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1. Parallel Converter Convertor with 9 volt adapter Lets you connect the 95LX to a parallel printer in the office or home Not battery powered you must have an AC outlet available to use this con verter SmartConverter reported on page 41 of the Jan Feb 92 issue is not available through EduCALC See advertising page 19 Availability 00005 0808 NOW Peeing 35 host ATNI es rine x 44 119 00 CONTACT EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 U S A Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 Communications WorldPort Modems Battery operated modems that work with the HP 95LX including WorldPort Palmtop Fax Data Modem Contains all the software within the modem required to send a fax Automatically converts stan dard ASCII text to Group III fax without additional software Sup ports data transmission speeds from 300 2400 bps and fax transmission speeds of 2400 9600 bps WorldPort 9600 Supports data speeds of 800 9600 bps Includes MNP 4 error control and MNP 5 data compression for error free throughput Uses the standard com munications software included with the 95LX WorldPort Technical support indicated that a jumper needs to be installed for this to work in battery powered mode with the 95LX WorldPort 2400 Provides full functionality of a desktop modem Supports data speeds from 300 to 2400 bps and is fully CCITT and Bell compliant Earlier versions
2. former whose act includes biting the head off a live chicken I probably should have checked back with the author to make sure his use of the word wasn t inten tional I throw myself on the mercy of the subscribers Rich HP 95LX Shutdown when Off I read your getting started memory article and think it is well presented for the HAVE FUN novice Jan Feb 1992 page 35 However the shutdown function does not work as you have described In OFF mode the HP is truly shut down not simply powered down The program param eters and data segments are saved to RAM and the CPU is shut off Upon turning on the data is restored as the applications are activated Mark Scardina San Francisco CA U S A Using The HP 95LX with Other DOS WITH YOUR Windows Programs I was reluctant to convert to the HP 95LX Palmtop be cause have become accus tomed to my AST 386 Note book computer With a 60MB hard drive space is not an issue for its PIMs and Database program I did not see how the 95LX could become an efficient productivity tool However pulling out a full size note book computer in a phone booth or with a customer required too much juggling The need for something like the 95LX with its built in HP95LX GAMEcard volume IT Discover the fun part of your HP9SLX Relax sit back and enjoy games such as Tetris Blackjack Craps Adventure Reversi Go Poker and more a total of 14 g
3. Connectivity Packs Table 1 Nuvotech Connectivity Kit can translate the following PC application formats into the 95LX application formats indicated The translation feature in the Nuvo tech Connectivity Kit works excep tionally well Just point and click to make your selections It s easy to make changes so the program isn t restrictive at all Merging PHONE or APPT files is so easy it seems like cheating Once you select the merge option you need to decide which file records will be included in the output file and then whether to merge into the selected destination file or into a newly created file Perhaps the nicest feature of Nuvotech s Connectivity Kit is that you get all of the look and feel of a Windows 3 0 interface without the need to ever leave DOS or add anything in the way of memory or hardware to your current system After working with this program for awhile you ll wonder why more programs can t look and work like this without Windows ZIP Transfer Utility E If you are reasonably comfortable working with DOS commands and just want to move files back and forth between your PC and 95LX then ZIP is a good program for you ZIP wasn t developed for the HP 95LX but a lot of people have used this dandy little program for file transfer between the HP 95LX and a PC ZIP doesn t offer fancy fea tures but the program is a work horse EA On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 If
4. Upgrade payment Add Local Sales Tax am making payment via please check one WRA Check Please do not send cash Credit Card Mastercard Money Order Exp Date Signature My HP 95LX serial number on the bot tom of my PC is 4 My daytime phone number is My evening phone number is Please return my upgraded 95LX to the following address Name Company Address no P O Box please City State Zip IMPORTANT Please send your HP 95LX base unit only REMOVE all accessories RAM cards etc before packing for shipment Also backup your data elsewhere for safe keeping SHIP TO HP Corvallis Service Center 1030 N E Circle Bivd Corvallis OR 97330 U S A offer good in U S only 6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Should You Upgrade Your 95LX to 1MB or Buy a RAM Card It depends Here are some of the advantages of upgrading your unit 1 You will be able to allocate more RAM to system memory That means you can run larger 1 2 3 spreadsheets keep all your built in applications open with larger files or run DOS software that requires more system memory See Getting Started column in the Fall and Jan Feb issues for a deeper understanding of System RAM 2 There is more built in disk space to hold data or software This means you can store more spreadsheets memos phone books as well as other DOS software and data in your base unit 3 In the coming months you can expec
5. after some experimen tation it became apparent that the 95LX had real potential as a porta ble communications platform This article will give a background on the two basic ways to work with CompuServe Forums and Cmail You ll also take a short online tour of two CompuServe forums Why the 95LX The 95LX no larger than many calculators has a rather small key board and a 40 column screen Yet with the proper software it can be a serious tool for communicating with CompuServe A couple of per sonal examples will help My desk at work is dominated by a computer terminal this termi nal cannot be used for CompuServe access My 95LX sits right next to the terminal where I use it for scheduling phone numbers and calculations The addition of a small portable modem allows retrieval of CompuServe messages and mail during the day At night while watching the late news in bed I use the same portable modem and the 95LX to retrieve read and reply to Compu Serve messages Another computer even slightly larger would make this impractical Because of the 95LX has true shirt pocket portability you can begin to exercise the full power of electronic messaging Your electron ic mail can be retrieved almost anywhere in the world that a phone line is accessible Methods of Forum Access If you have never used CompuServe you might have some basic ques tions that need answering You should look at the sidebar titled Co
6. continuous Radon moni tor Interfaces for the Honeywell Professional and Ad Ease Radon monitors have been developed Availability 5 i565 a ebes ese NOW Software Medium Floppy Disk Runs under SysMpr 45 No Pricing 56268 rei raeeecacad ae 45 00 USA shipping paid Canada add 5 other international add 10 CONTACT RAD95 Harold Cole 614 Cedar Hill Road Albuquerque NM 87122 U S A Phone 505 293 6751 Fax 505 296 2632 44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Remote Power On Off A telephone activated power control unit for your desktop PC computer Set Remote Power to detect a specif ic number of phone rings Remote Power On Off activates power to the PC it is connected to Remote Power On Off could be useful for travelers who want to communicate with their home or office computer but who don t want to leave the comput er on all the time Availability 0 0 0004 e ee ue PPD Eune aA om 48RD S 169 95 CONTACT Server Technology 2332 B Walsh Avenue Santa Clara CA 95051 U S A Phone 800 835 1515 or 408 988 0142 Fax 408 738 0247 Wireless Communications Mobidem Wireless Modem This portable wireless receiver atta ches to the 95LX via the serial port and allows the HP Palmtop to ac cess the public Mobitex wireless data networks operated by RAM Mobile Data in the U S A and Rog ers Cantel in Canada The Mobitex provides two way communications between the 95LX
7. copynew c temp txt j _ dat copynew c is be txt i copynew c lotus forecast wk1 i Thus to update my HP 95LX all I have to do is connect the cable press lt CHAR gt lt F2 gt on the Palmtop and run PAIM BAT on the AST While us ing my 95LX the User De fined Function Keys allow me to switch between To do list Calendar and Business Cards by just pressing lt CHAR gt lt F gt So long to juggling and waiting for Power On Self Test and Boot UP Frank Robertazzi Wood Ridge NJ USA Removing EOF Marker from Translated Phonebook Files I recently upgraded from a Casio Boss to the HP 95LX I didn t feel like re entering 560 names numbers and addresses into the HP Phonebook so I used Trav eling Software s PC Link program to output the Boss telephone database in SDF format I changed the files extension from SDF to CD1 so the HP 95LX Con nectivity Pack Translate Utility would accept it The Phonebook Trans late Utility processes 99 of the file then displays Cannot Process Source File Invalid File Format Press ESC to Continue The format of the data conforms to Conventional Data Format 1 see Trans late Utility Users Guide page 4 8 After some experimenta tion I found that the End of File EOF marker created when the Boss data was translated was the culprit I deleted the EOF marker using PC Tools HEX edit saved the file and ran the file through the Translate Utility again
8. files compressed If that happens SYSMGR will not load properly You should rename your APNAME LST file and reboot 8 There must be a carriage return at the end of the last line of the APNAME LST file 9 Removing a card removes its APNAME LST tasks Inserting a card loads its APNAME LST tasks This allows you to spread out your 95LX applications over more than one RAM card However you should not remove a card if any of its appli cations are still open If you have a problem using a file on a card in vestigate that card s APNAME LST file or the programs that are listed in the APNAME LST file 10 Every entry in APNAME LST must refer to a EXM program not a EXE or COM program THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT No other file type is allowed in this file Ignoring this rule will lock up your 95LX 11 Do not remove the compression utility from your AUTOEXEC BAT file unless you have decompressed ALL EXM files This has been men tioned above but it bears repeating If you have been running DIET as a TSR i e from AUTOEXEC BAT and you decide you want to remove it unDIET all your EXM files first with the following command DIET ra lt file exm gt 12 If a TSR is preventing your hot keys from working try loading them with the prefix COMMAND C i e COMMAND C DIET Z P I have no 10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 explanation for this except that it works under certain conditions 13 If you freque
9. for easy data integration e Report generation e ZAPCARDS wireless business card exchange o International versions available EN ERNATIONAL z 1840 Hutton Drive 200 _ Carrollton TX 75006 214 919 9500 or Toll Free 1 800 365 0606 219927 Contact Software International i L gt 9Q INTRODUCTORY OFFER FOR THE HP 9O5LX ACT for the HP 95LX lets you take control of your day while you re on the go This powerful contact manager keeps all the details about your contacts and your calendar at your fingertips ACT even tracks and reports your expenses The innovative ZAPCARDS feature lets you exchange business card and other contact information wirelessly with other ACT HP 95LX users And it s all fully integrated and easy to use Based on best selling ACT contact management software this powerful version was designed specifically for mobile users like you And it s easy to upload and download information to and from your desktop version of ACT with the included PC connectivity cable Take control of your day with ACT for the HP 95LX Order your copy risk free for only 99 Simply mail the coupon below or call us toll free at 1 800 365 0606 YE S Send me ACT Di the a HP ISLX ri for on Be 149 E E To order ACT for the HP 95LX at this discount price E complete coupon and mail to Contact Software Int l ACT E HP Offer 1840 Hutton Drive 200 Carrollton TX 75006 ij
10. usually under a month Custom reports User documentation Training amp support For a free consultation call or write LIIGIHITIHIOJU ISIE ane 3001 Red Hill Avenue Bldg 4 Ste 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626 714 850 1767 5 Diary rll be recording my thoughts throughout this trip on how the HP 95LX has made this trip more en joyable and efficient Day One 2 17 92 10 45 a m Finished packing and managed to fit all my clothes in one carry on garment bag Pm bringing along a modem too 12 00 noon I have survived another drive on the freeway and I m at the San Francisco Airport I ve decided to park in the short term covered par king for these two days Pm not known for my short term memory so I ll record where I parked on my 95LX as a Note to my return trip s appointment I ve changed my mind and checked my bag had to check it in to try to upgrade to First Class Besides the bag was getting heavy Maybe I need a modem that is smaller and lighter than the 95LX itself Now my only carry on is a soft padded briefcase containing my tickets my 95LX business cards and The HP Palmtop Paper One last stop at the Gift Shop for some AA batteries I left spares and AUTOTRIS disables the serial port while I m playing Tetris uses less power that way 4 00 p m PST We should be arriving in Chicago in about an hour time to update the Local City to Chicago by pressing on Watch see page 1
11. you may type HELP and receive an explanation of the different options which are available at that point Connecting With CompuServe Let s start Your first step will be to change some of your 95LX s COMM settings to allow you to retrieve files Then we ll connect with CompuServe After turning on the 95LX do the following 1 Press to start the built in COMM program Press Mew Settings Config Press Fort Baud and enter the baud rate for your modem Press Port Parity and select Even Parity 5 Press Port Char and select 7 P Wh 6 Press Dial and select Tone if your phone system supports tone signals otherwise leave the setting on Pulse 10 Press Dial Number Enter your CompuServe access phone num ber and press ENTER 11 Press ESC two times You are now at a menu You are now ready to access CompuServe Make sure your mo dem is on and connected to the 95LX You will now log on to and change the CompuServe setting that will allow you to download files with the 95LX 1 Press Connect The screen will go blank and you will probably hear the modem dialing Short ly if the connection is made properly you will see CONNECT 2400 on the screen assuming you are using a 2400 baud mo dem At this point follow the instructions for logging on to CompuServe you received with your CompuServe startup kit also see Using HP 95LX on CompuServe sidebar above If all goes well you will see the Co
12. 64 95 muLISP for the HP95 Fast Compact language customized for the 95 ee aos pais Pack Stock 2560 95 muL ISP 5 25 aan cepts vee 399 IP DSILX Boolkss Lotus in Minutes on the HP 95LX Palmtop The essential commands and procedures of Lotus 1 2 3 in the 95 such as global commands formulas macros and databases D A Stock 2469 Lotus in Minutes 124p softbound ssssesesssessrssssss The Answers You Need for the HP 95LX Palmtop PC oo perfect quick and easy reference book to keep on the desk beside your Ext 2468 Answers for the 95 LI2p softbound ccccceceesesserseesenes LAATAT EELEE E RTE POET FETE Eee e xplorer s Guide to the HP 95 Palmtop PC Send for FREE Catalog Ex 2534 Explorer s Guide to HP95 112p softbound 00000 Using Your HP 95LX Practical Examples and A Applications More than 150 real life examples from HP and Lotus experts Stock 2564 Using Your HP 95LX 380p softbound ecsessseressenes 24 95 HP yee Stock HP95LX Palmtop Computer List 699 s esssseesererreres 499 Palmtree SolidState Data Drive Connects to any serial port on a PC Compatible Up to 115 200 baud data transfer rate Stock 2362 External Data Drive List 299 srcrecesssrssssvssenesenenessseee 9279 Internal ThinCard Drive Include half length PC board and Drive which fits into 3 5 or 5 25 Drives Includes software Stock TMB2000 ThinCard Drive
13. Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper Volume one Number two March April 1992 Executive Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Department Editors Tom Page Ed Keefe Mark Scardina Bil Alvernaz Contributing Writers Todd Copy Editors arparet Martin Kelly J pauso Adv Brian Teitzman Circulation Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper is published bimonthly by Thaddeus Comput ing Inc at 57 East Broadway Ave nue Fairfield LA 52556 Second class postage pending at Fairfield lowa Subscription rates payable in U S dollars rawn on a U S bank or by credit card one year 39 two years 69 Postage U S and U S possessions free Canada Mexico add 6 per year other countries add 18 per year Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circulation and Adver tising Offices P O Box 869 Fair field LA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 Copyright 1992 Thaddeus Comput ing Inc all rights reserved No part of this ublication may be reproduced without written permis sion 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 any address changes to Thaddeus Computing Thee ONI At
14. LM RAM ACE ard ccccsssserrrrrsenseneseseeesnsensnesrenensssserss 389 Stock 2523 1 5M RAM ACE care ots caesarean T Stock 2396 2M RAM ACE card sikdppepaneadices ORE tae Here s how you hook your 95 up toa PC priater or modem Stock F1001A Connectivity Pack List 100 a ee 079 95 Stock 82222A Serial Interface Cable only List 35 slini 29 95 Stock 82224A Serial Cable Adapter Kit List 15 914 95 Stock 2342 95 Serial Interface Kit 5 25 eereressesssesessssssssesssssssessss ana SG 96 Nuvotech Stock 2556 PC Connectivity Kit 3 5 amp 5 25 List 99 sssssssssssssssss 89 95 JetEye to LaserJet Stock ESI9500A JetEye Interface List sane Fr eeann anann aa nE 114 95 Stock SPX325 Serial Paralle Converter 00sssss00 119 95 Stock 2449 Dual Purpose Cable cccccsecescsesesssesverrsseversneneensenenerees 34 95 ACCOSSOHIGSS Cases Stock 2519 Nylon 95 Carry Case black List 25 cssssssseserereeeee DLIIS Stock 2520 Leather 95 Carry Case black List 40 Jomtien 27 95 Stock 2361 Leather DeLuxe 95 Carry Sen NEPE List EA i 44 95 Stock 2354 Pocket Prof Organizer s 69 95 Adaptors Stock 2569 Cigarette Lighter Adaptor List 40 ssssessssvssrsesesees 34 95 Stock 82241A AC Adaptor for USA ccccsssssssssssreeesseessersssesssrsnserereseses 14 95 Stock 82241LAB AC Adaptor for Europe 220v 50HZ ssreesererees 14 95 Stock
15. Lee Highway Fourth Floor Fairfax Virginia 22031 Telephone 703 273 5600 Telephone 800 255 5660 FAX 703 273 3866 MEMORY CARDS Photo by ARTHUR ZIPPEL PHOTOGRAPHY INC SAVE YOUR VALUABLE DATA WITH AN ACTIVE DATA MEMORY CARD Memory cards for the HP 95LX are our specialty We have cards ranging from 128K to 2MB in stock now With a memory card from Active Data you won t have to worry about losing your valuable data All of our cards are designed and manufactured to the rigid JEIDA and PCMCIA specifications and come with an exclusive 14 month warranty Before any memory card is shipped from our facility it is tested 100 and packaged with complete instructions Customer satisfaction is very important to us When you call Active Data you will receive prompt service with honest answers to your questions and YOU WILL SAVE MONEY A LOT OF MONEY Don t believe us Why not call and find out for yourself Don t waste time and money When you need a memory card you need Active Data mM ACTIVE fe ADATA PHONE 714 997 7718 FAX 714 997 0238 scnve vata consuver pvision 4642 EAST CHAPMAN SUITE 304 HP is a re as bie ae lrademark of the HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY All other tr aike are recogmzed ORANGE CA 92669 USA amp gt LA gt AT r x Ra oh a Ji i d E WFLA AE Wi mac KO 61492 hia
16. Mac utilities for use with the HP 48SX Programmable Calcu lator The serial cable is all you need To get started connect the seri al cable from your 95LX to the mo dem port of your Mac Later on you may want to invest in an A B transfer switch 2 1 Mini DIN 8 Switch Box to connect both your modem and HP serial cable to the same outlet on your Mac Mac Warehouse advertises one for 29 Second Install Your Software Ask a friend with a PC to transfer the MLPC EXE file from the DOS Diskette of MACLINK PLUS PC into your 95LX s C drive That s the ONLY file you ll need in the 95LX What s nice is that the program takes up only 32K of memory in your 95LX If you re like me and don t know anyone who has both an IBM com patible and a 95LX you ll have to go through an extra step to install the MLPC EXE file into your 95LX through your Mac See Setting Up Your 95LX Without an IBM Compat ible at the end of this article for instructions On your Mac follow the instruc tions in MacLinkPC Plus to install the software onto your Mac hard drive Configuring Your Macintosh 1 Double click on the MacLinkPlus PC application icon 2 Click the SET MODE radio button and select MACLINK MODE 3 Click the SET COMMUNICATIONS radio button and select the follow ing from the pop up menus REMOTE IBM PC TRANSFER VIA DIRECT CABLE SPEED 19 200 baud PORT PHONE 4 Save your settings at this point and
17. Mr Curry If you are a dealer looking for a full service distributor of HP 95LX software and hardware contact Barbara McLongstreet Pacific Software Supply Phone 800 327 0425 Fax 805 549 0549 MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 43 THIRD PARTY What s New external power supply Device driv er included allows Handydisc to be seen as another drive and respond to DOS commands or the 95LX s Filer Application Availability 0000005 NOW EVI wa liye 6 See eA EDs 350 00 Serial cable adapter zaa e 21 50 Prices exclude shipping and local taxes CONTACT Christie Electronics Ltd Bonds Mill Stonehouse Gloucestershire GL10 3RG UK Phone 44 453 823611 Fax 44 453 825768 RAM Cards Included below are some additional RAM card vendors For other ven dors please see the Fall 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper page 40 Imaging Supplies Express Markets SRAM memory cards for the 95LX See advertising page 38 WERT RETO a nei ehri ak NOW Pricing 128K SRAM Card 99 00 256K SRAM Card 179 00 512K SRAM Card 229 00 1MB SRAM Card 432 00 2MB SRAM Card 795 00 CONTACT Imaging Supplies Express 3892 Del Amo Blvd Unit 705 Torrance CA 90503 U S A Phone 800 462 4309 or 310 370 6882 Fax 310 370 3265 Databook Offers a wide range of memory cards See advertising page 42 Availability i icee Kaede as NOW Pricin
18. ON DISK contains the entire editorial content of the corresponding printed issue The text is stored in ASCII format and is readable by any word processor To locate an item of interest just do an automated search for any keyword The information you re looking for will appear on your screen instantly But fast access to items of interest is only the beginning because you also get 2 Access to almost every freeware and shareware program mentioned in the printed issue That s right virtually every freeware and shareware program mentioned in each printed issue is included in the corresponding HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK along with documentation These programs are useful Many of them have been written or specially adapted just for the HP 95LX To give you an idea just how useful these programs can be we ve summarized the contents of recent issues see box at right Please note l If you decide to use a shareware program you are required to pay the shareware author his fee Fees usually range from 5 to 45 a fraction of the pe e FREE BONUS cost of equivalent commercial programs 2 We are unable to support you in using The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK software 3 Saves you time and money Dozens of man hours go into collecting organizing modifying and documenting the programs in each HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Having the disks saves you the time and expense of doing all this work yourself 4 In dep
19. Running Finish Line requires a CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT file See the Jan Feb issue Quick Tips under DOS Tips and Set Up for instructions on how to set up these files You can start FINISH EXE from your AUTOEXEC BAT file Alternatively what I do is to create batch files containing my DOS applications in which I want to use Finish Line In the batch file I load Finish Line then the applica tion then I unload Finish Line If you have a desktop you might want to install it there first to get used to its functioning and configuration screens The Future Glen Shires the program s author is seriously considering a 95LX only version of Finish Line that will work with System Manager compli ant applications That means you could use Finish Line with MEMO or LOTUS 1 2 3 Furthermore Fin ish Line would be able to memorize MENU key combinations so as soon as you ven 9 choices could pop up Whether a HP 95LX version is created depends on how much time it takes to make the conversion and how much interest there is I am encouraging Glen and am even considering marketing the product under our company s name since I 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 am so excited about the product Ordering Information Finish Line is presently shareware and the latest version is available on CompuServe GO IBMSYS Lib 1 File FINISH ZIP H It s also avail able on the March April HP Palm top Paper ON DISK If yo
20. S TOLL FREE EG Or order from one of our European distributors Contact 800 373 6114 them for pricing in local currency Country Phone FAX Thaddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 Luxembourg amp Belgium BYTECOM 32 0 10 223455 32 0 10 241730 800 373 6114 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 GAMES AG ZIP Chess and Space Invaders good graphics BJ95 ZIP A Blackjack game you can run from the System Manager Helps you count cards DIVDSK Checkers Go Moku Tetris Othello Mastermind Adventure and 9 other games Enjoy Plus travel organizer language compilers screen printing utilities other games and lots more See Issue 1 p 36 issue 2 0 43 and Issue 3 n d f plete listings HOW DOES IT COMPARE WITH THE SUBSCRIBER DISK The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK is not to be confused with the Subscriber Disk that you receive free in June with each year s subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper The annual Subscriber Disk is one or two 360K floppies containing some of the best freeware for the HP 95LX no shareware France PalmSoft 1 44 76 11 00 1 40 26 94 32 Germany W amp W Prods 02202 42021 02202 32794 Netherlands Eldata 31 0 206247284 31 0 206325111 More countries being added Write or Fax us for current listing aaa QUICK TIPS 444 Appt PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN APPT Each entry on the appointments to do list can be considered a project and the notes related t
21. Walters Houston TX SOLUTION TO HARD TO HEAR 95LX ALARM FUNCTION have found the alarm function of the 95LX to be pretty poor The only solution I ve found for wake up calls is to turn up the volume from the setup menu and set an alarm every minute for 5 minutes or lon ger for when you re belly down find that in a noisy office envi ronment can t hear my 95LX alarm go off when it s sitting on my desk a few feet in front of me Lee Buck CompuServe ID 76430 1067 HBattery BACKUP BATTERY Wisdom around here suggests that if you relied on the backup battery for a long period of time you may want to replace it early Radio Shack stocks the battery part num ber 23 162 Ed Greenberg CompuServe ID 76703 1070 ALKALINE BATTERIES LESS POLLUTING LESS POWERFUL Battery technology has taken some steps backward this year The new alkaline cells while certainly envi ronmentally much better reduced mercury are not as powerful as their predecessors They are also physically fragile Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 ALKALINE CELL RECOVERY LEADS TO FALSE BATTERY LEVEL READINGS Having the power level go up is normal Alkaline cells do recover a bit once you stop using them so heavily That can be a real problem for those who routinely use the AC supply like me The batteries recover while the machine is on AC and that leads to false high readings on the battery gauge Ted Di
22. Without the EOF marker the transla tion succeeded Robert Mueller Kai Tak Hong Kong You can also edit out the EOF marker in MEMO The EOF markers are en tered by pressing lt CTRL gt lt Z gt and look like lt right arrows Use lt DEL gt to remove it from the end of the file Hal Carrying case fits on belt I note that you have men tioned covers or carrying bags I purchased a pass port money bag that can be worn on a belt These are available in most travel stores are made from nylon and are very durable There are pockets for RAM cards and the 95LX fits perfectly 4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 We d Like to Publish Your Opinion of The HP Palmtop Paper Everyone benefits from a large readership of The HP Palmtop Paper The larger the readership the greater the knowledge base for The HP Palmtop Paper Here is how you can help We are preparing a new brochure about The HP Palmtop Paper It will consist of one to three sentence quotes from our readers If you like The HP Palmtop Paper tell us specifically what you find useful why HP 95LX users should subscribe etc If possible please include your Title Profession and Company Send your feedback to Hal Goldstein Thaddeus Computing PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Fax 515 472 1879 or CompuServe ID 75300 2443 The top price for such belt wallets runs around 15 in this area T D Cradduck Univ of Western Ontario L
23. amp European options on stocks futures commodities foreign exchange amp bonds Black Scholes and binomial models Hold ing cost and dividend adjustments Sensitivities historical amp implied volatilities mbs nalyst Mortgage backed securities Price yield dura tion WAL implied speed factors components CPR PSA FHA and Custom speeds See advertising page 47 Pl ae a ann eer NOW MORIO a sii sv bits os s4 te Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr Lotus add ins Yes Pricing bond nalyst 495 00 options nalyst 495 00 mbs nalyat i sss c0e 495 00 CONTACT Tech Hackers 50 Broad Street New York NY 10004 U S A Phone 212 344 9500 Fax 212 344 9519 Le Monde de la Finance au Bout des Doigts Three financial programs compris ing different equations and Lotus solutions libraries for the HP 95LX including the following PGO02 Financement des Entreprises et des Particuliers Provides practical solutions for credit and leasing for personal and corporate finance PG03 Finance Epargne Placement Provides multiple solu tions for professionals and students including Bonds bariation volatili ty and duration Matif Options Black Scholes valuation Coefficient B and many others PG04 Analyse Financi re Entreprise Provides a program of finance analysis based on French fiscal document CERFA and other solutions for corporate finance PG01 Solutions Fin
24. and the networks allowing wireless E mail paging dispatch sales force management and other mobile messaging and data communications applications to take place The Mobidem package comes with Viking Express wireless E mail software allowing Mobidem to interface with Mobitex networks throughout the U S A and Canada Availability i ssiditiitoisisi 4 92 Pricing Mobidem s nace aw wares eres 1 795 95LX with software 2 949 CONTACT Ericsson GE Mobile Communica tions Inc 15 E Midland Avenue Paramus NJ 07652 USA Phone 201 265 6600 Fax 201 265 9115 Notify for the Apple Macintosh Notify is a Apple Macintosh commu nications utility that enables many Mac application programs to deliver data via wireless communications to the HP 95LX The utility trans mits information from Mac calendar and phone book programs as well as spreadsheets and E mail systems via SkyTel s SkyStream service to Motorola s NewsStream receiver From there HP s Mobile Data Link software can extract the information for use on the HP 95LX in Lotus 1 2 3 PHONE APPT and MEMO Availatility 20 ace oulenn eee ees NOW Medium o ip ptaice Gua Cee 2 eh Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr N A AN APPLE MACINTOSH PROGRAM PUB fogs ba agate Dna awe AAs 5149 00 CONTACT Ex Machine Inc 45 East 89th Street 39 A New York NY 10128 U S A Phone 800 238 4738 or 718 965 0309 Fax 718 832 5465 Softwar
25. ask at your local computer store software store or HP calcu lator dealer Dealer inquires are welcome Soli Warehouse inc 3660 Walalae Ave Sie 304 Honolulu HI USA 96816 3236 Ph 806 734 5601 Fax 808 735 1105 DERIVE is a registered trademark ol Soft Warehousa Inc COLUMN Savvy User The Savvy User Struggles with Default Directories and Plays with HP CALC Tom works around the 95LX s tendency to mandate default directories and then relaxes with HP CALC By Thomas R Page Setting Default Drives A program should boot up with MY CHOICE of disk directory as the default drive This is true on any desktop computer but this not quite the case with the HP 95LX OK 1 2 3 lets you set the de fault directory by modifying the Lotus configuration file See the section titled Worksheet Global Default Directory on page 13 8 of your HP 95LX User s Guide And APPT and PHONE remember the last file used and will load that file the next time they are used Unfortunately MEMO forces you to change from C _DAT its default to whatever directory you use for primary data storage My solution is to create a User Defined Function Key or macro that clears C _DAT directory and changes to A WORK the WORK subdirectory on the RAM card in my Memory Card slot This macro can be created using the 95LX s learn option For more on creating CHAR macros see Getting Started page 41 this issue To v
26. at work to see my new appointments E On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 Day Three 2 19 92 7 45 p m Again my HP 95LX has helped with questions and kept me on track It also helped me contact the airlines during a break to upgrade to First Class again My 95LX has my flight info Frequent Flyer info and phone numbers to call No need to dig for a phone book my tickets and my Frequent Flyer card Pm now in Washington D C waiting Since it s late and I m tired I think Pll opt for the slower pace of Chess instead of Tetris And Ill try to read those E mail messages I downloaded last night 9 45 p m Portable Mail is pretty cool it looks just like UNIX system mail usr ucb mail with enhancements for DOS I had an earlier version that was written for an 80 x 25 screen and told the author of my difficul ties He sent me the present ver sion which includes a set screen 40 16 command that works great on the HP 95LX I haven t figured out how to reply to E mail yet It looks like the program requires an editor like the MS DOS Edlin program to pro vide that the 95LX s MEMO does n t cut it I wanted to put Edlin on my 95LX anyway and this is a good excuse I ll do that when I get back For now I can read my mail on the plane and use MEMO to take down any notes The guy across the aisle from me is recording his thoughts on a microcassette recorder He s proba bly going to have a secreta
27. connector for quick hook up to your desktop and an AC battery adaptor for power Station95 is compact and fits easily on your desk It weighs just 3 lbs So despite what conventional wisdom tells us instant gratification can sometimes be a good thing Like now Call Sparcom Available at leading retailers of Hewlett Packerd palmtop computers For more information contact Sparcom Corporation 897 NW Grant Ave Corvallis Oregon 97330 USA 800 827 8416 or 503 757 8416 Fax 503 753 7821 Sparcom Station95 is a registered trademark of Sparcom Corporation MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 29 HP 95LX SUPPORT CompuServe To ALL Subj TEST Section 11 Is this correct Y or N Type Y and press ENTER If some thing was incorrect you can change it here by selecting N CompuServe will confirm that your message has been sent with a response similar to this Message 126299 posted You have now completed your prac tice message Downloading an Important File From the 95LX Library The file you are about to retrieve will be very useful for you It con tains a listing of all the other pro grams and information files avail able in the 95LX Palmtop Library Type go hpsys and press ENTER to go back to the HPSYS forum 1 You ll get a prompt ending in Type Lib 14 and press ENTER 2 Type dow hpsii4 lis proto xmo and press oot CompuServe is now ready to send you the file 3 Press fn Tran
28. editor and key in this formula GrPrit Units Price Var Fix Press to exit the equation editor and press to start Solver To fill in the numbers use the RCL keys For example es or CT to highlight the Price line Then press M and This will automatically bring up 1 2 3 Mova the cursor to cell D3 Press ENTER again in Solver to paste the value on the Price line Do the same for Var and Fix Alternatively you can just type in the values at the cursor NOTE The values men tioned below may be off slightly be cause the numbers from Lotus have greater decimal accuracy l Orar ARCEN ie Nar FT aa Ft 1 042 1 Units 44 08 MARCH APRIL 1992 B20 F WEJ os S080 C20 FA HE 320 SU ise Now slide the highlighter to the GrPrft line key in 0 and then move the highlighter to Units Press and see Units 44 08 on the result line That s it Piece of cake Using the Solver Graph To look at the graph press Esc to quit Solver and press f0 to start Function Plotting Set XMIN 0 XMAX 100 YMIN 1000 YMAX 1000 Press fem until the Plot vari able line shows Units Set the Resolution at 10 Press F4 to Draw the graph Function plottins 500 What You See If you re used to Lotus graphs the HP CALC graph may leave you scratching your head It can only show one independent variable at a time and nothing is labelled How ever
29. file for the 95LX Note that the TXT extension has automatically been added to the default file name If your Mac file s name was longer than 8 letters it will automatically be pared down to the first 8 letters of the file name along with the extension Click OKHP150 and the translation and transfer will com mence 8 After the transfer has been com pleted click the DISCONNECT button on your Mac screen Enter on your 95LX Go to MEMO in your 95LX and retrieve your new TXT file to verify that the transfer was successful THAT S IT Later when you re confident with transferring word processing files to your 95LX exper iment with EXCEL Mac to Lotus 1 2 3 IBM transfers or PICT Mac to PC PAINTBRUSH PCX Clicking the left DIRECTION button translates or transfers 95LX files to the Mac Quick Backup of Your 95LX FILES to Your Mac Binary to Binary transfers from your 95LX to your Mac allows you to shift click multiple 95LX files to back them up onto a DOS formatted diskette inserted into your Mac s 1 4MB Superdrive A Few Minor Quirks 1 If BAT file you created doesn t save your Macintosh connection set tings as it often won t for me consider writing a short macro to save you the key punching steps 2 I ve experienced problems with my 95LX locking up after I ve con nected the serial cable from the Mac to the 95LX Reconnecting often solves the problem 3 I haven t had any problems
30. for a phone number 8 If you re running the Phone Book you ll need a DOS application 9 If the boss walks by you ll have a game on the screen 10 The program you want the most is the one that won t run on the 95LX Dave Goodman CompuServe ID 72330 130 WHAT DOES THE 95LX SERIAL NUMBER MEAN Look on the back of your 95LX below the cover to the AA batteries and you ll see an HP serial number For example ABA3121A00046 gives you the following information ABA The first three digits indicate option in this case the unit is an English language version 31 The 4th and 5th digits added to 1960 indicate the year the unit was made 1960 31 1991 21 The 6th and 7th digits indicate the week in that year the unit was made the 21st week is the week of May 19 24 A Country of origin A U S A 00046 A unique D number Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 25 HP 95LX SUPPORT CompuServe Accessing CompuServe with the HP 95LX Larry Lefkowitz shows how to use the 95LX to send messages and download files from CompuServe s HP 95LX Support Forum By Larry Lefkowitz If you re like me you purchased the HP 95LX for its portable organiza tional tools I saw its communica tions capability as an extra added bonus As a long time CompuServe user I planned to use it for limited CompuServe Information Service CIS access However
31. free Intro ductory Membership by calling 800 848 8199 and asking for representa tive 231 International users can call the 614 457 0802 in the U S Please see page 11 Fall 91 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper for specific interna tional numbers Summary The techniques outlined in this article allow you to enter any CompuServe forum and work in the online mode Your new found skills will allow you to ask any burning questions you have on how to use the 95LX We welcome you to drop by HP Systems Forum Part two of this article will appear in the next issue of The HP Palmtop Paper It will introduce you to a program for the 95LX that automates the message and Cmail functions described here Larry Lefkowitz has been an Allstate Insurance agent for the last 5 years Previously he was a pro grammer analyst for 5 years and also in computer retail direct sales for 2 years Uncompressing ZIP Files When you download a file from CompuServe or another bulletin board often the file actually contains several compressed files For example if you downloaded the HP 95LX j ame from the blackjack g CompuServe HPSYS forum you would download 9087 byte file BJ95 ZIP To be able to use the blackjack program you would first have to unZIP the BJ95 ZIP file When you unZIP BJ95 ZIP on your HP 95LX or desktop the 12 382 byte BJ EXM file and the 3183 byte BJ TXT file emerge The TXT file contains the documentation and the EXM f
32. in this graph the vertical axis represents Profit The horizontal KE on The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 35 COLUMN Looking Glass axis shows the number of Units The dotted line is the break even line where Profit is zero Now press and see COORD X 50 00 Y 0 00 on the top line of the graph Press to solve for the root of the equation You should see ROOT X 44 08 Y 0 00 That s the break even point Playing What If To see how much Profit I ll make after 1000 people register their copy of The Diversions Disk press again You should see TRACE X 43 89 Y 4 60 on the top line of the display Press twice to re scale the graph and then use the a to move the cross hair to X 883 33 Y will be 19 839 31 Now press open bracket You ll see an asterisk on the diagonal line Press again and then press close brack et to complete the boundaries of a Zoom Box The graph will explode and show you the area inside the Zoom Box Again press to get to the point where X 999 07 Then press ces to nudge up to where 1 000 62 At that point Y will be 22 611 82 Well a kid can dream can t he A Comparison Solving this problem with either Lotus 1 2 3 or Solver takes about the same amount of effort It just takes more work to describe the process in 1 2 3 than it does in Solver So what s the advantage to using one or the other Certainly Lotus 1 2 3 pro
33. of this product with a serial number less than 50 000 do not work with the 95LX Availability Palmtop Fax Data Modem 3 31 92 WorldPort 9600 NOW WorldPort 2400 NOW Pricing Palmtop Fax Data Modem 249 00 WorldPort 9600 559 00 a UE eer er oe Ce een 229 00 CONTACT U S Robotics 8100 N McCorm ick Blud Skokie IL 60076 2999 U S A US phone 800 342 5877 or 708 982 5010 Fax 708 982 5235 Drive95 A light weight battery powered portable floppy disk drive 3 5 stan dard for your HP 95LX or HP 48SX calculator Fits in a briefcase and operates up to 15 hours on a single charge An intelligent cache memo ry in Drive95 minimizes power consumption Comes with an AC adapter software and serial cable See advertising page 31 Availability ci c lt ca ea Patt aah 4 92 Pes os pk at gk Aaa Ee Sich 299 95 CONTACT Sparcom Corporation 897 NW Grant Avenue Corvallis OR 97330 U_S A Phone 800 827 8416 503 757 8416 Fax 503 753 7821 HandyDisc A portable disk drive which con nects to the 95LX s serial port and reads writes MS DOS compatible 3 5 disks Can be operated with internal alkaline batteries or an Publishers and Dealers Only Major Software Dis tributor is looking for HP 95LX software for distribution to dealers If you are a developer and would like to have your software in the distribution channel contact
34. of HP 95LX us ers We and your fellow HP 95LX users welcome your submissions We do not offer payment for articles your only reward is knowing that you ve helped others Here is how to develop an article If you have a good idea and want to go for it send us your article via CompuServe EMail disk or hard copy If we need clarification or have suggestions we ll get back to you We may want to use an article but for a variety of reasons you may not see it for many months after its submission Also understand that we cannot promise to run any Alternatively you can EMAIL or send or call Hal Goldstein or Richard Hall with an outline of your idea We will try to guide you as to when and whether we would use the article In general we have had very good experiences working with authors via Compu Serve electronic mail If you can especially if you write a Palmtop Profile send us a black and white photo of yourself CONTACT The HP Palmtop Paper Thaddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 USA Phone 800 373 6114 or 515 472 6330 Fax 515 472 1879 CompuServe Hal Gold stein ID 75300 2443 You ve read it in print how get it on disk The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 5 great benefits even the printed version doesn t have Now you can receive The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK with every printed issue Here are the benefits 1 Locate items of interest fast Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper
35. of occurrence Once Fin ish Line recognizes the first part of a word or phrase it pops up a win dow with possible choices to com plete the word or phrase You pick one of these choices with a hot key or you keep on typing If you contin ue typing the Prediction Window winks out until the next time Finish Line sees something familiar Pick from the choices and Finish Line completes the word phrase for you The following screen comes from a text editor I use in DOS Let s say I type e Finish Line remembers the most common words previously entered beginning with e Finish Line seems a very ul pr paren for HP 95L users ike tuping on the keyboar It would be great if the p enem work ute the builtin prog Unfortunately it only wor S It does no take that long e get used to the prediction window inish Line learns fast It doesn t need a total e If the word I was about to type was education I would simply type 7 on my numeric keypad If I wanted to type elephant I would type elephant in the normal way and the screen disappears as I type the word The next time I type e ele phant will likely be listed as an e alternative The screen popping up is dis tracting at first but once you get used to it Finish Line is quite help ful The more you use the program the smarter it gets Finish Line is simple to install and use It is very flexible That is it lets you customize how it
36. overwrites that file erasing its contents Let s try it by hand Go into MEMO and press File New Now type test file press File Save and take a look at your screen Notice that the cursor is highlighting the first file in your directory Press ENTER and you are asked whether you want to Replace current file Y N You MUST answer N here to cancel the Save If you enter Y the file that was high Then plug your printer into a second plug on the back of the drive and keep using it SRAM 500 and SRAM and FLASH card 550 models available Both include self installing sofware Full PCMCIA JEIDA Metaformat support ensures that the TMD 500 550 will work with the new palmtops in 1992 Pa WIDEST RANGE OF CARD SUPPLIERS T i The TMD 500 550 Card Drives have been tested with SRAM E and FLASH cards from 10 major card manufacturers When you buy a TMD 500 or TMD 550 ThinCardDRIVE you are assured of easy reliable operation with your cards in your Desktop and Palmtop computers HP 95 SUPPORT Databook Card Drives are the choice of HP 95 VARs and developers As the architect of the now industry standard Metaformat Databook has the most experience and broadest Memory Card product line in the industry With a TMD 500 or 550 you are assured of support now and into the future OEM and Distributor inquiries welcome WIDE RANGE OF MEMORY CARDS AVAILABLE TH ToC DRIVE gd ThieCad are iredemarks of Datebook nc Mic
37. plans to cover all the bases with planned releases of this connectivity kit for Windows and the Macintosh Their 75 page User s Guide is comprehensive and in cludes an ample number of illustra tions diagrams and highlighted notes If you can follow simple instruc tions you should have no problem installing this software on both your PC and the HP 95LX Once you ve installed and set up Nuvotech you ll need to modify or create APNAME LST like you did with IntelliLink Nuvotech s install program helps you install the necessary files on to your HP 95LX The process although a bit involved is much better than attempting to copy files over on your own as we ll see when we get to the next program re viewed here Nuvotech s Connectivity Kit is very intuitive The main menu screen with large directional arrows shows the directories on both the PC and HP 95LX see Figure 3 The command buttons are located be tween the directory listings Other options are listed at the bottom of the screen You ll always know whats going on in this program Nuvotech s easy to follow program structure makes it easy to use Feaciech Carmclivily Kil Version Li Cori ie WP is Pt ARAMA ee ee Figure 3 Nuvotech s Main Menue shows the PC left the 95LX right and the options center You can translate the following file formats using the Nuvotech Connec tivity Kit MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 REVIEWS
38. press fit retainers at each end Gently pry the case halves apart in that area Using a flat head screw driver will work but prying the case open can mar the outer plastic so be careful 7 The LCD screen connects to the main PC board via a small flexi ble cable The connector on the PC board has two small retain ing clips at each end To release the flexible cable use a small screw driver or pin to slide the two retaining clips away from the backup battery The repair for Jeffrey s problem was easy The wires going to the AC adapter socket were being crimped together by one of the socket mount ing guides It was a simple matter to reroute the wires The problem David addressed the speaker wires was easily confirmed by splitting the case Correcting the problem requires resoldering the break in the wires or replacing the wires a job for the tech guys at Corvallis I opened my case and confirmed that the left most of the four pins in the 95LX s serial port had been pushed in All four pins are soldered to the PC board and extrude through a small piece of plastic The fourth pin had been pushed back in through the plastic so that only the tip of the pin was showing The fourth pin had also broken free of the solder but was still making contact with the board I very care fully used a small flat head screw driver to push the pin back out away from the board until the end protruding out the serial port was the
39. programs discussed here To do so you would need to use COMM the built in communications program on the 95LX along with another communi cations program on your PC Most of this article will focus on specific connectivity programs which are designed to make it more conve nient for your 95LX and your PC to work together The importance of being able to move files back and forth between your HP 95LX and your PC goes beyond just transferring files Here are the most important areas associ ated with connectivity on the 95LX 1 Backing up Files Backing up your HP 95LX files to your PC is a necessity not a luxury While it s true you can back up files to Drive A on your 95LX backing them up to your PC means you can also work with those files on your PC Also the files backed up on your PC s hard or floppy disks are probably more secure than a RAM card If the RAM card battery runs out you lose all of the data You do have the option of back ing up your HP 95LX files using a RAM Card Drive This drive con nects to your PC You can transfer files back and forth using a 95LX RAM card like you would a floppy disk Many users will use both a RAM card drive and a connectivity pack age to increase flexibility and capa bility See McLean article on page 12 of the Jan Feb 1992 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper 2 Transfering New Files There will be many points where you might want to transfer new files between your HP 9
40. same length as the other three pins Since the pin seemed to be making good contact with the board I did not attempt re soldering the pin I re assembled the 95LX and it worked fine I left my backup bat tery in while I opened the case and the files on my C Drive were intact when I reassembled my 95LX Putting It All Back Together Just reverse the procedure keeping in mind a few points 1 Make sure the PC board is rest ing in its slots laying flat If it s a little out of position the case won t close 2 Connect the Screen cable first then lay the screen and key board on top of the bottom part of the case 3 Make sure the Press fit retain ers in the bottom part of the case are properly aligned with the black plastic pins in the top part of the case 4 Carefully press the cases togeth er at the press fit retainers next to the MENU and keys 5 Make sure everything is aligned properly Then replace screws rubber feet and batteries 6 The system should now come back on You may have to re configure your 95LX and restore files lost in the process It Was Fun But What If What if when we connected every thing the 95LX didn t work Well 8 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 we would have sent it in to HP s Service Center in Corvallis and they would have fixed it for a price Remember if you damage anything while opening your 95LX that dam age will not be covered under the
41. sssssssssserrrererevserseernennsnnserersressss DODD Touchbase WorldPort Modems HP s Suggested standard issue modem for HP HEA communications Stock 2461 WorldPort 1200 Modem List 159 severe 134 95 Stock 2462 WorldPort 2400 Modem List 229 ssrererseseee 194 95 Stock 2489 WorldPort 2400 V 42 BIS List 349 299 95 Stock 2481 Tandy Acoustic Coupler 2 ssssssssssssssesseessesessesoroersresnenssss 79 95 2400 bps miniModem This is a Low Cost pocket sized Solution from rj Stock MM24B 2400bps miniModem s s s sess 139 95 Diconix 180si Portable Printer Features Centronics and Serial interfaces Uses HP Ink Jet Printheads Stock K180SI Diconix Serial Printer List 450 0rersecesseseeres 339 RAM Cards Interfacing Equipment Palmtree Products Stock 2363 LMB RAM Palmtree List 649 cscssssssssserversvesseesneenssees 629 Stock 2364 2MB RAM Palmtree List 995 0 ssccsssesesssssssererveeees SIAS Hewlett Packard Stock 1002A 128K RAM Card List 200 ccresesssrsssrserenseseseeroD L299 Stock 1003A 512K RAM Card List 400 0ccsssssrsersesesseerensesenseee 249 95 Sparcom Stock 2368 256K RAM Card List 199 sssssssesecsrrersverssesernrsenereeeed LOD Stock 2369 LM RAM Card List 500 ccsssssessrsrssssssssvereeresesesereesers 379 ACE card Stock 2521 512K RAM ACE card ccssssssssssssssvevesoseesessersversseenesesessenrer S204 Stock 2522
42. tape and place it length wise along the battery end of the RAM card so that it covers about 1 8 of an inch on the top and bottom of the card The tape is thin enough to not cause binding when the card is inserted or removed When you remove the tape to change the backup battery there will be minimal adhesive left on the card Lighter fluid can be used to remove any adhesive residue It should not dissolve the RAM card s plastic case or remove any paint Fred Stone Hewlett Packard Co Orlando FL U S A MARCH APRIL 1992 DISPLAY 1000 BILL SCREEN In the SET UP application press lt SHIFT gt lt FILER gt Owner Picture File and replace the displayed filename with C _SYS 1000 PCX Now quit all applications and the 1000 bill should be displayed The blue application keys can still be used to start applications To re store the normal business card start up display go into SET UP and press Owner Picture File lt ESC gt lt ENTER gt MURPHY S LAWS OF THE HP 95LX 1 If someone asks to see your 95LX it will lock up when you turn it on 2 If you re only 3 points from a high score your batteries will die 3 Ifan appointment is important you ll forget to turn the alarm on 4 If you turn the alarm on you ll set the time to 3 a m instead of 3 p m 5 If you try to transmit files the serial port will be off 6 If the serial port is on your AC adapter is unplugged 7 If running DOS you ll be asked
43. test screen Move the highlight down to Keyboard and press En ter 101 will appear next to the keyboard That means you should press the left most key of the 1st top row i e the ESC key The number then changes to 102 and you press the 2nd key in the ist row the tab key and so on Con tinue on across the top row then move to the 2nd row etc If you hit any key other than the expected key the 95LX shows you the key number of the key you actually pressed Hit the wrong key 5 times and you ll get the User bad error message and the test will fail To see a limerick run the display test Keep pressing lt space bar gt to advance through the test displays Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 FUNCTION KEY LABELS There is a small 45 bevel just above the function keys Make a label with all your function key defi nitions on it and cut the label to size about 3 16 x 5 It fits very nicely on the bevel and the top closes with no problem You can print it out on paper with a self adhesive back or put double sided tape on the back A blank template also makes a nice place to write in newly created definitions R David Mitchell CompuServe ID 76067 11212 AVOID LOSS OF RAM CARD DATA WITH ELECTRICAL TAPE While removing the RAM card accidently pulled the cards backup battery out and lost all data on the card To avoid this cut a one to two inch strip of narrow black vinyl electrical
44. the Server Then all you need to do is type in com mands on the other machine You can use the DOS default character asterisk in file names to copy sev 16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Connectivity Kit Comparisons Name Prica HP intelli Nuvo ZIP 99 95 5149 05 99 30 ua yea wo yo mo Spinto 25pin adaptar yes Sofware on 35 disk yos yes Supports Windows no Supports a Mouse no_ COMM Ports h a a 3 a 8 IR Infrared port File Formats Supported i ay tet iee E e e Sale aga 3 J ASCI CDF Current ybook dBASE Excell HPQSLx Lotus 1 2 3 2 aradox 2 a SEa Ak rence Card eral files at once You also have options to list directories or even delete files while using ZIP Don t let the simple look of ZIP s menu fool you This program is loaded with many nice features and touches Using the command options in ZIP you can have the program copy files overwrite files only when the new copy has a more recent time date stamp and prompt you to confirm files individually There s even a command which lets you fetch files from the other computer while in server mode the Op tions choice in ZIP Finally ZIP commands can be used in batch files expands expanding ZIP s potential even more ZIP is a great program ideally suited for file transfer from one computer to another It s a simple lean and
45. very very effective pro gram the fastest of all the pro grams we looked at for this review Conclusion All of the programs reviewed here do the basic job of getting files from one computer to the other You need to evaluate your needs carefully and then look closely to see which pro gram most closely fits those specific needs Like all other computer soft ware it s a very subjective choice and what is right for one person won t be the answer for someone else Connectivity is an important issue on the HP 95LX and there are sure to be continuing developments when it comes to file transfer trans lation and merging This is the first in a continuing series of articles the HP Palmtop Paper will be doing on Connectivity for HP 95LX We will cover all of the developments as they unfold for both PCs and Macintosh computers We welcome your input questions tips and pointers which we will gladly share with our readers Bil Alvernaz is a Department Editor for The HP Palmtop Paper and writes the How Do You Do That column You can reach him at 209 394 8188 MCI MAIL 207 8825 or FAX 209 394 8918 Connectivity Kit Contact Pricing Information HP 95LX Connectivity Pack Retail price 99 95 available from HP dealers an other vendors Contact Hewlett Packard Corvallis Division 1000 N E Circle Bivd Corvallis OR 97330 U S A Phone 800 443 1254 IntelliLink for the HP 95LX Retail price 99 95 a
46. warn me when the batteries are low 3 4 full now Now to create a file of questions 100 to ask the students End User Rebate eee from Hewlett Packard 1 00 p m z rare re rer Ds for 95LX Well the upgrade came through First Class to Chicago First Class travel is very conducive to Tetris ve reached my all time high several times Batteries now half full To save power I use a batch file to start Tetris I call it 4 p P OSXL Acces i a sei ile DO A Cantant A Pac C AUTOTRIS BAT and heres what F1003A 542K R A i rea A E SESE E it looks like F1005A Dictionary Thesaurus Ci PA echo off Serial Cable HP 95XL to IBM Compatible 3 pin to 9 pin serctl o 82224A Serial Cable Adapter 9 pin to 24 pin a bin hptris serctl w Bag E erate ating Cru Pag 21 Dorado Tracing Group E1 Dorado Trading Group ERE o CALL TOLL FREE 1 800 227 8292 24 Hour Phone Fax Message Center 415 494 1995 Whenever I want to play Tetris I select AUTOTRIS and pressi Run I don t have to hunt throug subdirectories looking for Tetris MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 21 PROFILES On The Road breaks in random spots So the work I had done to set up the ap pointments in advance was wasted There ought to be a better way to create modify appointments It would be nice to specify that an appointment is 30 minutes long and then to change the starting time later Instead I have to change the starting a
47. warranty If you re 95LX is still under warranty and even if it isn t it s better to have Corvallis fix it They usually fix your 95LX within a three working days and then send it back two day UPS overnight if you pay for it Hal Goldstein pub lisher of The HP Palmtop Paper sent his HP 95LX in to correct a screen problem and got it back five days later If your 95LX doesn t seem to work properly see Appendix A in your HP 95LX User s Guide for diagnostic instructions and informa tion on obtaining service U S users requiring service can contact Hewlett Packard Corvallis Service Center 1030 N E Circle Blvd Corvallis OR 97330 U S A Phone 503 757 2002 Users outside the U S can contact your local HP sales office or dealer European 95LX users can contact HP s European headquarters for the location of the nearest service cen ter Do not send the 95LX in with out first contacting an HP office Hewlett Packard S A 150 Route du Nanit d Auril P O Box CH 1217 Meyrin 2 Geneva SWITZERLAND Phone 022 780 81 11 MEMORY Store up to 2 MB of data on your HP95LX with High performance credit card sized Static RAM IC cards available from 64KB to 2 MB Call or FAX ADL aon CORPORATION 602 926 9324 FAX 602 926 9359 CARDS FEATURE APNAME LST Setting Up System Manager Compliant Applications Using APNAME LST Editor s Note in the Jan Feb 92 issue we discussed System Mana
48. with 19 200 baud so far but 57 600 gave 18 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 me a few problems If it works well for you go for it Setting Up Your 95LX Without an IBM Compatible 1 SET UP YOUR 95LX by entering COMM and pressing Settings Config Port Set your Interface to COM1 Baud to 7 Direct Stop to 1 Parity to None and Char to 8 2 Save your settings by naming it MACCONN DCF or whatever 3 SET UP YOUR MACLINK PLUS PC software Use the Terminal mode Click on the Set Connections radio button and set the following options Remote Other Transfer Via Direct Cable Speed 57600 Port Phone Save your settings as Mac To 95 LX or whatever 4 CONNECTING THE TWO on your 95LX retrieve your Mac set tings and the sub menus TRANS FER XMODEM 5 You will then be prompted to Send or Receive Select Receive and type in MLPC EXE 6 On your Mac retrieve your 95LX settings and click on Set Communica tions and then Connect 7 You will then be prompted to Send or Receive Select Send and click on the drive in the dialog box that contains your MacLinkPlus PC s DOS diskette Scroll to MLPC EXE and double click that selection 8 Verify that your 95LX s FILER contains the new MLPC EXE file Product Information MacLink Plus PC comes with 5 25 amp 3 5 DOS diskettes 2 Mac dis kettes a manual 25 pin to mini 8 DIN cable 9 pin serial port adapter and mini DIN serial port adapte
49. you can send a private message to any other CompuServe member You may also send data and programs as well Quick Tips Using HP 95LX on CompuServe m To get onto CompuServe follow the directions in the start up kit and in this article In general after your modem makes connection get the USER ID prompt by typing CTAL C If you get the HOST SYSTEM prompt type CIS To exit at any prompt type OFF f your system locks up from within COMM press CTRL F7 to hang up Press MENU at any point to get to the main menu Then press Connect to get back to the communications screen m f you want to capture parts of your communications session such as ses sions described in this article press CTRL F5 Capture and enter the file name you want to save it in when asked CTRL F5 again tums off capture mode You can read the captured file later in MEMO people who can answer any ques tions you may have about forum use See sidebar on page 11 Fall 91 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper for more on The Practice Forum In order to perform the follow ing exercise you will need equip ment in addition to the 95LX most importantly a modem For details on the equipment required and set up see How Do You Use DATA COMM on page 33 of the Jan Feb issue of The HP Palmtop Paper When using the built in COMM program menu selections become available when you press venj It should also be noted that at any point on CompuServe
50. you don t mind somewhat of an awkward arcane interface ZIP provides the fastest file transfer using the tiniest amount of disk space 10K on each machine You ll need to dig up your own serial cable to use with this program Look elsewhere for file transla tion and merging features ZIP is strictly for moving files between machines The best news of all is that this program only costs 30 and payment for the program is voluntary for individual use The program is so good it s worth more than 30 ZIP isn t just for 95LX to PC transfer it s terrific for transfer ring files PC to PC too To install ZIPs copy its pro grams to the 95LX you will have to use another connectivity package the built in COMM program a RAM card or a modem Figure 4 ZIP Main and only Menu it s simple but it does the job Figure 4 shows what ZIP looks like when run from the DOS prompt on your PC This is the main and only menu you will work from ZIP needs to be run on both machines simulta neously Before starting ZIP on the 95LX you need to run ZIPCFG COM a special utility to set the ZIP to run in 40 column mode on the 95LX You can also use this file to set the colors for ZIP when you run it on your PC Working with ZIP is as simple as selecting Send on one machine and Receive on the other machine However this means you ll need to be doing some typing on each key board It s more ideal to set one machine to be
51. 2 9441604 ICR ight Pa as tats te task tal hava ays ele n a CONTACT Almetek Industiries Inc 2 Joy 48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Drive Hackettstown NJ 07840 Phone 800 248 2080 or 908 850 9700 Fax 908 850 9618 Custom Palmtop Database Program Lighthouse Software will develop test and document custom database applications in less than a month using a proprietary database en gine See advertising page 20 Availability 5 ean tye a od aed ata onze NOW Medium 454 ROM card floppy disk Runs under SysMpr No Prieme jp ereee eee eveatrawa atts varies CONTACT Lighthouse Software 3001 Red Hill Avenue Building 4 Suite 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626 U S A Phone 714 850 1767 DOS Programs on Memory Cards Palmtop Resources converts stan dard DOS applications to PCMCIA memory cards as well as Flash and OTP ROM cards Virtually any DOS application can be converted to memory cards Availapiny scan ad eb bog aes NOW Medium 60604ee uur Memory Card Runs under SysMgr Yes Sy a ee be ae Bed ed Bee oe Varies COMPANY Palmtop Resources 5910 North Central Expressway Suite 1000 Dallas TX 75206 U S A Phone 214 891 2218 ForeignLanguage on an IC CARD for the HP 95LX SENSN IMPOSSIBLE That s the reaction from virtually everyone But it s true Fully automated emane translation capability comparable to mainframes or PCs allin econ
52. 2 as oe NOW has Pnie n 8 obo ada ss ae Be S Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr No Pricing Insurance Companion 399 00 Financial Companion 399 00 Business Companion 399 00 Productivity Companion 399 00 CONTACT Phoenix Systems 77 NE Second Street Corvallis OR 97330 U S A Phone 800 397 4179 or 503 742 0448 Fax 503 752 0053 Mechanical Engineer s Equation Library The software pulls together general ly recognized mechanical engineer ing equations and material property values from many sources and in cludes equation EQN files and 1 2 3 WK1 files The WK1 files are database files with unit conver sions geometric property equations Bonds Oplians Analyze Investments on Your Palmtop with Function Add Ins for Lotus 1 2 3 bond nalyst US and Foreign Bonds Bills amp CD s Price Yield Duration Convexity Accrued Val32 VaIBP CBOT FINEX Factors Carry Forward Tails Strips Date and After Tax Calculations MORE SIA amp AIBD Compatible options nalyst American amp European options on stocks futures com modities forcign exchange amp bonds Black Scholes amp Binomial Models Holding cost amp dividend adjustments Sensitivities Historical amp Implied Volatilities MBS Tech Hackers Inc 50 Broad Street New York NY 10004 212 344 9500 and material properties Equations were selected for the library on the basis of gener
53. 2880 Zanker Road Suite 103 San Jose CA 95134 U S A Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 muLISP 90 A programming language used for implementing expert systems and other artificial intelligence applica tions muLisp provides much of the functionality of common LISP with over 400 built in LISP functions special forms macros and control variables muLisp supports the 240 x 128 graphics mode of the HP 95LX See advertising page 36 AVSUBEIBOY i iioi Kaha aide 18 ares NOW PAQUIN 3 536 Figo pitted tate Floppy Disk Runs under SysMpr No Suggested Retail Price 400 CONTACT Soft Warehouse 3660 Waialae Avenue Suite 304 Honolulu HI 96816 U S A Phone 808 734 5801 Fax 808 735 1105 Swift Basic BASIC programming language de signed for the 95LX A fast and modern implementation of Basic that supports structured program ming different data types virtual arrays a complete set of graphics commands sound and full access to all HP 95LX ports and interrupts Develops System Manager compli ant programs Availability s4 0 s 0w0se0a 8 3 92 Medium is ues sake aa Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr Yes creates EXM files Pricing iulia aHa akaki 215 00 CONTACT Swift Neustifigasse 56 A 1070 Vienna AUSTRIA Phone 43 222 526 12 71 Fax 43 222 526 12 72 Specialized Complete HP 95LX Palmtop Real Estate Kit Inclu
54. 3 888 0666 Fax 603 888 9817 MacLink Plus PC Connectivity program that enables your Mac and 95LX to translate certain Mac formatted files into the 95LX and transfer the files between the two Once set up your 95LX works as if it were another Mac drive You can back up your 95LX onto your Mac s hard drive or a DOS formatted diskette in the Mac s 1 4MB Superdrive Does not come with the necessary HP to Mac cable HP 82209A Availability 04 0400000000 NOW Medinmi es Snir eso stats eed Floppy Disk Runs under SysMpr 5 No Retail Price ae Sap eee R404 Ca ot 199 00 CONTACT DataViz Inc 35 Corporate Drive Trumbull CT 06611 U S A Phone 800 733 0030 or 203 268 0030 Fax 203 268 4345 Head Office Coordinator Software that supports multiple users of Pocket Sales Force the sales management software de scribed on page 41 of the Fall 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper This software enables organizations to exchange data with each PSF user and a central PC unit via RAM card drive Includes a user definable Report Generator with consolida Learn To Program In Forth On Your 95LX Tum your HP 95LX into a portable soft ware development system with UTIL a System Manager compliant implementa tion of the Forth language Includes Forth compiler decompiler 8086 assembler disassembler and __ user s guide with source code examples Creates compact System Manager compliant exe
55. 56 2 1264 7 20 44 1 1320 3 1320 3 21 52 9 1584 4 1375 9 22 61 7 1848 4 1431 6 23 70 5 2112 5 1487 2 24 79 4 2376 5 1542 9 25 88 2 2640 6 1598 5 Figure 2 Figure 3 below is a listing of formu las used to develop this spreadsheet The Widths for columns A and B are 5 and 8 In the listing the characters represent a series of dashes which have been copied across the cells in rows 2 and 8 Note the formulas in cells D5 and D7 This type of formula is new to Lotus ver 2 2 The formulas link the cells in the current worksheet to a cell or range of cells in a work sheet that is on the disk The gener al format is lt lt Filename gt gt Cell or range name The formula in cell D10 solves for the break even point The cell is formatted to show only whole num bers with commas The formula says If the value in D3 the selling Ral On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 price is 0 then show 0 Otherwise show the result of dividing the Fixed Costs by the difference be tween the Price and the Variable Costs D5 D3 D7 The bottom part of the spread sheet consists of three columns of numbers These are used to develop a graph of break even analysis You don t have to key in the formulas for each cell Just key in the formulas and labels for the cells in rows 13 through 16 Wherever you see D 7 type in D7 and press f4 to make the cell reference absolute Copy the three cells from row 16 down to row 25 To d
56. 5LX Paralink 3 is for those times you need to HP Paralink 3 6 with most sie press ies ight small and easy to carry Paralink 3 retails for 59 95 To Order Call 011 44 438 815444 Fax 011 44 438 815222 AmEx Visa MasterCard Accepted WIDSET SOFTWARE 121 London Road Knebworth Herts SG3 6EX United Kingdom Games Klondike Solitaire 95 Supports a standard seven pile game of Klondike without screen scrolling or other concessions to the small 95LX screen and keyboard The program is shareware and is available on CompuServe HPSYS forum 95LX Library 14 as KLON95 ZIP It is also available directly from its author Avatlabibty 659 0 43 4 ey oye ee ne NOW ee eee ee eee CIS floppy disk Runs under SysMgr Yes PROG saaa ovine ae deans en dns 11 00 Shareware fee 10 if you download from CompuServe CONTACT Edward W Greenberg Box 286 18 San Jose CA 95159 U S A Phone 408 283 0184 CompuServe ID 76703 1070 ACE GAMEcard I Fourteen games are provided on a ROM card for the 95LX including Blackjack Checkers HPtris and Craps Games selected from a Win dows icon menu popped up from within built in applications See advertising page 3 Avnet as PEER T ET sa hae 4 92 PAD MERDE E a W s we oa ROM Card Runs under SysMgr 0 5 Yes POT oo sires yk au cima guiceered 79 i On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc
57. 5LX and your PC This is handy for those times when you ve started a 1 2 3 spreadsheet while traveling and then want to finish it up on your desktop PC or when you ve just started a spreadsheet in the office and plan to finish it on the road If you use Hewlett Packard s Connectivity Pack you can use the 95LX Phone Book and Appointment Book applications on your PC Then whenever you make changes to PHONE or APPT on either your 95LX or PC you can easily transfer them to the other machine 3 Translating Files Because of the translation features in most of these connectivity pack ages you can work with your favor ite programs on your PC and then translate their data files to the HP 95LX Appointment Book and Phone Book formats Some of the file for mats that can be translated to and from 95LX file formats are Current Daybook a dBASE m Excel Metro Packrat Paradox m PC Tools Sidekick 2 0 You need to check the specific con nectivity program you re interested in to be sure of just which files it translates MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 11 REVIEWS Connectivity Packs As an example let s say you use Borland s Sidekick on your PC to keep track of your appointments You can translate Sidekick s datafile to the format used by the 95LX s APPT function and then transfer it to the 95LX APPT should then be able to use the calendar created on your desktop PC You can just as easily
58. 7 36 in the HP 9 5LX User s Guide 7 30 p m Central We just arrived late and my con nection is at 7 55 at the other end of the airport If I don t make it at least I have my 95LX with phone numbers of friends in Chicago 7 55 p m I made it I m in Coach this time but at least I m on my way to Pitts burgh I hope my luggage is too Time to update the Local City to Pittsburgh Horrors Voted the most livable city by Rand MacNally and it s not listed I ll have to edit the entry for Philadelphia how sad 10 45 Eastern My luggage made it Off to the ho tel after a stop by my fraternity 1 15a m I decide to log in to work and sure enough I have 15 new messages Pm staying in a hotel with the room phone modem ready Unfor tunately the phone lines are not clean I can only establish a connec tion at 1200 baud and this will slow me down Day Two 2 18 92 11 00 p m This is my first opportunity to up date my diary today That s not to say I haven t had a chance to use my 95LX but that it s been a hectic day of interviews and meeting friends My plan worked well with some minor hitches When I arrived on campus I learned that my appoint ments weren t all 30 minutes apart they left some 15 minute Attention VARs OEMs Call Us for Factory Di Direct OEM Pricing HP 95LX Palmtop 512K Pesonal Computer at home Pm using B CURSOR which came with my ACE 512K memory card to
59. 8224LAU AC Adaptor for the UK 240v SOHZ ccssseserererree 14 95 Stock 82241LAJ AC Adaptor for Japan 100v 50 60HZZ 0s00s0seerees 14 95 Stock 82241LAG AC Adaptor for Australia 240y 50Hz Call us 8 to 5 Monday through Friday West Const Time for ordering and technical assitance 30 Day money back guarantee overnight shipping available EduC ALG 27953 Cabot Rd Laguna Niguel CA 92677 800 535 9650 ext M PROFILES On the Road Diary of a User or On the Road With my HP 95LX His Mission To return to his Alma Mater and interview candidates for employement His Plan Utilize his HP95LX to automate and assist wherever possible Editor s Note Palmtop Profiles is a new column that lets 95LX users share with others how they use their HP Palmtop If you want to write your Palmtop autobiography and share your insights and experiences with fellow users this is the place Some of the things we ll be looking for all not necessary in Palmtop Profiles submissions are 1 Ways you use the 95LX that will trigger ideas in others on how to better use their 95LX Tips and tricks A Go fo to other fields Interesting or unique uses of the 95LX How you use the 95LX specific to your occupation if possible with implications Please see the box on the next page for more information on submissions Hal By Todd Bernhard Recruiting Business Trip 2 17 92 2 19 92 I ve been given the o
60. ACE will send you FREE BATTERIES for five years so that you always have a spare Just return the registration card at the time of purchase to set up your free battery program Software Two free utility programs are in cluded with ACE s RAM cards B Cursor turns HP95LX s line cursor into a block cursor which then decreases y SN in size as battery level reduces tle D S Another program CC allows i 4 aa z u sers to easily copy data between two RAM cards on the HP95LX Also included on a diskette are the best shareware programs for the HP95LX Always look to ACE for the latest in palmtop solutions To Order Call ACE TOLL FREE 1 800 825 9977 NOE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road Suite 103 San Jose CA 95134 408 4289722 FAX 408 428 9721 ACEcard conforms to PCMCIA JEIDA specifications Dealer inquines welcome Stacker LZS is a trademark of Stac Electronics DoubleCard is a trademark of ACE Technologies Inc ACEcard is a trademark of ACE Technologies Inc Publisher s Message _ Kudos to HP for providing an upgrade path to its U S users at a reasonable price Hopefully a similar offer will be made soon to the 95LX s sizable interna tional base When HP performs the upgrade from 512K to 1 MB of RAM HP replaces the entire main logic board That board con tains the CPU the brains of the HP 95LX the ROM that contains the built in software and the 95LX s RAM memo ry That m
61. Allow 2 3 weeks for delivery H g Name i Address g i City state al Zip _ Daytime Phone l Payment By _ Visa Ll MasterCard _ American Express i g Cadet i _ Exp Date E Signature a g pignature _ E U Check Enc payable to Contact Software B Discount Price 99 00 g Shipping amp Handling 5 50 TX residents add 8 17 sales tax E total Please Call for International Orders zm E E E EE HE HF ss amp amp MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 COLUMN Cooking Glass Through The Looking Glass Ed compares using Lotus and HP CALC to do break even analysis on the HP 95LX By Ed Keefe Number Crunching on the HP 95LX This article takes a look at two of the number crunching tools in your HP 95LX Lotus 1 2 3 and Solver Almost everyone who owns a 95LX knows how to use 1 2 3 Not everyone has had the time to come up to speed with Solver Maybe this trip through the looking glass will pique your interest in one of the nooks and crannies of the HP 95LX Along the way you ll develop a Lotus spreadsheet to do break even analysis Then you ll do the same break even analysis using Solver Rather than just read about 1 2 3 and Solver you ll gain some firsthand experience and be able to assess the strengths and weakness es of each tool For those of you who have used Solver on the HP 19BII some of this article will be old news The article may even sound like the babbling of a kid who has ju
62. HP 95LX Library 14 of the HPSYS forum UnZIPing is simple Let s use our BJ95 ZIP example It is a compressed file made up of a program BJ95 EXM and BJ95 TXT To extract and expand both files from BJ95 ZIP type the following command at the DOS prompt ZIPPER BJ95 ZIPPER or PKWARE s PKUNZIP will automatically add the ZIP to the end of the filename so there is no need to type it Alternatively selective extraction is useful on the 95LX with its limited file space To extract only BU95 EXM type the following command at the DOS prompt ZIPPER BJ95 BJ95 EXM If you just wanted to find out what files are buried within BJ95 you would type ZIPPER V BJ95 To find out the various ZIPPER options just type ZIPPER Available on the Mar Apr 1992 edition of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Finish Line This software program remembers the words you use and finishes typing your words for you saving you time on the 95LX s diminutive keyboard By Hal Goldstein The one downside of the compact 95LX for me is its keyboard The size of the keyboard slows down typing and discourages entering lots of text Columnist Ed Keefe intro duced me to a possible solution A software program that types much of your text for you Innovative De sign s Finish Line could prove a boon for the HP 95LX When in MS DOS Finish Line learns the words and phrases you type into your HP 95LX and the likelihood
63. LL is not the only appropriate response at this point but is the one we will use during this practice session It lets you address a question or comment to anyone on the forum Many times you will want to direct the message to a particular forum member To do this you may enter their name followed by their CompuServe user I D and press enter like this John Doe 70000 123 If you just enter a person s name without their user I D the person may not be alerted that you have sent them a message when they enter the forum CompuServe will then prompt you for the subject like this Subject Type in Test and press NTER The subject of a message can be no more than 24 characters Finally you will be presented with a list of forum sections Type 11 and press eten The test mes sage will be sent to section 11 called My TEST Message This section is set up on the Practice Forum specifically for test messages like the one you have just composed CompuServe will then show you the message on the following page instant connections The Sparcom Station95 links your HP 95LX to your desktop PC for instant communication This palmtop docking station replaces the usual web of loose cables and plugs with a permanent 4 pin serial connector Saves your battery power too Simply slide the palm top onto the Station95 it clips securely into place Station95 Included with the Station95 is a DB 9 serial
64. LP will find the key codes for various keys Also at the touch of a key it will let you find either the hexadecimal or decimal value of any ASCII character you desire On the HP 95LX it shows the Code Page 850 characters Besides this PROHLP will convert any number to hex FFFF from one base to an other By On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 up Lower EKE The Programmers Helper program is available in the HPSYS Library 14 forum The source code Turbo C 2 0 comes with the program I have a reason for this beneficence I m hoping that some other programmer will explain to the rest of us in relatively simple terms how to get the computer to show the key codes for the blue application keys and the MENU key I ve tried various methods and none of them seem to work This programmer needs help RUN95 Here s a problem There are a num ber of UNIX like programs that use switches and command line options None of these programs can be run from FILER since there is no way to enter command line arguments The only way to use GREP for instance is to press S and key in the program name and its command line switches and arguments I have enough of these programs on my 95LX that it was becoming a nuisance to use them So I wrote two programs RUN E and EXEC to solve the problem of how to use UNIX like programs from FILER Both programs do essentially the same thing They prompt for input store it
65. LYE Owner Retail Pricing Nuvotech 2015 Bridgeway Sausalito California 94965 Voice 415 331 7815 Fax 415 331 6445 REVIEWS Connectivity Packs Backing up you files using the HP Connectivity Pack s DC95 Program DC95 DCS95 are file transfer programs included with the HP Connectivity Pack See Chapter 5 of the Connectivity Pack User s Manual for more details To back up the entire contents of the 95LX create two sub directories on the PC s hard drive C HP95A to store the 95LX s A drive and C HP95C to store the 95LX s C drive Here is how to backup the 95LX s entire RAM card to the PC assuming C is the last desktop drive Type the following command form the DOS prompt on your desktop XCOPY D C HP95A S E This will copy all files from the 95LX s A drive including all sub directories to the PC To copy the 95LX s C drive into the HP95C sub directory on the PC type the following command on the PC XCOPY E C HP95C S E If you know how to create batch files you can put both lines into a file call it BACKUP BAT and then just type BACKUP from the DOS prompt nother nice feature of using DC95 is that you can run a word processor like WordPerfect 5 1 on the desktop and spell check a file from the 95LX without transferring it Just run WordPerfect and read a MEMO file in from the Palmtop s built in C drive Then spell check it and save it back to that drive in ASCII format You could also use PCTools She
66. MEMO FILER HP CALC and SET UP All reputable computer compa nies from time to time revise ROMs They do so to fix any prob lems they ve discovered or to im prove things HP has issued several revisions of the HP 95LX ROM HP did an exceptional job get ting it right the first time Except for one problem in some of the very early units described below users can feel very comfortable that their unit contains a stable problem free ROM Having said this there are some minor ROM software revisions im provements that have been made since the HP 95LX was introduced April 1991 When you send in your unit for a 512K to 1 MB upgrade you will receive the latest ROM software revisions This is so be cause HP upgrades each unit by replacing the main system board which contains RAM ROM CPU and I O circuitry See photo below Figure 1 The Main System Board for the HP 95LX Here is an unofficial list of some of the improvements in later ROM revisions as discovered by Compu Serve users Serial Port now only turns on when REMOTE or SYSTEM are invoked from FILER otherwise it stays off thus conserving bat teries Previously it turned on whenever FILER was invoked The 5 minute default timeout is changed to 3 minutes The problem with DOS COPY with V option is fixed The COPY V could cause a system to lock up in previous version The save function for large APPT or PHONE files is sped up qu
67. N E That file contains the break even formula along with a couple of other equations that I ve found useful Maybe you will too Here is a 1 2 3 spreadsheet that shows the breakdown of the costs If you have your HP 95LX handy key this in and check the numbers Af ter you enter Lotus press ven Worksheet Global Format Currency 2 to format the worksheet A B C 1 Fixed Costs 500 00 Hardware 2 70 00 Development Software J 11 86 Photo Ready Copy 4 25 24 Review Copies 5 435 00 Development time 6 1 042 10 TOTAL FIXED 7 8 Var Costs 0 90 Disk 9 0 63 Mailer 10 1 21 US Postage 1 3 57 Printing 12 6 31 TOTAL VAR Figure 1 The formulas in cells B9 and B12 are respectively SUM B1 B5 and SUM B8 B11 While you re keying 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 this in press vu Range Name Create FIXCOSTS for cell B9 and press pew Range Name Create VARCOSTS for cell B12 This will let you link these cells with the follow ing worksheet Save this spreadsheet as COSTS WK1 amp and then press va Worksheet Erase Yes to clear 1 2 to start a new worksheet The break even analysis spread sheet looks like this A B C D BREAK EVEN ANALYSIS 2 g SELLING PRICE PER UNIT 29 95 4 5 TOTAL FIXED COSTS 1 042 6 7 VARIABLE COST PER UNIT 6 31 8 9 10 BREAK EVEN QUANTITY 44 11 12 13 X B 14 BE SALES COST 15 0 0 00 1042 1 16 8 8 264 1 1097 7 17 17 6 528 1 1153 4 18 26 5 792 2 1209 0 19 35 5 10
68. Only and enter say the Zip Code or Area Code of a specific area and hit lt ENTER gt You ll get a list of the contacts in that area This method isn t perfect If you entered 202 the area code for Washington D C you might also get the names of people with 202 somewhere else in their phone number address or Zip Code enter all my phone numbers with the area codes in brackets 202 When do Only searches look for 202 with the brackets never get wrong information in these lists Rich Hall Editor The HP Palmtop Paper DOUBLE TAB ALERT don t know if this is a bug or just something couldn t find in the manual but it seems that if you double tab on a line other than the top line in the Address section of PHONE before you save the entry you will lose all lines of the Address section except the top line They just disappear Try it yourself Bill Noseworthy CompuServe ID 72737 2166 kPrinter FASTER PRINTING Are you frustrated by the slowness of your printer when connected to the 95LX When you notice this happening press any key on the 95LX and watch your printer return to life in the fast lane John Pomeroy State College PA U S A Programming PROGRAMMING BOOK WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD This book software package is worth its weight in gold if you are writing programs for the 95LX Undocumented DOS is filled with tools that will help you fathom the depths of SYSMGR One gem is
69. P 95LX somewhat easier All of the programmers tools mentioned below are made available to the program ming community free of charge Patching Turbo Pascal 3 02a On page 31 of the Fall 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper I described a procedure to modify Turbo Pascal TP version 3 02a so it would run on the HP 95LX s sixteen line dis play Any program compiled with this modified version of TP 3 02 will also use a sixteen line display by default There are other modifications that can be made to TP 3 02a For instance you can change the default colors automate loading the error message file and even add a new command to TP 3 02 s menu The new command is eXecute Execute lets the user drop to DOS and return to Turbo Pascal 3 02 by typ ing exit To speed up and simplify the whole modification process I found INSTX COM E archieved in TP95 INST ZIP below a program that makes patching TP 3 02a a breeze The process involves running the INSTX COM program on a standard PC computer INSTX makes a copy of TURBO COM and modifies the copy leaving the original file intact I ve enhanced INSTX so that it includes the patches for making TP 3 02a run on the HP 95LX The file TP95INST ZIP H con tains a complete set of instructions for modifying Turbo Pascal 3 02a using INSTX COM as well as the Borland TINST COM program If you re looking for a copy of Turbo Pascal 3 02a contact Joe Wright 711 Chatswort
70. PS5INST ZIP Utility modify Turbo Pascal 3 02a for 16 line display Free 38 TPATCH ZIP Utility modify Turbo Pascal 3 02a for 16 line display Free na UNZIP EXE Utility dacompresses ZIP files Free na ZIPPER COM Utility inset eae ZIP files i Free 3 HPSL14 LIS Text latest HP 95LX CompuServe library files listing Free na HPSL15 LIS Text latest library files listing for programmer s section Free na ADVERT ZIP Text in depth descriptions products advertised this issue na na TP2 ZIP Text The HP Palmtop Paper Mar Apr 1992 na na README ZIP Text cover letter for HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK na na Software mentioned in this issue and included in other issues of The HP Palmtop Paper On Disk AG ZIP Jan Feb 92 Chess and Space Invaders Shareware 20 ATO68B EXE Fall 91 automates ooh ea activity Free 28 COMMO ZIP eb 92 small and roboust communications Shareware 28 CONNES ps o paperon O taal M aerate z file compression reg HPTRIX ZIP lanFeb 92 a Tetris ike game Free 20 VDE ZIP Fall 91 compact powerful text editor Shareware 28 The Fall 1991 HP P Paper ON DISK consisted of over 20 files in those mentioned on pa 33 of the Fall 1991 issue of The Jan Feb 1992 HP Palo Papar ON ORK consisted of ovar 24 snc ose menor on pag 43 of the Jan Feb issue of The HP Palmtop Paper monitor and record background radiation using a special inter face adapter cable the Radalert Geiger counter and the HP 95LX RAD95 also monitors RADON using any CW
71. SSING VDE Compact powerful text editor a great alternative to MEMO VDE LX ZIP Makes VDE work like Word Perfect COMMUNICATIONS COMMO 2ZIP Full featured communications program richer scripting language than the 95LX s built in program easier to automate your activities UTILITIES FINISH ZIP Completes word after you type first few letters MENU95 ZIP Lets you run DOS programs without having to close the built in applications you re working on DIET Compresses files DIET can double your disk space TIMEOUT ZIP Lets you adjust automatic shut off time on your HP 95LX saves batteries HPSL14 L S Description of HP 95LX CompuServe Library ATO Automates CompuServe activities Allows you to perform functions off line saving you line charges Each 1992 subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK includes Issue 1 Fall 1991 absolutely FREE __lf you have already purchased Issue 1 you may deduct 33 from the price of your 1 year or 2 year subscription Outside U S and Canada deduct 38 Satisfaction guaranteed Should you ever become dissatisfied with The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK _ justletus know The unused portion of your payment will be promptly refunded Customers outside North America he as ra mpo a int kad Soait nt TO SUBSC RI BE wt yas Aid 5 shipping tor each su ordered nday USE THE ENCLOSED money order must be in U S dollars drawn on a U S bank C ARD OR C ALL U
72. SYS 95LX library which will convert HP phonebook files to Mac files MACPBK SIT E If the format you need is not supported you can modify the HyperTalk script to get It R David Mitchell CompuServe ID 76067 1121 DC95 CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM CAUSES POWER DRAIN There is a warning in the documen tation page 5 5 that DC95 causes considerable power drain on the 95LX when it is running The opera tor is warned to use an external AC power supply What the documenta tion fails to emphasize is that DC95 will force the 95LX to power up independently was surprised when after using DC95 to backup my 95LX to my PC repeatedly turned my 95LX off only to have it turn itself back on again after about one second Only by disconnecting the serial line or by unloading DC95 from memory command DC95 U can this be avoided The documen tation is correct but could have been more explanatory Trevor Cradduck Univ Western Ontario London Ontario CANADA 95LX AND 48SX CAN COMMUNICATE HP says it won t work but the 95LX and 48SX communicate via infrared with NO trouble One of the embarrassing points is that the 48SX s implementation of Kermit is better more complete than the 95LX s To transfer files to the 48SX put the 48SX in Kermit Server mode and use the Transfer Kermit Send command on the 95LX Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 SOLVING CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS lf your Connectivity Pack
73. THE News from HP Upgrade HP9SLX to 1MB 95LX front cover Rebate offer 5 Advantages of Upgrading 6 Features Opening Up the 95LX Using APNAME LST Reviews Connectivity Packs 11 Mac to 95LX Connectivity Profiles On The Road Diary 2 Quiek Tips osewa ees HP 95LX Support Accessing CompuServe DOS Connection Finish Line s 2 deca en 34 Columns Looking Glass 34 Savvy User 37 Programmer s Corner 38 How Do You Do That 39 Getting Started Third Party 95LX Products Hardware f 2 8 8 8 8 6b ee oe r e a Ur A E MAR APR 1992 P Palmtop HP Announces New 1MB 95LX U S Users Can Upgrade HP announces a new 95LX with 1MB of internal memory and a program where current U S users can upgrade their 95LXs for 190 HP also introduces a 1MB RAM Card HP 95LX Upgrade By Richard Hall Since the introduction of the 95LX in April of 1991 increased memory has been the most asked for enhancement by 95LX users As of March 4 1992 HP will offer a 95LX with 1MB of internal RAM memory The list price of the new 95LX will be 799 Current owners of the HP 95LX in the U S can upgrade their Palmtops before December 31 1992 for 190 Upgrades will receive a 90 day warranty or the balance remaining on the original warranty which ever is greater To upg
74. a musical two toned beep indicat ing the 95LX is ready to memo rize the series of commands you want to automate If you get a single toned beep a User Defined Function Key is already assigned to that key and you ll have to go into Set Up to delete it before you can enter a new one See below for information on how to delete User Defined Function Keys 3 Press ew File Save Yes the series of commands you want to automate With each key press you ll hear a low pitched beep 4 Repeat step 2 to save the User Defined Function Key Now hold down and press F10 You ll see the HP 95LX automatical ly saving your file You can use the sticky CHAR feature Press cian let go and press fu Your file gets saved The Shift key is also sticky Hold down let go and type any letter This generates a capital letter Let s create a written reminder that pressing the F10 User Defined Function Key saves a file 1 Press Z fiLEA to see the SET UP menu 2 Press Char to see the User Defined Function Key menu At the bottom next to F10 and next to it MENU FS ENTER y the commands you entered your User Defined Function Key above 3 Move the cursor to the F10 line and press ENTER 4 Under Comment type Save file Replace existing file You can type any message you wish to remind you of what the User Defined Function Key does 5 Press again You will see that the comment you enter
75. al use fulness to mechanical engineers and applicability to HP CALC s solver i e algebraic equations Equa tions which require a high degree of visualization are avoided because graphical concepts are difficult to document in a clear fashion in HP CALC The equations take up about 19K of disk space the reference tables about 30K See advertising page 19 Av ilabihty bcs cle Anpa Whew NOW Medium 44 208e08eeae Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr Yes HP Cale equations and Lotus spreadsheets Pricing 545 issee 8e5 aii ahii 29 95 CONTACT EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 Meeting Maker for the Mac This Macintosh network application that helps plan schedule and con firm meetings Its latest release has been upgraded to include new fea tures including the ability to export calendars to the HP 95LX Availability cu sea aceewas NOW Medium aA Sey ee Floppy Disk DOES NOT RUN ON THE 95LX Pein dene oxy pana Same 82K 93 495 CONTACT On Technology 155 Second Street Cambridge MA 02141 U S A Phone 617 876 0900 Fax 617 876 0391 MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 THIRD PARTY What s New Smart Rounds A physician s database and refer ence that can track hospital visits and procedures print out or inter face CPT4 codes and descriptions and give finger tip access to 700 commonly used dia
76. ames on a single ROM card GAMEcard volume 1 G1001 uu li To Order Call ACE TOLL FREE 1 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road Suite 103 gan Jose CA 95134 U S A 408 428 9722 FAX 408 428 9721 GAMEcard is a trademark of ACE Technologies Inc Copyright 1992 ACE Technologies Inc MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 3 LETTERS Continued applications was appealing so I devised a way to work with the 95LX Just about every PIM and database can export to an ASCII file I use Micro logic s Info Select as my desktop PIM The 95LX s MEMO function can read ASCII So after I update my To Do list Phone Num ber List Business Card List or any of my Calen dars usually at the end of a day in the office I export these four as ASCII files to a sub directory on my AST HARD DRIVE I then Copy these files to the 95LX using DC95 EXE In order to do this with out having to enter a thou sand keystrokes I have created the following User Defined Function Keys CHAR Fl CUSTOM F KEYS Shows this list CHAR F2 RUN DC95 EXE CHAR F3 OPEN 1992 CALENDAR CHAR F4 OPEN ADD TO AST CHAR F5 OPEN PHONE LIST CHAR F OPEN TODO LIST CHAR F7 OPEN FORECAST WKI CHAR F8 OPEN BUSINESS CARDS CHAR F9 RUN DOS 3 3 CHAR Fi0 CONNECT TO WINDOWS TERMINAL PROGRAM I use the following PALM BAT file on my AST to copy files from the AST to the PALMTOP cd cpack dc95
77. an APNAME LST file on the C Drive for EXM programs on the C drive and an APNAME LST file on the A Drive RAM Card for EXM files residing there When you press a hotkey combination the System Manager will read both APNAME LST files and load the appropriate EXM file Total number of entries in both APNAME LST files can still only 8 3 The C Drives APNAME LST must reside in C _DAT The A Drive s in A Any APNAME LST elsewhere will not be read 4 The maximum number of en tries allowed is eight The ones in C _DAT APNAME LST are counted first Any entries greater than eight will be ignored 5 Your AUTOEXEC BAT directly influences the operation of your hotkeys and MUST be in this order SET and PROMPT statements PATH statement DIET if applicable Other TSRs PAUSE SYSMGR If you issue secondary PROMPT or SET statements prior to loading SYSMGR your APNAME hotkeys will not work 6 Ifa line in an APNAME LST file refers to a nonexisting program all listings after it will not work This can happen if you move or delete a program The C _DAT APNAME file is read only upon starting SYSMGR while the APNAME LST file in the A drive file is read every time the card is inserted 7 An APNAME LST program can not be compressed unless the de compression utility is memory resi dent STACKER and DIET when resident are OK PKLite is not This can be troublesome if you remove Stacker or Diet and have any EXM
78. ancieres Generals Complete package in cluding the three programs listed above Included in each of these programs is a translation into French of the macros used in the built in _CFLOW and STAT worksheets courtesy of Hewlett Packard Availability 64 cus ceacssesew ns NOW Mei oak cic inii eats werey Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No Pricing plus tax PUG p eiectuusctsedewad s ff 2 087 E 094 55 N F a18 4 ff 835 PRA LRD PE S Gon ycgle ade F ff 835 WEAN 5 6S betas doo ud Sree amis ff 835 CONTACT Bruckert Diffusion 25 Avenue Victor Hugo 92170 Vanves FRANCE Phone 33 1 40 21 24 08 Fax 33 1 40 95 70 25 Micro Hedge Analyzes individual options with quick edit of underlying price vola tility and time or interest rate Specific changes in options prices are instantly generated Also will define volatility skew select major option pricing models and provide easy viewing of corresponding sensi tivities Derivative management feature allows a wide variety of option parameters to be set for what if scenarios E n E ig E an oso ctercto saat xp NOW Madin a re eae Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr No PRCA ais tale ud eed e hea ery eae 1 900 CONTACT Micro Hedge 440 South LaSalle Street Suite 1767 Chicago IL 60605 U S A Phone 312 362 3577 Fax 312 362 2379 Contact Valerie Attia 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Print to Parallel Printers from the HP 9
79. but C FUNGAMES ARCADE HP TETRIS EXM is not The above rules and guidelines are the result of many hours of frustra tion by the those of us who have been the charter owners of this marvelous computer Study them and take heed as they will save you not only time but may save your files on C drive as well Connecting Your HP 95LX to a PC Which of these four connectivity kits for the HP 95LX is best for you By Bil Alvernaz You ve probably discovered that to get the most out of your HP 95LX you need a way to send files back and forth between the 95LX and your desktop PC Whether you re backing up or transferring files it s vital to have an easy to use link be tween your 95LX and PC Connectivity is a word that spooks more people than it should It means nothing more than work ing with computers that are con nected to one another There are connectivity packages now available for the HP 95LX which provide a variety of options ranging from straight file transfer to and from PCs to file translation and merging The problem remaining for many 95LX users is lack of knowl edge Where do you start What needs to be done And of course what s the fastest and least painless way to do it What s It Take To Get Started Many 95LX users think it takes an advanced degree to hook the Palm top up to a PC But it s really a jig saw puzzle with just three pieces Here s what you ll need Connect
80. called INTERSPY a TSR scripting language that lets you compile a report of any and all DOS functions and interrupts during program execution without modify ing code The results can even be conditionally acted upon to produce a complete picture The author is Andrew Schulman and the publisher is Addison Wesley bought my copy at Frys in Palo Alto There are many other useful tools If you try it please share your results here Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 71551 467 E Misc FIND OUT WHO DEVELOPED THE 95LX SOFTWARE In the original 95LXs you can find the names of the people who de veloped the built in applications and System Manager hidden in the 95LX From the topcard opening screen with all applications un loaded just press lt ALT gt lt Lotus gt twice This no longer works in later or upgraded units Hal Goldstein Editor The HP Palmtop Paper AIRPORT SECURITY RISKS Since the 95LX is built like a calculator it will set off the walk through and handheld metal detectors I ve passed mine through the x ray machine and have never had a problem or been asked to turn it on fly two or three times a month with several stops normal and have had my machine since May 1991 Vaughn Buck CompuServe ID 73407 2441 TEST THE KEYBOARD You can test the keyboard very quickly Exit all the applications and turn off the machine Hold down the ESC key and press the ON key then let up ESC This brings up the self
81. ck up files clearly request HP Service to save your files and put them back on your upgraded 95LX HP Service is very conscientious and will probably be able to do so New One Megabyte HP 95LX The only difference between the new and the original 95LX is the amount of internal RAM memory The original 95LX had 512K of RAM The new HP 95LX has 1MB 1 024K of RAM You can split the RAM memory of both 95LXs between system RAM the RAM you use to run application programs and RAM disk for stor ing files The new 95LX can be configured for a maximum of 626K of system RAM still leaving a mini mum 398K of RAM disk for storing files Rebate Offered on 512K 95LX in U S HP will continue to offer the 512K version of the 95LX for a suggested retail price of 699 100 less than the 1MB 95LX HP will offer a 100 rebate to anyone purchasing the 512K Palmtop PC between March 1 and May 31 1992 This will make the cost of buying a 512K 95LX and upgrading it 789 10 less than buying a new 1MB 95LX at list price Rebate offer good in the U S only To apply for the rebate on the 512K 95LX you ll need the following SAVE DATA SAVE BATTman fo the RESCUE A rebate coupon available from your 95LX dealer Original or photocopied sales receipt reflecting purchase date End flap to the box the 95LX came in the end with the UPC code and HP logo Send all of the above to the address provided on the c
82. ckens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 SComm MODEMS AND THE 95LX THREE COMMON PROBLEMS There are three problems with us ing modems with the 95LX First 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 battery powered modems look for the computer to assert the DTR line The modem uses that as an ON switch Since the 95LX does n t have a DTR line most battery powered modems will never turn on The WorldPort works because it can look at the TXD pin instead of DTR Other modems can be made to work by running a line from the modem s battery to the DTR pin thus fooling the modem Second line powered modems the kind with no battery and no AC power expect to get their power from the RS 232 interface The 95LX doesn t have enough power to share Third many modems expect hardware handshaking via RTS CTS The 95LX doesn t support this handshaking protocol Most modems allow the user to disable the RTS CTS handshaking but many of them only let you disable it from a system that supports RTS CTS You could wind up having to do the initial configuration using a PC to drive the modem Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 COMM DOWNLOADS Yes one can download using COMM while other System Manag er compliant applications are load ed Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 EsConnectivity CONVERTING PHONE FILES FOR THE MAC There is a hypercard stack in the HP
83. cutable files and loaders for COM or EXE files Small kernel of under 11K maxi mizes space for data and programs Free games music and graphics tools Uses text source files created and modified with the 9SLX memo editor or any ASCII editor At just 70 80 outside USA UTIL lets you harness all the power of your 95LX To order your copy call today Essex Marketing Services Inc 272 Old Farms Road Simsbury CT 06070 203 651 8284 MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 45 THIRD PARTY What s New tions a text processor and document filing system Software allows for 40 user definable data fields and up loading and downloading of external data files See advertising page 12 Availability 4 4 April 1992 Mothin a oF Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr Yes RPM 5 5 os 6 Sas a s 395 00 CONTACT Richard Hill CM Software Business Unit 1 33 Sanford Littlemore Oxford OX4 4XT United Kingdom 44 865 748875 Fax 44 865 748873 Financial Management Bond Options MBS nalyst These add ins for Lotus 1 2 3 help you analyze investments on your 95LX Including bond nalyst for working with US and foreign bonds bills amp CD s Analyzes price yield duration k convexity accrued Val32 ValBP CBOT FINEX factors carry forward tails strips data and after tax calculations and more SIA amp AIBD compatible options nalyst for working with American
84. des real estate Lotus tem plates buyer qualification loan amortization and CCIM type invest ment analysis More templates in development Availability NOW Mediti sirtar bvr es Runs under SysMgr 5 Yes Lotus templates Pricing i Piet anmeeebon es 585 00 CONTACT Real Estate Computers Solutions 288 Clayton Street Denver CO 80206 U S A Phone 303 321 3341 Curve Fit Linear regression software for the 95LX useful for scientists engi neers physicians and pharmacists Lets you automate least squares fit of 2 term curves for straight line exponential logarithmic or power equations 4 term equations for cubic polynomials and for Fourier series Save and retrieve data and equations to an ASCII file See advertising page 19 Availabe acrana r She NOW Medium Floppy disk or ROM card Runs under SysMgr 555 No Pricing On Floppy disk 169 00 On ROM Card 2 Sepa ebaa ke 235 00 CONTACT EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 U S A Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 Executive Companion Software Series Four programs designed for profes sionals in the insurance and finan cial services industry The programs generate charts graphs and re ports The following programs are available Insurance Companion Financial Companion Business Companion and Productivity Com panion Availability SoA 0 0 30a pian
85. duces graphs that are more presentable With a little effort they can be printed and framed However for my money the power of the HP CALC graph outweighs the pretti ness of the 1 2 3 graph The ad vantage is Solver Moreover if I want to see how much profit I ll make after 100 people have registered their copy of The Diversions Disk all I have to do in Solver is store 100 in Units and solve for GrPrft If I try the same thing in 1 2 3 it won t work Trying to put 100 in cell D10 either gets me a warning that the cell is protected or the 100 overwrites the formula in the cell thereby destroying the worksheet Again advantage Solver Solver gives completely inter changeable solutions With Solver it s possible to solve for any variable in terms of all the others Lotus all by itself can t do this Why Compare Maybe my enthusiasm has clouded my judgment It s based on only one example Perhaps if I had chosen to examine a problem involving a budget analysis my enthusiasm would be less Certainly for such an MAGAZINE EDITORS CHOICE Dra Vere analysis the advantage would go to Lotus 1 2 3 Finally why even set up an ei ther or debate between Solver and 1 2 3 With the HP 95LX we don t have to choose between one or the other We ve got them both in the palms of our hands Until next time Happy Porting Ed Keefe is an author program mer computer science instructor and long
86. e Communications AKTerm 95LX PC datacommunications software that allows the 95LX automatic or manual access to BTX in Germany Includes additional terminal config urations and high programming language for datacomm applica tions Baud rate maximum 57 600 Supports all Hayes and CCITT V25 modems Availability asses ees cee WED NOW TT oe ee Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr Sida aR in Se Gee aes No Pricing Item 1 008 ees Not known CONTACT Andr Koppel Software MMS Communication E ffestrasse 596 2000 Ham burg 26 GERMANY Phone 49 40 21 15 91 Fax 49 40 21 15 98 IntelliLink XLT Add in to the software that comes with the HP 95LX Connectivity Kit This software provides additional translators for Borland Sidekick 2 0 PIM WordPerfect Office Calendar Creator Plus and Paradox and dBASE databases including field mapping of 95LX data According to IntelliLink the field mapping capabilities will allow the back and forth transfer of infor mation such as customer lists order data inventory price lists or pa tient information between the 95LX and Paradox or dBASE databases See advertising page 14 Availability AS 1 es Beers ma 3 92 Medium s i cde a 02 a je piy a floppy dist Runs under SysMer EEN TTE oan Yes Add ins to Connectivity Kit software PRICI 4 acces aycns Caanwd bens 569 95 Plus shipping CONTACT IntelliLink Inc One Tara Boule vard Nashua NH 03062 Phone 60
87. e and pressing F3 You have to delete the user definition associated with a specific Function key before you can create a new one for that Function key If you create a number of User Defined Function Keys you can always press Z filEA Char to go to the menu screen and see what the definitions are I ve created a User Defined Function Key F1 to take me to the User Defined Func tion Key menu screen Warning The Save File User Defined Func tion Key described above has a danger This danger illustrates the perils of programming at all levels No matter how innocuous a User Defined Function Key seems you must consider all possible scenarios Suppose you start anew MEMO lighted by the cursor will be re placed gone forever by the new test file file you just created I solve this problem by creating a meaningless file one word file and saved it as AAAAAAAA TXT This way if I space out and use my Save File User Defined Function Key to save a new MEMO I have saved it into AAAAAAAA TXT with out writing over any other TXT file The real point here is that User Defined Function Keys gives you more power by permitting a single keystroke combination to stand for a specific series of keys But if that power is not used wisely bad things can happen In particular examine your User Defined Function Keys to see if they have the capability of destroying something as our Save File example does Then cons
88. e you will return to the previous menu If you do not type M at the end of any message you will continue reading messages until there are none left to read Before moving to the next step be sure you have read all messages or have typed M at the end of a message and pressed ENTER Composing a Message You will now compose a message on the Practice forum To move to the Practice Forum type go practice and press NTER You will leave the HP Systems Forum and move to the Practice Forum When you receive a prompt ending with you are ready to Compose a test message Type compose and then press ENER If you haven t joined this forum yet you ll be asked your name CompuServe will respond with the following The Practice Forum Compose Enter mes sage EXIT when done Type in your test message Since this is just a test message you may type just about anything Lines should be shorter than 80 charac ters and you must press ENTER after each line When you have completed entering your message type exit on numeric keypad not MENU key as the only entry on its own line and press ENTER You will then be presented with a prompt ending in At this prompt type post and press CompuServe will respond with the following Post for Name and or User ID Your response to this prompt will determine who the message will be directed to Type in all and press and the message posted for all to read A
89. e fields plus full tory Sophisticated single and multiple cniteria search filters Hot key access compliant with 95LX built in applications Lotus 1 2 3 interface Available Now TO ORDER or for more information contact C M Software Business Unit I 33 Sandford Road Littlemore Oxford OX4 4XT U K Tel 44 865 748875 Fax 44 865 748873 TO ORDER in U S or outside U K contact Sparcom Corp 897 NW Grant Ave Corvallis OR 97330 U S A Phone 800 827 8416 or 503 757 8416 Fax 503 753 7821 HP 95LX Connectivity Made Effortless For Everyone MACINTOSH The Connectivity Kit from Nuvotech for Only 99 The Connectivity Kits from Nuvotech make file transfer a reality You can now link your HP 95LX to your MS DOS machine your Macintosh or your desktop computer running Windows The Connectivity Kits transfer and translate wordprocessing text HyperCard files and Lotus spreadsheets effortlessly The Connectivity Kit allows you to merge upload or download the appointment book and phone book memo HP calculator and filer Each Connectivity Kit contains a 5 meter serial cable 9 pin to 25 pin adapter 5 4 and 34 disks with PC software and an owner s manual Call Nuvotech for the Connectivity Solution you ve been waiting for Call Nuvotech Marketing Today 1 800 4 NUVOTECH 9S Paluwvotereh lac Al trademarks and registered trademarks ar propert ly Ol heir reSpEC
90. eans if HP decides to intro duce new versions of the HP 95LX with better built in software or a faster pro cessor HP could offer a similar upgrade program This is pure speculation but within the realm of possibility With HP introducing the upgrade Managing Editor Richard Hall convinced me to let him take one of our HP 95LXs apart so we could see what HP would be doing Following instructions from fellow users Richard successfully accomplished this He reports on this unrecommended procedure for the adventuresome and foolhardy Connectivity the ability to transfer information between the HP Palmtop and other computers is fundamental to HP 95LX users Bil Alvernaz and Bernie Kim review several excellent alternatives for the PC and MAC Larry Lefkowitz takes us by the hand and shows us step by step how to use the HP 95LX on CompuServe He teaches us how to send messages and download files with a 95LX and modem Ed Keefe in Looking Glass and Tom Page in Savvy User show us some of the power of HP Solve Meanwhile Bil Alvernaz and I discuss how the CHAR key can be put to good use As described in the Fall 1991 issue the 1992 Subscribers Disk will be mailed out around the time of the May June issue I decided not to release a disk earlier because I felt that it would take some months before the most useful HP 95LX utilities would be developed I believe I was right and I promise you the disk will be worth waiting for Hal
91. ed A lot of work has gone into the de sign of IntelliLink and it removes the user from the complexities of accurately translating data between file formats Files from a program as sophisticated as Paradox are changed and re mapped to fit the file formats for the Phone Book on the HP 95LX all while the user just makes simple selections from menu screens That s the way every thing works in IntelliLink It allows the user to concentrate on getting the work done while the computer takes care of the details When you think about it it s too bad more programs don t work that way Nuvotech HP 95LX Connectivity Kit If you want to work in DOS on your PC with an intuitive user interface and easy to use translation and merge features Nuvotech s kit is an excellent choice Nuvotech s connectivity kit is intu itive and has the look and feel of Windows without the memory re quirements of Windows It comes with a serial cable which makes life easier when setting things up The only bad news with this kit is that you need 115K of disk space to install it on your HP 95LX Fortu nately after installation is com plete you can free up more than half of that leaving 47K on your 95LX You ll also need about 500K of disk space on your PC At press time Nuvotech needed 520K of RAM to run on a PC That will be reduced to somewhere in the neigh borhood of 400K soon Only a DOS version is available but Nuvotech
92. ed is now opposite F10 completely As simple and convenient to use as a floppy disk drive Adtron s SolidState Data Drives allow direct effortless access to memory card technology The SolidState Data Drives interface with standard 1 0 ports RS 232 serial line printer parallel and floppy disk controllers allowing almost any computer to utilize memory cards They read and write battery backed static RAM memory cards and incorporate programming logic control for EPROM OTP FLASH and EEPROM memory technologies from major manufacturers including Epson Fujitsu and Mitsubishi Available in both internal and external versions all models of the SDD family can support the MS DOS file structure and the 68 pin PCMCIA and JEIDA 4 0 standards For other applications the SDD Interface Protocol allows systems developers to create their own drivers Prices range from 295 to 350 in 1 9 quantities OEM discounts are available For free literature call 602 926 9324 a ADLION CORPORATION 128 West Boxelder Place Chandler Arizona 85224 602 926 9324 MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 41 COLUMN Getting Started replacing MENU FS ENTER y that had been there before 6 Type ESC and Quit Deleting a User Defined Func tion Key After you are in the User Defined Function Key menu step 2 above you can delete any of the key definitions you ve created by moving the cursor down to the F key of the definition you desire to delet
93. evelop the graph presse Graph Type Line The X range is B15 B25 The A and B ranges are C15 C25 and D15 D25 respective ly Press Graph Options Legend to set the A and B legends to SALES and COST Press ve Graph Options Title and make the First title BREAK EVEN ANALYSIS The X and Y axes are Units and Dollars respec tively When youre ready press amp to get back to the spread et Press F10 GRAPH and use the plus key to view the graph Readable graphs are one of the strong suits of Lotus 1 2 3 This graph shows the rising cost of pro ducing items The more quickly rising line shows the income Where the income line cuts across the cost line the break even point is reached A quick inspection shows that the break even point is at 44 1 units BREAKEVEN ANALYSIS eee oe 8 2 0 0 17 655 3152 476 518 8 8 26 544 161 7 79 4 Units o SALES COST To finish the worksheet presse Worksheet Global Protect Enable Then press mm Range Unprotect with each cells D3 D5 and D7 Save this worksheet by pressing mn File Save BRKVNAN E Leave 2 3 running A3 w5 SELLING PR De 3 C2 U 2995 AS W5 TOTAL FIX KED COS DS lt H Ske lt lt i RJ lt lt COSTS NKI JA ARCOSTS Break even Analysis Done with Solver With ati 1 2 3 still showing press caLc Press menu S to start the Solver Press eno ptions Format Fixed 2 for this crampi Press to bring up the equa tion
94. f this article 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 will guide you through a typical on line CompuServe session In the next issue you will be introduced to MESSAGE a program designed for the 95LX that allows automatic batch mode access of CompuServe Forums and Cmail Doing It By Hand If you are brand new to Compu Serve or just want to get a feel for using it this short tutorial will walk you through the steps Using the built in COMM program you will have an online session with Compu Serve You will read messages in the 95LX support section of the HP Systems Forum retrieve download a file from the HP 95LX Palmtop library and compose a message in the Practice Forum A note on the Practice Forum The Practice Forum was created so that CompuServe members could learn to use the Forum software without any connect charges It has the same organization as all CompuServe forums message area libraries etc and is staffed by CompuServe Forums and Cmail CompuServe Forums and Cmail Forums are stele eects nso ena ern eee Forums are divided into two major areas 1 Messaging are where members J can xango eas wnt nomatan daia fles are available 10 forum For further background on CompuServe Forums take a look at the article by Ted Palmtop Paper page 10 Teds he Sysop Imtop Paper page System Operator of the HP Systems Forum CompuServe Mail Cmail is a separate function from the Forums Using Cmail
95. g 51256 SRAM 25 vee cana 195 00 IMB vite ares aca ada Goa bed wide 340 00 SEITE SF atai bce 665 00 CONTACT Databook 10 Alder Bush Roches ter NY 14624 U S A Phone 716 889 4204 Fax 716 889 2593 RAD95 RAD95 is a hardware and software package that allows the HP 95LX to Software Included on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Mar Apr 1992 MESSG ZIP Application automates CompuServe for 95LX users Shareware 28 TAP4 EXE Application TAPCIS automates CompuServe on PC Shareware 28 TAPDOC EXE Application TAPCIS documentation Shareware 28 ZIP151 ZIP Application file transfer program Shareware 16 BKUP95 ZIP Batch file automates ZIP151 file transfer on 95LX Free 14 fom cane standard seven pile game of Klondike solitaire gt n LIFE95 ZIP Jame Watch objects rec BRKVNAN WK1 nA E bn is aha T Free 35 COSTS WKi Spreadsheet costs wn worksheet Free 34 ED EQN Spreadsheet formulas for break even a7 ae Free 34 CALRP Utility reads and prints out SideKick Plus Shareware 24 FINISH11 ZIP Utility finishes your keystrokes saves time Shareware 32 MACPBK S Er Iy parara eee oova RHONE 1o aE a Free 24 PKZ110 EXE Utility file compression progam Shareware f PROHLP ZIP Uitlity is poled too Free 38 RUNSS ZIP Utility shell programs contains RUN and EXEC Free 3 SMCLOCK ZIP ree aaan anaga cO SaNa Free 20 SUNCAL 95 converts APPT files to Sun Open Free 22 3 0 Calendar Manager P TIMOUT ZIP Utility auto shutoff time on 95LX Free 20 T
96. ger Compliancy page 18 how to install TigerFox and Hearts amp Bones in the 95LX s System Manager page 8 and two menuing systems that let you run DOS programs without having to exit the System Manager dding programs to the System Manager requires creating the AP NAME LST file not documented in the User Manual It must be done precisely to avoid problems includ ing data loss Thanks to Mark Scar dina for these guidelines By Mark Scardina The HP 95LX differs from other IBM PC compatibles in its ability to utilize System Manager Compliant software These programs have a EXM extension and like the 95LX s built in applications can only be Fits Like A Glove Palmtree Products Presents Carrying Cases for the HP 95LX They fit like a glove because they re designed perfectly For ease of portability For durability For protection and good looks Each case has space for IC cards business cards accessories and reciepts checkbook and still fits into pocket or purse These attractive cases are available in Custom Nylon Custom Leather and Deluxe Leather styles with padded protection secure compartments and an started with a designated hotkey Once installed these programs allow instant switching between them selves and the built in applications Installation of these programs requires that a special file named APNAME LST be set up on the 95LX This article assumes you understand
97. gnoses Supports multiple physicians and hospitals or locations Requires at least 338K system RAM available in the 95LX plus a 512K or greater RAM card installed See advertising page 19 Availability lt i cd hae ca eae dae NOW Medium Floppy disk or RAM card Runs under SysMgr No Pricing On Floppy disk 459 00 On RAM Card i iccursstaasas 669 00 CONTACT EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 U S A Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 Other Products and Services Memory Card Systems amp Design This bi monthly magazine focuses on memory card related issues The articles are targeted more towards people working in the memory card industry than end users Subscriptions in the U S are free to qualified individuals Availability AETR NOW MEAM raai maai Magazine Pricing e M AE E EE E EAT TS Free Canada Mexico 38 00 Other International 40 00 Payment in U S funds must accompany order CONTACT Memory Card Systems and amp Design Attn Subscription Dept 6300 S Syracuse Way Ste 650 Englewood CO 80111 U S A Phone 303 220 0600 Fax 303 773 9716 HP 95LX Palmtop PC mit Lotus 1 2 3 Written in German this book is for the advanced user hobby program mer of the 95LX Availability Pearse NOW POTN c Stoo sae eee tank wee Book PSCIT a acs DA a BA rahe atch td ee n a P
98. go the other direction and translate 95LX file formats into Sidekick or other formats The ability to translate file for mats provides a level of flexibility you ll quickly grow to like And it s easy to learn how to use this handy feature too 4 Merging Files Merge is another option you have with three of the connectivity pack ages reviewed here The Merge feature lets you combine two files Let s say you had made changes to the PHONE data file on your 95LX while traveling The Merge feature would let you combine your 95LX s PHONE data file with the one on your desktop PC and update the desktop s file The option of Merge is an extra level of flexibility that expands the potential of both your HP 95LX and your PC Connectivity Packages For The HP 95LX This section provides a brief over view of each of the four connectivity packages You ll find a Comparison Table of these packages at the end of the article Also you ll find a brief user profile immediately fol lowing the subheadings 95LX Connectivity Pack From Hewlett Packard If you are a DOS user and want the ability to use the 95LX s built in applications on your PC consider HP s 95LX Connectivity Kit The first connectivity package on the market for the 95LX was the made by Hewlett Packard And while HP included some clever and unique features in their package it quickly became obvious that users were having difficulty setting up and ge
99. gram and it works great My research indicates that cities pay 8 000 to 10 000 per hand held with software to do this job The 95LX is a great alternative for apartments mobile home parks ore even cost con scious municipalities I challenge professional pro grammers to come up with a RAM card based program 2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 HOW TO CONTACT US There are a number of ways to get in touch with The HP Palmtop Paper staff You can write mail us a disk with your comments send CompuServe mail fax or call Our address is Thaddeus Computing Inc The HP Palmtop Paper PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 U S A Fax 515 472 1879 Phone 515 472 6330 or 800 373 6114 CompuServe ID Hal Goldstein 75300 2443 To send material to our street address you may substitute 57 E Broadway for PO Box 869 To contribute to The HP Palmtop Paper contact Publisher Executive Editor Hal Goldstein or Managing Editor Richard Hall To advertise in The HP Palmtop Paper contact advertising sales director Brian Teitzman To subscribe change address or clear up any problem with your subscription contact our subscription department Director Kelly Johnson For support We are not staffed to answer your HP 95LX questions by phone If you send us a letter describing your problem we may publish and respond to it For faster response we suggest you 1 Call HP at 800 443 1254 for pre sales inf
100. h Place San Jose CA 95128 Joe has been li censed to distribute TP 3 02a The price of the program is 90 Another company TurboPower Software has several add on pro grams for TP 3 02a Perhaps the best of these add ons is TDEBUG a dynamic debugger Another add on Turbo Optimiz er will reduce the size of a Pascal executable file to a mere shadow of its former self It does this by weed ing out parts of the run time library that are not used TDEBUG requires a full sized screen Turbo Optimizer should run on the HP 95LX If you re interested in either of these products you can reach Turbo Pow er Software in the U S A at either 800 333 4160 or 719 260 6641 It Really Works To convince myself of the practicali ty of using TP 3 02a on the HP 95LX I took a copy of LIFEM2 PAS Prices 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 _ MEMORY CARDS Imaging aha ig Express Torrance CA USA FAX 310 370 3265 800 462 4309 eo originally written by Neil Ruben king and modified it to run on the 40x16 LCD display My version LIFE95 COM f has given me hours of battery wasting enjoyment The source and executable files for LIFE 95 are available on CompuServe in the HPSYS forum the HP 95LX section Library 14 Programmers Helper PROHLP EXE H The Programmers Helper is a simple program that does four tasks that ordinarily re quire paging through a book or using a computer calculator PROH
101. h this function I write equa tions and let the computer solve for any value in the equation See Through the Looking Glass page 34 for an example of using Solve for Break Even Analysis One of Solver s useful features is sharing variables among equa tions For example an equation calculating fxdcost could be written Computing a value for this variable will make it immediately available to the average cost equation or any other equation using fxdcost Vari able sharing allows breaking diffi cult equations into smaller more understandable equations Function Plotting Sine Wave Function plotting is another handy Solver feature The sine wave is nice little repeating equation It is based on an angle rotating through a circle of 360 degrees In other words the range of a single cycle is 0 to 360 I will use this equation to demonstrate using the calculator while in solver First let s get into RPN mode If you are not already in RPN press Options Alg RPN RPN will appear on the lower left of your screen To get out of RPN mode press Options Alg RPN again For this example usejew Options Degrees The sine wave equation is y sin x Enter this equation in the Solver editor and then press to select Graph Press XVAR until Y shows as the plot variable Set XMIN to 0 Now let s set XMAX to plot four complete cycles If one cycle is 360 degrees four cycles will be four times 360 Since the calcula tor is acti
102. ications the 95LX s size and power are ideal This machine has certainly caught the inter est of a colleague or two involved with Industrial Maintenance This could be a great opportunity for Mainte nance Software developers to make their products available to the personnel that need constant and rapid access to equipment data the mechanics on the plant floor and their sup port personnel This is one productivity tool I would Beta test in a heartbeat Maintenance Software de veloped with the HP 95LX in mind Mark Wilkinson CompuServe ID 71171 102 NEWS FROM HP 1MB 95LX U S User Upgrade Continued from front page Complete the form in the box on page 6 and package your 95LX for shipping original packaging materi al if available Enclosing the follow ing items a Copy of the completed form point 1 b 190 US payable in check money order Mastercard or Visa Checks and money orders should be made pay able to Hewlett Packard Company and should in clude local sales tax Please do not include cash c ALL ORDERS MUST include local sales tax in addition to the 190 3 INSURE the package for the full value of the 95LX 4 PREPAY the package for deliv ery to HP Corvallis Service Center 1030 NE Circle Blvd Corvallis OR 97330 U S A Phone 503 750 3850 5 Your 95LX will be upgraded in 2 3 working days and returned via UPS Back up all files you wish to keep If you cannot ba
103. ider carefully the various possibilities in which the User Defined Function Key might delete a file either pur posefully or accidentally Make ad justments accordingly You are now thinking a little like a programmer Some uses of User Defined Function Keys There are as many possible uses for User Defined Function Keys as there are keystrokes Look at com mon commands you use on a day to day basis similar to our ven File Save Return Y example Lotus users should consider making User Defined Function Keys for common keystrokes like sum or Work sheet Column Set MEMO users could create a User Defined Func tion Key with Sincerely followed by four times and your name If you need to turn the sound on and off frequently you can create User Defined Function Keys to do 50 Most issues of The HP Palmtop Paper will contain examples In the manual see page 21 14 for the dis cussion on creating User Defined Function Keys TRANSFER MEMORY CARDS BETWEEN DESKTOP AND PALMTOP PCs SIMPLE OPERATION Plug the TMD 500 or TMD 550 into your PC s printer port After a few minutes you want to save the MEMO using our newly created User Defined Function Key Don t do it Remember our User Defined Function Key was designed to replace an existing file Here s what can happen If our Save File User Defined Function Key is used on a new file MEMO will save the new file to the first MEMO file it finds in the MEMO directory It
104. iew the F key macro defi nitions press S Char Here is the macro I wrote just as it ap pears on the 95LX s Macro Defini tion screen MENU FO BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP A WORK Here s a macro to switch you be tween two or more phone books and to display a list of phone books that you have If you have made changes to the active phone book be sure to save it before attempting to execute this macro If you don t the macro will crash MENU FO BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP BACKSP A WORK PBK ENTER HP Calculator The program I use the most on my 95LX is the HP calculator Pm a long time HP calculator user and I have configured my calculator to RPN reverse Polish notation This method of entering numbers works best for me I prefer to key a num ber and then decide what I want to do with it If you have never used an RPN calculator I recommend experimenting with the RPN option It can really speed up some calcula tions To switch between algebraic and RPN options in HP CALC press ven Options Alg RPN Appendix D of the HP 95LX User s Guide explains RPN Understanding how a stack works helps get the most from RPN A detailed explanation of the stack begins on page D 6 To view the stack in operation in HP CALC press Menu Math Using Solver My favorite feature of the HP calcu lator program is the solver function Wit
105. ile is the program PKZIP from PKWARE is the most popular of the file archiving file compression programs Most files in the HPSYS HP 95LX Data Libraries DL14 and DL15 are ZIPped To summarize ZIP is a compression technique that performs two basic functions 1 Compresses a file so it will take up less disk space 2 Consolidates several files into one file Since the resulting file is smaller it will take less time to transmit over a modem saving you connect charges And since one ZIPPED file may contain many compressed files it makes downloading multiple file programs very simple A file compressed in the ZIP format can be recognized by its name ie TEST ZIP and may be uncompressed with a ZIP extraction program The original ZIP software comes from PKWARE Inc of Glendale Wisconsin ZIP software is shareware You can download PKZ110 EXE from the HP 95LX Library 2 of the HPSYS forum on CompuServe PKZ110 EXE is a self extracting file That means after downloading the file to your computer type PKZ110 at the DOS prompt and it will automatically expand and separate all the compressed files that make it up Doing so will create a number of files including a ZIPper and an unZ Pper PKZ110 is well over 100K If you are only interested in unZIPping or if you are downloading to your 95LX and are short of space there is at least one other alternative A free ZIP extraction program called ZIPPER COM 11K is available in the
106. ite a bit The long wait searching for non existent APPT entries has been significantly shortened Early units had an additional prob lem of an insufficient battery low warning resulting in the potential loss of open unsaved files HP will fix this problem at no charge by sending them the unit From what we can tell there have been four ROM revisions From FILER take a look at the Lotus files on your C drive with a WK1 exten sion Those files are either dated 3 20 91 4 1 91 6 5 91 or 9 24 91 depending on which revision you have The 1MB upgrade boards will contain 9 24 91 or later dates If you upgrade to 1MB it will be nice to get the latest revision But remember there will always be later revisions if you are having no problems with your HP 95LX it s not something to be concerned about If it ain t broke One other note Last issue we discussed several menuing systems that allowed users to run DOS soft ware on top of the built in system manager files based on software developed in UTIL Forth See Jan Feb 1992 pages 19 and 31 These loaders must be revised to work properly on units with ROMs later than 9 24 91 Updated versions of these loaders are available in the CompuServe HPSYS HP 95LX data library U S HP 95LX Upgrade Order Form PLEASE UPGRADE MY 512K HP 95LX TO 1 MEGABYTE 1 Enclosed is my HP 95LX for upgrade 2 Also enclosed is my payment payable to Hewlett Packard Company
107. ivity software program for the HP 95LX PC Connectivity software A serial cable One end of the serial cable connects to the 4 pin serial port on your HP 95LX the other to the serial port on your PC Then all you need to do is install the software on your 95LX and PC and spend a little while learning the basics of the program There are four products now on the market which make it possible to connect the HP 95LX to a PC compatible The details about a package that allows for Mac trans fer are covered in an article on page 17 The connectivity packages we ll be looking at here are m The HP Connectivity Pack Intellilink For The HP 95LX Nuvotech 95LX Connectivity Kit Zip Transfer Utility All of the packages make it possible to link the HP 95LX to a PC Two of them provide everything you need including the special serial cable Three are DOS based programs and one runs under Windows 3 0 This review provides you with an overview of connectivity on the HP 95LX In addition we re going to take a look at each of the four con nectivity programs and describe which user might get the most ben efit out of each program Finally we ll provide you with a Comparison Table which summarizes important aspects of each program You ll find company names and addresses at the end of this article connec On The HP 95LX It is possible to transfer files from the HP 95LX to a PC without using one of the connectivity
108. k to create or modify the APNAME LST file on your HP 95LX The 95LX portion of IntelliLink is System Manager compliant it can be ac cessed by a hotkey and pop up on top of the 95LX s built in applica tions IntelliLink requires approxi mately 50K of disk space on your HP 95LX and about 900K of disk space on your PC for the appropri ate files a HF Six 0 000 PC Mapping La eran reed ietrifil ink tos br Handheld Function Spieadrhect Lotus impart Expor Memo PackRial Options Z Appoinimants PackAat Mappings _ Phone Book Current 55 Files _ File Fila Cancel Copyright IntelliLink Inc 1330 1991 Riepioduclion of Utage loi any purpose other than pertonal uze i prohibited a Se Figure 2 IntelliLink s Main Menu You work from this screen to import export and merge files Figure 2 shows IntelliLink s main program screen on the PC running under Windows From this screen you will select options for transfer ring and merging files Merging is accomplished using the Import Up date feature As data from files is being imported and updated the user is allowed to determine wheth er or not duplicate data will be com pletely replaced or merged The following table shows which PC application file formats can be translated to the HP 95LX applica tion file formats Table 1 IntelliLink can translate the following PC application formats into the 95LX application formats indicat
109. ll ever need these special characters you should do some experimenting with them anyway You owe it to yourself to open up a MEMO file and just fool around with creating several characters using both the CHAR key and the ALT key combi nations You never know just when you might need those amp char acters Bil Alvernaz has been working with palmtop computers for over two years He has picked the HP 95LX as his preferred choice because he feels the 95LX sets the standard for palmtop computers During the past decade Bil has written about com puters for USA TODAY PC Maga zine United Feature Syndicate and other publications Bil specializes in desktop publishing as well as writ ing media relations and helping people get the most out of using computers You can reach him at 209 394 8188 MCI MAIL 207 8825 or FAX 209 394 8918 This table shows the complete HP 95LX Character Set and the code numbers for each character To determine the character code needed to create a specific character or symbol take the number from the top column the character is in and add it to the row number in which you find a character i e the character code for is 184 which is the sum of 176 the number at the top of the column and 8 the row number 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 COLUMN Geiting Started User Defined Function Keys An Advanced Lesson For Beginners Press two keys and carr
110. ll Tag Fl F2 F3 F4 FS FG F7 FA F9 Fie Figure 1 HP Connectivity Pack FILER screen as seen on a desktop PC screen 12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 The screen above shows Filer run ning on the PC This figure shows how you can split the screen to show the directory on the 95LX the left side of the screen and the di rectory on the PC The figure shows the Phone Book file _1 PBK high lighted Once the connection is made between the PC and HP 95LX it s easy to transfer files You use the arrow keys to highlight the file you want to move and then press fe to copy the file You ll receive a message at the top of the screen indicating the file you want to copy and the location you want to copy it to Press unless you want to change something and the file is copied from the 95LX to your PC You can go the opposite direction too moving any files from your PC to the 95LX If you run into any problems using FILER press f1 for help This on line help is a welcome fea ture not offered on any of the other packages we review here HP 95LX Palmtop Software Pocket Sales Force A powerful flexible and interactive database program Simple to use Pocket Sales Force will instant ly control and plan the vital areas of sales activity lead and enquiry maintenance con tact follow up dates letters and mailshots Improves customer servicing reporting and strategic marketing 20 fully user definabl
111. ll program or your favorite file manager to access the 95LX s drives as if they were another disk on the PC The HP Connectivity Pack is Sys tem Manager compliant You can open up Filer on the 95LX without shutting down other applications something you can t do with the other packages The biggest bonus of all with the HP Connectivity Kit is that you can run just about all of the HP 95LX s_ built in applications and utilities on your desktop PC Here s a list of them Setup Appointment Book m Filer HP Calculator Memo Phone Book Merge Translate However there are some limita tions For instance you must pur chase 1 2 3 and a communications program separately The Appoint ment Book s alarms and timer won t work on your PC and HP CALC on a PC has no links into 1 2 3 The ability to run APPT and PHONE on your PC means that you can make changes and additions to your PC version and then transfer those changes to your HP 95LX and vice versa Also while you re trav eling you as well as someone in your office can continue to work with PHONE and APPT When you return the files can be merged keeping things up to date without the need to re enter and cross check data Merge works with either PHONE or APPT Translate will Larry Lefkowitz CompuServe D f 76137 155 work with Lotus Metro Borland Sidekick Plus Central Point PC Tools and ASCII file formats trans lating data to and fr
112. mation contact Sparcom Corporation 897 NW Grant Ave Corvallis Oregon 97330 USA 800 827 8416 or 503 757 8416 Fax 503 753 7821 Sparcom ee Drve95 is a registered trademark of Sparcom Corporation MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 31 DOS CONNECTION Finish Line Finish Line default hotkeys are m a Ca s d and Gua There are other customization choices For instance you can tell Finish Line what characters you want to be considered as first char acters That way DOS users can have Finish Line recognize as the start of a word With such a Finish Line configuration you can use DOS commands to change directories e g cd dat You won t have to type all the keys since _DAT will pop up after you type The most obvious use of Finish Line is in word processing applica tions However Finish Line could be useful in many other applications For example Lotus users could type and the user s favorite functions would pop up Ed Keefe tells me he uses it for computer programming Since there is a relatively small vocabulary for any programming language Finish Line is a boon to programmers It also works with most DOS based text programs Besides the fact that HELP and the configuration menus are in English the program is not lan guage dependent That means Finish Line learns long German words or Spanish accented letters without difficulty What makes Finish Line even more attractive to HP Pal
113. modem or Serial printer does not work First try a hard reboot lt Shift Ctrl On gt and answer NO to reinitializa tion Second go to your local Radio Shack and purchase a RS 232 serial port tester It is a small 25 pin adaptor with Status LEDs to indi cate your port condition It will save you a lot of grief because you will instantly know where the problem lies Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 71551 467 DOS Tips EXE AND COM FILES DO NOT WORK IN APNAME LST Files with EXE or COM extensions are executable out of DOS not out of the System Manager You ie On The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Mar Apr 92 cannot specify a EXE or COM file in APNAME LST ONLY FILES WITH EXM extensions are allowed The EXE or COM files will crash your system Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 71551 467 A COMPLETE FILE LIST Execute the DOS Chkdsk command with the V verbose option for a complete listing of the files on your 95LX For example to list all files on your RAM card A Drive you would enter CHKDSK A V This will give you a complete list of every file in every subdirectory on drive A each file listed like this A DIRNAME FILENAME EXT This will even list the hidden SYS on C and all the files in it Bruce Holmen CompuServe ID 75066 112 Phone FINDING GROUPS IN PHONE If you want Phone to give you a list of everyone in a certain area use Phone s Only function From within PHONE press lt F6 gt
114. mpuServe Forums and Cmail for information on CompuServe Forums and Cmail There are two basic ways to access CompuServe Forums and C mail 1 ONLINE and 2 Using a BATCH PROCESSING program Online access to CompuServe is simple and effective You connect to CompuServe and conduct all activi ties while connected You may use the 95LX s built in COMM program and your modem to conduct an on line session with CompuServe The main drawback to this method is the expense If all mes sages are read and composed while connected the 2400 baud connect charge of of 12 80 an hour starts to become prohibitive In order to make the access of Forums and Cmail cost effective programs have evolved that greatly reduce connect charges These pro grams call CompuServe automati cally visit forums you have decided on beforehand retrieve and store Forum messages Cmail and then disconnect you from CompuServe Once disconnected no longer incurring online charges you are free to read and answer these mes sages at your leisure When you have finished writing and replying to your messages and Cmail you can connect to CompuServe once again and the program will auto matically and quickly send your responses to the correct Forums send Cmail to the Cmail area and then disconnect Examples of programs in this category are MESSAGE TAPCIS and AUTOSIG See the sidebar Auto mate Your CompuServe Access on page 28 The remainder o
115. mpuServe main menu and have a prompt ending with a Type go profile and press You now see a menu Gr ed CHANGE YOUR USER PROFILE Type 1 for Terminal Settings and press ENTER The smaller they get the bigger we are Personal computers are getting smaller Your demand for power and performance is not Sparcom Battery backed RAM cards engineered for the HP 95LX give your palmtop the memory and capability of a desktop PC You have the power to run additional software store entire data bases and amp improve 3 speed and performance Sparcom Battery backed RAM cards are available in 256K 512K IMB and 2MB Their long life lithium batteries are designed to protect valuable data and will always deliver the durability and reliability necessary for the most demanding palmtop applications Available at leading retailers of Hewlett Packerd palmtop computers For more information contact Sparcom Corporation 897 NW Grant Ave Corvallis Oregon 97330 USA 800 827 8416 or 503 757 8416 Fax 503 753 7821 Sparcom T MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 27 HP 95LX SUPPORT CompuServe Type 2 for Change Permanent Settings and press Type 4 for Terminal type parameters and press Type 8 for Parity and press ENTER pe 3 for Zero or None and press ENTER Press WT to return to the PERMANENT SETTINGS menu Type EXIT and press ENTER 0 Type 1 for Co
116. mtop users is that it takes very little disk space The main Finish file FIN ISH EXE takes 44 546 bytes The data file that stores the words typed does not grow It stays at 16 384 bytes There is an optional help file that is 65 501 bytes I DIETed FINISH EXE and FIN ISH EXE was reduced to 27 677 bytes see Fall 1991 page 18 for more on DIET W The only degra dation was that the configuration screen was much slower to pop up That means Finish Line at the minimum only takes up about 40K Finish Line operates as a TSR program That means it borrows some of the HP 95LX s System RAM to operate It needs 39K extra of System RAM to work properly To use Finish Line you ll probably need to increase System RAM from the SET UP menu fal On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Fall 91 The Down Side Here comes the bad news At this time Finish Line only works from DOS This is great if you use DOS software such as VDE or COMMO described in the past few issues However at this time Finish Line will not run with any of the System Manager built in applications such as MEMO or LOTUS Finish Line s advantages ease of use intelligence and small size cause a down side The user cannot customize exactly what word pops up when it pops nor which hot key it is assigned to However the program is flexible in its customi zation of options and this lack of control is not a major problem Installing Finish Line on the 95LX
117. n case of a lull I ll create a MEMO file of sample ques tions I can have the file loaded and leave MEMO running available by a keystroke ry On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Evaluations I can take MEMO notes on each student during the break between interviews 3 Friends I have a bunch of friends who are still in Pittsburgh I guess they don t know that they re free to leave We plan to get together and catch up on old times My 95LX s Phone Book will help out with this 4 E mail My company Sun thrives on elec tronic mail I ll use the communica tions utility to log in to Sun each night I could interactively read my mail and respond but I m going to try a utility that lets me download my mailbox hang up and read and respond in batch mode Portable Mail DUX Software 415 967 1500 works with any UNIX system using the standard usr ucbh mail sys tem When I log in next my replies and deletions are processed on the Sun I save time and money on phone charges and can process my E mail at my own pace PALMTOP DATABASE Improve your productivity with software built to satisfy your specific needs We create custom database applications tailored for the HP 95LX With our databases you can finally realize the full power of your pocket computer Our relational database is so small you won t need a RAM card We provide i Rapid development
118. n your Mac screen and select MACINTOSH FORMATS from the pop up menu on the left side of the screen 2 Scroll down the menu and high light WORD 4 0 The upper left corner will show that you ve selected WORD 4 0 The REMOTE IBM PC scroll menu on the right will show you the PC formats that WORD 4 0 can be translated to 3 Since the HP 95LX stores MEMO files as TXT highlight TEXT under the REMOTE IBM PC FORMATS scrolling menu When you do the SELECT FILES radio button at the top of the screen will become acti vated 4 Click the radio button that se lects the DIRECTION of the file transfer In this example you select MAC to IBM PC 5 Now click the SELECT FILES radio button You ll be taken to another screen similar to the one you just exited Looks familiar You ll rec ognize it as the Apple directory dialog box The left box is your Mac and the right box is your 95LX 6 Click on CONNECT in the lower right corner of your screen If all goes well the IBM PC dialog box will show your 95LX s C directory and your 95LX will read Connected to Macintosh 7 Scroll through your Mac dialog box on the left and select the WORD 4 0 file that you want to transfer to your 95LX If you want the file to be transferred to your 95LX s _DAT file double click on the _DAT file in the IBM PC dialog box just lke you would on a Mac Click on CONVERT amp TRANSFER on your Mac screen You ll be prompted to name your
119. name it Mac 95LX or whatev er you desire 5 Click the SET TRANSLATORS radio button Two sets of scrolling menus will appear The left scrolling menu is your Mac The right scrolling menu is your Remote IBM PC or your 95LX You ll see a variety of file translation methods Macintosh MS Word or MacWrite II files can be translated and transferred into the 95LX s text TXT format Excel spreadsheets can be translated and transferred into the 95LX s Lotus 1 2 3 format WK1 Macintosh PICT files can be translated into the 95 LX s picture card format PCX Configuring Your HP 95LX 1 Go to FILER and scroll down to your MLPC EXE file 2 Press F RUN You ll be prom pted to Press any key to continue 3 Do so and you ll be prompted to MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 REVIEWS MacLink Plus Select a menu letter 4 Enter the following keys P then A sets your Communi cations Serial Port to COM1 B then F sets your Communi cations Speed to 19 200 baud C then C sets your Communi cations Connection to CABLE S to SAVE a BAT file will automatically be created on your 95LX O to GO Online this will put your 95LX on standby until your Mac is connected Transfer a File Let s try an example of transferring a Macintosh MS Word 4 0 file to your 95LX assuming that you al ready have a Word 4 0 document on your Mac hard drive 1 Go to SET TRANSLATORS o
120. nd ending time Also the beeping I used to tell me that I had 5 minutes before the next interview was good for me but not for the student so I did with out it Too bad the appointment reminder can t pop up on top of a graphics program like the big clock The MEMO file of questions worked like a charm it gave me the confidence I needed to keep the conversation moving When the first day of interviews was over I contacted some old friends who were still in town us ing my 95LX s phone book We got together to sample some of Pitts burgh s finest Primanti Brothers Cheesesteak and Iron City beer 12 00 midnight Logged into work again 63 new messages this time I respond to the urgent ones i e from my boss and download the rest to be processed on the plane using Jim Lerner s Portable Mail program This takes some time at 1200 baud and is hard on the batteries I didn t bring the AC adapter I sure could use the NewsStream receiver I could have my workstation at work transmit new E mail at regular intervals especially overnight while I m sleep ing That would be nice Some of the E mail messages have appointments for me I switch over to APPT and enter them and then use Ix2cm a program I wrote to convert from ABK files to Sun Open Windows 3 0 Calendar Man ager Available on Library 14 of CompuServe s HPSYS forum as SUNCAL 95 fl This way my co workers back at Sun can browse my calendar
121. nfirm and press ro o ND HO e 11 Type OFF and press You are now disconnected from CompuServe You have just changed your person al CompuServe settings to allow file retrieval downloads from the CompuServe libraries using the 95LX COMM program For successful file downloads you need to make one final change to the settings you have made in the COMM program You ll then save these COMM settings to a permanent file so you don t have to go through the setup process each time you access CompuServe 1 Press ven Settings Config Port 2 Press Char and then select 8 3 Press Port Parity and select None 4 Press ESC Save Then type in the name you want to give file press and then ESC The above settings are now saved NOTE You can retrieve these set tings after entering COMM by press ing Settings Use Several files to choose from will be displayed By moving the highlight bar to the file called CSERVE and pressing you can retrieve these settings Accessing the HPSYS Forum You are finally ready to go on line and access the HP Systems Forum You should have the following menu options at the top of your screen Settings Connect Transfer Quit If you don t press ESC a few times and then eu and you should see the options Then do the following 1 Select Connect 2 Your modem will now dial CompuServe After awhile you will see the CONNECT 2400 on your screen Again following the ins
122. ng down Att and entering a 2 or 3 number char acter code See Figure on the next page for the complete HP 95LX Character Set and code numbers Note that any of the 95LX s charac ters can be created using the ALT method Creating a special character using is faster than using an ALT key combination The CHAR key located just to the left of the Space Bar is a sticky key Like the Shift keys once you press it it is activated You don t need to hold it while you press the next key In addition using the CHAR key to create a special character requires fewer key strokes EXAMPLE 1 Using CHAR To Create The Copyright Symbol 1 Go into MEMO 2 Place the cursor where you MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 COLUMN How do you do that JOO MOUO Ute OCG 2 PPSSSBORS999 OWOWAM MO T o 4 o o o o uA m a cm Va A Ya mewa NAHOMAWHOMOO QOQA Beis aoa cst OODeew Figure 1 You can create any of the characters and symbols you see in here by first pressing the CHAR key left of the Space Bar and then pressing the appropriate key want the symbol to go 3 Press cur down and lift up 4 Press 2 5 You should now see EXAMPLE 2 Using ALT To Create the German letter A 1 Place the cursor where you want the symbol to go 2 Hold down and press 142 on the numeric keypad 3 Let up on y 4 You should now see the letter A EXAMPLE 3 Creating any accented letter you
123. ntly use DOS with out SYSMGR being loaded and have a problem with your hotkeys work ing when you invoke SYSMGR from DOS try loading all of your TSRs from DOS instead of from within a batch file Due to the memory re quirements of SYSMGR many of you run applications without load ing SYSMGR Upon exiting those applications you then type SYSMGR to load your built in ap plications If you have loaded any TSRs in your AUTOEXEC BAT you will find that your APNAME hotkeys no longer work The rule is either load all TSRs and SYSMGR from your AUTOEXEC BAT or run them all from the DOS prompt 14 One long and two short beeps when you press a hotkey means that SYSMGR cannot find the pro gram you are calling This means that you either deleted it or are mixing drive letters in one APNAME LST If you hear one beep it means the task table does not include the hotkey the item was not read from APNAME LST 15 Do not assign an ALT Letter key to a program if you plan to use that key in a Lotus macro The Lotus macro will not run 16 If you use the same hotkey for more than one application only the last one listed will work In this case A will have priority over C as it is read last 17 The entire program path should be included in the listing There is however a 30 character limit to its length Therefore you should not have a EXM program in a subdirec tory below the first level under the root C _DAT HB EXM is fine
124. o it are the to dos for that project Arturo F Barrio Boca Raton Florida EXPORTING APPT FILES You can get an ASCII file of your Appointment Book by using the PRINT FILE function on the 95LX or from APP95 on your PC You can choose start and stop dates and decide whether or not to in clude Notes or not You also get to choose Appointments or TO DOs The format of the ASCIl file gener ated is useable but not great A better solution is a file called CALRP EXE E in Library 14 95LX library here in HPSYS on CompuServe This is shareware that reads Sidekick Plus files and creates nice looking screen displays print outs or ASCII files You use the Translate routine in APP95 to convert from 95LX format to SK format and then run GALRP Kind of messy but it works Victor D Roberts 70413 1423 USE F10 NOT ESC TO EXIT CALENDAR ENTRY In APPT do not use the escape Esc key to exit a calendar entry you have not yet saved This will erase your entry Press F10 Done to return you to the calendar after making your new entry Once you press the F10 key you can use Esc without disturbing your new entry even if it is not yet saved The same procedure holds true in PHONE applications You should be especially careful of pressing Esc key when making Notes in either PHONE or APPT Always press F10 Done to return you to the basic PHONE directory or APPT calendar Otherwise you will lose the notes you have made King
125. om HP 95LX file formats Merge and Translate are easy to use working with sim ple menu formats that minimize typing The HP Connectivity Pack also offers you DOS Connect This fea ture lets you set things up so that your PC will treat Drive A and C on your HP 95LX as additional disk drives So if you have Lotus 1 2 3 on your desktop PC you can open a spreadsheet file from your 95LX work on it and then save it back to your 95LX This works with MEMO files too as well as any other ASCII text file DOS Connect requires that you transfer DCS95 EXE to your HP 95LX This 47K file is included with the HP Connectivity Pack along with DC95 EXE which must simul taneously be run on the PC from the DOS prompt See Backing up your files using the HP Connectivity sidebar this page for examples of how DOS Connect can be used You can also use DOS Connect to link your HP 95LX into a network like Novell or OS 2 Lan Manager DOS Connect also works with Win dows IntelliLink for the HP 95LX If you want a wide variety of translation and merge features 14 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 and the ability to work in the Windows environment select the IntelliLink connectivity package If Windows is your game then IntelliLink is a great addition to your arsenal of Windows tools It is easy to set up and get started How ever a serial cable doesn t come with the program so you ll need to get one HP Se
126. omical IC Cards designed for the HP 95LX palmtop computer or compatible lobalink Inc _ The Globalink Translation System ives you sentence by sentence ranslations with up to 90 accuracy You can even load a file of 5 or 10 pages and have it translated while you read a book or watch a movie Target language output may be post edited one sentence at atime or after an entire file has been translated Some of the many amazing features the Globalink translation IC Cards include INSERT THIS SIDE UP ACTUAL SIZE e Handling of idiomatic expressions Multiple translations of a single word in a sentence based on part of speech noun verb adjective e Comprehensive general dictionary of over 60 000 terms Input of foreign language accents on the English keyboard On screen editing with 95LX Memo text editor Interlinear translation file These and many more There are dozens of ways this low cost high quality translation system can be useful to you either for production informational or educational purposes Whether you are at home on an airplane in a hotel on vacation in a meeting or in your office high quality foreign language translation is available to you in minutes In production Available in Late November 1991 Suggested Retall Price Spanish to from English 299 French to from English 299 lobalin k Inc German to from English 299 9 a Two IC Cards per product 9302
127. on your HP 95LX Generate special characters on your HP 95LX by pressing and any of the keys you see shown in Figure 1 or by holding aj down and entering a 3 digit character code from the Character Code Set in Figure 2 The only qualifying statement here is that your printer or the software on the PC to which you will transfer a 95LX created file also must be able to generate special characters Otherwise you ll get strange looking characters or noth ing in place of where you wanted the special characters Creating Special Characters Using and Create a special character using the RUN In either case you need to write a small batch file that will drive RUN or EXEC The batch file will look something like the one shown below rem run GREP BAT echo off cls run grep Look for RUN95 ZIP Hi in the HPSYS forum This archived file contains RUN EXE EXEC EXE and RUN95 DOC Ed Keefe is an author program mer computer science instructor and long time contributor to support publications for Hewlett Packard computers He is the president of the Fast Aid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeney IA 50021 Ed s Compu Serve ID is 73277 1064 Ea On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 CHAR key by pressing and releasing once and then pressing the desired keyboard key see Figure 1 on the next page to see which key board keys produce special charac ters Create a special character using the ALT key by holdi
128. ondon Ontario Canada HP 95LX Disturbes Transmissions I was at a meeting whose proceedings were simulta neously translated for inter national participants All I could hear out of my head phones was static noise instead of the translation After switching off my 95LX which was on my knees all the time I imme diately could hear the inter preter very clearly Is my 95LX defective or is this just a characteristic of the machine that I have to live with Relating to the above it is very nice to use the 95LX on long distance flights but if it emits this kind of elec tromagnetic disturbance I would soon expect it to be forbidden on airlines Also I had a major prob lem with my 512K RAM card One second everything was fine the next it was dead totally empty Our local dealer will replace the RAM card but you can imagine how I felt losing all my data on a three week trip around the world Dr Bernhard Steiner Fiabci Austria Wants to Test Maintenance Software In response to the article on page 35 of the Fall 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper I would certainly have an interest in any HP 95LX software to be used for Industrial Equipment Maintenance In one short month the HP 95LX has be come an indispensible tool on the plant floor As a data collection tool and portable logbook of vital information with safety personnel and equipment data stored in 1 2 3 worksheets along with the built in appl
129. or a name If you are look ing for the name tuition you just press F5 and tui tion and press enter It will go right there with no prob lems at all I also tried but recharge able batteries vs regular expensive AA batteries and I opted for using recharge able batteries and changing them every Friday or when the battery indicator is in the first 1 3 of the scale I use the 95LX all day long and find that there isn t enough difference in how long they last with regular AA batteries vs recharge able ones so why pay more Make a permanent note to check change your batteries every Friday and that will probably be good enough Alfred Herz Guadalupe Nuevo Leon MEXICO Something needed to help users see the 95LX s display screen After working with the 95LX for a while I discov ered that my 11 year old son had a similar problem with his Nintendo Game Boy as I had with the 95LX The display screen on both devices is small and some times difficult to read in poor light We solved his problem with a device called the Light Boy mar keted by Vic Tokai Inc 22904 Lockness Ave Tor rance CA 90501 USA It attaches to the Game Boy and provides both light and magnification of the game screen Frank Mattsson Lasne BELGIUM 95LX Great for Reading Meters I use the HP 95LX to read utility meters and then transfer the meter readings via the connectivity pack to my PC I developed a sim ple 1 2 3 based pro
130. ormation dealer locations and answers to common questions 2 Call HP for technical support at 900 288 0025 from 8am 3pm Pacific time For non U S customers look in your User s Guide or call your local HP sales office 3 Join the HP 95LX section of the CompuServe HPSYS Forum call 800 848 8990 or 614 457 8650 expressly designed for this purpose There are lots of water gas and electric meters out there and they all have to be read Tom Carson Costa Mesa CA U S A Likes Money Manager Recommends The HP DeskJet Printer I highly recommend Money Manager from the Autobyte Corporation see ad page 25 Jan Feb 92 issue as an excellent way to get control of your personal finances With two wage earners and four checkbooks in our household each month used to bring a host of excuses and lots of bickering about who was going to give up an entire weekend to bal ance the checkbooks Now I even volunteer to balance my wife s checkbook For only 50 after receiving a direct rebate you owe it to yourself to get this nifty program Incidentally Mon ey Manager is not only de signed especially for the 95LX s screen it also comes with a TSR version for your desktop or notebook PC For those of you consid ering a printer I want to mention that HP s DeskJet printer works great via the serial interface As a bonus the DeskJet also comes with a parallel interface which you can leave con nected to yo
131. ou have n t read before and they will be in thread order an original message followed by all replies Note To read only messages addressed to you type read waiting and press instead of the above READ command When en tering the forum you will be in formed of any waiting messages Messages will begin to scroll by on the screen Some will be too long to 28 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 fit on the screen all at wake To stop the scrolling press 5 To start again press ein cTAL Q Replying to a Message At the end of any message you will receive a prompt ending with At this point you may reply to the message if you wish If you would like to do this type reply and press ENTER CompuServe will present you with this prompt Enter reply EXIT when done Type in your reply Keep each line less than 80 characters long and press ENTER after each line To end Spee Ther re is no cos sly be m4 NAVIGATOR is ine your reply type post as the first entry on its own line and then press ENTER CompuServe will respond with a message like this Message 18127 posted Your reply has been sent Finish Reading Messages At the end of each message if you choose not to reply press to continue to the next message To re read a message type reread and press ENTER If you would like to stop reading messages press M and ENTER By typing M at most places in CompuServ
132. oupon In 6 8 weeks you should have your rebate If your local dealer doesn t have any rebate coupons or if you have any further questions please call 503 750 3383 SAVE EARTH F Stop throwing away Complete battery status Introducing ae batteries every two display everytime you turn on weeks Now you can use your HP95LX BATTman rechargeable batteries in Manag es low card battery Battery your HP9SLX for ital condition every 24 hours BATTman monitors battery Turns on HP9SLX if card Ma ent discharge in real time and battery is low preventing data nagem turns olf yeux HP9S5LX safely loss to your RAM memory for before sharp voltage drops card your crash applications and HPO SLX valuable data see chart To Order Call ACE TOLL FREE 1 800 825 9977 RETURN registration card and receive two free NiCd batteries lifetime warranty plus one UZ quick charger BATIman 3 5 diskette C1005 ves list price 59 VCE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Rood Suite 103 San Jose CA 95134 U S A 408 428 9722 FAX 408 428 9721 MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 5 NEWS FROM HP Continued Other Advantages of Upgrading Your 95LX Inside any computer is ROM soft ware In most cases it is low level software that has to do with the interaction between a computer s operating system and hardware The 95LX ROM software also in cludes the built in applications Lotus 1 2 3 PHONE APPT COMM
133. pportunity to recruit at my old college Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA I work for Sun Microsystems in California and so Il have to travel a little Naturally I plan to use my HP 95LX to help with scheduling but I intend to use it for more than just an electronic Filofax my 95LX is going to pay for itself before this trip is over First Pll identify the tasks I need to accomplish on this trip and see where my Palmtop can help The Plan 1 Travel a Flight lll put my schedule and flight numbers in my appointment book along with Chess AG ZIP H Jan Feb 92 and Tetris GAMES ZIP E Fall 91 m Car I can t play Tetris while driving but my 95LX helps me track my frequent driver and fre quent flyer numbers 2 The Interview Timing I have a lot of folks to interview in a short time so I ll use the appointment book to remind me to wrap up the current interview igs On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Todd Bernhard with time enough to record my thoughts on the candidate in MEMO I ll use a large clock pro gram to keep track of time I ll place the screen towards me so I can check the time without making the student uncomfortable I ll also use a timeout program to change the auto shutoff time to 30 minutes I must remember to bring spare bat teries TIMOUT ZIP and SM CLOCK ZIP f are available in HP SYS s Library 14 Questions I prefer to be sponta neous but just i
134. r It is a product of DataViz Inc of Trumbull CT and has a suggested retail price of 199 It is available from discount software cataloges for less 129 from MacWarehouse 800 225 6227 For DataViz contact information please see Third Party Products section this issue page 45 EduCALC Lhe one bigs source for all your 95LX accessories Derive 2 06 Simplifies BIG Algebraic expressions for you Features symbolic algebra derivatives vectors matrices trig statistics finance plus 2D and 3D plots Stock 2563 Derive 2 06 ROM Card cccccccccccsesssssssessescerseesssssenesneees 239 95 Money Manager Program features banking checking credit card and expense functions Comes with 95 and PC versions disk version requires 512K RAM card and Connectivity Pac Stock 2492 95 Money Manager 3 5 amp 5 25 List 60 s csssessssereeee 54 95 Stock 2494 128K RAM Card with MM installed er vssserevseesnes 184 95 Connect your 95 to PC Windows with IntelliLink Import export to and from Windows at the fjeld level with a few clicks of your mouse Requires serial cable and PC running Windows 3 0 Stock 2517 IntelliLink 2 1 5 25 amp 3 5 List 100 s sesrrersrssssssssssssses 99 95 Mechanical En ineering Equation Library 160 ofthe most used equations for ME plus Lotus 1 2 3 spreadsheets Requires Connectivity Pack Stock 2535 ME Library for HP 95 5 25 ssssrsrsssecrsrssrersssreseese
135. rade follow these steps 1 COMPLETE the form in the box on page 6 2 PACKAGE your 95LX for shipping original packaging if available Enclose the items listed on page 5 Continued on page 5 pussy Computing Inc Application to mail 2nd Class P O Box 869 pending at Fairfield lowa Fairfield Iowa 52556 NOW DOUBLE YOUR CAPACITY with DoubleCard CARDS Now with built in Data Compression Doubles capacity of standard RAM cards Up to 4MB with HP95LX Palmtops CHECK OUR PRICES MAXIMUM TYPICAL and other DoubleCard1M A2001 1 5MB 1MB 309 DoubleCard 2M A2002 3MB 2MB 499 DoubleCard 3M A2003 45MB 3MB 729 DoubleCard 4M A2004 6MB 4MB 879 ACEcard 512KB A1003 512KB 209 ACEcard 1MB A1004 1MB 399 ACEcard 1 5MB A1005 1 5MB 629 ACEcard 2MB A1006 aMi 779 Double your capacity FREE batteries for five years Now DoubleCard has doubled the capacity of standard RAM memory cards DoubleCard uses the patented Stacker LZS data compression technology and is 100 compatible with all popular palmtop applications Data compres sion is performed in real time and is totally transparent to the user Since compression algorhithm is built in data stored on DoubleCard can be read by other computers Simple Installation Both DoubleCard and ACEcard are pre formatted and ready to use on your HP9SLX No software installation is required ACE RAM cards usually require one battery replacement per year
136. rial Cable part HP 82222A list price 35 IntelliLink provides file transfer and merging of files It is the easi est to install of all the connectivity packages reviewed here Even though the user manual is only 19 pages long if you know how to install programs in Windows you ll have no problem All you do to install the pro gram on Windows is open up the Program Manager Click File and Run with your mouse enter the path and name of IntelliLink s SET UP program and click the OK box IntelliLink s Setup program does the rest IntelliLink s manual is a little fuzzy with its Install instruc tions so watch out You ll also need IntelliLink Not Just File Transfer Data Translation amp Reconciliation Windows 3 x 99 95 HP Connectivity DOS Pack Add In 69 95 99 95 Sidekick 2 0 Word Perfect Office dBase Paradox Calendar Creator PackRat Current Excel Word for Windows 1 2 3 for Windows IntelliLink Inc 7 Parker Street Acton MA 01720 Tele 508 264 9943 Fax 508 635 9778 to add the DOS SHARE command to your AUTOEXEC BAT file before you can use IntelliLink After IntelliLink is installed on your PC it must be installed on your HP 95LX A special program is provided to accomplish this and like installing IntelliLink on your PC this one is easy too There s even more complete instructions in the manual You ll also need to follow the instructions in the IntelliLin
137. roduc ing a 1MB RAM card in addition to the 128K and 512K memory cards it already offers Suggested retail price for the 1MB card will be 599 As of the 1st of January HP lowered the suggested retail price of their 95LX RAM cards The 128K RAM card now retails for 149 95 and the 512K RAM card for 299 95 HP also lowered retail prices on RAM cards for it s popular 48SX Programmable Calculator age to the unit while opening it up would be considered customer dam age not be covered under warranty All three of us went ahead and split the case with no apparent damage Here are the steps chroni cled by Jeffrey and David Top and Bottom Half of the HP 95LX MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 7 FEATURE Opening the 95LX HP 95LX Upside down Opening the 95LX Case 1 Back up any file you don t want to lose 2 Remove both the main and backup battery covers 3 Remove the main batteries I left the backup battery in and didn t loose and C drive files 4 Remove the four rubber feet Simply bite each one with a small alligator clip or a pair of needle nose pliers and pull straight out 5 Remove the four hex screws now revealed Officially they require a special tool but a 0 050 inch Allen wrench or a Torx T 6 driver works fine 6 Spread the case halves apart about 3 4 of an inch at the main battery edge There is a key board connector running bet ween the MENU and keys that has two
138. roducts Advertised in The Palmtop Paper Company ACE Active Data Adtron C M Software Contact Software Databook Essex Marketing Services EduCALC El Dorado Trading Globalink IntelliLink Hires Supplies Express Aaa Pacific Software Supply Palmtree Products Soft Warehouse Sparcom RL e RAM Cards Serial Parallel Adapters Software DERIVE Mathematical Assistant ve Analysis e he HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Paralink 3 Serial Parallel Adapter CONTACT Markt amp Technik Verlag Hans Pinsel Strasse 2 8013 Haar b M nchen GERMANY Phone 49 89 46 13 637 Fax 49 89 46 12 689 Inside CompuServe Billed as The easy start guide to on line information and communica tions this 290 page softbound book comes with communications pro grams and utilities on a 5 25 floppy disk and includes a coupon for 12 50 in CompuServe usage credit Availability NOW Medium 9 Fs 2 2 7 8st Softbound book Pricing Bist a aa Ata hka mo aBa o 29 95 Canada asd onina tA r 39 95 RAMs accra a aaa os Ae So 32 95 CONTACT New Riders Publishing 11711 N College Avenue P O Box 90 Carmel IN 46032 U S A Phone 800 428 5331 or 317 573 2500 Fax 800 448 3804 or 317 573 2583 outside U S Accepts VISA MasterCard American Express cards ID Tags for the 95LX This company will make an I D tag to fit the recessed rectangle on the bottom of your 95LX Availability 5 465 64 3355 4
139. rosc and 03 0008 one iridemarka of biograaf Corp RPCIATIAT and IBM are registered trademarks of IBM Corp Sales office 10 ALDER BUSII ROCHESTER NY 14624 716 889 4204 FAX 716 889 2593 Partners in Memory Card Solutions 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS What s New New Non HP Products designed to work with the HP 95LX By Richard Hall and Hal Goldstein In the last two issues we listed over 80 hardware and software products and other 95LX related services al ready available from third party manufacturers and developers We will continue to list 95LX hardware and software as we discover them Vendors of 95LX related products should send us information Adapters Converters GA 935 Serial to Parallel Converter This small battery powered adapter connects to the 9 pin end of the HP Serial Cable for the 95LX The other end of the GA 935 connects to your printer s parallel port or printer cable Auto Power on off conserves battery life with an average of about 100 hours of battery life on a 9 volt battery Availability April 1 1992 Pridna eh ae aa ie adie atlas 99 00 CONTACT Grennwish Instruments 3401 Monroe Road Charlotte NC 20205 U S A Phone 800 476 4070 or 704 376 1021 Fax 704 335 8707 EUROPEAN CONTACT Greenwich Instru ments The Crescent Main Road Sidcup Kent DA14 GNW U K Phone 81 302 4931 Fax 81 302 49233 ATEN Serial to
140. ry tran scribe it into a computer later It s too bad everyone doesn t have a Palmtop I think it s going to take pen based units for folks like him to think about converting Besides you can t play Chess with a recorder 10 30 p m First Class is not necessarily condu cive to Chess 7 30 p m Pacific Time to set the Local City to San Francisco I m home Epilogue 22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Well Pd be lying if I said my HP 95LX paid for itself by managing my appointments and phone numbers during this trip Paper and pen would be much cheaper But being able to read my E mail so impor tant for Sun has certainly justified the 95LX s purchase for me Indeed that was one of the reasons I went with the HP 95LX instead of the Sharp Wizard the larger screen of the HP is a minimum requirement And many of the E mails I respond ed to while on the road were involv ing big deals worth thousands or millions of dollars Pd say it was justified on this trip alone and my HP and I have more trips ahead Todd Bernhard is a Product Marketing Manager at Sun Micro systems Inc He is the co author of Writing Applications for Sun Sys tems A Guide for the Macintosh Programmer Todd can be reached on Internet at todd bernhard Sun COM or on CompuServe at 72510 2777 How to submit an article to The HP Palmtop Paper The richness of The HP Palmtop Paper comes from the contributions
141. sfer XMODEM Receive You are now prompted to enter the name the new file will have on your 95LX Type in hpsi14 lis and press enter You will begin to receive the file The COMM program will pres ent you with a screen showing your progress as the file is sent to your 95LX 4 When the file transfer is com plete you will see a prompt at the top of the screen Press any key to continue Press ET then press ESc three times This will bring you back to the terminal screen where you left off when the download began Press and you will return to a forum prompt At this point you may want to download other files The simpl ist way to do so is to type bro for browse at the Disposition prompt A description of each file will be followed by the Dis position prompt Type dow at the Disposition prompt any time you want to download a file Remember that saves these descriptions to a file For a shorter description of the forum files consult HPSL14 LIS the file you just downloaded Type off and press ENTE You are now disconnected from CompuServe To exit the COMM program press Quit The file HPSL14 LIS is now on your computer You may view it in Filer or by retrieving it into the MEMO program You may retrieve any file listed in HPSL14 LIS by repeating the above download procedure and using the appropriate filename How to Join CompuServe If you don t have a CompuServe ac count you can obtain a
142. so just the pin s tip was showing Jeffrey Mattox had been using his new HP 95LX for about a week when an intermittent short circuit developed in the AC adapter input circuit The unit would automatical ly turn itself off after a few minutes of inactivity even though it was plugged into an adapter Jeffrey thought the short was mechanically linked to the AC adapter jack so he wanted to attempt a do it yourself repair David Marsh was advising an other user whose 95LX speaker stopped working He suspected that the wires going to the speaker had intruded into the Memory Card s space and that repeated insertion of a RAM card had broken the wires He suggested splitting the case and taking a look So all of us wanted to look in side to see if there was a quick and easy fix without having to send our 95LXs away to Corvallis for a week Alright maybe we re curious to see what it looked like inside I contacted HP s Corvallis Ser vice Center and they encouraged me strongly to send the 95LX in for repairs They told me that any dam 2MB 2000K of data 750K is about as large as you will want to make your built in C drive Ideally you will want both It de pends on how you use your HP 95LX If all you do is work with small files your current 512K HP 95LX may be sufficient New 1MB RAM Card HP Lowers Prices on Others Another way to increase memory on the 95LX is to add a RAM memory card to the system HP is int
143. some rules and guidelines for set ting up your file adjustable snap closure to lock everything into place Palmtree Products is your source for carrying cases Imb an 2mb sram memory cards portable serial to parallel adapters and a full range of software designed for palmtop computers NOW SHIPPING 1mb and 2mb sram cards for the HP 95LX PRODUCTS INE Call for the Palmtree re seller in your area PALMTREE PRODUCTS 145 WASHINGTON STREET NORWELL MA 02061 617 871 7050 FAX 617 871 6018 MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 9 FEATURE APNAME LST File Examples Here are some simple examples of files you might need to create when setting up Sys tem Manager compliant software You can create or modify these files using MEMO 1 AUTOEXEC BAT file PAUSE SYSMGR 2 CONFIG SYS file the space before P is necessary SHELL C COMMAND COM P 3 APNAME LST file wae Makes Ctrl FILER and Ctrl COMM peta for the built in games on the English anguage version of the 95LX C _SYS TFOX EXM AE00 TFOX C _SYS HP EXM B8200 H amp B APNAME LST Rules 1 All listings in your APNAME file should be in uppercase According to the 95LX s Technical Reference Manual the 95LX may miss a drive specification in lowercase i e _dat HB exm may cause problems 2 APNAME LST listings should only call programs that reside on the drive that the APNAME LST file resides on You should have
144. ssensonnes 29 95 95 Utility Pack 36 small efficient programe written for the 95 and its 40 column display Requires Connectivity Pack Stock 2467 95 Utility Pack 3 5 amp 5 25 Disks List 35 sssssssssssssss 27 95 FX 7 Flight Pak Includes flight plans DUATS weather briefings E6B and weight and balance Requires Connectivity Pack Stock 2544 FX 7 Flight Pak Contact 95 Contact Manager for HP 95 and Windows featuring integrated appointment book with Hot Key access functions Requires Meg RAM card and Connectivity Pack oik aoe HO ke Eg Sahn 99 TravelWare Keep all your trip records on the HP 95 ne ARER ke ers Stock 2555 95 TravelWare 5 25 Forei ign Langua e Translation s 29 95 LEEEEE EEE ES EREE EE ES a a Ay ae P pao lation including idiomatic expressions of Spanish rench an Stock 2566 95 Spanish 2 cards List o_o LNEC S EET IIET ERREI TEIE 279 Stock 2567 95 French 2 cards List 299 ONREIN ss 9279 Stock 2568 95 German 2 cards List 299 EIEEE A IET PENN E ON IT n 279 Curve Fit Linear r nara Saha Enter up to 99 points and find area under the curve do graphs and compare standard deviations for linear regression Stock 2545 Curve Fit ROM card List 260 csssse0s uunh235 9SLX UTIL FORTH Programming Sy S ystem Turn your 95 into a software development system Stock 2562 9SLX UTIL 5 25 List 70 ervsssoesssosesevosrosoeosorsoorsosssessess
145. st found a neat new toy Maybe it will remind you of the first time you discovered Solver The sense of wonderment is exhilarating right Break Even Analysis Break even analysis is a mathemat ical tool used in business and mar keting If we know the cost of devel oping a new product and the cost of making just one of these products and we also have settled on a sell ing price for one item we need to know how many items must we sell to offset the cost of development and production Textbooks refer to the cost of development as Fixed Costs and the cost of production marketing and distribution as Variable Costs The selling price of one item is called the Price per Unit or just Price A single item is a Unit Profit is always the bottom line and formula for getting to the bottom line is Profit Units Price Variable Costs Fixed Costs The break even point is reached when Profit is zero We want to know how many units must we sell to get to that point A Real World Example As an example of break even analy sis lll use my most recent venture developing and producing the Di versions Disk of Games Galore for the HP 95LX See pages 7 10 Jan Feb issue of The HP Palmtop Paper This will give us some real numbers with which to work The Solution Via 1 2 3 The two spreadsheets mentioned below are available on the Mar Apr 92 edition of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Also included is a file called ED EQ
146. t to see an increase in the number of larger software pro grams available for the HP FEATURE Opening The 95LX 95LX that will have to be stored in the PC card A drive slot That means if you want to have data available when you use that soft ware you will need the extra disk space on the C drive Here are the advantages of adding a RAM card to your system 1 Both the built in C drive and the RAM card A drive are rela tively safe However it is easier to inadvertently corrupt the built in C drive then the RAM A drive No matter where your data is you should be backing up both drives See reviews on Connectivity Packs in this month s issue 2 Sensitive information can more easily be protected by simply removing the RAM card from your system 3 The RAM card can be read not only in your HP 95LX but by RAM card readers that can attach to your desktop 4 RAM cards can hold as much as Opening Up the HP 95LX For your interest only We do not suggest or encourage any 95LX user open the case and perform any internal repairs on the HP 95LX By Richard Hall Although I am listed as author this article borrows heavily from infor mation submitted by Jeffrey Mattox and David J Marsh Rich A number of us had the desire to crack open the case on the HP 95LX to do some minor repairs I was ina hurry connecting serial cable and I pushed one of the four pins in the 95LX s serial port back into the unit
147. th descriptions of advertised products Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK also includes detailed descriptions of some of the products advertised or listed in the printed issue This helps you learn more about products of interest without having to call the manufacturer 5 It costs so little The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK consists of 2 4 360K floppy disks that you will receive along with each printed issue of your regular subscription to the newsletter The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK does not include printed issues A year s subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 6 issues is just 139 Shipping is included for North American customers That s less than 24 per set of disks It s a great buy even if you only use one program per disk Individual issues of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK are 33 within North America so a year s subscription saves you 92 You can save an additional 19 by subscribing for two years for 259 TREMENDOUS VALUE Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK contains the complete editorial content of the printed issue descriptions of advertised products and virtually all the freeware and shareware mentioned in the issue To give you an idea of the tremendous value this represents here are just a few of the highlights of the software included in recent issues of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Instructions and utilities for accessing all programs are included on each disk WORD PROCE
148. the general format of the file as discussed in the last issue The focus here is on how to properly set up and maintain one or more APNAME LST files Before you proceed you MUST create a CONFIG SYS and an AUTO EXEC BAT file and put them in your C or A directory This will save you from losing your data Mistakes made in your APNAME LST file can cause your 95LX to lock up This will force you to re initialize your unit thereby erasing all of your files If you have a CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT file on your PALMTREE system you will be able to access DOS before SYSMGR loads You can rename a bad APNAME LST file and avoid a lockup and loss of data CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files are discussed in detail in The HP Palmtop Paper Quick Tips section in both the Fall and Jan Feb issues See also the sidebar You can only access EXM files through hotkeys Information on hotkey assignments is stored in APNAME LST Whenever you reboot your HP 95LX by pressing eu a G SYSMGR reads the APNAME LST on the C drive and inserts that information in its task table in memory If a memory card is in the card drive SYSMGR reads its APNAME LST file if it has one SYSMGR only accepts a total of 8 entries in its task table If you have 8 entries in the APNAME LST file on your C drive SYSMGR ignores any entries on your A Drive The procedure for setting up an APNAME LST file is not documented in your User s Manual Here are
149. time contributor to support publications for Hewlett Packard computers He is the president of the Fast Aid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeney IA 50021 Ed s Compu Serve ID is 73277 1064 act with more HP i j aL gt DERIVE A Mathematical Assistant is now available for palmtops through 486 based PCs The DERIVE program solves both symbolic and numeric problems and it plots beautifully too Symbolic math from algebra through calculus Displays accepted math notation Performs arithmetic to thousands of digits Simplifies factors and expands expressions System requirements PC version MS DOS 2 1 or later only 512Kb RAM and one 3 5 or 5 25 disk drive Suggested retail price 250 AOM card version Hewlett Plots in both 2 D and 3 D Simple letter driven menu interface Solves equations exactly Understands vectors and matrices Split or overlay algebra and plot windows 2000 years of Mathematical Knowledge ona Disk 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH APRIL 1992 Does exponential logarith mic trigonometric hyperbo lic and probability functions Taylor and Fourier series approximations Permits recursive and itera tive programming Can generate Fortran Pascal and Basic statements Soft Warchouse osama HON OLULUsHAW ATI Packard 95LX Palmtop computer Suggested retail price is 289 Contact Soft Warehouse for a list of dealers Or
150. tn The HP Palmtop Paper P O Box 869 Fair field LA 52556 MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 1 Bug in PHONE and APPT Find Function I usually don t write letters to publications for lack of time but I do want to ex plain that the reason for the problem in the Find function is that the comput er has to search through all the dates that you have set up in the repeat appoint ments For example if you have set up repeating ap pointments up to the year 2906 it might take six hours until it finishes searching If you want to find things fast you have to do either of the following 1 Avoid setting long term repeating or other ap pointments 2 Use a trick to find things faster Here is a trick that will let you find things fast first you set the date to a little more than where you think the item to find might be For example if you know that tip can be found in this year go to January 1 1993 Then search backwards that way it only searches through the one year in stead of having to search all the way through the far future This is done by pressing F7 entering the search string and then pressing F5 As for the bug in the PHONE Find function this may be caused by incorrect keying If you are careful to press only the nght keys it should not happen If you want to avoid all problems don t use F7 at all You can find things in the phone book with F5 Go To just as well if you are looking f
151. tructions you received from CompuServe proceed to log on to the service This time however you will notice a difference What ap pears to be meaningless charac ters will appear on your screen at the point you are supposed to see the User I D prompt This is normal At this point enter your CompuServe user I D anyway and press When you enter your user 1 D it will also appear unintelligible However CompuServe is auto matically sensing how your computer is set You should now see the normal readable Pass word prompt Enter your pass word and press ENTER 3 You will come to a prompt that ends with a Type go hpsys and press to enter the HPSYS forum If you have never entered the HP Systems Forum before you will see the following notice Non members cannot access this feature Do you wish to join Y or N Type Y and press NTR You will then be prompted for your name Enter your full name first and last and press enter Finally you will be asked if all is correct If it is type Y and press Reading Messages In HPSYS You re now in the HPSYS forum When you receive a prompt ending in type set wid 40 and then press enter This allows most messages to be read on the 95LX s 40 col dis play Then type read new thread sec 14 15 and press enter This will allow you to read all new messages in the two sections of the forum dedicated to the 95LX You will read only new messages ones y
152. tting started with the pro gram On the other hand the HP Connec tivity Pack is quite good and offers features and options no other pack age has yet matched The two biggest advantages of the HP Connectivity Kit is that it comes with everything you need and it doesn t absolutely require addi tional disk space on your HP 95LX The HP Kit even includes a 9 pin to 25 pin adapter just in case you need it when connecting the cable to your PC If you use the HP Connectivity Pack for straight file transfer you wont need any additional disk space However if you want to take advantage of one of the more ad vanced features you will need about 50K of disk space on your HP 95LX We ll come back to that later on You ll need approximately 700K of disk space on your desktop PC for the HP Connectivity Pack The HP 95LX Connectivity Pack comes with a 50 page User s Guide While it is set up in a step by step format too many assumptions are made about what the user knows and understands Many HP 95LX users are NOT power users In addi tion some commands just aren t intuitive or that easy to remember Once you do get things set up and installed which isn t that hard if you have a little common sense and some computer experi ence there is much to be happy about with this package The heart of moving files is the Filer applications both on the PC and 95LX ASSKPLUS DAY Copy Local Renane Navel Help Delete Goto Fu
153. u like the program you are required to send Innovative Designs the user fee You can order a regis tered version of Finish Line directly Availabilty seo bee ee 5 NOW Medium 6 5004 vip nto Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr No Prini 2 9 coeds 6 ares PEM 39 89 after May 31 1992 COMPANY Innovative Designs P O Box 2577 Santa Clara CA 95055 U S A Phone 408 247 6624 Fax 408 985 9255 Modem 408 246 2468 8 N 1 300 2400 Compu Serve 70402 2003 K On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Mar Apr 92 HED A Hex Editor For The 95LX HED is a tiny under 6K full screen Hex Editor for use with small files up to approximately 55K in size HED is System Manager compliant so it can be popped up over System Manager ap plications and other applications can be popped on top of HED Within the 40 x 16 display you can modify the hex values of individual bytes or tab to the ASCII display to edit text strings etc HED is more convenient and easier to use than Debug for these applications HED is available as an executable program or as Forth source code ready for meta compiling with the UTIL metacompiler available separately HED s price is only 35 To order your copy call today Essex Marketing Services Inc 272 Old Farms Road Simsbury CT 06070 Phone 203 651 8284 SPECIA e Contact and client tracking e Calendar management e Expense tracking e PC Connectivity Cable included
154. ur desktop computer Lotus 1 2 3 s LaserJet interface works with text but I haven t tried it with graphs yet Anyone out there have any experiences with the 95LX DeskJet combination John Pomeroy State College PA U S A Letters combined will the real nerd please stand stand up One minor complaint on page 2 the first 50 or so of the note attributed to Ed Greenberg is actually from me check out the file I uploaded to Lib 14 in HPSYS a few months back The stuff from the begin ning of the note through the paragraph ending for the case to adapt to the 95LX is mine taken from that file and the rest is from a forum message Ed posted a few weeks later David Ramsey San Jose CA U S A I AM NOT A NERD Well maybe I am but I didn t write such a com ment in the last HP Palm top Paper In an easily understandable typographi cal foul up Palmtop Paper seems to have mixed my article about a leather case for the 95LX with David Ramsey s article on the same subject giving me credit for the whole thing in the process So I d like to go on re cord thanking David Ram sey for a machining the aluminum form b finding Brian Digardi and c pio neering the whole project Ed Greenberg San Jose CA U S A Mea culpa I did com bine letters accidentally The term somebody used was geek not nerd Ac cording to Webster s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary a geek is a carnival per
155. vailable from IntelliLink Inc 7 Parker Street Acton MA 01720 Phone 508 264 9943 Nuvotech HP 95LX Connectivity Kit Retail price 99 00 available from Nuvotech 2015 Bridgeway Sausalito CA U S A Phone 800 468 8683 or 415 331 7815 Fax 415 331 6445 ZIP Transfer Utility Shareware fee 30 00 available from shareware fee paid to Eric Meyer 3541 Smuggler Way Boulder CO 80303 U S A CompuServe ID 74415 1305 ZIP will be available on the March April eo issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON Macintosh to HP 95LX Connectivity With MacLink Plus PC Nuvotech will be releasing a Mac connectivity kit for the HP 95LX In the mean time this alternative was discovered by one of our subscribers By Bernie Kim CompuServe ID 71621 232 DataViz Inc manufactures a Mac intosh software program called MACLINK PLUS PC 129 through MacWarehouse that enables your Macintosh and HP 95LX to transfer and translate certain Macintosh formatted files into the 95LX s for mat Once set up your 95LX works as if it were another Mac drive You can back up your 95LX files onto your Mac s hard drive or a DOS formatted diskette in the Mac s 1 4MB Superdrive through the Ap ple directory dialog box First Connect Your Hardware To connect your Mac to the 95LX you will need a serial cable HP 82209A retail 60 that comes with the Apple Macintosh Serial Inter face kit The kit also comes with a diskette of
156. ve it can be used to calcu late the value of XMAX Simply enter 360 press ENTER enter 4 Press press to set XMAX and finally press f3 AUTO to plot the graph If you have done everything right you should have a nice smooth plot If the plot is jagged it means the resolution is insufficient or if the graph took forever to plot the resolution is too high The higher the value the smoother the curve but since resolution indicates the number of times the equation must be solved to plot the curve a high value will slow the plotting The screen resolution limits the resolu tion of function plotting so that selecting higher and higher values will not improve the plot after a point I find 100 to be a good com promise value for resolution Try plotting the sine wave with a reso lution of 25 100 and 1000 You will get the idea Tom works for a natural gas pipeline company in Houston Texas and was one of the first to use PC s in the natural gas industry He has been a regular contributor to sup port publications of Hewlett Packard computers for many years Tom s CompuServe ID is 76011 3655 MARCH APRIL 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 37 COLUMN Programmers Corner Programmers Corner Ed discusses programming tips and utilities that make writing programs on the 95LX somewhat easier By Ed Keefe This month s Programmers Corner contains tips and utilities that will make writing programs on the H
157. want using CHAR The 95LX allows you to generate a character with almost any type of accent using and the R T Y U and I keys Look at Figure 1 and you ll notice an accent symbol above each one of these keys R T Y U I When you press and any one of these keys it pre pares the 95LX to generate the corresponding accent above the next key you pressed Example 3A we could also create the A we generated above by press ing U to prepare for the accent mark and A to create the A Example 3B we could create the accented D in the French word D achat by pressing cwa F to pre pare for the accent mark and D to create the D The numbers 1 2 and 3 on the numeric keypad do triple duty Press first and they produce the lt gt and symbols Press first and they produce lt lt gt gt and Hold down a and press first and they produce the superscripted numbers 1 2 and 3 These smaller numbers are ideal for footnote num Vawe s joje fejs afsjs rJefojajs jejo pom a e ee e EEE aes Opa peja r i e aaaea e Ea s ENES Aa EA Ar HERRER EHHE RH LEJE o La gapatia ut es EE SEE PERSE SES DE EILE im QE Ed RD a e a a ei EY ee EC Ce ee ERATES Ro rose EES EELO a WM ee efo iro e CEA fod E EE 1 pm Pe Opel fee Te Pate ay feo SOS Et pe eft ta ENAC 2 EA ee ps r eels et Ei tan Es SL Me bers but it only works with the numbers 1 2 and 3 Even if you don t think you
158. within the RUN or EXEC program and pass it along to another program In short RUN and EXEC act as shell programs for other programs RUN is more flexible It uses just the file name of the program you want to run e g GREP RUN clones a copy of COMMAND COM which searches the DOS path for the GREP program and runs it EXEC on the other hand calls for the complete path of the child program e g A BIN GREP COM EXEC does not waste time load ing COMMAND COM and searching the path It s a tiny bit faster than COLUMN How Do You Do That How Do You Type Special Characters On The HP 95LX Bil show how to create and other special characters using CHAR and ALT key combinations on the HP 95LX By Bil Alvernaz Who Needs Those amp Characters For most people the HP 95LX has an adequate collection of characters in addition to the alphabet and num bers The yellow shifted characters above the second row of keys and on the numeric keypad provide a wide variety of additional characters including lt gt and But there are less common spe cial characters that occasionally come in handy the numbers 4 4 and or the plus over minus or cents sign the copyright registered trademark symbols for example If you do business in different coun tries you ll occasionally need to use an N 8 or Fortunately these and other special characters are easy to produce
159. works according to your preferences by pressing CTAl lt TAB gt any time For example on my 95LX I want Finish Line s menu to pop up often In Finish Line s easy to use Predict configuration screen I choose Of ten as opposed to Rarely or the normal Default I could further refine what I mean by Often For example I could tell Finish Line to guess after I typed 1 letter or 2 letters or even 0 letters enter 0 and Finish Line guesses based on last word typed You can also customize where on your screen the Finish Line win dow pops up upper left center and so forth as well as what keys will be your hot keys I use the maxi mum of nine hot keys and choose them to be the numeric keypad The Remote control Drive95 the portable floppy disk drive for the HP 95LX provides a low priced data storage and transfer device for palmtops Drive95 reads and writes in PC DOS format on 3 1 2 disks Programs are executed quickly and easily Drive95 is small and light weight and fits easily into your briefcase Drivega A single charge powers the Drive95 for 15 hours of remote operation Included is an AC wall adapter and a preformatted 1 44 MB disk containing the device driver software An intelligent cache memory minimizes power consumption An AC battery adapter and serial cable are included Available at leading retailers of Hewlett Packerd palmtop computers For more infor
160. y out ten keystrokes It s possible with this 95LX function that lets you do less and accomplish more However use caution By Hal Goldstein Programming is usually reserved for advanced users However you can easily use the built in User Defined Function Key capability to program your HP 95LX to save repetitive keystrokes As you ll see you must do so carefully with your eyes open If you read the first two of these columns you understand the value and necessity of saving your files often For example if you added some names to your phone book in PHONE those names don t become permanent until you save them to your C Drive RAM Disk A savvy user saves his files frequently He also backs up his files to a desktop computer or RAM Card Saving your phone book is sim ple Press File Save Return Yes to replace the older version of your phone book with your revised phone book It turns out this exact same File Save Return Yes command is used to save APPT and MEMO files Those five keystrokes may be just awkward enough to prevent you from saving as often as you should We can reduce the num ber of keystrokes for this command to a single keystroke combination by creating a User Defined Function Key also known as a macro To automate saving a file by using a User Defined Function Key do the following l Press to enter the built in PHONE application 2 Hold down A and and then press f0 You ll hear

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