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1. Vol 4 THE Port New LS 12 Portable Vectra Publisher s Message Letters Not Happy About Portable Plus Discontinuation A Good Word For HP PUGNE Pies pi Labat pet Ge Leo EB eerie eee ee Environment Space And More Reflection Subscribers Disks WordPerfect FAX Questions Editor Trick Modem Adapter NEC Ultralite PS Video Editor II And FormatPlus ThinkJet And 9144 Disk Drive Batteries HP110 Terminal And Pulse Dialing Cheap Drives For The Plus A Word For MSWord Satisfied SKETCH User Need Comparison Of File Management For Plus 110 Portable Plus To Be Discontinued September 1 HP Will Continue To Sell Popular Accessories For Another Year e w au e e e e a o o e e e a e gt e e e e e e a e a a o s e e ea a a eu a eu gt au a a e e e e o e e 8 e e e a a e a e eo e gt u au a nu au a e a e o oo e e e e e e e e ou w e a e oe e e o a n gt a au 8 au a a n o a e e a a e a e 8 e a o n Opposed To Restricting Portables in Air Travel Disconnecting Your Portable Plus Battery Play InfoCom Games On HP110 amp Portable Plus Lotus 2 2 For Portable Plus And HP150 Format Safety Trick Kodak Enhances Diconix 150 Portable Printer o e e e e au a a able
2. 9 LapLink w wi ake a dni at 26 LapTape tape backup 24 101 Macros 9 Norton Utilities ZP NoSquint apw da da andi star 24 Num Keypad P Plus 15 Num Keypad LS 12 24 PrintMaster 13 ROM Backup 20 ReadHP 12 SPEI KERER EE eae 11 Sidewinder 25 Squish Plus Back Cover Term110 TermPlus 14 Used Computers L7 Video Websters Speller 2 Welteck 5 25 drive 19 WordPerfect 5 0 Inside back WorldPort Modem 41 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 available from Personalized Software for the Portable Plus and HP150 Customized on 3 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 22 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 r
3. See order form for details TO ORDER 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 RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable a commands to learn You set up direc tories and perform all file 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 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 MESSAGE FOR PORTABLE PLUS USERS Special Portable Plus version Portable Plus Portable Vectra e HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus o 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 The Portable Paper BULK RATE Personalized Software U S POSTAGE P O Box 869 PAID Fairfield lowa 52556 FAIRFIELD IA PERMIT NO 218 n ia Buy Squish Plus on ROM With
4. 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 know how to use SQUISH PLUS YOUR DISK BEFORE SQUISH PLUS SQUISH PLUS compresses your files so they take up less disk space e A must for every HP Portable owner ROM Backup version especially valuable if you use a Portable Plus Sorry SQUISH PLUS
5. Although connected internally the modem cable connects 32 JULY AUGUST 1989 He with a simple plug making it possible to have a custom cable made that will mate directly with the HP Portable s serial port an AT type serial port or any other serial port configuration Since most communications programs do not use the all the pins in the RS 232 standard lighting up only the required pins could result in a much more manageable cable Actually The Bridge Modem is an ideal product for connecting on the HP IL but don t hold your breath waiting for an HP IL model Connecting the Cellular Connection was similar to connecting The Bridge The Cellular Connection has a permanently attached pigtail approximately six inches long with an RJ 45 plug that plugged into the handset plug of the transceiver The handset then plugged into and RJ 45 Modems and other telephone equipment are plugged into the RJ 11 jack on The Cellular Connection Like The Bridge The Cellular Connection is powered by the telephone WHAT TO BUY Deciding what to buy is a tough call The Cellular Connection gives the option of attaching other products such as fax machines or a modem using either no error correcting protocol or a modem using another error correcting protocol Iam not aware of any portable error correcting modems other than The Bridge The Cellular Connection is slightly less expensive than The Bridge Modem 450 vs 595 to 635 depending on telephone
6. 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 optiorial 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 whenever possible using the optional AC includes Carbon Copy PLUS software PRODUCT NO WM13NM adapter The WorldPort 2400 draws no power from your Portable s battery DOUBLE GUARANTEE RECOMMENDED FOR In addition to our HP110 Portable G Portable Vectra le ai AY RAN Aba avi ke o a standard 60 day mon OF SONG CHOCCK OU credit can mtorniatiyon Portable Plus HP150 e 4 exp date signature to ey back guarantee the IBM PC and compatibles o Personalized Software the business and computer press Hal Sold On The HP110 I am a new customer of
7. 150 1 4Single refers to a disk formatted on the HP150 single lt sided The key at the bottom explains the codes used in the table FormIBM in the table refers to whether an HP110 or HP Portable Plus formatted a disk in an HP9114 HOW TO RESTORE DELETED FILES It happens to the best of us One slip of a finger and a whole week s worth of text or data is past history But not if you have THE NORTON UTILITIES Just type qu for quick unerase give the first letter of the name of the file you erased and the file gets restored Mi raculous as it sounds in many cases that s all there is to it HERE S HOW IT WORKS How can a deleted file get unerased Simple The file isn t really deleted in the first place When NO for Lo you delete a file all L 4 that actually gets Ss S erased is part of the lt x files directory entry amp Thats why it only lt takes an instant to 7On yr delete an entire file Without a directory entry DOS can t find the file but THE NORTON UTILITIES can Now what about those cases where you can t possibly recover a file because you ve already partially overwritten it with other files Surely THE NORTON UTILITIES can t help you then VERSION 4 0 OR ADVANCED EDITION WHICH ONE SHOULD YOU BUY If you have an HP110 The Advanced Edition does not work If you have a Port able Plus or HP150 The Advanced Edi tion of The Norton Utilities includes all
8. AUGUST 1989 out will disconnect the battery You will then see three pins The handle or tab you pulled out covers only two of these at any one time as it consists of only two female ports The two leftmost pins are the ON pins the two right most pins the OFF pins By installing the connector you have just removed on the two rightmost or OFF pins you disconnect the battery the charge will now be retained indefinitely To reconnect your batteries simply reverse this proce dure Remove the connector by pulling on the handle then re install it in the ON position i e the two leftmost pins THEN PRESS THE RESET BUTTON located on the lower left hand corner of the battery compartment just beside the edge of the cover Use a pen or pencil to press it Now replace the cover Usually a warning message appears on the screen when you press the reset button It tells you to press f1 to reformat drive A or the space bar to continue without reformatting Press the f1 key and then restore the files your need from your HP9114 Following this simple procedure could add years to your battery life Play InfoCom Games On Your HP110 and Portable Plus Reader and strong HP110 user Gary Goodman has paved the way to running InfoCom games on the HP110 and Portable Plus InfoCom games that will run are classic mystery games such as the Zork series and SeaStocker We will try to get an updated list of games tested on the HP110 and Portable Plus In
9. Fairfield IA 52556 publication The Portable Paper now for about one year and have greatly enjoyed the increased productivity that both my HP110 and HP150 machines have experienced by employing your user tips and innovative software products I have several suggestions and questions that are of great interest to myself and probably to your readers as ki well 1 One of the great advantages to the 110 and 110 is their portability coupled with THE PORTABLE PAPER the built in acoustic modems This permits the user to travel and keep in touch with his various information services with ease Personally I have need of stock options quotes that are available via the Dow Jones News Retrieval service which may be accessed using Crosstalk on the HP150 and Termplus on the 110 Recently a company introduced the software package Prodigy for MS Dos machines that GREATLY reduces the cost of using Dow Jones and other such services including I believe Compuserve a favorite service among 110 users The cost of the Prodigy program is about 40 00 with free telephone service in most areas and a 10 00 month is MUCH cheaper than my Dow Jones Bill which charges a 30 00 month fee plus telephone charges plus by the minute user fee I purchased the program and found that it would not run on the 150 or 110 I hope that your publication or one of its subscribers can modify the program for use on thes
10. For a nice overview see Ed Keefe s Looking Glass column In particular Ed Keefe Tom Page in The Savvy User and I in News From Personalized Software take a look at a truly important software file compression breakthrough for Portable Plus Portable Vectra and LS 12 users The product Squish Plus from Sundog Software can as much as double the amount of electronic or hard disk space available for word processing spreadsheet and other data files In this issue s Vectra Views we uncover a gold mine of products that expand the productivity of the LS 12 and Portable Vectra Highlights include an LS 12 expansion chassis and the Xircom Pocket Ethernet Adapter that lets you plug your Portable Vectra or LS 12 into a Novell Ethernet Local Area Network using the printer port Many thanks goes to reader and Savvy User columnist Tom Page Tom spent much time and his own resources to research his article on using the HP Portable with Cellular phone technology It is possible to be anywhere in the world that supports cellular phones and log into another computer with your HP Portable without phone lines In addition I even more appreciate the work Tom did with Sundog Software Tom and the Squish Plus authors were able to nail down and fix the problem that was impeding Squish Plus to work properly on the Portable Plus Finally thanks again goes to our readership We have become so backlogged with interesting informative letters that we h
11. Hawaii USA Some Questions And Suggestions I have been a subscriber to your THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume four Number four July August 1989 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Richard Hall Department Editors Joseph Gerace Paul Grimmer Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Tom Page Contributing Editors David Seagull Rick Finnell Philip Magnier 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 Software 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 Advertising Offices P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 c Copyright 1988 Personalized Software all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or her own investigations and decisions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of information contained herein POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper P O Box 869
12. I was told Spectrum Cellular will soon be producing a similar device In addition I have a flyer for a Motorola cellular telephone that indicates an accessory RS 232 modem is available I have not seen this product and neither do I have any specifications for it At this time I would choose The Bridge modem because of the SPCL protocol but I would look at any other product that my dealer might suggest MAKING THE BEST OF NOISY TELEPHONE SERVICE A little care can improve your ability to transfer data when using a less than ideal data link Should you be using a cellular telephone you might try moving to a different location I am told that sometimes a move of just a few feet can make a difference If possible try to find a location were there are not obvious impediments such as large buildings or electrical equipment Compression Programs PKPAK and Squish Plus A trick that can help with any kind of data link is to keep transmissions short Compress data with a file compression utility such as the Phil Katz PKPAK Archive program When using this program don t pack all files into one big archive Create an archive for each file Phil s new file compression and archiving utility PKZIP is now available I have not seen this program I called Phil to get some information on it and he tells me that it compresses files 10 20 more than PKARC In addition he indicated that ZIP files are more reliable that ARC files I forgot to verify thi
13. I would run out of battery on most plane trips There was too little discussion of upgrades The package reminded me too JULY AUGUST 1989 39 THE PORTABLE PAPER much of the original 110 A good machine but no way to make it better The 4 Ib weight is a big bonus and the case is beautiful I decided to wait a bit to see what develops Your discussion ofanew backlit upgrade for the 110 is interesting and I hope you can bring it in at reasonable cost Same for Wordperfect on ROM or the development ofa bigger ROM drawer If you can have 1 meg ram why not ROM I can see the enormous effort it took to put the How to use Your HP Portable video album together I think they would be extremely useful to anyone not familiar with the HP110 or Portable Plus I am reasonably familiar with both and found the tapes to be a good refresher And I learned about the f6 extend character combination which I did not know about before I hesitate to critique such an effort but you asked me once for my feedback My overall impression of the tapes is STATIC Maybe the New York pace is just too fast but I kept wanting to say to Hal hurry up The section that works best although it could be a little faster is that of your Director of Operations Larry Baldozier While he was speaking the camera was focused on his hands on how he was holding the machine on actually taking it apart Hal s best bit was bouncing the 110 on the floor
14. 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 puter The Portable Plus version of this emulator is called PlusPerfect Our disks also include batch files that allow you to run Word Perfect automatically 3 Optional ROM Backup for Portable Plus 6 ROM chips containing PlusPerfect and a sig nificant portion of WordPerfect 5 0 You can use 4 or 6 of these ROMs depending on the amount of space available in your ROM drawer Although you ll still need to store a 300K Word Perfect file on your disk and set main memory to 376K this ROM Backup saves you up to 384K of RAM To purchase the ROM Backup you must already own or order WordPerfect 5 0 and PlusPerfect on disk 4 Instruction booklet In addition to the comprehensive WordPerfect users manual we supply our own instruction booklet It tells you step by step how to get Started what to ignore in the users manual and how to use WordPerfect on your HP computer 5 Keyboard template We also include a convenient 4 color keyboard template that we ve designed specifically for the unique keyboard layout of your Portable Plus or HP150 The template shows you at a glance which keys to press to execute each of Word Perfect s functions 60 DAY MONEY BA
15. 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 ry A EASY TO INSTALL We supply clear instructions and l 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 the 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 p
16. make your squish disk using the Squish Plus MKDISK utility When you make a Squish disk you are actually creating a large file that resides on your home drive Shelp Instant Access Pop ups for the Portable Plus Calculator e notepad e macros e and more A great easy to use productivity booster If there s one program every Portable Plus owner should have it s Shelp Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus See Software on ROM ad in this issue Mh li i Recommended by Hewlett Packard and used by more than 1 000 of their employees li s a program called Shelp shell help and it runs on the Portable Plus from within any non graphics pro gram Here s all you do Press Ctrl Shift Extend char 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 You can H save results in ten H 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 n
17. spring contacts An adaptor a phone jack with alligator clips is available from Unlimited Systems which will allow the Konexx to be connected to the spring contacts In addition to being easy to connect the Konexx offers the substantial systems as well as analog systems and it can be used to connect FAX machines I have used it on the Rolm and AT amp T digital systems as well as a number of different kinds of hotel and multiple line office phones and it works like a charm The PPlus internal modem requires a loop current Owners manual 3 9 and the model 107 Konexx provides that current It sells for about 120 Some FAX machines also require a loop current Modems such as the LS 12 internal do not need a loop current and the model 106 Konexx which is about 20 cheaper is satisfactory J D Fleming Jr Atlanta Georgia USA The WorldPort people have expressed interest in working with us to get their Portable Fax to work with the Portable Plus However we still are awaiting a unit for testing Maybe other readers can help with your FAX questions See the Vectra Views article on No Squint for the best box cursor solution Hal NEC Ultralite PS Video I looked at played with the NEC Ultralite yesterday 1 5 meg chipdisk backlit screen DOS compatible communicates with PC s through laplink I was nervous about the machine thought it was expensive for something that relies on a battery and has a short life
18. to 60 less disk space What you lose with a file compression scheme is immediate access to a reduced file Most of the file compression programs also place the compressed files in a library file Such a file will have the extension ARC or ZIP or LZH Once you ve tucked a worksheet or report in an archive library file and have erased the original from the disk its name will no longer appear in a directory listing If you re like me you may soon forget where you ve put the files NSWP TO THE RESCUE There are times when I ve wanted to view the contents of an archived file before deciding to extract it from its library file Neither PKARC nor ARC let me do this However the NSWP program distributed on the 1989 4 Subscriber s Disk from Personalized Software does lt NSWP has the ability to Zoom into a compressed ARC file and show the names of the files contained in it It 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 It s a good solution to the data transfer problem provided you only use one desktop computer But if you ever need to transfer data between your Portable 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 p
19. 3 Ring binders for back issues of The Portable Paper Specify Volume number 1 4 INTEGRATED PACKAGE T Master and T Maker T Master is a fully integrated word proces sor speller relational database manager and communications package Also includes graph making Runs on the Portable Plus and Port able Vectra without modification and on HP150 with a PC emulator T Maker is an earlier version it runs on the HP100 Portable with an external disk drive and does not include the communication module Both programs are more integrated than any other package Our reviewer says I know of no other application that matches the power thoroughness and elegance of T Master VECTRA CS AND LS 12 PRODUCTS See discussion in this issue about LapTape EtherNet adapter Wel teck 5 25 drive NoSquint Dia conix printer Numeric keypad Expansion chassis LapLink LapLink See in File Transfer section W LIS FloppyDRIVER A software program for the Portable Vectra and LS 12 that makes all floppy disk access operations loading and running programs copying files etc up to 10 times faster AV 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 MISCELLANEOUS FastPlus By installing a faster processor and increasing the clock speed of your Portable Plus you can r
20. 69 95 39 95 for Portable Paper subscribers PRODUCT NO SWIINS beginning of your AUTOEXEC BAT file will give you a large slowly blinking cursor No Squint 1 0 was released in September of 1988 and was a hit with users from the first It has been well reviewed and minor bugs found in the initial release have been corrected The current release 1 1 gives a Visible Mode feature which lets you tell the insert or overstrike mode on certain word processors USING NO SQUINT ON LS 12 amp D PORTABLE VECTRA At first I found the blinking large box cursor somewhat obnoxious Whether I had the cursor blink slowly or quickly the blinking bothered me However I got used to it quickly and in practice it sure beats searching for my cursor in my word processing file SIDEWINDER RECOMMENDED FOR Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus _ SideWinder 1 01 owners may upgrade to current version 2 01 which supports 8 chars inch by sending Personalized Software 7 50 or by mailing a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and the SideWinder master disk w Now you can print it sideways HVWEHHHEE 1 PREM PHERHHEE uy wurul n ret moe m mam w mm won tam Mmm Sa SM om or an mo an a m on Sa os ZE Ze Saw sa aw av me HEHEHE GE ERE BE JE TE BB GE GE GS GE TE GP AS RE NBERE HELPREEEE PELE ERERERHEEE BP EEEE EHH EP gc a Eg RI ES SE S ar ioe BF BE S RE Bt Bi Rs EE ES SE K aE COE po as ce Be at BE EE Je e 73 45 25 ts te te t
21. Bitstream soft fonts to the LaserJet to produce The Portable Paper and the Portable Equipment Exchange brochure The problem with soft fonts is that they can occupy many megabytes of disk space I received a 51 compression ratio In other words I was able to halve the disk space needed to store font files You can also save program files such as The WordPerfect Condor and so forth on the Squish disk However depending on how compact the programs are the savings can be minimal typically between 0 and 20 The authors recommend saving data rather than program files on the Squish and my experience bears this out Squished program files take a little longer to execute and tend to fill up the preassigned Squish disk file size quickly Portable Plus users should find this of little hinderance since many applications are in ROM HOW SQUISH PLUS WORKS Squish Plus is a device driver That means you must tell DOS about a new device the Squish disk DOS already knows about built in devices such as the Portable Plus electronic disk and the Vectra floppy and hard disks To teach DOS about this new Squish Plus device simply add a line to the file on the root directory named CONFIG SYS If the file doesn t exist create it The line device sqplus sys installs the Squish disk device when your portable is rebooted There are several more steps that must be taken after lt the Squish disk device driver is installed First you must
22. David Seagull for getting me out of many problems with his excellent phone support Being a semi literate computer user I have blown all my data at least a half a dozen times Each time though I learn from the experience Several things have become apparent some found out the hard way 1 Your FilePlus program is excellent and has helped me learn MS DOS better than anything else I have used in the past It has also helped keep the files in the root directory to less than the magic maximum number of 64 2 One of the things I learned the hard way was that if you have 64 files in your A drive on the plus the PAM MNU cannot be changed or added to and a few of the other functions don t work well 3 The program you have in your Jan Feb 89 issue for increasing the environment space didn t work even with help from David on the phone It simply locked up the computer and I had to delete the command com program to get it to work again This of course defeated the environmental space expansion The strangest problem I have had with my Portable Plus to date involves the environment space To keep my files down to less than 64 I had been adding subdirectories to keep memos Lotus work sheets and utilities After the last addition some months ago I started getting the message Out of environment space As it did not seem to hurt anything I didn t worry about it But as I used different functions of the computer over t
23. Directory lister 8 Much more W Os PrintMaster Allows you to use your HP Portable and Think Jet to produce logos invitatations banners and other graphics Customized for Port Plus LW 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 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 IS 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 Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit designed for the Portables 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 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 LW LIS 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 paralle
24. Edisk It did reduce some of the programs Most notably it trimmed 20K bytes from the Norton NU EXE program AXE tells you if the file cannot be compressed Most of the files of less than 20K bytes were uncompressable EXE files created by Turbo Pascal 5 0 could not be reduced by AXE EXE C Copyright 1988 Personalized Software After having tried AXE on everything in sight I noticed that my Edisk was not working properly I ran CHKDKSK F and found that I had a corrupted disk Letting CHKDSK F run to completion generated a 43K byte FILEOOOO CHK file that was full of error messages and other odds and ends from the AXE program I immediately retired AXE EXE to the bit bucket There is one warning when using either SM COM or AXE EXE Don t try to compress an EXE or COM file that is meant to be modified or patched by another program For example my favorite word processor VDE COM has a companion program VINST COM which changes the assignments of the function keys and modifies the printer configurations in the VDE program Using AXE on the VDE COM program prevents VINST from making any such modifications to VDE THE LATEST IN COMPRESSION SQUISH PLUS Squish uses a unique type of file compression scheme I just received a copy of this package for testing on the HP Portable Plus It comes from Sundog Software Co ty Squish on the HP Portable Plus is like having a second Edisk However this new Edisk has been given some magic p
25. Paper 4 No 4 The HP Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra Users Newsletter July August 1989 L Discontinne Portable Plus September 1st O o owo oaa cA Squish Plus Software to Increase Disk Space News From Personalized Software Squish Plus For Portable Plus And HP Vectras PrintMaster For Portable Plus Condor 3 ROMs Available Soon For Plus Non US Customers May Need Special Video Portable Vectra Views Valuable Information For LS 12 Users In And Out Of Trouble With The LS 1I2 Using HP Portable amp HP150 Disks With LS 12 Fully Discharge Your LS 12 Battery Link Portable Vectra LS 12 To Ethernet LAN External Expansion Chassis New 5 25 Floppy Drive By WELTEC LS 12 Tape Backup Unit From Tallgrass Numeric Keypad For LS 12 No Squint Makes Vectra Cursor Visible Linking LS 12 Or Portable Vectra To A Desktop Answers Plus The Savvy User Review Of Bridge Modem From Spectrum Cellular And Cellular Connection From Motorola Compression Programs PKPAK And Squish Plus Through The Looking Glass Wizadry Users Groups e e w e e an e n e e eu e e e a e e e e a u a nu a mu a 8 n oe e a n e e e gt gt a n au a nu 10 13 15 15 16 16 17 17 1
26. 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 170 LW IS 1987 Subscriber s Disk Includes 1 DISKPACK a disk packing utility whose commercial equivalent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s calendar utility 3 HP Cal culator program 4 Game Lotus templates 1988 Subscriber s Disk Contains 1 Time Manger utilities including calendar program and mail merge utility 2 Some of best public domain software and shareware for the Portable Vectra 3 pass word program protect usage of the HP110 4 TERM xmodem program for the Portable Plus 5 Lotus templates 6 Games 7 New DOS Tools 8 A file to toggle HP and Alternate mode from DOS 9 Lots more 1989 Subscriber s Disk Features 1 File manager utility that lets you tag files for mass copying and deleting 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 Superfast file finder 7
27. Print modes may now be selected from the operator panel of the 150 Plus or controlled by software The 150 Plus utilizes 152 standard ASCII characters and symbols 77 coded graphics characters and 33 country specific characters The Diconx 150 Plus can emulate the IBM Proprinter FOR RELEASE 1 A 2 0 AND 2 01 WHAT FOR LESS THAN 70 CENTS A MACRO YOU CAN HAVE RANGE CALC TO SHORTEN F9 CALC TIME ACOPY COMMAND THAT STAYS AT THE TO CELL A PASSWORD MACRO TO LOCK UP YOUR FILES A MACRO DRIVEN SLIDESHOW OF GRAPHS 8 PRINTMACROS INCLUDING DBL SPACE amp SUPER TINY A POP UP CALCULATOR WITH SCIENTIFIC FUNCTIONS WITH 101 MACROS FOR LOTUS 123 ADJUST CELL DATA YEAR TO DATE FANCY EORDERS FORM LETTER MACRO DATA ENTRY MACRO COPY TO ALT CELLS AEE ELIMINATE ERR DOCUMENT WORKSHEET FINANCIAL FUNCTIONS NOTEPAD MACRO OMPARE VERT HORIZ SUMS ELIMINATE ZEROS SHOW LEADING ZEROS SELF NAMING CELLS TAN SIN COS TODAY IN WORDS INSERT ROW W FORMAT BIORHYTHMS MACRO EXCHANGE ROWS amp COLS HIDDEN NOTES MACRO XFR ABSOLUTE VALUE ETC ETC ETC ASCIi MACRO o MEASURE COLUMN WIDTHS GO RETURN MACRO MEMORY MACRO TOGGLE TITLES ON amp OFF VIEW MACROLISTS XFA TO ALT MACROLIST AUTOEXEC MACROS YEAR TO DATE MACRO POP UP APPT CALENDAR ADD TO ADDRESS DATA BASE OF FILES PRINT LABELS DA LIST amp PRINT RANGE NAMES SWITCH PLACES MACRO INSERT ROW W FORMAT TEST amp REPLACE MACRO 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 69 95
28. Project Management Packages Milestone is for small to medium projects bit awkward on HP110 Pertmaster larger projects specify which machine eo v Statistics amp Accounting Dac Easy Accounting A popular and powerful accounting package at an amazingly low price General Ledger Accounts Receivable Accounts Payable Pur chase Orders Billing Inventory and Forecast ing modules are all fully integrated Easy to use menu driven system Generates numerous journals aging reports balance sheets and other hardcopy printouts Version 1 0 runs on Portable Plus HP150 Dw LE po Statistix A comprehensive statistical package that s easy to learn and use Runs on the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 and IBM PC compatibles Data can be entered from the keyboard or imported from spreadsheet or database files Includes multiple regression most standard parametric and non parametric tests p values plots histograms and much much more COMMUNICATIONS 110 RW EE 150 CompusServe Starter Kit Gets you started on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP Forum Includes 25 worth of free time and CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today Relay Gold The only RAM based communications package for the Portable Plus that handles file transfer and terminal emulation for communicating with mainframe computers This popular IBM PC program was modified by Relay Gold en
29. The biggest drawback for HP Portable Plus users is lack of graphics screen preview What this means is that you are working blind when dealing with graphics PrintMaster will not write any graphics to the HP Portable screen You don t see your design layout until you print it Out If you print out your design and don t like what you see you can easily go back and make various changes to your design then print it out again In practice I found it took about three tries to get what I want With use this should improve once you get a feeling for the ground rules EXAMPLE when picking a graphic unit or picture from 14 JULY AUGUST 1989 e Run other programs without severing the phone connection 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 Portable Paper subscriber price 79 95 o 5 i Te 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE RECOMMENDED FOR cs See order form for details HP110 Portable an Portable Plus om TO ORDER a Portable Vectra Use enclosed postage paid order form Ph ap l or send check or credit card inform
30. and looking up a record Results are summarized below Information to Machine Tested S I Load Inv Ship Rec Bench XTREE List Rpt Look Desktop Vectra 8 Mhz 8 3 15 9 4 60 Compaq Deskpro XT 1 7 20 25 15 65 LS 12 13 4 20 11 5 60 Portable Vectra 3 8 30 20 10 100 We found that in tests involving extensive Input Output such as loading XTREE and record lookup the LS 12 with the Xircom adapter and S I rating of 13 4 performed about the same as the Compaq with the network card and an S I rating of 1 7 a considerable slow down However on the two tests involving far less I O the LS 12 with Xircom Adapter performed on par with the Desktop Vectra with the network card and S I rating of 8 3 CONCLUSIONS The Pocket Ethernet Adapter is simple to install and works without problems It slows things down a bit especially in I O intensive programs but does the job in a reasonable amount of time If you want to connect your LS 12 or Portable Vectra to an Ethernet system you currently have no other choice We recommend the adapter ORDERING INFORMATION The Pocket Ethernet Adapter was developed by Xircom 22231 Mulholland Hwy Suite 114 Woodland Hills CA 91364 Phone 818 884 8755 The Pocket Ethernet Adapter is priced at 695 per unit Price to Portable Paper subscribers when ordered through Personalized Software is 629 External Expansion Chassis If you re interested in increasing the capabilities of your LS 12 to
31. any of a number of commercially available hard disk pack routines there is an excellent chance of losing data in the attached Squish Plus disk In other words never pack a disk when the Squish disk is attached 3 Ifyou have not detached your Squish disk when you turn your computer off or reboot it it can take a little time to attach it again The time is not noticeable on the Plus It takes about 20 seconds to attach my 6 Megabyte Squish disk on my LS 12 when the system restarts 4 You might want to detach your squish disk for security reasons so no one can access any of your Squish disk files JULY AUGUST 1989 11 THE PORTABLE PAPER Now you can use HP Portable or HP150 disks single or double sided in a 3 2 IBM compatible disk drive Volume b Pricing Available LIMITATIONS I am always running out of disk space whether I have 176K on my HP110 1 Megabyte on my Portable Plus or 20 Megabytes on my Vectra I find a program such as Squish Plus which saves me almost 40 of disk space with no extra effort to use an absolute boon However I see some limitations 1 The Squish Plus device drive takes up 36K of main memory That means Vectra users have 36K less memory from their initial 640K of internal memory for programs and applications Portable Plus users may have to allocate 36K more of internal memory run Squish Plus So for example suppose your Portable Plus Main memory Edisc in PAM s f6 Syst
32. both the LS 12 and Portable Vectra and I would recommend it for both systems If you use the Portable Vectra LCD screen for any length of time No squint is a must ORDERING INFORMATION No Squint 1 1 is a product of SkiSoft Publishing Corporation 1644 Massachusetts Ave Suite 79 Lexington MA 02173 617 863 1876 It retails for 39 95 Portable Paper subscribers may order No Squint from Personalized Software for 37 95 Our phone number is 515 472 6330 JULY AUGUST 1989 25 SS El THE PORTABLE PAPER Linking your LS 12 or Portable Vectra to a Desktop With the new release III of LapLink the first most popular and probably most powerful of the file transfer programs we can finally recommend it for HP Vectra users Produced by Traveling Software LapLink transfers files directories or entire hard disks between laptops and desktop computers A major new feature is that the new LapLink provides serial and parallel transfer in one package Previously LapLink performed only serial transfers We have previously recommended Direct Link to do HP Portable Vectra file transfer tasks since it was one of the few programs that offered both parallel and serial transfer Many Portable Vectra users do not have a serial port so parallel transfer is required In addition parallel transfer adds convenience It gives the user more flexibility to find the free or easiest accessible port be it serial or parallel LapLink works by conn
33. can run a program that s resident on the remote computer The LapLink package includes both 3 5 and 5 25 disks and the universal cable We used LapLink to transfer files between the LS 12 and Portable Vectra CS hard disks via the parallel ports and LapLink performed flawlessly and quickly The program was so simple to use with online help available that we never had to consult the manual ORDERING INFORMATION LapLink is produced by Traveling Software 18702 North Creek Parkway Bothell Washington 98011 Phone 800 343 8080 or 206 483 8088 The retail price is 139 95 Portable Paper subscribers can order LapLink through Personalized Software for only 119 26 JULY AUGUST 1989 ANSWERS PLUS comments from Personalized Software s phone sales support staff Tips amp Tricks by Joseph Gerace m HP IL CARD NEEDS ADDRESS IN CONFIG SYS FILE When most of you call regarding HP IL cards you don t A remember to put the card address on the end of the device driver line in your config sys file Remember that you need the file in your root directory or reference a path to the HP IL system files in another directory Suppose your HP IL address is C100 An example of the path reference would be device C yourname bpil sys A C100 This assumes that you have the HP IL drivers in the yourname subdirectory on the c drive The config sys will look in this directory to set the adress on the card be sure that the card addre
34. could be overwritten without warning Also in common with the HP150 it is not possible to use the multiple volume option Unfortunately it does not seem possible to use the even cheaper 9142 tape drive I tried to set up the drive using the HP150 driver with predictably disastrous results requiring a hard reset on the Portable Plus Has anybody any better ideas Colin Crowther London England Suggestions To Improve Personalized Software s Customer Service As your Mr Teitzman can inform you I have been a customer of your companyfor about six months Prior to that I was a generally satisfied user of HP portable equipment HP110 disc drive printer for over 4 1 2 years I have been generally satisfied with the service provided by your company and I would like to draw your attention to the few unfavorable exceptions Your staff appears to be young bright courteous and helpful Unfortunately they are not always as careful and thorough as they could be and this has caused me problems on several occasions not to mention considerable expense in international communications The first problem to arise is related to the non availability of the Lotus version 2 01 ROM when I ordered my Portable Plus from you in December The un availability of the Lotus may not have been the fault of your company so I cannot blame your staff for the very late arrival of this item However eventually 42 JULY AUGUST 1989 two units we
35. ease of use Order yours risk frec today Retail Subscriber Price Price WorldPort 2400 modem 359 00 319 00 with Carbon Copy PLUS software PRODUCT NO WM12NH WorldPort 1200 modem 199 00 179 00 without software PRODUCT NO WM11NH Cable to connect modem to HP Portables 30 00 20 00 PRODUCT NO WM14NM FREE with modem 9 volt AC adapter T95 A355 PRODUCT NO WM15NM Acoustic coupler 79 95 300 1200 baud PRODUCT NO WM16NH Upgrade kit WorldPorti200 WorldPort2400 199 00 179 00 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 172 6330 Copyright 1988 Personalized Software We will be happy to reproduce the HP110 Utilities disk that came with the original HP110 as a service to any of our customers for 9 50 Be sure to ask for HP110 Utilities Disk Hal HP110 Terminal amp Pulse Dialing mol Enclosed is a workaround to an HP110 Terminal problem to share with the HP110 community At work the telephone system is pulse and does not tolerate the HP110 s 20 pulse per second dialing hence it is unusable in that mode The unit is OK the system check shows it to work properly and it does dial correctly at 10 pulses per second The Tone mode also works as does the TERMINAL The workaround requires both a pulse dial telephone and the HP110 co
36. for matting codes into your EDITOR HI MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer 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 RECOMMENDED FO HP110 Portable Portable Plus Even in the desktop market it is difficult to find a word processor with this many useful 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 HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus EDITOR II Upgrade Kit on disk 35 00 PRODUCT NO EDI4NS Upgrade Kit on ROM and disk 58 00 PRODUCT NO EDI5NR PV PV users Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order so we can send you proper disk format 0 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage pald order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 569 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE 30 T
37. ground this poorly designed plan Samuel Skinner Secretary of Transportation or Elaine Chao Deputy Secretary of Transportation U S Department of Transportation 400 7th St S W Washington D C 20590 202 366 1111 United States Senate Washington D C 20510 202 789 2710 U S House of Representatives Washington D C 20515 202 224 3121 Disconnecting Your Portable Plus Battery A Those of you who bought your Portable Plus new may remember an important instruction you had to carry out before you began using your computer connecting the battery Though your manual doesn t mention it a reverse Operation disconnecting the battery can be a useful procedure to know about as well The reason is that batteries left idle for months can suffer permanent damage If you re sure you won t be using your machine for two months upwards follow the simple instructions below and you can be certain your batteries will remain in good shape Please note that these instructions apply to the HP Plus not the 110 Backup your electronic disk before you do anything Remember when you disable the battery you loose everything on the disk Begin the disconnect by removing the battery cover from the back of the computer You should then see a narrow transparent handle or flexible tab emerging from the bottom of the battery unit On either side of this you ll see the words ON and OFF Pulling this handle 8 JULY
38. include networking video options additional I O ports and expanded EMS memory you ll want to take a look a the Zenith External Expansion Chassis THE PORTABLE PAPER 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 our trained technicians to do it for you call to schedule an appointment then send us your Portable Plus and 250 This covers the cost of de 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 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 same This FastPlus upgrade will make your Por
39. most complex reports you can think of complete with numerical 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 Product Retail Subscriber Number Price Pri WordPerfect 5 0 forthe E TE Portable Plus includes PlusPerfect WDI7NS 645 395 PlusPerfect WDI4NS 150 129 WordPerfect 5 0 for the Portable Plus with ROM Backup includes Word Perfect PlusPerfect Backup ROMs WDIINK 940 595 WordPerfect ROM Backup WDI2NR 295 295 Wordperfect 4 2 for the Portable Plus WDI4NS 435 339 WordPerfect 5 0 for the HP150 WDI3NS 495 395 WordPerfect 4 2 single sided for HP150 WDI2NS 435 339 WordPerfect 4 2 double sided for the HP150 WDIINS 435 339 WordPerfect Upgrade Kit Upgrades Personalized Software Portable Plus or HP150 version 4 2 to 5 0 Zao e ON Ban 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 Here s What You Get lat what you receive when you order the Portable Plus or HP150 version of WordPerfect published exclusively by us Note See box below to determine whether you should buy WordPerfect 4 2 or 5 0 1 Complete WordPerfect software and Users Manual
40. not only performs all the usual functions you would expect from a full featured word processor such as e search and replace e cut and paste e automatic page numbering e headers and footers e bold underline compressed expanded italic e superscripts and subscripts e automatic hyphenation e right justification e undeleting of deleted text e and more but it also offers a carload of advanced fea tures such as e Text in Columns e Footnotes Tables of Contents and Indexes e 115 000 word Speller e Thesaurus e Mail Merging e And built in Math functions for creating a mini spreadsheet anywhere in your document Best of all you can run the complete WordPerfect on your Portable Plus or HP150 Touchscreen Depending on the kind of Portable Plus or HP150 you have you can use either WordPerfect 4 2 or the new 5 0 To learn more about the world s most ad 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 Pu Use it to track down spelling errors and typos in a flash Use it for footnotes mail merging data base sorting or any of its other advanced features Use it for your daily correspondence or for generating the
41. on the disk thereby saving you from countless hours of retyping lost data POWERFUL FILE MANAGEMENT COMMANDS In my opinion the ability to recover lost files alone makes THE NORTON UTILITIES well worth the price But there s even more to the package THE NORTON UTILITIES are also an excel lent disk management system Here are some examples of what you can do Let s say you want to sort directories and files physically on disk either by name extension size date time or by any combination of these Just use the ds disk sort command I use this one to sort my electronic disk files by size all the time Then when I display the direc tory the larger files come at the end of the list and I can see at a glance which ones to move elsewhere to free up any needed amount of disk space Or let s say you remember putting the phrase a penny saved is a penny earned into a text file on your floppy or hard disk but you can t remember which file it was or even which directory How to find it No problem Just type ts for text search specify the phrase and the program will display every occur rence of the phrase identifying each oc currence by directory and file Or let s say you can t remember which subdirectory you put a given file into Instead of hunting for the file manually THE NORTON UTILITIES are among the most helpful utilities I ve run across I use them myself every day and in my op
42. signal detection S7 60 Wait 60 second for carrier S10 20 Wait 20 10 seconds after loss of carrier before disconnecting this is the same as The Bridge default value Another modem register you should be awar of is register nine This register controls the time the carrier must be present before the carrier is detected The purpose of this register is to keep the modem from thinking line noise is carrier and connecting prematurely The default value for this register in The Bridge is 7 10 seconds and in the WorldPort it is 6 10 seconds The actual time carrier can be lost without disconnecting is the difference between the values in register 10 and register 9 To see how The Cellular Connection would work with a host system I plugged the modem on the T3100 at my office into The Cellular Connection loaded my bulletin board RBBS PC swiveled around in my chair and gave the bulletin board a call from my Portable which was on my desk Except for dialing a different number and taking longer to connect there was no difference to speak of as compared to a call to the BBS when plugged into its 30 JULY AUGUST 1989 normal telephone line I did not have any noise problems but I did not use this setup long enough to get a good feel for what noise problems might be present A WORD OF CAUTION The testing I did with this equipment was limited I was able to make it do most anything that I tried but I cannot be sure that using a different ce
43. statement reads attach d to sq dsk where d is the drive I attached the Squish disk to and SQ DSK is the arbitrary name I gave to the Squish file I created when I ran MKDISK This command effectively creates a D drive When you save files to the D drive you are actually saving a compressed version of the file into the larger file SQ DSK Upon running the ATTACH program you are prompted for the password if you chose to give it one when you ran MKDISK Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software The Squish file needs to be attached to the disk drive letter to become the Squish disk every time you turn on or in the case of the Portable Plus reboot your system To avoid having to type in the ATTACH command each time simply add the ATTACH command line like the one above to the file name AUTOEXEC BAT in your main directory When you are finished using the Squish disk you can optionally detach it using the Squish Plus DETACH command Detaching is like removing a floppy disk from a disk drive You might want to detach the Squish disk for any of the following reasons 1 You want to delete the Squish file When a Squish disk is attached the file becomes read only and cannot be deleted 2 You want to pack your electronic or hard disk This is by far the most important reason for detaching the Squish disk If you use the built in Portable Plus pack program or
44. sturdy well cushioned carrying case to protect the unit Just about the 15th time I needed to use the case I put in my LS 12 with the battery attached two reference books twenty diskettes and some notes into the case The books and diskettes weighed 5 Ibs and bag itself about 2 lbs The total weight on my shoulder strap was as follows LS 12 with battery 14 60 Ibs 2 books amp 20 diskettes 5 00 Ibs Case itself 2 00 Ibs Totals 21 60 Ibs As I exited my vehicle and attempted to put the strap on my shoulder I found the case with the computer in it crashing to my feet One of the plastic hinges failed i e snapped causing the strap to slip off my shoulder like spaghetti with oil and garlic sauce With my LS 12 back at my desk I found that on the outside the LS 12 showed no damage to its case Although the back light would not come I could boot it and run my Norton Utilities I discovered that I had many bad clusters on my hard disk That was almost to be expected after falling two feet onto cement The problem is that the high tech plastic hinge snapped After examining the broken section the plastic showed defects in manufacturing and or design The lining on the case is also so thin and soft that it is merely enough to prevent scratches on the case of the computer It has little or no shock absorbing qualities The strap itself is strong enough to tow a car but it is an overkill compared to the hinges My recomme
45. 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 especially want to emphasize 1 THE EDITOR Is 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 H 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 e tables and charts table of contents generation e and more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special
46. useful editing keys such as page up page down end home scroll lock num lock Ins Del f11 and f12 The keypad has a solid feel and is useful for anyone doing a lot of numeric entry ORDERING INFORMATION This detachable 24 key numeric keyboard retails for 129 Subscribers to The Portable Paper may purchase the keyboard from Personalized Software for 115 No Squint Makes Vectra Cursor Visible by Hal Goldstein If you re like me and have a hard time seeing the cursor on your LS 12 or Portable Vectra LCD displays then you ll want to take a look at No Squint by Ski Soft No Squint is an inexpensive software solution to an annoying hardware constraint Occupying just 1 4K of RAM this program makes the cursor bigger and allows you to choose the rate at which it blinks The visiblitiy problem stems from the hardware cursor controller in your portable It tries to turn the cursor pixels on and off so fast that the cursor never fully achieves either state and all you see is a blur No Squint lets you bypass the cursor control hardware and lets you make the cursor bigger and slow it down This makes it more visible The program comes on a single 3 5 inch disk and is not copy protected Copy to a bootup disk or subdirectory of your hard disk and load the program by typing LCD To change the blink rate from very slow to very fast you could type as follows led very slow lcd normal or led very fast Or type LCD followed by any
47. you use PAL Bo SECAM then we will have to special order a video tape for you and then charge you 250 to cover our costs JULY_ AUGUST 1989 15 THE PORTABLE PAPER Vectra Views contains information which specifically pertains to the Portable Vectra and Vectra LS 12 Laptop PC In this column we note the latest developments in Portable Vectra and IS 12 products from Hewlett Packard Personalized Software and other third parties and include specific tips for Vectra and LS 12 users Please feel free to contribute on disk or letter to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 or call 515 472 6330 You will also find a complete listing of the products discussed Valuable Information for Intermediate and Advanced LS 12 Users by Hal Goldstein There is a world of useful LS 12 information in the manual section entitled Vectra LS 12 Laptop PC Utilities and Drivers Packet These pages include discussions of the following 1 Setting up the HP Disk Cache program to speed up hard disk access 2 using the HPMODE command to control many of the built in capabilities of the LS 12 5 using Battery Watch to monitor your LS 12 battery usage 4 using the LIM EMS driver to make use of extra expanded memory 5 using the HP driver to read HP110 HP Portable Plus and HP150 double sided disks The appendices in the Setting Up Vectra LS 12 manual also contain important information for intermediate and advanced users in
48. yours having already ordered around 200 of stuff I am extremely impressed with your Portable Paper its clarity presentation helpfulness layout level of enthusiasm etc Also although tempting laptops of various brands keep coming out offering more and more speed I am quite happy with my Portable 110 and am saving money for a Macintosh I am an artist and inventor and work at a metropolitan newspaper as an editorial artist The only laptop I am going to use is this portable and so I am delighted to find a serious company such as yours which for relatively reasonable prices provides software that I will need for word processing and other relatively complex endeavors Brian over the phone said that Personalized Software Inc could generate a copy of the utilities disc for me if I mailed a copy of the cover of the HP 110 Portable Computer Owner s manual enclosed and would charge 9 50 for the service My built in Lotus 123 manual also refers to my need for it but it was not inside the plastic sleeve at the back of the Portable manual Steven Johnson California USA Carmichael The 4 x2 x1 WorldPort 2400 costs less than HP s internal modems is faster and can be used 5 with more than one computer ka ie WorldPort 2400 comes with a 2 year manufac turer s warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship The World Port 2400 offers portablility relia bility well designed features and
49. 10 and Portable Plus WE 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 Partitioning RAM into main memory and Edisc storage Part 3 Using ROM based software W 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 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 H 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 the tapes you ll find that the user s manuals make excellent reference sources etc W Webster s Spelling Checker That Enhance the HP Portabl
50. 25 disks The drive has international dual voltage power supplies and can be easily transported if needed continued on page 24 JULY AUGUST 1989 19 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 so 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 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
51. 5 69 95 Eile raniti l HPDuette for P Plus DUIINS 99 95 89 95 FormatPlus Upgrade FP14NG 35 00 35 00 MemoMaker Pack FM14NX 159 90 125 00 es ee ee FeO Link Plus LK11NS 90 00 85 95 Format Plus Webster Spelling Checker i ReadHP RD11NS 79 95 60 05 Formatter FMIINS 59 95 49 95 j HPrint HP11NS 80 00 75 95 Programming PrinterTalk PTIINS 49 95 44 95 Turbo Pascal 3 Optimizer TP17NS 125 00 119 00 PrinterTalk Format110 PT12NS 89 90 59 95 TuboPascal 5 0 TPSONS 150 00 135 00 RightWords Dictionary Ext RW12NS 29 95 29 95 TurbPlus Integrator TP51NS 49 95 39 95 RightWriter RWIINS 95 00 89 00 T Pascal Integrator TP52NX 199 95 165 00 Webster Speller WB11NS 79 95 69 95 Pascal Integrtr Editorll TPS3NX 329 00 249 00 WordPlus Speller WP11NS 150 00 99 00 f Project Management Database Accounting Software PertMaster for HP110 PRIINS 695 00 499 00 Condor 3 CRIINS 495 00 379 00 PertMaster for P Plus PR12NS 695 00 499 00 Condor Jr CR13NS 99 95 89 95 PertMaster for HP150 PR13NS 695 00 499 00 Dac Easy Accounting DCIINS 150 00 129 00 PertMaster for Vectra PR14NS 695 00 499 00 Cominunicaneus Milestone ML11NS 99 95 89 95 WorldPort Modem 1200 WM11NH 199 00 179 00 Integrated Packages WorldPort Modem 2400 WM12NH 359 00 319 00 Symphony P Plus Driver SY11NS 765 00 595 00 WorldPort cable WM14NM 30 00 20 00 T Maker HP110 TM11NS 99 95 95 00 WP 1200 Upgrade kit WM13NG 199 00 179 00 T Master Plus Vectra TM12NS 159 00 149 00 LS 12 Vectra Portable Specific Products PORTABL
52. 5479 5559 ACCESSORIES 4 LS 12 EMS RAM 1 Meg 799999 45419C Programer s Tool 9 1 89 i 45549K opt 400 MicrosoftWord ROM 9 1 89 Personalized Software Opposed to Restrict 45554K opt 400 Multimate ROM 9 1 89 a bl in Air T l 45559K Tech Ref Manual 9 1 89 ing Portables in Air Irave e eee ie one a In the wake of the deplorable bombing of Pan Am Flight Opt erminal M n A 82870A sa 400 Advancemail ROM 9 1 89 103 the Department of Transportation is seriously 82870K opt 400 Advancemail w o ROM a 7 a considering banning portable computers from all air travel 82981A 128K Memory Drawer l 82083A 300 1200 Baud Modem 9 1 89 as carry on or in luggage In the case of the Pan Am 82984A 128K Memory Card 9 1 89 flight the bomb was hidden in a radio tape player The e MO pa an es et rationale of the Transportation Department is that a Multilingual Documentation similar bomb could be hidden in a portable computer and ie opt on ee me ae 9114B vee therefore restrictions should be placed on them opt ustralian Recharger at 9114B opt 014 RSA Recharger 9 1 89 We at Personalized Software are opposed to such a ban l For a number of reasons az The following accessories will remain on the CPL until Such a plan is more than inconvenient Portables are 9 1 90 due to the relatively high sales volumes and the becoming a way of life in many businesses Access to 4 fact that these accessories enable customers to significantly portable during travel has increase
53. 62 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RUNS ON HP Portabe Porabi Pus IBM PC HP Vectra e 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE To order Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 or the Epson FX series printers with single double and quad density graphics Users choose normal graphics mode which condenses image to fit seven inches printing area or expanded graphics mode which truncates one inch from the right side of the image The ink jet cartridge is easily changed and each cartridge can print from 300 500 pages of text The 150 Plus uses five standard C size rechargeable batteries and will print about 150 pages or 50 minutes of continuous printing before needing recharging which can be done in 10 hours The 150 Plus unlike the old 150 can be recharged while in use The Kodak Diconix 150 Plus is available with two interfaces a Centronics 8 bit parallel or an RS232C 7 8 bit serial Also included are a Printhead AC Adapter and User s Manual Therefore HP110 and Portable Plus users can use the Dioconix via the serial port and Portable Vectra and LS 12 users will probably prefer the parallel port version ORDERING INFORMATION The Diconix printer is available through authorized retailers for 499 for the Parallel Interface and 519 for the Serial Interface Subsc
54. 7 18 19 24 24 26 26 28 32 Personalized Software Products and Services in Brief WORD PROCESSING 110 wI CS LE 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 HP110 Plus HP150 Vectra and IBM PC all on master disk Word Perfect 5 0 and 4 2 World s best selling word processor customized to Portable Plus Dozens of advanced features including fonts integrated text and graphics style sheets document compare text in col umns footnotes tables of contents and in dexes 115 000 word speller thesaurus mail merging and built in math functions for creat ing a mini spreadsheet anywhere in your document Portable 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 The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multiline headers footers page numbers table of contents glos sary capabilities and more Works with almost all printers Note manual is 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
55. AUGUST 1989 33 THE PORTABLE PAPER By Ed Keefe More Memory For Less More or less M There s a computer maxim that says Everyone who uses a computer wants three times as much memory as they currently have To this I say too true To this the keeper of our household budget replies no way not at today s memory prices The solution to this contention is to compromise Spend a small amount of money for a software solution to the problem rather than a lot of money for a hardware solution The compromise is compression File compression software lets you turn a one megabyte electronic disk into the equivalent of a 15 to 2 0 megabyte Edisk Fortunately most of the file compression programs work well on all the HP Portables including the HP110 Most of us have been using such file compression software for a couple of years This is nothing new Such programs as System Enhancement Associate s ARC program and Phil Katz s PKARC and PKXARC programs are familiar to anyone who has ever downloaded software from a bulletin board What is new is the proliferation of such file compression programs They seem to have gotten faster and more reliable in direct proportion to the escalating prices of computer memory Now instead of seeing compressed files that end with the extension ARC you re just as likely to see such files with the extensions PAK ZIP ZOO LZH SQZ with the promise of more to come a Py
56. CK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date den ie Personalized eld P O Box 869 Fairfield IA5 2556 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 Yes 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 i
57. Disk drives There number is 503 753 2004 Kodak Enhances Diconix 150 Portable Printer Kodak introduced it s new Diconix 150 Plus portable printer at this year s Spring Comdex The HP ThinkJet and the Diconix 150 have dominated the portable printer marketplace the past three years The Diconix 150 Plus is an enhanced version of the Diconix 150 one of the BA industry s most popular portable printers The new printer features improved quality for text and graphics 20 faster output and the ability to print on plain paper The Diconix 150 Plus weighs 3 7 Ibs 1 7 kilograms with batteries It measures 2 x 6 5 x 10 8 about the size of a hardback dictionary Tractor width is 8 65 9 2 Maximum single sheet width is 9 The 150 Plus prints single sheet continuous form fan fold and ink jet trans parencies at speeds up to 180 cps characters per second in Draft mode 52 cps in NLQ Near Letter Quality and 36 cps in Quality No thermal paper is needed Print resolution is 192 dots per inch in NLQ and 96 DPI in Draft mode Line length is seven inches Two new fonts were developed for this printer Pica 10 pitch 70 cpl characters per line and Elite 12 pitch 85 cpl These combined with draft near letter quality quality condensed superscript subscript underlining italics emphasized proportional spacing enlarged con densed double strike and double wide print modes offer more than 100 different font variations
58. E 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 Retail Num Price SubsBackup Product Price Price Word Processors Diconix printer parallel DT11NH 499 00 349 00 Diconix printer serial DT12NH 519 00 415 00 EtherNet Adapter ET11NH 695 00 629 00 Expansion Chassis LS 12 EX11NH 499 00 449 00 FloppyDriver FD11NS 89 95 79 95 HP IL Card P Vectra CS HP16NM 245 00 235 00 LapLink LA11NS 139 95 119 00 LapTape LS 12 LA11NH 795 00 695 00 NoSquint NO11NS 39 95 37 95 Numeric Keypad LS 12 NU11NH 129 00 115 00 Squish Plus SQ12NS 99 95 89 95 Weltec 5 25 Drive LS 12 WE11NH 349 00 319 00 Peripherals Manzana 1 44 Meg 3 5 PC External Drive MZ12NH 385 00 345 00 Manzana 1 44 Meg 3 5 PC Internal Drive MZ11NH 200 00 189 00 Manzana Controller MZ13NM 95 00 89 00 Numeric Keypad for P Plus TS11NM 139 00 135 00 Accessories 10 3 5 disks case DS11NM 64 90 29 95 10 1 44Meg 3 5 disks DS12NM 99 95 69 95 Mobile Recharger PR11NM 59 95 49 95 FieldPro Padded Laptop Case CS12NM 99 95 89 95 FieldPro Padded Case for ThinkJet or HP9114 Disk Drive CS11NM 39 95 37 95 Learning Material How to Use the HP Portables Video Tapes VP11NM 150 00 119 00 Upgrade FastPlus CPU upgrade FA1L1NG 250 00 250 00 USED PORTABLE EQUIPMENT IMPORTANT NOTE T
59. ER BY NUMBER NAME STATE Lotus 1 2 3 print files IBM PC and compat dividual 10K programs for each function you SQUISH PLUS I have been using SQUISH on my Plus for several weeks It is the most convenient of all file compression programs G available for the Plus All I have to do to compress a file is to save it onto the D drive This can be done from within any program or by copying the file directly to the D drive The D drive is actually a special file on the Portable Plus electronic or Vectra hard disk that is accessed through a device driver a special type of program that is loaded when the computer is booted SQUISH is not free There is considerable overhead associated with the program When active the device driver uses 37K of main memory Also 53K of disk is required to store the minimum of Squish programs To break even almost 220K of electronic disk must be allocated to the Squish disk If the Squish programs are ROMmed the break even point is reduced to slightly less than 90K These calculations are based on the assumption that files will compress about 30 when saved on a Squish disk and also that the Squish disk will be filled The Squish Plus INFO utility indicated that my worksheet and text files were reduced about 30 when saved on the Squish disk I compressed a random sampling of COM files and EXE files The compression rate was 20 and 22 respectively Another disadvantage of a SQUISH disk is that it is n
60. ETUP program telling the system that I was using an external monitor I then connected the monitor cable to the port in back of the LS 12 labeled ert and left SETUP The LS 12 rebooted As expected nothing appeared on the LS 12 screen However unexpectedly nothing appeared on my external monitor I tried the Ctrl Alt Enter trick see above I still couldn t see the screen to reconfigure it Then I reasoned that all I had to do was pull the secondary battery that backs up the memory CMOS RAM that stores the configuration information Such a battery exists since the system remembers configuration information even after it has no power If I could remove the battery then b default the LS 12 LCD screen should come up I turned over my LS 12 and could not find the battery storage spot I did however find the embedded carrying handle that I somehow had never noticed on the bottom of the unit It was time to consult the LS 12 manual USED HP PORTABLES AND PERIPHERALS ples a W W W yse Pre POM e buy them We sell them We guarantee them ap eos ck DIN No longer using your HP Buying used HP Any used item you buy from us can poA DI sets Portable or peripherals equipment makes sense be returned within 30 days for a full n pa TW ars Turn them into cash You know HP quality refund In addition 7 ye ON tt MOU eee a Me 00 M uipment Exchange vide ya Prices fluctuate so Years Call for current ONE YEAR GUARANTEE W
61. First as described above you must detach your Squish disk before packing your electronic floppy or hard disk The second area may not occur to you but happened to me while testing Squish Plus trying to break it I would fill the Squish disk up with program files that do not compress well In doing so I would get a Squish Disk Full message from Squish Plus and an Abort Retry Ignore message from DOS Normally if you fill up a Squish disk you will get the same DOS Insufficient disk space error message that you would get if you tried to over fill any disk However if files in your Squish disk don t compress well the DOS Abort Retry Ignore message can occur When I would get this message and run the DOS CHKDSK program I would get a report that the Squish disk internal FAT directory was a little out of whack As documented in the manual the chkdsk f DOS command will fix the problem In my discussions with program author Kathryn Stone about this problem I received some good general advice Whenever you get the Abort Retry Ignore DOS error message immediately run chkdsk f to fix any damage _ on the DOS disk 5 Finally the Squish disk does not dynamically change in size That means you must commit ahead of time just how large you want to make a Squish disk You give up Also as I fill my 6 Megabyte THE PORTABLE PAPER that space as soon as you make your Squish disk My parole Plus and the
62. From time to time you had closeups of the 110 screen showing various Operations Sometimes the screen was very clear and sometimes it was difficult to read I thought the word processing discussion was a bit difficult mostly because it was difficult to see what was happening on the screen and link it to the key strokes The Lotus section was very useful I liked the examples and would like to have seen more I did not like the text summary session in which a voice read what was on the screen It irritated me although in retrospect it may have worked to reinforce the message I do not suppose there is any way to index the video The beginning of each tape has what amounts to a table of contents but there is no way for the user to zip forward to the session that he is most interested in I think Larry Baldozier s section could be expanded common bugs replacing batteries things never to do tips cleaning the unit what to do after getting caught in a downpour with the 110 airport x ray problems upgrades to the screen cleaning the ThinkJet ports etc Thomas Vitullo Martin New York City Pv Dissatisfied With LS 12 Carrying Case 40 JULY AUGUST 1989 I have waited years for HP to come up with a Portable Computer like the LS 12 Laptop As soon as it came out on the market I purchased it in early March The LS 12 weighs in a 10 5 lbs and with the battery pack attached it is up to 14 6 lbs Therefore it needs a
63. HE 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 takes to learn the commands THE FORMATTER is for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER 59 95 Portable Paper Subscriber price 49 95 PV PV users Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order so we can send you the proper disk format R o o Portable Vectra o o e Search and replace Just tell THE EDITOR IJ 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 e 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 e 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 autol
64. HIINS Shelp 55 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 day no risk trial lf 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 SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc typically your Portable Plus electronic disk or your Vectra hard disk Squish Plus software then fools DOS into thinking the large file is really a newly formatted disk on the D drive When you run MKDISK you are prompted for the name of your Squish file a file size and an optional password Once created the newly named Squish file resides on the Portable Plus RAM disk or the Vectra floppy or hard disk You can make the file as small as 100K bytes Currently I have a Squish disk on my Portable Plus that takes up 100K 100 000 bytes and one on my LS 12 hard disk that takes up 6 Megabytes 6 000 000 bytes Upon making the Squish disk you are asked if you want to password protect the disk and if so you are prompted for a password Finally you must attach the Squish file to a disk drive letter so that you can read and write to the file This is somewhat analogous to inserting a disk into a particular disk drive and leaving it there ATTACH a program provided with Squish Plus connects the Squish file to the logical drive disk drive letter My attach
65. Hal Goldstein s Personalized Software Company and The Portable Paper have been there as lifelines supporting us with modest hardware complements and with a truly useful software catalog many of them direct adaptations of up to date IBM software such WorkPerfect 5 Lotus 2 1 to allow add ins etc And what has HP done these past two and a half years to support its installed base of the Portable Plus It has introduced a 1 megabyte RAM drawer while a third party supplier brought to market a variety of RAM and RAM ROM drawers with maximum 2 megabytes capacity HP has threatened to withhold services support for users daring to have their PLUS upgraded with the NEC V30 processor with circa 70 percent better performance than the current Harris 80C86 chip instead of offering an HP upgrade path HP has ignored the potential benefit of enhancing the compatibility of the PLUS thus denying us many software options One can readily make this list longer without distortions In short HP has abandoned a group of users who believed HP s promises and committed their capital funds totaling some 8 000 in my case to an HP system Yet if you asked me if I were willing to trade my Portable Plus free exchange for the LS 12 HP s private labelled Zenith box my response would likely be a long hesitation I view my PLUS as inherently better perhaps not as flashy but definitely better And here is the rub Mr Young With advan
66. I have to use CTRL alot Now if only you could come up with the backlit screen for my Plus I d be in 7th heaven Audrey Germain California USA Sacramento Plus User Wants Comparison of File Management Programs I m confused maybe other readers are too It would be great if someone could compare and contrast what s available in file management products for the Portable Plus I want to manage my files more efficiently What should I buy FilePlus Norton Utilities BacTools DOS Tools How do these compare with utilities on your subscriber s disks or with other public domain software There is so much out there I would like to seesomeone tie it all together and help us consumers make decisions on what to buy Rob Scebold The Philippines All the programs you mention do different things We try to give a brief summary in our Products In Brief section towards the center of the newsletter However it is difficult to summarize a program in one paragraph To really find out which programs aur for you check out past issues of The Portable Paper via the index for a complete review of the product Here however is a summary FilePlus A true file manager that replaces DOS Two directories can be listed at once Tag multiple files for fast copying moving deletion Norton Utilities Undeletes deleted files Norton has many file management utilities that extend DOS One of my favorites physically resor
67. It is A Profess a ional Press Publication COMPUTERS a VOL 2 8 No 4 m W ps OF HP PUBLICATION FOR USERS KP Rit k a ie d a Connectivity as ication munica Com e If you re a Hewlett Packard computer user and buyer of HP related hardware software or peripherals HP PROFESSIONAL the monthly magazine of Hewlett Packard commercial and technical com puting is for you It s really something It costs you nothing a DA mpatibility Standards Tet ze e ese a Turbol MAGE Lo gens WORKSTATIONS WORKSTATION HP s New 350 835 TurboSRX It s Informative It s Monthly It s Read by 30 220 professionals like you It s FREE Read HP PROFESSIONAL for information and insights on the latest hardware software trends and developments Start your free subscription today Send us the coupon below You ll receive a subscription application in the mail Fill out and mail the application and if you qualify we ll start your free subscription HPN Protess Old SUBSCRIPTION APPLICATION REQUEST YES ld like a FREE subscription to HP PROFESSIONAL Send a subscription application to Name nn Title fa Company w Address City State Zip Mail to HP PROFESSIONAL P O Box 445 Spring House PA 19477 0445 THE PORTABLE PAPER useless for data communications unless a modem is attached As indicated I used my WorldPort 1200 as the companion mode
68. LOSING BY INTIMIDATION Until recently there were only two major players in the file compression market System Enhancement Associates and Phil Katz SEA set the standards and by most accounts Phil Katz s PKARC program exceeded these standards However Phil Katz ran afoul of the law He used the three letters ARC in his program SEA contended that those letters were part of their trademark and copyright So they sued Phil Katz Phil lost the battle but is apparently winning the war He has totally rewritten his own compression programs and is marketing them with the title PKZIP and PKUNZIP Most bulletin board operators have switched from the ARC format to the ZIP format for the files on their boards This effectively has shut out the widespread use of SEA compressed files SEA 34 JULY AUGUST 1989 has lost by intimidating the wrong people Both ARC522 EXE and the last version of PKARK PKXARC PK361 EXE have been distributed as shareware on the Subscribers Disks from Personalized Software in the past couple of years Shareware implies that if you continue to use the program after testing it for a couple of weeks you must pay for it One more file compression program has entered the market in the past couple of months LHARC EXE It was written by a Japanese programmer who has apparently donated the program to the public domain That means the program is free The version of the program as of this writing is 1 13 LHARC
69. Laserwriter I found an issue of The Portable Paper that makes reference to an interface card Vol 2 NO 2 March April 1987 page 4 Portable to the Mac however in the case of the Portable Plus I think what would be required is an interface device outside the Portable rather than an interface card Can you provide more information about this Jose Costa Ottawa Canada Anybody with ideas My one thought is to use a serial to parallel converter and then attach the Xircom adapter reviewed in the Vectra Views section of this issue It would be slow but might work We will probably have a chance to try it out and we will report any success Hal HP110 HP110 GROUPS THE PORTABLE PAPER P PC Emulator Lets User Run Genealogy Program You asked me on the phone to let you know what the genealogy program is that I got to work on my Portable Plus It s called Roots II there is an update out now called Roots IID and is sold by Commsoft 2257 Old Middlefield Way Mountain View CA 94043 It s obtainable for about 200 I bought the 5 1 4 floppy and had a CE friend of mine using Advance Link copy it over to a 3 1 2 floppy Then in order to get it to work on the Plus he had to go into the program and remove a bug Commsoft had put there Recent literature from Commsoft indicates that Roots III is clean I cannot use the regular keyboard keys for things like the cursor quitting etc but you get use to that
70. M prices given in this chart unless othewise stated are for used ROMs Used HP ROMs especially ECM Lotus 2 and MultiMate 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 WP Acoustic coupler WM16NH 79 95 79 95 Kermit KETINS 19 00 19 00 Part Retail Subscr Relay Gold Plus RGIINS 295 00 279 00 Product Num Dri Price TermPlus TE12NS 99 95 79 95 son n Se ki Term110 TE1INS 99 95 79 95 The Portable Paper ou ka 1 Yr Subscription PPN1PS 55 00 Productivity Boosting Utilites 2 Yr Subscription PPN2PS 99 00 BacTools BCIINS 49 95 39 95 Lye Renewal PPR1PS 55 00 Compuserve Starter Kit CM11NS 39 95 35 95 2 Yr Renewal PPR2PS 99 00 DOS Tools DT1INS 44 95 39 95 1986 8 3 Yr back issues PP13PB 99 00 FilePlus FE12NS 69 95 59 95 1988 back issues PP12PB 39 00 HP Duette DULINS 99 25 89 95 Individual Back issue PPOOPB 9 20 HP150 PC Emulator PCIINS 19 95 19 95 1987 Subscriber Disk SB12NS 115 00 9 50 HP9114 Empowerer PRI2NM 99 95 89 95 1988 Subscriber Disk SB13NS 115 00 9 50 Norton Uitilities Adv NU12NS 150 00 129 00 1989 Subscriber Disk SB14NS 115 00 9 50 Norton Utilitiess NUIINS 99 95 89 95 PP Binder Vol 1 PB11NM 7 00 PrintMaster P Plus PRIINS 79 95 69 95 PP Binder Vol 2 PB12NM 7 00 Private File PFIINS 39 95 34 95
71. O 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 PPISUC 3395 1595 128K Plus With Modem PP11UC 3190 995 HP110 Portable PQ11UC 3000 595 HP110 ThinkJet HP9114 PP40UX 4300 995 Used Printers For HP110 Portable Plus Vectra HP IL ThinkJet Printer TJ11UC 495 250 New DeskJet Plus Printer DJ12HC 995 795 New DeskJet Printer DJ11HC 795 639 Used HP110 Portable Plus Disk Drives HP9114A Disk Drive DD11UC 795 250 HP9114B Disk Drive DD12UC 795 350 Used HP Portable Plus Memory Drawers New HP 1 Mg RAM Drw MMIINC 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 Intfee Monitor VM12UM 750 275 Denotes products no longer manufactured The Retail Price of these items was the price at the time of discontinuance These items are excellent buys WordPerfect 5 WD11NK 940 00 595 00 295 The Editor II ED12NK 224 00 194 95 95 MMkr TmMgr MM21UR 245 00 119 00 MSWord MS20UR 375 00 199 00 MultiMate MM20UR 520 00 425 00 Editor Pack FM17NX 823 00 599 00 Editor II Webster FormatPlus FilePlus Editor Pack FM16NX 658 00 499 00 Editor II Webs
72. PP Binder Vol 3 PB13NM 7 00 ReadHP RDIINS 79 95 69 95 PP Binder Vol 4 PB14NM 7 00 Shelp SHIINS 55 00 49 95 PP Binder Vol 1 4 PB15NM 25 00 Squish Plus P Plus SOQ11NS 129 00 99 95 Squish Plus Vectra SQ12NS 99 95 89 95 Free Catalogs Tiger Fox TF11NS 32 95 29 95 HP Portable CATPOR 0 00 Time Manager SB11NS 9 50 9 50 HP150 CAT150 0 00 Typing Whiz TW11NS 49 95 39 95 Graphics SOFTWARE AND ACCESSORIES Logitech Mouse MSI4NM 119 00 99 95 Logitech Mouse Word Processors Portable Plus System MS15NM 219 00 179 95 The Editor II ED11NS 129 00 99 95 P Plus Mouse Sftwre MS11NS 70 00 60 00 Editor Pack FM16NX 289 00 195 00 P Plus Mouse Cable MS13NM 30 00 20 00 Editor II FormatPlus Webster Speller Sketch SK11NS 80 00 75 95 Editor II Disk Upgrade ED14NG 35 00 35 00 Sketch Halftone disk SD11NS 9 50 9 50 The Editor II Formatter ED13NX 149 95 119 95 Flowcharting I FLIINS 232 00 209 00 WordPerft 4 2 ss HP150 WD12NS 435 00 339 00 a o WordPerft 4 2 ds HP150 WD11NS 435 00 339 00 aac UOE bk dit WordPerft 5 0 ds HP150 WD13NS 495 00 395 00 Lotus 123 S hony P Plus f WordPerfect 4 2 P Plus WD18NS 435 00 339 00 eee n Yen ie one soot WordPerfect 5 0 P Plus WD17NS 645 00 395 00 l j Includes PlusPerfect Lotus 123 Driver a LT11NS 495 00 435 00 PlusPerfect WD14NS 150 00 129 00 SideWinder and Utilities SW13NS 79 95 69 95 SideWinder SW11NS 69 95 59 95 Word Processing Utilities Statistix ST11NS 169 00 159 00 Format110 FM12NS 39 95 35 95 FormatPlus FP11NS 79 9
73. PS 1 FormatPlus Upgrade FP15NG 58 00 58 00 PS 1 For SuperROM owners only 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 00 495 002 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 00 279 002 HP 1 Lotus 1 2 3 can also be used as a database Exec Card Manager EC11UR 395 00 339 002 HP 1 Pricing of new ECM ROM if used ROM not available COMMUNICATIONS PC2622 PC13UR 395 00 239 00 HP 1 VT100 and HP Terminal emulator Reflection RF11UR 525 00 295 00 HP 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 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 Combin
74. Prices for ROM Backups alone are as follows Best of DOS Tools 129 The Editor e ces 95 HPDuette ceccvcecvvee 95 HPrint o e oe at a eek We as 95 Shelp e s ssesesceseesces 55 SideWinder 24 cccee08 55 Shelp SideWinder 95 Sketch e rel leve lk Ge se san ate Bar a 95 Squish Plus esssseeseoo 135 SuperROM 2 eeeeee 49 TermPlus ccsceccvevcvecs 95 Turbo Pascal 3 e o 95 Typing Whiz 2e 26 95 Webster s Speller 179 WordPerfect 000 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 software 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 offe
75. Squish Plus Portable Plus ROM Package SQ11NK 264 00 234 95 Includes Squish Plus for Portable Plus and two 64K ROM backups ROM backup only KSQ12NR 135 00 135 00 2 64K ROMs Must have previously purchased Squish Plus for Portable Plus from Personalized Software INSTALLING PRINTMASTER PLUS ONTO THE PORTABLE PLUS To run PrintMaster Plus on the Portable Plus and ThinkJet you need several utilities supplied on the 1988 Portable Paper Subscribers disk PRNCONF COM and PCRUN COM First copy PRNCONF COM and PCRUN COM to your A drive Then configure your ThinkJet to run in Epson mode by typing prnconf a from PAM or DOS To run PrintMaster Plus type perun pm The simplest procedure is to create a batch file named say PMHP BAT that contains the follow two lines PrintMaster For Portable Plus by Hal Goldstein and Rick Finnell Gary Aldrich in his letter on page 4 of last issue told us about PrintMaster Plus and how he made it work on the JULY AUGUST 1989 13 THE PORTABLE PAPER 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 T
76. T NO NUIINS THE NORTON UTILITIES ADVANCED EDITION 150 00 includes Version 4 0 Portable Paper Subscriber Price 129 00 PRODUCT NO NUI2NS RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra KE Portable Plus e HP150 e IBM PC and compatibles Le THE PORTABLE PAPER drive using the 1988 Subscribers Disk FormIBM program Note that the only way a disk can be read from an HP110 Portable Plus and IBM PC is if FormIBM was used from the HP110 150B gt refers to 150B or greater machines and the 150B gt 3 2 refers to the 150B with 3 2 DOS Computer Port 110 150A 150B gt 150B gt Vectra Vectra Plus Port 3 2 CS LS 12 Format HP Plus Single R W R W R W R W RW os we Double R W R W R W R W R W R W FormIBM R W R W R W R W HP 110 Single R W R W R W R W R W xe ladj Double R W R W R W R W R W R W FormIBM R W R W R W R W R W HP150 lt 3 2 Single R W R W R W R W R W SEK FE Double R W R W R W R W R W R W IBM 1 44M R W R W 720K R W R W R W R W Key R W Computer will read and write to this disk Computer will not read or write to this disk Computer will read and write only if using ReadHP from Personalized Software THE x S by Thomas R Page pi Review Of The Bridge Modem From Spectrum Cellular And The Cellular W Connection From Motorola led INTRODUCTION Pv Those of us who have used portable computers for some EM time know that among t
77. ThinkJet Rick Finnell our quality experience is that this is not a severe limitation It just control and shipping expert and also resident graphic causes me to plan ahead and decide how my electronic or artist has duplicated Gary s success hard disk space is to be allocated PrintMaster Plus from Unison World is a classic piece of software that has been around for years You can use PORTABLE PLUS ROM VERSION PrintMaster Plus to design posters sideways banners To enjoy large disk space savings Portable Plus users will greeting cards logos flyers invitations stationary and probably want to purchase the Squish Plus ROM backup calendars package The program is ideally suited for ROM backup The invitation below was created by Rick using The backup package will include both the disk based PrintMaster on the Portable Plus and the ThinkJet printer Squish Plus version for the Portable Plus along with two It was reduced so that it could fit in this column 64K ROM chips The two 64K ROM chips will be available as a backup for those who originally purchase the disk version only HP110 VERSION Neither the IBM PC or Portable Plus version of Squish Plus works on the HP110 Even if it did work it would be of questionable utility Of the 176K available for disk space 52K would have to be given up to hold the essential Squish Plus files and 36K would have to borrowed from the 176K to increase main memory Those HP110 users who would be willing t
78. able and Portable Plus utilities Cliff s CompuServe ID is 75106 2130 Letters Continued from p 5 it on trips a card file of customer visits and update Some things I will be looking for in the future is more of your software consolidated on ROM The Plus really is portable I do not pound on the keyboard constantly while on trips but do such things as keep up expense reports on Lotus write memos keep running log of flights and appointments in Time Manager and keep For trips of one week or less I don t even carry a charger with me anymore The battery stays above 60 for this amount of time For longer trips of two weeks the charger comes along and the battery is kept above 80 my ROM drawer is full Editor II included on the Super ROM and a relatively simple personal finance package such as Quicken that will run on the Portable Plus I also look forward to your subscriber disk every year JULY AUGUST 1989 37 THE PORTABLE PAPER and utilize a surprising amount of the programs on the disk Again thank you for an excellent magazine and for the support from all of your people I have found them all first rate and professional in all my contacts with you Richard Aal Hewlett Packard Co Reflection Hints Subscribers Disks WordPerfect on Plus For some time I have intended to write you with a tiny contribution to the collective experience with Personalized Software products This represents on
79. able or hand held to shoe box size transportable to vehicle mounted mobile Actually all these types of telephones are mobile telephones but the above terms are often used to denote different equipment configurations Mobile units are supported by a network of fixed transceivers which relay communications from the mobile units to other mobile units or to the traditional land line telephone system If the mobile unit moves out of range of its host transceiver the call is turned over or handed off to another base station The area covered by each base station is called a cell These base stations carry the exciting nomenclature cell cite unit It is not unusual to see a cellular telephone system diagramed as a honeycomb of carefully placed hexagonal cells but in reality each cell is circular or fan shaped depending on the type of antennas used at the cell cite To insure compete area coverage there obviously must be significant overlap of cells within a cellular telephone system Cell size is dependent on the number of mobile units operating in an area In high traffic areas cellular operators configure the system into smaller cells Cell size is controlled by varying transceiver power Computers at the cell cite control the power of the mobile unit Adjacent and overlapping cells operate on different frequencies Because cellular telephones provide full duplex service separate frequencies are used for transmit and receive Mobile u
80. adios An airplane flying over my house has never caused the telephone system to fail In One instance of using The Bridge modem I lost carrier just as an airplane flew over the house The airplane took the blame even if it was not at fault Radio communications are subject to all sorts of noise and interference lightning buildings other radio equipment electrical equipment sunspots etc In a cellular system hand offs are a source of trouble Hand offs are fast but not instantaneous In a voice link the short drop out caused by a hand off may not be noticed but it can be deadly to data communications Modems disconnect if carrier is lost for too long The time before disconnect is controlled by the value in the modem s register 10 Increasing the value in this register can improve data communication over poor quality telephone links land lines as well as cellular connections THE BRIDGE MODEM Increasing the value in register 10 will reduce accidental disconnects but it does not eliminate errors noise in data communication The Bridge modem goes a step further When communicating with another Bridge modem or Span modem error free communications can be achieved by using the SPCL adverse environment protocol SPCL protocol on is the default mode for The Bridge modem I was told by two separate sources that The Bridge modem could only communicate with an SPCL modem This is not true Placing a 0 in the modem s register 32 turns the proto
81. and is a cinch to use You simply place a 342 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 32 disk drive It s simple Order ReadHP today REAGEP srepek SAG 64H kota ta COL aR 79 95 Portable Paper subscriber price 69 95 PRODUCT NO RDIINS 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form orsend check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box S69 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6550 RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Le Portable Pus e Portable Vecta o o HP150 IBM PC and compat degradation is hardly noticeable Similarly on my LS 12 the degradation usually is not significant Again I notice a slight delay in large WordPerfect files The most noticeable delay comes when I list and access one of my subdirectories on my Squish disk containing 225 files Squish disk delays do become more noticeable 4 The most important limitation would come from potential data loss The product has been well tested and used by thousands of users for almost a year There are two areas that users should be careful of when using Squish Plus
82. and the procedures that manipulate the data in a single structure Borland bills 5 5 as the object oriented programming language for the rest of us They claim the OOP extensions will help programmers reuse code modules leading to increased productivity more powerful software and fewer bugs FEATURES Turbo Pascal 5 5 features include inheritance static amp dynamic objects constructors amp destructors object constants compiles at gt 34 000 lines minute new integrated environment tutorial Hypertext Help with copy and paste enhanced smart linker amp overlay manager Numeric keypad speeds data entry on Portable Plus If you enter lots of numbers into your Portable Plus via Lotus 1 2 3 or other applica tions the Touchstone numeric keypad is for you Unlike the 10 button nu meric keypad on the Plus this one doesn t disable the letter keys when you turn it on Nor does it move the backslash from one part of the keyboard to another The Touchstone keypad actually has 22 keys including an over size zero oversize Enter key 4 cursor keys 4 math functions decimal point and backspace The unit weighs about a pound plugs into your Plus s serial port and has a firm responsive key action For fast convenient numerical data entry order a Touchstone keypad today Touchstone numeric keypad Portable Paper subscriber price PRODUCT NO TSIINM See centerfold fo
83. at WORD lacks for less money and less memory Its too bad you can t keep WORD 1 1 ROMs in stock At least I am assuming you can t SKETCH owners can capture WORD screens to SKETCH files You can t do that with most word processors The advantage is that One can compose text for a graphics screen using all of WORD s on screen editing capabilities You even get smallcaps bold and italics right on the screen For what it s worth I m enclosing a copy of a letter I sent to Paul Grimmer about SKETCH It says what I like about it and what I wish it had Keep up the good work I like being informed The Portable Paper is the only user group I have access to here in the Philippines Has anyone succeded in configuring Webster s Speller to work on normal MSWord files Rob Scebold The Philippines Satisfied SKETCH User Copy of a letter to Paul Grimmer Yet another satisfied SKETCH customer writes his review I m with SIL working in the Philippines My work here involves promoting literacy and developing teaching materials for a small indigenous group living in rural Luzon SKETCH has been a fun tool for the past few projects I ve been trying out My most involved effort has been creating large print character sets for word game cards WHAT I REALLY LIKE ABOUT SKETCH The most used functions are the partial screen save and the overlay file commands I simply create and save the building blocks of my pi
84. at file I used the setup sa command to save all my configuration information to a file named cfg My system is configured as having a 20MB hard drive no EMS a 5 25 floppy drive attached to the system and backlight and hard drive automatic power down And of course it is set for the normal LCD screen I created a batch file named cfg bat with one line setup r Now if I ever get into a situation where I need to use my default configuration I simply type cfg to execute the setup r command and then cfg again to tell it that the configuration information is in file cfg Then I press the Enter key three times and the system restarts using my configuration values SOLUTION TO LS 12 EXTERNAL MONITOR PROBLEM When I returned to the original problem the solution a division of Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software became obvious The lettering at the bottom and front side of many keys indicate secondary values of those keys The secondary value of the F10 key is labeled CRT LCD Pressing the Fn key activates the secondary values built into many of the keys Sure enough holding down Fn and typing F10 was all I had to do to toggle between the external monitor and the built in LCD screen In a future column we will be examining the LS 12 keyboard more closely Using HP Portable and HP150 Disks with the LS 12 If you want to read HP Portable and HP150 disks using the LS 12
85. ation exp date signature to IBM PC and compat Personalized Software Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus PO Box 869 Fairfield TA 52556 515 472 6330 ROM backup of TermPlus includes IBM disk formatting utility ThinkJet control pop up and more the menu PrintMaster gives you a menu list of all available graphic pictures You can use the PrintMaster manual to look up the graphic you want to use and then use the programs menu to choose the graphic It works fairly well Once you choose your graphic positioning it is a little difficult if you decide you need to do it freehand You can also pick several automatic positions such as BACKGROUND repeats the graphic over the entire background DIAGONAL repeats the graphic in a checker board pattern over the entire background If you overlap text and graphic the text always as far as I can tell overwrites the graphic Graphics come in three sizes halfsize regular and doublesize Another problem for me was the printout time It takes a LONG time to printout your masterpiece Since this is the only way to view your project making a banner or poster can take a long time It took 11 minutes to print out the above graphic The PrintMaster user s guide did suggest changing the printer buffer but I don t know if it can be done with the Portable Plus ThinkJet system When you do print it is easy to abort if you get halfway through and don t like what yo
86. ave greatly expanded the Letters section in this issue User Not Happy About Portable Plus Discontinuation Hewlett Packard s decision to discontinue the Portable Plus is a very great disfavor 110 t0 the customers since this computer is by far the best portable machine ever on the market As a portable the Vectra LS 12 is a poor replacement even if it is t IBM compatible and has some excellent features you do not find in the Portable Plus Here are my main reasons for saying so 1 When you travel a great deal it is inevitable that the computer is exposed to some shock The Portable Plus is virtually shock proof However with the Vectra you have to be more careful than with a sack of raw eggs because of the vulnerability of the disc drive 2 With the Plus you have no problems with charging the battery You plug it in whenever you have an opportunity and forget about it With the Vectra LS 12 you have to be extremely careful following the instructions if you don t want to shorten the life span of the battery 3 The fully charged battery of the Plus lasts twice as long as the one in the Vectra which is very significant when you travel 4 The Vectra is remarkably slow Before it ever wakes up you have already done some work with the Plus Also when you retrieve a program it takes much longer before you are in business At times I thought that it did not respond to a command from the keyboard and pushe
87. c Hayes is a trademark of Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc Carbon Copy PLUS is a trademark of Meridian Technology Inc I have seen two articles about laptops lately one in Business Week and one somewhere else Each article profiled five or so laptops including NEC Toshiba and Zenith neither article even mentioned HP much less profiled it How do you explain this Omission Perhaps you could answer this in Letter to Editor response As one of your original subscribers I continue to enjoy and appreciate the Portable Paper Keep up the good work Donald Hinman Lansing Michigan USA Three programs available for the Portable Plus will allow you to keep track of recipes and sort by the field of your choice If you use Lotus as a data base each column can represent a field The Data Sort command lets you sort ECM a ROM based file manager Rolodex type program should also let you accomplish the task Finally for maximum flexibility and power Condor 3 would do the trick There are a number of reasons why articles on computer portables do not include Hewlett Packard Without getting on my soapbox I think the main reason is that HP has no coherent strategy for developing and marketing its portable products That lack of clear direction reflects itself in lack of visibility in both 2400 baud portable modem for your HP Portable For example the WorldPort 2400 has auto dial auto answer and both pulse and tone operation
88. ces in chip technology over the past three years e g more memory capacity in the same chip at comparable pricing the PLUS is nowhere near oblivion and is readily upgradable in several crucial aspects These include larger capacity RAM drawers drives perhaps to 4 or even 8 MB maximum capacity larger capacity ROM firmware drawer utilizing 32 pin technology perhaps to 6 MB total capacity more mainframe memory and therefore A Drive capacity CPU upgrades and operating system and BIOS upgrades My voice is but one of many that have been seeking solutions to these range of 4 JULY AUGUST 1989 upgrades The problem is that we consider ourselves I refer you to back issues of the Portable Paper s readers letters deserted by the HP organization nd we are even now considered a thorn in HP s side as they are marketing the newest generation Zenith laptops an unfortunate choice over in house technology but at least they are apparently American made Mr Young I would like to make a bold proposal to you Don t take for granted that customers like me will be there for your next generation of information products If our PLUS experience remains an unresolved specter my next decision will be based on HP s deeds not assurances I have tried to communicate earlier with your organization without so much as receiving an acknowledgement of my letter Yet you can make a meaningful difference in one or more ways First
89. cluding A Using the SETUP program to properly configure your system B using Battery Watch to monitor your battery usage C using the Monotor program for diagnostics system control and programming capabilities D maintaining and servicing your LS 12 E keyboard combinations that allow you more control over your system In the next article and in Portable Papers to follow we will examine some of these features and how you can use them to make your LS 12 more useful In amp Out Of Trouble With The LS 12 mA COULDN T START MY LS 12 Within minutes of receiving my LS 12 I managed to make it unusable In my defense I had no manual or SETUP disk HP had been kind enough to loan me a used unit and the manuals and system disks had not arrived I ran 16 JULY AUGUST 1989 3 Ring Binders for the Portable Paper Protect your copies of The Portable Paper and organize them for easy reference Each 3 ring binder holds a year s issues The Portable Paper and a volume number 1 2 3 or 4 are imprinted on the spine Made of high quality tan vinyl binders have an inside pocket for storing catalogs index to past issues etc Price Product No Binders for The Portable Paper Vols 1 4 25 PBI5NM Binder for The Portable Paper Vol 1 7 PBIiNM Binder for The Portable Paper Vol 2 7 PBI2NM Binder for The Portable Paper Vol 3 7 PBI3NM Binder for The Portable Paper Vol 4 7 PBI4NM Be sure to specify volume numbe
90. col off and The Bridge is completely Bell 212A compatible I tested the SPCL operation by calling a CompuServe node in Dallas 214 220 1237 equipped with a Span modem As promised data transmission was error free There was a noticeable reduction in rate of data thruput compared to a normal 1200 baud link Occasionally an unusual pause probably to retransmit was spotted Or it could have simply been on of those CompuServe pauses that occur from time to time The SPCL protocol is entirely contained within the modem and is totally invisible to the computer s communications program and operator No special software is required to use the protocol SPAN NET In the ideal world every host would be equipped with a Span modem but for both economic and practical reasons they are not There is however a way for a mobile unit equipped with The Bridge modem to take advantage of the SPCL protocol when the host is equipped with an ordinary modem Cellular operators are installing Span nets which can receive protocol transmission from a mobile unit equipped with a Bridge modem then relay data received to the host computer via ordinary modem I called CompuServe in Houston using Houston Cellular s Span net The results were not a good as going directly to the Span modem in Dallas I spotted a few data errors and thruput seemed even slower Using the Span net was quiet easy I simply dialed the special access number 3282 DATA Upon connect
91. commands up to 40 characters The other elements in this command string are E1 Echo commands X1 Extended results codes S32 0 No SPCL protocol S7 100 Wait 100 seconds for carrier detect It takes longer to complete a call in a cellular system than over land lines Default wait for carrier detect for the Potable s internal modem and the WorldPort 1200 is 30 seconds For the Bridge the default is 45 seconds Even this was not sufficient for some calls that I placed so I increased the time to 100 seconds which may on the long side but my call got through Without the protocol communications were more noisy than over a standard telephone hookup but usable Occasionally I did get hit with a burst of noise that would cause my Portable to lock up I have had junk on land line links lock up the computer too Using this setup I was able transfer files in both directions between my Portable and the T3100 at my office In addition I successfully downloaded files from CompuServe JULY AUGUST 1989 29 THE PORTABLE PAPER USING THE CELLULAR CONNECTION The cellular connection definitely makes a cellular telephone transparent After connecting this device to the cellular telephone just for grins I plugged my Sony IT A600 integrated telephone answering machine into the RJ 11 jack of The Cellular Connection and gave the mobile telephone a call from another telephone in my home The call was answered just as if it had come over a land line I
92. cture and then place them precisely where I want them This has saved a lot of repetition on my part I also like the precision I have in positioning graphics on my Thinkjet page 1 64 horizontally and 12 16 vertically Not typeset standard but good enough and the right price for me I ve ordered HPrint and look forward to trying it out If I can get it to position text and graphics in relation to each other with at least the above accuracy I will be happy I use MSWORD on ROM almost exclusively I am hoping to find ways to get the best of both worlds use of full featured word processing and incorporating graphics WHAT I REALLY WANT IN AN UPGRADE All the changes in SKETCH you mentioned in your letter to the Portable Paper Vol 2 6 p 18 sound great Especially the ability to move partial screen areas around in the drawing Along these lines I would also like to see a rotate function by which a partial screen could be rotated about a set point Perhaps the point could be set like the memory point and the image rotated by pressing shft dwn or shft up while in rotate mode Also I would like to see more erase functions Using the Whole command in erase mode is great for getting rid of stuff with vertical and horizontal edges But it isn t efficient for erasing stuff around curves or diagonals Perhaps a command that turns off all the dots inside a circle could be added And what about another function that would era
93. d the keys a second time 5 The Portable has been in use for quite a few years All the bugs it had have been taken out With the Vectra we have to wait and see I have been traveling for a full three years with the Portable Plus both in the U S and abroad No problems at all I could not imagine that things would have been nearly as comfortable with the Vectra Martin Koenig Sun City Arizona USA Another User Unhappy With Discontinuation of Portable Plus This is a copy of letter sent to John Young CEO Hewlett Packard Two and a half years ago I invested in a new HP Portable Plus laptop computer following my introduction to micros on an HP 110 I saw then as I believe now that truly portable computing is best implemented via the technology that the Portable Plus embodies For durability ruggedness and therefore reliability it will JULY AUGUST 1989 3 THE PORTABLE PAPER remain at the apex for some time to come especially if one is to put it in the context of today s fragile laptop offerings This letter is prompted by my extreme disappointment over the inept HP marketing support that this product has received compounded by the unkept promise that this open architecture machine will be supported by HP beyond its introduction date In recent days my local HP dealer told me that the PLUS is coming off the HP price list Fortunately for those of us who have bought into HP s RAM ROM laptop technology
94. d the efficiency of 6 JULY AUGUST 1989 Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See Software on ROM ad in this issue i i The Editor I You won t believe all the word processing features this 129 program contains and it takes up less than 40K of memory t l Lip it s way beyond MemoMaker new Vine an ig vo an has acrds only 99 95 for Portable Paper subscribers NOU etl maca rom yer por ted W rade ai By Hal Goldstein pasi a Let s face it MemoMaker is an adequate 4 THE EDITOR II takes up less than 40K of 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 abuilt in bonus It also runs on the HP 150 IBM PC and HP Vectra which means that now you canuse 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
95. disk drive you must follow a simple installation procedure With the HP setup disk in the A drive type a 35instal from DOS This modifies the config sys file on the root directory by adding the following two lines DEVICE INDSKBIO SYS D 0 DRIVPARM D 0 F 7 H 2 S 18 T 80 Now every time you restart your system the device driver INDSKBIO SYS gets installed and your LS 12 can read HP150 and HP Portable Plus double sided disks To read HP110 Portable disks use your word processor Save as a text file and add HP110 to the DEVICE line so that the line now reads DEVICE INDSKBIO SYS D 0 HP110 If you want to read HP formatted single sided disks you need to purchase READHP from Personalized Software that s us for 69 95 The meaning of the DRIVPARM line is not documented However I suspect you could adjust that line so the LS 12 could read various HP formats such as the Portable Plus format z format that lets you pack more data on 3 5 disks If anybody can shed more light please drop us a note JULY AUGUST 1989 17 Na THE PORTABLE PAPER Fully Discharge Your LS 12 Battery Remember the LS 12 battery is a rechargeable nickel cadmium NiCad battery That means you should always fully discharge the battery and fully recharge it Otherwise it will develop a memory effect which severely reduces its operating period To rectify the situation use the HP supplied Battery Watch utility and deep discharg
96. 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
97. 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 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 see
98. e Rather it is an enhancement Turbo Pascal 5 5 now features something called an Object Oriented Programming System OOPS I have had an occasional encounter with OOPS before It s a different approach to programming a computer one that may appeal to people who have previously disliked programming In future columns Pll probably have more to say about OOPS HP is using this programming technology in the design of its New Wave program which runs on the Vectra line of computers The biggest question I had about Turbo Pascal 5 5 was whether it would work on the Portable Plus and HP 150 Preliminary tests indicate that it does I was even able to set the Portable Plus for 256K of memory and still had 36 JULY AUGUST 1989 FilePlus The Portable Plus file manager Fast sophisticated easy to use W List files in two directories simultaneously W Copy move and delete multiple files Mi Sort directories W Create protected Read Only files Back up only those files that have changed since last backup W 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 th
99. e small step in that direction First of all I found the CompuServe logon on the Reflection1 letter Vol 3 No 6 P40 helpful However I made a few improvements on some of the lines that were causing some difficulty Here is my logon that works without a hitch Transmit ATDT2321072 M wait 0 0 20 for ECT if not found stop endif wait 0 0 1 Transmit M wait 0 0 5 for ame if not found stop endif Transmit CIS M wait 0 1 0 for ID if not found stop endif wait 0 0 1 Transmit 73517 9999 M wait 0 0 30 for ord if not found stop endif wait 0 0 1 Transmit password M stop Am I correct in concluding that TermPlus has no scripting function even though Term110 supports scripting Next is the subject of instructions for easy use of the Subscriber s discs These are surely goldmines that have allowed useful features on the HP110 and Portable Plus to evolve It is interesting to see some of the DOS disc functions and early Subscriber disc functions used as building blocks for the later Subscriber discs and programs However to encourage creativity to be developed to tangible programs by more readers user explanations would be helpful One of the most useful additions to future Portable Papers would be an explanation of the Subscriber Disc Programs Several of them are very 38 JULY AUGUST 1989 briefly explained and are of little use to many of us Despite the investment of sev
100. e your battery and recharge it right away See page 1 8 Deep Discharging Your Battery in the Battery Watch section of the manual entitled Vectra LS 12 Laptop PC Utilities and Drivers Packet Linking the Portable Vectra and LS 12 to an Ethernet Local Area Network by Richard Hall and Peter Timaratz We have just completed testing an innovative new product that will allow you to directly connect your LS 12 Laptop or Portable Vectra CS to your Ethernet local area network The Pocket Ethernet Adapter recently released by Xircom connects directly to the parallel printer port of the LS 12 Portable Vectra or any IBM compatible PC and allows you to connect to an Ethernet or IEEE 802 3 LAN The Adapter is Novell Netware compatible and available in models appropriate for Thin Ethernet or external MAU applications including Thick Ethernet 10BASE 5 and Twisted Pair Ethernet 10BASE T This product supports Novell NetWare Versions 2 0a and higher Xircom tells us they are actively investigating versions of the adapter that will support 3Com TCP IP Banyon or 10BaseT The Pocket Ethernet Adapter is a little larger than a audio cassette tape holder 5 15 x 2 45 x 85 and weighs 5 oz The Pocket Ethernet Adapter comes with an external 12 volt AC DC wall mount adapter that connects to the unit through a six foot cord HARDWARE INSTALLATION We tested the Pocket Ethernet Adapter with our own Novell system It was simple and straight fo
101. e 2 SSCS IT BE TS TE BS SE tS 3E T GE US san 8E ts TE TE SideWinder is published by Southern Software 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 8 ta Quit P te Prim E 7 L te koad G ts Sma Select ta teggia bleck Cursor kayo to sove Simply fill in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs whatever sideways characters you wish Sketch amp Print lets you make line drawings on your screen using the cursor and function keys It s a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a child Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the screen 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder For a complete graphics software program see ad for Sketch in this issue Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 diod juouwdojfaaaq SNjo jo syrewaopen patraysigau are 7 pwe snol 105 rows for QuietJet Printer Copyright 1987 Personalized Software The program works well on
102. e HP110 and Port able Vectra and HP150 It allows limited report writing and is highly memory efficient Condor 3 runs on the Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 It is a fully relational system allowing you to combine data from two or more files It includes advanced report generat ing capabilities data transfer to and from Lotus 1 2 3 and more PROGRAMMING 110 Turbo Optimizer Saves run time and storage space by making your Turbo Pascal programs 10 30 faster and 15 50 smaller For Version 3 0 only 710 LW LE EV Turbo Pascal 5 5 and TurbPlus Integrator Turbo Pascal the HP Portable programming language of choice outstrips others in price performance compatibility and memory consumption Our TurbPlus Integrator adds value serving as a Turbo Pascal command center for the Portable Plus From within TurbPlus you can call up your own text editor for creating Turbo Pascal code Turbo Pascal itself the Turbo Optimizer or whatever file management program you may have each by means of a single keystroke GRAPHICS Flowcharting II This program creates profession looking flow charts and organizational charts using 26 flowchart symbols in 95 sizes Wide variety of text 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 Plu
103. e 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 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 f
104. e machines The result would be reduced database access charges for your users The Prodigy program unites many information sources ranging from electronic shopping to national weather forecasts and its incorporation into the Personalized Software Library would be welcomed by many of your subscribers 2 I purchased the book light described by Ricardo Posada in the letters column in your last issue I was unable to figure out how Mr Posada mounted the light on his 110 since the device Itty Bitty Book Light incoporates a large clip that cannot be affixed to the computer However I have found a good solution HP makes a handsome all leather briefcase part no 13269Z cost 89 00 that carries the computer and some accessories The lamp and its C cell battery pack will both fit neatly into the zippered pocket in the briefcase When one needs to light the computer the user unzips the pocket and pulls out the neck of the lamp Mr Posada is correct when he says that the lamp will easily light the portable and the surronding area but I have found that regardless of the angle of the beam a nasty glare is cast on the screen This problem can be rectified by another technique described in Volume 1 Number 2 that involves the mounting of a non glare piece of glass over the existing screen The result of the combination of the booklight and the non glare glass is very easy on the eyes and provides for greatly improved low light
105. eads your files at high speed then displays every questionable word in context highlighted At the same time in a window off to the side it gives you a list of possible correct spellings A simple menu gives you the following options HM Accept the word as is HM Replace the word with one of the sug gested spellings Enter the correct spelling manually RECOMMENDED FOR roman e come n Portable Pus o APIO ene ae Add the word to an auxiliary diction ary of frequently used words H Replace all other occurrences of the word M 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 dont 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 quest
106. ecting two computers usually a laptop and a desktop with a cable joining either the parallel printer ports or serial ports of the two computers lLapLink comes with a single cable sporting a nine pin and twenty five pin serial and a standard parallel connector on each end The single cable and one program provided can be used with both serial and parallel transfer modes Speed of transfer is over 200 000 baud using serial and over 500 000 baud using parallel That s over 3 megabytes per minute When LapLink runs the split screen makes it easy to follow what s going on Two windows show the files on both computers at the same time so you know exactly which files you re working with Another important new feature is the remote installation capability This complicated sounding term means you can automatically send the LapLink program to the remote computer i e the one you re transferring to if it doesn t already have it So no need to worry if you can t find your LapLink disks Other nice features of LapLink include selectivity about what you transfer Tagging files or subdirectories means you can select groups of files which are new or updated ie you end up transferring only those which have changed Automatic batch transfer allows you to easily move those files you transfer on a regular basis The device driver option on LapLink permits printer sharing similar to a computer network And it s direct disk access means you
107. ed 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 SQ11NK 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 l MSBasic MS21UR 300 00 150 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 SU11NK 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 l Editor Pack FM17NX 823 00 599 00 PS 5 Editor II Webster FormatPlus FilePlus Editor Pack FM16NX 658 00 499 00 PS 4 Editor I Webster FormatPlus lUtilities included in the Best of DOS Tools ROM backup Package are as follows For program details see catalog PACK DUMP TY CYPHER RENDIR WHEREIS TEE SDL FDATE LABEL DIRS TRANSLIT CLEAN DIRALL ARCE MOVE OFF CHANGE ARC520 MOVEALL TRIM BEEP SQPC SM VDL TMA TJETA FECOPY ASK PRNCONF 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 RO
108. em Config is allocated as 160K 736K and you need that 160K to run certain applications such as Websters You would now need to add 36K to main memory changing the ratio to 196K 700K 2 The Squish Plus software itself takes disk space All the Squish Plus files take up around 142K At the minimum you need the SQPLUS SYS devige driver 16K and ATTACH EXE 36K Clever Portable Plus users who disable PAM can actually get away with no files on their electronic disk after initial installation from an HP9114 drive However this procedure is not recommended unless an HP9114 drive is accessible in case you must reboot your system or return to PAM Fortunately the most useful Squish Plus files the ones discussed in this review can fit on two 64K ROMs Having a ROM version of Squish Plus is the ideal solution for Portable Plus users 3 There is some performance degradation caused by the process of compressing and decompressing files I cannot notice the degradation on my Portable Plus Squish disk except when retrieving large data files and executing program files such as The Editor Even in those cases the 12 JULY AUGUST 1989 Es 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
109. eral hours in some of them many questions remain In particular we find DW on the 1989 Disk frustrating because it appears to be a most useful desktop tool for office productivity We need to know what all the options and menu choices mean For some games QIX LANDMINE YAHTZE there are those of us who do not precisely know the rules and the P computer version may vary from what might be found in a book A column or two for each of the major programs on each Subscriber Disc would be most useful for everyone concerned For the important learning possible by studying these programs understanding what they are supposed to do is crucial When enough users master what has already been done new refinements are likely to appear I have begun the first steps to make such a guide for my own use that I call UtilHelp This text file is on each of my Portables to allow me to remember what the utility is for and what variables and special conditions I need to be aware of Because the utilities themselves are mostly grouped on discs I also keep track of work disc and source disc I ll send along my humble beginnings if you are interested WordPerfect 5 0 is running in ROM on the Pluses in our office and this can only be described as a major transformation for the Plus and the way we can use it With the RAM ROM speed now finally given a chance to excel there is renewed justification for selecting the Plus for most managers professi
110. ere are two ways of looking at the space savings that caused me some confusion until I figured it out If you save a 30K Lotus file onto a Squish disk the file might compress 33 or down to 20K Therefore that 20K on the Squish disk holds 50 more data since it stores a 30K Lotus file The formula to translate between how much a file is compressed to how much disk space is increased is I C 1 C where C is the percent compression and I is the percent of disk space increase So if you obtain an average 40 compression per file you would enjoy a 67 increase in available disk space 300K would turn into 500K In general there is no direct way of telling exactly how much an individual file is compressed on a Squish disk However it was possible to determine the savings of all the files on the Squish disk using the INFO utility provided with Squish Plus In testing the program on the Portable Plus I saved several 5 to 20K Lotus files I saved 45 Tom Page reported a savings of 30 when using rather dense Lotus files containing unusual characters I currently store about four megabytes of WordPerfect The Editor ASCI and batch files on my LS 12 Squish disk with a savings of 37 I think it is fair to say that you can expect between a 30 to 45 savings on data files files generated from word processing spreadsheet data base and other applications The most gratifying results I enjoyed on my LS 12 were soft font savings We download
111. ermPlus was developed by Portable Paper contributer David Hughes from an earlier prototype It runs on the Portable Plus 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 numbers prnconf a pcrun pm If you want to run PrintMaster from PAM add the following two lines to your PAM MNU file on your A drive PrintMaster pmhp bat The first time you run PrintMaster you ll be asked what screen type you have You must respond that with number 1 non compatible graphics card In the PrintMaster menu system choose Hardware Configure to configure your printer ThinkJet is one of the choices under Hewlett Packard USING PRINTMASTER PLUS ON THE PORTABLE PLUS Here are Rick s comments on using PrintMaster Plus on the Portable Plus Printmaster Plus is menu driven I found that a mouse really helped to speed up the process of going through the various menus The mouse isn t essential though With PrintMaster Plus there are only three kinds of tasks that require you to type entering a message for a picture or banner selecting a date or enhancing a calendar and naming graphics and desigas files that you want to save or retrieve The rest of the operation is simply choosing what you want from the appropriate menu
112. es M SideWinder prints speadsheets sideways M Shelp pop up notepad calculator M The Editor word processor 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 Non U S customers U S VHS uses NTSC standard Special order SECAM or PAL 250 SPECIAL DISCOUNT The regular price of HOW TO USE THE HP PORT ABLES 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 Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software Used HP Portables make great gifts HOW TO USE THE HP PORTABLES makes them even greater because the tapes eliminate much of the struggle and time spent in learning how to use the machines See the latest Portable Equipment Ex change brochure for current prices on used Portables Or call 515 472 6330 We ll help you select a used HP Portable system that best meets your needs The Norton Utilities quick unerase disk sort E Portable modems All this and more in an information 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form f
113. f 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 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 he Portable Plus and HP150 Col
114. foCom has given permission to use Gary s program which slightly modifies the actual game s program file We will include Gary s program on the 1990 Portable Paper Subscribers disk If you cannot wait download HPINFOCM ARC from the HP forum on CompuServe Lotus 2 2 For Portable Plus and HP150 Lotus intends to release two new versions of its popular spreadsheet program within the next few months Of the HP Portables only the LS 12 and maybe the Portable Vectra with EMS memory expansion will be able to host version 3 Version 2 2 is expected to run on the same machines that ran version 2 01 The person who wrote the software drivers that allow version 2 01 to be run from Portable Plus RAM reports that there is a good chance he will be able to supply drivers for Lotus 2 2 for the Portable Plus and HP150 It may even be possible to put Lotus 2 2 on ROM Hopeful ly we ll have more to report by next issue Format Safety Trick HP110 and Portable Plus users have you ever formatted your electronic A disk when you intended to format an external C drive floppy Vectra users have you ever Fi formatted your C drive by mistake Such an error could cost you many important files if you have not been diligent in backing up your work measure I take In my HP110 and Portable Plus I have a file created in Ironically the error often occurs because in order to back up your work you JA needed to format a floppy disk Here is t
115. ful They programmed the cellular telephone and gave me much useful information In addition they were kind enough to furnish The Cellular Connection They were aware of The Bridge modem but they did not have a working computer and cellular modem in the store Spectrum Cellular s technical representative was extremely knowledgeable and helpful however I solved my problem before he returned my call THE TEST EQUIPMENT The cellular telephone used in this evaluation was a bottom of the line Motorola transportable unit It weighed about 9 pounds and was mounted in a padded cloth case with a side pocket for accessories Excluding antenna and carrying strap but including side pocket it measured approximately 11 5 x 5 75 x 8 5 Although toting this and a Portable made a pretty hefty load slinging the two over my shoulder was not too uncomfortable My neighbor pointed out that the combination was not complimentary to my new suit She was right Perhaps I should buy the leather carrying case for my Portable The Bridge modem weighs about one pound and is housed in a standard plastic electronics case that measures 7 5 x 4 x 1 125 It fit perfectly into the side pocket of the telephone carrying case Electronically The Bridge is g impressive It has a Z 80 processor a 16K control program and 8K of RAM 6K of RAM is used as I O buffers The Cellular Connection is about the size of two packs of regular cigarettes and weighs just a few ounces
116. gineers to run on the Portable Plus It is easier to use and more powerful than Reflec tion Lets you access electronic bulletin boards transfer files between computers even if one of them is unattended and much more It even supports distributed processing Easy to learn even for beginners yet powerful enough to handle the most sophisticated data transfer tasks Version 2 0 110 Term110 TermPlus Exceptionally easy to use alternatives to Ter minal for the HP110 and PC2622 Reflection for the Portable Plus Both Term110 and TermPlus allow you to send and capture ASCII information Both offer fast XMODEM transfer of programs Lotus worksheets and achive files Both offer auto logon dialing directories on line help ability to run other programs without severing phone connection 110 LW 5 450 WorldPort Portable Modems The WorldPort 2400 is a battery pow ered highly compact 4 x2 x1 lightweight 6 5 oz full featured external modem that transmits data at 300 1200 and 2400 baud Faster than HP s internal modems the World Port 2400 is fully compatible with the industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with both the CCIYY and Bell communications standards The WorldPort 1200 modem transmits at 300 and 1200 baud DATA BASE Condor 3 and Condor Jr Database programs customized for the HP Portables Enter data sort search manage files and print address labels with ease Condor Jr runs on th
117. go 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 Intl 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 Hawali Honolulu Rodney Y Fukuya if interested 808 945 3111 Indiana Indianapolis Bob Glass 317 638 2326 lowa 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 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 M
118. has drawn rave reviews even from the authors of ARC522 It will compress a file 5 to 15 more than either ARC522 or PKZIP Version 1 13 of the program has a manual on disk It still remains in the public domain free It can be found in the IBMSYS forum on CompuServe It will also be on the 1990 Subscribers disk ALIKE BUT DIFFERENT All file compression programs do essentially the same thing They turn repeated characters into abbreviated code They may also turn commonly used words into numbers that point to these words in a look up table One of my brighter students used this latter method to squeeze the New Testament onto three disks with his Atari 800 computer How these compression programs differ is in the speed with which they operate and the compression ratios they achieve For speed of compression and decompression PKZIP is the fastest For the best compression ratios LHARC wins However LHARC is moderately slow in doing its work PKARC PKXARC and ARC522 have speeds and compression ratios that fall in between If anyone is really interested in exact test results I have available a 124K byte file showing what tests were done and how each of these programs fared GAIN AND LOSS What you gain by using a file compression program is the ability to store more data in the same amount of disk space For example if you use your computer for word processing and spreadsheet applications you ll find that compressed files take up 50
119. he next few months a few things became apparent The following functions no longer worked 1 Term remote terminal 2 Remote log on reflections 3 Direct dial to host computer again reflections 4 Security program did not function Again after David Seagull helped me to increase the environment space by using a line shift command in the system configuration all of the above functions worked great See Vol 4 No 3 P 26 continued on p 37 JULY AUGUST 1989 5 THE PORTABLE PAPER Portable Plus to be Discontinued Septem expand the functionality of the Portable Plus ber 1 HP Will Continue to Sell Popular m Accessories For Another Year Seed GEN NOTA HP has made it official They will stop selling the Portable DATE H rius as of September 1 1989 but will continue selling 45504K opt 400 Mememakee TIR 9 1 90 PV popular accessories such as Lotus 2 01 the HP9114 and Manager the 1 Megabyte RAM drawer through September 1 1990 ea an a Bee ca vane eo According to HP the old screen technology and the 82863K opt 400 Reflections 9 1 90 16 bit 80C86 CMOS microprocessor has made the Portable ARI ROM based data communications Plus a less competitive product The sales of the Portable Ce oe Cae eee Pits A Plus have been in steady decline due to the industry Manager and Reflections ROM technological advances that have progressed well beyond ia e a Ay A A AT AN ENIO the 5 33 MHz 80C86 Manager and Reflections I ROM Con
120. he preventive THE PORTABLE PAPER MemoMaker or The Editor containing the following line format c I name this batch file fmtc bat Whenever I want to format a new disk I type fmtec On the Portable Vectra and LS 12 I take double precaution First I rename the DOS format com file arbitrarily to tamrof com format spelled backward The format program is built into ROM on the HP110 and Portable Plus so it cannot be renamed By renaming format com I prevent someone from using my system and inadvertently formatting my hard disk Then as above I create the batch file fmta bat which contains the line tamrof a To format my A disk I type fmta Free Cartridge with Purchase of DeskJet 110 HP has announced the following promotion good through zi September 30 1989 If you purchase a DeskJet Plus your dealer should give you a coupon good for a free Times Roman or Prestige Elite font cartridge The DeskJet Plus pa works with all HP Portables and produces better than 4 letter quality 300 x 300 dots per inch resolution It retails for 995 and is available from Personalized Software for 795 See last Portable Paper page 8 for more details Help With HP IL Cards n0 An HP technical support number that might help some of our readers recently came to our attention The HP calculator technical support folks provide HP IL support They might be able to help out with any problems concerning HP IL cards and HP IL ThinkJets and
121. heir most useful capabilities is the ability to communicate with other computers using a modem and the telephone system Today s rapidly expanding cellular telephone network makes telephone service almost as portable as my HP Portable Plus A portable telephone is an obvious companion to a portable computer For a few days I had the privilege of using a Motorola 28 JULY AUGUST 1989 transportable cellular telephone and two devices for connecting this telephone to my Portable The Bridge modem made by Spectrum Cellular and The Cellular Connection made by Motorola Spectrum Cellular is located at 2710 Stemmons Freeway 800 North Tower Dallas TX 75207 800 233 2119 Fax 214 630 3225 See Vol 4 No 1 P19 for more information The Bridge modem is a complete modem designed especially for use with cellular telephones The Cellular Connection is not a modem but a device that connects to a cellular phone and emulates Ma Bell type dial tone service Standard telephone equipment such as autodialers answering machines ordinary telephones even rotary dial phones and the Portable s internal modem may be plugged in to the RJ 11 jack on the end of The Cellular Connection and be expected to work as if plugged into a telephone jack in your home or office THE CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM Cellular telephones are low powered 3 watts max radio transceivers that vary in size from just larger than a standard telephone handset port
122. hin 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 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
123. idge TJI4HC HP92261N inkjet 2500 zfold TJ12HC 29 95 42 00 42 00 49 95 47 00 29 00 65 00 10 95 10 95 59 95 24 95 27 95 42 00 49 95 47 00 29 00 65 00 10 95 10 95 59 95 THE PORTABLE PAPER Continued from p 19 OTHER DRIVES There are a number of other 5 25 drives that should work well with the LS 12 The LTD ZSS1 External 360 KB is available through Pacific Rim Systems 2570 Barrington Court Hayward California 94545 Phone 415 782 1017 The PLF360 360MG and PLF 1200 1 2KB We tested the WELTECK and Pacific RIM and both systems worked fine We will recommend and carry the WELTECK drive since it has been in the business of producing 5 25 drives for portables for a long time and because manufacturers such as Zenith have chosen WELTECK to built their 5 25 drives Also the Pacific Rim has a bulky power supply and WELTECK uses a normal power cord ORDERING INFORMATION The drive was developed by WELTEC digital inc 17981 Sky Park Circle Suite M Irvine CA 92714 Phone 800 333 5155 or FAX 714 250 1964 The price of the WELTEC W525 is 349 Price to Portable Paper subscribers when ordered through Personalized Software is 319 LS 12 Tape Backup Unit From Tallgrass TALLGRASS technologies produces a tape back up unit call LapTape for the HP Vectra LS 12 Laptop PC According to a Tallgrass official HP liked the unit so much that the LS 12 lab purchased the unit they evaluated According to Tallg
124. ile 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 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 FI PW Se fish cone a lat e ae aa te n tees e Di 69 95 Portable Paper Subscribers PriCE eerereun 59 95 ORDER NO FEIINS 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage patd order form RECOMMENDED FOR or send check or credit card information CO n kes na tea orite Portable Plus e HP50 Jel PO Box S69 Fairfield LA 52556 515 172 6336 IBM PC and compatibles e Also works on the HP150 Pv THE PORTABLE PAPER enough memory
125. ing 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 Pl 1 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 re 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 and 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
126. inion they re a must Here s why Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper just type ff find file and specify the name of the file and the directories to search through The program does the rest Other useful features include the fa command which lets you change file at tributes for example to convert HP150 read only files into erasable files and the fs command which tells you the total file size of a group of files I often use it to find out the total disk space oc cupied by my Lotus worksheet WKS files or by all my text files from a given project CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR COMPUTER Because of their great helpfulness and ease of use THE NORTON UTILITIES are a best seller in the IBM PC market Personalized Software is authorized to distribute them on 31 2 disk for users of the HP150 HP110 and Portable Plus All it takes is a few keystrokes to customize THE NORTON UTILITIES to your ma chine just follow the simple customiza tion instructions included on the disk Also included in our package are the standard 5 disk sold by Peter Norton for IBM PCs THE NORTON UTILITIES are a time saver for you and a life saver for your data Use them just once and you ll wonder how you ever did without them Order your copy at no risk today NORTON A UTILITIES a DATA RECOVERY RECOVERY DISK MANAGEMENT THE NORTON UTILITIES 4 0 99 95 Portable Paper Subscriber Price 89 95 PRODUC
127. ion I had to answer a few questions from the net controller The controller first asked for baud rate All Span net links are made at 1200 baud but the relay can adjust the baud rate down to 300 baud if required by the host Next it asked if the host required XON XOFF and finally it asked for the telephone number of the host After I supplied the telephone number the call was completed and the CompuServe session proceeded normally USING THE BRIDGE MODEM WITHOUT SPCL PROTOCOL When the SPCL protocol is turned off The Bridge Modem works pretty much like any other modem The only difficulty I encountered was quickly solved I was expecting to see modem commands as I typed Unlike the Portable s internal modem or the WorldPort 1200 The Bridge does not normally echo commands I suspected this might be the problem A check of the well organized instruction manual indicated this was true and revealed the command for turning echo on As in all AT Hayes compatible modems the command to is E1 Another slight problem resulted from trying to reuse a Reflection command file subroutine to configure the serial port and WorldPort 1200 modem I kept getting an ERROR message because X4 in not a valid command for The Bridge To make a long story short the final command string I used with the Bridge modem was ATE1X1832 0S7 100 Let me explain All modem commands begin with AT which stands for attention The Bridge like most other modems will accept
128. ionable 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 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 Attention 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 me 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 orde
129. itional disk drive for example a new D drive Squish Plus automatically compresses and decompresses files when you save and retrieve files to and from the Squish disk Once you have installed Squish Plus the compression and decompression of files happens automatically without the user thinking about the process You can use your word processor spreadsheet data base DOS or any application to save and retrieve files from the D drive Squish disk in the normal manner l In addition when installing the Squish disk Squish Plus lets you optionally password protect the disk That way you can you can make the Squish disk unusable to anyone not knowing the password HOW MUCH SPACE DO YOU SAVE Space savings vary and there is some overhead Sundog advertises that Squish Plus doubles the amount of disk space available However in practice a 5026 savings seems to be closer to our experience So 200K becomes 300K I did create several simple text and batch files and saved well over twice as much disk space Squish Plus is especially efficient when it saves small batch files In talking to Squish Plus authors Alfred Delio and Kathryn Stone the Squish disk is structured so that small files don t eat up a lot of space For example on a LS 12 a 60 10 JULY AUGUST 1989 byte batch file takes 2048 bytes of actual hard disk space Such a batch file might occupy about 70 less space a little over 600 bytes on the Squish disk Note th
130. ive Opening the battery I found the cell was a National lead acid battery LCR 226E This has SV 2 4 Ah 20HR Checking with the local Matsushita Electric people I found this cell is used mostly in burglar alarms and other security items and is sold through Security Services The cell was 11 90 versus over 100 00 for a replacement HP unit I recently had to replace the first cell after 2 years use and found I had to buy a 12 volt LCR 226P which is two of the previous cells glued together and soldered together at the center leads It was simple to separate the two cells At 23 00 it still is a big improvement on buying a HP unit Fitting the cells into the HP battery is very simple as the leads are designed so they only fit one way I keep my spare cell in my first HP battery which I keep charged as a spare unit Jobn F Ross Australia Recipe Manager Keep up the good work I just received my Portable Plus from your special February deal and I am very happy for the opportunity to upgrade from my 110 As I was posting the addresses to the address list of Time Manager a thought came to mind Being retired I like to cook once in a while and have become somewhat of an amateur gourmet How wonderful it would be to have a recipe file similar to the address file of Time Manager There would be a master index to call up the recipe desired and the 25 line screen of the Plus could easily handle a field for the name of the recipe lis
131. iver The first thing I did was install the ThinkJet printer driver to see how much they had implemented The original ThinkJet drive I received from WordPerfect a year ago had no graphics ability at all I created a file with the default font being the ThinkJets standard font that goes 80 characters per line I then tried a number of different sizes and attributes using the WordPerfect Ctrl 8 Size and Appearence commands and got the following results Bold Underline I got bold I got underline Large I got the expanded compressed mode Very Large Expanded mode Extra Large Expanded mode Small Compressed mode So far everything worked well I decided to try some graphics on the left and on the right side I also snaked some text around the graphics and printed it The output was better than I expected The graphics and text looked fine the only thing was the graphics was closer to the text than I d want but that can easily be adjusted with the graphics margins I soon came to the conclusion that there wasn t really anything I could do to the printer driver that would significantly improve on it I did notice however that printing graphics was pretty slow Usually the ThinkJet will store 12 lines of graphics before actually printing once across but using this printer driver it printed with every line of graphics characters This kept the printer real busy but the paper moved extremely slow More On Wordperfect in Po
132. kimnopqrstuvwxyzab cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz as the first command after ECHO OFF in the AUTOEXEC BAT file 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 expert 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 Part 1 Overview Brief demonstration of what an HP Portable can do word processing spreadsheet database management communications time management Part 2 Fundamentals of Using the HP1
133. king underline Several FAX questions 1 Is there any possibility that the WorldPort 2496 Fax Modem can be made to work on the PPlus 2 Have you talked with CompuServe about adding a FAX receive facility to its EMail FAX send facility 3 Do you know of any other online service which provides for receiving FAX Now for the tips The first is based on a note in the November 29 1988 issue Of PC Magazine but has a wrinkle added because the PC routine caused me to run out of environment space I frequently shell out of EDITOR and sometimes lose material by forgetting to exit and store when I ve finished the shell operation The following ED BAT file modifies the prompt temporarily to show a reminder during a shell operation to DOS echo off cls Set DUMMY PROMPT SET PROMPT E to exit Shell PROMPT set edconfig a s edplus 1 ms edmac set edconfig SET PROMPT DUMMY Set DUMMY abcdefghijkImnopqrstuvwxyzab cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz In the Sth line the s should be replaced by the name of the subdirectory where the macro and profiles are located On the LS 12 edibm and edmacibm should be used Since the variables are quite long it will be necessary to expand the environment space on either the Portable Plus or the LS 12 On the PPlus this is done by including DUMMY abcdefghijkimnopqrstuvwxyzab cdefghijkimnopqrstuvwxyz in PAM ENV see PP 2 5 41 amp 2 6 40 On the LS 12 use Set Q DUMMY abcdefghij
134. l and serial ports easy to use simple manual or automatice file tagging 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 compatible desktop computer without the need for HP I 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 LW LIS 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 LIB LW IS 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 2
135. left to compile an 800 line program without any complaints from the computer FASTER IS BETTER SOMETIMES In the past couple of months I ve had Personalized Software perform brain surgery on my Portable Plus The highly qualified technicians at Personalized Software excised the venerable 80C86 microprocessor and replaced it with an NEC V30 microprocessor As far as I can tell the only difference is that the computer performs all internal operations about twice as fast It does not of course speed up the 9114 disk drive Twice as fast is twice as good when it comes to compiling C and Pascal programs However twice as fast is detrimental to sanity when it comes to playing Tigerfox on the Plus Prior to the computer speed up I could barely manage to capture the fox and not get eaten by the tiger Now I get eaten almost as soon as the game starts I guess Il stick with FastMind and Go moku 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 CompuServe ID is gou 1064 WI ZAZ DRY by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga WordPerfect Thinkjet Driver For this issue I decided to take the time to put together a decent ThinkJet printer driver for WordPerfect I ordered a manual from WordPerfect for the PTR program a program to design or modify a printer definition and a copy of the latest ThinkJet printer dr
136. llular telephone system would not affect the results For no reason better than a listing in the Yellow Pages I subscribed to service from Houston Cellular Telephone Company I cannot verify this but I was later told by one of Spectrum s representatives that Houston Cellular has one of the more modern systems During the week I had the equipment the weather was generally good so I cannot comment on the effect of adverse weather I did not try using any of the equipment in a moving vehicle and neither did I get a chance to check using The Bridge modem as a host As usual I had to squeeze these tests in between several other activities Since I was using borrowed equipment and also had a deadline from Hal I was limited to about one week s time One equipment glitch caused some problem The cellular telephone I used apparently had a weak battery or I accidentally left the phone on for too long and discharged the battery Anyway the telephone battery went dead twice and delayed some testing If you are contemplating a cellular telephone to use with your portable computer ask questions about the power supply and be sure to select one that has powerful batteries This is leading edge technology and there are few experts in the business If you buy the equipment you will probably have to be your own expert but it is an excellent opportunity to get you hacker s license validated The people at First Cellular Superstore in Houston were very help
137. llular telephones Although the rates are high it is cheaper than the alternative CONNECTION Since The Bridge Modem and The Cellular Connection must be connected between the mobile telephone s handset and transceiver they can be used only with transportable or vehicle mounted telephones Hand held telephones are single piece units that do not have a connection between the handset and transceiver that can be broken for connecting accessories The Cellular Connection being a Motorola product will probably only work with Motorola phones The Bridge Modem will work with telephones from a number of different manufacturers However since each manufacturer uses a different protocol for communication between the handset and the transceiver and perhaps different connectors the modem must be factory configured for the telephone it will be used with The test modem was equipped with two RJ 45 jacks at one end An RJ 45 connector works just like a standard RJ 11 telephone connector except it wider and connects 8 wires rather than four The telephone handset plugs into the jack marked To H S and a jumper cable is run from the jack marked To XCVR to the handset jack on the transceiver Power for The Bridge is supplied by the transceiver The serial RS 232 cable connects internally The test unit was equipped with a standard 25 pin DB 25 female connector at the end of 26 of cable This mated perfectly with my Portable s 9221M modem cable
138. m IT WORKS BUT WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR Actually I considered this equipment interesting toys Personally I have no use for a cellular telephone much less a cellular modem Using these products like using other computer products requires some imagination Some jobs are obvious A salesman equipped with a portable computer and modem could take orders and then transmit them to the office while on the way to his next call Survey and engineering crews could be kept in the field longer by using a pc modem setup to send data back to the office I read that one of the major New York law firms is making an effort to computerize and is equipping its lawyers with Toshiba computers to take to court The article indicated that there was unfortunately no way to communicate with the office A cellular telephone and modem would certainly make communication with the office possible I hope the judges ban this use Some things are proper only when done the old fashioned way One use I found interesting A retired man traveling around the country in a motor home has equipped his personal computer with a Bridge modem so he can call CompuServe This would be a very good way to stay in contact with the family A large number of bridge modems are used for remote telemetering I was surprised to discover the cellular telephone network completely covers the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Florida Many telemetering units on the oil and gas facilities in the Gulf use ce
139. n 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 built in WHAT ABOUT DISK SPACE FOR THE PROGRAM ITSELF The files on the Squish Plus disk total 139K including several Squish 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 SQI2NS 129 00 99 95 PRODUCT NO SQUINS Squish Plus for Portable Plus Rom Backup Package includes Squish Plus for Portable Plus on disk and two 64K Backup ROMs 264 00 234 95 PRODUCT NO SQUINR 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
140. n 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 WordPerfect 4 2 or 5 0 Which Should You Buy 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 l 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 instruction 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 o
141. ndation to your readers who are considering this HP carrying case is not to purchase it It is better to go to a fine leather goods store and have one made with extra insulation on all sides especially the bottom Make sure that the strap hinges are solid brass and are at the very least stronger than the strap Otherwise you may regret it like I did I should have used my better judgement when I first saw the case and just returned it M Nabi Israfil New York City gj Editor II and FormatPlus The Editor II is excellent It is one of P those very rare programs that strikes the proper balance between ease of use and proper features It does 99 of what you y need to do 99 of the time with a very simple logical command structure Congratulations With 38 years experience in the computer industry my number one rule is The real world is two sigma wide FormatPlus is also very good especially the print to screen for previewing documents and ability to store formats Al Collins San Diego California USA ThinkJet and 9144 Disk Drive Batteries Re Alexander J Banach s letter in May June I have checked my dead Thinkjet battery and can find no sign of the small fuse he noticed All the cells were directly wired by small flat bits of metal I will shortly find out where the problems were as I am about to put new cells into this battery I have done a similar cheap battery replacement on my 9144 Disk dr
142. ning you will wind up having at most 430K bytes of working memory This assumes that you configure the Plus for the maximum 512K memory 430K of memory seems like it should be enough It is until you try to load an extremely large spreadsheet It is never enough when you try to compile a large C program Squish comes with a battery of utility programs that let you temporarily disable the Squishing However to keep these utility programs on your Edisk results in an overhead of almost 60K bytes Naturally having Squish on ROM cuts down significantly on the overhead Somewhere in all of this Squish reaches a point of diminishing returns For me the program reached that point very quickly since I use my Plus for programming purposes On the other hand if you use your computer to run MemoMaker The Editor or WordPerfect or to manipulate spreadsheets and keep to do lists Squish Plus may indeed give you more for less TURBO PASCAL UPGRADE I finally found time to make Turbo Chess and Go Moku from the Borland GamesWork Package run on the Portable Plus This would not have been possible without the use of Turbo Pascal 5 0 It will probably be the last time that I use this version of Turbo Pascal Personalized Software will make these programs along with other games available in September Pa By the time you read this Borland International will have once again upgraded Turbo Pascal this time to version 5 5 This is not a major upgrad
143. nits transmit on frequencies in the range of 824 040 MHz to 848 970 MHz and receive on a frequency 45 MHz higher in the range of 869 040 MHz to 893 970 MHz Channel spacing is 30 KHz per channel The latest model mobile telephones can operate on up to 832 channels Cellular telephone service is not a new concept The idea traces back to the 1940 s but only recently have electronic and computer technology developed sufficiently to make cellular telephone service feasible The key concept of cellular telephone service is reuse of radio lt frequencies and low power is what make this possible Just like land line telephone systems cellular telephone systems have a central office This central switch AN THE PORTABLE PAPER called the mobile telephone switching office MTSO provides the link to the local telephone company and controls the cellular system As mobile units move from cell to cell the MTSO determines the position of the mobile units and arranges hand offs between various cells A hand off may be ordered even when a mobile unit is stationary These directed hand offs are normally made to reduce load within a cell Comparing a cellular telephone system to a land line system is like comparing a jalapeno to a banana We have all experienced some pretty lousy telephone connections but the problems associated with transmitting data over copper wire are nothing when compared to trying to transmit data using low power r
144. nly and most XT compatible cards should work EXCEPTIONS EMS memory is supported externally and should work with the Expansion Chassis However any memory card requiring a refresher cycle will not work with the Chassis when attached to the LS 12 Extended memory supported internally by the LS 12 is AT compatible only and cannot be used externally You cannot disable the floppy or hard disk controllers in the LS 12 therefore external floppy or hard disk controller cards cannot be used ORDERING INFORMATION The External Expansion Chassis available through Zenith dealers retails for 499 plus installation Portable Paper subscribers can order the Chassis through Personalized Software for 449 and we will install the 68 pin connector free of charge Please call to let us know when you want the installation done New 5 25 Floppy Drive by WELTEC WELTEC Digital of Irvine California has announced the introduction of their slimline 5 25 floppy disk drive compatible with the LS 12 Vectra Laptop PC WELTEC has been supplying Zenith and other manufacturers 5 25 floppy drives for several years Configuring the WELTEC or other compatible 5 25 drive to the LS 12 is simple using the SETUP program Run SETUP choose 1 and when it asks you choose the appropriate external 5 25 floppy The WELTEC W525 allows the exchange of data from the 5 25 floppy to the LS 12 hard disk and 3 5 drive WELTEC supports both 360KB and 1 2 MB 5
145. nnected to the same phone line at the same time 1 use a dual to single phone line connector on the telephone The HP110 is in TERMINAL mode On the line for entry of the telephone number to dial I type the single letter O as in Originate Next I use the pulse telephone to dial the computer and I wait until the remote computer answers and issues its carrier signal At that point I press the soft key on the HP110 for DIAL and wait a few seconds the HP110 shows the line Waiting for Carrier or something JULY AUGUST 1989 41 A cheaply and offer a good THE PORTABLE PAPER similar It may be necessary to push RETURN key once or twice but usually before the remote computer hangs up I see CONNECT meaning I have successfully communicated with the remote computer and can proceed to log on normally I expect one could hang up the handset on the phone although I haven t actually tried that In any event I now have a means to use my HP110 as a terminal to our mainframe computer on a pulse dial system Fred Lipschultz Storrs Connecticut USA Cheap Drives For The Plus Here in England and probably Europe HP9153 drives can be picked up very and cheap backup for the portables I say backup because the rate of data transfer via the HP IL HP IB Interface card is very slow at just under 100 K per minute On the 20MB drives the Portables can only access 16MB Care should be taken not to exceed 15MB as earlier files
146. not Condor Jr is a fully relational DBMS That means you can use Condor 3 to compare select and combine data from two or more files Condor 3 also lets you create your own custom report formats Condor Jr in cludes a LIST com ment system should be James Perotti PC Magazine for a straight database I ll take Condor derry Pournelle InfoWorld and other files not created by Condor Over 150 000 Condor programs are cur rently in use We think the Condor peo ple have done a fabulous job of packing an enormous amount of database power into an incredibly easy to use system We urge you to try Condor 3 or Condor Jr at our risk today Condor 3 2245 5 obo ea 495 00 379 00 for Portable Paper subscribers PRODUCT NO CRIINS Condor Jr ke 50 hs eee ata dok 99 00 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers PRODUCT NO CRI3NS Condor 3 Condor Jr J MEMORY REQUIREMENTS right on the same form mand for limited re RUAN Te CHC bate a Gee ore Unlike other database systems you port writing FHP110 Portable fits in less than 360K Since each command is simply tell Condor what to do not how You can transfer PorablePus ej ms awe A save We mony Spacey to do it and you tell it using simple data back and forth Portable Vectra Gander JES even ank Men Ata English like statements such as LIST from Condor 3 to 10 fe the main program is only 25K and you add in CUSTOM
147. number from 1 to 9 1 very slow 9 very fast led off and led on turn the program off and on If you wish No Squint activated automatically you must include the appropriate command at the beginning of your AUTOEXEC BAT file For example LCD SLOW at the THE PORTABLE PAPER No more cutting and pasting Now a ka EE A A ie NOM NA W a W NO BEEN ERE REE HNN for the Portable Plus lw Ya W e NS BE BE ERE ERB ERI FB See Software on ROM ad is ee NAAMAN SESI EK EGER E HES eee a K BE SE 9 gE AF KE BE EDGE EE AS car FE SE IS 35 Te Ts TE 35 Gf to te SR Gk ey BE es 4 Sm fli SS 5 apy far a k At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable Portable PLUS and ThinkJet And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers Its called SideWinder and it s perfect for Lotus 1 2 3 print files MemoMaker files or any other text ASCII file that s too wide for a normal page Just type in the file name and SideWinder does the rest printing up to 53 rows sideways for as long as your paper supply lasts You ll never need to cut and paste again SideWinder s high quality graphics characters are indistinguishable from ordinary characters and SideWinder prints just as fast as your ThinkJet can In addition a built in mini text editor lets you get inside your print files and easily create double width characters and underlines SideWinder
148. o BON call us for current prices parts and labor on W ot gures e on all used equipment wa er nje youd Mi ganei R gee RAN ga 515 472 6330 A een get The Portable Equipment Exchange granet For good buys on used and new HP quip 8 equipment see our 4 page brochure enclosed with this issue My manual revealed page D 13 that the backup battery is a 3 6 volt AA size lithium battery that should last three to five years The manual states a new battery must be installed by your dealer or HP service representative In the future we will discuss what it takes if you want to make the change yourself The first thing I did after arriving at the office was to connect my LS 12 to my EGA color monitor The system came up in CGA text mode Apparently unlike the Portable Vectra the LS 12 will not work with a monochrome monitor or produce EGA text Vowing to never let this catastrophe occur again I looked through the LS 12 manual and discovered a trick It is possible to save the configuration settings to a file and then tell the LS 12 to use the configuration settings from that file To save the current configuration to a file type setup sa from DOS Enter a new file name at the prompt which saves the current configuration to that name To use that configuration type setup r followed by the new configuration file name at the prompt Press Enter three times and the system restarts itself with the configuration information from th
149. o disable ANNU Ave PAM and load Squish Plus initially from the HP9114 might experience a significant savings The program s authors are willing to investigate further if there is sufficient interest given these limitations cited here Give us a call or drop us a note if you are interested CONCLUSION I am really excited about this program It offers an excellent opportunity to add to disk capacity for a Ti a ANAN relatively small performance penalty and dollar cost y A ai Squish Plus on ROM is now a permanent fixture on my W Portable Plus Squish Plus on my LS 12 and Portable Vectra increases the capacity of my hard disk while giving up almost nothing ORDERING INFORMATION Squish Plus is available through authorized dealers or through Personalized Software Below is a price summary PrintMaster Plus requires 192K of internal memory to run The master disk comes with about 345K worth of files The main PM EXE program is 94K Most of the rest of the files are optional depending on what fonts and pictures you want to use To run PrintMaster you need the PM EXE and small PM PRN and SET UP printer and screen driver files along with the font and graphics files of your choosing PM generates the driver files from larger files when you first install PrintMaster Product Product Retail Subscriber Price Price Squish Plus For Vectra SQ12NS 99 95 89 95 Squish Plus for Portable TA Plus SQ11NS 129 00 99 95 K
150. oaded on startup THE EDITOR II comes with over two dozen macros to get you started e 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 printer to print all or part of your text compressed expanded bold underlined or whatever else your printer can handle Unlimited line length Your files are no longer limited to 80 characters per line This means for ex ample you can print 132 character lines on your ThinkJet in compressed mode Lines per page You can specify the number of lines per page using the control codes required by your printer e 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 andrename files while run ning THE EDITOR II e Right justification and automatic paragraph indent A simple command right justifies your text and automatically indents your paragraphs however many spaces you wish e Undelete A simple command will undelete the last line or block of text deleted e Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change between upper ca
151. of Version 4 0 plus many additional fea tures Among these are 1 Speed Disk Packs the files on a flop py electronic or hard disk more efficient ly This reduces disk head wear and significantly reduces the time it takes to save or retrieve a file 2 Advanced NU Program Undeletes blocks of text from disks that have become corrupted unreadable by DOS Also lets you access and modify the DOS directory and FA T table 3 Format recover Restores all the files on a hard disk if you have accidentally reformatted it Note this feature does not work on the HP150 or Portable Plus Our recommendation If you have a hard disk or want to be able to mani pulate directories or need to access ASCII data from non HP formatted disks use the Advanced Edition Erased your files Get them back with The Norton Utilities Wrong they can THE NORTON UTILITIES won t recover the entire file of course but they can help you restore the portions of the file that still remain on the disk It s done with a powerful utility called nu that lets you display change and capture to a file any information on any disk In complex cases you may need to Indispensible PC Magazine You ll bless this disk Peter McWilliams The Personal Computer Book Don t compute without it The New York Times do some detective work but nu will help you find whatever remains
152. of all please consider providing HP engineering support for a few of the strategic upgrades for the PLUS Secondly support us via a grant arrangement to one of the computer science schools e g University of Michigan and have them provide us HP PLUS users with the development work for such well defined upgrades Sourcing support may then be either via HP directly or by third parties via Personalized Software I urge you to consider this as a helpful input and not miss an opportunity to heal HP s relation with a segment that like myself are serious business users of the PLUS We are business people medical and legal professionals and academics working also in sales and service in the US and abroad and we have the capacity to influence and steer information technology purchase decisions well beyond our numbers Personally my PLUS is like my AX card I don t leave my office without it Frank Keresztes Fischer Michigan Brighton A Good Word For HP f recently dealt with HP in Hawaii and was pleased with the service I needed a new battery for my 110 I was advised with patience and courtesy I was even asked to consider installing the battery myself Instead I decided to let them do it and even took out a service contract As a personal user and receiving no compensation at work or through taxes for the cost of my computing I received good value from HP And I believe it shall continue Brian Kim Honolulu
153. onals and salesmen that are not tied to a desk Thus most executives might want to use a Plus and keep it always with them while their secretaries use desktops to produce high volume of transcription and finish work and laserjet printing We now can have the choice of Editor II or the feature loaded WP5 to complement each other and miss no bets I hope we can get programs like ATO and RefMan running on the Plus and that HP will soon rediscover that the Portables are valuable products introduced far enough ahead of competing laptops that the Plus is a pioneer product worthy of great refinement and evolution Kent Hermsmeyer Portland Oregon USA TermPlus and Term110 are easy to use communications packages for the Portable Plus and HP110 written independently by Portable Paper contributors David Hughes and Cliff Looyenga Term110 does have a scripting language TermPlus does not If you or any other reader would like to work on a column containing helpful information on making more use of the subscribers disks give me a call Whenever possible PU put you in contact with the program s author or discoverer Please send us any help file you develop for the subscribers disk Hal FAX Questions Editor Trick Modem Adapter Is there a way to get a box cursor in EDITOR II on the LS 12 Bill Vesely s box generator PP 4 2 11 works well and the box persists in FilePlus but the Editor II seems to reset the cursor to a blin
154. onday 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 The Twenty One Bldg 21 Pinner Rd Harrow Middlesex England HA1 4LH 01 4275200 FAX 01 4278252 Japan would like to help start a users group Michael Lazarin 26 26 502 Moto Ujina Minami ku Hiroshima 734 l 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 confirm Jens Pettersson 08 713 1710 Telex 149 70 gentel S JULY AUGUST 1989 43 WordPerfect 5 0 22 fo You don t need an IBM PC to run the world s best selling word processor Now you can use industry standard WordPerfect on your HP150 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 WordPerfect
155. or details TO ORDER Part 4 Connecting the HP Portables to Peripherals Connecting to ThinkJet printer HP9114 disk drive E Connecting to IBM compatible com puters with HPLink Connecting to HP DeskJet and other Serial printers 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 W Making full use of the HP Portable keyboard M The back of the HP Portables inter facing with other devices Mi PAM the home screen Managing files and starting programs Using PAM s System Config to Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 110 The second tip deals with a modem advantage of working with digital phone adaptor which is a valuable addition for a portable Unlimited Systems Mr i Gutzer 619 277 3300 FAX 619 277 3305 makes the Konexx adaptor It is a small 4 box about 1 x1 5 x3 5 with a modular jack to receive the modem cord If the phone has a handset which plugs into the base with a modular plug the Konexx is plugged in between the base and the handset Most older phones not having a modular handset do have a mouthpiece which can be unscrewed exposing two
156. ot dynamically allocated It always occupies the same space on the electronic or hard disk whether it is full or empty Also the SQUISH disk is a little slower than the electronic drive since files must be compressed and decompressed Finally If you occasionally create very large worksheets you may have to deinstall the Squish device driver to make RAM available for the worksheet When this is done files stored on the Squish disk are not available Squish Plus is a good trouble free program Its greatest advantage is its invisibility Also since files are compressed as they are saved no disk space is lost to intermediate and temporary files as with the ARChive and ZIP programs This means that when the disk is nearly full it may be possible to compress and save a file with SQUISH that could not be saved without SQUISH much less compressed with ZIP or ARC because of the necessity of creating intermediate files To get the maximum advantage from Squish the Squish disk should be made as large as possible and the Squish Plus program should be on ROM An effective way to use Squish would be to make Squish disks for various projects and to transfer these files to and from the A drive as needed Tom works for Natural Gas Pipeline in Houston Texas and was one of the first to 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 JULY
157. otepad 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 computer back on you ll be in the same place in the same application with no data lost All the capabilities of IBM PC programs like Borland s SideKick and SuperKey Certainly not but Shelp s the only such program for the Portable Plus It s a clean easy to use and highly useful helper you ll want at your fingertips always Shelp runs on the Portable Plus only It works with Time Manager MemoMaker Reflection 1 Lotus and any other non graphics program Shelp does not run with MS Word Shelp was written by Randy Salo the former HP engineer who authored MemoMaker on the original HP Portable PRODUCT NO S
158. r Rated Editor s choice by PC magazine Web sters 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 range 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 ail tested on the Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clarity for ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents Dw Os 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 LA IS Link HP IL A software program that lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other Hp l device Now you can access your main com puter HP
159. r form or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6330 HP has decided to discontinue the Portable Plus September 1 1989 HP will continue selling accessories for the Portable Plus such a the Lotus 2 01 ROM the 1 Megabyte RAM card and the HP9114B for another year It s a sad time for those of pm us who have been enjoying the fruits of the HP engineering genius that went into creating the HP110 and Hal Goldstein Portable Plus These machines were a few years ahead of their time The Portable Plus suffered internal HP portable computer strategy redirections no real long term HP committment to marketing the Plus and RAM prices that unexectedly sky rocketed The Portable Plus is truly a diamond in the rough It s too bad for all of us and the industry in general that HP apparently chose to throw away its pioneering technology Despite the fact that HP has given up on the HP110 and Portable Plus we at Personalized Softwre haven t As long as you continue to support us we can continue to support you In this issue we begin an important discussion on file compression File compression techniques are particularly important to portable computer users for whom disk space is precious These techniques let you store more in the same amount of disk space usually at the expense of convenience or performance
160. r guarantee and ordering information Note The Touchstone keypad includes a shift key which lets you control the 10 function keys home key page up and down and other keys on an IBM PC The Touchstone shift key does not work properly with the Portable Plus but this is no problem since the corresponding keys are easily accessible on the Portable Plus keyboard TURBPLUS INTEGRATER The Turbo Pascal editing environment does not work properly on the Portable Plus To compensate Personalized Software will sell the TurbPlus Integrater that integrates the Pascal compiler and your Editor and File Manager l ORDERING INFORMATION Turbo Pascal 5 5 is available through authorized dealers or directly from Borland and retails at 149 95 The Professional package including a stand alone debugger and assembler sells for 250 but will not work on the Portable Plus Users of the current version 5 0 can upgrade to the new compiler for 34 95 or the Professional package for 99 95 Borland International is located at P O Box 660001 Scotts Valley CA 95066 0001 Phone 800 331 0877 or 408 438 5300 Portable Paper subscribers can order Turbo 5 5 through Personalized Software for 135 and for 165 with the TurboPlus Integrater The TurbPlus Integrate retails for 49 95 39 95 for subscribers Non US Customers May Need to Special Order Video pj Apparently there are a number of world wide standards for VHS video tapes The U S uses NTSC If
161. rass Along with laptops added convenience of portability comes an increased risk of data loss due to hard disk failure not to mention theft LapTape provides a simple straightforward solution for protecting your portable s valuable data Using the industry s most reliable media for data protection Laptape offers from 40 to 60 megabytes of convenient archived data storage New data compression software will allow the tape drive to back up 120 megabytes of information Iv s also a great way of off loading less critical information or historical files freeing up valuable hard disk space Ideally suited for quick stops back at the office simply plug in LapTape and you ll have a failsafe copy of your latest updates within seconds LapTape connects in a snap via your portable s floppy diskette connector In addition LapTape comes with its own wall plug power adapter eliminating additional power connections and extra drain on battery life de LapTape comes in a small footprint external cabinet complete with detached wall plug power adapter and connects to the LS 12 external drive port via a customized diskette cable connector Completely menu driven screens enhance ease of use and lead even unsophisticated users through all backup and restore operations Included is a selective file backup and modified file backup option which backs up only specified files or only those files that have been changed since the previous backup sa
162. rder form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed postage paid order form or send check or credit card information 4 exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6330 will even let you VIEW the contents of text files contained in the library Beyond that it will extract decompress or uncompress any files in these libraries NSWP is a very worthwhile program to have on an Edisk It works with ARC type files not with ZIP or LZH compressed files NSWP has its own method of compression called squeezing Such squeezing is not as effective or as fast as PKARK It reduces text files by only 25 to 30 UNUSUAL FILE COMPRESSION PROGRAMS There are a couple of compression programs designed to reduce the size of executable files Executable files are those that end with EXE or COM Two such programs are SpaceMaker and AXE SpaceMaker SM COM on the 87 Subscribers Disk will convert some EXE files to smaller COM files with anywhere between 10 and 30 reduction in the size of the program I have had some luck with SM COM It has reduced some of my larger EXE programs by about 2026 The programs still work AXE EXE is another program like SM COM it is available from Systems Enhancement Associates Unlike SM COM AXE EXE will work with EXE files that are larger than 64K bytes In my estimation the jury is still out on this program I tried AXE on ali of the executable files on my
163. re sent due I imagine to a breakdown in coordination among your staff This is a costly mistake for you and of course I must arrange to return the item to you which is not necessarily a simple task The second problem relates to the replacement of a faulty 384K RAM drawer Again some confusion seems to have occurred Although the unit began to fail some time ago the promised replacement was only recently shipped This delay was apparently due to an over hasty check of your shipping files which showed that a unit had already been shipped Unfortunately the shipping data related to the original unit which was shipped in January Now I am extremely worried that the replacement unit may not arrive before I must depart on another extended overseas assignment Basically I am very happy with your firm and your services are indispensable to me because I fully intend to stay with HP portable products They are without doubt the most suitable products for my needs and working conditions I hope your little problems can be worked out and I look forward to a continued pleasant association R Campbell Ledbury Herefordshire England We greatly appreciate your feedback and will strive to do better Hal A Word For MSWord Every time I read your ads for Word Perfect and compare features with what we WORD 1 1 owners have I don t see what I am missing Just add Webster s and Paul Grimmer s HPop and you make up for most of wh
164. riber to the Portable Paper may purchase the Diconix printer through Personalized software for 399 for the Parallel Interface printer and 415 for the Serial Interface JULY AUGUST 1989 9 Pe THE PORTABLE PAPER Personalized Software INC Products that make HP Portables smarter P O Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 By Hal Goldstein Squish Plus For Portable Plus and HP Vectras In Vol 4 No 2 P 6 we briefly discussed a software product Squish Plus that could as much as double the amount of Portable Plus RAM disk space and of Vectra floppy and hard disk space We are ready to strongly recommend Squish Plus for any HP Portable Plus Portable Vectra or LS 12 user who needs more disk space We will offer two versions of the program the standard IBM PC version for the Vectra LS 12 and the Portable Vectra CS and a customized version for Portable Plus users Thanks goes to Portable Paper columnist Tom Page who worked diligently with Squish Plus publishers Sundog Software so that we could have the special version for the Portable Plus We loaned Sundog a Portable Plus and technical reference manual and Sundog was able to make the necessary changes to this product so that it runs correctly on the Portable Plus USING SQUISH PLUS Installing Squish Plus means using Squish Plus software to create a Squish disk an additional partition on your electronic disk or hard drive The Squish disk acts as an add
165. rogram 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 Vectra Portable Plus HP150 ae 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 DUIINS HPDuette is a registered trademark of Platte River Associates Inc H Pdue f f C2 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 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 o
166. roperties Every file that is saved to this new Edisk is automatically compressed When a file is loaded from the Squish disk to working memory it is automatically decompressed The compression for text files and for worksheet files is about 50 The speed for such compression and decompression is more than acceptable For example loading or saving a three page document from or to the Squish disk takes about a half second longer for The Editor to do JULY AUGUST 1989 35 Ps THE PORTABLE PAPER With Squish one megabyte of memory begins to look and feel like two megabytes That s a saving of about 800 in hardware WHAT S THE CATCH Squish seems to work as advertised but it may or may not be the solution to the problem If you use your computer mostly for document preparation and spreadsheet analysis then you would get the greatest benefit from Squish Plus However if most of your work involves running programs that generate only small amounts of data you may not see any advantage to using Squish Squish compresses EXE and COM files by only 25 to 30 As a matter of fact the owner s manual for Squish recommends not compressing such files If you keep a lot of EXE and COM files on your disk you won t save as much space and you will degrade the performance of the EXE files Furthermore Squish adds about 37K bytes of code to the operating system of the computer Thus on a Portable Plus with PAM DOS and Squish run
167. rs 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 l WordPerfect 5 WD11NK 919 00 595 00 PS 6 384K of files includes PlusPerfect main WP program nen files printer drivers etc Does not include required 300K 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 Editor II Upgrade ED15NG 58 00 58 00 PS 1 For The Editor I ROM and SuperROM owners only MemoMaker HP Comes on same chip as Time Manager see Combined ROMs below MSWord MS20UR 375 00 199 00 HP 1 MultiMate MM20UR 520 00 425 007 HP 1 WORD PROCESSING UTILITIES Format110 PS Comes as part of SuperROM see Combined ROMs FormatPlus FP13NK 174 95 164 95
168. rs when ordering For guarantee and ordering information see centerfold the SETUP program from my hard disk and started to experiment with different configuration options I am not quite sure what I did but soon I could no longer start my LS 12 When I exited SETUP and the system rebooted it could no longer find DOS It gave me a bad or missing COMMAND COM message Any DOS based system which includes all the HP Portables requires the main DOS command interpreter file COMMAND COM to be on the start up disk HP kindly provided me with the solution documented in appendix E of the LS 12 manual Holding down the Ctrl and Alt keys and pressing Enter results in some cryptic letters and a gt prompt Typing produces a help screen Typing config at the gt prompt results in a configuration screen The only item not self evident on the configuration screen is the one labeled Hard disk drive type 20 MB LS 12 model 24 is type 6 and 40 MB LS 12 model 44 is type 44 I reconfigured my system correctly telling it to look to the floppy for DOS rather than the hard disk I saved the new configuration information the system rebooted and I was back in business COULDN T SEE MY LS 12 A few weeks later I took my LS 12 home so that I could work on The Portable Paper over the weekend I decided to connect the LS 12 to a monochrome external monitor I keep at home for work with the Portable Vectra CS To do so I ran the LS 12 S
169. rtable Plus ROM The only other technical thing I looked at this past month was the possibility of putting a larger file than 256K into Portable Plus ROM Accomplishing this would allow larger applications like WordPerfect to be put almost completely into ROM I sat down with my Portable plus technical reference manual and began reading The directory for the ROMs are calculated on the fly every time DOS requests something out of the directory or FAT file allocation table It does this based on the ROMs it finds installed The problem arises in that the ROM driver only reserves space in each subdirectory for 256k of data clusters To fix this the basic ROM driver would have to be rewritten or modified if someone could get the original code Rewriting the driver would take quite an extensive effort so I suspect a solution will come from a different approach One possibility is splitting large files into smaller ones that would fit into the subdirectories That s the easy part The technical challenge would then be to write some software that would trap the DOS file functions so that the application would appear to see a single large file when accessing it There are likely other approaches to this ongoing problem and I suspect a solution will come in time hopefully not too long Cliff Looyenga provides technical support for HP PC s and HP 3000 s and in those circles he is known as The Wizard He bas developed a number of HP110 Port
170. rward to install First plug in the included 12 volt AC DC adapter and connect to the Ethernet Adapter Next connect the Ethernet Adapter to your computer s parallel port Finally connect a standard Ethernet T to the Ethernet Adapter and the hardware connection is completed SOFTWARE INSTALLATION If your network is running version 2 12 of Novell NetWare copies of pre generated IPX and NET programs are included to simplify initial software installation Choose the IPX file appropriate to your parallel port LPT1 LPT2 or LPT3 and the NET file appropriate to your version of DOS 2 3 or 4 and use the DOS copy command to copy these files to the root directory of either your hard disk or network boot diskette Then log on to you network Files and installation procedures are also included for releases below 2 12 The program worked flawlessly for us Because the Xircom adapter does its Input Output through the parallel port its throughput is somewhat slower than a standard Ethernet adapter We tested the adapter on a Portable Vectra and an LS 12 and compared them to a desktop Vectra and a Compaq Deskpro with standard Ethernet cards We used 18 JULY AUGUST 1989 the Norton Utilities S I Systems benchmark the relative computing speed of the four systems and tested the computational speed in seconds on four common functions Loading file manager XTREE Listing of an inventory generating a shipping report
171. s 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 IT LIS Portable and Peripherals Cases Roomy rugged high quality highly padded cases to protect our ThinkJet HP9114 and HP Portable when traveling External Numeric Keypad Allows fast numeric entry for Lotus and other applications Attaches to Portable Plus via serial port 110 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 HP9114 forever 110 Mobile Recharger Lets you recharge your HP110 Portable Plus ThinkJet HP9114 Hp hand held etc from your cars cigarette lighter ID W EE 3 Ring Binders for Back Issues Handsome unprinted
172. s with Phil but I understand the new program can create compressed executable file similar to J System Enhancement Associates AXE program I will let you know what I think about these programs next issue THE PORTABLE PAPER WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY AB If you want a database you can use immediately a without even opening the manual Condor 3 is the DBMS to buy Jim Morgan Data Base Advisor a textbook example of what a database manage If you have customer files sales records inventory or lots of anything that you need to keep track of you need a database management system DBMS If you want a sophisticated DBMS that even a beginner can use try Condor 3 or Condor Jr Condor 3 runs on the Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 Its smaller cousin Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and Portable Vectra only Both versions let you set up a database in a single step simply by 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 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 III Most users find they can create and begin to use their first database within minutes after opening the package Condor 3 but
173. se and lower case without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar THE EDITOR Nisatruly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today Copyright 1988 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER journalists salespeople other business professionals and private individuals If portable users and their equipment traveled seperately coordinating this would become a monumental headache Such a ban would be a giant step backwards in productivity And even the sturdiest portable is a fragile and expen sive beast There s a lot of us who don t like to letting it out of our sight on a trip But I think all of us could live with the inconvenience diminished productivity and diminished security for our personal property if the plan produced the desired results but it won t Terrorists can simply and very quickly find a number of ways to smuggle bombs aboard airplanes Some people have suggested 35mm cameras as a likely candidate for concealing a bomb The proposal to ban portables from flights will not stop a determined terrorist The solution is to change people s hearts However it is much easier to pass a ineffective law that can be easily carried out There is a good chance that this plan will take effect if we sit back and let it We suggest you write your U S senators representa tive or the Secretary of Transportation and let these people know how you feel Your voice can help
174. se everything inside a triangle defined by two points and the cursor Finally I have wished many times for a dot button which would toggle the dot at the cursor position on or off When I want to mark the center of a circle before moving the memory point for example As it is I must put the pen down move the cursor one dot then pick the pen up ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT WOULD BE NICE How about a memory for memory points At times I ve wished I could pop back to a previous memory point If we could define memory points labeled m1 m2 etc and use them with the Goto command this would be possible A mirror image function would be fun efine the partial screen and the edge to dzirror across and hit the button Some mteresting bookmatch images could be crated this way In closing thanks for filling the void for Plus owners in the area of graphics and print utilities I am looking forward to trying your Pop up program when it reaches the market Rob Scebold The Philippines We do have MSWord ROMs available Websters will not be able to work with formatted MSWord files Hal Connecting Plus To Ethernet You may recall that last year I asked you whether there is any interface device that would allow connecting the HP Portable Plus to an Ethernet Local Area Network The purpose is to send receive files to from other computers in my case MACs in the Local Area Network and also to a laser printer
175. sequently the Portable Plus and many of its low 82866KZ opt 400 Italian Version Executive 9 1 90 i i i Card Manager Memomaker Time volume accessories will be discontinued on September 1 Manager and Reflections I ROM 1989 All of the remaining high volume accessories will 82973A HP IL Interface Card 9 1 90 be discontinued on September 1 1990 The Portable Plus oa an ore eee os will enter into a 5 year support life to begin on September 9114B Battery Powered Portable 9 1 90 1 1989 Disk Drive U S Recharger 9114B opt 013 Battery Powered Portable 9 1 90 PRODUCTS TO DESCRIPTION CPL Disk Drive European Recharger BE REMOVED REMOVAL DATE HP Raises Portable Prices 45711E U S PP with 9 1 89 The following pricing is now in effect in the U S for HP 1200 Internal Baud Modem Portable Plus and HP Vectra LS 12 Laptop PC related 45711F U S PP 9 1 89 Pa odit 45711FA South African PP 9 1 89 Po P 45711FB English Europe PP 9 1 89 l f 45711FD German PP 9 1 89 Product Old Price New Price L a pa SA 512K Portable Plus W Modem 2700 3395 45711FH Dutch PP 9 1 89 Man a Mo ae A PP An MemoMakr Time Mgr ROM 195 245 pen AN 3 Vs 2 ROM 525 625 45711FP Swiss German PP 9 1 89 Lotus a 4 W K M SA spo 45711FQ Swiss French PP 9 1 89 ea See e 45711FS Swedish PP 9 1 89 ey Unies Masson i ae Portable Plus ROM Drawer 165 195 ao et o HP9114B Disk Drive 645 795 45711FY Danish PP 9 1 89 ka kile oi ak ed LS 12 Model 24 20 Meg 4879 4999 LS 12 Model 44 40 Meg
176. 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 150 HPrint Takes text ASCII files you ve created with MemoMaker The Editor or other word proces sors and prints them on an HP Printer Comes with italic type font for ThinkJet Also allows bold underline compressed expanded sub scripts superscripts headers footers page numbering double space and much more all of which you specify from a simple menu or by means of sensible control codes HPrint also does mail merging and it lets you create your own graphic characters 150 PrinterTalk and Format110 MemoMaker Enhancers PrinterTalk lets you change type styles in middle of document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page number ing and much more Format110 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more 110 A OSs IS 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 Checke
177. ss and the reference address are the same WARPED DISK DIRVES SHORTEN BATTERY LIFE I was speaking to one of the techs at HP the other day about the battery life of the 9114A or B The weight of even one other disk drive or a ThinkJet printer stacked on top of the disk drive will warp the 9114 enough to make the drive work a little harder to spin the disk This will have an adverse effect on the battery life of your drive LOGGING ON TERM PLUS In order to get Term Plus to log on to the disk hit F6 download from and then pick F1 F2 or F3 to choose the kind of transfere protocol you want The Plus will ask you to name the download file by displaying Download File in the command bar at the top of the screen Type any file name myfile log for example The entire session will be stored in a file called myfile log for future use STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN LATE AT NIGHT While working late one night at Personalized Software I noticed something interesting happening with my Time Manager program At midnight the plus said Please wait while I prepare for a new day It then transfered all of the todo files to the new day Which Disk Goes With Which Machine by David Seagull Did you know the Portable Plus can read and write eM double sided double density disks This and other useful information await you in the talble below The top of the table lists the computers The side of Ls the table describes how the disk was formatted i e
178. t and quantities of ingredients and cooking instructions The automatic alphabetical sorting of the recipe by name is desirable Perhaps someone of your staff could work on this project and include it in the 1990 Subscribers Disk 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 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 WorldPort 2400 and WorldPort 1200 are trademarks of Touchbase Systems In
179. table Plus more than twice as fast as the original IBM PC that s even faster than the HP Portable Vectra m 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 FA1ING Be sure to call first to schedule an appointment Overnight return shipping 35 The Expansion Chassis is powered by an external AC power source and is designed to operate at either 115 or 230 VAC at 50 60 hertz The power supply in the Expansion Chassis automatically switches to operate at the voltage level applied INSTALLING THE CHASSIS ON THE LS 12 The LS 12 requires the installation of a 68 pin connector before you can use the Expansion Chassis This connector must be installed by an authorized Zenith technician Personalized Software can install it for you Once a technician has installed the 68 pin connector it is a simple matter to install the expansion card or your choice into one of the Chassis three expansion slots and connect the Expansion Chassis to your system via the 68 pin connector Turning the LS 12 on initializes the Expansion Chassis Be sure the Chassis is powered up using the external AC power source provided before turning on the computer The Expansion Chassis is XT compatible o
180. ter FormatPlus Editor II ROM upgrade ED15NG 58 Word Processing Utilities FormatPlus FP13NK 174 95 164 95 95 HPrint HP12NK 175 00 170 95 95 Wbster Speller WBI3NK 258 95 248 95 179 FormatPlus ROM upgr FM15NG 58 Spreadsheets and Database Lotus 123 1A LT12UR 495 00 295 00 Lotus 123 2 01 LT15UR 625 00 395 00 Exec Crd Mer EC11UR 395 00 279 00 SideWinder SW12PP 134 95 124 95 New ROM Lotus 123 2 01 LT11HR 625 00 495 00 New ROM Exec Crd Mgr EX11HR 395 00 339 00 Communications PC2622 PC13UR 395 00 239 00 Reflection RF11UR 525 00 295 00 TermP lus TE13NK 194 95 174 95 95 Productivity Boosters DOS Tools DT12NK 179 00 168 95 129 FilePlus FE14NK 164 95 154 95 95 HP Calculator CL11NK 95 00 95 00 HP Duette DU13NK 194 95 184 95 95 Shelp SH12NK 110 00 104 95 55 Squish Plus SQ11 K 144 95 134 95 95 Typing Whiz TW12NK 144 95 134 95 95 Graphics Sketch SK12NK 175 00 170 95 95 Programming Languages MSBasic MS21UR 300 00 150 00 Turbo Pascal 3 Combined ROMs Shelp SdWndr SuperROM TP13NK No longer published SH1I3NK SU1IINK 234 95 214 90 474 00 299 00 Editor I Format110 PrinterTalk Shelp SideWinder 95 95 NEW BATTERIES INK CARTRIDGES AND CABLE Standard Parallel Cable PLIINM Serial printer cable 110 Plus SC13HC HP92221P ser prn cab 110 P SC13HC Portable Plus Battery ThinkJet Battery HP110 Battery HP9114 Battery BTIINM BT14NM BT12NM BTI3NM ThinkJet plain paper cartridge TJISHC ThinkJet inkjet paper cartr
181. then tried calling the home number from the Sony telephone connected to the mobile phone It worked just as well as if it had been plugged into a wall jack although it seemed I needed to be a little more careful pressing the keys to avoid dialing errors I then selected pulse dialing on the Sony phone and dialed a number The Cellular Connection handled it perfectly Next I attached my WorldPort 1200 modem to my Portable and plugged the modem into The Cellular Connection and tried to call the computer at my office My first attempts were disappointing the call went through the modems connected and before I could get logged on carrier was lost Even though I had not changed location it is likely that the carrier was lost as a result of the cellular system handing off to another cell I understand that a hand off shortly after connection is common I was about to give up on using the WorldPort with a cellular telephone but I got smart and adjusted the modem setup command to increase the time to disconnect after carrier loss This produced considerable improvement I was now able to get logged on and transfer files Noise was experienced but it could be coped with I also was able to use this arrangement to download files from CompuServe The following setup command should configure the WorldPort to work fairly well when used with The Cellular Connection ATX4S7 60S10 20 The elements of this command String are X4 Enable dial tone and busy
182. ts directories and another finds files by a text phrase See ad in this issue BacTools These are a series of utilities that expedite backing up your electronic disk especially useful if you have a 1 megabyte drawer DOS Tools and Subscribers Disks A number of useful public domain utilities that work on the HP110 and Plus SWP on the 1989 Subscriber disk is an especially good file management program for the HP110 I think all the programs are of value However I think every MS DOS user should possess a copy or The Norton Utilites or some program that can recover inadvertently lost and damaged files Also I find FilePlus invaluable for quickly manipulating my Portable Plus files Hal Thanks to so many of you who are willing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an opportunity to share tips answer questions discuss other products trade free software and Lotus templates and meet other professionals As you will notice some areas have more than one contact person and some major areas have none If you are in a missing area and would like to organize a group contact us If your groups combine also tell us We will publish this column each issue keeping it up to date Write Local Users Groups Box 869 Fairfield IA 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 Die
183. u see It seems to take about 15 minutes to print one page maybe longer TO SUM UP This product works well with certain limitations The graphics fonts and border libraries are limited and simple PrintMaster sells additional libraries I suspect that the majority of customers will be happy with the selection that comes with the product Despite the limitations noted PrintMaster was easy to use and somewhat fun If your purpose is to bang out a quick office party banner or poster this product will do nicely PERSONALIZED SOFTWARE PRINTMASTER PLUS PACKAGE When we sell PrintMaster Plus we will include the original packaging that contains 3 5 inch and 5 25 inch disks and manual In addition to the PrintMaster packaging we will include an extra disk That disk will THE PORTABLE PAPER include the following files mentioned in this article PRNCONF COM PCRUN COM PMHP BAT PMHP DOC SET UP and PM PRN That latter two files preconfigures PrintMaster for the ThinkJet and the non compatible Pv L graphics screen PMHP DOC contains this article To use PrintMaster on the Portable Plus copy PRNCONF COM PCRUN COM PMHP BAT PMHP DOC SET UP and PM PRN to the Portable Plus Then copy PM EXE from the PrintMaster disk and any other font boarder graphics files you think you might use You ll have to experiment to see which is which if you don t copy all the files in Typing pmhp from PAM or DOS starts the program Be sure
184. umns ME 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 within 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 wit
185. un Lotus 1 2 3 and other applications 6096 faster than before Our trained technicians perform this upgrade and can have your Plus back to you the next day Call for appoint ment Software on ROM Many of our best selling programs are avail able on ROM chips via our ROM Back up service Portable Plus only Saves valuable electronic disk space minimizes need for disk drive Custom ROMs also available Used HP Portable Equipment The Portable Equipment Ex change a division of Personalized Software buys and sells used HP110s Portable Plusses HP9114s HP ROMs and RAM drawers for the Plus Because of HP quality used HP products are a great buy 30 day return policy on all used equipment plus one year guarantee parts and labor 115 LW IS Gs Volume Discounts Corporate buyers users groups and HP deal ers Order products and subscriptions from us in quantity and save TRAINING VIDEO ID P Video How to Use the HP110 and Portable Plus 5 hour set of 3 VHS videotapes gives you all the fundamentals of using the HP110 and Portable Plus Saves countless hours learning on your own or training others For novices and intermediate users Products advertised or discussed in this issue Binders Condor 5 ouka di 33 The Editor 7 Ethernet Adapter 18 Expansion Chassis 18 FastPlus w ya ye ard oes 19 FilePlus 36 HP Professional 31 Kodak Diconix Printer
186. use of the machine I highly recommend it 3 Would it be possible to include the addresses of the various users who write in to your Letters column so that the subscribers can contact the contributors by mail for clarification amplification on their respective contributions 4 I am in the continuous process of developing a series of 1 2 3 Templates for highly accurate analysis of equity and commodity market instruments and am interested in corresponding with others who have need for such templates Lotus Corp s financial macros are woefully inadequate bordering on childish Our templates will serve as an easy and inexpensive way to analyze investment opportunities using 1 2 3 a software package many of your readers already own I invite any readers who are interested in working with me on these templates to send their ideas to John W Kercheval III Managing Director Kercheval amp Co L P 1509 Hearst Ave Suite 203 Berkeley CA 94703 or by calling me at my residence at 415 845 8393 5 SOLAR POWERED 110 110 I have developed a reasonably good 110 Solar recharging system My investment firm s 110 s and 110 s use it and we have found it to be reliable It is quite difficult to determine actual charging time particularly since time varies greatly with the amount of available light but under bright roomlight our device can recharge a 110 at the rate of about 10 per hour The details are somewhat be
187. ving backup time and media A high speed search feature can locate any file on tape in less than 20 seconds for quick and convenient file restoration LapTape supports both 250kb sec and 500kb sec floppy transfer rates via a unique autoselect feature providing maximum performance and increased 24 JULY AUGUST 1989 MP compatibility A 20 megabyte hard disk can be completely archived in less than nine minutes By utilizing the industry standard QIC 40 tape format LapTape guarantees data or file interchange between any comparable tape system creating a direct link to desktop personal computer You can share LapTape between several laptops or take advantage of DC2000 minicartridge convenience to shuttle tape across the country to other members of your organization ORDERING INFORMATION LapTape is manufactured by Tallgrass Technologies 11100 West 82nd Overland Park Kansas 66214 call 1 800 TAL Gras LapTape has a suggested list price of 795 which includes a Tallgrass 3 year extended warranty Subscribers to The Portable Paper can obtain LapTape form Personalized Software for 695 Numeric Keypad For LS 12 Zenith data systems provides an excellent numeric keypad for the LS 12 Installation consists of simply inserting the numeric keypad connector into the keypad port on the right side of the LS 12 The numeric keypad consists of an adding machine style numeric entry pad with numbers and arithmetic operation keys Along with
188. 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 OUR EXCLUSIVE _ DOUBLE GUARANTEE ON ROMS 60 DAY GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION lf 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 Easy to use lightning fast LN ROM chips save valuable Portable Plus memory and eliminate the need for a disk drive communications graphics pro gramming languages and more Which means once you install these ROMs you ll have every thing you need right inside your Portable Plus You 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
189. yond the scope of this column and probably beyond the length that Hal will publish but interested parties may contact me at the above address for details J W Kercheval Berkeley California Hiding Files Is there any way to make a file hidden Also I am working in MS FORTRAN which is a subset of the standard FORTRAN Do you happen to know of any other FORTRAN that fits I don t have a ROM drawer but I would like to have 123 from Lotus Any chance One last question I am trying to use the Break Stop key when watching a file from DOS type or for looking at program output but the results are different from time to time Sometimes the scroll stops and sometimes it doesn t even if I run the same program twice with the same data Any explanation Eduardo Andrade Oeiras Portugal A program on our 39 95 DOS Tools collection Change and our file manager FilePlus 59 95 allows you to hide and unhide files so they don t show up in File Manager or from a DOS DIR I know of no other Fortran Our Lotus 123 drivers for the Plus 69 95 will allow the IBM version of Lotus 123 to run out of RAM on the Plus Maybe one of our readers knows about the inconsistency with the CTRL S and Stop keys Hal Environment Space and More First a thank you for the excellent Portable Paper I read every issue from cover to cover and mark things of interest in the margins for future exploration I would also like to especially thank
190. you turn your ThinkJet on and it is connected to the Plus before starting PrintMaster ORDERING INFORMATION Personalized Software will be selling PrintMaster for the Portable Plus for 79 95 69 95 to Portable Paper subscribers Condor 3 ROMs Soon to be Available For the Portable Plus Reader and Portable Paper contributor has spent many hours developing the contents of Condor 3 ROMS Condor 3 is an easy to use relational data base the most powerful data base program available for the Portable Plus reviewed by Rod Sharp in Vol 3 No 6 P26 Condor 3 will reside on 4 64K ROMs If our ongoing project proves successful and we can create 128K EPROMs then we will but Condor on two 128K EPROMS Check next issue for details Personalized Software to Ship Borland s Turbo Pascal 5 5 This is an embarrassing article to write We have previously announced but have not shipped Turbo 4 0 and Turbo 5 0 We are now announcing but not shipping Turbo Pascal 5 5 We expect to be shipping by September probably sooner We will publish more details when we actually ship Turbo Pascal 5 5 includes object oriented capabilities the current rage in programming Turbo Pascal 5 5 includes functional features from Apple s Object Pascal and extensions inspired by AT amp T s C object oriented C preprocessor An object oriented approach more closely models the way we think An Object is a data type that allows programmers to capture data

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