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1. Postage will be paid by addressee Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 m e ame mime ee e me MU D U e G U E L G A O M G E OES UE m A a am G MAIA Ka MORS G MDS M s A a M U s ee na IMPORTANT Check here if you require single sided 3 disk Method of payment L Check LI MasterCard O VISA Company purchase order CIU F nk d i st EXITOS Cardholder Signature FOLD HERE i Are you a Portable Paper subscriber L Yes L No Name L a What kind of computer do you use check all that apply i L HP110 Portable ae C Portable Plus l Portable Vectra C i a L HP150 touchscreen Address LJ IBM PC or compatible l i City State Zip __________ nS iecity size of disk O 3 05 Telephone i l I I I l I I l l l l l l Personalized 2 Includes free 1987 Subscriber Disk 3 Available only to subscribers 4The 7 50 includes shipping Alternatively subscribers may mail in a formatted disk and a 39 self addressed stamped envelope to receive the soft ware at no charge 5 Lower price is without cable for connecting to HP Portables Circle price that applies 84 95 59 95 89 95 1 695 00 2 695 00 89 00 49 95 69 95 75 95 159 00 199 95 89 95 89 90 99 95 Power Cube Recharger p 18 Printerlalk Format110 Project 8 9 10 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM Card 1 yr guarantee Plus only center spread 1 995 00 2 Meg RAM Card 1 yr g
2. Main memory A drive C drive 8 ROM sockets 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte f TOE 1 Megabyte Gives you 1 1mb of main Edisk memory 16 ROM sockets and an PEN Faia ae additional 1mb of C drive storage 1 1mb main Edisk memory EXAMPLE 3 2 5 megabytes 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory and HP s ROM drawer Gives you 512K of main Edisk memory 12 Ea ROM sockets and 2mb of C drive memory nui s ROM drawer 12 ROM sockets Main memory A drive C drive 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card EXAMPLE 4 3 5 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card and 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory Gives you 1 5mb of main Edisk memory 8 ROM sockets and an additional 2mb of electronic disk storage Main memory A drive C drive 8 ROM sockets 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card 1 5mb main Edisk memory EXAMPLE 5 4 5 megabytes 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card and 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory 512K Gives you 512K of main memory and an additional 4mb of storage No ROM aot arr sockets are available in this Rade Ca configuration Main memory A drive C drive 2mb Edisk 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 1Can be partitioned in any ratio
3. a Vol 3 No 1 The HP Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra Users Newsletter January February 1988 Portable Paper Publisher s Message 3 Letters Concerns About Prices 2 4 3 Converting MS Word 1 1 to Mac 4 Using Products in Europe 4 110 HP Ships Portable Vectra CS Model 20 6 1988 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk 6 New HP Portable BBS On Line Jan 1 6 Reader Survey Initial Findings 9 New HP Link Software 9 Turbo Pascal 3 0 Discontinued By Borland 38 Comdex 198 ait tome ete ee ee Eee e i 39 HP Hard Disks For The Original Portables 40 Profiles Helpless Without My HP 10 Plus Notes No HAL Or Most Lotus 2 Add Ons For Plus 11 IZK EPROM S ea tao eras wae ae eee ee 11 1Meg RAM 8 ROM And 2Meg Cards 11 Delays In 1Meg Drawers ROM s 11 WordPerfect On ROM On Hold 12 dBasellI Clone Compiler Might Work on Plus 12 Backing Up Pls 56 6 6 As ws hd Se EY BA 12 Speeding Up the Portable Plus 12 Foundations Getting More Out Of The ThinkJet 15 Portable Vectra Views HP Upgrades Portable Vectra Setup Program 19 What s On The Portable Vectra Horizon 19 DOS DOS WICKS 632 45 ririt doy ceken dee ie duds es 20 Lotus 1 2 3 Getting To Point Mode From Edit M
4. amp jB To turn off write chr 27 amp j To read the function keys when they are pressed you ll have to make sure that the transmit functions are turned on and then each softkey will generate a special escape sequence The escape sequence generated is escape p for M and the letter continues to increase one to f8 which generates an escape w To turn transmit func tions on send the escape sequence esc amp siA JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 35 THE PORTABLE PAPER This should give you enough to start experimenting with softkeys from Turbo Pascal If you d rather not have to write your own peview can be purchased from Advanc ed Solutions for 26 95 includes shipping PO Box 567 Veradale WA 99037 509 928 4147 That includes a 63 page manual the peview forms and I O system Cliff Looyenga provides technical support for HP PC s and HP 3000 s and in those circles he is known as The Wizard He has developed a number of 110 Port able and Portable Plus utilities Cliff s CompuServe ID is 75106 2130 Through the By Ed Keefe A HAND HELD LOOKING GLASS This month s article veers away from the straight and nar row path of HP Portables and wanders into true looking glass territory True looking glass territory is a wonderland where you can create computer wish lists and indulge in byte sized fantasies It s a land of not merely true or false but also of would you believe maybe In the
5. cessor load another module e g PORTABLE PLUS USERS You ll need 296K of main memory to run T Master plus 135K Edisc space for the core system plus the following amounts for storage of the various parts word processor 53K speller 151K database and spreadsheet 135K data communications 35K chart making 52K misc utilities 60K You can if you wish run the various parts of T Master off your external disk drive HP110 USERS T Maker an earlier version of T Master runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive The pro gram runs beautifully T Maker doesn t support data communications but it does include word processor spelling checker database spreadsheet scratchpad and simple bar charts It is easily the most com prehensive program available for the HP110 spreadsheet work in the second module then import the result back into the first module In addi tion each module presents you with different commands a differ ent environment and often a dif ferent feel Not so with T Master T Master doesn t have modules in the usual sense Instead almost everything is done using the word processor it s the heart of the system T Master s different func tions spreadsheet database etc are in effect aspects of the word processor that have special powers Instead of leaving the word pro cessor to create a spreadsheet that you then have to import you simp
6. convenience Move the mouse in any way fe you want and the cursor follows instantly See ad on the Logitech Mouse for the Por table Plus in this issue SKETCH also lets you fill closed shapes with light or dark solid or even invert the entire screen light areas become dark and vice versa with a single keystroke With SKETCH you can create text in any of 5 different character sets and place the text any where in your drawing including sideways or even Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See Software on ROM ad in this issue ii ONT 2YUWY THE ANSWER You can also import graphics screens into SKETCH from Lotus or any other graphics program SKETCH doesn t limit the size of your dreawing area to the size of your screen The total drawing areais 70 bigger than the screen on the Portable Plus and more than 150 bigger than the screen on the Portable As you move the cursor past your screen s borders SKETCH automatically shifts you into the areas that were off screen Now you might be expecting that all these great features come at a high price in terms of memory space But they don t The entire program takes up only 44K As I said Paul Grimmer of Southern Software has done it again USING IS BELIEVING No matter how fired up you might get by reading about SKETCH or looking at the few samples we ve shown of what it can do there is no sub
7. tually it toggles between CTRL s and CTRL q and now I can very easily stop and start listings of directories and files merely by pressing the Stop key SEEING THE CONTENTS OF A FILE The contents of individual files can be listed by using the more pipe built into the Plus on the HP110 utility disk and part of the Portable Vectra DOS disk To look at a file named myfile you simply enter type myfile more the character is the shifted character just above the Return key Now the first screenful will be listed If you press the space bar the next screenful is displayed If you press Return the next line is displayed If you press BackSpace on the HP110 or Portable Plus at any time the display is backed up one page and if you press it again the listing lt Starts over from the top This is a powerful yet under used capability of the Portables The disadvantages of this technique are 1 extra keystrokes are required to get it going e g type myfile more and 2 it creates a temporary file of the output on the disk and aborts if there is not enough room for this temporary file Also on the HP110 the program more com must either be on a disk in a 9114 or it will waste space in the Edisc If you want some control over the listing without us ing more com you can very simply use the CTRL s option discussed above Strangely enough I find that if you type two or more files consecutively the Stop key does not
8. 24 1985 and now available from Personalized Software for the Portable Plus and HP150 Customized on 342 disk by special arrangement with Simon amp Shuster Inc PC Magazine rated eight leading spell ing checkers for ease of use flexibility speed overall program size thoroughness and accuracy WEBSTER S NEW WORLD SPELLING CHECKER came out on top for a number of good reasons First there s sheer size WEBSTER S contains over 110 000 words in its dictionary five times the number in Hayden s Speller 242 times as many as in The Word Plus yet WEBSTER S dic tionary and main program take up only 207K of disk memory Second WEBSTER S isn t just easy to use it s positively a pleasure It reads your files at high speed then displays every questionable word in context highlighted At the same time in a window off to the side it gives you a list of possible correct spellings A simple menu gives you the following options E Accept the word as is E Replace the word with one of the sug gested spellings Enter the correct spelling manually RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra Portable Plus HP1SO IBM PC and compatibles sd The Portable Paper Personalized Sottware P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 Add the word to an auxiliary diction ary of frequently used words E Replace all other occurrences of the word W Look up th
9. HP110 and Portable Plus users can use cursor keys in DOS to go back up past the top of the screen to look at the data Although you see 16 or 25 lines on the 110 and Plus respectively they actually have 48 and 64 and DOS does not see the cursor keys or the Ext Char function keys such as Line That is if you press a cursor key to DOS it is as if no key was ever pressed If you type d then i then the left cursor key three times then r and the Return key you will get a direc 7 tory listing even though your screen reads rdi An alter native solution is to write p after the directory command e g dir c p so that DOS lists the directory one page at a time Another technique is to use the w option which lists the directory names five across I personally do not like this method since it is hard to read the extensions and filenames are not next to each other and no information other than the filename is given The option I like to use is the CTRL s toggle When your directory listing is scrolling on the screen you can stop it by holding down the CTRL key and pressing s When you key CTRL s again the display continues I don t like to have to press two keys simultaneously to do anything if I can avoid it so I did not use this technique un til recently when I remembered reading in the Technical Reference manual that the Break Stop on the lower right of the HP110 Plus keyboard generates this keystroke ac
10. Transfer 123 is available for 129 95 from Hawaiian Software Company 4025 Avati Drive San Diego CA 92117 619 270 6316 We checked out Transfer 123 The program works as described However the new version contains a program to automatically create the definition files This new pro gram will not work on the HP110 or Portable Plus but will work fine on the Portable Vectra In order to use the 32K version of Transfer 123 on the HP110 Portable Plus or HP150 you must manually enter the column numbers in the definition files You may order the product from us by phone 515 472 6330 or by using the order form at the back of this issue Our price is 115 and includes an ad ditional 3 1 2 HP formatted disk Ed Range Justify as Word Counter You can count the number of words in your MemoMaker The Editor or ASCII text document by using Lotus HP110 and Portable Plus Lotus 1A users are limited to 2 048 words Lotus 2 01 users 8192 words First of all rename or copy to be absolutely safe your document to a file name with a prn extension For exam ple chap 1 would become chaplL prn Now enter Lotus Put your cursor on cell Al of a blank spreadsheet and execute the File Import Text command Your document should now be in the A column within Lotus In order for this trick to work best there can be no blank lines e g for paragraph breaks in your document Therefore from within Lotus or your editor before enter
11. Unlike WordStar SpellBinder sup ports footnotes simple database features key phrase recall and independently set left margins If you are supporting an IBM PC or compatible in addition to your Portable SpellBinder files can be used with Lexisoft s Desktop Publisher Using SpellBinder If you re technically inclined and would love to push your HP Portable to its limits as a word processor or if you have many different kinds of computers or would just like to travel light then Spellbinder should suit your needs I found it as difficult to learn as WordStar but with some what more logical commands If for some reason you should require assistance Lexisoft s technical support is enthusiastic and very responsive Screen scroll and formatted printing are a bit slow Technically minded Portable Plus users who have the technical reference manual can speed up screen refresh functions by creating a memory mapped version for the Plus DOS pathnames are fully supported in version 5 40 I tested version 5 31 which did not support subdirec tories Paginating and printing a document is a little tedious because it isn t fully automatic The program can be configured to take advantage of the HP s softkeys which is highly recommended for the new user Help can be modified for your particular application The Editor lt s way beyond MemoMaker Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus fo
12. WordPerfect s powerful yet easy to use features have made it a best seller It s per fect for the Portable Plus or the HP150 and it just may be perfect for you Order a copy today and use it at our risk If within 60 days you are dissatisfied for any reason simply return it for a full refund WordPerfect 0008 495 299 for Portable Paper subscribers IMPORTANT Be sure to specify whether you want the Portable Plus version or the HP150 version 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER everything on your A drive you ll need an addi tional 340K for the spelling checker and 360K for the thesaurus The speller and thesaurus can be run from your HP9114 if you wish Our version of WordPerfect includes an 8 page supplement to the manual that tells you how to run WordPerfect on the Portable Plus CONCLUSION The marketplace has not yet caught on to the true conve nience and portability of RAM ROM based computers Rather most users still view the ideal portable as a scaled down version of their desktop machines mechanical disk drives and all The more a portable resembles a desktop the better the portable Given this criteria the new HP Portable Vectra suc ceeds admirably In fact its ability to hold expansion cards its full keyboard and its 1 44 Megabyte floppy capacity give it in many ways the industry leadership However for people who travel a lot and real
13. memory drawers at the existing rates We are already dis counting them significantly off the suggested retail prices Our problem is the dollar has dropped quite a bit against the English pound Our volume pricing will increase slightly Delays In HP 1 Megabyte Drawers Personalized Software ROM s HP will not be shipping 1 Megabyte RAM drawers to dealers or end users until at least January 15 Apparently a large order depleted their inventory JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 11 THE PORTABLE PAPER Personalized Software will not be shipping Webster Spelling Checker ROM s or SuperROM s until the begin ning of February RIGHT WRITER CANCELLED The RightWriter ROM s have been cancelled due to an in definite delivery date from the ROM supplier WordPerfect On ROM On Hold WordPerfect 4 2 will not fit on two 128K ROMs 10K too large In recent discussions with WordPerfect they told me that it would be a major project to trim down their pro gram and they would not be able to undertake it They would be willing to have us put 4 1 on ROM but there are still some technical problems to surmount We will put the project on hold unless some company wants to order at least 100 WordPerfect on ROM s from us or until 128K EPROM s become available at a reasonable price dBASE III Clone And Compiler Might Work On Plus We have some reason to hope that dBXL a dBASE III clone will work on the Portable Plus apparently it does work o
14. so lost so ineffectual since well since Mary Lou turned me down for the prom I guess But this was worse My computer crashed Oh I hear you smiling I see you snickering serves him right this unwitting tool of modern technology But you would not sneer if you realized how completely dependent I have become on an HP110 which has owned me they re like cats these things they sneak in and take over and the question of who owns whom is always open since the summer of 1984 Since then we have been inseparable Hewpie and I so it was with a sense of hor ror and betrayal that I watched the screen flicker and fade last week I tried everything including prayer to stave off the in evitable conclusion Hewpie had succumbed turned tum my up tossed in his chips and gone to that great matrix in the sky And the little varmint didn t go alone PI tell you See what you do is when you live with a computer especially one that accompanies you to Yurrup to Norway and Finland to Canada even is you tend to accumulate stuff information of all sorts which lives quite happily in the innards of this nine pound Boswellian recording sec retary the beginnings of poems for instance Several stories in their earlier stages A couple of finished pieces waiting to be squeezed through the telephone lines to newspaper and magazine computers Names addresses and phone numbers of people I know and some I don t All gone in an in
15. which are somewhat critical of HP For those of us who have made a habit of complaining that HP does not care about us after we buy our equipment we had better come up with new complaints because this forum shows that this is not true no I do not work for HP I am just a user like you The response to questions and problems on CIS is outstanding and this holds true for the HP forum as well I have not seen a single problem or question posed that was not resolved within a day or so Often the solution is presented within minutes Questions range from simple e g How do I leave a message to very complex e g I have a Vectra with such and such board in it but I cannot seem to run program X Answers to questions come from the sysops and the HP Response Center as well as other users It is comforting to know that wherever I am and despite whatever problems I may confront some of the world s experts are no more than a phone line away and are willing to help GETTING STARTED USING COMPUSERVE But let s back up a step or two and allow me to describe 30 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 my experiences as I went from being a non user to an en thusiastic subscriber to CompuServe Until about nine months ago I had resisted the sugges tions of my associates who urged me to subscribe to CompuServe After all I had used my HP110 and Plus to get on various local bulletin boards and hadn t really gotten anything out of them since essentially
16. 20 100 1250 1000 Price Price J J o o oo Portable Paper 1 year 55 55 49 45 39 35 29 25 Portable Paper 2 year 99 99 88 81 70 63 52 45 Portable Paper 3 year 139 139 124 114 99 88 73 63 DOS Tools 50 40 36 32 28 26 24 22 And ROM Backup 179 169 152 135 118 110 101 93 Duette 100 90 86 81 7 75 73 And ROM Backup 195 185 175 164 15 149 1 The Editor 100 And ROM Backup Norton Utilities Norton Advanced PrinterTalk Format110 RightWriter nd ROM Backup N da A amp p oO Ur a o e NAO ars Ip i oR pend Nn NO p p A tbo be WMO O Oo gt C OO tO Yo th No meet p A p IJR ponk oO DR N j wawil Sai AI OAI OR VOI Nof n VY Anoo oO a Gola W oo In bo Nr dN ulol Onl or J da Ipo AN meyi 0 oul Aul oof AY QAR ND i tN oun NY Onl e r N UM oo CoO Co Ahal Stool an Muar Mont Uo Ahal Kool or mo ANI an bd NU J Anl wo N Ww mafl A BN afjl o SHELP SideWinder Utils Shelp SideWinder Disks And ROM backup 230 215 200 185 171 163 156 Turbo Pascal 70 65 63 61 59 58 57 nd ROM Backup 165 160 151 143 134 130 126 T Master 95 279 261 243 225 216 207 Typing Whiz nd ROM Backup Webster DEN And ROM Backup Webster RightWriter And R M backups Shelp Formatll10 Editor SideWinder PrinterTalk And SuperROM backup gt gt f z w No O AS feck Mu m CON eK oO COS O
17. 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 interested 808 945 3111 Indiana Indianapolis Bob Glass 317 638 2326 Iowa Mid Iowa Ed Keefe D 515 964 6644 E 515 964 7064 Southeast Iowa Hal Goldstein 515 472 6330 Minnesota Minneapolis St Paul John Ferman 612 822 1372 Maine Yarmouth Every last Tue 6 30 US Route one Yarmouth ME 04096 846 5497 North Carolina Charlotte and surrounding area John Jacob 704 334 3468 Texas Houston Thomas R Page D 713 759 4259 E 713 528 7138 Utah Utah County Donna Hoover D 378 4421 E 375 4812 Washington Eastern Washington Northern Idabo Western Montana and possibly Western Washington Bob Sandberg 509 466 4999 Eastern Washington Stephen S Warner D 509 534 1588 E 509 535 3322 Western Washington Portable Plus 150 Vectra users meet first Thursday 7 9 p HP sales office Bellevue Pete Ross 206 342 8875 Portable 40 amp 50 series 7 9 p second Wed UWash computer center Seattle Bob Moore 206 543 7879 Washington D C Greater Washington D C Area 8 00 PM Third Monday of Each Month Ballston Tower 1 800 N Quincy St Room 519 Call to confirm and
18. 82C84 clock generator chip 18 pins Un solder and lift pin 8 off the IC pad on the PCA It may be necessary to cut the pin short to avoid shorting to other components Do not solder any wire to this lifted pin 5 Connect pins 1 and 11 on U2 U2 is a 14 pin 74HC393 dual binary counter 6 On U2 un solder and lift pin 12 off the IC pad Connect this lifted pin to pin 7 of the same chip 7 Re assemble the Portable Plus SOME DIAGNOSTICS MAY FAIL IT S OK That s all there is to it If you run the disk based diagnostics or the built in diagnostics be aware that the tests for the serial port the modem and the multi controller can fail This is normal and is due to the more efficient perfor mance of the NEC V30 microprocessor not exhibiting the expected behavior of a Harris 80C86 As long as all the other tests pass consistently the machine will function properly WARNING AND CONCLUSION At this time an 8 MHz NEC V30 microprocessor can be purchased for about 15 Do not buy the cheaper 5 MHz version as it will not work Again before you decide to modify the Portable Plus be aware that doing so will not only void the HP warranty but HP will not service the machine when it is sent in for repair This applies even to units with expired warranty The Portable Plus speedup modification is an ex cellent way to extract higher performance out of the machine With a V30 running at 8 MHz the machine becomes a better contender among
19. Portable Plus and 69 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Webster s is available on ROM backup for an additional 179 See ROM ad in this issue for important details Te WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER works with any file produced by the Editor WordStar and MemoMaker It also works with ASCII files produced by MS Word and Word Perfect Our version of WEBSTER S includes a custom ized 3 5 disk and simple instructions for run ning the program on the Portable Plus and HP150 A special utility allowing WEBSTER S to run on the HP150 is included on the disk 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 515 472 6330
20. Price SideWinder p 13 0 00 00 cee eee JAK a co re 55 SKENI O aetan aaae is aana e teas 64K 95 Super ROM center spread PE AEE EE E E ERS E 128K 149 The Editor Mini PrinterTalk Formatl10 Shelp and SideWinder Turbo Pascal p 33 2 0 0 0 ee 64K 95 Typing Whiz pA iesse i iaa a E 64K 95 Webster s Spelling Checker Back cover Two 128K ROMs 256K 179 b Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version included on the PrinterTalk disk It is functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for most applications Our Products and Services in Brief Carbon Copy Plus For Portable Plus and Portable Vectra a highly rated program that does both data communications and remote control for operating a remote computer from the keyboard of a host computer The data com munications functions are among the easiest to use on the market Dual chat windows allow local and remote users to type at the same time without garbling messages The remote control functions are password protected to prevent unauthorized use of remote computers The entire program is memory resident Specify Portable Plus or Port able Vectra version seer 39 CompuServe Starter Kit Gets you started on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP Forum Includes 25 worth of free time and CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today Condor 3 and Condor Jr Database programs customized for t
21. To unarchive a file one has only to issue the command arce file using the arce exe program included on the subscriber s disk With the exception of arce exe all of the names listed below refer to archive files i e each is a single file with the extension ARC which contains multiple files stored in a compressed format waiting to be unarchived arce exe Archive extraction program Use this to unarchive all files on Subscriber s Disk 110 Plus Vectra addr This program searches the Time Manager ad dress list without starting Time Manager It displays the complete address list entry and starts a letter to the per son in the default Memomaker file It can also print ad dresses for envelopes and can handle multiple names at the same address with a single address list entry 110 Plus boole Lotus 1 2 3 worksheet designed to be used as a tutorial for computer students on Boolean algebra 110 Plus Vectra clockprg Graphic clock program 110 compare This program displays the differences be tween two similar text files It will show you where you have inserted deleted or changed blocks of text from one version to the next 110 Plus Vectra cursor This batch file changes the cursor from underline to box or vice versa without having to go T Master it may he the only program you ll ever need And it may be the most comfortable program you ve ever used It may sound strang
22. Vectra Please send your contributions on disk or letter to Per sonalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 or call 515 472 6330 Introduction The Portable Paper has become the focal point for shar ing knowledge and experience among HP110 and Portable Plus users throughout the world Your input as a Portable Vectra user will make the The Portable Paper equally valuable to Portable Vectra users In this column we will mainly cover Portable Vectra specific issues such as screen readability adapter slots compatibility issues and Portable Vectra bugs and workarounds We will also examine software products which we feel are valuable for Portable Vectra users and are not covered elsewhere in The Portable Paper HP Upgrades Portable Vectra Setup Program HP Corvallis has informed us that they will be including a new more powerful setup program with future shipments of Portable Vectras The main purpose of the setup program is to make the Vectra LCD screen more readable for those programs that assume a color monitor At this time there is no formal program for upgrading setup There will be some upgrade path but details are unknown at this writing We will keep you informed and if HP lets us perform the upgrade ourselves The new setup program has all the features of the old setup which were Palette adjustment Display redirec tion Set Date and time Set Alarm Help Here s what has been added for the
23. Vectra only p 9 PO ODi anana 56 95 HP9114 Empower with Battery Pack 225 00 199 00 Formatllo are peoe Be Ce EA 39 95 i245 seme oe 35 95 Mouse Logitech 000020 e eee TID OO 4 tec ae8 99 95 Mouse Microsoft 0005 195 00 174 95 Mouse Software 0 00000 eevee eee 70 00 60 00 Mouse Cable 0 cee ee eee eee 508 0 0 eee 20 00 Padded Case for Printer Disk Drive 39 95 37 95 Padded Case for HP Portable Plus 59 95 56 95 Pertmaster 0 00 cece ee ec enon 695 00 499 00 Pertmaster Demo 0 0 000085 5000 ke heee xd 50 00 PrinterTalk sco Sug bah hed cree ede aa 49 95 44 95 Private File 8 1S oes sR RWIS Sa Sh eS DOO cece be ale 34 95 To order any of the following products or others described in The Portable Paper but not listed on the opposite page simply write the prod uct name and price on one of the blank lines in the MISC section near the bottom of the order form Retail Price Subscriber Price RightWords dictionary extension for RightWriter p 10 DLO OD seconde 29 95 SideWinder without utilities p 138 6995 bod Seaweed 59 95 Tiger FOX 2 SA Sie ate bee pide BOE Aa EH ae woe 32 Drine pesan 29 95 Turbo Pascal Programs for Portables p 33 49 95 44 95 Turbo Toolbox p 33 0 0 000005 69 95 x iaaea 62 95 T
24. York and use it exclusively in Europe You need one for each piece of hardware unless you can use Personalized Software s Model 110A Power Cube Recharger provided it is also working on 220 250 AC The problem of different wall sockets can be solved with a universal adapter I m sure they are available throughout the United States rd be happy to supply one to Donald if he contacts me next time he is in Switzerland local phone 01 491 75 10 during business hours As for the telecommunication problem see my remarks to Srini Nageshwar s article With acoustic couplers however it should be no prob lem If it s not working the first time try it by switching from tone to pulse dialing or vice versa when using TERM Type ATT for tone or ATP for pulse dialing 6 Report Generator for dBasell Thank you for publishing my ques tions regarding an easy report writer I still haven t found one but I found one solu tion to my problem I use the built in report generator in combination with the SET ALTERNATE command By setting alternate to a text file I have the possibili ty to edit this file with my word pro cessor That s okay for simple lists but still not the ultimate solution That s all for this time I m still work ing on something printable referring to crossing borders with computers which is a problem in Europe and the Middle East mainly due to the United States point of view towards exporting
25. all of the roads were paved either But now we re back together my little electronic bud dy and I getting to know each other all over again The relationship is a little strained of course as I sit here try ing to remember whose phone number I had in which file trying to rewrite some stuff that came easily the first time It s not that I ve lost my faith or anything nor do I now mistrust my faithful companion it s just that ve found another dimension here a streak of maverick in dependence and it will take me a while to get back to the point where I can put anything into this machine without 2a subtle nagging feeling that some day Hewpie might decide on his own to go and No HAL Or Most Other Lotus 2 Add Ons For Plus Mark Horvatich HP Forum CompuServe Sysop 76703 4163 tells us that HAL and most other Lotus 2 01 add on products will not work on the Portable Plus He says HAL makes several patches into 1 2 3 in order to work and since 1 2 3 is on a ROM it cannot make those patches write to the ROM chip In addition HAL requires that a standard format 123 CMP file exists and this file is not directly on the Portable Plus ROM If it were my decision on how to put 1 2 3 on a ROM I would have put the loader and a complete driver set in to ROM and have this loader read the 123 CMP file into RAM Of course this would have made the memory usage about 60K greater but EVERY add in and add on product
26. all they had were the same old DOS and IBM utilities that I already have I knew CompuServe was an information service but I did not want to get news or financial info and I surely did not want to have to deal with a bunch of Apple and Commo dore users I finally broke down and decided to try it out It has been one of the most rewarding experiences I have ever had and I have just barely scratched the surface of the system s capacities In this article I will describe how it works I believe it is our best chance as HP110 and Port able Plus users to avoid being abandoned as technology inevitably marches on For users of a new machine like the Portable Vectra the forum is ideal As the inevitable bugs and idiosyn cracies of the new machine are discovered users and HP engineers can share their experience and advice PREREQUISITES FOR USING COMPUSERVE All it takes is a modem Every 110 has one built in and most Plus and Portable Vectra owners have one also so you already have all of the hardware you need Plus and Port able Vectra owners can upgrade their machines to include a modem or you can use an external modem You also need some communication software but all a of the 110 s and Pluses have this built in The Terminal program is all you need for the 110 and Term works fine for the Plus although it is somewhat rudimentary If you are a heavy user I recommend PC2622 Reflection I or something equivalent
27. because it can simplify things somewhat However Terminal and Term are all you need for most applications including downloading files There are many commercial and shareware packages available for the Portable Vectra including CrossTalk Carbon Copy Plus and ProComm CompuServe is a dial in system just like your local bulletin boards To minimize costs they have local numbers for use in many areas One suggestion regarding accessing the system if you do not have a local number to use you may find it cheaper to use an out of state number than an in state number since in most cases long distance interstate rates are less than intrastate rates We will cover cost reduction techniques later CompuServe has many different lines you can use to dial in with I have used it in more than ten cities and have never had a problem getting on All lines will take 300 baud most will also accept 1200 and some will accept 2400 baud To find out what numbers and baud rates you have available in your area call the CompuServe hotline also for problem reports 800 848 8990 From Ohio or outside the U S the number is 614 457 8650 Most bookstores have subscription kits for Compu Serve on the shelf of the computer section and many soft ware stores also carry them The kit retails for 39 95 _ Portable Paper subscribers can purchase the kit from Per J sonalized Software using the order form in back of the issue for 35 95 Ed The CompuServe
28. buying two or more programs on the same chip All our ROMs come with complete easy to follow installation instructions Product Notes Site of ROM Prees Shep includes improved version of note extraction 32K 55 ie Program NE VEE ANAE N IAA EE OAA A SEA AREE A SideWinder Does not include any of the utility programs that 32K 55 come with the disk based version of SideWinder oo Teed OK OE HPDuette _ Contains HP half of software _ 64K 8H HPCalculator No disk purchase necessary _ 64K HL Shelp SideWinder Same versions as on 32K ROM chips see 64K 95 above plus SideWinder enhancement utility _ O Sketch o 64K 9 Turbo Pascal Includes RUN COM which can save 10K of disk 64K 95 space from any program you compile with Turbo a Typing Whi KR 86 Best of DOS Tools Contains selected utilities from Portable Utilities 128K 129 Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools sae eae lt Super ROM Mini PrintefTalk is the abbreviated version in 128K 149 The Editor cluded on the PrinterTalk disk it is functionally Shelp equivalent to Printerlalk for most applications SideWinder Shelp and SideWinder are the same versions as Mini Printerfalk on the 32K ROM chips see above Formatii an _ Webster s Spelling Also includes two useful utilites DiskPacks and 256K 179 Checker New Mode at no extra charge Two 128K ROMs Utilities included in the Best of DOS Tools ROM Backup are as follows For program details see Por
29. call in at 300 1200 or 2400 baud Be sure to use the right telephone number Once on you will be asked to answer a short questionnaire and to register Do not use aliases since the information you provide must be valid To join the forum enter at the main menu the following command J HPORT and enjoy Reader Survey Initial Findings We thank so many of you over 15 and they are still com ing in for completing and returning the survey enclosed with the last issue We haven t had time to properly enter and analyze all the data However here are some general impressions gleaned from reading through all of the responses we ve received so far Overall you like The Portable Paper quite a bit On a scale of 1 to 10 the vast majority gave The Paper a rating of 9 or 10 You found the mix of reviews products and technical and non technical articles satisfactory Most of you don t mind that we sell many of the products which we review especially given our sixty day money back guarantee and our policy of encouraging and printing in dependent honest assessment both positive and negative of the products You liked the physical quality of the paper used since many of you re read the issues Your biggest concern was that supporting the new HP Portable Vectra might mean we would cover the HP110 and Portable Plus less HP110 users expressed this most acutely Your satisfaction with our products varied I was sur prised at the variance in
30. com _ puters and know how to not so friendly powers Rudolf J Sommer Nussbaumen Switzerland High Quality 372 aa Disks at a Discount z Personalized Software Why pay high prices for 10 disks in a Disks for HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 fancy shrink wrapped box with lots of 10 unlabelled disks plus case 0020 00 05 64 90 artwork We ll sell you quality Sony Subscriber price a 639 95 disks without the Sony labels or Sony boxes packaged in an ergonomically designed library case at no extra 1 44 megabyte high density disks for HP Portable Vectra 10 unlabelled disks plus case 0 00 99 95 charge 4 95 value Subscriber price ee00cceeee 69 95 Lifetime Warranty if adisk derek t To order ped SR EVET DLOVES OEIECCLVO TELLINI Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or it to Personalized Software and we ll credit card information exp date signature to Personalized send you two good ones 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 am am am am mm ua es amn sum ADN DTN mE man MSh Maa Mis ma oaa EUA aSk ME eo oea Wit S AS oU M MA o o e e COSO m m ema e O S O O NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED INTHE UNITED STATES
31. had developed It was a 28 pin CMOS version compatible with the Portable Plus I have the one sample I received in a Portable Plus and it works just like the 128K ROM s From what Sergio has since told me I can only assume that Hitachi has had start up production problems with the part since Hitachi will not recognize its existence over the phone The rep quoted an initial price of 82 30 for small quantity purchases and a price break of 25 for 20 250 unit purchases These EPROM s are brand new That s the reason for the high cost There s no doubt in my mind that if you wait 3 6 months after they are on the price list you could get the EPROM s for under 30 apiece and most EPROM burners will be modified to accept these new EPROM s This is just speculation though On The 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM and 2 Megabyte RAM Front Several large corporations have shown interest in the Soft Word 1 Megabyte RAM 8 socket ROM card and the Soft Word 2 Megabyte RAM card These corporations asked HP Corvallis to evaluate the cards We sent HP the cards and Corvallis now has given them its stamp of approval There is a new version of the 2 Megabyte RAM card that we ll call the A C drive version The A C drive version only works with a Portable Plus with 512K internal memory 1 Megabyte of the A C drive gets added to the ex isting A drive memory and 1 Megabyte becomes a C drive Finally we will do our best to hold the prices of these
32. have learned a tremendous amount SOON TO COME HP PORTABLE SUBFORUM Up until now 110 Plus users have been a bit disappointed with the forum since they have had to read all of the other messages regarding 150 s Vectras printers plotters etc just to get to theirs I have good news here As of the first of the year by the time you read this a separate subtopic for the Portables will be set up This means that Portable users have the option of selecting the Portable subtopic and of not having to bother with other stuff Also all of the soft ware for the Portables will be grouped together so it will be much easier to find exactly what we want HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF COMPUSERVE Below are some recommendations I have for taking the greatest advantage of CompuServe while minimizing your costs On this system time truly is money 1 When you log on make your communications pro gram capture ALL incoming data to a file on your home computer You should not waste time on the system read ing all of the messages that come across the screen The system will stop and prompt you for all important items any way 2 When you join a forum such as HP s you have a menu that you use to set a group of parameters such as the name you wish to use in the forum etc One of the options will be whether or not you want the system to stop after displaying each message If you capture all the messages to a file on your Portable you do not need to
33. in convenience It s much faster than running programs off a disk drive And it leaves your computer s internal memory free for data and other programs ROM BACKUP HOW IT WORKS Before we could offer software on ROM to our customers we thoroughly researched IMPORTANT You must own or order the disk versions of any products you buy on ROM Backup To order use order form inside back cover p S the field locating the most reliable sources of Roms and ROM services In addition we have formed special ROM agreements with our leading software sup pliers including Borland International Tur bo Pascal Simon amp Schuster Webster s Spelling Checker and Southern Software SideWinder For numerous legal economic and logistical reasons we offer ROMs to you asa Backup Service This means you may pur chase a product on ROM provided you already own the product on disk If you pur chased a disk product from us Personalized Software we have that in our records If you purchased a product elsewhere you must show us proof of purchase before we can sell you the ROM Backup Also it is important that you read and adhere to the licensing agreement that comes with the disk based version of the SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM Here are the programs we re offering on ROM Backup For product details see individual ads elsewhere in _ this issue Note that in many cases you can save space in your ROM drawer by
34. in normal manner with maximum main memory of 512K 2A 2 megabyte RAM A drive Card will only work in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory a ee Plus 2 5mb of main Edisk memory can only be partitioned as 512K main memory mb Edis Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER Printing Lotus Spreadsheets And Graphs By Rolf R Schmitt HP ThinkJet and LaserJet printers can be used in addition to plotters to create graphs using the PrintGraph portion of Lotus 1 2 3 The ThinkJet appears on the device selection list in PrintGraph on the HP110 utilities disk HP2225 Similarly you can use the LaserJet although the quality of diagonal lines circles and letters is rather jag ged Neither printer offers much of a speed advantage over the plotters Using Lotus As A Calculator It is possible to use Lotus 1 2 3 as a calculator without disturbing your current spreadsheet Just follow these steps 1 For safety s sake move to an empty cell 2 Press f2 the Edit key 3 Do any legal Lotus mathematical operation without pressing the Return key 4 Press Cale Shift fl Note the answer which appears in the edit line in upper left corner 5 Press the ESC key 6 The unchanged worksheet awaits your command Spellbinder 110 PLUS P VECTRA Spellbinder A Versatile Word Processor For All HP Portables By David Hugbes INTRODUCTION Finding a word processor that will run equally well on the
35. last Looking Glass column I expressed the wish that this year s computer products would be the start of something big I should have wished for the start of something small That wish just might come true This particular trip into the looking glass began a cou ple of months ago Last October I received a small journal that announced a small computer the Marys II from Cor vallis Microtechnology CMT The cover of the journal showed a sketch of this small computer It looked surprisingly like an HP 41CX with a multi line display However the article describing the Marys II made it sound like a much larger computer 80C88 microprocessor two built in serial ports six plug in slots standard 128K bytes RAM expandable to 768K ROM based operating system and an optional module to make the computer act like a super HP 41CX I mention this new computer because I know that many of us who own or use HP laptop computers use an HP 41CX or 71B hand held computer as well For some computing tasks we believe that smaller is better We know for sure that smaller means more portable more personal On the other hand we also know that smaller means slower It also implies limited memory and single line displays And with HP hand helds it has also meant that we chain ourselves to the HP Interface Loop The CMT hand held apparently has eliminated these limitations 36 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 In Novembe
36. merging and it lets you create your own graphic characters integral signs Greek alpha etc LINK HP IL Connector Software A software program that lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other HP IL device Now you can access your main computer HP Portable HP150 or IBM PC its unlimited storage capability and all its peripherals from your HP41 71 75 or series 80 hand held Logitech Mouse for the Portable Plus A 3 button mouse for the Portable Plus bundled with our proprietary Portable Mouse Software and special connecting cable Using the mouse instead of arrow keys to move the screen cursor makes using your Plus easier and more fun The Logitech mouse was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 Useful in themselves and also as learning tools for novices and experts alike these macros include recalculating ranges double spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells addressing form letters and printing labels automatically Customized for Lotus 1A and Lotus 2 01 Mobile Recharger Lets you recharge your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held com puter etc from your car s cigarette lighter serps The Norton Utilities Customized For The Portables Allow you to recover deleted Portable files and organize your electronic and external disks Peter Norton has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra 3 disk formerly available only on 514
37. new version Remain Resident The user can choose one of 10 hotkey sequences which will allow access to the Redirect Display and Adjust Palette functions from within any application Thus you can dynamically on the fly change the color palette and or the active display Load Fonts The screen font can be changed to anon U S font This is primarily for use in foreign countries Initialize Hard Disk Re initializes the hard disk to allow it to be formatted Also there are two other utilities now included on the setup disk pal com and turn off com pal is a memory resident palette changing utility for the HP Portable Vectra CS It monitors requests to load and execute specific programs and dynamically changes to a more suitable palette for those programs whose names it recognizes The program names and desired palettes are specified by the user and maintained in a memory resident list pal provides the means of managing that list Once installed pal watches for attempts to execute programs whose names have been added to the program palette list When it sees one pal changes the palette to the ID specified for that program When the program ter minates pal restores the palette to its previous state turnoff is a Portable Vectra CS utility that can be used to turnoff the computer either immediately or after a specified interval of inactivity of waiting ata DOS prompt What s On The Portable Vectra Horizon B
38. of memory Soft Padded Cases Roomy rugged high quality highly padded cases to protect your ThinkJet HP9114 and HP Portable when traveling Statistix A comprehensive statistical package that s easy to learn and use Runs on the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 and IBM PC compatibles Data can be entered from keyboard or imported from spreadsheet or database files Includes multiple regression most standard parametric and non parametric tests p values plots histograms and much much more Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit First video game designed for the Portables Time Manager The highly acclaimed Portable Plus ROM based Time Manager pro gram in a 3 disk version for the HP110 Portable Does not run on Portable Plus Available to Portable Paper subscribers only Lj i Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter seP7 T Master and T Maker T Master is a fully integrated word processor speller relational database manager spreadsheet file manager and communications package Also includes graph making It runs on the Portable Plus and Portable Vectra without modification and on the HP150 with a PC emulator T Maker is an earlier version of T Master it runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive T Maker does not include the communications module Both programs are more integrated than any other package on the market Our reviewer says t
39. other files Surely THE NORTON UTILITIES can t help you then Wrong they can THE NORTON UTILITIES won t recover the entire file of course but they can help you restore the portions of the file that still remain on the disk It s done with a powerful utility called nu that lets you display change and capture to a file any information on any disk In complex cases you may need to do some detective work but nu will help you find whatever remains on the disk thereby saving you from countless hours of retyping lost data In my opinion the ability to recover lost files alone makes THE wearer p NORTON UTILITIES HP110 Portable EJ 4 well worth the price Portable Pus But there s even more Portable Vecta to the pachage THE HP150 e NORTON UTILITIES IBM PC and compat Or lets say you remember putting the Indispensible PC Magazine Don t compute without it The New York Times You ll bless this disk Peter McWilliams The Personal Computer Book Personalized Software is authorized to distribute THE NORTON UTILITIES on 312 disk customized for users of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 phrase a penny saved is a penny earned into a text file on your electronic floppy or hard disk but you can t remember which file it was or even which directory How to find it No problem Just type ts for text search specify th
40. print to a file using the Print File command Lotus ignores the Op tion Setup specification There is another technique for sending PCL com mands also known as escape sequences to the ThinkJet In this technique you place ThinkJet escape sequences directly into cells within your spreadsheet That way when you print your spreadsheet the ThinkJet will be sent the appropriate PCL command such as change to com pressed mode at the appropriate time The one difficulty with this technique is that Lotus 1A will not accept keyboard input for characters that have ASCII codes less than 32 However most PCL commands start with escape ASCII 27 The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 2 p 3 describes this technique in detail It requires creating an ASCII file with a prn extension that contains the escape character You can do this in DOS using copy con or in a word processor like MemoMaker Save as ASCII The Editor and Edlin You can then import that file to Lotus using the File Import Text command Similarly you can import a file contain ing the foreign character set Lotus 1A does not normally access these characters More than Read this list It may look long and boring but it can save you an incredible amount of daily effort It s 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 enjoya
41. run on the MC II There is even a way to transfer programs from a 41CX to the MC II but this requires a desktop computer CMT will include the 41M module and all necessary software for the introductory price of the computer by Hal Goldstein President Personalized Software Paul Grimmer has done it again He s the author of two of our best selling pro grams SideWinder the sideways printng program for the HP Portables and LINK the program that lets you transfer data back and forth be tween HP hand helds and Portables printers and other peripherals Now he s developed SKETCH a fab ulous graphics program designed for both the HP110 Portable and Portable Plus CURSOR BECOMES DRAWING PEN Using SKETCH couldn t be simpler Put SKETCH in draw mode and your cursor becomes a pen The pen can either be up or down When it is down it draws wherever you move it When it is up you can move it around the screen without affecting the drawing You set the cursor up or down At last Graphi for the Portable and Portable Plus SATURH speed in an instant The pen also has an eraser Just press E and when the cursor is down it will erase whatever it encounters DOZENS OF HANDY FEATURES But that s just the beginning SKETCH also lets you draw diagonals boxes circles and arcs each with a single key If you have a mouse you gain even more
42. screen was his only complaint regarding the whole machine See the Portable Vectra Views column about an enhanced setup utility HP will be offering for the LCD screen Ed My friend did say that he didn t really miss the hard disk With dual floppies that hold almost 1 5 megabytes each he hasn t felt the need for more space TESTING THE VECTRA S PERFORMANCE I asked him about the performance of the machine and he said that he had done a couple of benchmarks The first benchmark calculated a large group of priye numbers ynd the second did some addition and subtraction of floats and long integers Below are the result of the benchmarks all times are in seconds Primes Calculations Portable Plus 105 3 267 7 Portable Vectra 46 75 181 47 Original Vectra 32 9 181 92 The only other comment my friend had was that the Portable Vectra is noticeably heavy and that he d highly recommend the softcase The softcase is somewhat like an executive brief case and allows room for more than just the Portable Vectra THE PORTABLE PAPER Programming With Softkeys One way of making software more friendly is by using softkeys also known as function keys Writing programs which use the softkey menu need to have three basic func tions One to set up the label names another to turn the menu on or off and one to read the keys peview a pro gram I wrote performs these functions very nicely and they will even work for the Portable Ve
43. that follows LDC rules would have run on this type of __ ROM Oh well By the way I would like to write an article for you about 1 2 3 release 2 01 for the Portable Plus There are several things wrong about the port to the Portable Plus that I d like to address like the fact that HAL and many 1 2 3 add ins will not work with this version I d also like THE PORTABLE PAPER to make a few suggestions on how to fix this problem and perhaps provide a list of add ins that are known to work on the Portable Plus 128K Byte EPROM s Mark also tells us that Hitachi has created 128K EPROM s which will work on the Plus This is potentially good news for HP Portable Plus users What this means is that users can have custom EPROM s which can hold up to 256K of programs or data for their Plus using a pair of 128K EPROM s Previously a company such as Hewlett Packard or us Personalized Software had to order 500 ROM s at a time to get one 128K ROM Reader Sergio Biguzzi has recently tried to track down the chip and tells us that Hitachi has not put the part on their price list so it is not available The chip cost will be around 80 which means a retail cost of 150 to 200 to have the chip made Machines to burn 128K EPROM s pro bably cost well over 2000 Mark says Here s the scoop about the 128K EPROM s Just before I left HP a Hitachi rep came in and passed out 5 samples of a 128K EPROM that they
44. the edges of the spreadsheet where you can No other application that I know of matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master David Hughes Contributing Editor The Portable Paper EEE ar ee a eS ee ee a see them at all times Very helpful in getting your spreadsheets to work Also unlike other spreadsheets you can imbed explanatory text anywhere you like another bene fit of T Master s text oriented ap proach to program integration T Master s relational database manager competes with database only products like dBase III It s easy to select and combine data from two or more files set up cross tabula tions from data on disk and gener ate ad hoc reports T Master s data communica tions capabilities include many you would expect to find in sophisti cated stand alone communications programs Yet they re easy to use even if you ve never done data communications before Note our version of T Master has its data com munications portion customized to the Portable Plus T Master includes a DO com mand that lets you string other commands together and execute them sequentially in batch mode without intervention It is surprisingly simple for exam ple to set up a DO command that will perform the following func tions at the end of every month Compile data from selected data bases construct a bar graph insert the bar graph into a monthly repo
45. 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 03 267 8344 Central America I would be happy to form a users group either Spanish or English Apartado Postal 1587 Tegucigalpa Honduras England Trafalgar House Grenville Place Mill Hill London NW7 3SA England Tim Cullis 01 959 4359 Netherlands Mr R M Franquiner Menthenbergseweg 13 NL 6816 PR Arnhem The Netherlands Spain Club de usarios HP 110 Pont Reyes S A A la aten cion de D Enrique Serra Ronda Universidad 15 08007 Espana Sweden Stockholm first Thursday each month 6 30 p m call to confirm Jens Pettersson 08 713 1710 Telex 149 70 gentel S HP110 HP110 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 39 THE PORTABLE PAPER committed to IBM compatibility and the design of the Portable Vectra s adapter slots That means that third par ties who develop hardware for those adapter slots will be able to sell those cards in future HP Portable Vectras They all see the Portable Plus as a truly portable alter native to the Portable Vectra especially for sales profes sionals They have equipped HP s sales force with Pluses and are expecting a number of major orders for Portable Pluses from companies automating their sales forces The emphasis however wiil be on selling the Portable Vectras From what I gathered there are no immediate plans for an IBM compatible Portable Plus The future evolutio
46. variations from your word processor or spreadsheet To do so you must understand how the Portable tells the ThinkJet what to do Hewlett Packard developed a language its printers understand called printer control language PCL This language is more compact than English The only way a printer can hear commands in its own language is to receive characters such as letters and numbers from the computer However the printer must somehow know that it is about to receive a command from the language rather than a character to print Therefore the first character of the command is always defined to be an invisible non printable character That character in the HP PCL usually turns out to be the character that stands for the ese escape key ASCII 27 Whenever a HP printer receives an escape character it starts checking its internal table to see if an instruction is being sent These PCL commands are often referred to as escape sequences For example if the ThinkJet could understand English you might tell it From now on until I tell you differently shrink the type and print in compressed mode Since the ThinkJet only understands printer con trol language PCL you must speak the ThinkJet s language The PCL equivalent to print in compressed mode is the following five character escape sequence with no extra spaces esc amp k2S The language is very precise so the k must be lower case and the S must be up p
47. 5 to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 If you do not indicate otherwise we will send the HP110 Plus and HP150 versions on a 3 1 2 disk and the IBM PC version on a 5 1 4 disk Hal For the MC II the only other catch is spelled with a capital C C stands for a programming language that is hard to master C may also come to stand for Catch 22 not enough people willing to learn C and not enough people who know C willing to sell their wares in a market of 10 programs Without this will ingness to learn and share the MC II will not become popular with students farmers foresters and financiers COULD THIS BE THE START OF SOMETHING SMALL Remember this is true looking glass territory To the ques tion Will the MC II survive and flourish we should answer maybe The MC II has a lot going for it It is the right size at the right speed at the right price and at just the right time It also has some things going against it It has a nonstandard operating system in an MS DOS world and it likes C Hand held computer users may discount the drawbacks After all all hand held computers have their own operating systems and their own preferred language MAYBE THE NEXT SMALL COMPUTER The competition for the hand held computer market may already be underway The October 26 issue of InfoWorld showed a picture of another one the DataCom
48. 86 instruction POP CS in the HP110 operating system code The POP CS in struction does work properly in the Harris 80C86 but on _ ly as an undocumented feature As a matter of fact the opcode used by POP CS is reserved by Intel and is not con sidered a proper opcode by the 8086 If a NEC V30 is put into the HP110 the POP CS instructions in the OS code will crash the machine erratically since the V30 not only ie lius hg ie ira dh anune grate Cisse SIDEWINDER oUt entte Heg RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Available on ROM Backu for the Portabile Pius print it sideways w e br v aw a HBB RER 29E BH HUNMHRRBHHEE Qi wuHueuNut HE oe SoS we ie ar bo Te me Bn Se Be Se 3w SS Be Se be Oe pa ba Mme Za 3 gt Se Se Se z ER HEE BHR ER BEN BH EE PRE Ei wi Bw Hifi we ce ke gt o ee me wa ee fee SR Be am mu ee ee Sua ee Be no Sa Be jao ES ba Zn we be ur ee to ez af SB c Eg S SE Z EB Se Ig gg ee gg 8s gz Es SE SE 22 g tS 33 Fup SE TE 3B GEE iE ESE ie SESE TE HE TE i 1b id EE Ta Ta Te Ta Te Ta 7e a 5a Oe a s 7e Se 3s 3e 5e Te Ta be 3e ee te we te I 3e 3 gt om SERIES RZ En se IZ ur ioe EF ITEE EC ET REES EZ ER BE TE NE ZE go et st Rt at ZERE S222 as thts ie th ir ce Fe tx at ae ts 32 SS WS SSSR UE SS Ee te an Fe ts tf as SideWinder is published by Southern Software OPTIONAL EXTRAS Southern Software of New Orleans creators of SideWind
49. B disk stores ROM soft ware programs and is never used directly to save files THE HP110 The first HP RAM ROM portable the HP110 emerged from one simple idea to create a lightweight powerful rugg ed portable computer that meets 95 percent of a portable computer user s needs The HP110 provides a full implementation of Lotus 1A a simple easy to use word processor called MemoMaker and communications software for the built in 300 baud modem all on ROM Its 272 Kbyte of Edisc and internal memory stores files data and programs Lotus actually runs from the ROM or B disk With a 96K 176K in ternal memory RAM disk configuration a HP110 can hold on its electronic disk Turbo Pascal a text formatter 110K for data files and still have enough internal memory to run many Lotus applications HP no longer makes this 16 line HP110 However Per sonalized Software and other sources sell used HP110 s for between 700 and 1000 the bargain of the year The HP110 does have its limitations Some users want a bigger screen larger memory and IBM compatibility They also want a choice of ROM applications and a higher speed modem To satisfy these desires Hewlett Packard created the Portable Plus THE PORTABLE PLUS The Portable Plus 25 line screen and 300 1200 baud modem makes it more powerful than the HP110 It is more IBM compatible although it is not a true compatible Weighs only 6 ounces If you do
50. By Paul Grimmer THE VALUE OF AN ELECTRONIC FORUM FOR PORTABLE USERS Do we need a bulletin board or some other forum especial ly for Portable owners If so what do we use These questions are very important to us as a user community When the HP110 Portable Plus first came out HP was a sort of clearinghouse for information They made an effort to support the machines since this support helped sell more Obviously this support has dropped off significantly as bugs were worked out and HP marched on to making and selling new gizmos With a new machine such as the Portable Vectra timely support is perhaps even more critical Now we have The Portable Paper It is and will con JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 29 THE PORTABLE PAPER tinue to be an excellent source for tips software etc but by its nature it must be incomplete It is only published six times per year and since it is a written publication interac tion between users is slow a comment and a response can take up to two issues four months and there are not enough pages to hold the mass of ideas floating around So it becomes clear that we must have a system where we can exchange ideas and problems and receive quick if not in stantaneous response and where we can present a united front to other hardware software developers for products that will continue to enhance our machines Since each HP110 has a modem and most of the Pluses and Portable Vectras have modems some form
51. HE THINKJET FROM PAM If you have a HP110 or Portable Plus you can use PAM s f6 System Config to control the ThinkJet Portable Vectra users can do the same with their machines by using the mode command which we ll discuss in a future issue There are three fields relevant to this discussior Printer Pitch Printer Line Spacing and Printer Skip Perforation If you move the cursor to Printer Pitch and keep pressing f3 Next Choice you will cycle through the follow ing five options normal expanded compressed expanded compressed and no configuration If you set the field to compressed then every time you return to PAM PAM will send the printer esc amp k2S PCL for compressed mode If you leave it at no configuration PAM will not send the ThinkJet a PCL command regarding printer pitch Printer Line Spacing gives three choices 6 lines per 16 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 inch 8 lines per inch and no configuration Normally the ThinkJet prints 6 lines per inch However if you were printing in compressed mode you might want to pack more lines per page You could set Printer Line Spacing to 8 lines per inch Now every time you return to PAM PAM sends the ThinkJet the following PCL command for 8 lines per inch ese amp 18D Finally if you have continuous paper you might not want to print over the perforation and simultaneously leave a small margin on either side Or you might prefer no break of the printing at all T
52. HP110 Portable PLUS HP Portable Vectra HP TouchScreen and the IBM PC can be quite a challenge The hardware of each computer is so radically different that it is very difficult to find a powerful word processing prod uct that will run on all these computers and nearly impos sible to find a single product that will run on all of them without serious compromise The Editor from Personalized Software will run on all these machines It is an excellent text editor for creating memos and straightforward documents However users with more demanding word processing needs who use these different computers should take a look at Spellbinder SpellBinder is a small yet powerful full featured word processor from Lexisoft Inc that runs on the Portables HP Touchscreen and the IBM PC A single version is available for the HP110 and Portable Plus Although I did not test it a ROM version is available for the Portable PLUS from Blue Chip Computers 213 553 3393 for an an extra 100 over the 495 retail purchase price Not Much Disk Space SpellBinder should be an attractive choice for HP110 24 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 owners since it is more powerful than WordStar yet only two thirds the size and will run within the minimum Memory Edisc configuration 96K 176K The core system occupies approximately 88K of disk space It is equally at tractive to Portable Plus users since it is takes a small amount of Edisc space and is available in ROM for
53. 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 LAA Orr The Formatter THE FORMATTER gives you advanced formatting capabilities that even THE EDITOR can t handle like multi line headers and footers automatic hyphena tion you can even add your own words to the built in gt dictionary euser specified page length and line length eautomatic page numbering tables and charts etable of contents generationeand more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special for matting codes into your EDITOR MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer 2 THE EDITOR creates ASCII files which means you can send your files to and from almost any other program or computer without special formats or codes 3 THE EDITOR will automatically back up your files to protect you against mistakes When you save a file THE EDITOR saves not just the current version but the previous one as well 4 THE EDITOR takes up less than 40K of memory 5 THE EDITOR loads and saves files and executes commands exceptionally fast Even in the desktop market it is dif ficult to find a word p
54. K lt Condor Junior HP110 Portable only 99 95 895 GUARANTEE DOS Tools Portable Utilities Vol 1 p 17 49 95 39 95 if within 60 days you are The Editor p 25 99 95 7995 dissatisfied with a subscrip The Editor The Formatter p 25 159 90 9 95 tion or product for any reason you may return it for Flowcharting II Specify Portable Plus or Portable Vectra 232 00 209 00 a full refund Should you The Formatter p 25 59 95 4995 become dissatisfied with a HPDuette Portable Plus only p 9 99 95 89 95 at ee eae HP9114 Empowerer Power Supply p 38 99 95 89 95 es eae 2 unused portion of your go 00 7595 __ subscription Link HP IL Connecting Software 80 00 75 95 ee _ __ Logitech Mouse System for Portable Plus mouse software cable 219 00 17995 YYYY Y Y amp 101 Macros For Lotus 1 2 3 69 95 62 95 ae Se z 99 95 89 95 E Mobile Recharger 29 95 29 95 o a Norton Utilities Version 4 0 p 5 99 95 89 95 A Norton Utilities Advanced Edition p 5 150 00 129 00 Includes free 1987 and 1988 Subscriber Disks ond om ce a FREE SHIPPING FOR T Master Specify Plus HP150 or Portable Vectra p 7 295 00 279 95 U S ORDERS Turbo Pascal Specify which computer p 33 99 95 89 95 morte 18985 OVER 200 Typing Whiz p 14 49 95 FAST DELIVERY In most cases you will receive your ship ment within 2 3 days of when we get your order a i Non U S Customers Pleas
55. M type cards Several third parties are designing adapter cards for the Portable Vectra family If all goes according to plan these cards should be available within two to six months HP IL CARD By our next issue an HP IL card designed for the Portable Vectra s adapter slot should be available The Portable Vec tra HP IL card will work like HP s HP IL card that fits in side an IBM PC or compatible Such a card will allow Portable Vectra users to connect and transfer files to an HP IL ThinkJet an HP9114 disk drive or an HP110 or Portable Plus PORTABLE HARD DISK TradeWind Peripherals will probably be creating a bus ex tender card for The Portable Vectra Once the bus extender card is created it will be possible to connect the Portable Vectra to one of TradeWind s portable hard disks These disks contain from 10 up to 96 Megabytes of storage space The portable hard disk can be used for storage for either the dual floppy or hard disk version of the Portable Vectra The portable hard disk can be used to back up the Portable Vectra s hard disk or high capacity microfloppy disks These rugged reliable portable hard disks can be transferred easily from machine to machine For 40 you can purchase a bus extender card for an IBM PC or AT or compatible The Portable Vectra extender card with power supply will be somewhat more expensive Let us say for example both your Portable Vectra and your IBM PC have bus extender cards i
56. O oS Qn ap 4 18 Mi Wr Q9 oo A oo a lS mi 0N u Te Ni CO Y j Our ebro NA mA 8 U U A J EN Un pom g Cod AN AN U z e ea U A nN B rho CO no AN On hao A 74 nN ho P WorldPort 2400 amp cable 389 339 328 316 305 299 293 288 2 Megabyte RAM car 95 12695 12659 2622 2586 2568 2549 2531 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM 95 1695 11681 11667 11653 11646 1639 11632 Used HP110 s mt KO ul ONO A an ON O ea ON Nn Nn O Nn HOW TO ORDER Use the chart above to determine the discount price If you do not find the product you want listed on the chart contact us for discount pricing Enter the desired quantity on the order form in the back of this issue or use company purchase order PRICES GOOD THROUGH February 28 1988 4 ULCAt L10WS LULI I UI LAUIC ius USCIS now on RO Pack your favorite programs into just a few slots in your ROM drawer E Save valuable memory space B Eliminate need for disk drive Custom ROMs available too Now you can simultaneously free up memory space in your Portable Plus and save yourself the trouble of using a disk drive How It s simple Some of our best selling software products are now available on ROM Backup as many as five products per chip Insert one or more of our ROM Backup chips in your ROM drawer and you ll never have to load those programs again It s the ultimate
57. Tutor 4 0 00 59 95 53 95 Turbo Tutor 3 0 39 95 35 95 Pascal Programs for the Portables 49 95 44 95 Turbo Pascal on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 3 0 ern 95 00 95 00 ROM Backup version includes RUN COM a utility pro gram that can save 10K of disk space from any program you compile with Turbo Note You must own or order the disk version of Turbo in order to purchase the ROM Backup ver sion See ROM Backup ad in this issue for details TO ORDER See inside back cover Be sure to specify Version 3 0 or 4 0 All Borland products are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 Turbo Pascal and Turbo Tutor are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc WordStar is a registered trademark of Micropro International Corp Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER off line since your text editor is much easier to use than the one on CompuServe and you also do not have to rush through the response to minimize costs In most communication programs it is easy to send upload simple ASCII text to a host computer For exam ple in PC2622 and Reflection for the Plus when Compu Serve prompts you to enter your text you press the function key f5 labelled Command Line and then enter ptransmit myfile where myfile is the name of the file you wish to send It s reaily very easy 4 In the forums ask the sysop for the name of the fi
58. ac tured to extremely high standards by a company in the Netherlands that has more than seven years of experience in designing and fabricating memory expansion devices for Hewlett Pack ard hand helds and portables Relia bility is assured by extensive testing All SoftWord cards come with a one year manufacturer s warranty cover ing parts and labor Should a problem develop simply send the card to us and we will ship it to and from Soft Word at our expense In addition the cards are covered by our own money back guarantee If you are not satisfied with a SoftWord card you can return it within 60 days for a full refund By boosting your Plus s memory in to the megabytes you gain the ulti mate flexibility in portable computing Order one or more SoftWord cards risk free today 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 2995 2695 for Portable Paper subscribers 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card or C drive Card 1995 1695 for Portable Paper subscribers IMPORTANT Be sure to specify A drive Card or C drive Card on the order form TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Non U S Customers Please order directly from SoftWord Here is their full product line and price list prices include shipping and insura
59. ains an HP 41CX emulator HAND HELD SOFTWARE NO 1 2 3 BUT LOTS OF C The most important piece of software for any computer is the operating system The MC II has its own OS It is not MS DOS even though many of the commands look and feel like the MS DOS commands COPY DEL REN CHKDSK However the OS is new CMT specifically wrote the OS to make the MC II s batteries last as long as possi ble It does this by putting the computer to sleep between keystrokes or when no program is running This means that the computer s five penlight batteries should last a month before needing to be replaced or recharged The OS also differs from MS DOS in that it is not loaded into memory before it is run It runs directly from its ROM module How about other software Will the MC II run 1 2 3 Not likely Remember that the Operating System is not MS DOS compatible Any program that runs on a laptop would have to be completely rewritten to run on the MC IL SO WHAT WILL THE MC II DO Well right out of the box the MC II won t do much However with the 41M ROM module plugged in the hand held computer turns into a super 41CX The 41M module contains all 220 commands from the HP 41CX along with 40 additional functions Most standard 41CX programs will run up to ten times faster on the MC II They will also be able to address up to 65 535 memory registers So for soft ware starters there are over 6 000 programs written forthe HP 41CX that should
60. anges 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 7 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 Line 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 determini
61. ant No more having to scribble notes on paper to remind you of phone numbers things to do or bright ideas Press Ctrl Shift Extend char and up pops the Shelp menu right in the middle of your appli cation Lotus in this example Choose Key Macros and you can assign strips of up to 31 typewriter characters to any of the 26 letters in the alphabet This saves you having to type the same phrase over and over again Example If you type United States a lot you could assign the entire phrase to the U key Just move the Shelp 955 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 day no risk trial If after 60 days you are dissatisfied with this product for any reason you may return it for a full refund To order use the postage paid form at the back of this issue or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc THE PORTABLE PAPER The nine pound Portable Plus comes with a standard 512K of internal memory Until recently the memory could only be expanded by 384K of RAM but now it can be expanded to 4 5 Megabytes 4500K The standard Plus sells for 2195 or 2700 with an internal 1200 baud modem Users may then purchase one or two additional drawers depending on their own requirements One drawer usually reser
62. aster my computer I have several comments and suggestions 1 HP 9114 Battery Would your empowerer also work in Europe with our 220 250 volts If I could use it with a normal HP 82066B Euro charger then the problem would be THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume three Number one January February 1988 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Michael A Sugarman Department Editors Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Paul Grimmer Contributing Editors Satch Carlson Sam Chau David Hughes Art Director George Foster Typography The Word Form Corporation Circulation Frances Kempton Glen Frank Larry Baldozier Randy Walker Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein 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 assum
63. backup system to the Portable Vec tra via the bus extender card TradeWind peripherals and several other vendors are interested in producing a 5 1 4 floppy and tape backup system via the bus extender card for the Portable Vectra SCSI INTERFACE Another third party is looking into creating a SCSI card for the Portable Vectra The SCSI interface is standard with the latest Apple computers A whole line of peripherals which connect to the SCSI interface such as high capacity hard disks and tape backup systems are currently available THE SNAG One problem is that most any external peripheral will re quire its own power supply A power supply will necessari ly decrease the portability of the whole system as bulk and weight increases In general designers of cards for the Portable Vectra must take into account the power specifica tions of the battery powered Portable Vectra FAST DATA TRANSFER There are a number of fast serial port data transfer pro grams which allow you to transfer files from the Portable Vectra 3 1 2 floppy to an IBM PC or compatible 5 1 4 floppy Prices range from 59 95 to 129 95 We think Duette which we sell for 59 95 offers the best price performance ratio see the ad and Additional Products feature Opposite the order form in this issue Other popular products include LapLink and The Brooklyn Bridge The problem with serial transfer is that the Portable Vectra comes standard with a
64. bers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more Private File Protects your letters documents and data files by scrambling your file so only you can understand it 3 Project Management Packages All 3 work on the HP110 Plus Vectra HP150 and IBM PC Project 8 9 10 a Lotus template helps you manage small to medium projects Milestone is also for small to medium projects On HP110 you need to scroll to see entire Milestone screen Pertmaster is for medium to large projects specify which machine See center spread 2 Megabyte RAM card A giant leap in memory size for the Portable Plus Simply remove your existing RAM drawer and replace it with this card Works with any Port able Plus with 512K of built in memory We will accept your old RAM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase See center spread RAM ROM Card A megabyte of RAM plus four pairs of ROM slots Add the RAM ROM card to your Portable Plus and you have a megabyte of extra RAM in addition to space for Lotus Reflection Webster s Spelling Checker MemoMaker Time Manager and SuperROM 5 products on one ROM chip We will accept your old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase Seer 10 RightWriter Flags errors in grammar style usage and punctuation inserting com ments directly into your document Also produces overall critique strength of
65. ble 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 me to track this many frograms 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 That s 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 ith 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 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 Ch
66. bscriptions from us in quantity and save Back cover Webster s Spelling Checker Rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine this spelling checker packs a hef ty 110 000 word dictionary into just 207K of disk memory Webster s shows you incorrect spellings in context and suggests corrections also lets you preview questionable words before you edit Exceptionally easy to learn and use Customized for the Portable Plus and HP150 seep 29 WordPerfect 4 2 Disk based Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 version of the best selling word processor Includes spelling checker and thesaurus The Word Plus An excellent spelling checker with a choice of two dictionaries 45 000 words and 35 000 words plus the ability to input additional words and abbreviations of your own Also does word counts Customized to the HP Portables seP 27 WorldPort Portable Modems The WorldPort 2400 is a battery powered highly compact 4 x2 x1 lightweight 6 5 oz full featured external modem that transmits data at 300 1200 and 2400 baud Faster than HP s internal modems the WorldPort 2400 is fully corapatible with the industry standard Hays AT Command Set and with both the CCITT and Bell communications standards The WorldPort 1200 modem transmits at 300 and 1200 baud Portable Plus users At last A great spelling checker available on ROM Webster s web stars n The spelling checker rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine Dec
67. ceMaker 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 subdirectories HP110 SOURCE 123DEMO found on the DOS Tools disk UTILS DOC Reprints on disk The Portable Paper Vol 1 Issue 4 Utilities article Gives practical examples of many of the files on the DOSTools disk RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable V
68. contained well defined units and put them together to make a full working program GREAT WORKING ENVIRONMENT Turbo provides you with an exception ally good programmer s environment One aspect of this is Turbo s built in text editor It s a sophisticated WordStar work alike that in itself is worth the price of the program Another aspect is Turbo s compiler In addition to being uncommonly fast an amazing 80 100 lines per second it is also uncommonly helpful If the com piler encounters a mistake in a program it stops compiling gives you an error message returns you to the editor and takes you to the place in your program where the error occured The external environment for Turbo am is also excellent There are numerous books articles public domain programs and even a CompuServe forum devoted to helping people use Turbo to full ad vantage With all these advantages and more it s no wonder that Turbo Pascal is to day s best selling programming language for the IBM PC THREE PIECE STARTER KIT CUSTOMIZED FOR THE PORTABLES For Portable and Portable Plus users there s yet another enormous benefit Turbo Pascal takes up less than 40K of memory and that includes its powerful Compiling a program means getting it to meet the rules of syntax imposed by the programming language A program will not run until it can be compiled built in text editor We are now offering Turbo Pascal in a
69. cter sequence begins with lt esc gt capitalize or reduce the characters to lower case exactly as defined Any character coupled with CTRL can be either upper or lower case In the table stands for a normal decimal num ber CHR means take the ASCII equivalent to the number You can find ASCII tables in any printer manual appendix B in the ThinkJet manual For example to set page length to 40 in HP mode requires the following es cape sequence as listed in the table lt ESC gt amp l46P On the other hand the Alternate sequence for 40 lines per page is lt esc gt N An ASCII table tells us that is ASCII 40 Power your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and HP hand held from a single vion e gt To ThinkJet wall outlet To HP hand held or 2nd disk drive To wall outlet 18 Can t plug your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and HP hand held into the same wall outlet because the recharger cubes are too big Here s the solution The Model 110A Power Cube Recharger from Summit Concepts The Model 110A has five power cords Four are HP cords that plug into your HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 disk drive s or HP hand held HP41 71 75 series 80 etc The fifth is a conventional AC cord that plugs into the wall and powers the other four Get rid of that tangle of extension cords power strips or whatever else you ve been putting up with Order a Model 110A Power Cube Recharge
70. ctra Below is a routine that will set up the softkey labels on Portables and the HP150 type pcstr26 string 20 KKKKKKKEERER This procedure will set up the soft keys for the Portables and the HP150 procedure setsoftkeys comp computertypes inI fn2 fn3 in4 fn5 fn6 fn7Z fn8 pcstr26 var j k integer line pcstr20 fdef array 1 8 of pcstr26 absolute fn8 Begin k 8 if comp hp110 then begin for j 1 to 8 do begin write chr 27 amp f0a j k5d L f j init soft keys write chr 27 amp f9a j k length fdef k d AL fdef k end end else begin for j 1 to 8 do begin write chr 27 amp f2a j k5d2Lf j chr 27 chr iit j write chr 27 amp f2a j k length fdef k dOL fdef k k k end end end Note that the escape sequence for the 110 Portable is slightly different from that of the 150 and the Portable Plus You ll notice in the above procedure that rather than write each softkey separately I use a loop The unusual thing about this is that each softkey message comes in as a different variable name thus making it normally not possible to loop What I did is set up an array of strings the same size as each string passed and then referenced them in the array Note that the strings are stored in reverse order Turning the softkey menu on or off can be done simp ly by writing the following escape sequences To turn on write chr 27
71. d button and your ThinkJet will do a self gt test The resultant one page printout contains two sec tions the ThinkJet character set and print pitches The character set contains the normal upper and lower case alphabet punctuation marks numbers foreign characters and symbols for the first 32 ASCII characters ASCII is the name of the encoding sequence standard across most com puters which assigns numbers that the computer can understand to the character symbols that humans unders tand We will discuss these ASCII codes in the next section The four pitches in the self test are compressed nor mal bold and expanded ASCII CODES In the ASCII encoding sequence every character which the computer and printer know about has a number associated with it So for example the letter a is associated with 97 a is 36 a blank space is 32 Any printer manual will have a table of ASCII codes showing the mapping between numbers and characters ASCII numbers less than 32 represent invisible characters which occupy no space in printed text such as carriage return 13 backspace 8 and escape 27 The ThinkJet printer has symbols for these first 32 ASCII characters 6 through 34 which consist of one alphabetic character on top of another This is shown in the Think Jet self test printout THE HP PRINTER CONTROL LANGUAGE PCL It is usually possible to generate any of the characters found in the self test along with many
72. data comunications with an HP Port able or Portable Plus you ve probably found the internal 300 or 1200 baud modem to be too slow Until now the only solution was to buy a bulky external modem and lug it around wher ever you go A better solution is the Worldport 2400 It measures a trim 4 x2 x1 it s rugged it weighs only 6 ounces including the battery and it sends and receives at 300 1200 and 2400 baud 2400 baud portable modem for your HP Portable For example the WorldPort 2400 has auto dial auto answer and both pulse and tone operation It comes with a standard modular phone plug for connecting with the telephone line It offers non volatile storage of up to 20 commands And it is fully compatible with the industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with the HP110 s Terminal software and the Portable Plus s TERM and Reflection software Since a modular plug is not always available the WorldPort 2400 also has a built in interface for an acoustic coupler The coupler an optional extra runs at 300 and 1200 baud The unit is compatible with both the internationally ac The 4 x2 x1 WorldPort 2400 costs less than HP s internal modems is faster and can be used with more than one computer WorldPort 2400 comes with a 2 year manufac turer s warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship The WorldPort 2400 offers portablility relia bility well designed features and ease of u
73. days you are dissatisfied with a ROM Back up product for any reason you may return it for a full refund However we don t think you ll be dissatisfied You ll find these ROMs to be fast reliable and an incredible boost to your productivity Whatever your reason to free up valuable memory space to minimize the need for an external disk drive or for sheer con venience order one or more of our best selling programs on ROM Backup today To order enter products and prices in special ROM Backup section at bottom of order form in back of this issue W ABOUT ROMS A ROM Read Only Memory is a microelectronic chip that stores programs or other data Once information is burned in to a ROM it cannot be altered A different form of ROM called an EPROM can be altered once information is 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 are much higher ROMs also require a much longer lead time to produce than EPROMs Currently EPROMs that can be run on the HP Portables come in 16K 32K and 64K sizes ROMs are 128K We use EPROMs for our 32K and 64K backup chips and ROMs for our 128K packages C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software PUBLISHER S MESSAGE Allow us to introduce new columnist Paul Grimmer author of a number of programs written for the HP Port ables In
74. delivery use of jargon grade level Works with most word processors Also available RightWords dictionary extension utility it has 7 auxiliary dictionaries business computers engineering etc and also lets you add words of your own to RightWriter s built in dictionary seeP2 Software on ROM Many of our best selling programs are available on ROM chips via our ROM Backup service Portable Plus only Saves valuable electronic disk space minimizes need for disk drive Custom ROMs also available See P 27 Shelp From within almost any program Shelp gives you immediate access to a notepad and calculator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros that is assign up to 31 characters to a single keystroke Writ ten exclusively for the Portable Plus seeP 13 SideWinder This program allows you to print your spreadsheets or any other text file sideways on your ThinkJet This means you can print your 60 column by 53 row spreadsheet from your Portable as one long print out without cutting and pasting seep 37 Sketch A graphics program for the HP Portables Lets you draw free form using cursor keys Also draw lines boxes circles by pressing a single key Five character sets can be displayed normally sideways or even upside down Entire screen can be printed on ThinkJet at virtually any enlarge ment Screens can be saved for future use Screens can also be imported into Sketch from Lotus and other programs Only uses 44K
75. disk with each package sold The disk includes The Norton Utilities and instruc tions for running The Norton Utilities on the Portables and the HP150 Both version 4 0 and the Advanced Edition are now available 1987 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk Includes 1 DISKPACK a disk packing utility whose commercial equiv alent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s Calendar Utility 3 HP Calcu lator program 4 C Drive Copy Utility 5 Game and Lotus templates Clear instructions are included right on the disk 1988 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk Contains 1 New utilities for Time Manager including an expanded Calendar program and an automatic mail merge utility 2 Some of the best public domain software and shareware for the HP Portable Vec tra 3 A password program to protect usage of the HP110 Portable 4 TERM xmodem program for the Portable Plus 5 Lotus templates 6 Games 7 New DOS tools 8 A file to toggle HP and Alternate mode from DOS 9 Lots more Clear instructions are included right on the disk Se P 18 Power Cube Powers and recharges up to four HP devices HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held etc from a single wall outlet PrinterTalk and Formatl110 MemoMaker Enhancers PrinterTalk lets you change type styles in the middle of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and much more Formati110 lets you format headers footers and page num
76. e that you set the values in the DataCom menu of PAM prop etly 7 bits and No Parity for CompuServe See Vol 2 Issue 6 Page 10 for a step by step descrip tion for transferring files using TERM on the Plus Note that Term is weak in that it does not have built in file transfer capability such as that of XMODEM but I have a program that allows you to do this from within Term If you want it get on CompuServe and send me a message or a letter and I will send it to you 9 If you use PC2622 or Reflection I will refer to both as Reflection here you are aware that the manual is very complex and confusing The following tips should help 1 Any PAM DataCom settings are ignored and Reflection uses whatever you have specified in the program s menus 2 The Portable Plus performs a whole lot better if you use Reflection in DEC VT102 mode rather than HP mode One of the things you have to tell CompuServe when you first get on the system is what type of machine you have and there is no choice for HP but there is for DEC VT102 This makes the backspace key work correctly among other things See Vol 2 Issue 6 Page 12 for a step by step descrip tion of how to transfer files using Reflection on the Plus To complete that discussion here is how to send a file us 34 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 ing XMODEM When CompuServe prompts you to send the file press 5 Command Line and enter xs myfile myfile pe is the name of your file This is s
77. e 4 Note If you only purchase one Soft Word card we recommend you get the C drive variety rather than the A drive variety There are three reasons for this 1 If you reset your Portable Plus using the Battery Reset button you will lose whatever is in the A drive memory but what s in the C drive memory will be re tained 2 A C drive Card allows you to utilize whatever extra There are many ways to utilize the 8 ROM sockets on a 1 Megabyte RAM ROM card Here s one combination of programs you might find useful RAM drawer memory you may already be using for Reflection Lotus 1 2 3 Turbo Pascal 8 ROM sockets Webster s Spelling Checker MemoMaker Time Manager Available from Personalized Software drawers Any of the SoftWord cards can be installed in either of these two compartments All you do is remove whatever drawer may be in there and replace with a SoftWord card Note We will accept your old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase Please call for current trade in prices Once installed the extra RAM on the SoftWord cards works exactly like ordinary Portable Plus memory only there s lots more of it HOW TO CHOOSE The examples in the box at the far right will help you examine your op tions For most users the ideal con Super ROM your A drive see Example 1 by contrast a 2 Meg abyte RAM A drive Card must be used in place of an exist
78. e any responsbility or liability for the use of information contained herein POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 solved The same question applies for SOS s 9114 Battery Eliminator Neither product is designed to work with non US power supplies Hal 2 Seven Uses for the Portable Plus by Srini Nageshwar The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 5 Although I take my Portable Plus on my business trips throughout Europe and continued on page 40 Erased your files Get them back with The Norton Utilities It happens to the best of us One slip of a finger and a whole week s worth of text or data is past history But not if you have THE NORTON UTILITIES Just type qu for quick unerase give the first letter of the name of the file you erased and the file gets restored Miraculous as it sounds in many cases that s all there is to it How can a deleted file get unerased Version 4 0 and Advanced Edition 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
79. e make payment either by Master Card or VISA or by an International Money Order or check drawn off a U S bank 69 95 299 00 99 00 339 319 005 Webster s Spelling Checker back cover 79 95 WordPerfect Specify Plus or HP150 p 29 495 00 The Word Plus Recommended for HP110 150 00 WorldPort 2400 Portable Modem p 27 389 359 005 SHIPPING AND HANDLING Portable Paper subscriptions ROM Backup Product Description For ordering instructions see page 43 Subscription prices include U S postage Se ee N amounts for each subscription year Mexico SY J tir rsa Sr ter i nn nS NO Ts SE tries 6 surface 18 air z l i 7 Es All other products important Please read and initial Subtotal De ates already own or am ordering the disk based versions of the programs i i ae cre te Ae FREE SHIPPINGFORUS included in my ROM Backup order If not purchased from Personalized lowa residents add 4 tax ORDERS OVER 200 Outside North America Software have enclosed proof of purchase N Shipping and handling see box at right Ada 3 surface mail 10 airmail We bill or Initials TOTAL Pe ed charge non U S orders for the actual postage if it exceeds these amounts m A GE SEWN GO SE ER SE a EEN SNYE ASN MTD TS IA RY ST NI SR a Gs cc Ga Gs se ee ee ee ee ed eS es ese see MD ee ee eee ee ee es es ee ese ee ees ee e ee TE ES TO Se ed Ge ee eee ee ed te en ee ee es ee eee ee GLT e NEW Ja
80. e numbers from normal position back to superscript The main problem is moving the files from the HP disks to the Macintosh The problem may be solved soon as Apple is reported to be developing a ROM to make its 3 5 drives able to read and write to IBM diskettes and HP is supposed to be making its drives able to format IBM disk ettes Until then you can use a null modem described in The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 6 p 8 or an external drive like the DaynaFile to do the transfers 4 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 Here are some other questions which occurred to me concerning new products which may be of interest to other Portable users Has anybody tried one of those new Lotus 1 2 3 compilers such as the Liberty compiler from SoftLogic solu tions to determine compatibility What about MousePerfect Executive Word Perfect also seems to have possibilities as a traveling word processor On the subject of modems I would find it very valuable to have a chart com paring the various features of the HP in ternal modem the WorldPort 1200 and 2400 etc I imagine that this chart would be accompanied by an explanation of the importance of the various features such as CRC CCITT synchronous synchro nous full half duplex etc Notes on a few other products PC Tools is an extensive collection of UNIX utilities Everything worked fine on my Plus and they say it has been tested on the HP 150 This package is like a giant erector set I
81. e 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 on 3 1 2 disk for users unreadable by DOS of the HP110 Portable gt iss Portable Plus and HP150 All it takes is a few keystrokes to customize THE NORTON UTILITIES to your machine just follow the simple customization instructions included on the disk Also included in our package are the standard 5 1 4 disk sold by Peter Norton for IBM PCs THE NORTON UTILITIES are a time saver for you and a life saver for your data Use them just once and you ll wonder how you ever did without them Order your copy at no risk today NORTON UTILITIES DATA RECOVERY DISK MANAGEMENT THE NORTON UTILITIES 4 0 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers THE NORTON UTILITIES ADVANCED EDITION includes version 4 0 150 129 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Pers
82. e spelling of any other word at any time WEBSTER S also lets you mark in your text any spelling corrections that change length of a word this lets you quickly locate portions of text that may need refor matting WEBSTER S will automatically locate double repetitions like and and It can correct transpositions itme becomes item missing apostrophes dont becomes don t and typos of all kinds spellling becomes spelling etc If you re not sure of a word you can even spell it the way sounds and chances are WEBSTER S will supply the correct spelling Fenomenon gets corrected to phenomenon for example In addition WEBSTER S will let you preview a list of all questionable words before displaying them in context this saves you time because it lets you eliminate words from the questionable list or add them to your auxiliary dictionary before you begin the editing pass John Dvorak writing in the San Fran cisco Examiner called WEBSTER S the BULK RATE U S POSTAGE PAID FAIRFIELD IA PERMIT 218 best spell checker we ve seen in a long spell Henry Kisor of the Chicago Sun Times has called WEBSTER S the best proofreading software on the market We agree with them both and we think you will too Order your copy at no risk today Webster s Spelling Checker on 312 disk customized for the
83. e to call a com puter program comfortable but that s the best way we ve found to describe T Master And the other part is true also T Master may be the only program you ll ever need That s because T Master has with in it virtually every business appli cation you can think of including word processor spelling checker file manager spreadsheet database manager numerical scratchpad graph making data communica tions desktop publishing and even more There are of course other in tegrated programs on the market that combine a number of applica tions in one T Master however is the only integrated program that runs on an HP Portable In terms of capabilities T Master also happens to be one of the best But that isn t what makes it so special You see T Master isn t just a very good program It is an entirely unique program It s one you simp ly must get your hands on before you can appreciate its incredible richness and elegance and the sheer thoughtfulness that went into its creation THE HEART OF THE SYSTEM As with most integrated pro grams T Master lets you share data between applications for example you Can insert a spreadsheet into a report you re typing or can take in formation from a database and move it into a spreadsheet all without leaving the program However with most other in tegrated programs you have to exit the module you re in e g word pro
84. e you ve used it At your option it will display each occurrence or replace the occurrences either selectively or globally Edit two files at once THE EDITOR will display two separate portions of text at the same time one above the other You can view and edit two parts of the same file or even two different files simultaneously Backspace delete You can erase the last character with a single keystroke No limit on file size If you re an HP110 Portable user you re no longer confined by MemoMaker s 819 Line limit You can have as large a file as internal memory allows File merge You can merge two or more files to gether with ease Compressed and expanded You re no longer restricted to bold and underline You can imbed control charac ters in your text to tell your printer to print all or part of your text compressed expanded bold underlined or whatever else your printer can handle Unlimited line length Your files are no longer limited to 80 characters per line This means for ex ample you can print 132 character lines on your ThinkJet printer in compressed mode Lines per page You can specify the number of lines per page using the control codes required by your printer Easy in easy out You can exit from THE EDITOR run another program then type a one word command and be back in THE EDITOR in a flash exactly where you left off This includes exiting and returning from DOS
85. easonable profit That way we can stay in business and everybody wins And despite the high IQ of our au dience to most people 99 95 sounds a little more agreeable than 100 As you point out we do not make strict calculations to determine the price of a product but try to find a 95 price Often that works in the customer s favor as we shave a few more dollars to make the price cutoff Basically you are right we make guesses as to how much the buyer will tolerate The more we guess right the more motivated we will be to serve you with new products and services for your HP Portable Hal Converting Portable Plus MS Word 1 1 To MAC MS Word I am writing to report success with con version of a Portable Plus 1 1 MS Word file to Macintosh format Because the large complex document I was writing on my Plus required split footnotes it became necessary to transfer my file to an IBM PC with MS Word version 3 11 which sup posedly supports split footnotes version 3 01 does not After several problems with the IBM style sheet not transferring printer not printing a consultant suggested moving the file over to the Macintosh version of MS Word To accomplish this we copied the file to the Macintosh using a Dayna FT100 converter and then used the MS Word 3 01 conversion utility to transform the file into Macintosh form The whole operation worked almost flawlessly and all I had to do was change some of the footnot
86. ect It s the best selling word processor for the IBM PC According to many reviewers it s the best word processor on the market WordPerfect is a word processing power house Its advanced features include crea tion of text in columns automatic footnote formatting and numbering mail merging and text sorting Now there are versions of WordPerfect for the HP Portable Plus and the HP150 touchscreen In either case it s the full blown Version 4 2 complete with compre hensive thesaurus and 115 000 word spell ing checker Not only can you use WordPerfect on your HP computer but if you already have Word Perfect Wobr pesing avare Version 4 Perfect for your PC you now can transfer files back and forth between your PC and your Portable Plus or HP150 The same Note to Portable Plus users As always you have to plan memory space in the Portable Plus You ll need 512K of RAM to allow space for the basic WordPerfect program and still leave room for other files on your electronic disk To fit Note to HP150 users By special arrangement with WordPerfect Corporation our version of WordPerfect includes the standard 54 disk plus our supplementary double sided 3 disk that customizes the program for HP150 users RECOMMENDED FO WordPerfect features and commands work on all three machines The function key layout is different on the HP machines but this is a simple matter for most PC users to adjust to
87. ectra HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus ES 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 Tbols 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 Now TO ORDER Copyright 1987 Personalized Software available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 129 See ROM Backup Z h iia fi 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details in this issue THE PORTABLE PAPER A SIMPLER THINKJET LANGUAGE The ThinkJet understands tw
88. ed in Vol 2 No 5 were written to exploit the ThinkJet s capabilities In this article we will see how users of the most com mon applications word processing and spreadsheets can better use the ThinkJet For example we will see how to make the ThinkJet change type fonts within a document or spreadsheet and how to change the number of lines per inch To gain this knowledge we will be forced to dig deep into the way the Portables and the ThinkJet communicate This means learning about ASCII codes and escape sequences Printer Control Language PCL For the uninitiated this material may seem formidable but it s worth studying and understanding if you want to enhance your computer skills In this article first we show some of ThinkJet s capabilities by reviewing the ThinkJet self test Then we define and give examples of the ASCII encoding sequence which translates to numbers the characters that the com puter and printer can generate At that point we can understand a lot about the Thinkjet s Printer Control Language PCL We examine how PAM Lotus and your word processor talk to the ThinkJet in PCL We discuss a simpler alternative Printer Control Language that Think Jet understands Finally we list the words commands of the two Printer Control Languages THE THINKJET SELF TEST For starters turn off your printer hold down the Think Jet s line feed lf button and turn on the printer Now let go of the line fee
89. eed up execution of dBXL programs should also work on the Plus We ll report the results as soon as we know anything THE PORTABLE PAPER CompuServe Get started on CompuServe with CompuServe Starter Kit Kit in cludes 25 free time Complete hardcover Users Guide Subscriber discount 35 95 Normally 39 95 Permanent user ID number and preliminary password CompuServe s monthly maga zine Online Today Regularly 39 95 minus 10 Portable Paper discount On the Portable Vectra front I looked at IBM PC com patible software that might appeal to portable users However I spent most of my time searching for vendors willing to customize or manufacture boards that would fill in the Portable Vectra adapter slots I learned about the SCSI interface pronounced scuz zy SCSI cards are built into the Apple MAC II and are available for IBM PS 2 Once a SCSI card is designed for the Portable Vectra SCSI devices hard disks tape backups modems and so forth can be daisy chained to the SCSI card That means a SCSI hard disk could be connected to a SCSI card installed into the Portable Vectra A SCSI tape backup system could then be connected to the hard disk and a SCSI 5 1 4 floppy drive could be connected to the tape backup system An additional power supply might be required to make the peripherals work I spent quite a bit of time around the HP booth There were always large crowds around the t
90. en you may receive the disk To receive this software send us 7 50 that includes shipping and handling or a self addressed stamped envelope with a formatted 3 1 2 double sided disk and we ll put the software on it If we promised you the disk for free for example because you renewed early and you haven t received the disk by the first of February give us a call or drop us a line and we ll send it to you at no charge Highlights include a format program that allows HP110 and Portable Plus HP9114 users to format 3 1 2 disks in IBM format an excellent file organizer for the Portable Vectra Lotus templates a new Time Manager utili ty a Plus MemoMaker patch instituting a destructive back space key and much more There will probably be several additional Vectra only utilities that will be added Thanks go to the authors of the format program from HP Cor vallis whom we trust will be sending us the program as promised Please understand however that since the programs included on the 1988 subscriber s disk are public domain and since they are being distributed solely as a service to subscribers of The Portable Paper they are provided as is without promise of any further support Personalized Software has neither the intention nor the resources to provide any technical support for these programs In order to squeeze as much as possible on a double sided 3 1 2 disk files have been compressed and ar chived
91. end of the list and I can see at a glance 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 example to make erasable files unerasable or vice versa and the fs command which tells you the total file size of a group of files I often use it to find out the total disk space occupied by my Lotus worksheet WKS files or by all my text files from a given project Because of their great helpfulness and ease of use THE NORTON gt ie aaa UTILITIES are already We recommend Version 4 0 a best seller in the IBM oe rc tdi Advanced Edition of THE gt ket l A TiC PC market Personal NORTON UTILITIES for users ized Software is author _ who might need to retrieve t blocks of text from disks that ized to distribute them have become corrupted which ones to move elsewhere to free up any needed amount of disk space 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
92. er have also created two companion utilities that work only on The HP Portables SideChar lets you create your own sideways characters ta Git F te Pris t totes 8 te Sue as 6h Bee ei RESNRNANSENRRARE EREE CN falelelelolslalaisislht i LI i Simply fill in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs whatever sideways characters you wish Sketch amp Print lets you make line drawings on your screen using the cursor and function keys It s a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a child Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the screen 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder K For a complete graphics software program see ad for Sketch inthis issue n Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 105 rows for QuietJet Printer di09 JUaUIdo anaq SNIOT jo syseWapeN pasajsiBar Ae 7 pue snog Copyright 1987 Personalized Software does not support the POP CS opcode but uses it for a new class of instructions not found in the 8086 family Experi mentation has shown that a HP110 with a V30 will crash whenev
93. er case Note ese stands for the character ASCII 27 generated by the escape key No space separates the ese character and the amp Your ThinkJet manual calls these PCL commands escape sequences and lists them in appendices A and J For easy reference we ve also included a list of these PCL escape sequences at the end of this article CONTROLLING THE THINKJET FROM MEMOMAKER AND THE EDITOR Now how can we speak to the ThinkJet from within an JANUARY FEBRUARY 988 15 THE PORTABLE PAPER application Suppose we are editing a MemoMaker file and we want to print a paragraph in the middle of our document in compressed mode How do we inform the ThinkJet The answer is to insert in the MemoMaker docu ment ese amp k2S PCL for print in compressed mode at the start of the paragraph and ese amp k S PCL for print using the normal ThinkJet typeface at the end of the paragraph When we send the document to the printer from MemoMaker the ThinkJet will recognize the PCL commands and print the paragraph we have marked in compressed mode Portable Plus MemoMaker users may insert the ese character in their MemoMaker document by simply press ing the ese key The invisible escape character is repre sented on the MemoMaker screen as in inverse video HP110 MemoMaker users are completely out of luck It is impossible to place an escape character in a MemoMaker document an oversight by the HP designer One
94. er the serial port or the modem is accessed This is most unfortunate I have put in some effort to locate all the undocumented POP CS instructions in the OS code but have not come up with a scheme to replace them yet Until then it is not possible to extract higher perfor mance from the HP110 other than expanding its memory Of course the Portable Plus does not suffer from this limitation USE PROPER TOOLS AND THE PLUS SERVICE MANUAL The following is an outline of how to speed up the Port able Plus Even though the modifications are quite simple they should not be attempted by those who lack confi dence in handling IC s and soldering tools By all means JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 13 THE PORTABLE PAPER screwdriver X acto knife Wire stripper IC extractor 28 or 30 gauge insulated wire wrap wire The Portable Plus service manual part 45711 90025 contains schematics and component locator diagrams to help find IC s on the main circuit board It also contains detailed disassembly and re assembly instructions which should be strictly followed to avoid damaging the machine The service manual is also an excellent technical reference since it contains a chapter on functional Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See ROM Backup ad in this issue 5 fo aper 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover
95. following chart takes the RAM ROM vs mechanical disk drive approach to portable computing given the state of today s technology and costs The second section compares the Portable Plus to the Port able Vectra in particular The differences in the second sec tion reflect design decisions rather than characteristics inherent in RAM ROM or mechanical disk drive machines Characteristic Electronic Mechanical Disk Drives Disk Drives Ruggedness 0 e0000 MOM is ee aeeedia eis Less 1 0 Save Retrieve Faster i662 eeweniees Slower Weight cata senate See eoawa Lighter Heavier Run off battery 00 LONGER hice Shetek e Shorter Backup acco isda Se hea eee Harder oie cient saws Easier Storage capacity LOSSa4 san aaa More COS erie hnn eee thee eet More amp 5 5666 oad ees Less Self containment Short trips w 50 6s ec aes oe MONG ces beeline Less LONG TDS Sete ce Ble ie es LOSS i ics aes nes More Portable Plus Vs Portable Vectra Keyboard 22 eee Inferior Superior SCIOON seagawres we eee dee eee Smaller Larger IBM Compatibility SOME ns s co wands wees Complete Expandability 2 RAM or ROM 4 Adapter slots drawers CPU ek ee ch eee nomian a Slower ies eae eee es Faster Internal memory 512K Max eos eal a eas 4 Meg with EMS WordPerfect customized for the Portable Plus and HP150 WordPerf
96. he HP Portables Enter data sort search manage files and print address labels with ease Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and Portable Vectra It allows limited report writing and is highly memory efficient Condor 3 runs on the Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 It is a fully relational system allowing you to combine data from two or more files It includes advanced report generating capabilities data transfer to and from Lotus 1 2 3 and other applications and much more Disk Conversion Service We will convert your data to and from single sided double sided high density 3 inch and 5 inch formats at a reasonable cost seeP 17 DOS Tools Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 Well over 50 excellent public domain programs that enhance DOS all tested on The Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clarity and ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents SeeP9 Duette A software program that lets you transfer files back and forth at high speed between your HP portable computer and an IBM PC or compati ble desktop computer without the need for an HP IL card Duette 2 0 is for the HP Portable Vectra HPDuette is for the Portable Plus Each version comes with proper serial cable seP 25 The Editor The Formatter separate packages The Editor Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace editing 2 files at once embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right jus
97. here is no other application I know of that matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master seeP 33 Borland Turbo Pascal Customized For The Portables Turbo Pascal the HP Portable programming language of choice outstrips others in price performance compatibility memory con sumption and programmer environment The WordStar type editor alone is worth the price Borland has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra disk customizing the Turbo editor to the HP110 and Portable Plus s editing keys The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Pascal Tutor 2 0 and Portable Pascal Pro grams a double sided disk with more than 50 program examples for the Portables Also available Turbo Toolbox includes Pascal sort and search routines that create database file management system Seer 14 Typing Whiz Better than almost any typing tutor program on the market designed specifically for The Portables and the HP150 Immediate numeric and graphic feedback of your progress Inside front cover Used HP Portable Equipment The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Soft ware buys and sells used HP Portables Portable Pluses HP9114s HP ROMs and RAM drawers for the Portable Plus Because of HP quality used HP products are a great buy 30 day return policy on all used equipment we sell seP1 Volume Discounts Corporate buyers users groups and HP dealers Order products and su
98. his first column he talks in detail about the HP forum on CompuServe a service of which all HP Portable users should take advantage Finally we welcome new HP Portable Vectra sub scribers We look forward to providing you with a forum that increases the usefulness of your new machine while at the same time we strive to improve and expand our serv ice to HP110 and Portable Plus users Welcome to our third year of publishing The Portable Paper This issue portends an interesting year for HP Port able computing It contains descriptions of future prod ucts for the Portable Vectra and outlines one possible hardware upgrade for the Portable Plus We will watch to see this year how the Portable Vectra and HP110 Portable Plus fam ilies of HP portable compu ters evolve In doing so we will be observing how the portable computing industry as a whole evolves In this issue we compare the two ap proaches to portable computing represented by these two HP families In an effort to consolidate its marketing R amp D and manufacturing the home of HP portable technology is moving from Corvallis Oregon to Sunnyvale and Roseville California In future issues of The Portable Paper we will chronicle this move and discuss its effects on HP Portable users Hal Goldstein Concerns About Prices Discrepancies In The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 4 p 40 you have a format c z i4 statement which won t work for me I have
99. horthand for XSEND which tells Reflection to transmit the file using XMODEM The xr command lets you receive a file 10 Here is a technique that users of CompuServe can utilize to minimize connect charges Once you get started and start paying CompuServe bills you will appreciate this trick One of the most informative things to do is to read the messages that other users leave in a particular forum This can get fairly expensive if you take the time to read them while on line By taking the steps listed below you can log the messages quickly into a file on your Portable Edisc or Vectra floppy disk and then use a word processor such as MemoMaker or The Editor to read edit print what you want to keep Log on to CompuServe Go to your desired forum and from the main menu enter OP to go to the menu that allows you to change your options Enter SM to get the prompt to change the Stop After Messages setting You can then enter N for Never so that when each message comes on the screen the system will go right to the next one without stopping After pressing Return at the prompt you will be asked if you want to make the change permanent i e affect all future sessions or just this one session After this you will be returned to the main menu for your forum Now set up your Portable so that data which appears on the screen can be captured to a file see above points Now you are ready to capture all incoming data to you
100. ing Lotus delete any blank lines Your cursor should be in cel Al with the first line of text Set the width of column A to 1 Worksheet Column Set With the cursor in Al select Range Justify and Return Each word is now allocated to a separate row and the number of the last row containing text is also the number of words the document contains Sorting the list places similar words together and allows you to scan for misspellings and redundancy By keeping the original copy of the justified list misspellings in the original text file can be located with Query Find I have found this procedure useful since MemoMaker does not have a search and replace command JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 21 inside Add Megabytes of RAM and ROM your Portable Plus Leave that bulky disk drive in your closet Now your 9 pound Portable Plus is all you ll ever need to run your programs and access your files With the advent of the Portable Plus Hewlett Packard solved almost every problem of computer portability The machine is rugged weighs only 9 pounds stores software on ROM chips and has non volatile memory But as every user knows the Plus has one major drawback limited memory space Until now if you need ed even a modest amount of space for data files and application pro grams you were forced to carry an external disk drive wherever you went Now all that is changed Be cause now you can boost your Portable P
101. ing RAM drawer 3 With a C drive Card in your system you have in effect two built in disk drives the A drive and the C drive that s on the card By stor ing copies of critical data and programs on both drives you protect yourself against disaster if your A drive becomes corrupted which as you may know can happen WHOLE NEW MACHINE The minute you install your new SoftWord card s your Portable Plus becomes an entirely new machine You ll be able to run large applications like WordPerfect or RightWriter or even an entire integrated package like T Master and still have plenty of room left over to manipulate large There is one potential drawback to using a C drive Card You cannot directly back up your C drive to an IBM PC or HP150 that has an HP IL in terface card if the PC or 150 has a hard disk of more than 10 megabytes In such cases you can back up your C drive to an external disk drive or to your A drive and then copy your files to the PC or 150 from there data files all without the need for an external disk drive In addition you ll enjoy the faster access time that comes with RAM stor age and the convenience of not hav ing to hassle with disks all the time You should of course continue to use disks to back up your files occasion ally as a safety measure So don t bury your disk drive too far back in your closet DOUBLE GUARANTEE SoftWord s RAM cards are manuf
102. its competitors while still retaining several desirable features such as expandable RAM and ROM long battery life and non volatile memory Owners of the Portable Plus can also enjoy the fact that their machines can run faster than HP s new Portable Vec tra CS PC at least until we find out how to speed THAT machine up If you are a Portable Plus owner and would like to upgrade your machine contact us If there is a demand we will look into doing the upgrade for users probably in the 200 to 400 price range Hal ES THE PORTABLE PAPER 0 undations By Hal Goldstein The Foundations column contains material that we feel every Portable user should know We assume the reader is a novice computer user however readers novice through expert should find at least some of the material covered here useful If you would like to write articles for this column or want us cover some topic in this space please contact us Getting More Out Of The ThinkJet Most users really like the ThinkJet It is lightweight fast quiet and produces relatively good print quality However most users do not take full advantage of the type font type style and graphics capability of the ThinkJet Primarily this is because most software programs which run on the HP Portables do not directly tap the ThinkJet s potential Note that the graphics product SKETCH reviewed in The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 4 and HPrint review
103. l F decision is always left to you RightWriter is a trademark of DecisionWare Inc WordStar is a trademark of MicroPro International Corporation MultiMate is a trademark of MultiMate International MS Word is a trademark of Microsoft Corperation WordPerfect isa trademark of WordPerfect il acl Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date P ae Pers onalized Softw P O Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 516 472 6330 look of gentle reproof suggested that we know who that somebody might be don t we But I assured him that Iam not in the habit of stomping on the keyboard even in the Sa depths of writer s block though I will confess my touch on the keys is not as light as say that of someone who knows how to type And then there were the chips that were loose in their sockets he said We don t see much of that unless the machine is turned upside down and slammed against something Well there was the time I admit that Hewpie and I were in a sort of minor automobile accident during which the car rolled four or five times on its way to becoming foil but it is not true that I kicked Hewpie in disgust when I saw that he was getting off scot free while I had a few broken ribs I was tempted yes but distracted by a broken shoulder blade Td say Erickson concluded that this machine has seen a few miles Well yeah And not
104. le which contains the descriptions of the files in the data libraries If you are using recommendation 1 above you can merely go to the data library and read that file and the descriptions of each file will go into your file in your portable This is much quicker than listing and reading the little description of each file in the library 5 Do not be afraid to ask questions even if it sounds dumb We all have probably asked the same question and the forum members are really nice about not being conde scending in their responses Also it is one of the major responsibilities of the sysops to help new users get going so you should not feel guilty about making them earn their keep I know the Sysops read The Portable Paper so I am sure one of them will probably have some cute remarks on the forum about some of the dumb things I have asked Oh well 6 CompuServe accepts upper and lowercase charac ters Please do not use all uppercase since this is usually reserved FOR SHOUTING 7 If you use the Portable s Terminal program you should set the following in the Terminal Config menu f5 on the main screen Handshake None EOL Sequence CR Parity None Parity Check Off Data Bits 7 and Echo Off For a detailed step by step explanation of using the HP110 terminal program with CompuServe see Vol 1 Issue 1 Page 4 Vol 1 Issue 4 Page 5 and Vol 2 issue 2 page 11 8 If you use the Term program on the Plus make sur
105. le Paper will be glad to know that a Cleveland based computer bulletin board has installed a section for HP Portable users only With financial help from Personalized Software publishers of The Portable Paper the forum will operated by Sergio Biguzzi of New York a steady contributor to The Portable Paper and by this writer There are no fees for use of the board The board operates 24 hours a day and may be accessed through either of two telephone numbers depending upon the baud rate you are using These numbers are 300 or 1200 baud 216 942 6382 1200 or 2400 baud 216 942 7516 WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED WITH THE BOARD The primary purpose of the board will be to provide a means for Portable users to lend support to each other The board should also be a field for continuous search and testing of software that will operate on the Portable Plus and 110 especially public domain programs It will pro vide bulletins of interest to Portable owners and will offer a file system that permits the uploading and downloading of public domain software We expect that the forum will be geared to the novice as well as the expert and hope that in its way it will be in the absence of a Portable user group in your area your na tional user group The forum is part of a BBS called the Cleveland HAMNET a national bulletin board serving amateur radio operators Several of the HAMNET users including its SYSOP David Speltz are Portable owners Pigg
106. le menus and easy to understand help screens are available at all times For true convenience in file transfer to and from your Portable Plus or Portable Vectra order Duette today Duette 2 0 with cable for Portable Vectra 59 95 56 95 for Portable Paper subscribers HPDuette with cable for Portable Plus 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers it transfers files both ways between your HP Portable and your desktop computer without an HP IL card due f f Cv comes with a Serial cable and two disks you load one disk into your portable computer and the other into the desktop There are two models to choose from Duette Version 2 0 is for the HP Portable Vectra It trans fers data at 115 200 baud as well as at lower baud rates To use Duette 2 0 you ll need to install an HP serial adapt er card available from Hewlett Packard in your Portable Vectra You connect this card to the serial port on your desktop computer using the serial cable that comes with the program HPDuette is for the Portable Plus It transfers data at 57 600 patible desktop Duette 2 0 Duette performs complete error checking i j PDuette during the transfer process to ensure data RECOMMENDED FOR integrity It handles multiple file transfers subdirectory transfers and DOS wild card Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC and compat Duette and HPDuette are registered trademarks of Platte River Associates Inc You may
107. lus s memory by as much as 4 megabytes How Simply by installing special 1 or 2 megabyte RAM cards in the bottom of your Portable Plus MEGABYTES PER CARD The RAM cards have been developed by SoftWord of Sur rey England As SoftWord s exclusive U S distributor Per sonalized Software is currently offering two kinds of cards e2 Megabyte RAM Cards e Megabyte RAM ROM Cards containing 1 megabyte of RAM and 8 sockets for ROM chips Each ROM socket can hold up to 128K of data or software on ROM A DRIVE AND C DRIVE Each kind of SoftWord card comes in two different varieties A drive and C drive The difference lies in how the RAM memory on the card is used in your system RAM that s on an A drive Card be comes part of your Portable Plus s main Edisk memory the internal memory you partition using the P A M System config menu RAM that s ona C drive Card doesn t affect your Plus s main Edisk memory instead it func tions as electronic disk storage just as though it were an external disk drive Usually it will be the C drive but if you have an HP9114 plugged into your system the memory card becomes the D drive EASY TO INSTALL AND USE At the bottom of your Portable Plus there are two compartments designed to hold HP s RAM and ROM expansion AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO USE a 1 Megabyte RAM 8 Socket ROM Card figuration will either be the one in Example 2 or Exampl
108. ly create a spreadsheet with all the computational power you need right where you are Same for a database Using vir tually the same commands as for typing ordinary text you can set up the structure of the database enter data sort search generate a report and insert that report into your document And that s why T Master is so comfortable You always interact with it in the same mode which is basically just to type And what you type is ordinary text or numbers or simple English like instructions With T Master you re always on familiar territory SPECIAL FEATURES Here are just a few of T Master s most special features The word processor includes over 100 different functions You ac tivate these either from menus or by means of simple typed commands On line help is available at all times Highly suitable for desktop publishing T Master s word pro cessor handles text in columns and lets you view reduced size layouts of entire pages The spreadsheet is different from any other With most spreadsheets the T Master lt RECOMMENDED FOR APOPonabe ce a re Pe Portable Vectra HP 150 IBM PC and compat T Maker columns are of a fixed predeter mined width and the formulas for calculating each cell can only be viewed one cell at a time With T Master you specify the column widths and locations and you type the formulas at
109. ly need portability RAM ROM machines are the way to go Mechanical disk drive based portables can never match the light weight ruggedness and long battery life of RAM ROM machines Hopefully HP will take the best of the two technologies to produce an IBM Compatible RAM ROM computer with detachable mechanical disk drives My strong hope is that HP will not throw away its leadership role in the Portable industry by abandoning its ROM and RAM disk based technology Whether or not HP Stays in this RAM ROM arena you can be sure that even tually other Portable manufacturers will pick up the idea and produce IBM PC compatible RAM and ROM based machines It is just too good of an approach to Portable computing not to catch on in the general marketplace The disk includes a special utility that allows WordPerfect to run on the 150 If your HP150 requires single sided disks and also has a hard disk drive a version of WordPerfect may soon be available that will run on your machine Please contact us for up to date information HP110 Portable Portable Plus R Portable Vectra o o Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to HP150 Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 IBM PC and compat Copyright 1987 Personalized Software RIMMER C S __ Portable Tales CompuServe A Boon to HP Portable Users
110. mat Modular Design For a user who takes extended trips travelling light while in the field is important to the successful operation of the HP110 Portable owners can trim SpellBinder down to the core system leaving the more powerful features i e for matted printing two column print in the office since most of the powerful formatting features are implemented in Spellbinder macros and included in separate files It isn t necessary to carry the macros on the Edisc unless you actually need them Macros are written in SpellBinder s command language They can be modified by the user and come standard with the system The macro features allow a user to configure Spell binder for just about any kind of operation It is a bit technical and not for the fainthearted An optional Technical Reference Manual is available from Lexisoft Inc for 60 to help you get under the hood to tune SpellBinder to suit your particular needs A Wealth of Handy Features SpellBinder offers many specialized office management features Standard macro files include sorting batch print ing mailmerge boiler plate forms two column printing columnar addition four function calculator and line numbering A dictionary and grammar checker identify spelling grammar and compositional errors SpellBinder supports the HP LaserJet including true proportional spacing absolute tabs user defined printer tables and multiple font capability
111. more work The Portables can only talk to hard disks formatted with DOS 2 11 or LESS That means that moving a disk from your Touchscreen II with DOS rev 3 2 to the port ables won t work if the Touchscreen formatted the disk you won t be able to read the directory So you still need to talk to hard disks Use the 82169A HPIL to HPIB converter This black box requires power and is not portable but neither are the hard disks The converter must be serial 2406Axxxxx or higher unless it has already been upgraded Plug in the converter set the Portable System Config f6 to external disk or as many as you have set the HPIB address on the disk to any value 0 to 7 that is different from any other disk or HPIB device on the circuit and bingo instant mass storage When you perform a dir c on the new disk it will tell you it is not a DOS disk unless of course it is so you must format it Type FORMAT C and away it goes but wait Was there any useful data on that disk you just erased Too bad Always back up files before formatting a hard disk You can mix HPIL disks and the HPIB hard disk on the 6 loop You can also use the same HPIB converter to run plotters and or printers Printers must be the simple protocol 2631 or 293x models 256x printers won t work unless they have a dumb mode letters continued from page 4 the Middle East Europe is still in the Mid dle Ages as far as telecommunication is conce
112. n Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe ID is 73277 1064 110 continued from page 5 it will be able to read write and format HP9114 3 1 2 diskettes in IBM 720KB format A utility able to run on the HP110 and Portable Plus and designed to format 3 1 2 disks in IBM format on the HP9114 disk drive will probably be included on the 1988 The Portable Paper subscriber s disk Turbo Pascal 3 0 No Longer Offered By Borland Turbo Pascal 3 0 will no longer be offered by Borland In ternational The HP150 version of Turbo Pascal 3 0 which works so nicely on both the HP110 and Portable Plus when _ _ modified with our Personalized Software supplemental disk will no longer be available after we sell our inventory We purchased 75 Turbo Pascal 3 0 s and 50 Turbo Tutors prior to the announcement Unless we can work out an ar rangement with Borland they are not very eager no more Turbo Pascals or Turbo Tutors for the Portables will be available It is still undetermined whether or how much of Turbo 4 0 will run on The Portable Plus Comdex 1987 For the second year in a row my wife Rita and I attended the Comdex conference in Las Vegas Comdex is THE microcomputer show of the year almost 100 000 at tendees visit nearly 2000 exhibits in 5 hotels and the Las Vegas Conference Center It took us four full days to traverse all the exhibits I think of Comdex as a huge living computer magazine Comdex conferences
113. n of both HP portable families depends on existing sales and market demands The other purpose of our trip to Las Vegas was to ex plore means of desktop publishing The Portable Paper When we do start publishing The Portable Paper our selves without the direct involvement of a typesetter and graphic designer we will keep you informed about what hardware and software we used to create our publication Naturally we will try to integrate HP Portables into the process Finally at the HP booth we bumped into Ron Herman who heads Blue Chip Computer of Los Angeles He told us that one of his customers is comedian and film actor Steve Martin a big HP Portable Plus user A number of you wrote in to tell us that a Portable Plus system ap peared in Steve Martin s movie Roxanne Ron told us that in fact Steve Martin wrote the script for Roxanne on a Portable Plus HP Hard Disks For The Original Portables By Bill Hassle Need more storage for your HP110 or Portable Plus Do you have some spare change or disks All Portables sup port CS80 and SS80 disks SS80 disks are 9133H or newer CS80 are 791x 793x and 794x Yes you can hook a 7937 to your portable However due to the way the directory is formatted 16 megabytes is the maximum you can get Other gotchas 9133 9134 9135 disks prior to the 9133H i e 9133A 9133XV etc are Amigo protocol and not CS80 but don t worry They too can be accom modated but with a little
114. n the HP150 using the PC emulator WordTech dBXIL s publisher also puts out a dBASE III compiler known as QuickSilver which reportedly runs on the Plus We received review copies a day prior to our editorial deadline The initial results were a bit disappointing but we are not yet out of luck The install program assumes your A drive is a floppy and makes it impossible to install on the Plus We will be talking to WordTech about a workaround The other problem is the program requires lots of disk space 512K internal memory and 512K for programs Hopefully well have better news next issue Backing Up Plus The blessing of 1 and 2 Megabyte RAM disks has created a problem Has anyone come up with a satisfactory way of backing up these larger RAM disks onto a 700K 3 5 flop py Many readers have inquired Speeding Up The Portable Plus By Sam Chau 1200 Murchison Dr Millbrae CA 94030 415 692 8710 In this article Sam Chau outlines a method for speeding up the Portable Plus processing speed by switching CPU s Unless you really know what you are doing don t even think of doing this upgrade yourself Once you physically alter your machine all HP warranties are VOID Furthermore HP is under no obligation to repair your machine even if something totally unrelated to the modification eventually occurs Hal Now that HP has announced the Portable Vectra CS PC you might assume that it will be the fastest portable HP has in
115. nce 384 RAM Card Y2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 800 Upgrade to 1 Megabyte 500 1 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 1200 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 1800 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card or C drive Card UK residents please add Value Added Tax at the ap plicable rate SoftWord Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey GU20 6BW England Telephone National Bagshot 0276 75440 International 44276 75440 Adding Megabytes With Memory Expansion Cards Here are some ways you can use SoftWord s A drive Cards and C drive Cards to expand the capacity of your Portable Plus Note 1 megabyte 1024K Portable Plus rear view Portable Plus s built in memory Compartments at bottom of Portable Plus EXAMPLE 1 1 64 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 256K of built in memory and 384K of extra memory purchased from HP Gives you 640K of main Edisk memory 8 ROM sockets and an additional 1mb of C drive storage Main memory drive we c drive 8 ROM sockets 384K b in RAM drawer 640K main Edisk memory 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card EXAMPLE 2 2 1 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card and 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 128K of built in memory Recommended for users who may need more than 8 sockets filled with software on ROM
116. ng 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 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 the programs them 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 Displays and restores range names for Lotus worksheet ROMAN8 WKS Provides ability to enter any Roman68 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 Spa
117. ng in an auto head parking feature With this feature the head is automatically parked in the neutral zone of the hard disk after five seconds have passed since the last hard disk access The head is also automatically parked when the machine is turned off This improves data reliability and integrity on the hard disk drive HP also announced that it is shipping its 2400 Baud internal modem for both versions of the Portable Vectra The 2400 bps modem can operate in either synchronous or asynchronous modes and provides Bell 103 212A CCITT V 22 and V 22 bis compatibility This fully Hayes compatible modem supports the Hayes Synchronous In terface HSI protocol HSI is an emerging applications in terface used in software development that achieves synchronous communication via software rather than hardware implementation Several vendors now support HSI in their terminal emulation software and the list is ex pected to grow According to HP The 2400 bps syn chronous asynchronous modem provides a flexible and cost effective solution for remote portable to IBM main frame communication The Portable Vectra CS Model 20 retails for 3595 Vectra DOS is 95 The 2400 bps modem costs 695 The 1988 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk As of this writing we have almost finalized the contents see below of our 1988 The Portable Paper subscriber s 6 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 disk If your subscription covers at least one 1988 issue th
118. nstalled You could move the portable disk drive and the files it contains across the room or across the world and attach it to either computer We plan to use a TradeWind portable hard disk to create The Portable Paper The portable hard disk will contain all the articles the word processor and desktop publishing software necessary to create The Portable Paper Normally that portable hard disk will be connected to our desktop IBM PC compatible Vectra However if I want to work on The Portable Paper at home with my Portable Vectra I just take the portable hard disk home along with my Portable Vectra and I have all the necessary files at my disposal 5 1 4 FLOPPY DRIVE AND OTHER BUS EXTENDER CARD OPTIONS The bus extender card used to connect the portable hard disk to the Portable Vectra opens up many worlds A bus JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 19 THE PORTABLE PAPER extender card is sort of like an extension cord connecting the innards of the Portable Vectra to the outside world What would normally go inside the Portable Vectra in one of the empty adapter slots could now attach externally to the bus extender card This means that network cards and controller cards for tape backup systems hard disks and floppy disks would not have to be redesigned to fit inside the Portable Vectra Instead a controller card could be boxed with say a5 1 4 disk drive That way you could attach an external 5 1 4 disk drive or tape
119. nuary February 1988 How to Order eae VISA ae ee TO ORDER BY PHONE Call 515 472 6330 between 9 00 am and 4 30 pm Central Time Monday through Friday or use CompuServe order form El OCAK 1 e Be sure to indicate your disk requirements EMAIL ID 72257 714 2 Locate desired items on order form e Subscriptions are at the top e Products are next and are alphabetized e The blank lines near the bottom labelled MISC are for you to write in special instructions or to order miscellaneous products not listed on the form Personalized Software TO ORDER BY MAIL 1 Fill out your name etc on the reverse side of the 3 Fill in desired quantity of each item e Please pay special attention to footnotes 4 Calculate shipping and handling costs see box near bottom of order form Shipping is FREE for U S orders over 200 5 Calculate total 6 If paying by check or money order e Make payable in U S funds to PERSONALIZED SOFTWARE e 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 ROM backup See Fold order form so panel addressed to Personaliz below ed Software is on the outside e Tape shut and drop in mail ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS roduct Retail Price Subscriber Price CompuServe Starter Kit p 39 39 95 35 95 Duette Portable
120. o mutually exclusive printer control language commands It normally understands by default the HP PCL commands It also understands a much simpler language which emulates the Epson printer control language Because the Epson language is simpler and because many software packages know about Epson printers many users prefer the Alternate or Epson mode Although the ThinkJet has the capacity to understand Epson codes the HP IL version of the ThinkJet has some difficulty in doing so We distribute a public domain pro gram called prnconf com that puts the ThinkJet in the Alternate or Epson mode This program is found on our The Editor disk and ROM the DOS Tools disk and will be available on our 1988 The Portable Paper subscriber s disk Portable Vectra users with the serial or parallel version of the ThinkJet have it easier Find the little dip switches in back of the ThinkJet If switch 5 is up the ThinkJet will print in Epson mode If switches 6 through 8 are up the ThinkJet will use the standard IBM line draw set instead of the HP Roman 8 character set A TABLE OF PRINTER CODES The following table lists the commands of both languages that the ThinkJet printer understands In the table lt ese gt stands for the escape character ASCII 27 Within an ap plication you can usually enter any control character listed as Ctrl followed by a letter by holding down the CTRL key and pressing the letter In the table if a chara
121. o 960K bytes of RAM The most distinguishing feature of the DC 3 0 is its full size numeric keypad This keypad dominates the keyboard and dwarfs the small character keys It is immediately obvious that the DataComputer 3 0 is meant as a tool for mobile data collectors such as inven tory control teams surveying crews and researchers The unit weighs slightly more than two pounds and is can easi ly be held in the hand Cost of a DC 3 0 with 128K memory is 1 645 ENOUGH SAID In case this Looking Glass article has led you too far away from the HP fold please accept my apologies I promise to return to the straight and narrow next time On the other hand if you want to know more about the MC II you might like to know that CMT publishes their own journal to support the MC II The journal is called Hand Held Solutions To get on the company s mailing list and become a member of the CMT Users Club just send them your name and address Membership and 38 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 the journal are free CMT s address is Hand Held Solutions Corvallis Microtechnology Inc 895 NW Grant Ave Corvallis OR 97330 503 752 5456 For further information about the DataComputer 3 0 you may write National Datacomputer Inc Middlesex Technology Center 900 Middlesex Turnpike Bldg 5 Billerica MA 01821 Ed Keefe is an author programmer and computer science instructor He ts the president of the FastAid Com pany 314 SW Loga
122. o change the frequen cy on the HP110 With these techniques you can play music Those who own Portable Pluses should find the sample amusing 110 Plus ppterm PPTerm allows efficient XMODEM and ASCII file transfer customized especially for use in CompuServe as well as features like user defined function keys and stored configurations Compatible with MH BBS key files Plus prnconf This utility sends an HP IL ThinkJet printer what it requires to emulate an Epson printer 110 Plus qix This program plays the game of QIX Plus rb Re boots the Portable Plus Plus rdtest RAM disk diagnostic program for the Portable Plus Plus reflect This archive contains several command files 8 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 for use with Reflection and the HP3000 Plus sci Small C Interpreter 110 Plus Vectra scope HP IL Analyzer program Plus scrsize Changes the screen size for HP110 dBASE II to fit the Portable Plus Plus ser Displays the serial number 110 Plus stat Lotus 1 2 3 Statistics Template for the HP Port ables This program generates statistics in Lotus 1 2 3 110 Plus Vectra stk DOS command editor Plus tm Converts the name and address from Time Manager files to the form required by Executive Card Manager Plus xmodem XMODEM for the Portable Plus Plus yahtze Yahtze game 110 Plus Vectra New HP Portable BBS On Line January 1 by David Speltz SYSOP Readers of The Portab
123. o control the printer either set Printer Skip Perforation to On or to Off If you prefer the application or default skip perforation off define the field to be no configuration If you select On then every time you return to PAM it will send your printer the PCL command esc amp UL CONTROLLING THE THINKJET FROM LOTUS It is not easy to exert much control over the ThinkJet printer from within a Lotus 1 2 3 Release 1A spreadsheet There are some tricks though First if you want the file to be all one typeface such as compressed you can use the Lotus Print Printer Options Setup menu At the Lotus prompt Enter Setup String type 27 amp k2S for compressed print The 27 stands for the esc character remember esc is ASCII 27 The rest of the PCL compressed mode command is the same as we ve previously discussed If you want to print compressed at 8 lines per inch you must add the 8 lines per inch PCL command to the setup string The new setup string reads O278 amp k2S 027 amp 18D In compressed mode you can print up to 142 characters on a line To take advantage of this you must set your left margin Print Printer Options Margins Left to 0 and your right margin Print Printer Options Margins Right to 142 Two advanced notes If you want to change your printer settings within your spreadsheet you must break your print range into smaller ones the setup string is printed only at the start of the range Also if you
124. ode 21 Transiter 122 3 wre his Me hes a Dee kD REO 21 Printing Lotus Spreadsheets And Graphs 24 Using Lotus As A Calculator 24 Spellbinder Word Processor For All HP Portables 24 Special Feature Comparing HP110 Portable Plus To The Portable Vectra 26 Grimmer s Portable Tales CompuServe A Boon To HP Portable Users 29 Wizatdiy esner oy aes ek ee ea 35 Through The Looking Glass 36 User Groups 24235563 s64 to ee hee ees 39 USED HP PORTABLES AND PERIPHERALS nies verre We buy them We sell them i 5 Buyi d HP a505 _ oy DINE No longer using your HP uying use vot Ber els Portable or peripherals equipment makes sense apa S aes Turn them into cash You know HP quality S Conme es through The Portable Even used HP machines A a eria Equipment Exchange can serve you well for VOEE oftware Prices fluctuate so years Call for current H gois call us for current prices i noe 4 figures hov anet goie RA So z LATEN ON eg ETON e e Naya an For good buys on used and new HP equipment see our 4 page brochure enclosed with this issue 7 GOOD REASONS TO BUY NEW HP EQUIPMENT FROM US l Big discounts 5 No sales tax 12 25 off retail prices if you re outside of lowa 2 Immediate delivery 6 30 day return policy Virtually all Portable related items are in stock and provided warranty card has not been sent and are shipped
125. of electronic forum seems to be the ideal Several options for a portable electronic forum exist 1 a special part of an existing local bulletin board somewhere 2 a new dedicated bulletin board or 3 an ex isting information service such as CompuServe ABOUT COMPUSERVE After considering all of the options I believe the HP forum in CompuServe is our best bet primarily for the following reasons 1 it provides easy access for all users worldwide 2 it is a proven and reliable system that is always available 3 we have access to some of the best talent inside and out side of HP without any restrictions or propaganda and 4 we have immediate access to other forums e g MicroSoft WordPerfect IBM and others all have free forums CompuServe or CIS for CompuServe Information Service is by definition a non biased and highly reliable system My experiences in the last nine months with CIS and in the HP forum have been extremely rewarding I ll gladly help anyone who is first trying to get on Compu Serve or who needs help after they have used the system a little THE HP FORUM ON COMPUSERVE There are many free programs for the Portables in the data libraries of the HP forum and more are being added all the time Although the forum is sponsored by HP there is sur prisingly little propaganda to wade through I have not en countered a single case of unwarranted censorship of ideas on the forum even though there are occasional comments
126. on everything from the stock market crash to desktop publishing serve as the editorial content Companies like HP and IBM have the equivalent of eight page inserts as they take up a good chunk of real estate on the exhibit floor Other companies have celebrities one had wrestler King Kong Bundy in their booths I asked Bundy if he wanted to arm wrestle 50 to the winner he said Not wanting to take his money I passed Heads of companies and other people whose names appear constantly in the computer press could be seen walking down the Comdex aisles Jim Manzi CEO of Lotus gave the keynote address I met with WordPerfect marketing VP Dan Lunt about reducing the size of Word Perfect 4 2 10K so we could put it on ROM Dan was eager to co operate but after checking with WP engineers he had to report that it does not seem possible We have tentative permission to put 4 1 in ROM if there is enough j interest I also talked with one of MicroPro s top ex ecutives about selling versions of WordStar for the HP Port able Plus and HP150 i was not that successful in my search for new prod ucts for the HP110 and Portable Plus Most of the appeal ing new software is built for IBM PC hardware so it would not run on The Plus We are receiving a review copy of dBXL and QuickSilver dBXL is a dBase III clone that ap parently works on the HP150 using the PC emulator and may work on the Plus QuickSilver a compiler for dBXL to sp
127. on for downloading and use LOG BOTTOM in Reflection when receiving the report to make a disk file Then I run Transfer 123 and in a few seconds the text file is converted into a Lotus wks file I can File Combine several different reports in Lotus It is A easy to calculate any subtotals or ratios The ability to do this quickly and easily is a tribute to the speed of the Plus and the effectiveness of Transfer 123 I bought the package after someone showed it to me THE PORTABLE PAPER in the HP Software Solutions Catalog The authors at Hawaiian Software Company had never tested the product on the Plus but were very supportive They have recently introduced a new version that is at least ten times faster than the original And Transfer 123 requires only 32K of Edisc space A report s format is stored in a separate definition file This makes it easy to handle several different re port formats by choosing the appropriate definition The format of numbers or fixed decimal is preserved by Transfer 123 The definition file tells Transfer 123 what columns the labels and numbers will be in One caution with Transfer 123 Any header and trailer lines of a report which do not follow the report column definition will be stripped off and saved in an exception file For me this is not a problem because I delete these rows in Lotus anyway I recommend Transfer 123 for anyone who uses both host computer on line reports and Lotus
128. onalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER HP Ships Portable Vectra CS Model 20 HP announced that it is now shipping the Portable Vectra CS Model 20 with a 20 Mbyte hard disk drive and one 3 5 inch flexible disk drive HP D1009A The Model 20 complements the Portable Vectra CS offering which has two 3 5 inch flexible disk drives and has been shipping since October According to HP The Portable Vectra CS Model 20 is designed for professionals who want desktop capability without sacrificing battery powered portability The Model 20 offers the same desktop features as the Portable Vectra CS a full sized keyboard with separate numeric keypad removable 12 inch diagonal LCD display and I O slots with the added capabilities of a hard disk drive The Model 20 is designed for office applications that require the increased speed and storage capacity of a hard disk drive Office professionals can store large amounts of data and multiple applications on the hard disk drive In the office the Model 20 can be used with an external monochrome or color monitor With up to 4 hours of bat tery life on a full charge the Model 20 can be used away from the office for work at home at another company site or on the road The durability of the Portable Vectra CS Model 20 has been enhanced by adding extra shock mounting on the hard disk drive and by buildi
129. one its elegance If your computer is an important part of your work life and if you re willing to learn a new and much easler way of functioning then we urge you to try T Master for your self If within 60 days you feel T Master is not for you simply return it for a full refund But remember T Master must be experienced It has a unique way of doing things and a feel that s all its own Order T Master today It may change the way you use your computer T Master For Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP150 295 00 279 95 for Portable Paper subscribers T Maker HP110 Portable 295 00 199 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER through system config The box cursor is almost always preferred 110 Plus expenses The travel expense report worksheet is a Lotus 1 2 3 wks file designed to meet the needs of HP employees and others who must record their company travel expenses 110 Plus Vectra formibm allows HP9114 to format 3 1 2 disks in IBM format 110 Plus hangman Simple HANGMAN game implemented as a rather complex Lotus 1 2 3 wks Studying this wks file will give you tremendous insight into Lotus macros 110 Plus Vectra hpilstuf This utility allows you to rename the printer and plotter device from names that come with the HP82973 Portable DeskIop Link card PDL to names popular software recognizes e g f
130. onym OS The MC II does not have a Disk Operating System All loading and saving of files takes place through one of two serial RS 232c ports under the control of a built in KERMIT program The on ly way to load files is to download them from another computer in the same way that we download files from Compuserve Again CMT includes all the necessary cables adapters and software to get the job done Personalized Software has copies of the KERMIT program that will run on the HP 110 and Portable Plus KERMIT will allow you to use the RS232 port on the HP 110 so that the internal SKETCH lets you save part or all of any drawing for future use or you can print directly from the screen onto your Remember with our money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied with SKETCH within 60 days you can return it for a full refund Why not order a copy today SKETCH graphics program 80 75 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable e Portable Plus Portable Vectra p Ei HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software 300 baud modem may be bypassed for faster file transfer Thanks to reader Gary Goodman Personalized Software has versions of KERMIT for the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 and Portable Vectra IBM PC To obtain the software and documentation for all four versions send 1
131. or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6330 subscribers HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus 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 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software have a competent person do it if you do not have the prop er tools or the expertise The toolset is the same as that re quired for the HP110 RAM expansion project described last issue Grounded temperature controlled soldering iron with narrow tip and set at 700 750 degrees F Low static solder sucker or vacuum powered desoldering station Anti static workstation mat with wrist strap Flux core solder preferably with water soluble flux TORX T 8 screwdriver Tweezers Needle nose pliers Small flat blade 14 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 description Procedure 1 Disassemble the Portable Plus and isolate the main PCA 2 Locate the 40 pin Harris 80C86 microprocessor and carefully un solder it 3 Solder an 8 MHz NEC V30 microprocessor in the now empty CPU socket Make sure the orientation of the chip is correct before soldering 4 Locate IC U6 on the board It is a Harris
132. ost importantly the briefcase size and nine pound weight make these computers truly portable ROM software comes in small chips that can be easi ly inserted into the Portable Plus RAM software comes on 3 1 2 or 5 1 4 disks that can be run or transferred onto the electronic RAM disk from the HP9114 disk drive or an IBM PC RAM ROM DISADVANTAGES One disadvantage to RAM ROM portables is the separate disk drive required for loading storing and backing up files and for making room on the electronic disk The ex ternal disk drive also provides slow access The Portable Plus is not a true IBM compatible and even with recent dramatic price reductions is still fairly expensive However it certainly should be possible to create an IBM compatible RAM ROM machine As memory prices fall it should be possible to create a less expensive machine MECHANICAL DISK DRIVE BASED COMPUTERS Unlike a RAM ROM disk drive a mechanical disk drive magnetically stores information on a flexible disk or some other medium While a motor spins the disk a delicate electronic device moves in very close to read the disk and write on it These moving parts make the computer 28 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 susceptible to damage if dropped They also significantly increase the computer s weight ENTER THE NEW PORTABLE VECTRA The new Vectra CS computers the Portable Vectra CS and the HP Portable Vectra CS Model 20 function as both port able and desk
133. parallel port A serial port takes up an extra slot and costs an additional 300 There are fast transfer programs which use just the parallel port and that are now coming to market We will be in vestigating them and reporting results WHAT PRODUCTS DO YOU WANT Since the inception of The Portable Paper HP110 and Portable Plus users have found it to be a useful and respon sive forum Readers will write or call and describe a prod uct they require e g sideways printing for the ThinkJet a good spelling checker Other readers and Personalized Software publishers of The Portable Paper will then often locate such a product or help to inspire its creation Therefore if you need a certain kind of hardware or software product to use in conjunction with the Portable Vectra tell us Maybe we and our readership will be able to help you 20 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 DOS 110 PLUS P VECTRA DOS Tricks By Paul Grimmer SIMPLIFYING DIR When you request directory listings of a given file exten sion you do not have to type for the name For example to find all of your files on your A drive that end in wks enter dir wks This works on other drives It will not work if you specify a path e g dir stuf wks doesn t work SEEING TEXT AND DIRECTORIES ON SCREEN AT A TIME Isn t it irritating when you list a file or directory and it scrolls off the top of the screen faster than you can read it If the listing is not too long
134. puter 3 0 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 37 THE HP9114 EKMPOWERER 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 gotten more than 20 Just format ting disks transferring files or running disk intensive software and getting it to work can be a major triumph QS Plugging in the HP9114 doesn t help either That only recharges the battery it doesn t let you keep working WE HAVE THE SOLUTION The official HP suggestion is to buy another battery pack and keep both plugged in When one loses power replace it with the other This seems clumsy to us What if you want to do several hours of disk intensive work At Personalized Software we have a better solution the HP9114 Empowerer The Empowerer is special power supply that will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just re move the battery pack RECOMMENDED FOR HP150 How many times have you wished you had a second external disk drive The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personali
135. r I called CMT to learn more about the Marys II and the people who designed it I discovered that _ CMT is a company composed of former HP engineers who created the original HP 41 and 75 71 computers Then I learned that CMT now calls the Marys II the MC II Its list price starting Jan 1 will be 750 with an introduc tory price of 495 for the next three months What follows is a brief summary of the features of the MC II Please realize that I have not yet seen this new com puter All of my information comes from David Lin the president of CMT and from what I have read Later I ll tell you how to get on the company s mailing list so you can get your own information first hand HAND HELD HARDWARE HOW SMALL IS SMALL The MC II is as small as an HP 41C with a card reader However in the place of a card reader the MC II sports an 8 X 21 character LCD display The display can also show graphics There are nine rows of five keys including two shift keys The keys use the same scan codes as the keys on many desktop PC s In place of HPIL jacks the com puter uses two modular phone jacks to connect with the rest of the world Everything else for the MC II comes in plug in modules The computer itself has room for six modules There are modules for memory 128K bytes each with bat tery back up 160 each Even the Operating System OS for the MC II comes in a plug in module And of course there is a module that cont
136. r an additional 95 in this issue i ii iit i You won t believe all the word processing features this 99 95 program contains and it takes up less than 40K of memory only 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers by Hal Goldstein Let s face it MemoMaker is an adequate word processor but it has its limits No search and replace No simple way to merge files No destructive backspace key To delete the last character you have to use the left arrow key and the deletion key s No compressed or expanded printing No but why go on If you use Memo Maker you probably have your own list of things you wish it could do Well we have good news Now there s an easy to use text editor that runs on the Por table and Portable Plus that will satisfy almost every item on your wish list And the program comes with a built in bonus It also runs on the HP 150 IBM PC and HP Vectra which means that now you can use the same program and files on your desk top that you use on your Portable The program is called THE EDITOR It does everything MemoMaker does plus a heck of a lot more And you don t have to go to the expense of buying WordStar for the Portable or MS Word for the Plus to go beyond MemoMaker s capabilities THE EDITOR s most valuable features are listed on the chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR is a real blessing I use it daily instead of Memo Maker and
137. r file If you want to catch all of the messages since the last time you were on enter RT N at the main menu prompt The RT means Read Threads This will list ali messages and replies together so that it is easier to follow a discussion The N refers to all that are New to you You can also use this technique to a catch directory listings in the data libraries so you can decide which ones to download later and b read files in the data libraries that are not marked as Binary those require a file transfer pro tocol such as XModem When you log off CompuServe and exit your terminal program you can bring your file into your favorite text editor and toss out the stuff you don t want Now you can learn at your own pace offline which is much cheaper than online 11 The above should be enough to get you started on Compuserve If you have any problems before you get on call me at 907 345 3593 and we will work through your problems After you get on leave a message for me on the HP forum or via EasyPlex my user id is 71370 1303 and I will respond within a day My new column will contain a fair amount of technical information but I plan to put most of the details including commented source code on CompuServe so that we can make the best possible use of the precious space we have here See you online Paul Grimmer president of Southern Software m writes commercial and public domain software for the J HP110 and Portable Plus His c
138. r today Model 110A Power Cube Recharger 89 95 84 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Copyright 1987 Personalized Software JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 ThinkJet Feature HP Mode Alternate Mode Normal print lt esc gt amp kOS Expanded print lt esc gt amp kAS Ctrl N Expanded off Ctrl T Compressed print lt esc gt amp k2S Ctrl O Compressed off Ctrl R Expanded compressed lt esc gt amp k3S Ctrl N Ctrl O Expanded compr off Ctrl T Ctrl R Bold on Ctrl N lt esc gt E Bold off Ctrl O lt esc gt F 6 lines inch lt esc gt amp l6D lt esc gt 2 8 lines inch lt esc gt amp I8D lt esc gt 0 Underline ON lt esc gt amp dD lt esc gt l Underline OFF lt esc gt amp d lt esc gt 0 Perforation skip OFF lt esc gt amp l0L lt esc gt N CHR8 Perforation skip ON lt esc gt amp UL lt esc gt O Half line feed lt esc gt Form feed Ctrl L Ctrl L Line feed Ctrl J Ctrl J Backspace Ctrl H Ctrl H Clear printer lt esc gt E lt esc gt Page length in lines lt esc gt amp l P lt esc gt N CHR Page length in inches lt esc gt C0 CHR Text length in lines lt esc gt amp 1 F By Hal Goldstein Whereas most Portable Paper articles are relevant to all HP Portable users this column will contain material concerning only the Portable Vectra This column in cludes the latest developments on Portable Vectra prod ucts from HP Personalized Software and other third parties as well as specific tips for the Portable
139. re only several thousand who know of us We still sell our products below retail price with the extras we add but we cannot compete with large mail order houses and don t attempt to Finally we offer a 60 day money back guarantee on all our products a guarantee almost unheard of in the soft ware industry Companies like Peter Norton do not back us up on the policy Therefore unless a package is returned in new condition which it usually isn t we have to pay for the cost of the product when it is returned We offer that 60 day guarantee because we genuinely believe we have excellent products for HP Port able users and given that belief we think we should take the financial risk rather than you Please also remember our policy regarding shipping charges we JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 3 THE PORTABLE PAPER simply dont charge for shipping when a customer s order exceeds 200 This pol icy ts also fairly unusual in the computer hardwarefoftware market and given the cost of shipping packages these days exists only as a cost cutting service for our customers As to our pricing I agree with you to a large degree Any one of our readers knows that 99 95 is the same as 100 But doesn t 99 95 sound better than 1007 We want you to be satisfied with the product and feel that you received good value for your money bence our 60 day money back guarantee We also want you to buy the product and allow us to make a r
140. read each one as it comes in Therefore tell the system that it should not stop after messages This alone will cut your bill by over 60 I had to learn the hard way 3 Never respond to EasyPlex mail or forum messages on line It is much easier to gather all of the things sent to you in a file as described above and edit out the stuff you do not want to keep If you use the on line editor within CompuServe you pay a lot more than getting offline writ ing your response getting back on line and then upload ing Your responses will be much clearer when you edit Whether you want to learn programming or you re a seasoned programmer the best programming language for your HP Portable or Portable Plus is finw akae on SM Backup fay e Portable Plus fot an additional 95 See Software on ROM ad U rb 0 aSGd nN in this issue and our Turbo Pascal Starter Kit is the best way to buy it Here s why The Pascal programming language was originally designed for use at the college level in teaching the fundamentals of computer programming Borland Inter national enhanced the language making it practical for actual programming use Their version is called Turbo Pascal Today Turbo Pascal is the programm ing language taught at most universities The reason is that its underlying struc ture fosters good programming habits It forces you to think in a modular way You create self
141. reader opinion of three of my favorite products Shelp The Editor and The Norton Utilities some of you really liked these 9 s and 10 s and HP110 Portable all Portable Vectra je baud To use HPDuette you connect the 9 pin serial port on your Portable Plus to the serial port on your desktop computer using the serial cable that comes with the program 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 others were only mildly satisfied 5 s and 6 s Almost all of you were very Satisfied 8 s through 10 s with our spell ing checkers Webster Portable Plus The Word Plus HP110 Satisfaction ratings were lowest 5 s through 8 s for the Portable Mouse system and Project 8 9 10 Responses received to date are saying you find prices of The Portable Paper products and ROM s in the range from reasonable to too high Many of you did not like the idea of having to pay twice for the software once on disk the other on ROM You are generally satisfied with our service but there was mention of delays in receiving some of our products such as the Webster and Super ROM s Not that many of you were interested in paying a 50 subscription fee fora bulletin board devoted only to Portable
142. redits include SideWinder for sideways printing of spreadsheets to the ThinkJet printer Sketch for free form graphics on the Portables and ThinkJet Hprint for fully exploiting the text font and graphics capabilities of the ThinkJet and QuietJet printers and Link which enables the transfer of data bet ween all HP IL devices On the side he works as an engineer at Conoco You can write Paul at 12501 Clippership Dr An chorage AK 99515 or send Email on CompuServe to 713 70 1303 Boe WIZAE by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga More On The Portable Vectra MAPPING SCREEN COLOR A friend of mine recently purchased a Portable Vectra with dual floppies and an external monitor Since he s had it about a month I gave him a call to find out how he liked it The first thing we talked about was the screen and the color mapping He uses the external monitor about 90 of the time and has only positive things to say about it He feels the LCD screen is adequate for software that is able to run in black and white mode However programs that use color are very difficult to see and red can t be seen at all He has played with the supplied setup program to ad just the color mapping but it s a trial and error process especially since many color programs use many different colors I got the impression he wasn t too successful in ad justing the grey scales for his software Significantly however the LCD
143. ree with the World Port1200 WorldPort2400 Upgrade Kit Carbon Copy PLUS will not run on the HP110 or Portable Plus but both WorldPort modems will run with HP s communi cations software namely the Terminal program for the HP110 and TERM and Reflection for the Portable Plus TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vecta Portable Plus HP150 o IBM PC and compatibles e WorldPort 2400 and WorldPort 1200 are trademarks of Touchbase Systems Inc Hayes is a trademark of Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc Carbon Copy PLUS is a trademark of Meridian Technology Inc Shelp 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 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus See Software on ROM ad Instant Access Pop ups for the Portable Plus eee Calculator e notepad e macros e and more A great easy to use productivity booster If there s one program every Portable Plus owner Should have it s Shelp Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper cursor to U in the Keyboard Macros menu and type United States To recall United S
144. rned This of course is due to the fact that the European telecommunica tions networks are run by government agencies PTT s So we will have to either a spend huge amounts of money to rent modems from PTT s or b use a slow acoustic coupler or c write letters Worldport modem which supports the CCITT standard can only be used with the acoustic coupler 3 SKETCH A lot of fun I already got back half the money I spent purchasing this prod uct by creating laundry order forms for a small French hotel outside Geneva The laundry service being actually an outside shop they had no forms at all so I created my own forms for my laundry which of course went not undetected by the hotel staff The hotel owner offered me a superb dinner as a quid pro quo for us ing my forms for other guests 4 Selling HP Products Are you also selling LOTUS 1 2 3 up 40 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 grades for version 2 01 and MemoMaker A 2 00 TimeManagement A 03 CD both in ROM If yes at what price I d rather buy from you Thank you but only HP can upgrade those products Hal 5 Staying Charged Abroad Donald R Harkleroad The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 6 Unfortunately I can only help to solve the problem of recharging the bat tery Donald should buy HP s Euro charger part no 82066B at least that s the number printed on my chargers It works with hardware sold in the United States I bought my Portable Plus in New
145. rocessor with this many useful features at this low a price For the Portables THE EDITOR simply can t be beat See for yourself Order your copy risk free today THE EDITOR 99 95 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE S30 THE EDITOR and THE FORMATTER together Only 99 95 total Portable Paper subscribers only Note The user manual itself is a challenge and no technical support is available We therefore recom mend THE FORMATTER for strong computer users or those already familiar with text formatters If you need any of the features listed above and if you re willing to spend the time it takes to learn the commands THE FORMATTER is for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER 59 95 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers See Software on ROM ad THE EDITOR gives you all these great text editing features and more Search and replace Just tell THE EDITOR what word or phrase to look for and it will find every plac
146. rom hpilprn to prn 110 Plus input This tiny COM file adds interactive abilities to your batch files 110 Plus Vectra jetctrl memory resident program that allows you to configure your ThinkJet QuietJet PaintJet or LaserJet printer while in the middle of any program Plus landmine This is a game in which you try not to be blown up by landmines while crossing the playing field Plus mm This program makes the backspace key work properly in MemoMaker on the Portable Plus Plus newmode Puts the HP110 or Portable Plus into alter nate screen and console mode without selecting System Config from the main PAM applications menu Alternate mode is required by many programs that use function keys or display line drawing characters 110 Plus off Turns the Portables off from DOS 110 Plus offplus Reports battery status turns the Plus off and secures it Plus pass This program provides password protection to prevent unauthorized person from logging on to your Port able 110 Plus Vectra patchtm Modifies Time Manager so it will have a block cursor rather than an underscore cursor 110 pcboss Excellent disk management program Vectra pcrun runs programs on the Portable Plus in a way that slightly increases its compatibility with IBM PC s Plus playit This set of Turbo Pascal procedures shows you how to change the frequency and duration of the beeper on the Portable Plus and also how t
147. rt and address copies of the report to a selected list of recipients TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 When you realize that you can or chestrate all this by means of a single DO command entirely automatically you begin to see the incredible productivity and power that T Master offers At only 295 for the entire package or even less if you re a Portable Paper sub scriber T Master is easily the best software value available HOW COME HAVEN T HEARD OF IT The T Maker Company developer of T Master chooses to remain small They do not advertise but prefer to let T Master be known by word of mouth This has worked well because of the high level of user satisfaction According to a re cent survey 12 out of every 13 T Master users highly prefer the program over other integrated packages they re familiar with T Master is widely distributed in Europe and the Far East where it is bundled with IBM PC compatible computer systems NOT FOR EVERYONE T Master is not for everyone The T Maker Company has told us that their most satisfied users are computer oriented people for whom increased productivity is im portant as opposed to casual com puter users who might not appreciate the time and effort T Master can save them let al
148. s Price was an im portant issue in determining whether or not to buy prod ucts made by Hewlett Packard from us Overall you seem to appreciate our existence and our mission which is to support the HP Portables with prod ucts and services You also seemed tolerant of our mistakes We are still compiling the data from this survey and if you haven t yet responded please do we want to hear from as many of our subscribers as possible New HP IL Link Software A new revision E of the software for the HP IL Portable To Desktop card should be available from HP in January This version will work in HP Vectra desktops and other IBM PC compatibles that operate at 12Mhz or greater In addition continued on page 38 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 9 THE PORTABLE PAPER 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 Helpless Without My HP by Satch Carlson The author Satch Carlson is a professional writer We ve enjoyed his off beat letters and we think you ll enjoy the following which he wrote for the Anchorage Daily News It was horrible I tell you Hobble HARBLE I hadn t felt so helpless
149. s an electronic address book forms handling correspondence log and mailmerge Library entries are called out by number saving you from retyping the entry or cutting it out of another document If SpellBinder doesn t provide all the features you re looking for it is relatively easy to create them with the command language Conclusions SpellBinder is a versatile word processor that is very attrac tive to the user who operates in a mixed office environ A Compariso of RAM ROM vs Mechanical Disk Storage The HP110 Portable Plus vs the Portable Vectra Hewlett Packard s two families of MS DOS laptop com puters represent the two approaches to computer por tability in the marketplace today the RAM ROM disk based portable and the mechanical disk drive port able In this article we will compare the two approaches by examining the Portable Plus HP110 and the new HP Portable Vectra RAM ROM MACHINES What do we mean by a RAM ROM disk based portable The Hewlett Packard Portable Plus and the HP110 contain two electronic pseudo disk drives the RAM based A drive and the ROM based B drive The A drive stores data and programs the B drive stores programs that cannot be altered The Portables contain non volatile RAM which is divided between internal memory and an electronic disk Unlike volatile RAM the electronic disk stores files and programs even after the computer is turned off The in
150. se Order yours risk free today Retail Subscriber Price Price WorldPort 2400 modem 359 00 319 00 with Carbon Copy PLUS software WorldPort 1200 modem 199 00 179 00 without software Cable to connect modem A MYRIAD OF FEATURES Aes HP P l The Worldport 2400 has r wealthy ae fates cepted CCITT communications standards and to ortables 30 00 20 00 you would expect to find in a desktop modem the Bell communications standards recognized oie era TE 59 95 56 95 several times its size in the U S ine The WorldPort 2400 uses a standard 9 volt 9 volt AC adapter 6 95 6 95 transistor radio battery it s included with the Upgrade kit WorldPort1200 unit A fresh battery will keep the WorldPort WorldPort2400 199 00 179 00 EXTRA BONUS FOR USERS OF THE includes Carbon Copy PLUS software IBM PC AND NEW HP PORTABLE VECTRA Included with the WorldPort 2400 at no charge is the acclaimed communications and remote control software package Carbon Copy PLUS retail value humming for 8 10 hours You can extend battery life by operating the unit from a wall outlet whenever possible using the optional AC adapter The WorldPort 2400 draws no power from your Portable s battery DOUBLE GUARANTEE In addition to our standard 60 day mon ey back guarantee the 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details 195 The program also comes f
151. solution for HP110 MemoMaker users Plus users also can benefit is to use text processing software such as HPrint see The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 4 p 12 or Printerlalk Vol 1 No 3 p 19 For example if you are us ing MemoMaker and plan to use PrinterJalk to print your document you must insert y at the start of the paragraph to compress and z at the end of the paragraph When it is time to print you exit MemoMaker and enter the PrinterIalk program You then print the MemoMaker file from within the PrinterTalk program Printerlalk automatically translates y to ese amp k2S PCL for compress and z to esc amp k S PCL for normal and prints the document y and z are PrinterTalk predefined codes that PrinterTalk understands In general Printerlalk and HPrint codes are much simpler than PCL Users of Personalized Software s word processing pro gram The Editor can insert PCL commands directly into their document To generate the ese character The Editor user must hold down the CTRL key and press MemoMaker and The Editor users can generate foreign and other special characters by holding down the Extend char key and typing the appropriate letters For ex ample you can generate the Spanish upside down ques tion mark within MemoMaker by holding down the Extend char key and pressing the zero key You then send that character to the ThinkJet by printing the MemoMaker or The Editor file in the normal way CONTROLLING T
152. special 312 disk version for your Por table or Portable Plus ready to install from PAM Although you may purchase Turbo all by itself we recommend our Turbo Pas cal Starter Kit It s ideal for novice and intermediate programmers alike The Starter Kit inludes Turbo Pascal Borland s Turbo Tutor and our own special disk Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Here s a rundown on each Turbo Pascal Our ver sion of Turbo Pascal is customized to both the HP110 Portable and the Portable Plus at no extra charge The customization authorized by Bor land allows the Turbo editor to use all the normal Portable editing keys Ex tend Char Delete Line etc This saves you from having to learn many of the commands particular to WordStar aga Turbo Tutor is a well written interactive tu torial that includes a manual and a disk The manual covers 4 4 not just the funda 1 mentals but many fine points of Pas cal programming as well it is of value even to advanced programmers The disk in cludes every example covered in the manual already keyed in and ready to use Note neither the IBM ver sion nor the HP150 version of Turbo Tutor will run on the Portables only our 32 disk version will RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC and compatibles ik Turbo Pascal Pro grams for the Porta J bles is a great s
153. ssword When you log on to CompuServe you are asked for a credit card number You are charged at a rate of 12 50 an hour at 1200 Baud Your credit card is automatically charged for your time on the system STARTING WITH EMAIL AND THE FORUMS There are many services on the system and at first it can be fairly intimidating There are two main areas that I recommend you start with mail referred to as E mail or EasyPlex and the forums Through the mail system you can send and receive electronic mail in the form of letters notes or even programs For example I sent this article via EasyPlex to Hal Goldstein at The Portable Paper The next time he logged onto CompuServe the system sent Hal a message telling him that he had electronic mail waiting At that time he could choose not to read his mail this article but if he did he could save it on the system I don t recommend this reread it or respond to it What Hal did since you are now reading this article is download capture the article into a file on his Portable s Edisc Ed EasyPlex is a very simple system for beginners It will give you a menu of choices at each step Once you become advanced you can bypass the menus if you want All of your mail is totally private You can even send registered mail so that the system is required to notify you if when your recipient has received it The other main part of the system is the forums There are forums se
154. stant gone forever vanished into the ethereal void Numb and unbelieving I pushed this and that button went away and left him alone for awhile offered him lit tle plates of food Nothing So finally after an endless weekend you d think there would be computer emergency rooms wouldn t you I hauled poor Hewpie down to Lewis amp 10 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 Lewis the people who understand such things and Chris Erickson calmed my anxiety as he began critical surgery with a pair of REI folding pliers and a Swiss army knife Gently peeled my clutching fingers from Hewpie s case Sent me home to bite my nails and await developments A day later he called with a hopeful prognosis The patient would pull through Eagerly I rushed over to pick up my little friend But first Erickson wanted to tell me about Hewpie s innards I stood there feeling like somebody who has neglected his dog or children as he began listing a bewildering array of abuses I cleaned out something white he said Looked like somebody spilled milk through the keyboard maybe Milk I drew myself up in haughty indignation Granted there have been a few of the basic food groups consumed in close proximity to this machine and I admit I once spilled Nalley s hot chili on the screen but milk Never Speaking of the keyboard he said it was sort of torn loose from its mountings like maybe something heavy was dropped on it Or somebod
155. stitute for actually getting your hands on this wonderful pro gram and trying it out for yourself This shows that You simply by pressing upside down U or D You also w can set the cursor speed and can tog gle between a faster speed and a slower You warnt oO AE UOTISAITP RUE SIAM ThinkJet or QuietJet pages WHO WOULD LIKE AN MC II Initially I imagine that the MC II will be more valuable to programmers than to users Programmers may view the MC II as another market for their skills And if you re thinking of writing a 1 2 3 clone for the MC II you ll want to hone your skills in MicroSoft C The new hand held likes to be programmed in that computer language almost ex clusively For faster program development CMT urges you to use a desktop computer and transfer your work to the MC II for testing and fine tuning Those who do write programs for the MC II will be able to put their programs on EPROM s for others to use CMT will sell an EPROM burner for 295 and blank 128K byte EPROM s for 135 Beyond programmers the MC II should appeal to those who are firmly convinced that smaller is better and faster is best There are over half a million users of HP hand held computers Many of us would like to see our hand helds come up to speed at least to the speed of our laptops SO WHAT S THE CATCH There is one thing missing in this new computer The D is missing from the acr
156. subscription kits have lots of info on the system and also offer discount subscription rates and even give you up to 25 worth of SUBSCRIPTION OFFER If you re a Hewlett Packard computer user and buyer of HP related hardware software or peripherals HP PROFESSIONAL the monthly magazine of Hewlett Packard commercial and technical com puting is for you It s really something But it costs you nothing It s Informative It s Monthly It s Read by 30 000 professionals like you It s FREE Read HP PROFESSIONAL for information and insights on the latest hardware software trends and developments Start your free subscription today Send us the coupon below You ll receive a subscription application in the mail Fill out and mail the application and if you qualify we ll start your free subscription Profess ona SUBSCRIPTION APPLICATION REQUEST YES ld like a FREE subscription to HP PROFESSIONAL Send a subscription application to Namie caa aa aaao tde Company Address CI e a a Mail to HP PROFESSIONAL P O Box 445 Spring House PA 19477 0445 THE PORTABLE PAPER free system time You also get a free subscription to CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today All it takes to get onto CompuServe is a user id and a password both of which are provided in the subscription kit After you log on you will be given a permanent user id and you may choose your own pa
157. t has full fledged GREP and file comparison tools which allow two and three files to be compared and dif ferences reported It has two banner pro grams and a utility which counts words lines and characters The update is sup posed to add 13 new utilities which would make it 37 tools for 49 The docu mentation is good although the orienta tion of these products is toward the power user Still there should be some thing for almost everyone The Mace Utilities have just gone through a major upgrade and they are still ironing out the bugs So far I have gotten only a couple of the programs to run but there have been major fixes since the ver sion I was originally sent so I am very hopeful The possibilities are tantalizing The utilities include disk caching and for mat recover software for floppy disks as well as a formatting program which lifts the data off a disk before formatting and replaces it afterwards If only this would work for a corrupted Edisc I was intrigued by the GO software you described in a previous issue and I wonder if anyone has gotten a chess pro gram to run Because there are so many new prod ucts around choosing peripherals and software for the 110 Plus is becoming almost as difficult as it is for a regular PC keep up the good work Jonathan Feinstein Ithaca NY Using Products in Europe Thanks again for all the goodies in The Portable Paper the ONLY support I have It helps me to m
158. t makes the cursor a block rather than the virtually in 32 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 visible underscore that it was made with These and many programs are available for FREE In addition to programs there is another major feature of the forum in the message system which is totally different from EasyPlex You can send messages to the sysops or to anyone else in the forum on virtually any topic try to stay within the bounds of the forum i e you probably won t get an overwhelming response to a ques tion about why Tammy Faye wears so much make up You can make these messages private but usually you make them public so that anyone else can help out if possible I was pleasantly surprised to find that there is no editing of messages even when they are not very complimentary of HP From time to time the HP employees do get in plugs for their goodies but it is not overdone and I guess they can since they are paying the bills In nine months I have not seen a question asked on any HP related topic that was not answered in a prompt fashion usually in a matter of minutes and always within a couple of days The questions range from simple how do I download such and such file to very complex I have this configuration on my Vectra and after I added this new board my system crashed Many times the answers come from other users and not even from HP I hope that I have contributed at least one quarter of what I have learned because I
159. t up for a wide range of topics in cluding computer hardware and software science fiction finance current news games airline reservations and even shopping Bloomingdale s and Nieman Marcus among others You can limit your use to any of these Most cost nothing to join and you will interact with some of the best minds of the world in these forums For example my main interests are in HP stuff and Borland programming languages so I frequent their forums daily but I never have to waste time reading about Apples or Bloomingdale s disclaimer the forum choices given here do not neces sarily represent the views of every member of the Grim mer household WHAT COMPUSERVE HAS TO OFFER PORTABLE USERS It is in the Hewlett Packard forum that our hopes for a HP Portable community lay It costs nothing to join and all you pay for is your log on time which is about 12 50 hour The forum has two system operators or sysops who more or less referee One is a HP employee Bill Crow and the other is independent Mark Horvatich There are libraries of programs that both HP and in dividuals have uploaded to which you have complete ac cess For example recently I wrote and uploaded a little utility for the Plus that makes the BackSpace key in Memomaker delete characters rather than just move the cursor when it backspaces I also put a little utility in the library that is a patch for Time Manager for the Portable tha
160. table Portable PLUS and Think et And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers It s 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 2 2 2 969 95 59 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 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 measurements Short of that the battery level at which the LOW BATTERY warning comes on can give an idea what the actual fuel level should be as opposed to the inaccurate reading displayed SPEED UP NOT APPLICABLE TO THE 110 Currently the Portable Plus speedup modifications described here do not apply to the HP110 even though both use the same CPU The reason is that HP had taken the liberty to use an undocumented 80
161. table Utilities ad in this issue PACK VDL MOVE WHEREIS PRNCONF TRIM DIRS CLEAN TY TJETA CHANGE SDL FGREP SOPC COPYNEW ARCE RENDIR ASK MOVEALL LABEL FDUMP DUMP TMA OFF TEE WAIT BEEP SM DIRALL CYPHER FCOPY ARC520 FDATE XCOPY Note ARC520 is shareware the author normally requests a 35 contribution However you do not need to send any money We ve already paid your user fee te NEW Our best selling Portable software ur software you buy because the same agree ment applies to the corresponding ROM Backup In most cases this means you may use the software on only one computer sys tem Remember you are buying a backup copy of your software not a second copy Having to buy both the disk version and its ROM Backup is not without advantages For one thing many disk products include extra utilities that have to be deleted from the ROM chips in order to save space Also if your ROM drawer gets full you can remove a ROM chip and still run the corresponding program off your disk drive EASY TO INSTALL We supply a ROM insertion tool makes in stallation simple plus clear instructions with diagrams LIFETIME MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Our ROM Back Up Service comes with a life time guarantee If a ROM proves defective at any time as long as you own the computer in which it is installed we will replace it at no charge In addition our regular 60 day guarantee of satisfaction also applies If within 60
162. tates simply press Ctrl Extend char then U Presto United States appears at the cursor location in your application Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to 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 The menu gives you 4 choices Calculator Notepad Key Macros and Off Choose Calculator and get a 4 function calculator that works just like a pocket calculator with memory You can save results in ten W paste results at the different storage cursor location in registers and retrieve whatever application you them again with two were using when you quick keystrokes invoked Shelp Choose Notepad and a scratch pad pops up on your screen Type whatever you want into it exit to your appli cation and then recall the notepad whenever you w
163. ter nal battery supplies enough power to keep these files and 26 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 ment consisting of several different computers I liked the product for its adaptability and powerful macros How ever there is a price to pay for using a generic version on a variety of different computers In lieu of using the BIOS or taking advantage of the special hardware features offered by a particular computer the program must use the Operating system and make up for the operating system s inadequacies Ordering Information SpellBinder retails for 495 There is a full blown imple mentation for the HP150 and another for the HP110 Those implementations look very similar to a product HP used to market for its HP120 125 called Word125 a Spell Binder derivative Portable Plus users may opt for either the HP110 ver sion or the IBM version and run it in alternate mode Port able Vectra users order the IBM PC version The Portable Paper subscribers may purchase the disk based product from us for 365 LexiSoft Spell binder s publisher can be reached at 916 758 3630 Lexi Soft also produces a desktop publishing program that we will be testing on HP Portable computers programs alive for weeks and even months The user can adjust the size of both the internal memory and the electronic disk For example on the 512K A i Plus a user can allot 128K to internal memory and 384K to the electronic disk drive The
164. the HP 110 with the HP 9114A but it will not take the z or the i4 It states in the owner s manual that this command should be acceptable but it isn t in my case Also I cannot use the W X Y or Z commands I would like to bring up a problem and hope you do not mind Your sub scriber price for the Norton Utilities ver sion 4 0 is listed at 89 95 I found the same software package advertised in PC Resource for 51 70 I thought you should know about such discrepancies This brings up another problem with regard to your prices There are too many 95 s 99 s and 9 95 s Some people are allergic to ragweed I am allergic to these kinds of prices These prices are telling me the merchant does not calculate his prices but makes guesses as to how much the buyer will tolerate The computer field attracts better educated people I hope and they should not be taken for so stupid as not to realize that your utility price of 89 95 really represents a total of 90 Do you realize what the government could save by not minting those expensive pennies if all merchants would do away with those nines and include the respec tive taxes in their prices I would be glad to hear your side of the story Dr August J Nechi Stone Mountain GA HP110 users must use the format program on the HPI10 supplemental disk You may either run the format pro gram from an external drive or load it onto
165. the Edisc and run it from there and it will work as you described Plus users have the complete format program built into their system As you know only a small percen tage of IBM PC software works on the HP110 and Portable Plus Testing documenting and advertising what soft ware works on those HP Portables takes time and costs money In the case of the Norton Utilities and most of the IBM PC software we sell we supply additional 3 1 2 HP formatted disks containing the product along with pages of additional documentation and advice for HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 users Supply ing an extra 3 1 2 disk with prepack aged software means obtaining special permission from the software manufac turer which as is the case with The Peter Norton Company is often a time con suming and frustrating process We do not just move boxes We add value tf in no other way than by iden tifying the existence of products for the Portables We finance and create the soft ware ads such as the Norton ad and customize it for the Portables The pur pose of our ads is to sell but we try to do so by long copy educational ads That way people understand the value of a product like the Norton Utilities when they might not have another means of knowing We dont just list one line and a price as in a mail order ad like the one you mentioned Also we do not have millions of potential IBM PC and compatible cus tomers At best there a
166. the Portable Plus to a V30 From there another 50 more speed can be obtained by altering the CPU clock from the original 5 33 MHz to 8 MHz As an indication of the increased performance the unmodified Portable Plus reports a Norton SI rating of 1 2 1 3 whereas the same machine with an 8 MHz V30 yields an SI rating of 4 4 Given that the SI routine can be somewhat optimistic the actual performance figure is closer to 2X The hardware modifications to speed up the Portable Plus are quite straightforward For one thing the cover screws are not hidden under plastic labels as in the case of the HP110 Replacing the CPU simply involves isolating the CPU board from the case de soldering the Harris 80C86 chip carefully from the board and soldering a NEC V30 microprocessor in its place There is no room for an IC socket but it is preferable to have the new chip soldered in place anyway since that eliminates the possibility of in termittent contact between the chip and the socket which can cause a variety of unpleasant problems SPEEDING UP THE CLOCK Speeding up the clock from 5 33 MHz to 8 MHz is also quite straightforward There is no need to change any components The clock generator circuit obtains a 16 MHz signal from the crystal and divides it by 3 to yield the regular 5 33 MHz CPU clock The clock chip also feeds an undivided 16 MHz clock to a binary counter which generates 8 4 2 and 1 MHz signals the latter two of which are used b
167. the next day equipment remains in new condition 3 Liberal trade ins J One year HP warranty on all used HP Portable equipment through the HP dealer that Hewlett Packard has Want to upgrade from HP110 to Portable Plus authorized us to work with from HP110 or Portable Plus to Portable Vectra Call for current trade in allowances 4 Free shipping 515 472 6330 on all orders over 200 Fen goad baa nb anual The Portable Equipment Exchange HP equipment see our 4 page a division of Personalized Software brochure enclosed with this issue PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 We guarantee them Any used item you buy from us can be returned within 30 days for a full refund 515 472 6330 The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software uses jus ROMS e ectras rtable ectra Po ripherals and P wW portable ni Portable P HP Portabl Software 4 Megabyte Memory penne Disk Drives ThinkJet Printers LaserJet Printers HP Printer Supplies HP IL Cards for PCs E es Al te Calculators ies and Accessories Products that make HP Portables smarter PO Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 VOLUME DISCOUNTS If your company users group or dealership needs 3 or more of any of our products You can save significantly PRODUCT Retail Subscr 3 6 7 19
168. tify Easy to use Uses less than 40K Versions for HP110 Plus HP150 Vectra and IBM PC all on master disk The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multiline headers footers page numbers table of contents glossary capabilities and more Works with almost all print ers Note Manual is in draft form no technical support available seer 33 HP9114 Empowerer A hardware product that prevents the HP9114 disk drive from running out of juice in the middle of your work Plug Empowerer into your HP9114 and a normal wall outlet and you can run your HP9114 forever Flowcharting II This program creates professional looking flowcharts and organiza tional charts using 26 flowchart symbols in 95 sizes Wide variety of text fonts for creating labels both inside and outside the shapes Easy to add and delete lines without disturbing the rest of the flowchart Shrink Screen feature lets you view up to 14 x11 chart on 25 line screen Runs on Portable Plus only HPrint Takes text ASCII files you ve created with MemoMaker The Editor or other word processors and prints them on an HP printer Comes with italic type font for ThinkJet Also allows bold underline compressed expanded subscripts superscripts headers footers page numbering double space and much more all of which you specify from a sim ple menu or by means of sensible control codes HPrint also does mail
169. top computers And they are truly IBM com patible The 17 6 pound briefcase size Vectra offers four in ternal I O expansion slots for adding expanded memory a 2400 baud modem or peripherals such as printers and plotters without increasing the computer s size Other features include a large 12 inch liquid crystal display based on new supertwist technology a full size keypad with 12 function keys a 1 44 Megabyte 1440K 3 1 2 flexible disk drive capacity and a standard 640 Kbytes of user memory Users can also add up to six Megabytes of EMS RAM to the Vectra and up to four Megabytes to the Vectra Model 20 using the I O expansion slots The CPU speed is twice as fast as the HP110 the Portable Plus or the IBM XT 2 In certain applications it runs as fast or faster than an IBM AT The basic Vectra with its dual floppy system costs 2495 The Vectra Model 20 with its 20 Megabyte system is a few pounds heavier than the basic unit and costs 3595 MECHANICAL DISK DRIVE DISADVANTAGES Despite a clamshell closed case design and extra shock mounting for its mechanical disk drive the Vectra is not as sturdy as a RAM ROM computer and its electronic disk drive It is less convenient than the HP110 and Portable Plus it is twice as heavy requires disks and although its cen tral processor CPU is faster its input and output is much slower SUMMARY COMPARISON CHART OF TWO APPROACHES The first section of the
170. troduced right Not if you know how to improve your Portable Plus to outrun the Portable Vectra CS PC Yes It can be done The Portable Vectra CS PC sports a NEC V30 microprocessor running at 7 16 MHz The Portable Plus has a Harris 80C86 microprocessor running at 5 33 MHz It turns out that with a relatively simple hardware modification the 80C86 in the Portable Plus can be changed to a NEC V30 and after that the CPU clock can be speeded up from 5 33 MHz to 8 MHz with just a few wires and absolutely no further component changes 12 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1988 CHANGING THE MICROPROCESSOR A careful timing analysis of the Portable Plus hardware has indicated that when equipped with the proper V30 microprocessor the machine can sustain an 8 MHz clock and still have a reasonable margin of safety remaining Of course the 80C86 CPU used in the Portable Plus is specified to run only at 5 33 MHz so simply cranking up the clock would not work The CPU must be replaced If an 8 MHz version of the 80C86 is available it will certain ly suffice Yet there is an even better method Since the NEC V30 is both object code and pin compatible with the Harris 80C86 the former can directly replace the latter The 8 MHz version of V30 will meet all the requirements In fact because the V30 executes most instructions in fewer clock cycles compared to the 80C86 and thus essen tially runs faster a speedup of about 20 40 will result just by changing the CPU in
171. uarantee Plus only center spread 2 995 00 RightWriter p 10 95 00 Shelp works on Portable Plus only p 27 59 00 SideWinder Utilities p 13 79 95 Sketch p 37 80 00 Statistix 169 00 T Maker Recommended for HP110 p 7 295 00 rN Prices guaranteed through Software ORDER FORM February 29 1988 Products that make HP Portables smarter Europ ean Customers PO Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 Instead of ordering through us ne ee ou may contact our European Product Price Price aty rotal distributor i The Portable Paper 3 Year Subscription 139 007 Io nma f o SoftWord 2 C New subscriber Renewal 2 Year Subscription 99 002 N A as Astage Rectory Lane Begin with Jan 1986 Jan 1987 a Windlesham E Cian 1988_ Current issue 1 Year Subscription 55 00 NA Surrey GU20 6BW _ Back Issues indicate numbers NWA England _ Time Manager Pack HP Calculator eel eS ee Laat In England Bagshot 0276 75440 a _ 1987 Subscriber Disk na 75 tn Europe 44276 75440 mlm 288 Subscriber Disk a Es oe ee 10 unlabeled Sony disks and case HP110 and Portable Plus p 41 64 90 29 95 10 unlabeled Sony disks and case 1 44 meg high density P Vectra p 41 99 95 69 95 ee ee Carbon Copy Plus Portable Plus Version 225 00 19995 IQ Carbon Copy Plus Portable Vectra IBM PC Version 195 00 179 00 ie ee Condor 3 Plus HP150 only 495 00 379 00 MONEY BAC
172. upple ment to Turbo Tutor Based on the princi ple of learning by example the disk contains more than 50 sample Turbo Pascal pro grams and every one of them runs on the HP110 or the Portable Plus The programs range in length from ten lines of code to hundreds and from simple temperature conversion games arith metic to advanced input output graph ics and more Every program is included on the disk so you don t have to key in any of them they re ready to run or to be incorporated into your own larger Pascal programs If you re into or getting into the highly productive world of programm ing our Turbo Pascal Starter Kit will help you become an expert Order your copy of this dynamite programming package at no risk today WHICH VERSION SHOULD YOU ORDER Portable Vectra users Order the latest version Tur bo Pascal 4 0 HP110 and Portable Plus users Version 4 0 will not work fully on your machine but Version 3 0 will We have Version 3 0 in limited quantity when we run out it will not be available again Please order now Portable Paper Subscribers The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit saves you 30 off the price of the three products purchased separately Retail Subscriber price price Turbo Pascal Starter Kit 3 0 or 4 0 189 85 159 95 includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Turbo Pascal 3 0 or 4 0 99 95 89 95 Turbo
173. urbo Tutor 3 0 p 38 0 00 000 BO OD eietass es 35 95 Turbo Tutor 4 0 p 33 000 DOOD 6 ss Gene 53 95 WorldPort 1200 modem p 27 199 00 179 00 Acoustic coupler 300 1200 baud 59 95 56 95 9 volt AC adapter for modem Oh E E EE 6 95 Cable to connect Portable to Modem OOO cor Wace eek 58 20 00 WorldPort 1200 to WorldPort 2400 Upgrade Kit p 27 0 005 199 00 179 00 Specify whether HP110 Portable Plus HP150 or IBM PC Price of Pertmaster Demo applicable to cost of Pertmaster SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM BACKUP To order any of the following products on ROM Backup simply write the product name and price on one of the blank lines in the ROM Backup section at the bottom of the order form Size of ROM Price Best of DOS Tools p 17 Two 64K ROMs 128K 129 The Editor p 25 ccce crapa ikio chataceans 64K 95 TAP CAlCUIAIGE eenean VEE EE EEA A ERT 64K 95 ELE er E E 64K 95 ARE EEEE baal anes tan deere 64K 95 bch We Ed SR Aces See eh ee eden has BA inh 2 aS DO Sia nia E aldara om E E SE ec EES 64K 95 4This version of SideWinder does not include any of the SideWinder utilities IMPORTANT You must own or order the disk versions of any products you buy on ROM Backup See inside front cover for complete information on ROM Backup Service Size of ROM
174. ved for ROM software costs 150 plus the price of the ROM software e g Lotus 495 There are twelve sockets in the ROM drawer room for six to 10 applications The other drawer is usually reserved for ad ditional RAM This flexibility permits users to build their own system by purchasing ROM chips and disk based soft ware for the electronic RAM disk Recent developments have not just enhanced the Port able Plus they have made it a brand new machine A new 995 HP 1 megabyte RAM drawer a Personalized Soft ware Softword 2 megabyte drawer and a 1 megabyte RAM 8 socket ROM drawer greatly expand the computer s memory and capability These larger RAM drawers allow full blown RAM soft ware packages such as WordPerfect word processor Con dor 3 relational data base manager and T Master spreadsheet word processor communications graphics database to fit in the Plus RAM RAM ROM ADVANTAGES What are the advantages to RAM ROM disk based port ables First of all they are rugged Since there are no mov ing parts other than the keys the portables can be dropped without damaging the unit Second the electronic loading makes input and out put fast For example it takes only a few seconds to load Lotus from ROM Third with built in disks users don t have to carry disks on the road or worry about copy pro tection e g Lotus Greater memory capacity means users can pack more in less space at lower cost Perhaps m
175. 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 line or block of text deleted Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change upper case to lower case and vice versa without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar and in terms of the convenience and in creased productivity you gain I feel that THE EDITOR is a truly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER As a word processor SpellBinder s performance was very good Although not very efficient for power typists the softkey menus serve as excellent guides to help you operate the program If command key sequences are used in lieu of softkeys program operation is simple since your fingers stay centered on home row Its ability to import text from one document into another is as powerful as WordStar s although not as flexible as that of some other programs currently available for the Portable Plus Office Management Features SpellBinder provides Portable users with several useful management tools such as boilerplate text librarie
176. wo Portable Vectras on exhibit and people seemed pretty impressed Last year there were relatively few customers gathered around the Portable Plus at any one time I had a chance to talk at length to Dan Terpak head of the Portable division Jim Martin product manager for the HP Portables and Paul Horstmeier marketing manager for the Portable Plus I got similar impressions from my discussions with ali three The Portable Vectra family represents the immediate future of HP portability HP is Thanks to so many of you who are willing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an Opportunity to share tips answer questions discuss other products trade free software and Lotus templates and meet other professionals As you will notice some areas have more than one contact person and some major areas have none If you are in a missing area and would like to organize a group contact us If your groups combine also tell us We will publish this column each issue keeping it up to date Write Local Users Groups Box 869 Fairfield IA 515 472 6330 California Southern California We meet 2nd Thur 7 9 at HP sales office 5161 Lankershim Blvd North Hollywood Request PORTOVEC Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 San Diego Stephen L Eyre 619 452 8530 Dan Butterfield 619 470 3551 San Mateo Santa Clara Counties San Francisco Bay Area BAYCHHU HP Laptops amp Handhelds meet 2nd Sat of the month Contact Jim Horn 707 523
177. work on anything but the first file somehow it messes up the use of CTRL c to abort also Lotus 123 110 PLUS P VECTRA Getting To Point Mode From Edit Mode In Lotus there is a way within the Edit mode to point move the cursor to a cell to enter a cell address Simply pointing to the cell rather than writing its address manually is often easier especially if the cell is off the screen In the Edit mode pressing the Up or Down Arrow key normally enters the formula you are editing and moves the cursor to the next cell So how do you get into Point mode from Edit mode To do so you must be at the end of the formula you are editing The last symbol in the formula must be an arithmetic operator etc a comma or an open paren thesis Now move the cursor to the next cell by pressing the Up or Down arrow key This puts you in Point mode Now move to the cell whose address you wish to enter into the formula and press Return You have added the cell ad dress to your formula in Edit mode Transfer 123 By Craig Fullman How many times have you looked at a report on your ter minal and wished you could obtain a subtotal or percent change for several line items Now your wishing is a thing of the past I have saved hours of data entry using Transfer 123 and Lotus 1 2 3 together Using Reflection1 in my Portable Plus I copy on line reports to a disk file Hint Set TABS SPACES to YES in the file transfer configurati
178. y backing on this system reduces the operating costs and manpower requirements to a minimum If it is successful a dedicated system could be developed at a later time The system differs from CompuServe in that it is ac cessible to all users not just CompuServe members there is no fee and the forum will be dedicated exclusively to HP Portable users Here is how to log on the system LOGGING ON THE NEW BOARD We suggest you set your communication parameters to 8 n 1 so that you can download binary files software us ing XMODEM 7 e 1 will work but you can only download text files with this setting An HP IL card inside your IBM PC or com patible computer lets you transfer files to and from your HP portable computer It s a good solution to the data transfer problem provided you only use one desktop computer But if you ever need to transfer data between your Portable and someone else s desktop computer you re stuck or at least you were until now Because now there s a way to do it with software It s a program called Duette Together with a special serial connecting cable that it comes with Duette is all you need to transfer files at high speed both ways be tween your Portable and any IBM PC com usage It lets you use DOS commands such as type list rename and erase without hav ing to exit the program And it transfers data faster than you can with an HP IL card Duette is easy to use too Simp
179. y next issue we hope to be able to announce a number of products built specifically for The Portable Vectra Here is an idea of what is coming CIGARETTE LIGHTER RECHARGER You will soon be able to charge your Portable Vectra from your car s cigarette lighter The prototype of this recharger has been built It will probably retail for 49 95 and be available by the next issue of The Portable Paper HP ADAPTER CARDS The distinguishing feature of the Portable Vectra over O other laptops is its potential for expandability The Port _ able Vectra contains four slots for adapter cards HP fills up one slot with a card that contains a parallel printer port and a display port for a monochrome or color monitor The Portable Vectra CS 20 uses a second slot for a con THE PORTABLE PAPER troller card for the built in hard disk HP sells several cards for use in the additional empty slots They offer 1200 and 2400 baud modems as well as cards with serial ports and optional extended memory These HP cards should all be available by the time you read this and can be purchased from Personalized Software or your HP dealer THIRD PARTY ADAPTER CARDS Cards designed for the IBM PC or AT will not fit inside the Portable Vectra They must be re sized Re sizing involves changing the position of the pin connectors as well as shrinking the contents of the card by about 25 For tunately it does not require modifying the electronic for mat of IB
180. y stepped on it His 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 a mation package aimed at producing better writing not more writing e 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 Works with Leading Word Processors including MemoMaker The Editor MS Word WordPerfect MultiMate and WordStar The do Readability Index measures the reading grade level of the docu ment using the D O D RightWriter standard Flesch Kincaid 89 00 for Portable Paper subscribers formula RightWords Dictionary Extension for RightWriter 29 95 G0 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details o TO ORDER RightWrite is cee overdue r s an idea whose time Phi Wiswell PC PC Ma Roniterte is an excellent low cost i pening software package Inside Word Management ie is among the best have see Uncommon Word List lists misspelled slang and uncommon words RECOMMENDED OF HP110 Portable Portable Pius Recommends never _ Ponaie Vectra e decides RightWriter is a HE ma th writing aid The fina
181. y various circuits The 8 MHz output from the counter normally untapped will now be used to drive the V30 CPU This clock signal also has the 50 duty cycle re quired by the V30 The Harris 80C86 requires a 33 duty cycle clock which will now be left unused The modifica tions only involve lifting two IC pins and two wires They will be described later I have tested the speeded up Portable Plus with a 384K RAM drawer and a fully loaded ROM drawer with ab solutely no problems A recently acquired 1 MB RAM drawer also checked out fine at the higher speed All pro grams ran as before and those that write extensively to the LCD such as DIR and TYPE ran noticeably faster I would expect power drain on the batteries to be somewhat higher and the accuracy of the PAM battery gauge will be off to a certain degree The best way to compensate for this is to burn a new config EPROM for the Portable Plus with the power drain constants adjusted according to actual _ No more cutting and pasting Now you can Now 5 e KA weeman SOE ane Lame ET eed P 4 aj ae e ee oss available on ty yo NEL WEEE HE BOWE EO ROM Backup Pep ra Cl is Ng na Se cacy oo oe Fu Ge Gy Ge oa a for the Portable Plus a ee N BE ZSREE RR EERE f SAE Soe ons OM ERIE HUW EG HE x im Tm ee om be ee om Da om Ta em 3e gt a fo RT SE BF AT RZ RE RD ES STIENE tor HB EE 35 Be T2535 22 Fo G22 TF Er fs is At last Sideways printing for the HP Por
182. zed Software is selling HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra IBM PC and compat Ps and plug The Empowerer into the open slot and into your wall outlet It s that easy To run your HP9114 to your heart s content order your HP9114 Empowerer today HP9114 Empowerer 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 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 discount See enclosed four page brochure for details Like the MC II this unit uses an 80C88 microprocessor However it has a slightly larger display It uses MS DOS 3 2 and hence is programmable in either BASIC Pascal or C Most out of the box software will not run on the DC 3 0 because of the small display The machine will accom modate 32K byte EPROM s However they must be in stalled at the factory There are no plug in slots Four AA batteries power the DC 3 0 for up to fifty hours When these are exhausted a built in lithium battery preserves data during battery replacement This small computer directly accesses standard printer and disk drives through a built in parallel port It also has a serial port a telephone jack and a bar code port The DC 3 0 comes with 128K bytes of RAM but may be ordered with up t

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