Sides 2 Sides Cluster Size 2 Sectors 2 Sectors Clusters On Disk 713 Clusters 684 Clusters Max Number Files In Root Directory 112 Files 176 Files Outline Of Sector Useage Of A Disk Boot Area DOS 0 0 FAT Area DOS 1 6 1 6 Root Dir Area DOS 7 13 1 17 Data 14 1439 18 1385 BLUE CHIP c COMPUTER SYSTEMS 17958 Ventura Blvd Encino CA 818 996 3132 9701 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles CA 213 553 3393 HP 9114B NEW HP IL DISK DRIVE 795 00 HP 2225B THINKJET PRINTER HP 92261L THINKJET PAPER HP 92261B THINKJET PRINTHEADS Box of Ten Cartridges CALCULATOR SPECIAL Model List Special HP 11C 56 00 48 00 HP 12C 99 00 80 00 HP 15C 99 00 80 00 HP 16C 120 00 89 00 HP 41CV 175 00 135 00 HP 41CX 249 00 190 00 HP 71B 525 00 394 00 THE PORTABLE PAPER
84. 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 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 k From Personalized Software Rainbow Pack 10 disks one each red yellow green dark blue light blue orange maroon red orange pink and beige Monochrome Pack 10 disks of same 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 information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 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 any amw mue eno oee ena MOS W Oe mA E S mas D e S GO SO MED ONN CE GA KO GL GS OSS EB EA UEN GM em CNS ae SID GTA PG S E ESR MES GUS MD GMB EMN UW ome eos ED AME Uma Sme mu D M ON CuS Go ce am Gem ee m S S 6 D Ge Ge Go cm y ce CS AD Ge ONN EAD CUT CUD CS OMI M GUM CAD CMD GNA SS
85. do is type daysend and follow the simple instructions The batch file changes its own date see the MAY JUNE 1987 1 THE PORTABLE PAPER second line of the file and then copies all files changed that day from the A drive to the C drive Before I got copynew from your DOS Tools disk the batch file copied all the files The two beeps are to tell me it s done A beep com program comes from either the Norton Utilities or the DOS Tools disk The net result of running this file is that the copies of daysend that are on both the A and C drives are time and date stamped at the time of the last running of the file This way I can see what I last saved all the A drive files For my usage of the Portable a day send disk lasts approximately six months I will admit to occasionally looking through the disk and removing files known to be saved elsewhere The batch file is as follows pause Insert DAYSEND disk in drive C copy a daysend bat copynew a c beep beep Keith Schaefer Craryville NY Overseas Import Taxes In my letter of Jan 24 I mentioned the high taxes that are imposed on imported Personalized Software goodies You asked me if I had any suggestions within legal and ethical boundaries to reduce those taxes Well I have often books are sent together with one or more disks If the package you send does not carry a note differentiating between software disks and manuals books Customs takes the total am
86. down and in inverse video All or part of a screen can be saved to a file Partial screens can be blown up vertically and horizontally or rotated they can then be recalled and placed anywhere on the screen All or part of the screen can also be sent to the HP ThinkJet or QuietJet printer The picture can be blown up to any size and printed normally or sideways Banners are easily made A utility is included that enables you to capture any graphics screen from any program such as Lotus 1 2 3 and then incorporate the file into SKETCH SKETCH takes 44K so it can comfortably reside in RAM in either HP Portable The program costs 80 and is available from Personalized Software for 75 95 see order form in back of issue FLOW CHARTING II I first heard about this program from Hewlett Packard They tested it to see if it ran on the Plus Apparently they liked the program enough to loan Patton amp Patton a Port able Plus to further customize it for the Plus FLOW CHARTING Ii is software designed specifically for the creation of flow charts and organiza tional charts It lets you create edit and print executive quality flow charts quickly and accurately MAY JUNE 1987 3 THE PORTABLE PAPER FLOW CHARTING II contains all the standard charting symbols and shapes 26 predefined symbols in 95 sizes It has 10 font styles You can center text or place text where you want You can copy or delete blocks of text You can choose wheth
87. e 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 you 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 word 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 feel that THE EDITOR is a truly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today
88. e Draw character set to HP ROMAN 8 character set INSTALLP COM Automates installing an application program on RAM disk the HP Portable Portable Plus Install Utility Program LABEL COM Labels or changes the label name on a disk LC COM Counts lines in each file useful in determining amount of paper needed to print LF COM Sends a line feed to the printer LJET COM LaserJet pronter configuration program for the HP Portable Makes selection LaserJet format easier MMTOP COM Causes Portable Plus MemoMaker to print without usual 5 line top margin MOVE COM Moves one file to another directory without copying MOVEALL COM Moves a set of files to another directory without copying the programs them selves so they work better and so their message displays are easier to under Contents of Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools remember the names of the programs And we ve even changed some of OFF COM Shuts off the HP Portable from DOS PACK COM Packs a disk Does not have subdirectories bug of earlier version PC EXE Allows some IBM programs to be run on HP150 PCBOSS COM File manager for IBM PC and compatibles only PRINTIT COM Print formatting program simple but effective PRNCONF COM Allows ThinkJet printer to function as Epson printer also sends escape se quences to the PRN device RAMDSK ARC Archived utility for HP150 only creates internal RAM disk RENDIR COM Renames subdirectories RNGNAME COM
89. e Recharger today Four are HP cords that plug into your HP Model 110A Portable ThinkJet HP9114 disk drive s or Power Cube Recharger 89 95 HP hand held HP41 71 75 series 80 etc 84 95 for Portable Paper subscribers ROM drawer judiciously You want to make the most out of the ROM drawer space available We know that everyone has different needs and different demands for software However we tried to come up with solutions that bal anced general requirements while making optimal use of space within each ROM or EPROM Please give us feedback if you have other suggestions See our ROM ad on the inside front cover or check the page opposite the order form for a complete listing of our offerings In general we opted for 128K ROMs which is certain ly the most efficient way to go We are taking a chance because we really need a certain number of orders to break even But we feel pretty confident of our selections You can help us greatly by placing your ROM order now even though we won t be ready to ship until August or September EPROMs will be available in June We won t cash your check unless it is also for other products or charge your credit card until we ship If we receive very few orders we may have to cancel a ROM I am particulary concerned about the DOS Tools ROM We tried to cram as much good stuff in and keep the price low So please in dicate to us if you want this chip or any other Through some
90. e following program is then saved as tmb bat All you need to remember is to start Time Manager with the command tmb rather than the normal PAM screen box rename fred pam alm tm rename pam alm fred This program which is initiated with tmb will get your appointments back for Time Manager then run Time Manager and on exiting Time Manager put your ap pointments out of the way so PAM runs a lot quicker To scan a large number of ap pointments can take in excess of 12 seconds Morris Rooms Berkshire U K Charging The Portable Regarding Jim Keersemaker s inquiry about charging the Portable in countries with unstable power March April 1987 it seems to me you provided the answer in the same issue Simply hook up the Port able to a car battery through the MNR 2 mobile recharger The battery would not have to be in the car but could be trickle charged off house current through a small charger This may seem like a lot of trou ble but it has to be better than cooking an 110 Matthew Wallace Sac City IA Portable Self Sufficiency On your recommendation I purchased the MNR 2 mobile recharger from S O S It works very well and is a great help in my business Here is a suggested energy source for Portable users I purchased locally a 12 volt 12 amp model EP 12120 1 dry cell battery called Technacell by Elpower Corporation Santa Ana CA 92701 for 42 45 It is a maintenance free recharge able battery for cyclic
91. ear rangement of the created form if you re interested in changing it cosmetically adding data fields or deleting data fields There are some problems however 1 If you are using the menu feature you must have at least 128K working RAM set or the program may not run Without menus as little as 96K RAM is sufficient 2 If you are running the program with the data file on the A drive and run out of disk space you will lose the entire data file 3 The program is too large to run off the A drive with its full capability Especially the menu features 4 The report writing feature is limited and tedious 5 There is no provision to print to a disk file although you can translate the data base to a format that can be read by most word processors BASIC useful for impor ting to Lotus and Pascal 6 There is no provision to READ data from a disk file it must be entered from the keyboard 7 AS with any database if it gets big enough it just won t fit on the Edisc anymore Even a moderate size file of 80K is impossible to sort on the Edisc since a temporarly file the same size is created Sorting this size data base on the 9114 disk drive is a problem as well since it will take 20 to 30 minutes with Condor Junior In order to minimize these problems I recommend using Condor Junior only off an external drive and maintaining the data files externally as well If you have only one drive I recommend clearing enough A disk
92. earn the commands THE FORMATTER is for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATIBR ospces40oscieieee ks 59 95 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Application to Mail at Second Class Postage Rates Pending at Fairfield IA GOO Ne 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 At your option it will display each occurrence or replace the occurrences either selectively or globally Windows THE EDITOR will display two separate portions of text at the same time one above the other You can yiew and edit two parts of the same file or even two different files simultaneously Backspace delete You can erase the last character witha 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 ampl
93. ed results codes In addition to the 25 pin RS 232 connector the WorldPort has plugs to attach a battery eliminator and an acoustic coupler If a battery eliminator is used the start up delay is eliminated since the modem turns on when ex ternal power is supplied Touchbase Systems provided the information I did not test these features It would be reasonable to assume that to maintain its small size some design compromises were made in building this modem Touchbase Systems indicated that this is definitely so However these compromises did not seem to harm the usability of the WorldPort I could detect no significant increase in data transmission errors as com pared to my Ven Iel modem When given a dial command the WorldPort some times echoed garbage to the screen This was not especial ly harmful since the modem normally dialed the call accurately However if the telephone number was ex tremely long but less than the stated 40 character length of the command buffer dialing errors would occur Touchbase Systems indicated that they had not had this problem A number of serial port errors were encountered us ing the WorldPort I have had this kind of problem with the Ven Iel modem but not quite as many Since this usual ly occurred while dialing recovery was simple Abort the process and rerun the program The low battery indicator light is next to worthless If it lights hope you can get your file transferred before the
94. ed extensively by the pool Individual HP110s are reasonably light to carry but I was decidedly grateful for the wheels on my suitcase when I transported all 40 pounds of computers printer disk drive On the other hand I had three stand alone com puters a high capacity disk drive and a printer for the weight of one transportable micro Perhaps the biggest lesson from using the HP110 at the conference was the need for enough hardware Par ticipants who used the machines got hooked abandoned their pens and paper tablets completely and left little time for others to use the machines The ratio of users to machines was 5 to 3 for the conference and could not have been much more without conflict among the users The common HP82059 AC adapter recharger should also be in plentiful supply so you can recharge all machines overnight if the hotel room has enough outlets A spare battery pack for the disk drive is also mandatory Three suggestions are also important if you use the battery powered ThinkJet printer First you should print a full page on the ThinkJet printer before the conference begins to make sure that the head doesn t need cleaning and repriming before someone asks you for output in a hurry The printhead may clog after a few days of inactivi ty which often occurs just prior to a conference while in transit Once I had wiped the printhead clean after the first use it worked fine for the rest of the conference Se
95. eds repair The PPU can be confused by running IBM PC software which tries to directly access the beeper on either HP Portable the PPU sits where the beeper would be on an IBM PC Pertmaster Demo Regarding Permaster I thought you and your readers would be interested to know that Westminster Software has a Pert master demo program for 50 This is a full function program that is limited to 50 events For the Portable this has the ad vantage of less memory required and may contain sufficient events for less complex projects Obviously for demo purposes it is quite enough to demonstrate how the system works You can get more details by writing Day Herion VP Technical Support Westminster Software 2570 El Camino Real Mt View CA 94040 D R Wright Honolulu HI Speedy HP110 Data Transfer I have two questions for the contributors to The Portable Paper who are adept with RS 232 Has anyone been successful transferring files over a null modem cable to the HP110 at 19 200 baud I regularly transfer files at 9600 baud with Xmodem between my Atari 1040 ST running Flash and my 110 running its infernal Terminal program using the 92221P cable and a gender cable but can never get the two to communicate at the higher baud rate Also is there any way to toggle on and off the printer while in the built in Terminal program One final tip that originated with the HP handheld user community An ex cellent pencil for writing on
96. ein at Personalized Software If you send them 7 50 they will send you the disk Cliff Looyenga provides technical support for HP PC s and HP3000 s and in those circles he is known as The Wizard He has developed a number of Portalbe and Portable PLUS utilities You can reach Cliff via Compu Serve ID 75106 2130 Please note that in last issue s Wiz ardry column the final end got inadvertantly chopped off begin Letters continued from page 2 Charger used with the 110 Portable Plus 6114 Disk Drive 2225B ThinkJet 82143A Thermal Printer 82162A HP IL Thermal Printer and 82161A HP IL Cassette Drive or HP92266A Charger to charge N cell Nicads for the HP41 and then connect the charges to a programmable timer 20 bucks at Radio Shack which you adjust to come on for one hour a day This will work fine IF and ONLY IF either the chargers or the devices holding the battery packs to which the chargers connect are equipped with BLOCKING DIODES to prevent the bat teries from discharging back through the chargers when the chargers are discon nected from line power Question Are the 82059B and 92266A chargers equipped with blocking diodes If not then are the following devices equipped with blocking diodes between the charger input socket and the battery pack HP110 Portable Plus 9114A and 9114B Disk Drives 2225 ThinkJet 82143A Thermal Printer for HP41 82162A HP IL Thermal Printer 82161A HP IL Cassette Dri
97. en feature lets you view up to 14 x11 chart on 25 line screen Runs on Portable Plus only SeeP 22 LINK HP IL Connector 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 Por table HP150 or IBM PC its unlimited storage capability and all its peripherals from your HP41 71 75 or series 80 hand held SeeP 33 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 Useful as themselves and also as learning tools for novices and experts alike these macros include recalculating ranges double spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells addressing form letters and printing labels automatically Seer 37 Mobile Recharger Lets you recharge your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held com puter etc from your car s cigarette lighter SeeP 17 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 2 disk formerly available only on 514 disk with each package sold The disk includes The Norton Utilities addi tional utilities and instructions 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 Software on disk includes 1 DISKPACK a pack utility that
98. ep in touch with my management con sulting practice clients here and abroad Three hundred baud on the HP110 is too slow though and I m glad to hear you re zeroing in on one of those cigarette package sized 1200 baud battery operated modems for the HP110 The ones I ve read about have 25 pin RS 232 connectors which is a pain We need one with a 9 pin male connector to plug right into the 110 s serial port Since HP makes a big point of the low battery drain of the HP IL interface if you start selling the 1200 baud outboard modem please try to give us an idea of how much it will penalize battery life I m amazed how convenient a bat tery operated computer is We move it around the office several times a day and I find myself instinctively taking it along on visits to clients Here in the Rockies we average at least one power interruption a day that will crash any 120VAC computer system We find it necessary to invest in 700 UPS boxes for all such systems but the 110 has its own built in UPS whether plugged into the wall or not Often I m away for several weeks and want to leave the batteries on charge in my HP41s N cell Nicads HP IL Thermal Printer and Cassette Drive both use 82033A C cell Nicad batteries HP110 sealed lead acid battery 9114 Disk Drive sealed lead acid battery and 2225B ThinkJet Nicad battery It s very important to the longevity of both lead acid and Nicad batteries to NEVER lea
99. er It is much easier and more fun to create drawings on the Portable screen using a mouse rather than the cursor keys A few days after I received SKETCH I received a new version of FLOW CHARTING II Patton amp Patton designed for the Plus This product is also described brief ly in the 110 column With FLOW CHARTING II you can create flow charts and organizational charts easily Once again the mouse should be most helpful with the product I have sent both Paul Grimmer and Patton amp Patton copies of Bill Saltzstein s mouse software to test and integrate with their software In conclusion for those willing to spend the time to get used to the mouse Plus users should find a mouse in creases productivity particularly in graphics programs and spreadsheets and it s certainly more fun By the next issue of The Portable Paper we should have pricing and availability information on the Plus Mouse KODAK DATASHOW System By Hal Goldstein How many times have you tried to show a group of peo ple something on your HP Portable screen It s frustrating for everyone involved Think how handy it would be to carry your Portable to an overhead projector and use the overhead system to project the Portable s screen onto the wall for an audience to see HP Corvallis told me of such a product they tested called the KODAK DATASHOW The KODAK DATASHOW was developed to be used in conjunction with an IBM PC I have not seen the produ
100. er you want to bump into a shape and stop or draw right over it Backspace key can erase wrong lines back to their origin plus fix connectors and bypasses FLOW CHARTING II lets you save pieces of your chart or special symbols these pieces can then be popped into any chart You define any size or shape and copy it anywhere You can create a complete 14 by 11 chart on a 200 column by 120 line screen The entire screen can be shrunk so that you can see the entire chart on one screen SUMMARY I played with both programs for all of a half hour Here are my initial thoughts a more thorough review will appear next issue First of all in general SKETCH was written ex clusively for the HP110 and the Portable PLUS FLOW CHARTING II was written for the IBM PC and then modified to work on the Plus That means SKETCH naturally takes more advantage of the Portable strengths and understands its limitations One example SKETCH takes up only 45K of Edisc space and can run using 120K amount of internal memory FLOW CHARTING II takes up 94K but requires 216 of internal memory SKETCH has more features and can be used for a variety of graphics projects FLOW CHARTING II is more specialized If what you want to do is make is make organizational charts or flow charts FLOW CHARTING II is designed to meet your needs quickly and easily From what I can tell you can accomplish the same flow charts with SKETCH but it takes longer The FLOW CHART
101. er Editor disk One nice feature I hadn t noticed before is that it is not necessary to hold down the Extend Char key to delete or insert a character or a line Just type the appropriate func tion key e g 8 deletes a character My wife discovered another feature bug without knowing it when using The Editor on our HP150 She sav ed a file called lesson 4 with a space between the n and the 4 I haven t figured out how to delete the file without deleting all the files on the disk DOS generally does not allow file names containing spaces Here s a trick I find most useful I use The Editor to translate ASCII files such as those created in MemoMaker The Editor or taken off bulletin boards into files easily manipulatable in WordPerfect on my IBM PC compatible machines The same trick should work for MSWord and other word processors First I make sure each paragraph is separated by a blank line Next in The Editor I issue an esc Define Paragraph 1 9000 command Then I do an ese Block Fill command blocking the entire file skipping any tables I might have Finally I save the file After the commands have been issued the file consists of very long lines one for each paragraph All extraneous hard carriage returns and blank spaces have been eliminated Now I read the file into WordPerfect and WordPerfect has no trouble formatting it DISKPACK AND DOS 3 2 I received several comments on the letter that appeared last i
102. er but not listed on the opposite page simply write the ADDITIONAL P RODUCTS product name and price on one of the blank lines in the MISC section near the bottom of the order form Product Retail Price Are PRVALE File ob creek Be ae 4c Se ORS e 39 95 34 95 RightWords dictionary extension for RightWriter p 13 29 95 29 95 HP9114 Empower with Battery Pack p 7 225 00 199 00 SideWinder without utilities p 31 69 95 59 95 Formatllo P25 63 aea eei een cede band DO NOt thet aad 35 95 Doer FOX 22 2 3 6 svat ereneay coe eee BOON stile oh oe ch as 29 95 PENI ASLEl 2 0 0 25 ewan war bested awwae dark 695 00 545 00 Specify whether HP110 Portable Plus HP150 or IBM PC Turpo loolbos p19 ne a arise he had ere eae eh es oS os ee ee ee 62 95 Our Best Selling Products in Brief CompuServe Starter Kit Gets you started on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP forum Includes 25 worth of free time com plete Users Guide permanent user ID number and preliminary password and CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today SeeP1 Condor Junior An easy to use database program in a version designed for the HP110 and its 16 line screen With almost no need to refer to the manual you can enter data sort search manage files print address labels and do limited report writing Memory efficient the main program is only 25K and you add individua
103. ered through Firmware Corp 605 NW Fifth St Suite 2A Corvallis OR 97330 503 753 9314 for 349 The WorldPort 1200 portable modem is available for 199 from Touchbase Systems Inc 16 Green Acre Lane Northport NY 11768 516 261 0423 If you order from Touchbase Systems you will also need to buy an additional cable from a local dealer to connect the WorldPort 1200 to your HP Portable or Portable Plus The WorldPort 1200 is also available from Per sonalized Software The package with adapter cable retails for 235 The Portable Paper subscribers pay 199 or 179 without the cable Please use the order form in back of this issue or call 515 472 6330 Portable Plus Mouse By Hal Goldstein Apple Macintosh owners and a growing number of IBM PC owners attach a mouse to their computers They use the mouse to painlessly select menu options and traverse the computer screen For the uninitiated a mouse is a lightweight rec tangular unit that attaches to the computer in a number of possible ways connected by a cable A mouse lets you con trol the cursor movement in an application in a most in tuitive way whatever direction you move the mouse on desk left right up down diagonally in circles what ever the cursor moves on your screen For example if you are in Lotus and want to move from B2 to H67 roll your mouse on your desk in the appropriate direction and you ll arrive at your destination in no time In addition most mi
104. es OUR CATALOG All subscribers to The Portable Paper should have received Personalized Software s first catalog Products That Make HP Portables and the HP150 Touchscreen Smarter If you didn t get a catalog or would like more catalogs for your colleagues please call us or drop us a line T Master Review Delayed We decided to put off publishing David Hughes en thusiastic review on T Master an integrated package of word processor database and spreadsheet that works on The Portables There is a new communications module for the product and it currently does not work on with the Portables With David s help T Maker Company authors of T Master is getting the documentation and Portable needed to see if they can get the new module to work Hopefully by next issue we will have the whole story More On X Rays And The Portable Jim Shelton of Raytown MO writes I travel a lot all by air It is not unusual for me to pass through security five or six times a week I pack up to 30 disks of data in the HP 13269V System Slimline Case along with the computer printer and disk drive I always carry it on board It is always x rayed I ve never had a problem of any kind with the x rays in 1 years However one out of five times security will open it up anyway because it is so opaque on their screen They will often manhandle the goodies and have scattered my disks on more than one occasion X ray is ionizing radiation and
105. es and the HP150 is that its dictionary is well over 100 000 words The Word Plus s dictionary is 45 000 words The Word Plus is by far the best program weve discovered for the HP110 Now the question comes up what do we do with those Portable Plus and HP150 customers who already purchased The Word Plus from us I know that if I had just spent 129 for The Word Plus and discovered that for 69 95 I could have gotten a better spelling checker I would not be too happy Here is my proposal in which everyone in the long run stands to gain First of all we will upgrade Portable Plus and HP150 owners copies of The Word Plus to Webster s for free Just send the entire Word Plus packaging dictionary and all three disks back to us In clude a note saying that you have destroyed all copies of The Word Plus and want to receive Webster s as a free trade in Secondly for HP110 owners The Word Plus is easily your best choice of spelling checkers The Word Plus was as if written for a 16 line screen If you don t mind a used Word Plus just send us 99 instead of 129 and we ll serd you a complete Word Plus If we don t have a used Word Plus to send you we ll send you a new one Just change cross out the 129 pricing on the order form we ll understand Both offers are good through July 31 1987 up less space and offers additional utilities Such as word listings frequency count anagrams that Webster s doe
106. f atten tion though Before starting make sure that the system configuration for the 110 is set for plotter and HP IL Then when using PrintGraph make sure the device interface op tion is set at 3 for the plotter There are a lot of options in PrintGraph and you have to learn by trying to see what each one does Plot programs can also be written using HP__GL in MemoMaker Using GWBASIC to write graphics is similar to doing it with the BASIC we used on the HP 85 series machines In terms of peripherals we have used the 110 in con junction with other IL devices These include HP41 ther mal printer and tape drive The programming is not easy but can be done if you get the right HP manuals We have also used the HP IL HP IB 82169A interface and use our HP IB devices with the 110 As time goes by and there are more programs com mercially available we are doing less and less programm ing of our own Of particular value have been the Paul Grimmer s SideWinder and Sketch Ed Paul s Link solves the a problem of transferring data between HP IL devices My 110 system consists of an early model 110 2 disk drives and a ThinkJet printer The 7470 plotter is put in to the loop when presentation graphics are desired Hope these comments are of some help to others Don t Buy The Brooklyn Bridge By Hal Goldstein Gary Goodman of Lynchburg VA suggested I look into a White Crane Systems Norcross GA product called The Brook
107. f 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 dictionary 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 win dow 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 Replace the word with one of the suggested spellings RUNS ON HP Portable HP150 a PonabiePus eM PC HP Vectra Enter the correct spelling manually Add the word to an auxiliary dictionary of frequently used words E Replace all other occurrences of the word E 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 reformatting WEBSTER S will automatically locate double repetitions like and and It can correct transpositions itme becomes item missing apostrophes dont becomes don t and typos of all kinds spellling becomes spelling etc If you re n
108. ference between the QuietJet and the QuietJet Plus It is difficult to understand the rationale for the 200 price difference other than that those who want the wider print regions for spreadsheets are typically corporate users who have deeper pockets than individuals Even on standard width paper the QuietJet has been improved over the ThinkJet Whereas the ThinkJet was limited to a print width of 6 in both graphics and text the QuietJet can print a full 8 The following table sum marizes the effective printing widths of the printers Table 1 Print Width Comparison Print Normal Condensed Graphics Lines Width Print Print Print per page in 12 CPI 21 3 CPI 96 DPI 8 LPI ThinkJet 6 67 80 142 640 53 QuietJet 8 96 170 768 64 QuietJet Plus 13 2 158 281 1264 105 CPI Characters Per Inch DPI Dots Per Inch LPI Lines per Inch SPEED Like virtually all printer manufacturers HP bases its published values for print speed on one line of print which means that the values are overstated for normal users Since the printer must stop and reverse direction at the end of each line the actual speed is somewhat lower THE PORTABLE PAPER than published claims I ran comparative tests between the ThinkJet and the QuietJet by printing 20 lines of 80 characters The QuietJet tested 22 26 faster in draft mode except in compressed mode 21 3 cpi which was 6 slower The following table shows the tested and published speeds
109. ficult than it would be with a matching transformer USING CROSSTALK AS A HOST If you are using Crosstalk as a host for file transfer you can easily check the Crosstalk display to get a report on blocks retransmitted errors To do this send the following two commands to the host Ctrl C Picture filename pix Ctrl C TYpe filename pix Since Crosstalk reads only the first two letters of a command there is no need to type the part of the com mand shown in lower case And of course substitute your own filename I use the pix extension to identify files created with the Crosstalk PIcture command INTERNATIONAL DATA COMMUNICATIONS The WorldPort supports CCITT protocol international data communications Since I did not have available a host modem supporting CCITT protocol I did not evaluate this option INSTRUCTION MANUALS I was furnished with a preliminary manual with the test WorldPort It leaves something to be desired but with it and the information in this article I don t think anyone should have a problem using the WorldPort 1200 I am assured that a better manual is being prepared Maybe it will contain some of the information in this article The instruction manual furnished with the Modem 1200 was very nice Since this modem was designed primarily for use with HP41s HP71s and HP75s it did not really have enough information about using it with the Portables I don t know if a novice user would succeed in using the Modem
110. for the printers for several cases Note that the QuietJet figures are based upon normal width paper speeds are 23 35 greater with longer lines on wide paper since the printer has fewer direction changes Table 2 Speed Comparison Characters Second ThinkJet QuietJet Difference Published 12 CPI draft 150 192 28 Actual 12 CPI draft 99 120 22 Actual 10 CP draft 106 Published 12 CPI NLQ 48 Actual 12 CPI NLQ 37 Actual 21 3 CPI draft 135 126 6 CPI Characters Per Inch NLQ Near Letter Quality I checked with HP to ensure that the compressed mode figures were correct and found that this is just how the printer was designed Two other factors affect the QuietJet s speed First bold print with the ThinkJet is done in a single pass since that printer has a built in bold character set although many users do not like its appearance But the QuietJet does bold by double striking the text in the same direction which causes the printhead to move over the bolded area three times i e first pass return and second pass Text containing much in bold will print about half as fast on the QuietJet as the ThinkJet using built in bold capabilities Second normal characters on both printers are a max imum of 12 dots tall the number of ports in the print cartridge so characters are printed in one pass The design of the built in character sets on the QuietJet is different for those characters that have ascenders such as
111. g MAY JUNE 1987 23 THE PORTABLE PAPER 3 Subscripts Superscripts The QuietJet directly supports these The ThinkJet does have a half line feed option that can be used to simulate subscripts and if the program is very smart also superscripts But the QuietJet s look be tter and are easier to do and the look is independent of 6 or 8 lines inch setting i e a half line feed in 6 lpi differs from the same in 8 Ipi 4 Character Sets Several built in character sets are available including HP Roman 8 like the ThinkJet the full IBM 8 set with the faces and linedraw characters the IBM International set US ASCII and several 7 bit interna tional sets You can switch between these with one escape sequence 5 Typeface The built in draft characters are a gothic typeface and NLQ characters are courier I personally like the look of the ThinkJet characters equivalent to Quiet Jet draft over the QuietJet draft but I like the QuietJet NLQ characters best of all 6 Graphics The QuietJet has single and double density graphics as does the ThinkJet but it also has a quad den sity mode I have not yet found any software that makes use of this I suspect the only reason quad is offered is because the printer must have higher vertical dot resolu tion in order to print text in NLQ And higher vertical dot resolution is what quad density offers so quad density graphics is really a by product of NLQ text 7 Transparent
112. g is attached to a power cord The unit s four other cords have HP type connectors for plugging into HP devices The Model 110A is manufactured by Summit Con cepts 1825 42nd Avenue Capitola CA 95010 408 462 5457 Retail price is 89 95 It is also available from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 We are unable to offer a subscriber discount on this product Mobile Recharger This recharger Model MNR 2 from S O S works off you car s cigarette lighter It will charge one HP device at a time and the manufacturer says charging time is about 30 longer than the time it takes with a wall charger They also report that your car does not have to be running you can recharge your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 or HP hand held overnight without running down a normal car bat tery The MNR 2 Mobile Recharger is made by Software Operations and Systems Co S 0 S 1850 East 17th Street Suite 102 Santa Ana CA 92701 714 558 1806 Retail price is 89 95 Portable Paper subscribers can order the product for 84 95 from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Through the Loo Looking Glass By Ed Keefe The Portables As Peripherals In this issue of The Portable Paper you have read about many of the peripheral devices for the HP Portables You have learned what peripheral devices are and have discovered some of the ins and outs of the
113. ger movements involved in typing Rather than searching for cursor movement keys on the Portable Plus keyboard you slide the mouse across your desk and the cursor just zips along It s fun However I found my initial experience frustrating From the PAM screen I moved the cursor with the mouse to the PAM application box labeled The Editor clicked button 1 on my mouse which I had defined as Return and bang I was in The Editor Sounds great However my experience was that as I moved the cursor in PAM I lost sight of it If you don t know where the PAM application up arrow cursor is on the screen it takes a bit to find it With a little practice I would probably get used to the coordination between my hand moving the mouse and the cursor on the screen Bill actually provides a way to customize not only the mouse buttons for each application but the speed and respon siveness of the mouse for each application In The Editor I have one mouse button programmed for the esc key used to get in and out of menus and one button for return That way I can use the mouse not only to move around my file but also to use The Editor s menu There is something appealing about using the mouse to traverse menus in The Editor and Lotus But again I was frustrated since I would intend to press the return button but would press the ese button instead and vice versa Also once again practice should solve it Bill tells me that several Lotu
114. gle sheet of paper for ready reference The user manual is clear and concise and includes easy to follow examples of all commands Use you printer s full potential Order PrinterTalk Version 1 2A today 49 95 including manual 44 95 for Portable Paper subscribers FREE UPDATE If you already have version 1 2 or earlier send it to us with a self addressed stamped envelope or send us 7 50 and we ll replace it with version 1 2A 20 less disk space than 1 2 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE 5 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 62556 516 472 6330 Special Low Price BOTH PROGRAMS now ONLY 59 95 A 90 VALUE Formatl10 lets you format headers footers and page numbers all centered left or right justified chain or merge documents and preview your document on screen Formatl10 also lets you send your document to your disk file or printer and compensates for widow and orphan lines Disk includes the manual and Turbo Pascal source code Formatt10 usually sells for 39 95 now with Printerlalk it s only 59 95 Order both today and get all the text formatting and printing control you need Existing Format110 owners get Printerlalk for only 19 95 Existing PrinterTalk owners get Format110 for only 19 95 TH
115. hat we offer ROMs only as a backup service That is an original of the product must already have been purchased This ap proach has made it easier to work with manufacturers or authors of the software who would rather not alter the packaging or distribution of their product If on the other hand like HP we offered the product only on a chip a much more difficult negotiating process would have to take place As a small company getting and maintaining the attention of a big company for such an agreement would not be easy We approached Borland International Turbo Pascal Peter Norton Computing The Norton Utilities Simon amp Schuster Webster s New World Spelling Checker Southern Software SideWinder System Enhancement Associates ARC520 Randy Salo Shelp Jack Bower Typ ing Whiz Ed Keefe Formatl10 and Ed Gilbert The Editor Borland International the good guys of our in dustry gave us permission without hassle Peter Norton Computing just gave us a flat no without much explana tion Don t worry we are not ones to take no for an answer We worked out some arrangement usually in volving royalties with the other companies or individuals Frankly the second reason for offering chips as a backup service is economics HP sells most of its products for hundreds of dollars and they are geared to producing chips Because of lower overhead and the nature of the type of product we sell we have been able
116. he HP150 and the IBM PC Now all that is changed thanks to a soft ware program called LINK LINK lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other HP IL device This means for example PC This gives your hand held direct access to your MS DOS machine s com putational power and unlimited storage capability e You can control your HP hand held from your HP Portable or desktop computer keyboard e You can use your Portable or desktop computer s video screen to display entries made on your hand held e Your hand held can access and control any peripheral device that connects to your Portable 150 or PC including modems printers plotters mainframes graphics tablets and more In short without adding a n piece of RUNS ON hardware LINK extends the power of your hand held to include a whole world of peripherals and capabilities And it does so for less than the cost of a single peripheral Order this breakthrough in hand held computing power today LINK HP IL Connector 80 75 95 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 e You can transfer data both ways be tween an HP41 71 75 or series 80 com puter and your Portable HP150 or IBM provided your 150 or PC is equipped with an HP IL interface card available from Hewlett Packard li
117. he 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 LIFETIME MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Our ROM Back Up Service comes with a lifetime 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 Backup 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 convenience order one or more of our best selling programs on ROM Backup today Complete ordering instructions are inside the back cover W CUSTOM ROMS You may have some programs or data of your own that you would like to put on ROM either a single copy for yourself or in quantity for others Important you may not copy off the shelf software onto ROM chips without per mission of the publisher We are happy to offer our same high quality ROM Backup Service on a custom basis at the following prices Note Programs can span two or more 64K ROMs 32K ROM 123 for first ROM 32 for each additional R
118. he dots to run together Since the printhead never contacts the paper the printers are inherently quieter than conventional impact type dot matrix printers yet yield better overall quality than thermal printers Great portable modem for your HP Portable Data communications at four times the speed of the modem in the HP110 If you do data comunications with an HP 110 Portable you ve probably found the internal 300 baud modem to be annoyingly slow Until now the only solution was to buy a bulky 1200 baud external modem and lug it around wherever you go A better solution is the WorldPort 1200 It measures a trim 4 x2 x1 it s rugged it weighs only 6 ounces including the battery and it sends and receives at either 300 or 1200 baud A MYRIAD OF FEATURES The WorldPort 1200 has a wealth of features you would expect to find in a desktop modem several times its size For example the WorldPort 1200 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 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 1200 also has a built in interface for an acoustic coupler Coupler itself nat in cluded And the unit is compatible with both
119. hs of my life Also I have to cover the phone bills and maintain hardware Portovec BBS has just stepped up to a 2400 baud modem There is also a Portable round table discussion To get started log onto the Portovec computer with your com puter by dialing 213 452 2197 You can log on at 300 1200 or 2400 baud The Portable DataCom Config default setting should work or try 8 bits no parity If you prefer you can contact The Portovec Users Group c o Bob Kobl 2811 Ocean Park Blvd Santa Monica CA 90405 IBM 3 Disk Compatibility According to my sources at HP in theory the HP Portables should be able to read information found on 3 disks formatted for IBM and compatible machines Portables users should also be able to write save information to 3 2 disks formatted by an IBM compatible However an IBM 3 disk drive probably cannot read an HP format ted disk A special routine is being worked on so that IBM drives will be able to read disks from the HP9114 I haven t tried any of this since I don t have a 31 2 IBM disk drive However if all the above is true it seems to me that if you run the IBM DOS 2 1 format program to format 32 disks from the Portable then the IBM should be able to read it Apparently the HP format routine adds a safety fac tor not present in the IBM format routine The HP format ted disk allows two sectors to go bad before the data on the disk is lost If any sector goes bad on
120. is probably not A better question might be Who in the world would want to do this anyway To answer this last question I would hypothesize that many readers of The Portable Paper would like their HP THE PORTABLE PAPER laptops to do this Who Needs It Anyway Judging from my correspondence there are quite a few owners of the HP Portables who are also long time fans of the HP41C and or the HP 75C or 71B handheld computers I count myself as one of these fans And who among us hasn t longed for more and faster memory and more than a single line display for these small machines I suspect that we tolerate the limitations of these handheld com puters because they still do some things better and more easily than a desktop or a laptop computer So if you are one of those people who would like to have the best of both worlds handheld and desktop computing you can retrieve your 41C or 75C from the file cabinet Charge up its flagging batteries because your HP handheld computer is about to get a new lease on life A computer artist has been at work and I would like to tell you what he has created for us The computer artist is Paul Grimmer President of Southern Software His latest creation is a computer pro gram called LINK You may have noticed the ad for the LINK program in the pages of the Portable Paper and wondered what it could do ll try to describe what the LINK program can do and explain why it s a real breakth
121. is accomplished via the linefeed and or formfeed buttons and reverse movement is not possible without releasing the paper from the pinfeed rollers The pinfeed rollers are behind the platen the main roller on the QuietJet which makes manual loading of paper much easier The ThinkJet has two grit wheels instead of a true platen but the QuietJet has a true platen with eight ad justable bailer arm rollers so that the paper is held more firmly against the platen One other major improvement is that the QuietJet allows you to vary where the left side of the paper is Thus you can establish the left print margin over a wide range for both pinfeed and cut sheet paper BUTTONS AND CONTROLS Like the ThinkJet the QuietJet has the power switch on the back and a control panel on the top left that contains MAY JUNE 1987 21 Attention users of the HP41 71 75 and series 80 computers New product lets you transfer data both ways wi between your HP hand held and your HP Portable HP150 IBM PC printer modem and more Hewlett Packard s HP IL interface lets you transfer data from certain HP IL devices to certain other HP IL devices for example from hand held computers to printers and disk drives or from your HP Portable to an IBM PC Unfortunately the HP IL interface does not allow all possible combinations notably missing is the ability to transfer data from HP hand held computers to MS DOS com puters like the Portables t
122. ith 2 01 you can t just plug in the ROMs and go there is an install procedure to go through first Corvallis support already cautions Please read the manual 2 01 takes up three ROMs but if you don t have room for three you can leave out the one that contains help messages At this time HP has been unable to test any 1 2 3 add ons Corporate users let us send a Portable Paper to all of your company s Portable users Contact us for special corporate rates amp Erased your files Get them back with The Norton Utilities Version 4 0 Advanced Edition also available 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 f X s eye 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
123. l 10K programs for each function you wish to use SeeP5 DOS Tools Portable Utilties Disk Vol 1 Well over 50 excellent public domain programs that enhance DOS all tested on The Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clari ty and ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents Back cover The Editor The Formatter separate packages The Editor Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right justify Easy to learn and use Uses less than 40K Versions for HP110 Plus IBM PC HP150 all on master disk The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multi line headers footers page numbers table of contents glossary capabilities and mroe Works with almost all printers Note Documentation is in draft form no technical support available SeP7 HP9114 Empowerer A hardware product that prevents the HP9114 disk drive from running out of juice in the middle of your work Plug in empowerer to your HP9114 and a normal wall outlet and you can run your HP9114 forever h seP3 Flowcharting II lt This program creates professional looking flowcharts and organizational 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 disturbing the rest of the flowchart Shrink Scre
124. loaded files were corrupted except when the Terminal s Recv Pacing was set to XON XOFF This is very puzzling since the Terminal Emulator User s Manual describes the Recv Pacing parameter as controlling the HP110 s transmitting not its receiving MODEM7 UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING HP110 Terminal Proto cols On with SmartCom on an IBM PC Uploading Downloading Baud Char Sec Char Sec 300 oF 21 1200 91 43 2400 140 63 4800 217 64 9600 36 64 The Terminal program can be used at any of the baud rates in the menu An external 1200 or 2400 baud modem can be a welcome improvement But don t expect those files to literally fly across the phone lines Gary Goodman Lynchburg VA Some Thoughts I enjoy your magazine In particular I was glad to see solutions to my problems with the 110 A pleasant surprise was the features about the HP IL equipment I ve had a complete set of tape drives printers video interfaces etc for my HP41s It had never occurred to me to connect the 110 into that loop Now I use the two screen operation for many jobs the big monitor for holding key data the 110 screen for real time My use of the 110 is primarily an ex tension of my base computer I keep a couple of HP IL wires attached to the HP IL interface of the PC There are others set from the HP IL printer and disk drive That way I can quickly connect any of three ways 110 to PC 110 to HP IL or PC to HP IL To supp
125. ly Private File Protects your confidential letters documents spreadsheets programs and data communication files Private File scrambles your file so only you can unscramble it 3 Project Management Packages All 3 work on the HP110 Plus HP150 and IBM PC Project 8 9 10 a Lotus template Helps you manage small to medium projects Milestone also for small to medium projects On HP110 you need to scroll to see entire Milestone screen Pertmaster for medium to large projects specify which machine All three are reviewed in Vol 1 Issue 6 of The Portable Paper Seer 13 RightWriter Flags errors in grammer style usage and punctuation inserting com ments directly into your document without mistakes Also produces overall critique of document without mistakes Also produces overall critique of document strength of delivery use of jargon grade level Uses more than 2 200 rules and a 45 000 word dictionary and works with most word processors Also available RightWords dictionary ex tension utility for RightWriter it has 7 auxiliary dictionaries including business computers and engineering and also lets you add words of your own to Right Writer s built in dictionary Inside front cover Software on ROM Many of our best selling programs are avialable 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
126. ly exchange messages and files from one computer across phone lines to the other One of those details handled by the communication software has to do with protocol Protocols are rules that both computers must adhere to for successful communica tion These rules include agreement as to how many bits of digital information constitutes a character signals be tween the two computers indicating successful transmis sion error checking and speed of transmission Modems are of two kinds internal and external An internal modem is one that resides inside your computer an external one sits in its own enclosure outside your com puter and is connected to the computer by a cable In either case a modem must also connect to the telephone line Most modems connect to the telephone line by means of a standard modular phone plug that comes with the modem The HP110 and Portable Plus have phone jack receptacles in the back of the units that connect to their in ternal modems Another way to connect to the phone line is through an acoustic coupler which sends and receives data by means of beeps through your telephone s earpiece Modems are also classified in terms of their baud rate which is a measure of the speed of data transmission The HP110 comes with an internal fixed speed 300 baud modem The accompanying communications software is called Terminal Tke Portable Plus has an op tional internal modem that can be run at either 300 or
127. lyn Bridge that retails for 129 95 The Brooklyn Bridge consists of software and a serial cable The cable is used to connect a PC compatible lap top computer with an IBM PC or compatible The software FOR RELEASE 1 A 2 0 AND 2 01 WHAT FOR LESS THAN 70 CENTS A MACRO YOU CAN HAVE RANGE CALC TO SHORTEN F9 CALC TIME ACOPY COMMAND THAT STAYS AT THE TO CELL MEMO TEMPLATE WITH WORD PROCESSING amp FANCY PRINTOUT A PASSWORD MACRO TO LOCK UP YOUR FILES A MACRO DRIVEN SLIDESHOW OF GRAPHS 8 PRINT MACROS INCLUDING DBL SPACE amp SUPER TINY A POP UP CALCULATOR WITH SCIENTIFIC FUNCTIONS WITH 101 MACROS FOR LOTUS 123 ASCII MACRO ADJUST CELL DATA YEAR TO DATE MEASURE COLUMN WIDTHS FANCY EORDERS FORM LETTER MACRO GO RETURN MACRO DATA ENTRY MACRO COPY TO ALT CELLS l MEMORY MACRO ELIMINATE ERR DOCUMENT WORKSHEET TOGGLE TITLES ON amp OFF FINANCIAL FUNCTIONS NOTEPAD MAGRO VIEW MACROLISTS COMPARE VERT HORIZ SUMS ELIMINATE ZEROS XER TO ALT MACROLIST SHOW LEADING ZEROS SELF NAMING CELLS ASE NNO TAN SIN COS TODAY INWORDS YEAR TO DATE MACRO POP UP APPT CALENDAR INSERT ROW W FORMAT AOD TO ADDRESS DATA BASE PRUNE NO OF FILES BIORHYTHMS MACRO PRINTLABELS DATA QUERY MACRO EXCHANGE ROWS amp COLS LIST amp PRINT RANGE NAMES SWITCH PLACES MACRO HIDDEN NOTES MACRO INSERT ROW T RNE TEST amp REPLACE MACRO XFR ABSOLUTE VALUE o ETC ETC ETC 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3
128. m Corporation Circulation Rita Goldstein Frances Kempton Glen Frank Advertising Manager Steve Cooperman 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 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 Application to mail at second class postage rates is pending at Fairfield IA 52556 POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 tinuously hot and their lives shortened significantly The right way to maintain a lead acid or Nicad battery on standby for ex tended periods is to charge it for an hour e or two a day enough to maintain full charge but with the battery remaining at ro
129. ma Smm moe A NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED INTHE UNITED STATES FOLD HERE What kind of computer do you use check all that apply L HP110 Portable L Portable Plus HP150 touchscreen L IBM PC or compatible Specify size of disk LI 3 LI 5 IMPORTANT Check here if you require single sided 31 2 disk LU Method of payment L Check L MasterCard L VISA Card Cardholder Signature Expires Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter PO Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 Product The Portable Paper 3 Year Subscription Check one e G New subscriber C Renewal 2 Year Subscription Begin with Jan 1986 GJan 1987 C Current issue Back Issues indicate numbers Time Manager Pack HP Calculator 2 1987 Subscriber Disk _ 10 unlabled Sony disks and case 10 colored disks Rainbow Pack 10 colored disks Monochrome Pack Specify color Condor Junior HP110 Portable only p 1 DOS Tools Portable Utilities Vol 1 p 5 The Editor back cover Flowcharting II Portable Plus only p 3 The Formatter back cover The Editor The Formatter back cover HP9114 Empowerer Power Supply p 7 Link HP IL Connector p 22 101 Macros For Lotus 1 2 3 p 33 Milestone Mobile Recharger p 37 Norton Utilities Version 4 0 p 17 Norton Utilities Advanced Edition p 17 Padded Case for Printer Disk Drive p 8 Padded Case for HP Portable
130. makes a statement Ever since Hewlett Packard introduced its Inter face Loop users of HP IL have been confined to equipment that would only work with the loop This no longer has to be true The LINK program says that we can break the HP IL ties that bind us and move into the best of the com puting world That appeals to my sense of freedom Ed Keefe is an author programmer and Computer Science instructor He is the president of The FastAid Co 314 SW Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe I D WIZAZ DRY by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga Avoiding Abort Retry or Ignore Have you ever written a program and thought you had it bomb proof when you got an error message something like Not ready error writing to device PRN Abort Retry or Ignore Or how about Not ready error reading from drive c Abort Retry or Ignore The user has no real good way to answer those questions if the device is not available If you answer Abort the whole program will be aborted Retry and Ignore will simply cause you to be prompted with the same question again The only clean way out is to find a printer or disk and connect it up so as to satisfy the program A far better alternative would be to have the program either trap the error or make sure the device exists before trying to access it Trapping the error is not trivial MS DOS has a special interrupt handler that gets executed when the device is not ready Taking over this inter
131. mers have also noticed the difference Marc Duame a district manager in Englewood CO says that one of his sales reps used the Portable Plus to illustrate that he would be able to provide excellent attention to detail on order status At a users conference he demonstrated the ability to look up and report on the customers orders right before their eyes They were extremely impressed with this level of support These results indicate that automation does make a difference which led to HP s decision to equip each of its 2 000 U S sales reps with a Portable Plus by August of 1987 All this from just the Portable Plus Not quite The in itial automation toolset issued by U S Field Operations combines hardware and software tools designed to give sales reps freedom from the office and remote access to in formation The hardware includes a Portable Plus with 896Kb of internal memory a 9114B portable disc drive and a ThinkJet printer ROM software includes Memo Maker Time Manager Lotus 1 2 3 Executive Card Manager and Reflection 1 Additional software solutions consist of Price and Availability PAL Order Status POST and HPDeskManager In order to realize productivity gains and not create an added drain on sales rep s time HP recognized that the automation toolset needed to be easy to learn and use Training sessions were designed using accelerated learning techniques that allow 12 hours worth of material to be taught in a
132. my ROM Backup order If not purchased from Personalized Software have enciosed proof of purchase send a separate payment for the ROM Step 3 See sample at right for how Backup part of your order Mae will hold order form should be filled out in this that part of your payment until we ship example assuming you are a subscriber to The Portable Paper initials ROM BACKUP inside iront cover PRODUCTS AVAILABLE ON ROM BACKUP Size of ROM Price Size of ROM Price GO aide en ee She a aa BONG E 55 TUDO PaSa ee any er A mer eee O O a es i aha a 64K 95 SideWinder 0 0 50 ccc eee eee eee ene 32K tows ok 55 Typing WHIZ ew ed ae Rh ei RO Eee ae we th ag ee 64K 95 PHO Edo esee eqn E Wk aa ES EE a eae aciels 64K 95 Best of DOS Tools 0 0 0 0 0 ce es 128K 119 PrinterTalk FormatllO ananuna aaaea aa 64K 95 SIDEr RO Migs te Ane ant ha ae diees aie was Gea a Se 128K 149 The Editor Mini PrinterTalk Formatl10 Shelp and SideWinder ohelp PP SIdEW INGSE aon tare ata ete ue bac 64K 95 Webster s Spelling Checker 0 00 00000 256K 179 This version of SideWinder does not gt Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version included on the PrinterTalk disk include any of the SideWinder utilities It is functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for most applications a a a SSE To order any of the following products or others described in The Portable Pap
133. nd them the 29 95 and you ll receive the new version on 5 disk In either case you must send proof of pur chase the blue cover of the manual We will also be selling on 312 disk the optional sup plementary dictionary This allows you to add words to the existing dictionary or use one of seven auxiliary dic tionaries with RightWriter These auxiliary dictionaries contain jargon for Business Administration Computers Engineering Weaponry Navigation Shipboard and Air craft The cost is 29 95 You can use a blank line in the order form at the back of the issue or contact RightSoft at 2033 Wood St Suite 218 Sarasota FL 33577 800 992 0244 THE EDITOR FREE TRIAL OFFER AND SOME TIPS I like The Editor a lot I thought the best way to really show my enthusiasm was to make it as easy as possible for you to try it and see if it increased your productivity Most of you should have received an experimental mailing several months ago In it we offered to send you a copy of The Editor with printed manual along with The For matter if you desired for your examination The promo tion was most successful and substantiated my feeling that most Portable and Plus users would like a compact easy to use word processor with many more features than MemoMaker You may still take advantage of our offer Just use the order form in back of the issue and in the total column write free trial You will have 2 months to evaluate the pr
134. nefeed and formfeed buttons The blue button on the ThinkJet used to set top of form is not present on the QuietJet Instead you do a formfeed and then use the knob on the side to position the paper to top of form The QuietJet has an offline button that allows the printer to stop printing so that you can view the printing and also position the paper Printing can be resumed by another press of the same button The QuietJet also has a button with an indicator that allows you to directly set NLQ Near Letter Quality nor mal or compressed print Those of you with an HP IL ThinkJet do not have a set of DIP switches like the serial ThinkJet but the QuietJet does Unlike most printers ThinkJet included the Quiet Jet s DIP switches are not in a hard to reach position on the back but are inside the front cover The switches can not be reached by hand but are easily reached with a pen or pencil In addition to providing serial settings for baud rate parity etc the switches also enable several default settings to be established all of which can be changed via soft ware These include carriage return definition perfora tion skip on off and page length as the serial ThinkJet does but also include normal pitch 10 or 12 cpi com mand set HP or pseudo Epson and symbol set OWNER S MANUAL HP has made an effort in the QuietJet manual to ensure that a wide range of users Apple IBM HP150 and HP Portable Plus can connect
135. ness and ease of use THE NORTON UTILITIES are already a best seller in the IBM PC market Personal ized Software is authorized to distribute them on 3 1 2 disk for users of the HP110 Portable 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 stan dard 5 1 4 disk sold by Peter Norton for IBM PCs and as a bonus several public domain utilities we ve tested on the Portables There s also a utility called PC EXE that allows THE NORTON UTILITIES to run on the HP150 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 ZNORTON UTILITIES E er E EER A ee O D DATA RECOVERY Da 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 THE PORTABLE PAPER Foundations By Hal Goldstein The Foundations column contains
136. ng causes a change in line length e Leave the word as is but mark it in your docu ment for later consideration and fix flash e Leave the word as is and add it to the main dictionary e Add the word to your own dictionary of special terms for instance jargon or technical terms you only use in certain types of documents THE WORD PLUS also tells you the correct spell ings of individual words independent of any document It can find all the words with a given iea or suffix or even find words that rhyme It can do a global search and replace on multi ple words in a single pass And its hyphenation feature inserts soft hyphens into words making it easier for many word processors to format text properly Additional utilities within THE WORD PLUS will count all the words in a file count the fre quency of each word in a file and alphabetize the words in a file automatically If you ve ever worried about spelling errors or embarrassing typos worry no longer Order THE WORD PLUS It s fast it s friendly and it never forgets a spelling THE WORD PLUS 150 129 for Portable Paper subscribers THE WORD PLUS A Great Spelling Checker And More 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
137. now in c biggraph ren 25graph graph cnf restore the original default parameter file BATCH FILES AND PAM 1 Go into MemoMaker and type the following ren graph cnf 25graph ren biggraph graph cnf graph ren graph cnf biggraph ren 25graph graph cnf 2 Save this to a file named e bigplot bat Then change biggraph to smgraph in lines 2 and 4 Save this to c smplot bat 3 Use get memo to retrieve c pam mnu and insert the following lines at the beginning of that file Big Plot bigplot 32 MAY JUNE 1987 small Plot smplot 4 Save this back into c pam mnu and exit MemoMaker To return to PAM type exit 5 You know have four new files on the utility disk smplot bat This batch file makes the 8 x 11 paper plot specifications the one used for PrintGraph runs the plot program and then makes the printer version of the plot specifications the default configuration file for future runs Note that using the parameters given above the plot will be such that the x axis is on the long side of the paper This file can be run from PAM by selecting Small Plot from the main menu bigplot bat This batch file is the same as smplot bat ex cept that the plot is on the 11 x 17 paper The x axis again is on the long side smgraph Contains the plot parameters for the small paper plot The batch file smplot bat causes it to be renamed to graph cnf for the plotting so that Lotus will recognize it and then change it back biggraph Same
138. oduct and either send payment or invest 88 in third class postage to send it back to us The one weakness in the product is that the program itself contains no print formatting capabilities However unlike MemoMaker you are allowed to insert printer codes into your Editor document so you can control your printer lines per page condensed print etc from your document Also you can use PAM s System config to define certain ThinkJet characteristics such as skip perforations 6 MAY JUNE 1987 Alternatively you can use PrinterTalk Format110 or The Formatter to format your document page numbers headers switch print styles and so forth On The Editor disk we now include prnconf com from the DOS Tools disk prnconf puts the ThinkJet into Epson emulation mode If you do not have the program on your Editor disk and you want it and a correspondingly longer readme file you can upgrade in the usual manner 7 50 or send formatted disk and self addressed stamped envelope Most printer codes in Epson emulation are much shorter than normal HP mode For example to change to compressed mode in HP mode requires esc amp k2S in Epson mode CTRL O To generate the ese character in The Editor hold down the CTRL key and press To generate CTRL O hold down the CTRL key and press o I have discovered a few more tricks other than what is in the readme file included on the disk Editor users be sure to print the readme file on the mast
139. ollowing variables portability speed price quality of output font options noise ease of use with Portable soft ware amount of planned usage usage with what com puters support reliability maintenance costs ease of sheet and envelope feeding wide or normal paper width options and ability to handle different paper size and stock The good news is that there are many excellent printers on the market at all price ranges If you are at all careful and think about what you want it is hard to make too serious of a mistake Here are several suggestions in coming to a final deci sion First go to the library and glance through PC Magazine or other computer references that compare and evaluate a number of printers at once They ve already done the work for you Second ask friends and associates about what they like and dislike about the printers they use Third go to a knowledgeable local dealer with a list of your specifications He doesn t have to know about HP Portables just printers If you do work with a local dealer your choice might be more limited and you might pay more than if you bought your printer mail order However if you use a reputable local dealer he should help you solve any logistical or mechanical problems you might have after you purchase the printer Furthermore as a Portable owner you have a unique advantage You can directly test the printer at the dealer s shop Just bring your Portable and HP92221
140. om munication you will not only learn about products you will be educated We are continuing the expanded letters section As you read these letters you will see what a wealth of Hal Goldstein your needs knowledge our Portable worldwide readership offers Thanks to HP Corvallis support and David Hughes for their last minute answers to questions raised in some of these letters In this issue we also begin our Portable Profiles column Please continue to send in your profiles of how Condor Junior On HP110 I read with interest your brief discussion _ of Condor Junior on the HP110 last issue I have used Condor Junior on the HP110 for about one and a half years If you re in terested in a minimum learning curve this is the program to get It is menu driven with extensive HELP facilities The manual is short and concise but with the on line help not much more is needed There are a couple of features from the full up Condor package that were in cluded in Condor Junior but aren t documented When running the program you may elect to use menus or not If you elect to use menus and make an error in the com mand line the program will return you to the point of your error and allow you to edit the line or access HELP for more in formation This is an excellent feature for learning the program The ease that Condor Junior provides in making input screens for data entry is outstanding It also allows for easy r
141. om temperature most of the time A convenient way to do this is to connect your batteries to HP s 82059B continued on page 38 THE PORTABLE PAPER Making More of Your HP Portable Critical Bug If Bypass PAM Please take heed of this warning from M A Koerber of Florissant MO I use my HP110 extensively and I believe I have been bitten by every bug in the machine I would like to offer the following comments for your consid eration A word of caution on your article Bypassing PAM Vol 2 No 2 p 11 There are a couple of problems in operating the HP110 from DOS using the config sys file you described The most catastrophic is loss of all Edisc data if an alarm occurs Alarms are governed by a file named pam alm file which can be manually created in MemoMaker or automatically created by Time Manager I had this occur on one occasion and have never used the config sys file again I checked out M A Koerber s bug report on both the HP110 and Portable Plus Unfortunately he s right Therefore if you use the alarm system on your Portable then do not bypass PAM using the config sys file as de scribed in last issue I had a conversation with David Hughes about this He said he didn t see the big deal about bypassing PAM especially on the Plus where DOS commands is always the first PAM application whenever you are in PAM and want to be in DOS just press Return From DOS you can run a
142. or details Product Notes Size of ROM Disk ROM Backup Shelp Includes improved version of note 32K 49 95 55 00 55 extraction program SideWinder Does not include any of the utility 32K 59 95 79 95 55 programs that come with the disk based version of SideWinder The Editor 64K 79 95 99 95 95 Printerlalk Format110 64K 59 95 89 90 95 Shelp SideWinder Same versions as on 32K ROM chips 64K 109 90 134 95 95 see above Turbo Pascal Includes RUN COM which can save 10K 64K 89 95 99 95 95 of disk space from any program you compile with Turbo e Typing Whiz 64K 39 95 49 95 95 Best of DOS Tools Contains selected utilities from Portable 128K 39 95 49 95 119 Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools Super ROM Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version 128K 249 80 324 80 149 The Editor included on the PrinterTalk disk it is Shelp functionally equivalent to Printerlalk for SideWinder most applications Shelp and SideWinder Mini PrinterTalk are the same versions as on the 32K Formatt10 ROM chips see above Webster s Spelling Checker 256K 69 95 79 95 179 Two 128K ROMs Utilities included in the Best of DOS Tools ROM Backup are as follows For program details see Portable Utilities ad in this issue 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 utilities that have to be deleted from t
143. ort 1200 uses a 9 volt transistor radio battery that has a life of about 8 to 10 hours according to Touchbase Systems Except with the very best and hottest of batteries however I don t think the WorldPort will achieve this bat tery life Nevertheless the effective battery life of the WorldPort is greater than that of the Modem 1200 since idle time does not count it is powered only when the serial port is on Since all devices on the HP IL loop must be powered for the loop to operate I discharged the Modem 1200 s battery once without transferring a single file Because the Modem 1200 does not require powering the Portable s serial port a power hungry device the Portable s battery will be conserved as compared to using the WorldPort The Modem 1200 is about three times the size of the WorldPort But you have to add to the WorldPort s size a modem cable and a spare 9 volt transistor battery and to the Modem 1200 s size a transformer and cable Effectively the WorldPort is significantly smaller although either will fit in the Portable s carrying case if no AC adapters or rechargers are carried Part of the Modem 1200 s larger size can be accounted for by battery charger electronics Un fortunately the Modem 1200 s transformer cable con nector and therefore I assume transformer are not compatible with the Portable the 9114 disk drive or the ThinkJet printer making power maintenance more dif
144. ort the PC to HP IL loop I created files on the PC to configure the Thinkjet I saw a couple of these in your magazine when I get home from this trip I ll send mine which are a bit more ex haustive and which also can be used for the LaserJet When the PPC put together ROM for the HP41 they put in some useful stat and curve fit programs Do you know of similar programs for MS DOS I have been writing a computer col umn in the local paper The target is those people who are thinking about their first computer I ve enclosed a copy Thanks again for your paper it is ex cellent Walter Clark Woodbridge VT On The Price Of The Portable Paper If you have walked into a computer shop and looked or asked for some program for your Plus or 110 you know the feeling of having a machine that is a little on the out side of the mainstream supply line The comment from across the counter from the salesman is Why don t you sell that toy and get a computer If the time is given on my part the salesman finds that I am running WordPerfect Lotus and Milestone and have 512K and then the comment from the salesperson is Where did you get your programs As subscribers you might at renewal time feel the cost is high for The Portable Paper Consider trying to get just one pro gram modified to run on the 110 or Plus ona3 disk HP makes a great product but there is a limitation when it comes to the software and
145. ot sure of a word you can even spell it the way sounds and chances are WEBSTER S will supply the correct spelling Fenomenon HP150 users A special utility allowing WEBSTER S to run on the HP150 is included on the disk HP110 Portable users Sorry WEBSTER S won t run on the 110 your best bet is still THE WORD PLUS another top rated spelling checker avail able from Personalized Software See ad in this FETE a ROM _in this issue 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 Francisco Examiner called WEBSTER S the 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 HP150 79 95 69 95 for Portable Paper subscribers WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER works with any file produced by the Editor WordStar and MemoMaker It also works with ASCII files pro duced by MS Word and Word Perfect Our version of WEBSTER
146. ou ve got 4 2 Mega 3 micro disc and then format write and read from the drive as with a normal disc bytes of RAM available Memory Cards Availability Price List Sterling paama 384K Memory Card sicsccsictessnctevicsccststes 575 Y Megabyte Memory Card 800 Upgrade to 1 Megabyte oe 500 1 Megabyte Memory Card 1200 2 Megabyte Memory Card eeens 1800 Megabyte RAM Disc ou eee 800 Upgrade to 1 Megabyte we 500 1 Megabyte RAM Disc ou 1200 2 Megabyte RAM Disc oe 1800 With the exception of 2 Mbyte models Memory amp RAM Cards are not expandable 384K 1 1 amp 2 Megabyte models allow 384K i Tei C ardeareanailable amie Prices including postage packing amp insurance are enough memory to run the largest appli diately 2 Mb cards will be despatched jj cation yet still give you large E Disc beginning 1st June 1987 i storage on drive A Use PAM s System correct at 2 Apr 87 but subject to change United Kingdom residents should add 15 VAT to the above prices In the USA our products will be available Payment should accompany orders and be by Config menu to partition Main max via Personalized Software P O Box 869 Sterling Bankers Draft payable to SoftWord 512K and Edisc Memory 384K 2and 1 Mb Memory Cards can be Cards are only useable on computers with 512K of inbuilt memory SoftWord Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey GU20 6BW England
147. ount as a starting point for their calculations But books normally are taxed low are not at all And this is no trick or ethical legal bypass this is the truth Also is it possible to use another kind of character in The Portable Paper to distinguish between a lowercase L and a 1 one I have tried to see the slightest dif ference between these two characters but I m unable to do so The type of charac ters you use is clear and easy to read but this l and 1 problem Also on the DOS Tools disk wearout doesn t work at all R M Franquinet The Netherlands Hal I am ignorant as to what happens to our products once they leave the U S borders From letters apparently each country has tts own way of dealing with our products Some charge no tax some charge an exorbitant tax some are in consistent As long as it is legal and ethical if you have suggestions tell us with the order We are seriously considering work ing with a distributor in England Would it be worth it if you had to pay 10 to 20 more for the actual product saving some shipping charges I am open to input from any of our Non U S customers wearout com does not seem to work with the HP9114B disk drive From now on our characters will be 2 MAY JUNE 1987 distinguishable numbers zero and A one letters O and 1 Communications And Battery Life I travel a great deal and have discovered the big productivity level called E Mail to ke
148. p plications by typing in the name of the file by setting up batch files or by predefining function keys Vol 1 No 2 p 10 Another reader complained that even with the box cursor set in System Config you will get a line cursor when bypassing PAM The solution is to press Extend char fl the line cursor will change into the box cursor Graphics Programs For The Portables Ever since I started writing The Portable Paper people have been asking me about the availability of graphics pro grams for the HP Portables Other than the graphics in cluded in Lotus 1 2 3 there has been a dearth of graphics products for the Portables I always thought it a shame both Portables have the capacity to produce high quality screen graphics which can be sent to the ThinkJet At last in the past two weeks two graphics related products have come to my attention The first SKETCH is a powerful freeform drawing program from Southern Software s Paul Grimmer it works on the HP110 and Port able Plus The second FLOW CHARTING II from Pat ton amp Patton of San Jose CA allows you to easily make flow and organizational charts it works only on the Plus Since these products arrived shortly before our dead line I will summarize the features as described in the prod uct literature and give my brief first impressions Next issue we will give a more thorough review of the two products A third product discussed in the Special Feat
149. pted downloading one file I was not successful The performance of the Modem 1200 is comparable to that of the TravelComm 1200 the original battery powered modem and predecessor to the World Port 1200 The Modem 1200 is not usable with CIS110 Kermit or any Other program capable of addressing only the serial port It seems to me that the inability of the Portable s Operating system to intercept data directed to any standard output device and redirect it the HP IL and conversely 28 MAY JUNE 1987 Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 redirect data from the HP IL through standard input devices is a serious deficiency that HP should correct I suggested to Vern Lindsay at Firmware that a run and stay resident utility similar to search com could possibly solve this problem and make HP IL devices more useful He indicated that this was an intriguing idea but could not commit to pursuing it I did not test the Modem 1200 as extensively as I did the WorldPort because I received it much later and because I quickly discovered it would not do some things I wanted to use it for I intend to keep it a few more weeks and see if I can get it to autoanswer and just learn more about it I think it is a promising device that needs more development COMPARING THE MODEM 1200 AND THE WORLDPORT 1200 The Modem 1200 uses a rechargeable battery that has a life of about 8 to 10 hours according to Firmware The WorldP
150. ptops 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 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 in terested 808 945 3111 Illinois Chicago Call Jonathan Feinstein if interested 312 528 0124 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 Fer man 612 822 1372 Meet 2nd Wed 7 00 at Reference Manual The console mode specifies the operation of the console during execu tion of an application or command While PAM is running the console is always in HP mode which means the base font is HP Roman 8 and the special function keys generate HP sequences In Alt mode the base font is the Alternate font and the keyboard generates IBM style keycodes 3 It is possible to create and print them with Series 100 BASIC WordPerfect or MultiMate MS Word doesn t support line draw fonts on the screen If your printer supports the line draw or extended ROMAN S fonts all of the above word processors will support the special cha
151. racters at the printer Utilizing Line Drawing Character Sets Thank you very much for the hint of Ctrl select to get the box cursor in Word Perfect This has reconciled me with the package I ve found that the Portable Plus in IBM mode behaves as an IBM in allowing you to type characters normally not ac cessible From PAM s System Config set console mode as Alternate In DOS with the Plus in IBM mode press Extend Char Select to put the Plus in NUM mode Now you can keep the Extend Char key pressed while entering on the numeric keypad the ASCII code Releas ing the Extend Char key will reveal the character on the screen HP on Larpenteur Ave St Paul Maine Yarmouth Every last Tue 6 30 US Route one Yarmouth ME 04096 846 5497 North Carolina Charlotte and surroun ding 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 Nor thern Idaho Western Montana and possibly Western Washington Bob Sand berg 509 466 4999 Eastern Washington Stephen S Warner D 509 534 1588 E 509 535 3322 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 St S Yarra Victoria Australia Nigel S Ball 0
152. reet Manchester NH 03101 800 547 5600 One of the cases the Model V12005 holds a ThinkJet or HP9114 Another the V12085 is ideal for the Portable or Portable Plus it is roomier and has more pad ding than the case that comes with either machine FieldPro cases are quite stylish The outside is abrasion resistant washable blue grey Cordura nylon The shoulder strap on the V12005 Printer Disk Drive Case can be hooked onto the handle of the larger V12085 Portable Case and carried piggyback The Printer Disk Drive Case retails for 39 95 the Portable Case for 59 95 Both cases are available from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Subscribers pay 37 95 for the Printer Disk Drive Case and 56 95 for the Portable Case Power Cube Recharger This product and the next offer convenient ways to recharge your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held computer etc The Model 110A Power Cube Recharger lets you power and recharge up to four HP devices from a single wall outlet The benefit of this becomes clear if you ve ever tried to plug more than one device into a wall outlet In general it s not possible because the recharger cube af fixed to each plug typically takes up the space of two wall sockets The Model 110A has a single power cube that meas ures 4 x 2 x 1 The unit takes up only one wall socket because the plug that goes into the wall is not affixed to the cube the plu
153. right ideas Note Pad Call Pers Softw 515 472 6330 4 15 mtg w Alice ESC to exit 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 f 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 Keyboard Macros j United States Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to PA 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 engineer who authored MemoMaker on the original HP Portable
154. rough for HP han dheld and laptop computer users What s The Problem To show that the LINK program is truly a solution to a problem let me tell you about the problem faced by owners of HP handheld computers As I see it the real problem with Hewlett Packard battery powered computers is best described as a breakdown in communication None of the computers from HP can communicate easily with any other Each of these computers has its own special talents It would be great if they could be tied together to share their talents It looks like they should be able to communicate with each other They all use HP IL the Hewlett Packard Inter face Loop And therein lies the real core of the problem HP IL is the classic example of a solution that became the problem Many of us HP Portable users think of HP IL merely as a tangled set of wires that dangle from our computers printers and disk drives Actually HP IL is more like a secret document buried deep inside our HP computers and their peripheral devices This document scribed on the head of a silicon chip is written in a language spoken only by a few wizards and sorcerers Here is a small sample of the HP IL language IDY RDY NRE UNL DDL TALK and LISTEN Now these words have no meaning in themselves They are more like incantations When used correctly they act like keys to open and close secret portals in the computer When spoken by the uninitiated they will often cau
155. rtable Paper subscribers RightWords Dictionary Extension for RightWriter 29 95 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Jim Pile Soft Sector Uncommon Word List lists misspelled slang and uncommon words RUNS ON Recommends never femme fe ecides ightWriter is a Ponana pus writing aid The final decision is always left to you 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 LA 52556 515 472 6330 eso e IBM PC HP Vectra o RightWriter is a trademark of DecisionWare Inc WordStar is a trademark of MicroPro Intemational Corporation MultiMate is a trademark of MultiMate International PFS write is a trademark of Software Publishing Corporation Volkswriter is a trademark of Lifetree Software Inc MAY JUNE 1987 13 Portable Plus users At last A great spelling checker 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 HP1S0 Customized on 31 2 disk by special arrangement with Simon amp Shuster Inc PC Magazine rated eight leading spelling checkers for ease of use flexibility speed overall program size thoroughness and accuracy WEBSTER S NEW WORLD SPELLING CHECKER came out on top for a number o
156. rtable Plus has more room and better padding than HP s case plus it can carry the smaller Printer Disk Drive Case piggyback Printer Disk Drive Case 0 0 e eee eee eens 39 95 each 37 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Portable Case cy ions mgs Een Gees Gi Sta EE EE aS 59 95 56 95 for Portable Paper subscribers have gone through with no problems later This only says I have not had a problem One of our contracts with a foreign customer required the shipment of PROMs and after three sets arrived with useless data a set was hand carried through This set survived the trip The bottom line I have never lost data but it can happen The answer is to request a physical check of the unit rather than pass ing it through the machines HP Bulletin Board With Portable Round Table Discussion Bob Kohl sysop of the Portovec HP bulletin board sent me the following message on his bulletin board for The Port able Paper Sysop means system operator the person responsible for maintaining an electronic bulletin board Portovec is a user group that specializes in HP series 100 computers as well as the Vectra This includes the HP110 the Portable Plus the 150A and B and Touch I We work on several different levels from trying to get the users to explore the potential of their computers and what they can do with them to seminars on specific software or kinds of software We also deal in helping the
157. rupt and handling the error with your own interrupt handler isn t something that is THE PORTABLE PAPER It s the Mobile Ni CaD Recharger MNR 2 from S O S and it couldn t be easier to use simply plug one end into your car s cigarette lighter and your Portable iri moi mint ee HP9114 The time it takes to charge a given unit is about 30 longer than with a wall charger Your car does not have to be running the unit can operate and ThinkJet overnight with no danger of running J off your cars siegester Sorry we are unable to discount this Ed cigarette un Also works with HP41C CVCX HP71B and li i HP75C D hand helds HP82143 and HP82162 ighter printer plotters HP82161 cassette drive and rechargeable reserve battery packs for all these devices simple to write The easiest way to check if the device is there for both HP Portables is to use the HP IL interrupt and have the HP IL controller check for you This of course would not work if your printer was connected to your serial port but does work quite nicely for HP IL printers and disk drives If you use the HP IL controller to send the data to the printer it is much faster too As an example of this increased speed consider a pro gram I wrote that prints graphics to a ThinkJet printer Us ing the standard Turbo Pascal write command the program took five minutes to run However when I sent the data to the HP IL controller directly this
158. s LEDs are on the WorldPort 1200 s case These are Low Battery High Speed Carrier Detect and Call Progress Since I always used 1200 baud the High Speed light served as a good on off indicator The Call Progress light flashes while a number is being dialed or if a busy line is detected Carrier Detect of course lights when the unit is connected to another modem The Low Battery light has already been discussed MAY JUNE 1987 27 Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus See Rom ad in this issue Instant Access Pop Ups for the Portable Plus CALCULATOR NOTEPAD E MACROS AND MORE 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 Choose Calculator and get a 4 function calculator that works just like a pocket calculator with memory You can save results in ten E 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 Calculator ESC to exit Choose Notepad and a scratch pad pops up on your screen Type whatever you want into it exit to your application 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 b
159. s not offer UPGRADES Norton Utilities As of this writing April 10 we still have not received ver sion 4 0 or the Advanced Edition of The Norton Utilities for shipping You ll have to wait to next issue to find out about new features and whether there are any compatibili ty problems with the Portables or HP150 Ed Keefe reports 4 0 works fine on the HP110 under the same con ditions alternative mode and D2 option that allowed 3 1 to work From an ad I saw there are some of the changes in the new 4 0 over version 3 1 Many of the utilities run three to five times faster than before File Info lets you attach descriptions up to 65 characters to your files The Norton Integrator lets you control all the utilities from a single program and gives an online help The Advanced Edition contains all the features func tions and enhancements of 4 0 In addition the Advanced Edition includes Speed Disk which sounds very much like the DISKPACK we included on the 1987 subscriber s disk By the way Plus owners you may want to keep The L Word Plus and still order Webster s The Word Plus takes For hard disk users there is Format Recovery which pro lt a tects against accidentally formatting a hard disk The Ad vanced Edition also gives you more ability to capture and edit whatever physically remains on the disk Peter Norton Computing Inc manufacturer of The Norton Utilities would not allow us to directly upgrade
160. s disk Peter McWilliams The Personal Computer Book Personalized Software is authorized to distribute THE NORTON UTILITIES on 3 2 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 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 example to make erasable files unerasable or vice versa and the fs command which tells 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 Here s why By Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper 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 helpful
161. s users testing his prod uct love using Microsoft Mouse with Portable Plus Lotus I can understand that but in Lotus I wished for an extra button or two on the mouse so I could define a range without having to go to the keyboard to press period or backspace I purchased a Microsoft Mouse to test the product When I opened the package I found all sorts of neat pain ting software included with the Mouse and a cable none of which worked on the Plus The retail price for the Microsoft Mouse is 195 When combined with the cost of Bill s software and a cable for the Plus the price gets to be relatively expensive for the whole Portable Plus mouse system I went to a back issue of PC Magazine and found a review of seven mice Their Editor s Choice is Logic mouse from LogiTech which retails for 99 95 Also it has three buttons rather than two buttons found on the Microsoft Mouse Bill is now studying their technical reference manual to see if he can get his software to work without too much effort About two days after I received the mouse driver and bought the mouse and the cable Paul Grimmer author of SideWinder and Link sent me SKETCH SKETCH is dis cussed in this issue s 110 column SKETCH allows you to create all sorts of graphics on the screen combine them with alphanumeric characters and print them out or save 30 MAY JUNE 1987 them to a file As you might guess the mouse and SKETCH work wonderfully togeth
162. s were particularly effective for note taking in the plenary and workshop sessions Their small size and battery power made them unobtrusive and allowed them 12 MAY JUNE 1987 Fairfield LA 52556 Tel 515 472 6330 ec Outside of the USA contact SoftWord at weeks for issue of an Export Licence and delivery the address below for purchase and details of local stockists and volume discounts For export orders please allow between 3 amp 4 SoftWord also provide an EPROM burning serv ice for Portable PLUS users wishing to install their programs into the Software Drawer Bagshot 0276 75440 Telephone National International 44276 75440 to be used anywhere in the outlet scarce rooms and by the pool where one workshop met A heavy keystroke does make a distracting sound in quieter sessions but a lightly stroked 110 creates far less keyboard clatter than the Geneva and other laptop portables Screen size and visibility are frequent criticisms of the HP110 that proved inconsequential in the conference en vironment and elsewhere The 110 s quick crisp scrolling overcame the 16 line limitation of the screen The LCD screen is obviously not the greatest particularly when someone is trying to look over your shoulder However the adjustable angle and contrast made the display quite adequate for use by individuals indoors Reflections did make the display very hard to read outdoors although the 110 s were us
163. same program took 1 minute 30 seconds All the HP IL services are available through interrupt 54 means hex The following code will configure the HP IL loop and determine if there is a ThinkJet alive and well on the loop if config 2 then hpiladdr find 9 35 The above code calls two routines The first one con fig places the loop into a known state and sets the timeout value for the loop to the value that is passed 2 in this case It returns the value true if the loop is OK otherwise it returns false The second routine find searches the loop starting at the address passed 0 in this case looking for a device that has the specified ID 35 stands for a ThinkJet The function returns the HP IL address of the device unless it isn t there in which case it returns a MF By the way the ID for an HP IL disk drive is 16 Below are the two routines config and find written in Turbo Pascal of course ekekeke RARER REE kekeke SIRE ERED This function places the loop in a known state and assigns addresses LOOP_ OK CONFIG TIME TIME is an integer that is the number of seconds to wait before declaring a time__out error LOOP__OK is set to true if the loop is ok else false HARRI ARERR II III III IAI IIIA III IIIA II III function config secs integer boolean type registers record ax bx cx dx bp si di ds es flags integer end var regs registers oldsecs integer MAY JUNE 1987 37 THE PORTABLE PAPER begin
164. se devices Let me in this Looking Glass column reflect a slight ly different point of view that the HP Portables are themselves peripherals peripheral devices of our minds Ultimately we are the ones who control and tame these wonders of plastic and glass It is we who turn these small computers into extensions of our own minds and imagina tions For example if we are involved most often with ideas and words the computer will likely become a word processing peripheral to our mind If we are involved with the mathematics of finance and business the computer will become our number crunching peripheral For artists a computer can become a peripheral device for their creative talents Artists can use computers as they would use canvas and paint Musicians have turn ed the computer into a new musical instrument The Programmer As Artist There is another type of artist who uses a computer The computer programmer is an artist who uses a computer in much the same way that a sculptor uses clay In the hands of a creative programmer a computer can become almost anything you like For example suppose you wanted your HP Portable to become a display device for another less capable computer Or suppose you wanted to use the elec tronic disk in your HP Portable as a fast pseudo disk for your favorite handheld computer Could you get your HP Portable to become this type of peripheral device for another computer The answer
165. se the com puter to crash and burn Hewlett Packard wrote the original HP IL document many years ago The HP wizards first hid the document in a plug in device for the HP41C HP proclaimed that this HP IL document would forever contain the language spoken by all its computers It would become an HP stand ard It would allow any HP computer to speak to any other HP computer MAY JUNE 1987 35 THE PORTABLE PAPER However just when everyone was getting used to this idea HP apparently rewrote the secret document for each new computer As a result HP41Cs could not speak with HP75Cs Also if you ever tried to connect an HP4I1C to an HP110 the only result would be that each computer would want to control the other The end result would be that neither would win Both machines would lock up The problem with HP IL is that there is no easy way that an ordinary person can get one HP computer to relin quish control of the Interface Loop and become a peripheral device for another computer With Paul Grim mer s LINK program this is now possible Not Just Another Pretty Hack What Paul has done can be compared to what some human relations trainers do with their clients Human rela tions trainers often teach people to listen to one another Paul has done this with the disputatious HP computers He has taught the HP Portables how to listen to their handheld counterparts He has even taught the Portables to give up their demand to always
166. sktop Publisher by Lexisoft on an HP laserje Plus This Word Processing and Page Composition program is now available at Blue Chip MAY JUNE 1987 9 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 Portable Plus As A Sales Tool By Guy Mendt Hewlett Packard Guy Mendt is the Area User Support AUS person for Hewlett Packard in Englewood Colorado He has been involved with HP s FPP Field Productivity Program since the pilot in February 1986 and is responsible for FPP implementation training and support in HP s seven state Rocky Mountain Area Consider these situations Your customer is on the phone and needs the delivery schedule for his latest order You just find out that your manager expects an ac count review first thing tomorrow and you re 800 miles away from the office It s 5 30 p m and the customer is willing to sign a purchase order if you can provide the discounted prices by 5 45 Sound familiar What if solving each of those problems were as easy as pressing a few keys on your Portable Plus Hewlett Packard s
167. spreadsheet sideways to my ThinkJet how can I make graphics how can I transfer data to and from my handheld computers Paul through his company Southern Software answered those questions with SideWinder SKETCH and LINK Paul has kept the price of his software most reasonable even though he writes mostly for the relative ly small market of HP Portable users By reading Paul s knowledgeable and intelligent review you will not only learn about the QuietJet but you will also understand your ThinkJet better Later you will encounter another article by Paul about configuring an HP plotter to The Portable Around nine months ago I put Tom Page in contact with Touchbase Systems to review their portable TravelComm 1200 modem Just about the time Tom had his review ready the product did not work very well with the HP110 Touchbase came out with the WorldPort 1200 a Hayes compatible shirt pocket sized serial modem Tom patiently started over and continued to work closely with the manufacturer giving the feedback of an HP Portable owner Just when Tom was about finished with the review Firmware Corp of Corvallis OR came out with a 1200 Baud HP IL modem So Tom immediate ly went to work evaluating that portable modem What follows is most thoughtful review of WorldPort and the HP IL modem We then start exploring other peripherals that will work with the Portable For example we take a first look 20 MAY JUNE 1987 at using a mo
168. ssue in which John Buchanan warned against using diskpack on a hard disk using DOS 3 2 Ed Gilbert author of the diskpack program included on the 1987 subscriber s disk dropped me the following note There is no problem using diskpack with DOS ver sion 3 2 on IBM compatibles We use it here at work on Vectras and 150s IBM XTs and ATs with no difficulty Other than problems with certain copy protected software notably Lotus 2 I know of no bugs in the pro gram I d be happy to fix any bugs reported if I can have an accurate detailed description of the bug including com puter and disk type A printout from the command diskpack d127 c gt prn would greatly help in any bug report In this case the command assumes drive C If you do find any bugs send them to me Hal Golds tein at Tbe Portable Paper and Ill forward them to Ed When I spoke to David Burch in England about his 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 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 never go
169. sue Guy will provide some tips and hints from the Field Productivity Program on making the Portable Plus easier to use PCI delivers the News 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 tr Chronicle launches t electronic publishing HP FAM Rates 32 net altogether mer CPU HP Design amp Manufacturing eee o ae The journal for scientists engineers HP s new CAD system and others who use 8 bridue trom 2 to 2 dimensions HP technical com puters Each monthly Ventra s Enhances MoU includes Graphik Oupliy programming HOU tener cs tutorials new product updates applications features and technical trouble shooting MAP finke far rains USING WALKER RICHER amp QUINN S REFLECTION SERIES USING mews and Training SVP Software Video Productions Training courses for the HP computer user Foi Eia EXECUTIVE Software Video Productions 2397 COMMUNICATIONS MEMOMAKER offers USING EXECUTIVE FOR THE HP 150 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 NC a ee IE Company Address
170. t have the HP IL HP IB interface and also it must be the last device in the HP IL loop b If you have an RS 232 type plotter Opt 001 you can either connect it directly to the RS 232 port of the 110 which requires a special RS 232 cable HP92221P or THE PORTABLE PAPER connect it via an HP IL RS 232 interface e g HP82164 lt A In either case the Datacom Config f5 in the main PAM menu must be used to specify the various parameters for RS 232 devices The parameters you must specify are baud rate 9600 word length 8 stop bits l parity None XON XOFF pacing Off CTS line Ignore DSR line Observe DCD line Ignore 2 Two points regarding the RS 232 version One the owner s manual states that the system consumes substan tially more power when RS 232 is selected as the serial device built in RS 232 only in the Datacom menu If this is a concern after you make your plots enter the Datacom Config menu and change the device back to Modem And two the settings you choose in the Datacom Config sec tion have no effect on the device used in the Terminal pro gram You can specify Serial in the Datacom Config menu and still use the built in modem in the Terminal program USING THE HP7470 AND HP110 By Jobn Henderson Federal Way WA The Lotus PrintGraph program on the 110 utility disk drives the plotter and turns out high quality plots and overheads Getting the setup correct requires a bit o
171. t valuable features are listed on tne chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR is a real blessing 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 Beyond MemoMaker Part Il 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 user specified page length and line lengtheautomatic page numbering tables and charts etable of contents generation and 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 The Portable Paper Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 ee gee You won t believe all the word processing features this 99 95 program contains and it takes up Nal less than 40K of memory only 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 2 THE EDITOR creates ASCII files which means you can send your files to an
172. the internationally accepted CCICC communications standards and the Bell communications stand ards recognized in the U S The WorldPort 1200 uses a standard 9 volt tran sistor radio battery it s included with the unit A fresh battery will keep the WorldPort hum ming for 8 10 hours You can extend battery life by operating the unit from a wall outlet when Portable Plus Owners WorldPort 1200 costs less than internal modem and can be u with more than one computer ever possible using the AC adapter provided The WorldPort 1200 draws no power from your Portable s battery DOUBLE GUARANTEE In addition to our standard 60 day money back guarantee the WorldPort 1200 comes with a 2 year manufacturer s warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship The WorldPort 1200 offers portablility reliabili ty well designed features and ease of use Order yours risk free today WorldPort 1200 modem with cable for HP Portables 235 199 for Portable Paper subscribers WorldPort 1200 without cable eseese 199 179 for Portable Paper subscribers RUNSON HP Ponabie piso Portable Plus o IBM PC HP Vectra 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 The QuietJet emits a higher pitched sound
173. the ability to input addi tional words and abbreviations of your own Also does word counts Customized to the HP Portables SeP 21 WorldPort 1200 Portable Modem A battery powered highly compact 4 x2 x1 lightweight 6 5 oz full featured external modem that transmits data at 1200 baud four times the speed of the internal modem that comes with the HP110 Portable Beyond MemoMaker 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 EDITORS s mos
174. the printer to the PC get the switch settings right and run it with many major software packages Fully two thirds of the 200 page manual is dedicated to this end The illustrations and examples are clear and concise Since most major software packages now have a wide 22 MAY JUNE 1987 fetus ele Te Portable Plus o IBM PC HP Vectra e exp date signature on Personalized Softwar P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 LINK was written by Paul Grimmer autnor of SideWinder the sideways printing program and Sketch the freeform graphics program both for the HP Portables range of printers that they support and since the QuietJet is sort of an enhanced ThinkJet feature wise the manual explains how to choose the correct printer driver for various packages Essentially the selection usually comes down to this a if a QuietJet option is offered take it b the next best choice is a ThinkJet or c if neither is offered choose any HP printer offered The above points are belabored a bit much but the manual does give some good examples of limitations to ex pect from various programs that do not offer a full Quiet Jet driver There is a serious omission from the manual concern ing Lotus 1 2 3 however Lotus does not provide a printer driver for the QuietJet You can use the ThinkJet driver but your graphs from the PrintGraph program print garbage if you try to make a plot larger than the full size for the
175. these are discussed below On the other hand unlike the Think Jet which had a battery powered HP IL version the Quiet Jet currently is available in an AC powered version that has both a serial and parallel connector There are no plans for either a battery powered version or an HP IL version The lack of a battery powered version is not a major issue but the lack of an HP IL connector means that either you will have to dedicate your serial port to the printer a 50 RS 232 cable and decreased battery life since the serial port is always on or you must use an HP IL RS 232 con verter which will cost you about 320 including the cable and is an extra piece of hardware to carry around The new printer is much better than the ThinkJet in many categories It has a much improved paper handling system is faster and has a wider range of printing capabilities including a Near Letter Quality NLQ mode and 10 pitch i e 10 characters per inch It even has the capability of accepting downloaded or ROM based char acters and fonts PRINT TECHNOLOGY AND SOUND LEVEL Both the ThinkJet and the QuietJet use the same basic printing technology A printhead containing an ink car tridge is pulled back and forth via a wire pulley system Both use the same thermal ink jet cartridges which now come in black red blue and green these cartridges re quire a special short fiber paper that allows the ink drops to blot on the paper causing t
176. to keep our disk based products low competitive with the IBM PC side of the industry even though our volume is much lower To pay for our time effort research and knowledge we must charges additional fees to produce the product on ROM Furthermore in order to make products available on ROM rather than EPROM we have to take a calculated gamble that we will sell enough ROM chips to more than cover our initial investment The third reason for offering ROM chips as a backup service is logistical How do we update customers who already have purchased our products on disk A backup service seemed the best method We spent a lot of time looking at combinations of products that could go ona chip From talking with many of you it seemed that your highest priority was using the MAY JUNE 1987 15 THE PORTABLE PAPER Power your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and HP hand held froma single viru e wall outlet To Thinkdet 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 cubes are 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 Cub
177. tten more than 20 Just formatting disks transferring files or running disk intensive software and getting it to work can be a major triumph 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 2 in fact Either will solve the problem i SOLUTION 1 This is a special power sup ply It will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just remove the battery pack plug Solution 1 into the open slot and into your wall outlet It s that easy And lets you run your HP9114 to your heart s con tent It costs 129 if you re a Portable Paper subscriber 145 if you re not SOLUTION 2 A power supply and battery pack Solution 2 includes Solution 1 and a modified HP battery pack you can substitute for yours How many times have you wished you had a 2nd external disk drive Personalized Software is selling for a limited time complete HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial discount Call Our special battery pack lets your Portable run directly off your wall outlet You can plug in the regular HP charger at the same time so your battery pack always stays completely charged
178. ures by Hal Goldstein section of this issue is software that enables a Microsoft Mouse to be run with the Portable Plus The Mouse will work with both SKETCH and FLOW CHARTING II and in general is an excellent tool for graphics related products FREE FORM DRAWING SKETCH Paul Grimmer author SideWinder and Link has done it again with SKETCH for both the HP110 and Portable Plus Paul writes SKETCH is a powerful graphics tool that is limited only by your own imagination It is easy to use and fun What follows is a description of some of its features SKETCH lets you use the cursor and function keys for free form drawing while letting you control the speed of the cursor With SKETCH you can draw with one keystroke lines boxes circles and arcs Any shape can be filled with solid light or dark with one key You draw with a pen that you can raise to move around the screen without affecting the current drawing You can edit the picture with an eraser Or you can undo your last action The entire screen can be inverted with one keystroke light becomes dark and dark becomes light Your draw ing can extend more than 25 beyond the boundaries of the Portable screen And the entire width of the ThinkJet can be utilized in drawings SKETCH permits normal characters to be mixed with graphics and makes five complete character sets available These characters can be written to the screen normally sideways upside
179. use with a Portable Plus We received a preliminary version of Portable Plus mouse software that lets you use a Microsoft mouse with Portable Plus applica tions ll share my initial reactions Then there are a surprising number of other peripherals that enhance the usefulness of the HP110 and Portable Plus For instance you can charge your Portable from a cigarette lighter charge your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and your HP41 from the same recharger project the contents of your Portable screen onto the wall using an overhead projector or empower your HP9114 This issue and this section covers examines many of the Portable peripherals QuietJet Evaluation By Paul J Grimmer The newest addition to HP s InkJet printer family is the QuietJet The QuietJet is slightly larger than the ThinkJet and uses paper in widths from 4 to 8 The QuietJet Plus is the same as the QuietJet except that the Plus can handle paper in widths up to 13 2 The QuietJet retails for 599 100 more than the ThinkJet and the Plus retails for 799 I have owned a QuietJet Plus for 4 months The review which follows is based upon the point of view of a Port able Plus user i e one living in a world in which the worth of the printer must be heavily weighed against the value of the ThinkJet I have mixed emotions about the new printer espe cially for users of the Portable Plus The printer has some features that are much better than the ThinkJet and
180. users with tutoring sessions in things like Lotus MS DOS etc And we try to find the answers to the users problems with hard ware software As a matter of fact we just had Gibson down from Lexisoft to do a fix session for all the people running Spellbinder on the HP150 a debug and patch ses sion in reality The interests of the users in the group dre drese SO we try to stay flexible as to what we are trying to ac complish We also publish a newsletter with fixes patch new helpful routines etc which features news editorials features But it is hardly on the level of The Portable Paper As far as the board goes it was originally HP Heaven as you might remember but I was spending too much time on it to make a living so I converted it for Portovec as an attempt to motivate some of the users to really use their computers I also intended it for E Mail service But as you will see it s gone well beyond that and it seems to expand and get refined as time goes on so I have no idea as to the limits lIl take the Board that depends on time and money The potential is staggering I ve seen some amazing FIDO BBS s we ll see One last note Since this is a semi private BBS an in 8 MAY JUNE 1987 terested user can either join Portovec with all privileges or just subscribe to the BBS for a contribution of ten dollars It s really not much considering they are looking at the better part of three mont
181. ve Battery Holder for Outboard Charging of 82033A 4 C cell Nicad battery used in 821143A 161A 162A Battery Holder for Outboard Charging of N cell Nicads permanently connected to 92266A Charger Rodman A Sharp Santa Fe David Hughes I do not believe it is possible for the HP battery pack inside the computer to supply power back to the utility for the following reasons 1 The battery charger regulator contains a full wave bridge rectifier consisting of 5 8V zener diodes at its input 38 MAY JUNE 1987 the program listing 2 The wall unit appears to be a step down isolation transformer There is no changing flux linkage produced from the DC that would cause an AC current to be induced in the transformers primary windings In other words the phenomenon should not occur HP Corvallis support The HP chargers do contain the blocking diodes and the charger cable is available as a separate part with the diodes molded in See page I 3 of the Portable Plus Tech Reference Manual Time Manager Hint I thought readers who like me are in veterate users of the Time Manager diary function would be interested in a little two liner to get around the search of the appointments list every time one returns to the PAM screen Initially from the PAM scre n rename pam alm to some ar bitrary name I used FRED this should be a one time requirement Type the follow ing in DOS or at the PAM screen rename pam alm fred Th
182. ve them in fully discharged condition If you do at best their lives will be shortened and at worst they ll forget altogether they re supposed to be batteries Compact Nicad and lead acid cells and batteries like those above will self discharge at the rate of a few percent per day when left standing at room tempera ture Even if you re not using them they ll soon run down to zero if you don t keep them on charge risking untimely death But leaving either a lead acid battery or Nicad on charge 24 hours a day quick ly charges the battery to full capacity after which the internal resistance of the bat tery rises rapidly converting the charging energy to heat This warms the battery well above room temperature especially since the heat can t easily escape from the confines of the Portable disk drive printer etc Battery life is limited ultimately by in ternal chemical degradation processes which proceed much more rapidly as Operating or storing temperature of the battery increases Thus if you leave your lead acid cells or Nicads on charge all the time they re going to be running con THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume two Number three May June 1987 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Department Editors Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Editorial Consultants Steve Cooperman Edward Goldfinger Contributing Editors Paul Grimmer Guy Mendt Thomas Page Rolf R Schmidt Art Director George Foster Typography The Word For
183. verters needed SNALink 3270 is ideal for professionals needing mobile access to IBM mainframes or sales or service peo ple on the road The key features of the product are 1 Reliable communications protocol 2 3270 Display Station emulation 3 File transfer to or from an IBM mainframe operating in the MVS TSO VM CMS or CICS environments 4 Two simultaneous mainframe sessions 5 One printer session 6 Hot shifting back to DOS without affecting the main frame session 7 All SNA software in ROM 2 ROM set 8 Six additional empty ROM sockets for other applica tions such as MemoMaker or Lotus 1 2 3 Combining this super portable communications prod uct with a highly rugged reliable and powerful HP Port able Plus gives you a very effective solution To order this product ask your local HP Sales Representative for Part Number 50922A MMTOP Many of you called up saying the mmtop program from our DOS Tools disk does not work it locks up the system mmtop allows Plus MemoMaker to print without the usual five line margin mmtop works with most Plus systems but the problem is apparently associated with one com bination of system and MemoMaker ROMs that has not been isolated yet Lotus 2 01 Still no official word However it looks like Lotus 2 01 will be released mid June with upgrades available in August Upgrade details are not yet final but it looks like the cost will be about 195 Apparently w
184. y around 750 and up with the proper software ROM chips can be burned in only once and it involves a more expensive process Most recently 64K EPROM chips that work with the Plus have become available at a reasonable price to supplement 32K EPROMs 128K ROM chips also can be used with The Port able Plus EPROMs are a form of ROMs so sometimes we refer to EPROMs and ROMs generically as ROMs RECOMMENDED FOR THE HP110 PORTABLE How to find By Hal Goldstein Some spelling checkers only tell you which words aren t in their dictionary Others tell you the most likely correct spellings Still others correct misspelled words for you automatically But THE WORD PLUS does all these things and more and it does them fast First of all THE WORD PLUS contains a hefty 45 000 word dictionary You can use a 35 000 word dictionary instead this saves 30K of memory space On the HP110 this leaves 40K for your docu ment The full dictionary and main spelling pro gram take up about 165K Second when you ask THE WORD PLUS to check spellings for you it lists every word it doesn t recognize and then for each such word it gives you a wide range of options These include Look up and display all dictionary words with similar spellings e View the word in context right in your document e Correct the spelling e Insert the correctly spelled word into your document and optionally print a message if the new spelli

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