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1. Requires qualified technician to install 68 pin connector in LS 12 110 Lev Cis 450 Kodak Diconix 150 Plus Printer Battery powered inkjet printer hardback dictionary sized Draft mode 180 chars sec 96 dots inch Quality mode 36 chars sec 192 dots inch Panel or software controlled fonts include pica elite draft nlq quality con densed super subscript underline italic emphasized proportional enlarged con densed double strike double wide Vol 4 4 9 ts LapTape Tape Backup Unit Tallgrass Technologies tape backup unit for backing up LS 12 20 or 40 Meg hard disk Connects via floppy disk connector Vol 4 4 24 NoSquint Turns hard to read underline cursor into easy to read block cursor Vol 4 4 24 Numeric Keypad Zenith numeric keypad for adding machine style numeric entry plugs into LS 12 right side 170 CS 6 StatPower Pocket Power Invertor Plug your LS 12 or Portable Vectra CS rechar ger into this 1 Ib 4 5 x 3 5 x 1 3 unit Plug the StatPower unit into your car s cigarette lighter and recharge your battery Vol 4 3 14 Traveldisk Portable Hard Drives External 10 to 250 MB rugged portable hard drives Uses bus extender card designed for P Vectra CS Can use same drive with PC Weltech 5 1 4 Inch Disk Drive 5 1 4 disk drive that plugs right into the LS 12 external drive port Vol 4 4 19 Weltech PhD Serial Hard Drive 20 MB battery charged hard drive that con nects to ser
2. 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 PRODUCT NO PRI2NM 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details special power supply that will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just re move the battery pack How many times have you wished you had a second external disk drive RECOMMENDED FOR TO ORDER HP110 Portable Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6330 Portable Plus Portable Vectra Po a HP150 IBM PC and compat The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software is selling HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial discount See enclosed four page brochure for details possible to very nicely run the latest version WordStar a 5 5 on the HP150 And it runs almost as well as on a PC WordStar 5 5 is an excellent word processing program it has split screen editing of two files at once it has on screen real time reformatting of paragraphs and the screen representation of the work is in the fonts selected for the final print and there is complete Laserjet support and paragraph styles are availab
3. 515 472 1879 Portable Computing With The Plus by Jim Scheef My basic approach to portable computing has been to use a portable as a peripheral to a desktop computer Both of the HP portables lend themselves particularly well to this approach The fact that they are MS DOS machines helps establish this relationship between the two com puters but the key is the HP IL link Transferring a file is aS easy as copying from one disk to another Once the Plus is parked on the desk and connected to the HP IL all of the files on it are instantly available to desktop applica tion programs This is real interoperability I started using portables almost five years ago with a borrowed HP 110 When I purchased a portable for my own use the Portable Plus was the obvious choice The upgrade to the Plus was needed to support full screen communications with an IBM mainframe More about this later The programs I use are Relay Gold this replaced Reflections for telecommunications Time Management with several add ons Lotus 1 2 3 Duette Memomaker Webster s Spelling Dictionary and several DOS utilities TIME MANAGER Over the years I have engaged in a search for the perfect calendar program Paper calendars while portable did not provide the to do and follow up capabilities I need When I first used an HP 110 I fell in love with Time Manager It s combination of appointment and to do lists is the simplest yet most efficient ca
4. I asked Peter what that means for HP s future in portable computing Peter told me that HP will continue to monitor customers needs That means sometime in the future HP may OEM another product form a joint market ing agreement with another manufacturer or develop a portable in house However there are no immediate plans and no Research and Development funds allotted The 1990 Subscribers Disk 110 We re still finishing the 1990 Subscribers Disk We ll have P it ready to ship with the January 1990 issue of The Portable Paper for all those whose subscriptions run PV through 1990 The only way the 1990 Subscribers Disk Ls will be available is with a 1990 subscription H The disk highlights include a number of programs that run on all four HP Portables First is LHARC which will save you lots of precious disk space This free program compresses files and groups files more efficiently then its shareware counterparts Secondly we have VDE a free Wordstar like text editor that Ed Keefe has been raving about all year in his Looking Glass column Thirdly we include MAXFIND a PC Magazine recommended 15 shareware text search program written by a local Fair field IA author He has created a special version for the HP110 You can quickly and efficiently use MAXFIND to locate any file by text that might be in it Other Subscriber Disk programs that run on all HP portables include the following KILLDIR a program that will era
5. 795 00 39 95 129 00 79 95 99 95 179 00 349 00 1099 00 699 00 385 00 200 00 95 00 139 00 64 90 99 95 59 95 99 95 39 95 199 95 99 95 150 00 250 00 399 00 415 00 629 00 449 00 79 95 235 00 119 00 695 00 37 95 115 00 74 95 89 95 169 00 CALL 299 00 899 00 599 00 345 00 189 00 89 00 135 00 29 95 69 95 49 95 89 95 37 95 179 00 89 95 119 00 250 00 475 00 475 00 PORTABLE PLUS SOFTWARE ON ROM If the product number ends with UR it is a used HP ROM If it ends with NK it is a new Personalized Software disk plus ROM backup The price in the Backup Price column is valid only for those who already own the software disk Part Product Num Word Processors WordPerfect 5 WD11NK The Editor II ED12NK MMkr TmMer MM21UR MSWord MS20UR MultiMate MM20UR Editor Pack FM17NK Editor II Webster FormatPlus FilePlus Editor Pack FM16NK Editor II Webster FormatPlus Retail Price SubBackup Price Price Exec Crd Mgr EC11UR 395 00 SideWinder SW12NK 134 95 Communications PC2622 PC13UR 395 00 Reflection RF11UR 525 00 TermPlus TE13NK 194 95 Productivity Boosters DOS Tools DT12NK 179 00 FilePlus FE14NK 164 95 HP Calculator CL1IINK 95 00 HP Duette DU13NK 194 95 Shelp SH12NK 110 00 Squish Plus SQ1INK 264 00 Typing Whiz TW12NK 144 95 Graphics Sketch SK12NK 175 00 Programming Languages MSBasic j MS21UR 331 00 Turbo Pascal 3 Shelp SdWndr SuperROM TP13N
6. H BNS PERT UEE BUNUN EE EP EE 0 UMN ERE ue EL BE SE BE Be RE ES PE ESSE EERE as OF GRES BE ES OS ED se Ee an tae ES BE SE RE BC RE EE EE ES er EE ME ZE es as EE ET at EE RE ZS gt Je z 2595 22 Tn TE i2 SE Er be lear ae fs gE i2 i ts ir ip ae ces Be Ps in We Gs TE ae G2 te Gear GF Es ps te ig feistri SIDEWINDER SideWinder is published by Southern Software RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP 150 IBM PC and compat OPTIONAL EXTRAS Southern Software of New Orleans creators of SideWinder have also created two companion utilities that work only on The HP Portables SideChar lets you create your own sideways characters At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable Portable PLUS and e or tne Fortabie Fius z samm ThinkJet 424 the HP150 Vectra m PC ace H a MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers See ee enna L tetes sto Sme i Pe i COUP cer Sie Seale ee Its called SideWinder and it s perfect for Lotus 1 2 3 print annnnnnnnnnssnm files MemoMaker files or any other text ASCII file that s too Simply fill in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built i in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs wide for a normal page whatever sideways characters you wish 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
7. The back of the HP Portables inter facing with other devices E PAM the home screen Managing files and starting programs Using PAM s System Config to est meet your needs Partitioning RAM into main memory and Edisc storage Part 3 Using ROM based software Tutorials on DOS MemoMaker Lotus 1 2 3 as a spreadsheet Lotus 1 2 3 as a database and data communica tions using the Terminal or TERM program These tutorials get you started and give you most of what you need to know about using these programs Part 4 Connecting the HP Portables to Peripherals Connecting to ThinkJet printer HP9114 disk drive Connecting to IBM compatible com puters with HPLink Connecting to HP DeskJet and other serial printers That Enhance the HP Portables E SideWinder prints speadsheets sideways Shelp pop up notepad calculator etc Webster s Spelling Checker The Editor word processor The Norton Utilities quick unerase disk sort Portable modems All this and more in an information packed 5 hour presentation by Hal Goldstein president of Personalized Software and leading expert on the HP Portables Hal has packed these tapes with useful information You ll save hours of poring over manuals and trying to figure things out for yourself use the machines See the latest Portable Equipment Exchange brochure for current prices on used Portables
8. Why not write a batch file to expedite the process The following should work assum NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 27 THE PORTABLE PAPER ing appointments are saved in a file named APPOINTS OLD See next page echo off cls copy appoints old 1 del 1 stuff Stuff in the last line is a specific utility program The Startup code for any program could occupy this line This batch file named SAV BAT is designed to run from within TM but it can be run from the DOS command line Enter TM and archive the appointment file Then return to the Calendar menu and type SAV filename ext FILENAME EXT is the file that the appointment list was archived to There are a number of enhancements that could be added to SAV BAT but I chose to keep it simple for this article USING TJCTRL WITH MEMOMAKER I was surprised at the answer to the question in last issue about using TJCTRL with MemoMaker I will grant that the solution will work but it is more difficult than necessary Please see The Portable Paper Vol 4 No 5 Pg 3 TJCTRE is a memory resident program that lets Portable Plus users control their ThinkJet from within their word processor spreadsheet or other applications TJCTRL will be on the 1990 Subscribers Disk and the Editor II ROM Backup chip Since PAM automatically sets a path there is no reason to make the disk and directory containing the program current This makes using MemoMaker more difficult since it is now ne
9. 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 eS ae l i It s a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a child In addition a built in mini text editor lets you get inside your Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal 1 i p and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp a ole eee doub le width Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the screen 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder Sketch amp Print lets you make line drawings on your screen using the cursor and function keys diop JUdWIdOJaAaq snog jo syIeWapey Palajsisal aie gZ pue SN O SideWinder gi ea ses er eo as Be S 69 9 5 ir For a complete graphics software program see ad for Sketch mh eh een ere o in this issue S59 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or send PRODUCT NO SWIINS check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box SideWinder 1 01 owners may upgrade to current version 2 01 which supports 8 chars inch by sending 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 j a f i 105 fi ietJet Pri Personalized Software 7 50 or by mailing a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and the SideWinder master disk Ono u C Copyright 1987 Personalized S
10. e bold underline compressed expanded italic The entire IBM PC version of WordPerfect on 32 disks and the standard WordPerfect users manual 2 Special utility programs Our versions of WordPerfect 4 2 and 5 0 both come with an IBM PC emulator program that allows WordPerfect to run on your HP com e superscripts and subscripts puter The Portable Plus version of this e automatic hyphenation tera a a emulator is called PlusPerfect Our disks also e right justi Hedon WordPerfect 5 0 for the pee ee eee include batch files that allow you to run Word deleti E R Portable Plus Perfect automatically a ee ree includes PlusPerfect WDI7NS 645 395 3 Optional ROM Backup for Portable Plus e and more 6 ROM chips containing PlusPerfect and a sig nificant portion of WordPerfect 5 0 You can but it also offers a carload of advanced fea PlusPerfect WDIANS 150 129 use 4 or 6 of these ROMs depending on the tures such as WordPerfect 5 0 for the amount of space available in your ROM drawer s Text in Column Portabie Pins with EO A e e Footnotes Tables of Contents and S Po z to 376K this ROM Backup saves you up to 384K Indexes of RAM Backup ROM WDIINK 940 595 e 115 000 word Speller SARE 5 To purchase the ROM Backup you must already e Thesaurus WordPerfect ROM own or order WordPerfect 5 0 and PlusPerfect on disk i i WDI2NR 29 295 e Mail Merging SACAP T ee 4 Instruction booklet e And built in Math
11. most programs load with the current directory as the active directory 123 on the other hand always defaults to the directory specified by the WGDD command and stored in 123 CNF 123 version 2 01 can be modified to fix this Just use the WGDD command and delete the Start up subdirectory This trick will work with compatible as well as the Plus If you try this with a compatible add the subdirec tory containing 123 files to the PATH If you use a batch file to load 123 do not change directories in the batch file Release 2 does not need to load from the program directory There is one flaw in this trick If the 123 CNF file is updated for any other reason 123 will insist on making the current directory the start up directory unless you remember to reset the directory option This is another example of a programmer getting in the way instead of being helpful Implementing this trick on a compatible is like moving from the basement to the penthouse when you issue the System command You will be in the subdirectory with your data files not over in the program directory with all of 123 s steam pipes plumbing and other assorted machinery 123 CHALLENGE Since one of the topics in this column has been program ming Iam going to leave you with a 123 macro program ming challenge Write a 123 macro to load MemoMaker Reflection and other applications Ideally this should be a macro menu When you exit the application loaded by this
12. 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 52556 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 Steven L Eyre 619 452 8530 Dan Butterfield 619 470 3551 San Mateo Santa Clara Counties San Francisco Bay Area BAYCHHU HP Laptops amp Handhelds meet 2nd Sat of the month Contact Jim Horn 707 523 4890 eve or Michael Felsenstein 415 564 8279 eve Sunnyvale Interex int l Hewlett Packard Users Group 640 Almanor Ave 408 738 4848 Colorado Colorado Springs Dan Ritt 303 528 8080 Denver call Bob Pressey 303 777 0326 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 Tues 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
13. would not run on the Portable Plus Vol 4 No 5 Pg 43 switching speeds In that case ld recommend a program such as VARISLOW This program is available from most local electronic bulletin boards or users groups It was originally written so that users of fast machines could slow them down and use them to play their favorite games It might just work with the HPIL card as well ANOTHER ANOMALY There is one more anomaly with the HPIL card that needs to be mentioned I have tried using an HPIL card with an 36 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 He mentioned that he had written and compiled programs in Turbo Pascal 3 0 and MIX Power C and these programs ran on the Plus So why don t all programs compiled on the Plus run on the Plus The answer has to do with how a given compiler translates such commands as print writeln and printf For instance Turbo Pascal 3 01 in its plain MS DOS version translates writelnQ commands into calls to the ROM BIOS of the Plus The ROM BIOS is another program that knows where and how to write to the En HPduette_ It transfers files both ways between your Portable Plus and your desktop computer without an HP IL card An HP IL card inside your IBM PC or com patible computer lets you transfer files to and from your Portable Plus Its 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 P
14. 169 115 AC OUT Fax your files anywhere anytime Now you can have both a 9600 bps Group III facsimile and a full featured 2400 bps modem in one completely portable pocket sized unit Share the WorldPort 2496 among different PC s or use it just for your work and travels Connects to Vectra serial port and can operate from its own battery or from AC power WorldPort 2496 PV LS 12 wflinh Retail 699 Subscriber 599 Access files from 5 25 floppies using your LS 12 Weltech 5 25 disk drive plugs right into the LS 12 external drive 4 port in back of LS 12 Can read from and write to 360K and 1 2M floppy disks Weltech 5 25 drivelLS 12 welinh Retail 349 Subscriber 299 THE PORTABLE PAPER Once the BEC is installed it s simple matter to connect the TRAVELDISK to the Vectra by connecting the special dataline cable to the BEC port and the TRAVELDISK The TRAVELDISK will automatically check for the presence of additional hard disks and configure itself for the next available drive You can use that same TRAVELDISK with other computers if they have the appropriate BEC in stalled The TRAVELDISK will reconfigure itself to suit each system TRAVELDISK is available with varying storage capacity from 10MB to 250MB Tradewinds Peripherals Inc TPI offers flexible purchasing options that allow you to buy rent or lease a TRAVELDISK through its authorized dealers or itself In addition TPI allows you to t
15. 22 LS 12 Still On HP Price List But not for Long 6 Frustrations And Resolutions 24 The 1990 Subscribers Disk 0 0 6 The Savvy User Attention HP3000 Users MPE On HP Portables 6 Time Manager Solution 27 Infoc m Games lt ii4 634 44 BE EER OR ESHER ES 6 Using TJCTRL With Memomaker 28 Nhat is ASCH jcc ow data Ye Beek OK OR 8 PAM Menu Overflows 4 30 PIPE Switeh BOX seanser Ter Sa ae Sees 9 Webster s Pop Up Spelling Checker 31 Portable Vectra Views PKAIP MOL meski itip pian ee Ee es Se EG 32 Get 738 MG out of 640 MG on the LS 12 12 Through the Looking Glass Weltec Serial Hard Drive Better Then What We Said 12 The Troubles With HPIL 34 Another Portable Hard Disk For The Vectra CS 12 MIX C ciare ee eh ee Se Saw a 8 ee EA 37 Power Management for the LS 12 PASSPORT 14 Torbo BASIC 2 0 geaen Ge ee se eS 37 Troubles With CS Screen 022 14 Video Display Editor 38 Personalized Software Products and Services in Brief SYMBOLS HP110 Portable Plus Portable Vectra WORD PROCESSING 170 Pw CS 0 The Editor II Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace editing 2 files at once em bedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line and block centering and macros Does word wrap right justify Easy to use Uses less than 40 K Versions for
16. A 52556 515 472 6930 HSC phone is 800 4 HALTED or 408 732 1573 The switch and HPIL connector constitutes a module and configuration is easily expandable in the modular manner for as many devices controllers as one desires If one doesn t desire total flexibility in interconnecting all devices controllers then another possible configuration is to connect a controller or device to only one loop in which case one switch is not required If one has many devices controllers and desires more than two loops the Figure 2 schematic may be of interest This configuration requires two switches per device and provides three loops for connecting devices controllers I constructed a three loop six device version for Lee Wood riff to provide him flexibility in reconfiguring his system of three controllers HPIL CONTROLLER DEVICE SWITCH 3 LOOPS CONTROLLER CONIROLLER CONIROLLER CONTROLLER DEVICE S DEVICE S DEVICE S HPIL CONTROLLER E ols iN oC aa Out Xx oD aa IN gt gt o o EENE mE oo ERE REAR IN OUI N IN Gr Our rear EET GD Ge i i ia il CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONIROLLER LOOP I mae DEVICE S DEVICE S DEVICE S f s LOOP I i sft ii ij z t 4 9 CONNECT TO LEFT i SIDE OF PAGE 10 REAR i FORM A LOOP viw 1 i AFTER LAST SWITCH e POSITION wr Be THE LOOP LOOP 1 LOOP 2 ry Js yn sf et J a TO RS n mi HiT LOOP 1 1 as CONNECT TO LEFT LOOP 9 r 5 SIDE OF PAGE TO LOOP 2 FORM A LOOP
17. E 375 4812 Washington Eastern Washington Northern Idaho Western Montana and possibly Western Washington Bob Sandberg 509 466 4999 Eastern Washington Stephen S Warner D 509 534 1588 E 509 535 3322 Western Washington Portable Plus 150 and Vectra users meet first Thurs 7 9 pm HP sales office Bellevue Pete Ross 206 342 8875 Portable 40 amp 50 Series 7 9pm second Wed U Wash 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 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 Tralfalgar House Grenville Place Mill Hill London NW7 3SA England Tim Cullis 01 959 4359 HP Computer Users Association LTD Cunningham House Bessborough Road Harrow HA1 3DX United Kingdom 01 423 3313 Japan I would like to help start a users group Michael Lazarin 26 26 502 Moto Ujina Minami ku Hiroshima 734 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 atencion de D Enrique Serra Ronda Universidad 15 08007 Espana Sweden Stokholm first Thurs each month 6 30 pm call to confi
18. Ford PA Using The Editor to make PAM and Time Manager easier I have no suggestions about extending the size of the appointments file or the To Do file in Time Manager as requested by Donald Herkleroad in the Septem ber October issue of The Portable Paper However I have found some ways to make life simpler using The Editor on my HP110 1 use The Editor to erase items from my PAM ALM and TM TDO files It s lots faster than doing it in Time Manager For anniversaries and such I use the replace function to change the year and make the text entry timeless i e using the year of birth rather than the age The pro gram then puts them in the proper order when it next boots 2 I have not actually exceeded the file length for either one but if I did it would create a future and past file for the list in question and move blocks of items from present to past or future to present with The Editor using the capac ity it has to move from one file to anoth er with a couple of key strokes P Pv I expect that with the very helpful fea tures of The Editor II including the macros it would be possible to devise an efficient means of handling specific probl ems without going to the trouble of using DOS file manipulation Curtis Farrar Washington DC Short note of appreciation Three cheers for your staff and con tributing personnel They ve helped and supported the operation of my Portable Plus in engineering
19. HP150 version 4 2 to 5 0 2 e e o EEATT NO Call us for pricing and other details Requires proof of purchase of WordPerfect 5 0 and PlusPerfect and written confirmation that you will honor the WordPerfect license agreement BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software L PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 _ Frequently Asked Questions If you have additional questions don t hesitate to call us Q Are the Portable Plus and HP150 versions of WordPerfect identical to the IBM PC version A WordPerfect 5 0 and 4 2 are identical on all three machines except a the on line tutorial does not run on the Portable Plus or HP150 However the learning section of the users manual covers the same material as the tutorial b the Preview Document feature which shows special fonts and graphics as they will appear on printing functions in a limited way c Some extra unessential utilities that come with WordPerfect do not run on the HP150 or Portable Plus With both 5 0 and 4 2 if you already know how to use WordPerfect on an IBM PC you can use the HP version right out of the box Q Can transfer WordPerfect files back and forth between different versions of Word Perfect and between my HP computer and an IBM PC A Ye
20. I HAVE to learn another style of programming These TA Not everyone in the programming business is sold on the merits of OOP FOUR YEARS AND HOLDING 110 Even though learning something new is frustrating I ll probably continue to do that for at least another four ima years These past four years have certainly been a valu El able learning experience for me although at times somewhat frustrating Writing this column has forced me yf to learn more than I ever thought I possibly could In many ways I feel that I ve gained the equivalent of a college degree in computer education Along the way I ve met some great people Most of these people like Paul Grimmer Tom Page and David Hughes I ve met on the phone and on Compuserve A few like Hal Goldstein and Gary Goodman I ve met in person And of course spending a summer working with the staff of Personalized Software was a learning ex perience that Pll never forget Most importantly I ve had the chance to participate in the first four years of Personalized Software s growth I ve watched Hal Goldstein s idea of service to HP Portable users become a reality both in the pages of the Portable Paper and in the minds of more than twenty people who now make up Personalized Software I feel privileged to have played a small part in that growth But after four years it s time for me to graduate from this learning experience to something different Over the past ye
21. MESSAGE FOR PORTABLE PLUS USERS Special Portable Plus version The authors of Squish Plus have worked with Personalized Software to create a customized ver sion that runs on the Portable Plus This version is available only from us Be sure you specify PORTABLE PLUS VERSION when you order Buy Squish Plus on ROM With disk space at a premium in the Portable Plus the best way to buy Squish Plus is on ROM Backup Our exclusive ROM Backup package includes the Squish Plus disk and two ROMs 128K total that contain all the Squish Plus files except for one that you ll never need With Squish Plus on ROM all the useful Squish Plus utilities will always be available and you won t have to give up any disk space at all
22. Tools FilePlus FE14NK 164 95 154 95 PS 1 HP Calculator CL11NK 95 00 95 00 PS 1 From our 1987 Subscriber Disk HP Duette DU13NK 194 95 184 95 PS 1 Contains Portable Plus half of software Shelp SH12NK 110 00 104 95 PS 1 Includes note extraction program Shelp also available on a ROM with SideWinder and as part of SuperROM chip see Combined ROMs below Time Manager HP Comes on same ROM as MemoMaker see combined ROMs below Typing Whiz TW12NK 144 95 134 95 PS 1 Squish Plus NEW SQ1IINK 264 00 234 95 PS 2 GRAPHICS Sketch SK12NK 175 00 170 95 PS 1 Lotus 1 2 3 can also be used for graphics PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES MSBasic MS21UR 331 00 165 00 HP 1 This is not GWBASIC COMBINED ROMs MemoMaker TimeMgr MM21UR 245 00 119 00 HP 1 Shelp SideWinder SH13NK 234 95 214 90 PS 1 Also includes SideWinder enhancement utility SuperROM SU11INK 474 00 299 00 PS 1 Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version included 5 programs on one on the PrinterTalk disk it is functionally equivalent chip The Editor to Printertalk for most applications Shelp and Format110 Mini SideWinder are the same versions as on the PrinterTalk Shelp Sidewinder individual ROMs described above BUNDLES Editor Pack FM17NK 823 00 599 00 PS 5 Editor II Webster FormatPlus FilePlus Editor Pack FM16NK 658 00 499 00 PS Editor II Webster FormatPlus TUtilities included in the Best of DOS Tools ROM backup Package are as follows For program details see catalog PACK DUMP TY CYPHE
23. 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 expand ed printing No but why go on If you use MemoMaker 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 Portable 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 desktop that you use on your Portable The program is called THE EDITOR II 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 II s most valuable features are listed on the chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR II is a real blessing I use it daily instead of MemoMaker and I ve silently given thanks to its author Ed Gilbert many many times Just a few minutes with THE EDITOR II that s all it takes to be up and run ning and I think you ll be a fan of his too In addition to the great features listed to the right there are six more I especial
24. and up pops the Shelp menu right in the middle of your application Lotus in this example 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 Yoy can save results in ten E paste results at the different storage cursor location in registers and retrieve whatever application you them again with two were using when you quick keystrokes invoked Shelp 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 want No more having to scribble notes on paper to remind you of phone numbers things to do or bright ideas Choose Key Macros and you can assign strips of up to 31 typewriter characters to any of the 26 letters in the alphabet This saves you having to type the same phrase over and over again Example If you type United States a lot you could assign the entire phrase to the U key Just move the cursor to U in the Keyboard Macros menu and type United States To recall United States simply press Ctrl Extend char then U Presto United States appears at the cursor location in your application Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to PA M and without having to save your application file When you turn your
25. backup FilePlus will save you time and effort boost your productivity and increase your enjoyment of your Portable Plus Once you try FilePlus you won t want to be without it Order FilePlus at our risk today FUG PIUS cici date catteue matin tle on ee eyes ae hws 8 oats tobe 69 95 Portable Paper Subscriber s Price 0 00005 59 95 ORDER NO FEJINS Use enclosed postuge pald order form RECOMMENDED FOR or send check or credit card information exp date signature to HP110 Portable Portable Vectra BE A Soft ware PEE ESNE Dk Ap 472 6330 Portable Plus HP150 e IBM PC and compatibles e 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details x x i Soe ERNU m 3 l 2400 baud portable modem for your HP Portable Weighs only 62 ounces If you do data comunications with an HP Port able or Portable Plus you ve probably found the internal 300 or 1200 baud modem to be too slow Until now the only solution was to buy a bulky external modem and lug it around wher ever you go A better solution is the Worldport 2400 It measures a trim 4 x2 x1 it s rugged it weighs only 6 ounces including the battery and it sends and receives at 300 1200 and 2400 baud A MYRIAD OF FEATURES The Worldport 2400 has a wealth of features you would expect to find in a desktop modem several times its size EXTRA BONUS FOR USERS OF THE IBM PC AND NEW HP
26. ea SA a ee satan WordPerfect 5 0 P Plus WD17NS 645 00 395 00 gau Shee APRON 7RR Includes PlusPerfect File Transfer PlusPerfect WD14NS 150 00 129 00 HPDuette for P Plus DU11NS 99 95 89 95 Word Processing Utilities LapLink LA11NS 139 95 119 00 Format110 FM12NS 39 95 35 95 ae ae ean oe FormatPlus FP11NS 79 95 69 95 Link150 LK13NS 90 00 85 95 FormatPlus Upgrade FP14NG 35 00 35 00 JHP RD1INS 70 05 69 5 MemoMaker Pack FM14NX 159 90 125 00 nee 7 Format Plus Webster Spelling Checker Programming Formatter FM11NS 59 95 49 95 Turbo Pascal 3 0 Optimizer TP17NS 125 00 119 00 HPrint HP11NS 80 00 79 95 Turbo Pascal 5 5 PrinterTalk PT11NS 49 95 44 95 for P Vectra LS 12 IBM PC TP55NS 150 00 135 00 PrinterTalk Format110 PT12NS 89 90 59 95 for Portable Plus HP150 TP52NX 219 00 175 00 RightWords Dictionary Ext RW12NS 29 95 29 95 upgrade for P Plus HP150 RightWriter RW11NS 95 00 89 00 must own IBM PC Turbo 5 5 TP15NS 69 00 69 00 Webster Speller WB11NS 79 99 69 95 Project Management i eae WEL UNS PO 2790 PertMaster for HP110 PRIINS 695 00 499 00 Database Accounting Software PertMaster for P Plus PR12NS 695 00 499 00 Condor 3 CR11NS 495 00 379 00 PertMaster for HP150 PR13NS 695 00 499 00 Condor Jr CR13NS 99 95 89 95 PertMaster for Vectra PR14NS 695 00 499 00 Dac Easy Accounting DC11NS 150 00 129 00 Milestone ML11NS 99 95 89 95 Communications Integrated Packages WorldPort Modem 1200 WM11NH 199 00 179 00 T Maker HP110 TM11NS 99 95 95 00 WorldPort Modem 2400
27. feel to it In early October we sent out our premier issue of The UltraLite Connection I hope some of you purchase an UltraLite and join us for the years to come with both our publications We are authorized to sell the UltraLite UltraLite prices have recently dropped to 2995 and 2495 for the 2 Megabyte and 1 Megabyte versions respectively We sell these machines with about a 20 discount Please call us for pricing and availability We ll include a 1990 subscrip tion to The UltraLite Connection with your purchase of the UltraLite from us NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 17 MAXI POWER PLUS The most powerful and unique feature of your Portable Plus is that it lets you store programs on ROM Read Only Memory chips for instant access Almost all other portable com puters require a disk drive in order to function A disk drive even a portable one is a bulky piece of equipment easily break able and slow in loading pro grams By contrast a ROM chip weighs next to nothing is virtually inde structible and lets you load pro grams instantly Programs on ROM chips don t take up any space on your Edisc All of which means that your 9 pound Portable Plus is the fast est most portable and most re liable computer you can own provided of course you take full advantage of its ROM technology YOUR SOFTWARE DRAWER WAS MEANT TO BE FULL The engineers at Hewlett Packard designed the Portable Plus s
28. files so they take up less disk space YOUR DISK BEFORE SQUISH PLUS e A must for every HP Portable owner ROM Backup version especially valuable if you use a Portable Plus Sorry SQUISH PLUS doesn t run on the HP110 It isn t often we find a program that s a must for every portable user but Squish Plus is just such a program Squish Plus lets you increase your disk storage space by 50 or more for as little as 89 95 without having to install any hardware or learn any new commands Squish Plus compresses files saving them much more efficiently than DOS For example a word processing file of 50K might only take 30K using Squish Plus COULDN T BE EASIER To use Squish Plus you simply add a new drive letter to your system for example e If you wish the new drive can be password protected Then whenever you save files to the new drive Squish Plus compresses them auto matically When you retrieve a compressed file Squish Plus automatically expands it to its normal size The saving in disk space is enormous Squish Plus compresses data files spreadsheets text documents databases by 30 70 and compresses program files by 5 25 On the average you will increase the amount of data you can store on a disk by 50 or more Note All your other software can use the com pressed data as is There are no new commands to learn You set up direc tories and perform all fi
29. functions for In addition to the comprehensive WordPerfect creating a mini spreadsheet Wordperfect 4 2 for the l users manual we supply our own instruction h d i Portable Plus WDI4NS 435 339 booklet It tells you step by step how to get ALY W ee key OE COCUMENE started what to ignore in the users manual and Best of all you can run the complete WordPerfect 5 0 for the i how to use WordPerfect on your HP computer WordPerfect on your Portable Plus or HP150 WDISNS 495 395 7 Keyboard na EN HP 150 Touchscreen Depending on the e also include a convenient 4 color keyboard WordPerfect 4 2 single template that we ve designed specifically for the kind of Por table Plus or HP150 you have sided for HP150 WDI2NS 435 339 unique keyboard layout of your Portable Plus or you can use either WordPerfect 4 2 or the HP150 The template shows you at a glance new 5 0 WordPerfect 4 2 double which keys to press to execute each of Word To learn more about the world s most ad sided for the HP150 WDIINS 435 339 Perfect s functions vanced word processor and how to use it on your HP computer read the informa tion on these two pages Better still try our Portable Plus or HP150 version of Word Perfect for yourself at our risk Order WordPerfect today and put it through its paces Use it to format documents in a fraction of the time it took you before WordPerfect Upgrade Kit Upgrades Personalized Software Portable Plus or
30. in a few months its system battery will be easily replaceable without data loss somewhat compensating for its 1 5 hour battery life The 110 and the Plus still have definite advantages The UltraLite scratches easily and I would hate to drop it HP Portables are rugged with battery life of over 12 hours HP Portables allow multiple programs in ROM In addition their are a number of subtleties that really make me appreciate HP engineering For example there is no automatic time out feature in the UltraLite That means if you want to stop using your UltraLite for a little while you must turn it off to spare the battery Then you have to turn it back on and wait for a boot up sequence That can take up to half a minute Secondly for com patibility reasons NEC made the cluster size 4096 bytes HP made theirs 512 bytes That means in practical terms whenever you save a file on the UltraLite 2K is wasted On the HP only 256 bytes are wasted Finally for those of you who don t like PAM you should see the MicroSoft manager built into the UltraLite It s clumsy takes up too much ROM space over 100K and unintu itive to use It also knows nothing about the ROM drive On the Plus if you put a ROM in the application automa tically shows up in PAM Not so with the UltraLite Still two Megabytes of Edisc weighing only four pounds is worth a lot The UltraLite keyboard is surprisingly good to use and the UltraLite has a quality look and
31. is only 25K and you add in CUSTOMER BY NUMBER NAME STATE Lotus 1 2 3 print files BM PC and compat dividual 10K programs for each function you In the software market we have witnessed six revisions of Turbo Pascal three versions of Lotus 1 2 3 and several versions each of MS Word WordPerfect and WordStar Four years is a long time in higher education my field It s enough time to earn a college degree If you already had a degree then four years is almost enough time in which to gain a PhD For me four years is enough time to have taught more than 1 600 people how to use computers In four years we have watched Personalized Software grow from a two product company PrinterTalk and The Portable Paper to a thriving business with over 75 different products and services Indeed four years is a long time in the computing business A lot can happen in that amount of time AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION si With all that has happened in the past four years I have only one question why do these four years feel like four months It seems like only yesterday that I opened up my HP 110 and started tapping out the first Through the Looking Glass column It feels almost too early to say this but here it is anyway Happy Fourth Anniversary to The Portable Paper and Personalized Software SOME ANSWERABLE QUESTIONS Even though I don t have an easy answer to why time seems to pass so quickly I may have some answers to a couple
32. left with the Portable Vectra CS is David Seagull whom many of you know from phone sales and technical support David now is director of marketing and writes much of our marketing mat erial To David s right is the manag ing editor of The Portable Paper Richard Hall He has eased my job almost an order of magnitude taking over most of the editing and desktop publishing of this newsletter Cliff Harvey left back row and Mark Thomas in the front and left of Cliff both are holding HP9114 s are responsible for cleaning testing inventorying and shipping used equipment Jim Larson with the ThinkJet is responsible for data entry and printing reports Larry Baldozier with a Portable Paper notebook in each hand is Director of Operations He makes sure the whole operation runs smoothly To Larry s left is Rick Finnell in charge of quality control shipping and making products Dee Stauffer and Brian Teitzman whom many of you have talked with on the phone work in sales and are to Rick s left Below Brian is Deborah Quade who handles subscriptions and all our mailings Vicki Randolph is to Deb s right Vicki handles all customer problems and complaints Judy Horsch acts as a receptionist and secretary for the phone salespeople I am next standing next to Rita Goldstein my partner and my wife Without Rita there would be no Personalized Software and no Portable Paper Behind and between Rita and I is Barbara Gianino who does what
33. macro the 123 spreadsheet should be active HINT The solution to this problem is similar to that of the puzzle using 4 straight adjoining lines connect 9 dots 3 rows of 3 dots arranged in a square You must get outside of the square Also playing with 123 graphics I discovered a way to draw a rectangular box below I don t know if there is any value to this procedure but it produces an interesting display Can you draw a box 1 2 3 GRAPHICS CHALLENGE Squares and Cubes G 9 d E S 16 I will give you the solution to both of these problems next issue Tom works for a natural gas pipeline company in Houston Texas and was one of the first to use PC s in the natural gas industry His excellent contributions to the Portable Paper have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is truly The Savvy User Through the Looking By Ed Keefe Four Years And Still Looking This is the twenty fourth Through the Looking Glass column That means four years have passed since I wrote the first column for The Portable Paper Four years is a long time in the computing business In four years we have experienced the life cycles of four HP laptops In four years we have seen the Intel Cor poration upgrade its microprocessor from the simple 8086 chip to the 80486 chip Four years ago if we had a microcomputer with 256K bytes of memory and that was more than enough to satisfy our needs Today most desktop microcomputer
34. of questions in the last issue of The Portable Paper The answers themselves should be considered questionable They re simply my best guesses Please correct me if Pm wrong 34 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 wish to use THE TROUBLES WITH HPIL Gary Wilson wrote about his frustrations with using an HPIL interface card in a desktop computer Vol 4 No 5 Pg 4 I could certainly empathize with him on that note I also wondered why I had not mentioned my own frustrations with the HPIL card before this I started using an HPIL card in an early Model D Leading Edge computer over three years ago After having puzzled through the on disk installation guide for the HPIL card it still took a call to Personalized Software to learn about the magic 1700 number Until I had that number and could figure out how to set the dip switches correctly there are two sets of eight switches and a fifty fifty chance that you ll guess which side of the switches are ON or OFF nothing happened on the computer Then in my eagerness to try out the HPIL card I hooked up my HP110 and started sending files to the hard disk in the Leading Edge Bye bye hard disk That was how I learned about the different file structure used by MS DOS 2 11 on the HP110 and that used by MS DOS 3 1 on the Leading Edge I posted a note to myself NEVER use the HP Portable as the talker on the HPIL loop The only way to transfer files to or from a hard disk formatted with MS D
35. offering more options sometimes upsets the portable screen making a reboot necessary to clear screen garbage fgrep is another UNIX style program that searches files for text strings I m not trying to imitate e e cummings UNIX commands are always typed in lower case Like Is it uses DOS for it s screen Output and thus has proven to be quite compatible with the Plus With fgrep it s easy to find the correct file if you know a string of text to search for PCOPY is a very simple DOS file management utility I started using it regularly when I found that it would warn me if I was about to copy a file over another of the same name I run version 2 1 on the Plus while using version 3 5 on the desktops The reasons are RAM space and screen compatibility PCOPY should be run under PCRUN so I use a batch file PCOPY uses the same syntax as the DOS copy command but adds some switches to control the options which include automatic update of the target move copy only new only existing files etc PCOPY is a Shareware program by Norm Patriquin As you might have guessed PCOPY is the basis for my file backup program since it can recognize the DOS archive bit and can follow and copy an entire directory tree from one command PCOPY can be found on the Personalized Software BacTools disk 39 95 If you use the program the shareware fee is still required The other utilities FORMIBM OFFPLUS and TJETA are all from Personalize
36. result may be that in the future we will see more effective keyboards The philosophy of designing a portable computer to run desktop software is simply wrong LEARNING TO PROGRAM K 1 cannot understand why people refuse to learn to program their computers It s amazing that some people will write complex macros for 123 but will not even try writing simple batch files or think about making terminal g sessions easier by writing a command file for their ter minal program One of the reasons this occurs is that action within a 123 spreadsheet is easily conceptualized whereas DOS commands and command languages associated with most terminal programs are much more abstract and difficult to comprehend especially for someone who does not normally think in computer terms Many computer users are not proficient typists and are scared of the keyboard and of the tools used for writing programs Of course some of the directions that are given for writing batch files are enough to frighten anyone who listens There is no way the average five thumbed novice computer user can type a three line batch file using the COPY CON com mand He has too many other things to worry about EDLIN may be even more difficult for the novice Don t knock these procedures They have their place When in DOS COPY CON is quickest way to write short text files It takes some confidence to use this command but knowing that mistakes can be loaded into an editor an
37. the Vectra If I want to travel with a file normally stored on the Vectra I save it to D Filename Ext With the Squish Disk installed I found that the only way to read and write to the Squish Disk on the Plus from the Vectra is to have the following lines in the Vectra CONFIG SYS file DEVICE E SQ SQPLUS SYS and the following line in the AUTOEXEC BAT file of the Vectra ATTACH M to D HDISK The DEVICE command above lets the Vectra see the B ROM as Drive E The ATTACH command lets the Vectra see my Squish Disk HDISK as Drive M These instructions are not anywhere in the Squish documentation I thought they might be useful Frank Robertazzsi Rugherford New Jersey Squish Plus Extends Life Of Portable Plus Several years ago I bought an HP Port able Plus for the following reasons I am a computer idiot a the Executive Card Manager program its durability and long battery life It s worked like a charm but even after a 1 megabyte upgrade I still ran out of room I wanted to carry a large cus tomer database card file on the E disk I live in my car and the Plus is perfect for me I have had to split my files and balance a disk drive on my lap Then I read the latest edition of The Portable Paper and found out about Squish Plus You saved the day With the help and patience of Steven in Personalized Software s technical sup port we got the ROM version of Squish installed He s great w
38. you install these ROMs you ll have every thing you need right inside your Portable Plus Yow ll never have to carry a disk drive again We invite you to browse through the chart read the information at the right and then order one or more ROMs today You ll find them to be fast reliable and an incredible boost to your produc tivity Whatever your reason to free up valuable memory space to eliminate the need for an exter nal disk drive or just for the convenience of lightning fast pro gram loading fill your software drawer with ROMs and you ll turn your Portable Plus into the powerhouse its designers intend ed it to be With our exclusive Double Guarantee the risk is all ours Why not order right now P S If you have questions about any of the ROMs give us a call Brian or David will be happy to make some recommendations as to which ROMs might best meet your needs for word processing spreadsheets or whatever ap plications you re interested in St umm cnn LX N A EASY TO INSTALL We supply clear instructions and diagrams with every ROM order If you prefer send us your software drawer and we will install your ROMs for you and test them at no charge To remove your software drawer first back up your A drive so you won t lose your data then use an ordinary screw driver to remove the two outside screws on the drawer You won t be able to use your Portable Plus without th
39. 0 129 00 1988 Subscriber Disk SB13NS 115 00 9 50 Norton Utilitiess NU11NS 99 95 89 95 1989 Subscriber Disk SB14NS 115 00 9 50 PrintMaster P Plus PR1INS 79 95 69 95 PP Binder Vol 1 PB11NM 7 00 Private File PF11NS 39 95 34 95 PP Binder Vol 2 PB12NM 7 00 ReadHP RDI1INS 79 95 69 95 PP Binder Vol 3 PB13NM 7 00 Shelp SH11NS 55 00 49 95 PP Binder Vol 4 PB14NM 7 00 Squish Plus P Plus SQ11NS 129 00 99 95 PP Binder Vol 1 4 PB1SNM 25 00 Squish Plus Vectra SQ12NS 99 95 89 95 Hee tatalon Tiger Fox TFLINS 32 95 29 95 tree atalogs Time Manager SB11NS 9 50 9 50 HP Portable CATPOR 0 00 Typing Whiz TW11NS 49 95 39 95 HP150 CAT150 0 00 k Graphics Logitech Mouse MS14NM 119 00 99 95 SOFTWARE AND ACCESSORIES Logitech Mouse P Plus System MS15NM 219 00 179 95 P Plus Mouse Sftwre MS11NS 70 00 60 00 Word Processors P Plus Mouse Cable MS13NM 30 00 20 00 The Editor II ED11NS 129 00 99 95 Sketch SK11NS 80 00 75 95 Editor Pack FM16NX 289 00 195 00 Sketch Halftone disk SD11NS 9 50 9 50 raat a le HERR ep Flowcharting II FL11NS 299 00 269 00 itor isk Upgrade 35 00 35 00 a The Editor II Formatter ED13NX 149 95 119 95 101 Macros Spreadsheet and Statistics 95 62 95 VI Unix like editor VI11NS 195 00 169 00 Lotus 123 v2 01 S fe i l WordPerft 4 2 ss HP150 WD12NS 435 00 339 00 PE DEN a ANE ange Eo WordPerft 4 2 ds HP150 WD11NS 435 00 339 00 See ee oe oe WordPerft 5 0 ds HP150 WD13NS 495 00 395 00 pice Winger end UUES We I Oe WordPerfect 4 2 P Plus WD18NS 435 00 339 00
40. 00K wp fil file spelling checker or thesaurus The Editor II ED12NK 224 00 194 95 PS 1 The Editor version 1 is available as part of our SuperROM chip see Combined ROMs below MemoMaker HP Comes on same chip as Time Manager see Combined ROMs below MSWord MS20UR 394 00 199 00 HP 1 MultiMate MM20UR 520 00 295 00 HP 1 WORD PROCESSING UTILITIES Format110 PS Comes as part of SuperROM see Combined ROMs FormatPlus FP13NK 174 95 164 95 e PS 1 see hh elec eRe aE cee ee ce ee ET ee ee ee HPrint HP12NK 175 00 170 95 PS 1 Mini PrinterTalk PS Comes as part of SuperROM see Combined ROMs Webster Speller WB13NK 258 95 248 95 PS 2 SPREADSHEETS AND UTILITIES Lotus 123 1A LT12UR 495 00 295 00 HP 2 Lotus 123 2 01 LT15UR 625 00 395 002 HP 3 3rd ROM containing help doesn t have to be installed Lotus 123 2 01 LT11HR 625 00 499 002 HP 3 Pricing of NEW HP ROM if used ROM not available SideWinder SW12NK 134 95 124 95 PS 1 Also available on a ROM with Shelp and on our SuperROM chip see Combined ROMs below DATABASE PROGRAMS Exec Card Manager EC11UR 395 00 225 00 HP 1 Lotus 1 2 3 can also be used as a database COMMUNICATIONS PC2622 PC13UR 395 00 239 00 HP 1 VT100 and HP Terminal emulator Reflection RF11UR 525 00 295 00 HP 1 Minor upgrade of PC2622 TermPlus TE13NK 194 95 174 95 PS 1 Includes FormIBM Jetctrl and other great utilities PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTERS Best of DOS Tools DT12NK 179 00 168 95 PS 2 Selected utilities from DOS
41. 4 forever Mobile Recharger Lets you recharge your HP110 Portable Plus ThinkJet HP9114 Hp hand held etc from your cars cigarette lighter 3 Ring Binders for Back Issues Handsome printed 3 Ring binders for back issues of The Portable Paper Specify Volume number 1 4 INTEGRATED PACKAGE T Master and T Maker T Master fully integrated word proces sor speller relational database graphics com munications package T Maker earlier version runs on HP110 without communications VECTRA CS AND LS 12 PRODUCTS LapLink Transfers files to PC See File Transfer Made Easy at top of previous page Civ Ce FloppyDRIVER Software speeds floppy disk access operations loading running programs copying files etc HP IL Card for Portable Vectra Fits in Portable Vectra adapter slot Functions exactly like IBM PC HP IL card allowing transfer of data to HP IL devices like the HP9114 HP110 and Portable Plus Cw CE e EtherNet Adapter Pocket EtherNet Adapter directly connects to the parallel printer port of the LS 12 Portable Vectra CS or any IBM compatible and allows you to connect to an Ethernet or IEEE 802 3 LAN The adapter supports Novell NetWare versions 2 0a and higher is the size of audio cassette tape holder weighs 5 oz Vol 4 4 18 Expansion Chassis LS 12 AC Expansion Chassis from Zenith supports up to 3 XT compatible cards for EGA or VGA graphics addition I O ports EMS memory networking etc
42. 56 66 Sa ee es 16 Webster s Speller 20 2 Weltech 5 1 4 drive 13 Weltech serial hard drive 12 WordPerfect 5 0 Inside back WorldPort Modem MNP 17 WorldPort Modem 31 WorldPort 2496 Fax 13 PRICE LIST Center Spread Portable Plus users At last A great spelling checker available on ROM Webster s web stars n The spelling checker rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine Dec 24 1985 and now _ Hi ty available from Personalized Software for the Portable Plus and HP150 Customized on 31 2 disk by special arrangement with Simon amp Schuster 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 21 2 times as many as in The Word Plus yet WEBSTER S dic tionary and main program take up only 207K of disk memory Second WEBSTER S isn t just easy to use it s positively a pleasure It reads your files at high speed then displays every questionable word in context highlighted At the same time in a window off to the side it gives you a list of possible correct spellings A simple menu gives you the following option
43. BLISHER S MESSAGE Personalized Worldwide distrihutorsal HP printer amp The Staff of Personalized Software It s hard to believe but this issue completes our fourth year and twenty fourth issue publishing Zhe Portable Paper The first issue written in the Fall of 1985 was devoted to the HP110 Readers urged me to expand coverage to the Portable Plus Reluctantly I did I was ardent HP110 user and did not like the original Portable Plus screen I soon changed my tune when I realized the power and flexibility of the Portable Plus In 1988 we added the Portable Vectra CS and in 1989 the LS 12 These are four very different machines and we have attempted to cover each of them in proportion to our readership interest With the recent announcement that HP is at least temporarily getting out of the portable business see the lead 110 article our role increases in importance to HP Portable computer users We are now the only knowledge and product source for these computers Ironically product offerings for these systems should increase next year as the software peripheral and accessory market for portable computers begins to boom We ll keep you informed of what works with which HP computer We ll also continue to provide a forum for users to share their discoveries tips and tricks with other users It s time to thank again all the people who made The Portable Paper successful this year I trust you enjoy as much as I do the re
44. HP110 Plus HP150 Vectra and IBM PC all on master disk VI UNIX style editor Dw CS 2 Word Perfect 5 0 and 4 2 World s best selling word processor customized to P Plus Dozens of advanced features inclu ding fonts integrated text and graphics style sheets document compare text in columns footnotes tables of contents indexes 115 000 word speller thesaurus mail merging built in math functions P Plus version comes with PlusPerfect our own IBM PC emulator that allows WordPerfect to run on the Plus Option al ROM Backup saves 384K of RAM WORD PROCESSING UTILITIES 110 Pw OS Ge The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multiline headers footers page numbers table of contents glos sary capabilities more Works on MemoMaker The Editor files Manual in draft form no technical support available 150 Format Plus An integrated word processing command center for the Portable Plus Let s you run your word processor spelling checker and other applica tions from a single easy to use program Also lets you do headers footers lines per page automatic page numbering and more HPrint Prints text MemoMaker ASCII files 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 mail merging and it le
45. ISES Most companies elect not to tell their customers what they are working on for good reasons They don t want to look bad when they can t deliver or when it takes three times as long to complete as they originally predicted In addition these companies don t want to impede sales of existing products while customers wait for future pro ducts Finally such companies don t want to be plagued with phone calls asking why the product is not ready If I were wise I would probably assume this strategy of silence But I can t help myself I get enthusiastic about what we are working on or thinking about and want to share that information with fellow users Besides writing about sometimes spurs me to action and causes me to devote the necessary resources to the project So here is a list of what we are working on and an update of past promises If I forgot something I men tioned in a previous Portable Paper tell me and Il update you next issue 128 EPROM PROJECT As you may recall back in April Vol 4 No 3 Pg 17 I discussed the possibility of 128K EPROMs Currently it is only feasible to burn 64K EPROMS If we could burn 128K EPROMs that would double the amount of software we could put on ROMs thus expanding the capacity of the 12 socket ROM drawer We re still working on it The good news is that the engineering consultant working on the project has built a prototype of the 128K EPROM He has also located a reason
46. K No longer published Combined ROMs SH13NK SU1INK 234 95 474 00 225 00 124 95 239 00 295 00 174 95 168 95 154 95 95 00 184 95 104 95 234 95 134 95 170 95 165 00 214 90 299 00 Editor I Format110 PrinterTalk Shelp SideWinder USED PORTABLE EQUIPMENT IMPORTANT NOTE TO USED EQUIPMENT BUYERS Call for availability before placing order especially Lotus 2 01 ECM If used product unavailable we ll get you new item at discount Used HP110 and Portable Plus Computers 512K Plus With Modem PP15UC 3395 1595 128K Plus With Modem PP11UC 3190 995 HP110 Portable PQ11UC 3000 495 HP110 ThinkJet HP9114 PP40UX 4300 795 Used Printers For HP110 Portable Plus Vectra HP IL ThinkJet Printer TJ11UC 495 199 New DeskJet Plus Printer DJ12HC 995 795 New DeskJet Printer DJ11HC 795 639 Used HP110 Portable Plus Disk Drives HP9114A Disk Drive DD11UC 795 199 HP9114B Disk Drive DD12UC 795 299 Used HP Portable Plus Memory Drawers New HP 1 Mg RAM Drw MM11NC 1275 995 384K HP RAM Drawer MM12UC 982 295 128K HP RAM Drawer MM13UC 436 150 128K HP Memory Card MM14UC 273 125 HP ROM Software Drawer SW11UC 195 99 Miscellaneous Used HP Portable Peripherals HP IL Card For IBM PC IL11UM 195 119 HP IL 7470A Plotter PL11UM 1095 650 P Plus V Intfce Monitor VM12UM 750 275 95 129 95 95 135 95 95 95 95 49 Denotes products no longer manufactured The Retail Price of these items was the price at th
47. OS 3 1 or greater is to run HPLINK on the Portable and use the desktop to issue any DOS commands such as COPY or DEL In other words turn the HP Portable into a slave on the loop Use its Edisk as another disk drive for the desktop machine I ve also made it a standard practice to reboot the a ce memes A we wun Name Company Address City Telephone UBSCRIPTION Professiona SUBSCRIPTION APPLICATION REQUEST YES I d like a FREE subscription to HP Professional Send a subscription application to OFFER If you re a Hewlett Packard computer user and buyer of HP related hardware software or peripherals HP Professional the monthly magazine for Hewlett Packard commercial and technical computing is for you It s a free source of valuable information that will help you do your job It s Informative It s Monthly It s Read by over 35 000 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 to qualify for your free subscription HPN Title State Zip Mail to HP Professional P O Box 616 Horsham PA 19044 0616 Or call Lori Ulbrich at 215 957 1500 or FAX 215 957 1050 Speed up your P
48. OVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 FilePlus i ia The Portable Plus file manager Fast sophisticated easy to use W List files in two directories simultaneously W Copy move and delete multiple files E Sort directories W Create protected Read Only files W Back up only those files that have changed since last backup E And much more When Hewlett Packard introduced the P A M file manager in 1983 the program was ahead of its time With P A M users could copy rename and delete files by pressing function keys instead of having to enter DOS commands Today however users are more sophisticated and so are the file management programs that have come on the IBM PC market These programs go way beyond P A M in their abilities and in the convenience they offer the user Most of these file managers won t run on the Portable Plus but we ve developed one that does It s called FilePlus and here are its benefits 1 Display two directories This is a feature that even some of the most popular IBM compatible file management programs don t have FilePlus lets you list two directories from the same or different disks simultaneously on screen This makes it especially easy to move files back and forth between the two directories 2 Point and Shoot You don t have to wade through P A M s function key menus to perform a simple operation like copying a file Instead you simply display the contents of the source and destination
49. Or call 515 472 6330 We ll help you select a used HP Portable system that best meets your needs 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 EE A 4 PKZIP 1 01 E11 1 downloaded PKZIP 1 01 the latest version of Phil Katz s Pe file compression and archiving utility from the HP Forum on Cserve PKZIP will be included on the 1991 Sub scribers Disk It is in DLO and the filename is PKZ101 EXE PKZIP and PKUNZIP have gained weight but some useful functions have been added The command struc ture has become even more complicated Fortunately like in earlier versions you can ignore most of the options and create a configuration file to default to the options of your preference I found this unnecessary since the defaults Phil selected are the ones I would have chosen The most important of these options is that PKZIP defaults to maximum compression without having to issue the eb4 and ea4 commands Many of the commands seem intimidating but the only commands really necessary to 32 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 remember are those for compressing and uncompressing a file PKZIP zipname filenames PKUNZIP zipname filenames You don t have to remember any of the funny little command line op
50. P BAT available from the Cserve HP forum and the 1988 Subscribers Disk provides a means for swapping TM name and address files and TO DO files For Example you might have one name and address file for friends and another for work related contacts With this batch file you can easily swap these two files Things are more organized and you can store more names and addresses There is no reason that a TMSWAP procedure could not be developed to work with PAM ALM files Options might be time based such as NEXTYEAR ALM or data based with options like BIRTHDAY ALM Since DOS commands can be issued from the TM main calendar menu files can be swapped without leaving TM If someone wishes to pursue this idea I suggest that TM be loaded with a batch file containing code that insures the current PAM ALM file is activated when TM is exited I like writing batch code and could not resist writing a batch file to swap PAM alarm files I succeeded in writing a single batch file to manage a library of alarm files load TM and on exit restore the current PAM ALM file In addition I worked up yet another variation of TMSWAP for swapping TM name files Rather than reproduce the code for these batch files in the Portable Paper I have uploaded it along with documentation to the Cserve HP Forum Look for TMCHG ZIP in DLO or DL7 Donald could use an editor to maintain his appoint ments history but I think the DOS concatenation pro cedure he is using is better
51. PORTABLE VECTRA Included with the WorldPort 2400 at no charge is the acclaimed communications and remote control software package Carbon Copy PLUS retail value 195 The program also comes free with the World Port1200 WorldPort2400 Upgrade Kit Carbon Copy PLUS will not run on the HP110 or Portable Plus but both WorldPort modems will run with HP s communi Cations software namely the Terminal program for the HP110 and TERM and Reflection for the Portable Plus For example the WorldPort 2400 has auto dial auto answer and both pulse and tone operation It comes with a standard modular phone plug for connecting with the telephone line It offers non volatile storage of up to 20 commands And it is fully compatible with the industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with the HP110 s Terminal software and the Portable Plus s TERM and Reflection software Since a modular plug is not always available the WorldPort 2400 also has a built in interface for an acoustic coupler The coupler an optional extra runs at 300 and 1200 baud The unit is compatible with both the internationally ac cepted CCITT communications standards and the Bell communications standards recognized in the U S The WorldPort 2400 uses a standard 9 volt transistor radio battery it s included with the unit A fresh battery will keep the WorldPort humming for 8 10 hours You can extend battery life by operating the unit from a wall outlet whe
52. R RENDIR WHEREIS TEE FDATE LABEL DIRS TRANSLIT CLEAN DIRALL ARCE MOVE OFF CHANGE ARC520 MOVEALLTRIM BEEP SQPC SM VDL TMA TJETA FCOPY ASK PRNCONE WAIT FGREP XCOPY FDUMP COPYNEW Note ARC520 is shareware the author normally requests a 35 contribution However we ve already paid your user fee IMPORTANT All HP ROM prices given in this chart unless othewise stated are for used ROMs Used HP ROMs especially Lotus 2 01 are sometimes not in stock Call to verify availability of used HP ROMs and pricing on new HP ROMs if used ROMs unavailable Official Personalized Software Price List Every attempt is made to keep pricing stable However prices subject to change without notice THE PORTABLE PAPER Relay Gold Plus RG11NS 295 00 279 00 TermPlus TE12NS 99 95 79 95 Part Retail Subscr Term110 TELINS 99 95 79 95 Product Num Price Price CompuServe starter kit CM11NS 39 95 35 95 The Portable Paper Productivity Boosting Utilites 1 Yr Subscription PPN1PS 55 00 BacTools BC11NS 49 95 39 95 2 Yr Subscription PPN2PS 99 00 Compuserve Starter Kit CM11NS 39 95 33 95 1 Yr Renewal PPR1PS 55 00 DOS Tools DT11NS 44 95 39 95 2 Yr Renewal PPR2PS 99 00 FilePlus FE12NS 69 95 59 95 1986 8 3 Yr back issues PP13PB 99 00 HP Duette DULINS 99 95 89 95 1988 back issues PP12PB 39 00 HP150 PC Emulator PC11NS 19 95 19 95 Individual Back issue PP99PB 9 20 HP9114 Empowerer PR12NM 99 95 89 95 1987 Subscriber Disk SB12NS 115 00 9 50 Norton Uitilities Adv NU12NS 150 0
53. RODUCT NO WM13NM 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details 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 necessary to read another line from a the batch file After each program is executed the screen is cleared and the cursor turned off The complicated escape sequences associated with the Norton Utilities NU select Alternate Console Mode and Alternate Character Set before NU is executed On exiting from NU the escape sequences select HP Console and HP Font then turn off the cursor and clear the screen The escape sequences on the last line select box cursor and turn the cursor on The section of the batch file responsible for installing Lotus Print Graph contains STUFF COM which is used to answer INSTALLP s annoying questions and make opera tion completely automatic Grandma is slow C BAT is even slower but relatively speaking the Plus is about as old as Grandma In C BAT below the Escape character is symbolized by the charac ters ASCII 27 To enter the Escape character from The Editor press CTRL and at the same time echo off dR 2J echo Program echo echo 1 PrintGraph echo 2 Install PrintGraph on A echo 3 Norton Utility echo Esc Exit echo echo Type number to execute program input 423 if errorlevel 255
54. TYPICAL SWIICH S AFTER LAST SWITCH CZ TOP switcH POSITION Figure 1 if cost is a major factor The HPIL connectors add a touch of standardization with other HPIL devices HPIL connec tors are HP Product No 5061 4306 Panel Receptacle Switches are Halted Specialties part number HSC 8305 10 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 C BOTTOM SWITCH Figure 2 The configuration is limited mainly by the time one is willing to take to assemble the unit Dual sided printed circuit boards could be employed to ease some of the assembly burden if many units were to be fabricated USED HP PORTABLES AND PERIPHERALS USED ero We buy them We sell them We guarantee them apro0s sek DINE No longer using your HP Buying used HP Any used item you buy from us can apata D sets Portable or peripherals equipment makes sense be returned within 30 days for a full TH Turn them into cash You know HP quality refund In addition through The Portable Even used HP oe Equipment Exchange can Serve you Well tor Prices fluctuate so years Call for current ONE YEAR GUARANTEE al us for current prices parts and labor Igures on all used equipment 515 472 6330 For good buys on used and new HP The Portable Equipment Exchange equipment see our 4 page brochure a division of Personalized Software enclosed with this issue P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Now ROM Backup ee
55. Vol 4 No 6 The HP Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra Users Newsletter November December 1989 THE Port able Paper HI Getting Out of Pc ortable Business Publisher s Message 3 Always Select Backlight Powerdown 14 Letters Generate a Bullet 0 14 The Mac Portable And The HP Portables 4 More LS 12 and Vectra Products On The Horizon 15 Morc On ctl 2 vena s eea 34 So See ee eA 4 News From Personalized Software The Editor Makes PAM and Time Manager easier 4 What we re working on 15 Short note of appreciation 4 Upgrade 256K Portable Plus into a 512K Plus 16 Getting The 110 and a PC to Read the Same Disks 4 1 Meg RAM ROM and 2 Meg RAM Drawers Need Scientific Word Processor 5 Shipping Again For Portable Plus 16 A few useful hints 0 000 08 eee ean 5 VI Editor For HP An IBM Compatible Computers 16 Likes Empowerer 0 0 0 000000 eee eae 5 World s Smallest MNP Modem 17 Using Squish Plus With The Plus And Vectra Together 5 Subscribers Disks Only Available With Subscription 17 Squish Plus Extends Life Of Portable Plus 1986 1989 Index Soon Available 17 Suggestions To Improve Time Manager 5 First Issue Of The UltraLite Connection Ships 17 Likes MS Word over WordPerfect 39 Profiles 110 Portable Computing With The Plus
56. WM12NH 359 00 319 00 T Master Plus Vectra TM12NS 159 00 149 00 WorldPort Modem 2400 MNP WM13NH 499 00 425 00 Portable Plus Memory Drawers WorldPort cable WM14NM 30 00 20 00 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM drawer CALL WP Acoustic coupler WMI16NH 79 95 79 95 Kermit KE1I1NS 19 00 19 00 Targus Nylon Case How to Use the HP LS 12 Portable Vectra Products Diconix printer parallel DT11NH Diconix printer serial DT12NH EtherNet Adapter ET11NH Expansion Chassis LS 12 EX11NH FloppyDriver FD11NS HPL Card P Vectra CS HP16NM Laplink LA11NS LapTape LS 12 LA11NH NoSquint NO11NS Numeric Keypad LS 12 NU11NH PassPort LS 12 PALINS Squish Plus SQ12NS Statpower PC100 Inverter ST11NH TravelDisk 10MB to 250MB New or Used Hard Disks for P Vectra Weltec 5 25 Drive LS 12 WE11NH Weltec Serial Hard Disk PhD WE12NH WorldPort Fax 2496 WF11NH Peripherals Manzana 1 44 Meg 3 5 PC External Drive MZ12NH Manzana 1 44 Meg 3 5 PC Internal Drive MZ11NH Manzana Controller MZ13NM Numeric Keypad for P Plus TS11NM Accessories 10 3 5 disks case DS11NM 10 1 44Meg 3 5 disks DS12NM Mobile Recharger PR11NM FieldPro Padded Laptop Case CS12NM FieldPro Padded Case for ThinkJet or HP9114 Disk Drive CS11NM Targus Leather Case TA1LINM TA1L2NM Learning Material Portables Video Tapes VP11NM Upgrade FastPlus CPU upgrade FALLING 256K to 512K Plus Upgrade 256KNG 499 00 519 00 695 00 499 00 89 95 245 00 139 95
57. ably priced ROM burner that can be plugged into the Portable Plus serial port That way you will have the option of burning your own EPROMs if you don t want to buy the finished EPROMs from us The bad news is the prototype does not work I am cautiously optimistic that we will be able to make a definitive announcement one way or another by next issue of The Portable Paper However I have been similarly optimistic almost all year and am still unable to announce anything EPROM SUBDIRECTORY SIZE We were hoping to crack the 256K subdirectory limit so we could put large programs and files in ROM such as the WordPerfect dictionary and overlay file However it seems that there is no simple solution to this problem other than quite a bit of reprogramming I m open to any solutions MOBILE RECHARGER AND POWER CUBE About a year ago we had to take two of our most popular products off our price list because we could not get a part from HP The Mobile Recharger allows you to charge your HP110 or Portable Plus from your car s cigarette lighter The Power Cube lets you charge up to four HP IL devices using only one AC electrical outlet We recently secured enough of the necessary HP cords to build some of each of these units By next issue we hope to put both products on the price list and ship back orders WORLDPORT 2496 FAX After many many months we finally got a unit in to test As we suspected the FAX software does not work with
58. adequate for a speed typist and keystrokes are not missed If one turns a blind eye to the screen when inserting words in a paragraph there will be no problem The final result is that I have a totally compatible state of the art word processing system on my HP150 which operates almcst as well as on my IBM clone Documents can be easily ported between all machines NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 25 mo Pal PV THE PORTABLE PAPER DATABASE MANAGEMENT DBXL Database management is another problem I had to solve Dbase II which I have on all three of my com puters is certainly not the answer Ashton Tate by the way will upgrade HP DbaselII to DbaselIV or III I be lieve My answer to this problem was Wordtech System s DBXL program which is a DBASE III clone with a number of its own functions added on It will not run on the HP110 but I didn t need the HP110 for database manage ment It works but very slowly on the Portable Plus Hal There are utilities provided to convert the file structures between dBase II and III These utilities could in some circumstances allow one to use the HP110 in this scheme If I needed to do this I would probably develop a work around using the HP110 s built in Lotus 1 2 3 and its dBase conversion facility Personal Software reviewed the DBXL program some time ago and gave it thumbs down for use on the HP150 I agreed with the review at the time However I was developing a major appli
59. ailable from many sources Numerous books articles public domain programs and even a CompuServe forum are devoted to helping people use the Turbo language GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS AND GOOD NEWS The good news is that the Turbo Pascal 5 5 command line compiler runs on the Portable Plus as do many of the utilities that come with the program The bad news is that 5 5 s integrated en HERE S WHAT YOU GET Our Portable Plus version of Turbo Pascal 5 5 comes with Turbo Pascal 5 5 command line compiler on 312 single sided HP disks customized to the Portable Plus Disks also include all Turbo utilities that run on the Portable Plus Standard IBM PC Turbo 5 5 packaging including documentation HP single sided disk containing TurbPlus and HPCRT unit Our manual on how to run Turbo Pascal and the TurbPlus Integrator on the Portable Plus and vironment won t run on the Portable Plus nor will some of its standard units of code in particular a unit called CRT that allows writing directly to the computer s screen The other good news ts that a prograntof our own called the TurbPlus Integrator eliminates most of the bad news INTEGRATED TURBO ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PORTABLE PLUS The TurbPlus Integrator serves as a Turbo command center or shell You load Turb Plus then call your own text editor Memo Maker The Editor or whatever one you use by pressing a single function key You then use your ed
60. akes to learn the commands THE FORMATTER is for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER Portable Paper Subscriber price PV PV users Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order so we can send you the proper disk format See Software on ROM ad Search and replace Just tell THE EDITOR H what word or phrase to look for and it will display each occurrence and or replace the occurences either selectively or globally Edit two files at once THE EDITOR II 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 Block and line centering THE EDITOR II lets you center blocks and lines of text with a few simple keystrokes Powerful macros Store any sequence of keystrokes and play it back at the touch of a single key Macros can be edited deleted stored in files even autoloaded on startup THE EDITOR II comes with over two dozen macros to get you started 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 inter nal memory allows File merge You can merge two or more files together with ease Compressed and expanded You can imbed control characters in your text to tell your pr
61. alled programs I use a version of REMOVE that has been hacked to eliminate this pause The PC Tutor published in a later issue gave instructions on how to make this modification It is quite simple if you type the following commands Debug REMOVE COM e lfc eb 13 w q Be sure to make a backup copy before trying this trick Typing errors are easy to make I Don t Always Agree o I found this headline in the September issue of Online Today IBM Writing Interface may Replace Typing The article describes a computer interface that works much like a paper and pencil Don t get me wrong I have no objection to developing such an interface A computer interface that can recognize my hand writing would e a significant accomplishment But the article goes wrong by stating the product would allow a computer to be controlled more naturally and conveniently than is possible with a keyboard or mouse I will grant that writing is currently a more universal skill than typing but I am not at all ready to admit that it is easier Or more natural than typing Certainly writing is more portable than typing since it only requires a pencil or pen but if it s so easy why do those of us who know how to type prefer typing to writing The article quotes IBM spokesman Gerald Present Writing or drawing on the Paperlike Interface performs the same functions as pressing keys on a keyboard or moving a mouse but it is more intuitive to use re
62. and I expect that some variation Of a key will probably be used for a long time If there is a problem with the keyboard interface it may be that there are too many of the wrong keys on the usual desktop computer keyboard I have never seen a computer that could successfully emulate a 10 key cal culator Yes there are a number of calculator programs for computers including some that display a nifty cal culator keyboard on the screen However none of them really work because even on desktop keyboards there simply aren t enough of the right keys around the 10 key pad Just about every computer user I know has an HP pocket calculator or a 10 key on his desk for doing quick calculations Why are we so enthralled with putting function keys on computers Function keys work good in some cases but are difficult to reach Two keystrokes in the primary typing area of the key board are more accurate and faster than a long reach to a function key And that is without prefixing the function key with a shift alt or ctrl Function keys are a throw back to mainframe computer terminals and slow data communications The speed at which a microcomputer can display a menu makes function keys an anachronism The best way to improve computer keyboards is for programmers to quit writing for desktop computers and start writing for portable computers A program that will work efficiently on the limited keyboard of a portable will certainly work on a desktop The
63. ange of utilities to help you back up files from a 1 Megabyte or larger Edisk onto floppy disks Lets you back up selected files automate the entire backup process and more DOS Tools Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 Well over 50 excellent public domain programs that enhance DOS all tested en the Portables Documentation has been fewritten for clarity for ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents Dv Cs Ce FilePlus File Management Lists the files in two directories simultaneously You can tag multiple files and perform actions such as copy delete move etc on all the tagged files at once without having to use P A M or DOS Lio CV C4 Link HP IL 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 com puter HP Portable HP150 or IBM PC its unlimited storage capability and all its peri pherals from your HP41 71 75 or series 80 hand held The Norton Utilities Allow you to recover deleted Portable files and organize your electronic and external disks Peter Norton has authorized us to include an extra 3 1 2 disk formerly only available on 5 1 4 disk The disk includes The Norton Utilities and instructions for running them on the Portables and the HP150 Version 4 0 and the advanced edition are now available 110 Pw CES Co 1987 90 Subscribers Disks 1987 includes 1 DISKPACK a disk pack ing utility co
64. applications business needs and Turbo Pascal games I ve talked and worked out many equipment technical problems and program details with Mr Joseph Gerace He s followed me around the country to do this and he s always delivered what he promised He s an Outstanding person in today s engineering world Many thanks to you and all your employees for the Portable publication Donald Kirsch Put in Bay OH Getting The 110 And A PC Compatible To Read The Same Disks Thanks to you and Brian for your help on getting my HP110 and PC compatible to read the same disks I have since found the solution I am not a trained programmer so there are probably bette explanations and ways of solving th problem but here is what I found The HP110 and 9114A disk drive evidently read the individual specifica tions for the disk whereas the com patible I am using reads the media des ignation and assumes the specifics I have used the disks that I have modified only in a non bootable form no system files data transferability is what I am interested in On disks formatted with FORMIBM 1988 Subscribers Disk the bytes desig nating the number of directory entries is B000 On the IBM Formatted disk it is 7000 The HP assumes the data started at sector 18 the IBM compatible assumes sector 14 This results in the non read ablitity of the specific files In conjunction with this the HP uses near jump the compatible seemingly d
65. ar my teaching load has risen to more than twenty five contact hours a week I am now in charge of all the introductory computing courses at the college as well as involved with a drastic restructuring of the MIS department Things are heating up Thus it is with a sense of regret that I must forego these bimonthly trips Through The Looking Glass with you You may expect to hear from me intermittently I ll undoubtedly fill a page in The Portable Paper with joyous exclamations when I finish my first OOP program You ll also be the first to know if I discover any new and exciting programs that work on the Portable Plus So this isn t really good bye It s just Until next time Happy Porting Ed Keefe is an author programmer and computer science instructor He is the president of the FastAid Company 314 SW Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s Com puServe ID is 73277 1064 Letters continued from page 5 2 The ability to edit addresses directly after a successful search without having to go back to the calendar screen 3 The ability to extend the fields of the address list in Time Manager accepting longer names Cities etc 4 The address screen needs to be flexi 38 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 ble enough for European use Our ZIP codes are prefixes rather than suffixes and the country codes precede the ZIP 5 The address file on your 1988 Sub scribers Disk is certainly a good start to improve eff
66. ber issue of the Portable Paper that Ed Keefe plans to include SEROFF COM on the Subscribers Disk I have been trying to find some way to control the three ports on my PLUS from the DOS prompt ergo from within batch files but don t know enough to do it I want to have my printer and data com ports set via SYSTEM CONFIG from PAM to default settings that don t draw battery power Then when I start an application that needs either the serial printer or the internal modem phone jack I do so via a batch file which in cludes the instruction to turn on the required port s just before starting the application and turn them off again just after exiting Ifa COM or EXE utility were feasible for these functions there should be one file for all ON and OFF switches accessible as command line options Such a utility would assure longer battery life and smoother opera tions H POP Paul Grimmer s announcement was a disappointment I have been fol lowing his reports with expectation We surely could use the improved group of capabilities that the H POP promised Then again Paul is probably just trying to flesh out his market Frank Keresztes Fischer Brighton MI 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
67. built in WHAT ABOUT DISK SPACE FOR THE PROGRAM ITSELF The files on the Squish Plus disk total 139K including several Squish Plus utilities Portable Plus users can get by with just 54K by eliminating all but two essential Squish Plus program files You can even reduce your Edisk space requirement to zero if you re willing to disable PAM and load Squish Plus from an HP9114 each BULK RATE U S POSTAGE PAID FAIRFIELD IA PERMIT NO 218 time you reboot A better alternative and the one we recom mend is to purchase Squish Plus on ROM Backup see box below Whatever computer you use there is no other way to expand your file storage space that is as easy or economical as Squish Plus Order your copy at no risk today Retail Subscriber Price Price Squish Plus for IBM PC compatibles 99 95 89 95 PRODUCT NO SQ12NS 129 00 99 95 PRODUCT NO SQLINS Squish Plus for Portable Plus Rom Backup Package includes Squish Plus for Portable Plus on disk and two 64K Backup ROMs Squish ROMs Must own Squish Plus for Portable Plus for each ROM set purchased 264 00 234 95 PRODUCT NO SQ11NK 135 00 135 00 PRODUCT NO SQ12NR 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 IMPORTANT
68. but we will see NEW CATALOG There is a real need for an up to date catalog of our products for HP Portables For now use the latest Portable Ps Paper and the latest Portable Equipment Exchange We hope to produce a catalog by the first quarter 1990 However it is an expensive time consuming operation that is out of date as soon as we produce it We ll see We Can Upgrade Your 256K Portable Plus into a 512K Pius Mal We have figured out a way to convert any Portable Plus with 256K of memory model numbers 45711C and 45711D written on the bottom of the Plus to 512K internal memory We will charge 479 to do the upgrade assuming parts are available Call Larry Baldozier 515 472 6330 to set up an appointment 16 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 1 Meg RAM ROM and 2 Meg RAM Drawers Shipping Again For Portable Plus mc have recently been in contact with SoftWord in England By the time you read this they should have 1 Megabyte RAM 8 Socket ROM drawers and 2 Megabyte RAM drawers for sale again for the Portable Plus For a complete discussion of these drawers see Vol 2 No 4 Pg 8 or the center spread advertisement in the late Vol 2 or early Vol 3 issues You will have to call us 515 472 6330 for pricing and availability The pricing varies due to changes in RAM prices and the exchange rate Expect to wait three months before you receive the drawer and hope that we can get it to you sooner As of this writing we a
69. cal culator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros that is assign up to 31 character to a single keystroke Written for Portable Plus CA Ce Squish Plus Automatic file compression program that as much as much as doubles available disk space If you know how to save and retrieve files from your application you know how to use Squish Plus Available on ROM co Ce OV Cs Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit designed for the Portables o Time Manager The highly acclaimed Portable Plus ROM based Time Manager program in a 3 1 2 disk version for the HP110 Portable Does not run on Portable Plus Available to Portable Paper Subscribers only 110 150 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 or your progress FILE TRANSFER MADE EASY LapLink A software program for high speed transfer of files between your Vectra CS or LS 12 and IBM PC or compatible Versatile works with parallel and serial ports easy to use simple manual or automatice file tagging FEN Disk Conversion Service We will convert your data to and from single sided double sided high density 3 1 2 and 5 1 4 inch formats at a reasonable cost HPDuette A software program that lets you transfer files back and forth at high speed between your Portable Plus and an IBM PC or compa
70. cation with DBXL and Quicksilver its compiler and had to try using it DBXL has an installation program which will install it to run on the HP150 I used this to install DBXL as I believe did Personalized Software when they evaluated the system The problem with this method is that screen updates are very slow and various keys do not function properly Actual database functions however are proper With the latest version of DBXL Wordtech included a copy of the PC emulator and stated they had been told the HP150 could run DBXL under the emulator with a few installation hints The trick with the emulator is to install the program to run on a generic IBM terminal as with Wordstar so that the program does not write directly to screen but uses INT 10 In order for INT 10 to work the DBXL configuration file CONFIG X1 must also contain a line to set the retrace function on DBXL s SETUP program makes these changes for you automat ically While running the setup program which does not require the PC emulator tell SETUP you are installing DBXL for a terminal that is not 100 IBM compatible On the next menu instead of selecting the HP 150 installation you select 7 which is IBM PC This forces DBXL to use INT 10 and adds the proper line to the CONFIG X1 file Of course the program must now be called under the PC emulator Hopefully some user will try this on the Portable Plus Hal Once this is done DBXL will for the most part w
71. cessary to prefix filename with drive and path designations The following two line batch file is all that is necessary pptj memomakr There is one catch to this batch file and the batch file shown in the last issue PAM will not tolerate terminate and stay resident TSR programs like TJCTRL When the program is exited and control returned to PAM the computer will reboot to get the TJCTRL out of memory This occurs so fast you may not notice that it happened It s a real pain if your normal working directory is not A The current directory will be lost every time a program is exited A solution to the problem is a series of utility programs found in the August 87 edition of PC Magazine These programs named INSTALL COM and REMOVE COM install and remove TSR s You can down loaded them from PCMAGNET on CompuServe To keep PC Magazine s REMOVE from clashing with the HP REMOVE utility rename the PC Magazine program REMTSR COM and write the following batch file echo off cls install pptj ppt memomakr remove pptj 28 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 If you want to save a bit of disk space write one batch file to load all you applications The one I wrote RUNPROG BAT looks like this echo off cls install pptj pptj 1 remove pptj To execute Memomaker type Runprog MEMOMAKR To execute 123 type Runprog 123 The version of REMOVE COM that you will download from PCMAGNET pauses for confirmation before removing inst
72. compatible parallel printer port It lets you connect to any Ethernet LAN supporting Novell NetWare versions 2 0a and higher It s 5 oz the size of an audiocassette case F Ethernet Adapter LS 12 PV etlinh Retail 695 Subscriber 629 No more squinting to find your cursor Why search for a faint underline Make Vectra cursor BIG and BOLD with NoSquint and see the cursor clearly without strain No Squint PV LS 12 no11ns Retail 39 95 Subscriber 37 95 Back up your LS 12 hard disk files to tape Tallgrass Technologies top quality tape backup unit backs up LS 12 20 or 40 Meg hard disk Connects via LS 12 floppy disk connector in back HP lab tested and approved LapTape Backup Unit LS 12 lalinh Retail 795 Subscriber 695 Portable Vectra CS more productive Fast numeric entry for your LS 12 The Zenith Numeric Keypad plugs into the right side of your LS 12 Calculator style numeric keypad simp lifies spreadsheet and database numer ic entry tasks Numeri Keypad LS 12 nu11nh Retail 129 Subscriber 115 12V DC IN Recharge your Vectra while driving Plug your Vectra recharger into the 4 5 x 3 5 x 1 3 1 1b PC100 StatPower Pocket Power In verter Recharge your Vectra battery by connecting the PC100 to your car s cigarette lighter The PC100 provides instant 115V power from any 12V source StatPower PC100 PV LS 12 st11nh Retail 179 Subscriber
73. 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 Shelp SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc Portable PRODUCT NO SHIINS tee eee eee 995 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 wasted all those beginning with 1 and introduced Extended ASCII Byte positions 128 through 255 are assigned to special symbols graphics characters and non English letters One drawback with this improvement is than non PC compatibles and modems can t understand the extended ASCII characters What s worse these
74. connect the 9 pin serial port on your Portable Plus to the serial port on your desktop com puter using the serial cable that comes with the program 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6330 unusual screen of the Portable Plus This ploy of using the ROM BIOS lets the MS DOS version of Turbo Pascal compile well behaved albeit somewhat slow application programs A MIXED REVIEW I was glad to read that Franz has tried MIX G MIX Power C is an interesting language product It runs on the Portable Plus and produces well behaved programs that will run out of the box on the Plus and maybe even on the HP110 I recently bought a copy of MIX Power C to evaluate it for use in my C class The price of 19 95 should be affordable by most students I was able to determine that MIX Power C was minimally useful For 19 95 you get a compiler and the standard set of C header files The compiler takes over 400K bytes of disk space plus another 256K of memory to run It seems to be on a par with Turbo C 1 0 and Microsoft C 4 0 both of which are out of date by at least two years I tried compiling some sample programs using Power C on the Portable Plus The programs all compiled and ran successfully The screen output was
75. ction booklet tells you how to run WordPerfect with all printers that work with your Portable Plus or HP150 including serial parallel Centronix HP IB and HP IL WordPerfect in Brief Here are some of the advanced features that have made WordPerfect the world s number one selling word processor These features are common to WordPerfect 4 2 and 5 0 Speller WordPerfect s built in spell checker is fast thorough and easy to use The main dictionary contains 115 000 words and you can add words of your own to one or more auxiliary diction aries The Speller also counts the number of words in a document or in any block of text File merging and mail merging With WordPerfect it s easy to produce per sonalized form letters mail merging and to assemble reports proposals and contracts from pre written components Thesaurus WordPerfect s Thesaurus helps you find the right word when you need it Synonyms are grouped by noun verb and adjective and at the touch of a key you can look at second and third levels of alternatives Step 2 Check your memory size Portable Plus To comfortably run Version 5 0 you ll need a machine with 896K of RAM e g a 512K Port able Plus with a 384K RAM drawer or a 128K Portable Plus with two 384K RAM drawers To comfortably run Version 4 2 you ll need a machine with 640K of RAM You can run either version of WordPerfect with just 512K of RAM if you re willing to do a
76. d Software Subscriber s disks If I m wil ling to devote valuable RAM space to these programs it means they are proven their worth RADIO SHACK MODEL 100 PORTABLE There is one other item in my portable computing arsenal The Radio Shack Model 100 Believe it or not there are times when the simple Model 100 has advantages over the Plus One advantage is weight the M100 weighs under 4 pounds and is significantly smaller in size The other advantage is ease of use Yes there are times when the Plus is just too much or at least more than is needed The time for the M100 is when you need a simple tool to enter text like when you write the first draft of a document take notes or gather data This document for instance is being written on the M100 so that I can move about as the mood strikes The article was started on the back deck continued in the hammock with more added in other locations as inspira tion provided the words The odd thing is that a larger document is more likely to start on the M100 rather than the Plus Small docu ments such as letters and memos are done on the Plus because I tend to complete them there Since a large document will be completed on a desktop it matters less where the initial writing is done The M100 is the newest in my army of computers and is not fully integrated with the other machines Hardware and software is available to move files easily and quickly between the M100 and a desktop once a d
77. d corrected helps I have had no reason to become proficient with EDLIN but I can run it remotely and oc casionally use it to edit files on the office computer while I am at home The first step in learning to program is finding a suitable editor For the Portables there is MemoMaker The Editor VDE or the Turbo Pascal 3 1 editor If you are not comfortable with one of these programs you can use 123 or your word processor I can not say how MS Word or WordPerfect work as program editors but I know 123 works quite well The PRINT TO FILE com mand is the trick for creating program code in 123 There are similar options in most word processing programs I don t claim these are the best tools for writing program code but they work and they eliminate the need to learn another program A mistake people often make is assuming programs must be complicated Even 123 macro coders make this mistake and fail to write quick little macros that could save hundreds of keystrokes This column demonstrates that batch programs files do not have to be complicated Get out your reference manual and try writing a bit of simple code Hopefully the manual will give some examples you can try Unfortunately many manuals are not especially understandable Try reading and interpreting more advanced code Examining a pro s code is absolutely the best way to learn how to use the tools available to accomplish your objec tive It is very likely you will find sol
78. directories side by side tag the file you want to copy then use a simple Lotus like menu to enter the Copy command with a single keystroke You use the same Point and Shoot method to run programs and to move delete view etc any files you wish 3 Tag multiple files You can tag any number of files in a directory then perform the same action copy rename delete protect etc on all of them in a single step 4 Sort files FilePlus can list the files in a directory by name extension size or date An alphabetical listing by name helps you locate files in a hurry A listing by size is useful in determining which files to erase in order to free up any needed amount of disk space 5 Single step Move command To move a file from one directory to another you no longer have to copy the file first then delete the original FilePlus lets you do it with a single Move command and you enter the command with one keystroke 6 Protect your files You can protect your files make them Read Only to guard against accidental deletion FilePlus even lets you do this with entire directories You can unprotect the files whenever you wish 7 Show attributes Read Only Hidden Archive FilePlus displays the attributes of all the files in a directory so you can view them at a glance or change them in a flash 8 Backup only if changed FilePlus allows you back up just those files that have been changed since the last
79. e Pub lisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of infor mation contained herein POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Suggestions To Improve Time Manager Here are some features needed to in crease the efficiency of Time Manager 1 Two weeks or even month at a glance capability including weekends with the capacity to edit entries directly Showing the date of each day would help tremendously Continued on page 38 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 5 THE PORTABLE PAPER _ neem eee nee en nnn een LL SRS LS 12 Still On HP Price List But not for Long 110 The only current portable computer on the HP price list P the Vectra LS 12 Laptop PC will continue to be sold until the HP inventory is depleted sometime in the first quarter PV of 1990 If you are interested in purchasing an LS 12 give us a call or check with your local dealer as prices should H be coming down According to LS 12 product manager Peter Neidecker HP did very well selling the LS 12 However according to Neidecker neither HP or Zenith anticipated the overlap in distribution channels The LS 12 is essentially the same machine as the Zenith 286 SuperSport Therefore HP has decided not to OEM additional Zenith products Neidecker further explained that HP is currently focusing its resources on the high performance market
80. e and modems you like to play an adventure game on the computer The ASCII alphabet has 128 different code groups Then I take them up to the computer room and show each one representing a different letter number punctua them how to play The rest of the house remains quiet tion mark or control character Each code group byte for hours unless one of the kids comes down and says has eight positions bits and each position can be Tom won t let me play the game too occupied by either a 0 or a 1 The first code group is Initially Hewlett Packard marketed special versions of 00000000 the second is 00000001 etc For example the Infocom s games specially adapted to the HP Portable ASCII code for the letter A is the 65th code group computers These game sold through HP dealers at list 01000001 The code for the character is the 95th code price Concurrently Infocom marketed IBM compatible group 01011111 Below is a summary of the first 128 versions of these same games at much lower prices often ASCII code group assignments less than half the price of the HP versions I believe HP has now stopped marketing these games altogether Code ASCII Infocom produced many more text based games for IBM Group Assignment compatibles Many of these games would run on the HP110 but for some differences in how the display escape 0 31 control characters like Break Line Feed sequences were implemented Carriage Return Backspace Escape etc I
81. e final printing to check spelling I simply cannot trust myself to proofread a document and find spelling errors OK I just can t spell worth beans Spell checkers have been one of the major benefits of the personal computer revolution in my humble opinion Since the desktop computer is not always available I was often forced to send out docu ments that contained my best guess at spelling Now that is no longer necessary and my embarrassment quotient is much more acceptable when I send electronic mail or FAX a document while traveling pow te ae Whether you want to learn programming or you re a seasoned programmer the best programming language for your Portable Plus is Turbo Pascal and our TurbPlus Integrator lets you use it to maximum advantage Pascal is the most popular computer lan guage in university classes and with com puter enthusiasts throughout the world who appreciate Pascal s modern program ming structure Pascal is powerful coherent and with Turbo Pascal 5 5 faster than ever before Turbo 5 5 compiles more than 27 000 lines of code per minute on an 8 MHz IBM AT The IBM PC version of Turbo Pascal 5 5 offers an integrated programming environ ment that includes pull down menus and a built in text editor You can edit com pile and quickly find and correct errors all without leaving the integrated envi ronment Another great advantage of Turbo Pascal is that assistance is av
82. e software drawer so we recommend you Call us first to make sure the ROMs you want are in stock and to set an appointment for installation That way we can install and test your new ROMs the day we receive your soft ware drawer then ship your drawer back that same evening Return shipping with in the Continental U S via UPS Second Day Air is free for all orders over 200 Please add 15 to your order if you want overnight return shipping In most cases if you set an appoint ment in advance and use overnight ship ping both ways you ll only be without your software drawer for less than two business days We ll ship the manuals and other materials in advance by sur face carrier so you ll have them by the time you receive back your software drawer HOW TO ORDER ROMS To order use the postage paid order form in the center of this issue For even faster service or if you have questions about any of our ROMs give us a call ye P a _ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT OUR ROMS We offer two kinds of ROM chips One kind we produce ourselves these are offered as part of our ROM Backup Packages See below The other kind are manufactured by Hewlett Packard we Call these simply HP ROMs ROM Backup Packages A ROM Backup Package includes both the disk version of a program and the ROM version plus the standard User s Manual and additional instructions for installing a
83. e tapes you ll find that the user s manuals make excellent reference sources HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES is a highly cost effective way to learn how to use an HP Portable to full advantage It saves time and effort in getting up to speed and it saves time and effort in training others Order HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES at our risk today HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES videotape 150 Portable Paper subscriber price 119 SPECIAL DISCOUNT The regular price of HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES is 150 or 119 if you subscribe to The Portable Paper However HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES is only 45 if purchased along with any used HP110 or Portable Plus system from The Port able Equipment Exchange a division of Per sonalized Software Used HP Portables make great gifts HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES makes them even greater because the tapes eliminate much of the strug gle and time spent in learning how to Overview amp Brief demonstration of what an HP Portable can do word processing spreadsheet database management communications time management Part 2 Fundamentals of Using the HP110 and Portable Plus Understanding the value of the HP Portables RAM and ROM technology Includes demonstration of how to install ROM chips in the Portable Plus Maximizing screen readability Maximizing battery life Making full use of the HP Portable keyboard
84. e time of discontinuance 940 00 224 00 245 00 394 00 520 00 823 00 658 00 Word Processing Utilities FormatPlus FP13NK _ HPrint HP 12NK Wbster Speller WB13NK 174 95 175 00 258 95 Spreadsheets and Database Lotus 123 1A LT12UR Lotus 123 2 01 LT15UR New ROM Lotus 123 2 01 LT11HR 495 00 625 00 625 00 995 00 295 194 95 119 00 199 00 295 00 599 00 499 00 164 95 170 95 248 95 295 00 395 00 499 00 95 95 179 These items are excellent buys NEW BATTERIES INK CARTRIDGES AND CABLE Standard Parallel Cable PLIINM Serial printer cable 110 Plus SC13NM HP92221P ser prn cab 110 P SC13HC Portable Plus Battery BT11HC ThinkJet Battery BT14HC HP110 Battery BT12HC HP9114 Battery BT13HC HP IL Cable 1 Meter HC11HC ThinkJet plain paper cartridge TJ15HC ThinkJet inkjet paper cartridge TJ14HC HP92261N inkjet 2500 zfold TJ12HC 29 95 42 00 42 00 49 95 47 00 29 00 65 00 8 00 10 95 10 95 64 95 24 95 27 99 42 00 49 95 47 00 29 00 65 00 8 00 10 95 10 95 99 95 THE PORTABLE PAPER Let us profile you 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 it let other readers benefit from your experience Give us a call ask for Hal or Richard or send us a draft on disk paper or Fax to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Phone 515 472 6330 Fax
85. either the HP110 or Portable Plus I talked to the WorldPort programmer He said he probably would have a little time soon to see if he can make the necessary changes We ll be sending him portables and technical information as soon as he gives us the go ahead CONDOR ON ROM We are having difficulty creating a 256K subdirectory made up of four 64K EPROMs All CONDOR files must be in the same subdirectory If anyone thinks they can help give Larry Baldozier a call I think we will find a solution LOTUS 2 2 The software drivers have been written However the Lotus installation procedure must be modified The problem is not so much technical as political We have made the proper contact at Lotus and submitted a proposal Initially he was not optimistic about giving permission to burn ROMs However there is hope for an HP150 version and a Portable Plus RAM version My guess NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 15 THE PORTABLE PAPER that if we can create a version we will ship around Summer of 1990 WORDPERFECT SCREEN DRIVER AND SMALLER SPELLER WordPerfect 5 0 works quite well on the Portable Plus P The one limitation is that you cannot preview what the printed page will look like before printing Several people have talked to me about writing a screen driver Cur rently the leading candidate is reader and contributor Sergio Biguzzi He is working on the project and tells me he is about three months away from finishing Sergio did som
86. ert Even HP engineers call him for advice on using their Portables HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES is based on Hal s more than five years of ex perience using the HP Portables and publishing The Portable Paper FOR EVERY TYPE OF USER This 5 hour set of three VHS video tapes gives all the fundamentals of using both the HP 110 Portable and the Portable Plus HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES will save you countless hours of learning on your own It will also save time and effort in training an employee spouse child or friend HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES is not just for beginners however Intermediate HP Portable users will find many new topics and many important tips and tricks for us ing the HP Portables to full advantage Even experienced computer users who are new to the HP Portables will find the tapes to be of immense value in learning to use the many special features of these unique machines LEARNING MADE EASY In this set of videotapes Hal doesn t just tell you how to use the HP Portables He actually shows you step by step what keys to press while the camera shows you what appears on the computer display Watching Hal demonstrate everything in a logical sequence right on your TV screen is a far better way to learn than wading through the HP Portable user s manuals especially since the tapes in clude many important details that are either obscure or simply not covered in the manuals Once you ve seen th
87. es are eight pole two position switches as shown in Figure 1 They are very inexpensive approximat ely 1 25 each at Halted Specialties Company 3060 Cooper Road Santa Clara CA 95051 The HPIL connec tors are 6 40 each from HP The HPIL connectors can be replaced with HPIL cables if you have them available and Even though your HP Portable HP150 and the new IBM compatible computers both use 3 disks the disks are incompatible HP disks can t be used in IBM machines ReadHP a device driver program developed by Personalized Software solves the problem ReadHP installs in an IBM PC or compatible in min utes and is a cinch to use You simply place a 344 HP disk single or double sided in the PC s disk drive and press a few keys Voila The PC can read and write to the disk directly without losing the ability to read and write to IBM disks Want to share your WordPerfect Lotus or other files between your HP Portable HP150 and an IBM compat ible with a 344 disk drive It s simple Order ReadHP today ReadHP on ee ue eee ihe eee eee ek 79 95 Portable Paper subscriber price 69 95 PRODUCT NO RDIINS 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable IBM PC and compat TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information 7 exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box S69 Fairfield
88. ething very clever to reduce the size of the dictionary He used the WordPerfect 4 2 dictionary and converted it to 5 0 using the SPELLX program on the 5 0 disk Sergio tells me the file is only 160K which should make it ROMable When we get the screen driver we ll send a copy of the driver and the dictionary on a disk to all current owners of our PlusPerfect program at no charge WELTEC PHD SERIAL HARD DRIVE As reported last issue the PHD serial 20 Meg hard drive works fine with the LS 12 and Portable Vectra CS How ever it does not work with either the Portable Plus or HP110 We sent an HP110 and Portable Plus to Weltec with technical information They spent some time looking at the problem However it seems it would take a major rewrite of both the software and PHD firmware for the drive to work with the HP110 or Portable Plus Prospects don t look good GAMES DISK AND ROM We keep collecting more games that work on the HP110 and Portable Plus These include arcade games logical 110 games and adventure games I have someone now testing a them and updating the documentation I hope to make an announcement next issue on the contents and pricing of both the disk and ROM MEMORY UPGRADES Thanks to the prodding of Frank Keresztes Fischer I have sent a Portable Plus to an engineering firm to look into various possible memory upgrades for example increasing the amount of memory on the motherboard I am not all that optimistic
89. ever is needed including filing and calling customers who have not paid their bills Finally to Rita s right is Judith Eversage our buyer and Ed Wilson in shipping and receiving Glen Frank is above and between Judith and Ed and works as a bookkeeper proofreader and graphic artist I can t say enough about our people We all really care about doing a good job and serving you We are all customer advocates We hope to continue to be of service to you in the years ahead THE PORTABLE PAPER Similarities Between The Mac Portable And The HP Portables Lest you think HP engineers were out to lunch when they designed the Plus check out the review of the Macintosh Portable in the October Byte magazine This new machine has many familiar old features The Mac Portable doesn t have a power switch To turn it on open the lid and press any key You can turn the Mac off via a pull down menu or if you don t do anything for a few user adjust able minutes the Mac will turn itself off A tap on the keyboard brings up the application program right where it left off The Macintosh Portable can also turn itself on at a given time or when the modem detects an incoming call you can for example take advantage of late night long distance rates to send a report to the home office without staying up to the wee hours If you ignore the low battery warnings the Macintosh will go to sleep with enough power left to keep all your data
90. fairly fast And there s even a hint of more to come with Power C One of the sample programs was supposed to generate a bar graph on the screen I fully anticipated that this would drive the Portable Plus round the bend Much to my surprise up popped the outline of a bar chart The lettering and hatch marks were missing but the bar chart was visible on the screen of the Plus This looks promis ing and might be worth investigating further no Copyright 1988 Personalized Software If you are looking for a C compiler that works and will let you try your hand at C programming then Power C might be worth checking out The next best alternative would be Turbo C 2 0 which costs 150 00 If you re interested the company s address is MIX Software 1132 Commerce Drive Richardson TX 75081 BACK TO BASIC So how about Turbo BASIC 2 0 Why won t its programs run on the Plus Most likely the answer lies in the way that Turbo BASIC handles the PRINT command My guess is that the BASIC compiler generates code that writes directly to the screen of the computer This is how Turbo C 2 0 and Turbo Pascal 5 5 handle their comparable printfQ and writeln functions respectively However Turbo Pascal and C both include a function that disables this direct video output and forces the compiler to use the computer s ROM BIOS programs to write to the screen I looked in vain for such a function in Turbo BASIC There does not
91. found that I could easily modify HP s Infocom game 32 47 punctuation interpreter to make it run many of the IBM compatible 48 57 numerals Infocom games on the 110 and Portable Plus I wrote a 58 63 more punctuation small program HPINFOCM to generate a custom inter 64 90 uppercase letters preter for the game you specify included in 1990 Sub 91 95 more punctuation scribers Disk I believe it will work with most of In 96 122 lower case letters focom s pure text games 123 126 more punctuation 127 the rub out character HPINFOCM has been tested with the following EXTENDED ASCII BallyhooDeadline Originally the first bit in any ASCII code group was always EnchanterMoonmist 0 IBM decided that 128 ASCII code groups were being 8 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 Recommended by Hewlett Packard THE PORTABLE PAPER Instant Access POp UDS tor the Portable Pius Calculator e notepad e macros and more A great easy to use productivity booster If there s one program every Portable Plus owner should have it s Shelp Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus See Software on ROM ad in this issue i i Ii i and used by more than 1 000 of their employees tsa program called Shelp shell help and it runs on the Portable Plus from within any nor graphics pro gram Here s all you do Press Ctrl Shift Extend char
92. goto END if errorlevel 3 goto NORTON if errorlevel 2 goto INSPGRAP P O Box 869 Pairfield 1A 52556 515 172 6330 Copyright 1988 Personalized Software if errorlevel 1 goto pgraph PGRAPH echo 2J Loading Lotus PrintGraph pgraph echo dR 2J goto END INSPGRAP echo 2J Installing PrintGraph on A stuff A Y7 installp pgraph ir goto END NORTON echo 2J Loading Norton Utility echo amp k1 11m nu d1 echo amp k0 10m dR 2J goto END a echo dK dQ WEBSTER S POP UP SPELLING CHECKER fT The latest version of Webster s Spelling Checker is a TSR program that pops up over your favorite editor or word processor Of course it won t run on the Portable but it EJ works very well with Ed Gilbert s Editor on compatible Install Webster s using the canned configuration for Bank Street Writer and you are up and running One of my associates uses this combo and really likes it It certainly adds a new dimension to The Editor NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 31 NEW ON VIDEOTAPE How to Use the HP Portables E For new and intermediate users E Cuts training time for new users employees spouse children friends E Teaches you how to get the most out of your HP110 or Portable Plus Now you can learn how to use the full potential of your HP Portable computer directly from Hal Goldstein president of Personalized Software and leading HP Port able exp
93. gular columns of Ed Keefe and Tom Page Both Ed and Tom are strong computer users with unique intelligent thought provoking perspectives and senses of humor Ed tells us that he will not be able to submit his column regularly next year but he ll keep in _ touch Ed has been with me from issue one and Pll miss his regular input However I know Ed I ll be surprised if we don t hear from him often All other contributors deserve our appreciation Some FOR HANDY REFERENCE Items directly relevant to the three HP Portables are denoted in this issue as follows 110 Portable Portable Plus J Portable Vectra BA Vectra LS 12 When items are partly or indirectly relevant they are denoted as 110 Portable P Portable Plus pv Portable Vectra 4 Vectra LS 12 day PII go back and count how many different contributors inclu ding letter writers have been pub lished in The Portable Paper 1 bet it s over 200 Well over half of every issue is written by you our readers That is why The Portable Paper is so valuable it s a record of the col lective experience of users around the world Special thanks goes to Sergio Biguzzi and Frank Keresztes Fischer Both of them are con stantly nudging me into going the extra mile to support HP Portable users Finally thanks to our staff Most of them are in the picture taken in front of our building lo cated on the Fairfield Iowa town square Hanging out the window on the top
94. h an installed base of more than half a million MNP modems worldwide Data speed of the new modem is 2400 bits per second with effective throughput up to 4800 bps The WorldPort 2400 MNP is battery powered operates with all HP Portables through the serial port is compatible with both Bell and CCITT transmission protocols and allows telephone connection through both direct connect and acoustic couplers The modem is pocket sized and light weight and includes AT command set compatibility auto dial auto answer auto rate select a speaker and LED indicators Touchbase Systems is well established data communica tions field and produces a number of popular WorldPort modems In addition to the 2400 MNP Personalized Software carries the WorldPort 2400 and the WorldPort 1200 Pricing information is below ORDERING INFORMATION The WorldPort series of products were developed by Touchbase Systems of Northport New York Retail prices and prices to Portable Paper Subscribers when ordered through Personalized Software are as follows WorldPort Retail Subscriber Product Price Price 2400 MNP 499 425 2400 359 319 1200 199 179 Subscribers Disks Will Be Only Available With Subscription The purpose of the subscribers disk has always been to supply useful utilities to our faithful Portable Paper subscribers To many these utilities alone have been worth the price of the subscription and more We have there fore decided that only Portable Pa
95. hat day to this the desktop has run at 8MHz This FastPlus upgrade will make your Portable Plus more than twice as fast as the original IBM PC that s even faster than the HP Portable Vectra older PC at work This PC has a QuadRam expansion board which boosts the computer s memory to 640K bytes The card also has its own printer output connec tor The address of 1700 for the HPIL card is also used by the printer port This means that I cannot use the HPIL loop and the printer at the same time I have to use different CONFIG SYS files and reboot the computer every time I want to connect the Portable to the PC What a nuisance One last word of caution for those contemplating upgrading to an IBM PS 2 Model 50 55 70 etc The HPIL card will not work with the new Micro Channel Architec ture in these computers Don t look for any upgrade to the HPIL card from Hewlett Packard for these MCA computers HP does not support the Micro Channel Architecture in any of its machines HP may also be phasing out any support for HPIL in the future The only computer on HP s product list that still uses HPIL is the HP 41CX handheld And once that machine is taken off the product list HPIL will for all practical purposes be discontinued as well THE ANSWER IS NOT AT ALL BASIC Franz Ulz of Brunn Austria had a question about why programs written and compiled with Turbo BASIC 2 0 Some fast computers do not have an easy method of
96. he same upgrade price as the IBM upgrade However the HP150 upgrade is only ported for the IBM machine With the use of the PC emulator for the HP150 and some suggestions from Personalized Software it was possible to run WordStar version 4 on the HP150 More important believe it or not it is also THE HP9114 EMPOWERER If you ve been frustrated trying to use your HP9114 external disk drive only to have the battery quit before you ve finished your work then you know the problem Now you need the solution THE PROBLEM The charge on your HP9114 battery doesn t last long enough for you to do all you d like to For that matter in some cases it doesn t last long enough to do half of what you d like to According to Hewlett Packard you get up to 40 minutes of continuous usage before the battery dies We ve never 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 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
97. ial port Vol 4 5 CPV WorldPort 2496 Fax amp Modem Battery powered portable fax and 2400 baud modem connects to serial port CCITT Vol 4 5 P PLUS UPGRADES FastPlus By installing faster processor and increasing the clock speed of your Portable Plus you can run Lotus 1 2 3 and other applications 60 faster than before Our trained technicians perform the upgrade and can have Plus back to you the next day Call for appointment 256K to 512K P Plus Upgrade If you have model numbers 45711C or D we ll add 256K to your unit Call for appointment 2 Megabyte RAM Drawer 1 M RAM 8 socket ROM Drawer Remove existing RAM or ROM drawer and substitute either 2 Megabytes of RAM or 1 Megabyte of RAM and 8 sockets of ROM Call for pricing and availability Products advertised or discussed in this issue Condor 34 The Editor ccccssseceee 7 Empowerer for HP9114 25 Ethernet Adapter 13 The Formatter 20 000 8 7 HPDuette ccec0ee002 37 HP Professional 35 KOS 6 Laplink 6 66 ae 06 08 oe Se 13 LapTape Tape Backup 13 NoSquint 2 eceees 13 Numeric Keypad 13 14 10 19 9 ROM Backup 18 Sidewinder e2e2025 I1 Squish Plus Back Cover StatPower PC100 13 Term110 TermPhis 6 27 Traveldisk 0 cccccecser 12 Turbo Pascal 5 5 0c6222 23 Used Computers 6 6 I1 Video 3 5 68 Soe eae oe ate 32 VI Editor 5 8
98. iciency of Time Manager 6 Provide different left margin settings for my address consignee s address and text As it is all text i e including both addresses will be printed with the same left margin unless you only use address printing for window envelopes The folder mark still is printed at the same margin 7 The folder mark should be only now it is Even better it should be possible to avoid printing the folder mark We managed to lose the tail end of this letter and cannot attribute it s source Hal Likes MS Word over WordPerfect Recently I acquired a copy of Wordper fect 5 0 and PlusPerfect from Personal ized Software I am very impressed with Cliff Looyenga s PlusPerfect WPRUN P COM and the seamless porting to the PLUS that it enables It is amazing how quickly WP 5 0 loads and runs in the PLUS and the blazing response of the thesaurus and speller running from my RAM disk I must confess that WP 5 0 has been a letdown to this veteran MS Word user MS Word is also a difficult application to master but once the lights go on it offers a logical grouping of functions and ex ecutes these elegantly The WYSIWYG feature of MS Word makes it more ap pealing to me Unfortunately MS Word on ROM version 1 1 is now aging especially for me as I seek to have document capa bility with visuals integrated speller etc Mastering another word processing application
99. ilar manner Your printer may or may not support all the extra characters ae THE PORTABLE PAPER More LS 12 and Portable Vectra Products On The Horizon I attended a trade show in New York recently on portable computing There I saw a number of products that will be of interest to Portable Vectra and LS 12 users Some of these products may also work with the HP110 and Portable Plus We ll be getting them in for testing LS 12 and CS 20 users will be interested in a tape backup unit that attaches to your parellel or serial port With this unit you ll have an easy way to backup and store your files from your hard disk LS 12 users will be interested in a mouse and numeric keypad all in one unit that connects to the serial port I also saw the smallest portable printer yet with parallel interface that produces letter quality output using thermal paper LS 12 will be interested in an 2400 baud internal MPI modem Finally we found software that lets your modem use MPI protocol for faster more reliable data transmission I will be at the COMDEX show in Las Vegas about the time you receive this issue and will be uncovering other products that will work with HP Portables Tune into the 1990 issues for more information Personalized Software INC Products that make HP Portables smarter PO Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 By Hal Goldstein What we re working on 110 PROMISES PROMISES PROM
100. include horizontal lines across the Vectra screen HP currently has no official policy for replacement However you can take your screen to an authorized HP service center and they should be able to help you out Always Select Backlight Powerdown LS 12 users should probably always use the Backlight Powerdown option from the Setup program even if they always run the LS 12 off AC rather than battery This option turns off backlighting if the system is not in use after a user selected number of minutes Pressing a key turns on the backlighting The obvious reason to use this option is to conserve battery life Another reason is to conserve the backlighting mechanism After about 10 000 hours the light burns out It will cost you over 300 to have the part replaced To set the option run the SETUP program on your LS 12 disk by typing setup Then select 5 Battery Conservation and then LCD Backlight Powerdown Generate a Bullet Want to generate a bullet from your LS 12 or Portable Vectra CS On your LS 12 hold down the Fn Alt and Shift keys Then type 254 on your embedded numeric keypad kiu From your Vectra CS hold down the Alt and Shift keys and type 254 from your numeric keypad This method works from DOS and inside most pro grams I generated the bullet in this article using my LS 12 from within WordPerfect 254 in the extended ASCII code for bullet See What is ASCII page 8 You can generate other ASCII characters in a sim
101. intact for a few days The hardware that provides these still unusual features is much like that in the Portable Plus Power management for the system is under the control of a second low power microprocessor much like the Plus PPU The control processor can shut down subsystems if they are not being used While the com puter is waiting for input from the key board the CPU clock is slowed down reducing battery drain by about 20 On the Plus the CPU clock stops saving about 35 The control processor also manages getting into and out of sleep mode having the main processor save and restore all it s internal registers Static RAM is used rather than the much more common dynamic memory to elim inate the need for constant refresh cycles There are expansion slots available for RAM and ROM Apple even selected a lead acid gel cell over a ni card battery Yes the new Macintosh does have differences from the Portable Plus The screen is reportedly readable The Mac has a built in floppy and hard disk drives it doesn t follow the Plus RAM ROM philosophy The unit is much larger and heavier than a Plus And at 6 500 the Mac Portable is even more expensive than HP s old list price I think Pii keep my Plus for a while Rich Brown St Paul Minnesota More On tjctrl First I enjoy your commentary in The Portable Paper and the helpful tips As suggested in the September October 4 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989
102. inter 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 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 II run another program then type a one word command and be back in THE EDITOR II exactly where you left off This includes exiting DOS which means you can delete copy and rename files while run ning THE EDITOR II Right justification and automatic paragraph indent A simple command right justifies your text and automatically indents your paragraphs however many spaces you wish Undelete A simple command will undelete the last line or block of text deleted Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change between upper case and lower case without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar THE EDITOR I is a truly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today Copyright 1988 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER actions in more involved ways than can be obtained in Sea Stalker Zork I more traditional single player games Plundered Hearts Leather The most common type of computer game invo
103. inutive 4K of disk space this little program allows you as the user to assign up to 96K additional memory to MS DOS You can extender cards designed for the Portable Vectra expansion move the MS DOS partition from 640K to 736K in 16K chassis With this card you ll be able to purchase a 10 increments Practically that means you have more room MB to a 250 MB portable hard disk and share that disk for pop up TSR programs such as SideKick or Ready Also among other PC compatible computers applications such as WordPerfect run faster since they TRAVELDISK was developed four years ago as a 10MB have more room to work in and applications like Lotus unit intended for military use The Navy did not want to can support larger spreadsheets e transport computers ship to shore They needed a highly Not only can you change the memory partition but the tugged and reliable portable memory device that had a EMS board port I O address and the EMS page frame can large storage capacity operated at a high data transfer be adjusted from C000 to E000 should a conflict arise speed and was compact and lightweight Over 50 of with another EMS board TRAVELDISK customers are government related organiza tions The Department of Defense uses it to securely HOW IT WORKS transport data for many projects including the B2 Bom Although I haven t had an opportunity to discuss the ber TRAVELDISK is used in the President s Office national actual operation of the pr
104. is an inefficient use of my time Size is a more important dilemma WP 5 0 and other new applications are bloated compared to the PLUS s current capacity I no longer have enough open ROM or RAM disc capacity and need to offload much of my other stuff to run WP 5 0 from RAM So far the batch file I _ wrote to manage this process is not a satisfactory solution I even tried to compress the WP 5 0 files as I do with some of my other applications I was surprised how compacted its files already are this strategy didn t help either Considering the space taken by my must files and applications those I need with me at all times I don t see how I can incorporate WP 5 0 I seldom use applications that are not loaded in my PLUS Expanded ROM chips and or HP110 HP110 S U S ER ROUP RAM disks would help to alleviate this bottleneck It is interesting to note the evolution in one s thinking I have a user friendly PC in the PLUS and a cumulative invest ment of time molding it into a genuinely productivity partner But I also look over the horizon for innovation and genuine progress that does not compromise the benefits of my current solutions While newer laptop offerings brag about daz zling hardware capacity 386 25 cache 16meg memory 100meg HD etc they don t address the user s best advantage except perhaps when plugged into the wall in a conventional office setting By contrast Hal this le
105. issue I set up a MEMOMAKER BAT file to activate PPTJ to control my ThinkJet printer But I didn t like being stuck in the B directory nor the reset when exit ing Memomaker My solution is to install PPTJ from the File Manager Just type PPT after entering the File Manager from Memomaker Then PPTJ stays put and is available everywhere This solution is a general one One can run as many applications as one has memory for by starting them from the File Manager For example start Memo maker then if you need a little Lotus calculation go to the File Manager type 123 and you are in lotus If you need the results from Lotus save them as a print file and use Memomaker s con voluted procedure to import the print file I ve strung Time Manager Memo maker and Lotus together in this way without ill effect The advantage is you can keep all applications active keeping your place while you move to another Like so many people I believe that with the Plus HP designed a machine which was way ahead of anyone else s thinking Their mistakes were not real izing how good the Plus was and is not properly explaining it and not bringing out successors and upgrades to capture a big chunk of the entire portable market for the future HP has meant superiority to me but they have missed the boat with the portables and workstations for the business technical enviroment too but that s another lament Harvey L Kliman Chadds
106. ith people like me who still think MS DOS is a feminist I estimate that I can go on for years with the expanded memory I achieved Without The Portable Paper I probably would have retired my Plus Now it s always at my side thanks Burt Kolker Atlanta Georgia THE PORTABLE PAPER THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume four Number six November December 1989 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Richard Hall Department Editors Ed Keefe Tom Page Contributing Editors Gary Goodman David Hughes Jim Scheef Lewis Thomas Ralph Watson Art Consultant George Foster Circulation Vicki Randolph Barbara Gianino Deb Quade Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The Portable Paper ISSN 0886 9138 is published bimonthly by Personalized Soft ware at 57 East Broadway Avenue Fairfield IA 52556 Subscription rates one year U S and U S possessions 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 Circulation and Adver tising Offices P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 c Copyright 1988 Personal ized Software all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful infor mation but the reader must make his or her own investigations and decisions th
107. ithin WordPerfect You can apply logical rules to the sort It s easy for example to generate an alphabetized list of all customers in California who have purchased more than 100 worth of merchandise within the last 6 months speller module wherever you go without having to load it in from an external disk drive And with a megabyte of extra RAM you d have lots of room left over for text files HP150 To run Version 5 0 you ll need 512K of memory and a double sided disk drive To run Version 4 2 you ll need 256K of internal memory and either a double sided or single sided disk drive Note If your HP150 uses single sided disks you ll also need a hard disk drive to run Version 4 2 Neither version of WordPerfect will run on a dual floppy single sided HP150 system WordPerfect s Newest Version Here are the main features that have been added to WordPerfect in upgrading it from Version 4 2 to 5 0 Fonts and printing WordPerfect 5 0 lets you set margins tabs etc using inches centimeters and points Fonts may be freely mixed and changed without af fecting margins tabs or column definitions Integrated text and graphics WordPerfect 5 0 lets you insert graphic images from most graphics programs directly into your text You can enlarge reduce move and rotate most images to your specifications Styles You can combine text and codes to create a specific style or format that you can then use over and
108. itor to create Turbo Pascal code When you exit your editor you re back in the TurbPlus shell automat ically Next you call Turbo Pascal by press ing a single function key to compile the code or test for a run time error If you need to make changes in your code you simply exit Turbo call your text editor and edit the code When you ve created a clean final ver sion you then can run the Turbo Optimizer compiler from within TurbPlus The Opti mizer which works perfectly on the Port able Plus produces a faster more compact version of your code TurbPlus also lets you exit to DOS execute any DOS command and then return to TurboPlus The TurbPlus master disk in cludes the TurbPlus source code written in Turbo Pascal for you to study or modify CRT UNIT FOR PORTABLE PLUS Clearly TurbPlus gives Portable Plus users an integrated programming environment similar to the one that comes with the IBM RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable __ Portable vecta Portable Pius HP1SO o IBM PC and compatibles THE PORTABLE PAPER PC version of Turbo 5 5 But what about those units of code from Turbo 5 5 that don t run on the Portable Plus Well we haven t provided a replacement for all of them but we have for the most important one the CRT unit Included with the TurbPlus Integrator is a unit called HPCRT which works on the Portable Plus in the same way as Turbo Pascal s standard CRT unit work
109. ktop upon return to the office DUETTE This is your ace in the hole Here is insurance for the day when the closest 9114 is in the next state and you absolutely have to get a file onto a desktop Together with Duette in ROM I carry an adapter cable to mate the Plus s non standard serial connector to an IBM standard 25 pin cable Tucked away in a corner of my brief case is a copy of the Duette program for the desktop A few minutes to make the connection and the file can be transferred in a wink Since the cable weighs only three or four ounces this is easy to carry insurance LOTUS 1 2 3 You might be surprised by my use of Lotus 1 2 3 I don t do budgeting or any of the other traditional spreadsheet applications on the Plus My only continuous application is my running log Every day almost I enter the miles run time and pulse rate into a database in 1 2 3 Several neat formulas calculate the pace in minutes per mile The point of this is that the database is there when I need it That s what portable computing is all about Of course I also use Lotus for small ad hoc spreadsheet or to start the development of larger spreadsheet applications that will be completed on the desktop but this is a relatively minor use of the portable WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER Webster s Spelling Dictionary has had a major effect on my use of the Pius Before Webster s any document for distribution had to be transferred to a desktop befor
110. l utilities are provided for breaking still larger files into smaller sub files The program also has an optional visual beep to replace the usual audible one making Personal Vi easy to use in meetings without disturbing others Personal Vi comes complete with two versions of the software one for Vectra PC Compatible machines both 3 5 and 5 25 inch disks supplied and one for HP150 HP Portable Plus machines 3 5 single sided disk supplied The standard HP version requires about 69K to store A full featured but more compact 57K HP110 version is included for editing files up to 30 000 characters in length List price for the package including manual binder and non copy protected disks is 169 ORDERING INFORMATION Personal Vi was developed by Oak Hill Software of Middletown New Jersey The HP version retails for 195 THE PORTABLE PAPER Price to Portable Paper subscribers when ordered through Personalized Software is 155 World s Smallest MNP Modem WorldPort 2400 MNP the smallest MNP Class 5 portable no external modem available has just been unveiled by Touchbase Systems The WorldPort 2400 MNP supports the Microcom MNP Class 5 standard and has error mo Ei correction and data compression features that allow both P error free and faster transmission of data over the tele phone line THE MNP Class 5 standard is the most widely installed hardware error correction protocol in the world wit
111. le Version 4 of WordStar can also be used with the HP150 but its thesaurus can not In version 5 5 the thesaurus can be used as well as the spelling and definitions dictionary WordStar 5 5 incorporates automatic dictionary based word hyphena tion based on Xerox technology The hyphenation system is so accurate that the user is not even given the oppor tunity to override the system In order to run WordStar several changes are neces sary The HP150 PC emulator available with additional documentation from Personalized Software for 19 must be used and WordStar must be installed as IBM ROM compatible so that WordStar will not write directly to the display The proper disks must be set up so that Word Star will not try to access the C disc for its files Using the DOS 3 2 ASSIGN command could even solve this problem The installation program used to make these changes is WSCHANGE and it must be run under the PC emulator The opening screens of the WSCHANGE program will not write to the 150 screen even under the emulator Fortunately all it does is ask for the name of the program twice Type this information and press return blindly WSCHANGE will come up in all its glory and you can make whatever changes are needed If you use the PC MODE of the emulator you must remember to use the new name of the program assigned by it Normally this is WS OVL The PRCHANGE program necessary to establish the printer definition files will n
112. le opera tions save retrieve copy rename backup etc the same way you al ways do File backup takes up fewer disks of course and is significantly faster You can even use the Norton Utilities Undelete program to re HP 150 The Portable Paper Personalized Sottware P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable ie Portable Plus Portable Vectra e IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Back p for the Portable Plus cover compressed files that have been deleted Initial set up is easy too There is no need to reformat or repartition your present disk All you do is install Squish Plus as a device driver You don t even have to know what that means The manual one of the best we ve seen walks you through the procedure in 5 minutes ANY DRAWBACKS Other file compression programs impose a speed penalty But Squish Plus is so efficient there s vir tually no loss of speed especially on the Portable Plus except perhaps for a slight additional wait with some of your program files and largest data files Other file compression programs also set aside a significant amount of internal memory space for file decompression But Squish Plus uses only 36K of memory for everything Portable Plus users may need to increase inter nal main memory by as much as 36K On the Portable Vectra and LS 12 Laptop Squish Plus simply borrows 36K from the 640K of memory that s
113. lendaring program I have seen I ve experimented with several other programs but TM was a major reason for purchasing a Portable Plus Since then I have been adding accessory programs from either CompuServe or the Portable Paper Subscriber Disks These add on programs enhance TM and make it even more valuable TMA is worth the cost of RAM space 22K for the month at a glance calendars it prints CAL gives 22 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 a two week display that shows the number of appoint ments and to do items set for each day This gives a quick idea of just how overworked you are at any point in time The latest addition is DW a program from the 1989 Portable Paper Subscriber Disk Much faster than either TMA or CAL DW lets you visually search daytime appointments quickly and efficiently An option to show evening hours would make the program even more useful RELAY GOLD Several months back I wrote a review of Relay Gold for the Portable Paper so I won t go into it so thoroughly here see PP Nov Dec 1988 Pg 9 Suffice it to say it has revolutionized how I use the Plus for communications Relay allows very easy file transfer to and from the IBM mainframe This means that it is no longer necessary to carry a 9114 on longer trips With the ability to transfer files the mainframe becomes a disk drive for the portable When space gets tight just upload a few files They can be transferred back if needed or transferred to the des
114. lot of disk access from your HP9114 Note You might consider purchasing a 1 Megabyte RAM drawer for your Portable Plus This would let you bring the superb WordPerfect e Portable Plus and HP150 Columns 5 WordPerfect s Columns feature is ideal for writing a newsletter glossary script or any text that requires columnar format Up to 24 col umns can formatted in either newspaper style snaking or parallel style side by side The columns appear on the screen exactly as they will print on the page Footnotes and endnotes WordPerfect streamlines the task of creating and editing footnotes and endnotes Just enter information at the appropriate spot and Word Perfect takes care of numbering and format ting including allowing just the right amount of space at the bottom of the page If you later add or delete a note WordPerfect will automat ically renumber the others Table of contents Mark portions of your text specify a format and WordPerfect will automatically generate a Table of Contents and an Index for your document Math WordPerfect lets you use 4 function math for calculations across columns and for subtotals totals and grand totals down columns any where in your document Whenever you change a number WordPerfect updates the totals It s like having a mini spreadsheet at your finger tips without leaving WordPerfect Sort You can sort lines paragraphs even external database records from w
115. lves Goddesses Of Phobos real time action typified by the gobble em up shoot em Hitchhiker s Guide To The Galaxy up games The only action game for the HP110 and the It will not work with Bureaucracy a PC DOS program Portable Plus which I have encountered is TigerFox TigerFox is a simple chase game but one which takes a Recently Infocom has dropped their purely text only lot of practice and eye mind hand coordination It s a lot games in favor of games that use graphics to augment of fun 29 95 from Personalized Software their text They are selling out their stock of the early Infocom pioneered the Adventure type games which games through TRITON Products Company Some games they call Interactive Fiction Initially these games were may still be obtained from Infocom Addresses of these purely text based You the player are typically an companies are shown below adventurer in a land of fantasy You are presented a description of the scene around you Then the computer TRITON Products Company waits for you to type in your response or desired action P O Box 8123 using simple sentences like go north or fight the troll Menlo Park CA 94128 with the sword There is some element of chance in the 800 227 6900 games but mostly it is a matter of skill and puzzle solving My first Infocom game was Zork I In this game you Infocom Mediagenic play the part of an adventurer in a lost underground 3885 Bohannon Dr em
116. ly want to emphasize 1 THE EDITOR I s Lotus like menus make it in credibly easy to use 2 THE EDITOR II 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 II will automatically back up your files to protect you against mistakes When you save a file THE EDITOR II saves not just the current version but the previous one as well The Formatter THE FORMATTER gives you advanced formatting capabilities that even THE EDITOR II can t handle _ like multi line headers and footers automatic hy phenation you can even add your own words to the built in dictionary user specified page length and line length e automatic page numbering tables and charts table of contents generation and more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special for matting codes into your EDITOR I MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 in this issue It s way beyond MemoMaker 4 THE EDITOR II takes up less than 40K of memory 5 THE EDITOR II loads and saves files and ex ecutes commands exceptionally fast 6 THE EDITOR II comes with a well written ref erence manual and a step by step tutorial Even in the desktop market it is difficult to find a word processor with this many u
117. machines have a nasty habit of seeing the first character in the ASCII code group as 0 in all cases Whenever an Extended ASCII character is encountered it will misinterpret it as one of the original 128 ASCII characters Not everybody agrees on what the Extended ASCII characters should be Fortunately there is an international effort to standardize the extended character set This same effort is even considering a 16 bit ASCII system to handle the large number of characters Oriental languages tend to have Any file written in regular ASCII format can be read by another program that reads ASCII files However format ting commands underlining italics etc are not included in ASCII If you convert your WordPerfect files to ASCII or transmit files over a modem you ll loose your formatting codes Don t use extended ASCII if you transfer files via modem as straight ASCII or between different programs APPLE YET ANOTHER ASCII VARIATION ASCII was derived from teletype coding and teletypes needed both carriage return and line feed codes to generate documents Apple has eliminated the line feed code in the Macintosh When the Mac sees a carriage return it automatically adds a line feed If you move files from a PC to a MAC you shouldn t have any problems Not so the other way HPIL Switch Box By Lewis Thomas The Hewlett Packard Interface Loop system affords excellent flexibility for interconnecting devices and controllers If o
118. mmercial equivalent sells for 50 2 Time Manager calendar utility 3 HP Cal culator program 4 Game Lotus templates 1988 includes 1 Time Manger mail merge utility 2 Great public domain software for Vectra 3 password protect program 4 Xmodem program for P Plus 5 Lotus tem plates 6 Games 7 DOS Tools 8 HP to Alternate mode toggler 9 Lots more 1989 includes 1 File manager utility that lets you tag files for mass copying and de leting 2 File compressor 3 New RAM based Time Manager with Week at a glance screen 4 Compuserve Automation program 5 A menu program easier to use than PAM 6 Fast file finder 7 Directory lister 8 More 1990 includes 1 Best file compression archiver 2 Wordstar work alike editor 3 LS 12 DOS extender 3 Quick unerase util 4 Space saving amp DOS utils 5 Great Rus sian game 6 Text search util 7 Much more PassPort Designed for LS 12 amp Zenith SuperSport gives you instant pop up control of CPU speed backlighting cursor adjustment battery mo dem hard disk alarm palette clock display PrintMaster Allows you to use your HP Portable and Think Jet to produce logos invitatations banners and other graphics Customized for Port Plus Private File Protects letters documents data files by scram bling your file Your password unscrambles Shelp From within almost any program Shelp gives you immediate access to a notepad and
119. nd using the ROM In the chart prices of products marked PS are for entire ROM Backup Package According to the agreements we have with the original software vendors our ROM version is considered a backup copy of the disk version Unless you already own the disk version we cannot sell you the ROM Backup by itself Please note 1 If you purchased the disk version of a program from us we have that in our records If you purchased the disk version elsewhere you will need to show us proof of purchase before we can sell you just the ROM Backup 2 Prices for ROM Backups alone are as follows Best of DOS Tools 129 The Editor 2ccccevce 95 HPDuette c cc cevsves 95 HPrint 2 4 6 6a 66s 4 e eee h 8 95 Shelp se cc eceececcsscae 55 SideWinder 20eece08 55 Shelp SideWinder 95 Sketch 3 4 46 6406 wee oe ee 95 Squish Plus ssseseses 135 SuperROM 0 eee cece 49 TermPius 66 6 0 60 6 6 8 ee 6s 95 Turbo Pascal 3 e06 95 Typing Whiz 2eeeee 95 Websters Speller 179 WordPerfect e e 6 295 3 It is important that you read and adhere to the licensing agreement that comes with the disk version of any soft ware you buy because the same agree ment applies to the corresponding ROM Backup In most cases this means you can use only one version of the software at a time on only one computer system at a time Remember the ROM is a backup copy of the sof
120. ne desires to reconfigure the loop or bypass some of the devices on the loop then the loop must be physically reconfigured in most cases I use my ThinkJet 9114 Disk Drive HP 71 and PC together most of the time To remove the PC from the loop when I only want the HP 71 and Thinkjet is a bother Or if I want to print on the Thinkjet from the PC turning on the 9114 or reconfiguring the loop is an unnecessary event so I designed and built the HPIL Switch Box The HPIL Switch Box schematics shown in Figure 1 allows you to configure two separate HPIL loops Any of the devices or controllers attached to the Switch Box via NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 9 THE PORTABLE PAPER Now you can use HP Portable or HP150 disks single or double sided ina 312 IBM compatible disk drive Volume Pricing Available HPIL Connectors can be placed on one of the two loops by throwing a two position switch The switches I used have a window which indicates switch position and therefor the loop the device is on by changing from black to yellow When all switches are in the same position all devices controllers are on the same loop Any switch s set in the opposite position places that device controller on the other loop If a device is selected to be on Loop 1 it is shortened or bypassed on Loop 2 Therefore if only one loop is being used a device that is not being used may be bypassed by placing it on the other loop The switch
121. never possible using the optional AC adapter The WorldPort 2400 draws no power from your Portable s battery ge hearer iinet ates RECOMMENDED FOR TO ORDER na ition to our Portable Vectra Use enclosed pastage paid order form d HP110 Portable g Portable Vectra e or send check or credit card information standard 60 ay mon Portable Plus HP150 4 exp date signature to ey back guarantee the IBM PC and compatibles o Personalized Software The 4 x2 x1 WorldPort 2400 costs less than HP s internal modems is faster and can be used with more than one computer THE PORTABLE PAPER WorldPort 2400 comes with a 2 year manufac turer s warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship The WorldPort 2400 offers portablility relia bility well designed features and ease of use Order yours risk free today Retail Subscriber Price Price WorldPort 2400 modem 359 00 319 00 with Carbon Copy PLUS software PRODUCT NO WM12NM WorldPort 1200 modem 199 00 179 00 without software PRODUCT NO WM1iNM Cable to connect modem to HP Portables 30 00 20 00 PRODUCT NO WM14NM FREE with modem 9 volt AC adapter ADT 2 ADT PRODUCT NO WM15NM Acoustic coupler 79 95 300 1200 baud PRODUCT NO WM16NM Upgrade kit WorldPort1200 WorldPort2400 199 00 179 00 includes Carbon Copy PLUS software P
122. o it could accommodate an optional software drawer con taining 12 ROM sockets Clearly their intention was that those sockets be filled with useful programs But if you re like most Portable Plus users you probably are using FOR YOUR PORTABLE S ee a eee ae ee ee just a few of the sockets for ROM based programs like Lotus 1 2 3 or MemoMaker That s fine as far as it goes but if you aren t using all the ROM sockets or if you have to carry around an HP9114 disk drive wherever you go then you are not using your Portable Plus to full advantage To start using the full potential of your Portable Plus look over the chart at the far right It con tains more than 50 programs and utilities available on ROM chips from Personalized Software Taken together these ROMs cover every application you re likely to need from word pro cessing to spreadsheets to data 60 DAY GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION If within 60 days you are dissatisfied with a ROM product for any reason you may return it for a full refund 2 YEAR GUARANTEE AGAINST DEFECTS If a ROM proves defective at any time within 2 years we will replace it at no charge N a vA 7 r Easy to use lightning fast ROM chips save valuable Portable Plus memory and eliminate the need for a disk drive N Ng XN e as communications graphics pro gramming languages and more Which means once
123. ocument is ready for refinement Initially I was doing this using Framework II telecommunications on the desktop with either a direct RS232 or a modem link This was rather cumbersome An HP IL connection for the M100 would 24 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 mo Ps D be really nice It would give the M100 direct access to a 9114 ThinkJet and the desktop in my home office For now I have settled on a program much like Duette that transfers files between the desktop and either the M100 or the companion Tandy Portable Disk Drive about 1 3 the size of a 9114 Frustrations And Resolutions by Ralph Watson M D Frustrations came into my life as the owner of an HP110 an HP150 and an Everex Step 20 386 These frustrations and their resolution caused me to write this letter in the hope that someone else might benefit from my solutions Having a 3 5 720K drive in an IBM clone was essential for solving these problems Personalized Software s READHP device driver will then allow an IBM clone to read the 9114 s discs This driver is not necessary for the HP150 if it is equipped with DOS 3 2 Once a 200 3 5 drive is added to the IBM clone all interconnect problems become unimportant as long as you don t mind transfer ring files via floppy discs SPREADSHEET SOLUTIONS Problems using an electronic spreadsheet are the easiest to solve With Lotus 1 2 3 built into the HP110 and available for the HP150 you have complete spread shee
124. oes not The two ways I have found of making the disks compatible are as follows 1 Use FORMIBM on the HP110 and then use a program such as NOR TON UTILITIES to change the word for the number of direc tories to 7000 2 FORMAT the disk on the IBM compatible and use a program such as NORTON UTILITIES to change the near jump to the HP near jump EB1C90 I am very glad to have someone like you to communicate with bounce ideas off of and get some help in make my HP110 productive Thank you for your help Gary Persons The Philippines Need Scientific Word Processor A number of my colleagues at this institu tion own the Portable Plus and feel the need for a word processor programme that would allow us to do scientific word processing On the IBM compatible we find the CHIWRITER programme to be very suitable for this purpose it s a fairly cheap and small programme B K Mukherjee Kingston Ontario If anybody has and ideas on this one let us know Hal A few useful hints Here are a few useful hints for The Port able Paper When _ in Memomaker_and_ moving portions of files to large to memorize use COpy to move the block and then delete with cut out block It is far to easy to loose a block while in memory unless it has been previously saved and stored on disk Knob and spindle for the Thinkjet I tried to order this but my check was returned so I studied the spindle as sembl
125. oftware THE PORTABLE PAPER to find unused memory The 736K MS DOS available memory may only apply to CGA only LS 12s or Super sports IN SHORT ZEMM SYS is a great idea It not only extends MS DOS a little further but makes LIM 4 0 memory available to applications like WordPerfect and Lotus 1 2 3 Weltec Serial Hard Drive Better Then What We Said fig in last issue Vol 4 No 5 Pg 15 we discussed the PhD a 20 megabyte serial hard drive that you can run from the Vectra Views contains information which specifically FAportable Vectra CS or the LS 12 serial port Since that pertains to the Portable Vectra CS and Vectra LS 12 article we have tested it with both machines and the drive Laptop PC In this column we note the latest devel works fine but significantly slower than a built in or opments in Portable Vectra and LS 12 products from normal external hard drive Hewlett Packard Personalized Software and other third We said the driver took 256K of internal memory In parties and include specific tips for Vectra and LS 12 fact it only takes 3K users Please feel free to contribute on disk or letter to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 or ORDERING INFORMATION call 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 The PhD Portable Hard Disk is available directly through WELTEC Digital of Irvine California at a retail price of 1099 Get 738 MG out of 640 MG on the LS 12 By David Hughes Price to Po
126. ogram with the author I laboratories and many other organizations consulted the technical reference manual and believe this The 20 MEG version of The TRAVELDISK is very small program utilizes the memory that is normally reserved for monochrome and EGA video for MS DOS and addresses expanded memory through the EMS page frame The pounds It attaches to the back of the Vectra CS through technical reference also indicates that 128K of EMS is used a special shielded 50 dataline cable which connects to a for monitor and video slushware and scratch pad RAM Bus Extender Card BEC that must be installed in one of I don t have an EGA or Monochrome display adapter so the Vectra s I O Expansion Slots I can t verify this but it seems like the only logical place 2 6 x 4 1 x 5 9 inches roughly the size of two thick paperback books together and weighs about three 12 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 EIGHT ways to make your LS 12 Vectra or Transfer your files to another PC without hassle Highly rated LapLink software offers high speed file transfer between your Vectra and another IBM PC compati ble using LapLink s special cable Versatile works with parallel and serial ports and easy to use simple manual or automatic file tagging LapLink for PV LS 12 la11ns Retail 139 Subscriber 119 Access any Ethernet network with your Vectra Xircom Pocket Ethernet Adapter attaches to your Vectra or any PC
127. on program on your LS 12 Passport goes beyond simple battery monitoring to provide complete power management of the LS 12 With Passport you can Quickly turn backlighting internal modem or hard disk on or off to conserve power Adjust CPU speed to Fast Slow or Miser Super 14 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 low power mode Review battery charge and user time remaining Be alerted to impending battery discharge by an audible alarm and graphic indicator a Set System Idle Reminder on off in 1 minute increments up to 60 minutes a Maintain condition and restore NiCad batteries to prevent continuous memory effect without re duced hard disk life Passport also lets you select and set alarms change cursor display modify backlight and palette adjustments and display and set and onscreen clock Passport is a simple menu driven program that installs in less than a minute and provides dynamic prompts to walk you through its use Passport was written specifically for the LS 12 Zenith SupersPort 286 and several other Zenith computers It works independently of the LS 12 s Machine Mode and Setup commands ORDERING INFORMATION Passport was developed by Safari Software Inc of Colum bia South Carolina and retails for 79 95 Price to Portable Paper subscribers when ordered through Personalized Software is 74 95 Troubles With CS Screen There are problems with some Portable Vectra CS screens Symptoms
128. on the Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 Its smaller cousin Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and Portable Vectra only Both versions let you set up a database in a single step simply by typing a picture of the in put form right on your screen You enter and modify data or even revise the database structure simply by typing and other files not created by Condor Over 150 000 Condor programs are cur rently in use We think the Condor peo ple have done a fabulous job of packing an enormous amount of database power Into an incredibly easy to use system We urge you to try Condor 3 or Condor Jr at our risk today Condor 3 495 00 379 00 for Portable Paper subscribers PRODUCT NO CRIINS Condor Jr 0 4 99 00 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers PRODUCT NO CRI3NS MEMORY REQUIREMENTS Condor Jr right on the same form mand for limited re FREY hai e toa only cP Senor to run A oe gram inciuain e report writer Unlike other database systems you port writing HP110 Portable fel fits in less than 360K Since each command i simply tell Condor what to do not how You can transfer Portable Plus eoj a fe file you can Aas memory space by on i eleting any commands you don t need to do it and you tell it using simple data back and forth Portable Vectra pele Condor Jr is even more memory efficient English like statements such as LIST from Condor 3 to HP150 eoj the main program
129. ore It is a very interesting story but the Portable Paper is a computer magazine not a history book TIME MANAGER SOLUTION I don t have an elegant solution to Donald Harleroad s problem of running out of space in his Time Manager appointments file The Portable Paper Vol 4 No 5 Pg 43 but I do have a few suggestion that may help with the problem Appointments are stored in A PAM ALM the PAM alarm file Alarms are a PAM function not a Time Manager TM function Time Manager is simply a convenient way to manage the PAM ALM file I think TM will reset alarms without returning to PAM PAM ALM is a simple ASCII file and is described in Section 3 4 through 3 10 of the Portable Plus Owners Manual or 2 26 in the HP110 Owners Manual There is an associated file named PAM MSG that I see no use for but there is no need to worry about it since PAM will create it from data in PAM ALM To allow appointment entries without an ROM backup of TermPlus includes IBM disk formatting utility ThinkJet control pop up and more alarm TM subverts the PAM ALM file by prefixing the appointment entry with a sign PAM cannot PSOE entries beginning with a but TM can TO DO lists are strictly a TM function and are stored in A TM TDO TM TDO is also a simple ASCII file Name and addresses are stored in TM NAM another ASCII file TM NAM is slightly more complicated that the other Time Manager files separating fields with the tab character TMSWA
130. ork quite well Most of the full screen editing features such as modifying reports now work Before when installed in the HP150 mode the screens hung up because of incorrect key mapping DBXL has a very complete on line manual However I still cannot move through its pages without risk of crashing my machine Fortunately my need for the on line manual is small In spite of these problems DBXL is now a very usable database manager for the HP150 when installed with the PC emulator Its standard command line functions are absolutely correct and file management is dependable Program files appear to operate normally however I have not tested DBXL windowing commands Not to be forgotten is the DOS ASSIGN command which makes DOS think the HP150 has a C drive 26 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 convenient for one who types DOS commands on a clone Now what Maybe PROCOMM PLUS can be made to operate on the HP150 Well there are excellent com munications programs for the HP150 anyway HP TAPE BACKUP ON 386 Just for completeness sake I should mention one other system change My important business files are now located on my 386 I have now transferred my HP 9142 tape drive from my HP150 to the 386 All that was required was an IB interface card and software from Hewlett Packard By the way if you re persistent HP will sell you these two items separately instead of bundled in with the interface kit they offer One other miscellane
131. ortable Plus At least 60 faster with our low cost FastPlus upgrade By installing a faster processor and increasing the clock speed of your Portable Plus you can run Lotus 1 2 3 and other applications at least 60 faster than before The upgrade is straightforward but requires skill and experience working inside a Portable Plus If you want to try it yourself see our instructions in The Portable Paper Vol 3 No 1 pp 12 14 If you want o ir trained technicians to do it for you call to schedule an appointment then send us your Portable Plus and 250 returning your computer to you via UPS surface If you prefer overnight return shipping add 35 In most cases we ll perform the upgrade and ship your computer back the same day we receive it In all cases we guarantee our work for 60 days Please note This upgrade will void your HP warranty and HP will be under no obligation to service your Portable Plus in the future However we will continue to service upgraded machines and HP repair centers may in fact do the To save time running your spreadsheets editing your documents loading programs saving files and almost anything else you use a computer for order the FastPlus upgrade today You ll appreciate the difference it makes FastPlus upgrade for Portable Plus 250 PRODUCT NO FAILING Be sure to call first to schedule an appointment Ove
132. ortable Plus and some one 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 HPDuette Together with a special serial connecting cable that it comes with HPDuette is all you need to transfer files at high speed both ways be tween your Portable Plus and any IBM PC compatible desktop RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vecta Portable Plus HP150 Oo IBM_PC and compatibles e HPDuette performs complete error check ing during the transfer process to ensure data integrity It handles multiple file transfers subdirectory transfers and DOS wild card usage It lets you use DOS com mands such as type list rename and erase without having to exit the program And it transfers data faster than you can with an HP IL card HPDuette is easy to use too Simple menus and easy to understand help screens are available at all times For true convenience in file transfer to and from your Portable Plus order HPDuette today HPDuette with cable for Portable Plus 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers PRODUCT NO DUILINS HPDuette is a registered trademark of Platte River Associates Inc THE PORTABLE PAPER H Pdue f f ED comes with a serial cable and two disks you load one disk into your Portable Plus and the other into the desktop HPDuette transfers data at 57 600 baud To use HPDuette you
133. ot write to the HP150 screen It is necessary to create the printer definition files on an IBM compatible machine and then transfer them to the HP150 These files appear to operate properly on the HP150 but the printer port must be designated as the PRN port rather than the standard LPT1 at least for my setup I am using the Kelly Computer slot saver board that adds a parallel port to the HP150 This is the port that is being addressed in my setup even though that port in turn is driving my ThinkJet printer through its own HP IL interface The obvious point is that other setups will require different naming of the printer ports The default LPT1 may not work in any circumstances The printer port assignment is part of the printer defini tion file The excellent page preview program for WordStar will not run on the HP150 WordStar reports simply that no graphics adapter is present WordStar 5 5 has complete support for DOS directories but unfortunately the PC emulator does not It is neces sary to start WordStar in its own directory a task that is easily accomplished with a batch file Once WordStar is started you can then change to another directory without difficulty using the WordStar change directory command Wordstar on the HP150 is not nearly as fast as on my 20 megahertz 386 machine and the reformatting of paragraphs on the screen as you add to your document can be disturbing In spite of this the keyboard buffer is more than
134. ous fact the software for the tape drive will not function in its full screen mode with Sidekick Plus active the function keys do not work However sidekick does not interfere with the command line function of the program as you would normally use it to make backups The tapes when used in this fashion are apparently formatted differently than when formatted by the HP150 The IBM clone was able to read files on tapes created with the HP150 The Bottom Line MY HP150 NO LONGER LOOKS LIKE A DINOSAUR AND THE HP110 IS ALSO GETTING ITS SHARE OF USE TWO WONDERFUL MACHINES SAVED SAVVY By Thomas Page I must correct one error that slipped into the last issue The biography at the end of my last column said that I work for Natural Gas Pipeline Company When i was called and asked for the information I stated that I worked for a natural gas pipeline company I didn t figure it made much difference which company and since my Company was in the throws of a merger I wasn t exactly sure who I worked for I am Manager of Rates for Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation which is now a subsidiary of Panhandle Eastern Corporation I am responsible for determining rates and charges for the services provided by my Company The Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America is located in Chicago not Houston You may find it interesting that Texas Eastern exists because some people saw opportunity in war surplus During World War II Ge
135. out an HP110 on which to try it I hesitated to make any claims Thanks Bill We ll put versions of VDE for all HP portables on the 1990 Sub scriber s Disk Hal OOPS no I ve been trying to design my first real program using OOP Object Oriented Pascal with Turbo Pascal 5 5 The program Yet Another File Management Program is a Pv directory file lister which will lets you copy and delete files with the push of a button The object in this program is a list of the files The program would include procedures to display the list tag files copy delete and rename them It all sounds simple and probably is simple That doesn t mean that it s easy I m beginning to realize that I have programmed myself to write code in a certain way The OOP style of programming requires that I unlearn what I have always considered good programming practices and learn a new way of writing code Whenever I get really frustrated with OOP I think of Edsger Dijkstra s comment about this different style of programming Edsger Dijkstra is the person who first used the term spaghetti code He has also won every programming award in the computer business His comment about OOP was that object oriented programs are offered as alternatives to correct ones OOP is an exceptionally bad idea that could only have origi nated in California Somehow that note of sarcasm makes it easier to tackle OOP again At least I cart stop telling myself that
136. over again for chapter headings subheadings etc Document compare WordPerfect 5 0 will compare the on screen document to an existing document on disk Text that has been added will be red lined marked with a vertical bar in the left margin and text that has been deleted will be shown in strike out Keyboard redefinition and macros WordPerfect 5 0 lets you store any sequence of keystrokes so that those keystrokes will be ex ecuted upon the press of a single key This macro feature allows easy entry of repeated text and commands One way to use macros is to change the key assignments for Word Perfect s features There is no limit to the number of different keyboard layouts you can thus define Our recommendations In general Choose WordPerfect 4 2 if a your machine demands it or b you re already us ing 4 2 on other machines and don t intend to upgrade or c you wish to save some money and don t need the new features in WordPerfect 5 0 On the other hand if you want those new fea tures and your machine can handle it WordPer fect 5 0 is the one you should get If you use a Portable Plus you ll tie up the least amount of RAM if you purchase our ROM Backup version of WordPerfect 5 0 New software breakthrough 0 more file space for as little as 89 95 e Easy to use if you can save a file you already egg know how to use SQUISH PLUS entre SQUISH PLUS compresses your
137. per subscribers will be able to obtain the disks as part of their subscription no additional charge To qualify for a disk you must have purchased a subscription for the entire year With this issue we have sent renewal notices to everyone whose subscription expires before December 1990 That way everyone who wishes can complete their 1990 subscription and receive their 1990 disk along with the January 1990 issue 1986 1989 Index Soon Available The 1986 1989 index to The Portable Paper will be sent out with the January 1990 issue First Issue Of The UltraLite Connection Ships Since HP seems to be getting out of the portable business Personalized Software needs to find other markets if it is to survive and thrive in the future We plan to continue supporting HP Portables and HP150 s as long as there is a demand However we must plan for the future NEC welcomed our company known to UltraLite users as Personalized Computing Inc They liked The Portable Paper and have been helpful and encouraging about our doing a newsletter on the UltraLite The UltraLite uses a similar philosophy as the HP110 and Portable Plus It offers a 1 or 2 Meg Silicon hard drive electronic disk and you can insert ROM applica tions into the UltraLite one at a time into a ROM card slot I ve started using the UltraLite and here are my initial impressions I like the machine It s a four pound true compatible with a backlit screen Starting
138. pire searching for treasures of great antiquity There San Francisco CA 94025 are many trials to overcome and some uncouth individuals which you will meet My wife and I took a year to learn Personalized Software also has a few of these games how to navigate through this land and find most of the originally market by Hewlett Packard in stock and at used treasures We would play until we got frustrated then prices Call for pricing and availability put the game away or let someone else play Sometimes they found a new trick which gave us a clue on how to proceed to the next stage Then we would have a go at What is ASCII it again The game was a lot of fun in the car during long ff The American Standard Code for Information Interchange trips The passenger could read the scenario and both ASCII for short is the universal standard alphabet for the passenger and driver could puzzle away at the next P personal computers It is recognized by almost all per move Since then we have played other Infocom games ff sonal computers Most software programs Lotus Memo They are all quite entertaining and can easily trap you for maker Condor WordPerfect etc can export or import lt hours tapping away furiously at the keyboard flies in ASCII format ASCII files are the most common These games are also quite popular with kids When files sent across phone lines with communications soft friends visit I ll ask their children Hey kids how would war
139. quiring less effort and fewer actions It sounds like a very useful keyboard accessory and may be the ideal interface for some applications However it may be a step backward It is a fact performing certain activities in Our modern world require developing com plimentary skills The fact that many of us don t type is not an indication that typing is difficult The simple fact is when we were kids and learning many of life s basic skills computers were nonexistent and typewriters were expensive complicated devices grade schoolers were not allowed to use Or i THE PORTABLE PAPER Where the article goes most wrong is in the headline Perhaps we should forgive headline writers since the purpose of a headline is to catch attention in a very _ limited space It may be too much to ask a headline to tell a complete and accurate story We have all heard someone make a statement much like this Someday computers will be able to recognize voice and we won t have to type Sure just imagine 20 people in a room talking to their computers Of course 20 people clickety clacking on keyboards is pretty annoy ing Perhaps there is a place for the Paperlike Interface and the archaic skill of shorthand You will see a noise less keyboard before shorthand becomes a universal skill There is no ultimate computer interface A voice interface may be best for some jobs The Paperlike Interface will be great for other jobs
140. rade up to a larger capacity version of TRAVELDISK or upgrade to newer versions of TRAVELDISK as they become available Used TRAVELDISKs with full warranty are sold at a discounted price Please see table below for the suggested retail pricing If you order from Personalized Software you may take 10 off the retail price TRAVELDISK Model Capacity New Used TD 10 10MB 995 650 TD 20 20MB 1 195 775 TD 30 30MB 1 395 900 TD 40 40MB 1 695 1 100 TD 100 100MB 2 595 1 500 TD 250 250MB 4 095 CALL Extra BEC NA 80 NA Extra Cable NA 110 NA TRAVELDISK comes with one Bus Extender Card its special interconnecting cable a carrying case and instruc tions A BEC for a standard PC compatible is only 50 Assuming the first shipment of Portable Vectra CS BECs work properly the disks should be ready for shipping by the time you receive this newsletter ORDERING INFORMATION TRAVELDISK was developed Tradewinds Peripherals of Pacoima California See retail prices above Price to Portable Paper subscribers when ordered through Personalized Software 10 off new or used retail prices Master Control and Power Management Software for the LS 12 PASSPORT Safari Software Inc has just released Passport a software program that lets LS 12 users easily control their hard ware CPU speed screen and cursor adjustment battery modem and hard disk monitoring all can be accomplished via this menu operated software that pops up over any applicati
141. rd long integers E Does smart linking W ncludes conversion program and compatibility units to help you convert Turbo 3 0 programs to 5 5 THE DESKTOP LINK An unusual part of my desktop to Plus link is the use of Bernoulli removable cartridge drives together with the HP IL Connection Both adapter cards peacefully coexist in the same desktop computer This allows the Plus to directly access two 10Meg hard disks The desktop computer runs MS DOS 3 3 so the 30Meg hard disk is off limits to the Plus The transfer speed is limited to the speed of the HP IL but the space is available whenever the Plus is connected to the desktop This makes backups a snap even with a 1Meg RAM drawer Since the cartridges are removable backups can be retained longer DOS UTILITIES ls is the most frequently run program on any of my DOS computers LS is a clone of the UNIX directory display program It has several advantages over the DOS DIR command First files are normally displayed in alphabetical order This makes it much easier to find a file The default format is a matrix of files with as many as five files on a line Even a really full directory will usually fit on a screen I use a different version of the program on the Plus versus the desktop machines The version used on the Plus is smaller and has proven totally compatible with the HP screen The other version while NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 23 mo Pv THE PORTABLE PAPER
142. re selling the RAM ROM drawer for 1895 and the 2 Meg drawer for 2595 However be sure to confirm pricing UNIX Style Vi Editor For HP An IBM Compatible Computers 110 Oak Hill Software has released a new version of Personal Vi a software product that runs a Vi text editor directly Pal on the HP150 Portable Portable Plus Vectra or IBM com patible computer Vi has become the standard UNIX environment text editor for both word processing and code development With Personal Vi personal computer owners can run a Vi editor directly on their HP or IBM compatible computers rather than continuously shifting gears to some other less powerful editor Using the same command structure as the standard UNIX vi editor Personal Vi provides full function cursor motions yank delete change commands undo map text __ search with meta characters global text changes DOS shell escape wrap margin labeled save buffers optional line numbers auto indent external filters and other vi features It also includes built in paragraph formatting line centering and case conversion functions for word processing applications Printer control and page formatt ing utilities are also supplied Personal Vi does all editing directly in core memory buffers minimizing RAM disk usage and the delay noise and battery consumption of disk access The program can edit files up to 200 000 characters in length depen ding on available memory and specia
143. rm Jens Pettersson 08 713 1710 Telex 149 70 gentel S NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 39 WordPerfect 5 0 77 fo You don t need an IBM PC to run the world s best selling word processor Now you can use industry standard WordFerfect on your HP 150 or Portable Plus P S We even have a Portable Plus version that s partly on ROM WordPerfect It s the world s best selling word processor for the IBM PC Most re viewers feel it s the best word processor on the market Use it to track down spelling errors and typos in a flash Heres Te you receive ie you fardet the Portable Plus or HP150 version of WordPerfect published exclusively by us Note See box below to determine whether you should buy Use it for footnotes mail merging data base sorting or any of its other advanced WordPerfect not only performs all the features usual functions you would expect from a Use it for your daily correspondence or s WordP 0 full featured word processor such as for generating the most complex reports erfect 4 2 or 5 0 e search and replace you can think of complete with numerical ri WordPerfect software and Users tabulations and text in columns If within 60 days you feel that Word Perfect isn t everything we say it is or if you are dissatisfied with WordPerfect for any other reason simply return it and we ll send you a full refund cut and paste e automatic page numbering e headers and footers
144. rman U boats sitting off the coast of Florida sunk several tankers transporting petroleum and g ES At last COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE for the HP110 and Portable Plus HP110 users Tired of struggling with the built in Terminal program Portable Plus users Is PC2622 or Reflection too complex for your needs In either case we have good news two of the easiest to use communications programs we ve ever seen Term110 was developed by Cliff Looyenga who writes the Wizardry column for The Portable Paper It runs on the HP110 TermPlus was developed by Portable Paper THE PORTABLE PAPER Both programs have on line help and use around 25K of electronic disk space Most importantly both programs make efficient logical use of function keys and menus to make the job of transferring files and programs easy You won t appreciate how easy until you try Term110 or TermPlus for yourself We invite you to do so today at our risk Term110 for HP110 or TermPlus for Portable Plus 99 95 Specify which program when you order prototype It runs on the Portable Plus Portable Paper subscriber price 79 95 Both programs allow you to e Send and capture ASCII information e Quickly send programs Lotus worksheets and archive files via the XMODEM protocol e Log onto electronic bulletin boards and remote computers automatically e Store and access directories of phone number
145. rnight return shipping 35 This covers the cost of de same soldering the Harris 80C86 processor and replacing it with the faster NEC V30 increasing the clock speed from 5 33 MHz to 8 MHz and Portable after each HPIL session Then I run CHKDSK to make sure that the file allocation table has not been corrupted on the Edisk Using these precautions I have a better than average backup procedure for the Portable s Edisk I just connect the Portable Plus to the desktop and issue the command on the desktop XCOPY D C PLUS S E and usually in less than a minute I have copied all of the files on the Plus onto the hard disk of the desktop XCOPY is a command from MS DOS 3 3 which will copy all files from one disk to another creating subdirectories as they are needed D is the Plus s Edisk while C PLUS is the subdirectory on the desktop that will hold all the files from the Plus My next learning experience with HPIL came when I upgraded to a fast 80286 desktop computer I installed the HPIL card in this machine and set the address at 1700 Nothing worked It took a call to Hewlett Packard Technical Support to learn that the HPIL card was not designed to work with fast machines Fortunately my new desktop computer had a utility program that would let me vary its speed in 2MHz steps Starting at a speed of 14MHz and working down I was able to discover that the HPIL card would operate reliably at a top speed of 8 MHz From t
146. rtable Paper subscribers when ordered from ZEMM SYS is an enhanced expanded memory driver for Personalized Software is 899 the HP Vectra LS 12 and Zenith Supersport 286 laptop computer that will be included on the 1990 Portable Another Portable Hard Disk Paper Subscribers Disk It differs from the EMS drivers For The Vectra CS that come bundled as a part of MS DOS because it takes full advantage of the LS 12 extra 320K or memory Up to PV 96K of memory can be made available to MS DOS bring the total to 736K leaving the balance assigned to LIM 4 0 EMS ZEMM SYS was written by Robert Ripberger origin ally for the Zenith Supersport 286 Every since the Portable Vectra CS was introduced readers have called us asking about the availability of a hard disk for the dual floppy version and a second hard disk for the CS 20 A variety of choices from two vendors finally have become available in the past several months Last issue we reported on the Weltec serial hard disk that connects to the CS serial port We have another breakthrough to report this issue We first reported on the possibility of connecting a Tradewinds TRAVELDISK in Vol 3 No 1 Pg 19 Almost two years later we are happy to report that Tradewinds has received and is testing its first shipment of bus YOU LL LOVE IT This little device driver is a gem of a program Once 3 you ve installed it you ll most likely never use your HP EMS device driver again Taking up a dim
147. s Accept the word as is W Replace the word with one of the sug gested spellings E Enter the correct spelling manually RECOMMENDED FOR puema fae et Portable Plus sf e HP150 Baar eae Add the word to an auxiliary diction ary of frequently used words HM Replace all other occurrences of the word Look up the spelling of any other word at any time WEBSTER S also lets you mark in your text any spelling corrections that change length of a word this lets you quickly locate portions of text that may need refor matting WEBSTER S will automatically locate double repetitions like and and It can correct transpositions itme becomes item missing apostrophes dont becomes 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 PV PV users Please
148. s e Run other programs without severing the phone connection 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order forni or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 d 72 6330 RECOMMENDED FOR HP 110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra ie ia HP 150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus g pg Term110 e TermPlus contributer David Hughes from an earlier petroleum products from Texas to the East Coast This was not tolerable since these products were essential to the war effort In an unprecedented construction project two large diameter pipelines were built from Texas to New Jersey These War Emergency Pipelines better known as the Big Inch and Little Big Inch Pipelines are still being used to transport energy to the East Coast Like many items purchased for the war effort the war emergency Pipelines were declared surplus shortly after the War was over A number of companies recognized their value as a means of transporting natural gas to the large East Coast market However a little start up outfit from Shreveport Louisiana was able to snatch these pipes from under the noses of several older established com panies by ignoring conventional wisdom and bidding more than Government cost for the lines I wish I had space to tell you m
149. s have four times that much memory and many users will not be satisfied until they boost the standard from one to four megabytes NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 33 THE PORTABLE PAPER WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY If you want a database you can use immediately without even opening the manual Condor 3 is the DBMS to buy dJim Morgan Data Base Advisor a textbook example of what a database manage ment system should be James Perotti PC Magazine for a straight database I ll take Condor derry Pournelle InfoWorld coiibor sp Database management made easy AND COMPUTE TOT SALES TO DATE As a result it takes only one fifth the time to compute display sort search or report on your data using Condor as com pared with other database systems such as dBASE II Most users find they can create and begin to use their first database within minutes after opening the package Condor 3 but not Condor Jr is a fully relational DBMS That means you can use Condor 3 to compare select and combine data from two or more files Condor 3 also lets you create your own Sania custom report formats Condor Jr in cludes a LIST com If you have customer files sales records inventory or lots of anything that you need to keep track of you need a database management system DBMS If you want a sophisticated DBMS that even a beginner can use try Condor 3 or Condor Jr Condor 3 runs
150. s on an IBM PC HPCRT allows you to program lightning fast screen updates on the Portable Plus It allows you to program a clear the screen function It allows you to make the Portable Plus read keystrokes without displaying them so users can enter passwords without anyone reading them In short our Portable Plus version of Turbo Pascal 5 5 together with our TurbPlus Integrator gives you most of the function ality of the IBM PC version If you re into or getting into the highly productive world of programming there s no better product than Turbo Pascal 5 5 If you use an Portable Plus there s no better addition than our TurbPlus Integrator Order them today at our risk Suggested Our Turbo Pascal 5 5 Retal Price Price with TurbPlus Integrator Customized For the Portable Plus and HP150 219 175 PRODUCT NO TP52NX Turbo Pascal for Vectra 150 135 PRODUCT NO TP55NS To upgrade from earlier versions of Turbo Pascal call Borland at 800 331 0877 Then send us positive proof of purchase and order part TP15NS for 69 to receive all our supplemental disks and manual Turbo Pascal is a trademark of Borland International Inc TURBO 5 5 HIGHLIGHTS W Includes Object Oriented Programming OOP language features E Supports programs larger than 64K E Uses logical units for separate compilation E ncludes a command line version of the compiler Supports extended data types including wo
151. s to both WordPerfect 5 0 has a built in transfer utility that makes sharing files between versions of 4 2 and 5 0 easy Moreover WordPerfect produces identical files on an IBM PC Portable Plus and HP150 The only difficulty that may arise in transferring files between these machines is that HP and IBM computers use different formats If you don t already have the ability to accomplish the transfer you can either use our Disk Conversion Service or a variety of hardware or software solutions depending on your system For details see File Transfer Made Easy in our product listings in this issue To determine which version of WordPerfect to buy 4 2 or the new 5 0 follow these steps _ Step 1 Assess your needs Please see the column WordPerfect s Newest Version at top right to learn about the fea tures that are unique to Version 5 0 If you need these features then 5 0 is the version for you Provided your machine can run it see below Q Where can get assistance in using Word Perfect on my HP150 or Portable Plus A If you have a problem related to the HP150 or Portable Plus or if you re not sure where the problem lies call us If you have a question about how to use a WordPerfect feature call WordPerfect Corporation They are famous for the calibre of their customer support and you can Call them toll free Q Will the HP version of WordPerfect work with my printer A Our instru
152. se your sub directory all at once BATMAST a shareware program that stores all your batch files in one file saving disk space XEQ a similar program in which you can store all your COM files in one file tjctrl a memory resident program that lets Plus 6 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 Ps Pv users control their ThinkJet from within an applica tion see Savvy User Pg 28 for more Memory expander see Vectra Views Get 738 MG out of 640 MG on the LS 12 Pg 4 I2 HPINFOCM a program to modify HP s INFOCOM game interpreter allowing it to run many IBM compatible Infocom games on the 110 and Plus see Infocom Games this page We ve found a Norton Utilities like quick unerase pro gram that retrieves deleted files Also we ve included several programs to make batch files more robust Vectra_and other IBM compatible users beware I have included a game called NYET on the disk This clever Russian game must have been sent here by the KGB before Glasnost to sap the productivity of U S computer users You ll become addicted as you try piece together falling blocks of tetrominoes 4 order dominoes When someone suggests you stop you ll say Nyet Portable Plus owners may not be safe Comrade Ed Keefe told me he is working on a version for the Plus that may be available Spring 1990 perhaps on our upcoming games disk There will be a number of other goodies on the disk The collection of programs together is
153. seem to be one The bottom line is that any program compiled with Turbo BASIC will not run on the Portable Plus That s too bad Other than the expensive version of BASIC sold by HP there does not appear to be any other version of this language that runs on the Portable Plus I have an early copy of True BASIC and it too writes directly to the video screen of the IBM PC I suspect that later versions of the True BASIC language program are specifically for the 100 IBM compatible market as well NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 37 THE PORTABLE PAPER THE VDE ODYSSEY CONTINUES Eric Meyer the author of the WordStar work alike Video Display Editor called to tell me that a new version of the program has been officially released It is version 1 40a and is currently available in the IBM Application Forum gi on Compuserve The added feature for this new version lets the user record and play back keyboard macros on the fly PV This lets you create macros much more quickly than you could using the installation program alone macros can be saved on disk and loaded into the VDE program when they are needed Eric Meyer has even included a sample macro file that makes VDE have some of the look and feel of WordPerfect The VDE also supports proportional printing so you might want to try it with your Deskjet or Laserjet I was happy to hear that Bill Pinnick got an early version of VDE to work on the HP110 I suspected that it could be done but with
154. seful features at this low a price For the Portables THE EDITOR II simply can t be beat See for yourself Order your copy risk free today THE EDITOR II on disk 129 00 Portable Paper subscriber price 99 95 PRODUCT NO EDIINS ROM BACKUP version 194 95 THE EDITOR II on ROM and disks PRODUCT NO EDIZPP For users of Version I or SuperROM EDITOR II Upgrade Kit on disk 35 00 PRODUCT NO EDI4NS Upgrade Kit on ROM and disk 58 00 PRODUCT NO EDISNR RECOMMENDED FO R HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra o o IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus PV PV users Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order so we can send you proper disk format 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box S69 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE 30 THE EDITOR and THE FORMATTER together Only 119 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 t
155. ss labels with ease Condor Jr for the HP110 allows limited report writing and is highly memory efficient Condor 3 for Plus Vectras and HP150 is a fully relational system allowing you to combine data from two or more files It in cludes advanced report generating capabilities data transfer with Lotus 1 2 3 and more Dac Easy Accounting V 1 0 Popular powerful yet inexpensive accounting package General Ledger Accounts Receivable Accounts Payable Purchase Orders Billing Inventory Forecasting modules are all fully integrated Easy to use menu driven system Generates numerous journals aging reports balance sheets and more Supplies limited CW CS Ce Statistix Easy to learn and use comprehensive statistical package Data can be entered from the key board or imported from spreadsheet or data base files Includes multiple regression most standard parametric and non parametric tests p values plots histograms and much more COMMUNICATIONS CompuServe Starter Kit Starts you on Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP Forum Includes 25 worth of free time and Com puServe s monthly magazine Online Today Relay Gold 2 0 Only P Plus RAM based communications pack age that handles both file transfer and terminal emulation This popular IBM PC program modified for the P Plus is easier more pow erful than Reflection Lets you access electronic bulletin boards allows for unat
156. subtract 10 from subscriber price since we don t have to send you additional customized disks or extra documentation Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order Order WordPlus for your Spell checking needs Aitention HP110 Users 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 32 disk customized for the Portable Plus and 69 95 for Portable Paper subscribers PRODUCT NO WBIINS Webster s is available on ROM backup for an additional 179 See ROM ad in this issue for important details mez 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 enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 PU
157. t compatibility between these machines and the IBM clone Also there is or was a little known program offered by Lotus Development Corporation to upgrade owners of the HP150 Lotus 1 2 3 version 2 01 to the IBM version 2 01 This program cost only a few dollars and was Clearly intended to bring HP150 converts to IBM back into the fold This program was mentioned in the HP Communicator a few issues back with the emphasis towards Vectra users and required that either the system disc or backup disc for the HP150 version be returned Lotus now provides a modification package to remove the copy protection from the IBM version but not from the HP150 version I believe HP150 users will be able to upgrade to Lotus 2 2 or 3 0 with this same program Hal WORD PROCESSING COMPATIBILITY Word processing compatibility a more difficult problem is also very nicely solved with the help of the 3 5 drive in the IBM clone Personalized software has made WordPerfect users happy by making WordPerfect available for the HP150 but what about WordStar users I bought a version of Word Star Professional from HP that was designed to work on both the HP110 and the HP150 For a number of years I considered this to be a very workable solution I am originating this letter on the 110 with that software However several important things have happened that make it seem less workable When WordStar 4 became available Micropro offered an HP150 upgrade for t
158. t fonts for creating labels 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 Portable Plus only Logitech Mouse for Port Plus A three button mouse for the Portable Plus bundled with our propriety Portable Mouse Software and special connecting cable Using the mouse to move the screen cursor makes using your Plus easier and more fun Logitech was rated Editor s choice by PC Magazine 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 enlargement Screens can be saved for future use Screens can also be imported into Sketch from Lotus and other programs Only uses 44K of memory ACCESSORIES 110 C Targus amp Fieldpro Cases Roomy rugged high quality highly padded cases to protect HP Portable portable printer or disk drive when traveling External Numeric Keypad Allows fast numeric entry from Lotus amp other applications Attaches to Plus via serial port 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 into a normal wall outlet and you can run your HP911
159. tended file transfer supports distributed processing more Beginners find it easy to learn yet can handle the most sophisticated data transfer tasks Term110 TermPlus Exceptionally easy to use alternatives to HP110 Terminal and P Plus PC2622 Reflection Both Term110 and TermPlus allow you to send and capture ASCII information Both offer fast XMODEM transfer of programs Lotus work sheets and archive files Both offer auto logon dialing directories on line help ability to run other programs while phone still connected Lio DV CS 5 WorldPort Portable Modems The WorldPort 2400 WorldPort 2400 MNP and the WorldPort 1200 are battery powered highly compact 4 x2 x1 lightweight 6 5 oz full featured external modems that transmits data at 300 1200 and 2400 baud Fully compatible with industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with both CCIYY and Bell standards PROGRAMMING Cw Turbo Pascal 5 5 IBM PC version of compiler with OOP adap ted for Plus HP150 Includes our TurbPlus Integrator that lets you easily go between your text editor and the Turbo Pascal compiler iio Pr Turbo Optimizer For v3 0 Saves run time and storage space by making your Turbo Pascal 3 0 programs 10 30 faster and 15 50 smaller For Version 3 0 only GRAPHICS Flowcharting II This program creates profession looking flow charts and organizational charts using 26 flowchart symbols in 95 sizes Wide variety of tex
160. this task I take a very broad view toward computer programm ing In this essay I have rambled through a number of programming techniques macros command files batch files Turbo Pascal Yet there is one somewhat left handed form of programming that most computer users should be aware Of and use configuration files It is much easier to load an application with a con figuration customized for the job rather that stepping through a configuration menu Some 123 users find having a library of 123 CNF files a real convenience Replacing the 123 CNF file with one stored in a library is an easy batch file application Fortunately most programs allow specifying the configuration file on the command line when the program is executed Programming a computer does not take the skill of a brain surgeon If you make a mistake nothing serious will happen The absolutely worst that can happen is crashing the computer and trashing the RAM disk Since we backup often this is not a problem If you are doing any serious programming with a real programming language such as Turbo Pascal Basic C etc you should be especially careful about backing up If you specify an incorrect memory location there is no telling what might be wiped out Don t confuse me with a programmer I am a user However I don t consider that fact an excuse for not learning how to use my computer There are many tricks available to the average user and there is no reason not
161. tible desktop computer without the need for HP Il card Comes with proper serial cable Manzana Disk Drive These are high quality drives for IBM Com patibles system to access 3 1 2 HP or IBM formatted disks ReadHP This software program allows an IBM com patible computer with a 3 1 2 disk drive to read and write to HP formatted disks SPREADSHEET ENHANCERS 170 CW CS 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 Useful in themselves and as learning tools for novice and experts alike Includes recalculat ing ranges double spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells ad dressing form letters and printing labels automatically customized Lotus 1A and 2 01 110 Cw OS 5 SideWinder This program allows you to print your spread sheets or other text file sideways on your Thinkjet This means you can print your 60 column by 53 row spreadsheet Portable as one long printout without cutting or pasting Lotus 123 in RAM Driver Utility allows you to run Lotus 1 2 3 or Sym phony from RAM or disk rather than ROM PROJECT MNGMENT or 2 Project Management Packages Milestone is for small to medium projects bit awkward on HP110 Pertmaster larger projects specify which machine DATABASE STATISTICS amp ACCOUNTING Condor 3 and Condor Jr Easy to use database programs customized for the HP Portables Enter data sort search manage files and print addre
162. tions to use these programs It is not even necessary to specify filenames other than the zip name with PKUNZIP It will simply extract all files in the zip There are a few command line options worth remembering v view the contents of the zip m move files to zip and delete f freshen u update P E 3 THE PORTABLE PAPER Quickly scan the command options in the documentation note those that look useful and forget the rest After using the program for awhile take another look at the options There may be a solution to your problem PKZFIND 1 00 PKZFIND is another useful program from Phil Katz PKFIND searches all directories of a disk for a specified file In addition PKFIND searches any ZIP file it may find Simple command line parameters can instruct PKFIND to only search ZIP files or to ignore all ZIP files And there are even more useful features in PKZFIND Look for PKZF10 EXE on the HP Forum DLO or send 25 to PKWARE Inc 7545 N Port Washington Rd Glendale WI 53217 You have of course paid for you copy of PKZIP Share ware is one of the biggest bargains computer users have and the people who write these programs should get paid for their work PKZIP PKUNZIP and PKZFIND would make a great combination to put on a ROM Add a compliment of other utilities to fill out the ROM and I will plug it into my Plus 123 TRICK Isn t it nifty how Memomaker The Editor Reflection and
163. to use advanced techniques to control our machines If you can program a VCR you can program a computer PAM MENU OVERFLOWS Although most of my Portable s software is on the ROM drive B I use customized PAM menu entries on A to load ra Various applications In addition to being able to specify exactly how I want the application configured these custom PAM menu entries allow me to present the application at preferred screen locations Since PAM is limited to 40 applications there very little space left for PAM to display applications stored on a floppy disk This is not generally a problem as I seldom run applications from C Unfortunately for this very reason I find menu entries for C drive applications more important than those I run every day I solved this problem by writing batch file menus for my floppy disks On each Of these floppy disks I have a PAM MNU file with a single entry C Programs C BAT C BAT below is a sample of a typical menu batch file It makes use of the INPUT COM utility available on the 1988 Subscribers Disk and from a number of other sources including the Cserve HP Forum You will note escape commands in this batch file If the Norton Utility is loaded with another batch file it is not necessary to use escape sequences in C BAT On the first line ESC dR turns off the cursor to create a slightly more attractive display ESC 2J is equivalent to the DOS CLS command and is slightly faster since it is not 30 N
164. ts you create your own graphic characters EEUE 150 PrinterTalk and Format110 MemoMaker Enhancers PrinterTalk lets you change type styles in middle of document number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering more Format110 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and or phan lines and much more 170 m 020 GA RightWriter Flags errors in grammar style usage and punctuation inserting comments directly into your document Also produces overall critique Works with most word processors Also avail able 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 Webster s Spelling Checker Rated Editor s choice by PC magazine Web ster s packs a 110 000 word dictionary into 207K of disk memory webster s shows you incorrect spellings in context and suggests corrections lets you preview questionable words before you edit Exceptionally easy to use Customized for the Plus and HP150 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 Port ables UTILITIES TO BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY BacTools Disk Contains a wide r
165. tter was writ ten via MS word 1 1 from aboard my boat somewhere out on the lake in between learning to use TurboPascal 3 0 and writing some business correspon dence Speaking of MS Word PC Magazine has given the newly released version 5 0 a glowing review Contrary to pre release rumors it ports to the original IBM PC as well as PS 2 platforms Apparently there are two different application files or file sets It only uses 320K of main mem ory and 650K of diskspace for minimum configuration Perhaps someone among our readership has a technical insight about how to port MS Word 5 0 to the PLUS The 256K ROM space of MS Word version 1 1 two 128K chips might now grow to not more than a five chip set assuming maximum 128K EPROM capaci ty Word 5 0 is reputed to do everyth ing that made WP 5 0 newsworthy yet Word 5 0 is claimed to do it better and with fewer keystrokes OTHER ITEMS PlusPerfect and DAC Easy 3 0 I have THE PORTABLE PAPER tried to load DAC Easy 3 0 in alternate mode via WPRUN without success it locks up the keyboard Interestingly DAC Easy 3 0 Tutor loads and runs well graphics pulldown menus overlays the whole works though it is a bit fragile Is it possible that some very minor tweeking might fix this problem Of course ver sion 4 has just been announced by DAC Easy I don t know if this is real upgrade or just more bells and whistles SEROFF COM I have just noticed in the Septem
166. tware not an independent second copy HP ROMs The HP ROMs that we sell do not include or require the corresponding disk versions They are the same ROMs that HP sells except ours are used which turns out to be better than buying them new Here s why Unlike other used products you can buy there are no moving parts on a ROM and nothing that can wear out Because of this our two year guarantee against defects applies to used HP ROMs as well as to our own ROM Backups Iwo years is twice the guarantee against defects that Hewlett Packard offers Our used HP ROMs are also covered by our unique 60 day guarantee of sat isfaction Best of all our used HP ROMs are priced as much as 50 below retail Look at the chart at the right and com pare In the chart Retail price of HP ROMs is HP s price new Subscriber price is our price used SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM For product details see individual ads elsewhere in this issue in our catalog or refer to articles in past issues In this chart Type refers to either HP used HP ROM or PS Personalized Software ROM Backup Package price includes both ROM and disk versions CALL FOR AVAILABILITY OF USED HP ROMS Part Retail Subscriber No of Product Number Price Price Type chips Notes WORD PROCESSORS WordPerfect 5 WD11NK 919 00 595 00 PS 6 384K of files includes PlusPerfect main WP program nee files printer drivers etc Does not include required 3
167. utions you can incorporate into your project I have learned a lot about programming by examining Ed Keefe s Turbo Pascal code Fortunately there are many people willing to share their knowledge Books and magazines are an excellent source of ideas There is no limit to the material available from CompuServe The Portable Pascal disk contains some useful procedures from Ed Keefe and Cliff Looyenga Turbo 3 stuff that works better on the HP110 than on the Plus Turbo Pascal 3 0 Optimizer is available through Personalized Software for 119 Check Personalized Software s Subscribers Disks and your software distribution disks The Reflection distribu tion disk contains a large file chock full of sample com mand file routines Turbo Pascal is distributed with several sample programs and Personalized Software s Pascal Programs for the Portable Plus includes many great Portable routines If you have a specific goal and can t find the code you need look for a solution written in another language Fortunately learning to read code in one language helps reading another language Some years ago in my first attempt at writing Turbo Pascal I wrote RNGNAME COM to read a spreadsheet file and display RANGNAMES and NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1989 29 THE PORTABLE PAPER their locations for 123 Release 1A The only reason I attempted this complicated programming effort was that I had found a basic program on the Cserve Lotus Forum that performed
168. worth far more than the price of a subscription so renew now Attention HP3000 Users MPE On HP Portables Last month at the Interex show in San Francisco at the Kydor Computer Systems booth I saw the familiar HP 3000 operating system MPE prompt on a laptop I was seeing a demonstration of a new product called KOS which allows HP3000 programs to run on HP Vectras and other IBM compatibles with no source code changes Kydor Computer Systems say that they are looking into developing an installation option for KOS that will allow it to work on the HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 However this option has not been Officially announced Bob Anderson company president thought he would have more information including pricing and availability by next issue of The Portable Paper If there is interest we will carry the product Infocom Games By Gary Goodman Many adults dismiss computer games as recreation for kids But I suspect that many of them just don t want other adults to think that they too enjoy playing such games Computers help us in education in work and in recreation Probably one of the great attractions in computer games is that they respond to the player s The Editor l You won t believe all the word processing features this 129 program contains and it ng takes up less than 40K of memory NEW only 99 95 for Portable Paper subscribers By Hal Goldstein Let s face it MemoMaker is
169. y and decided to try to solve the problem myself Needed are a good s mechanic with a lath about 2 of 1 4 round stock a radio knob for 1 4 spin dle and a 6 threaded stud or a 1 screw with its head cut off Have spindle and the round stock drilled and tapped for 6 thread Drill the housing in line with the spindle 9 32 Assemble the ThinkJet and install the extension mark and cut to the pro per length depending on type of knob Finally apply a small amount of cement to the thread and tighten hand tight to complete the modification Be careful when moving the paper back near the end of the page release a When installing any of the three alternate fonts on the ThinkJet always have paper in the printer with the pres sure bar off Michael Felsenstein San Francisco CA Likes Empowerer I have just tried out the HP9114 Em pOwerer you sent and am so impressed I will buy another for my second disk drive Jobn Ross Mosman Australia Using Squish Plus With The Plus And Vectra Together I am a satisfied customer of Squish Plus on ROM for the Plus Although I am tempted to buy a newer Portable I still find the Plus the 12 best solution from a weight battery life ruggedness and I O standpoint I use my Plus in conjunction with my Desktop Vectra While I am using my Vectra through HPIL I connect my Plus to my Vectra The Plus is running HPLINK in this arrangement The Plus looks like the D drive to

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