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1. Volume 2 Number 1 The HP Portable Portable Plus Users Newsletter January February 1987 Portable Pape Publisher s Message 1 Dg AR TC E amp beh bab Heat 2 aes BR 2 110 MICOS PR te es ese hts Skee ee ey id ee ie 5 PACK AS BACK esu Ned E X ES Y Y ERR 5 HP Responds to HP110 Users 6 Buying A New Car With The Portable 8 Faster DISKCODY xt utd Sad ETR ER 33 Portables HPLink and Hard Disk 34 A Drive Time Manager 24 osha ee aw es RENDERE 9 Getting More Than 100 T M Name amp Addresses 9 DOS From Time Manager 9 lr M MA ETC 10 Special Feature Prooducts for Portables COMDEX 101 Macros For Lotus 1 2 3 15 Ready To Run Accounting 15 Turbo Pascal Numerical Methods Toolbox 15 1200 Baud Hayes Compatible Shirt Pocket Modem 16 Manzana s 3 5 Disk Drives 16 Portable Protection Cases 0 16 ERIPDOWEHGE 4 ud Word aee Ce EUN RS Rh bU RUN 19 NHBDOPFODOE is t So gui aea tee Oe titii amid 19 A Time Manager For The PC 19 Negotiation and Creation 20 More Products The Word PINS c6 vui w SEES Ep REM tss 22 TNK pcg et tA Du NUR QUOC UA S Ces 22 Axonics Backlighting and More 22 Official Hewlett Packard Software List 23 PLUS Notes n PDPUCTL X te Ree ee P 25 AGVADCe MOL 23 a xo eee iere Ecce
2. As I traversed the maze of booths I flashed back to my travels overseas when I would get lost in the bazaars of Morocco or Arab Jerusalem The similarities were striking small booths easy to get lost everyone vying for your at tention intense pride in workmanship The differences of course were just as striking the earthy smell of the bazaar vs the ultra clean non smell of COMDEX multicolored hand crafted items vs modern electronic black and silver boxes the ancient city of Jerusalem vs the flashing lights of Las Vegas the many century life time of the ancient mar ketplaces vs the one week life span of COMDEX It was an exhilarating experience In this modern day bazaar I found a myriad of pro ducts that are of interest for Portable users A brief descrip tion of each product is given below along with pricing and ordering information If you are interested in any item you can purchase it from the manufacturer or we would be happy to order it for you and put it on 3 5 disk if appli cable As you ll see below Portable Paper subscribers receive a discount off the retail price when ordering through us If you would like to order from us use the blank lines in the order form in back of this issue If you require more THE PORTABLE PAPER specific information about a product please contact the manufacturer we don t know much more than what you will read below Some of the products will be reviewed in future issues
3. Keyboard Macros riw v w United States E F G t l J K L z ESC to exit Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to PA M and without having to save your application file When you turn your computer back on you ll be in the same place in the same application with no data lost All the capabilities of IBM PC programs like Borland s SideKick and SuperKey Certainly not but Shelp s the only such program for the Portable Plus It s a clean easy to use and highly useful helper you ll want at your fingertips always Shelp runs on the Portable Plus only It works with Time Manager MemoMaker Reflection 1 Lotus and any other non graphics program Shelp does not run with MS Word Shelp was written by Randy Salo the former HP engineer who authored MemoMaker on the original HP Portable 55 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 day no risk trial If after 60days you are dissatisfied with this product for any reason you may return it for a full refund To order use the postage paid form at the back of this issue or send check or credit card number to SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 snr SDA ZANAT ETES RP EA ST A LE TI TURIN RE EE MSAN RE AEE NT TP TN OS E PE PAI SESE RIA P TOTAM MEMT CRM NT CNN INTO E ANS UH AME c 0 TE ISEB EDT M Pa PTT ZU NE Z
4. San Diego Stephen L Eyre 454 0555 San Mateo Santa Clara Counties San Francisco Bay Area Herbert L Hamerslough D 415 340 8811 E 415 323 9618 Los Altos Mountain View Marge Sutton D 415 949 0509 E 415 948 0627 Colorado Colorado Springs Dan Ritt 303 528 8080 Denver Call Bob Pressey 303 777 0326 Georgia Atlanta Call Brian Walsh D 404 394 2500 E 404 399 6842 Hawaii Honolulu Rodney Y Fukuya if in terested 808 945 3111 Indiana Indianapolis Bob Glass 317 638 2326 Iowa Mid Iowa Ed Keefe D 515 964 6644 E 515 964 7064 Southeast Iowa Hal Goldstein 515 472 6330 Minnesota Minneapolis John Ferman 612 822 1372 Meet 2nd Wed 7 00 at HP on Larpenteur Ave Maine Yarmouth Every last Tue 6 30 US Route one Yarmouth ME 04096 846 5497 North Carolina Charlotte and surroun ding area John Jacob 704 334 3468 Oregon Salem CompuServe ID 75066 1744 for electronic mail Tom Cropper 503 390 1431 Texas Dallas Ft Worth Metroplex D E Pennington D 214 349 0190 E 214 331 4402 Houston Thomas R Page D 713 759 4259 E 713 528 7138 Utah Utah County Donna Hoover D 378 4421 E 375 4812 Virginia Central Virginia Steve Cochran D 804 528 8491 E 804 348 5289 Washington Eastern Washington Nor thern Idaho Western Montana and possibly Western Washington Bob Sand berg 509 466 4999 Eastern Washington Stephen S Warner D 509 534 1588 E 509 535 3322 Washingto
5. We would be happy to lower the rates as much as 50 for any cor poration that can guarantee a cer tain number of subscriptions We would be most grateful for help from our fans out there in large corporations Help us demonstrate to the right powers that we charge a small price for the specialized sup port and product information pro vided in The Portable Paper If a company is forward thinking enough to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars to supply tts staff with HP Portables it will understand the value of supporting that machine for a few dollars a year We are open to any possibility Tbere is enougb material to come out montbly I m as interested as you to see how The Portable Paper evolves HP110 Baud Rate The answer to your question of how the HP110 and another computer could talk at a baud rate less than what either was set for is quite simple if you understand that each word or formatted byte of data is sent at the programmed baud rate while the en tire file is sent at the rate that allows both computers to show ready to send and ready to receive signals This means that the 110 may not be ready to send at the first opportunity that the baud rate would allow This type of problem has further reaching consequences For example if you try to send or receive data without proper handshake informa tion a system that does not have suf ficient buffer will lose data and destroy the transmitted
6. IBM HP COM Does a best fit translation from IBM PC Line Draw character set to HP ROMAN 8 character set INSTALLP COM Automates installing an application program on RAM disk the HP Portable Portable Plus Install Utility Program LABEL COM Labels or changes the label name on a disk LC COM Counts lines in each file useful in determining amount of paper needed to print LF COM Sends a line feed to the printer LJET COM LaserJet pronter configuration program for the HP Portable Makes selection LaserJet format easier MMTOP COM Causes Portable Plus MemoMaker to print without usual 5 line top margin MOVE COM Moves one file to another directory without copying MOVEALL COM Moves a set of files to another directory without copying and plenty of examples in included with the disk The manual is conve niently indexed by subject so all you have to do is look up the name of the task you want done You don t have to selves so they work better and so their message displays are easier to under remember the names of the programs And we ve even changed some of the programs them OFF COM Shuts off the HP Portable from DOS PACK COM Packs a disk Does not have subdirectories bug of earlier version PC EXE Allows some IBM programs to be run on HP150 PCBOSS COM File manager for IBM PC and compatibles only PRINTIT COM Print formatting program simple but effective PRNCONF COM Allows ThinkJet printer to function as
7. ing to type listings by hand Also on each disk utility programs public domain software and extras All of 1986 issues come on one disk 1987 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk Software on disk includes 1 DISKPACK a pack utility that can work with subdirectories usable with Edisc external disks hard disks Com mercial equivalent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s Calendar Utility Prints WEEK AT A GLANCE calendar from Time Manger s appointments list to the ThinkJet 3 ThinkJet Cartridge Tester 4 C Drive Copy Utility Copies file from one disk to another WITHOUT having to copy file first to your Portable 5 Other surprise goodies 6 The PLUS HP Calculator program also comes on this disk A Portable Pascal Programs These 600 000 plus bytes of Turbo Pascal routines and documenta tion for Portable and Portable Plus users include programs that access Portable graphics and sound plus business statistic utility game and other routines Great for beginners and professionals alike An excellent time manager for the IBM PC PrinterTalk and Format110 MemoMaker Enhancers These two independently developed programs expand the formatting capabilities of MemoMaker With PrinterTalk you can change type styles in the middle of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and much more Format110 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate
8. rectly on the IBM PC MicroCalc which comes with Turbo Pascal should work on the PC under this strategy Please keep in mind Borland s Just Like A Book licensing agreement Getting Started In Turbo Pascal By Ed Keefe One of the most disconcerting aspects of learning a new programming language such as Turbo Pascal is not know ing what a typical program looks like I suppose one way to see some actual programs is to look at samples in text books but I ve encountered two problems with this ap proach First I had to buy several different books Second most of the sample programs were written in a different version of Pascal Many of these programs would not work in the Turbo environment without extensive modifica tions The simplest modification involved adapting the programs for a 16 line HP110 display The more difficult modifications involved commands such as get and put which are not implemented in Turbo Pascal For those of you who are relatively new to Turbo Pascal programming help is on the way Available from Personalized Software is a collection of Turbo Pascal pro grams and procedures that will get you over this hurdle of inexperience Personalized Software is producing a double sided disk containing 50 samples of Turbo Pascal programs The programs range in length from ten lines of code up to several hundred lines ALL of the code is included on the disk so you need not key it in Most of the programs are
9. 1 800 227 1687 CALL NOW FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ALL HEWLETT PACKARD PRODUCTS Turbo Pascal s limit of 10 38 and displays them on the screen SIMPLE Filecopy pas is a modification of the program on page 115 of the Turbo Reference Manual v 3 0 It will let you copy COM and EXE files from within a Pascal program SIMPLE Filedump pas is a program that emulates the d option in the MS DOS debug utility It provides a hex ascii display of the con tents of any file on the electronic or external disk IN TERMEDIATE Flip pas reverses the order of the Portable s numeric keys It is a simpler version of the EMUL3270 program SIMPLE Foxhunds pas This is a simple game from the book Understanding Pascal by R F Skilton Wm C Brown 1983 adapted for Turbo Pascal INTERMEDIATE Freq pas From The Portable Paper vol 1 issue 1 comes this program to change the frequency of the Portable s beeper ADVANCED HP110 specific Genlmenu pas is a demo program on how to write a general menu procedure in Turbo Pascal Not very elegant but it works INTERMEDIATE Getime pas This short program lets you access the com puter s clock and use the time in your programs to generate ran dom numbers or set up timing loops INTERMEDIATE Guessgam pas is the Turbo version of the HIGH LOW guess ing game SIMPLE Hanoi pas is the recursive solution to the problem of the Tower of Hanoi game It will print out the complete solution for
10. IN THE UNITED STATES see ee a oe eg FREUEN es ag BUSINESS REPLY MAIL FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO 1047 FAIRFIELD IA aes Baten tea Tecan feed Postage will be paid by addressee RSEN ee el 4 er Pee ee eS Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 FOLD HERE A Attention Name Credit Card Holders l You may order by calling Title 515 472 6330 9 00am 4 30pm comu Central Time Monday Friday or by send PPM ing CompuServe EMAIL to ID 72257 714 Address City State Zip Telephone Specify size of disk UO 3 O 5 To Order by Mail 1 Staple your check to this order form What kind of computer do you use check all that apply US funds payable to Personalized C HP110 Portable J Portable Plus HP150 touchscreen C IBM PC or compatible Software or note your credit card information in the space provided Method of payment Check CO MasterCard O VISA 2 Fold this panel back first then fold the CDF a E ee cc succ E XDIEFeS 3 Tape shut and drop in mail We pay postage Cardholder Signature gt A k Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter P O Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 ORDER FORM Subscriber Product Retail Discount Qty Total dee Paper 3 Year oa Pes a NN j F zs une O Renewal 2 Year Zn s900 NA Z C Jan 1986 Cjan 1987 O Current issue 1 Year Subs
11. New York NY 10016 212 684 5553 The Account Executive Plus Tracks a salesman s position in a long term selling campaign It facilitates a strategic approach to sales Software Design 1731 W Division Arlington TX 76012 817 261 8826 Utilities Outside Vendor Formatl10 HP110 Plus Expands formatting capabilities of MemoMaker lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Formatter The HP110 Plus Sophisticated text formatter for large reports pro gram documentation etc Multi line headers footers page numbers table of contents glossary capabili ties and more Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 HPGraphics HP110 Used for making diagrams and drawings both for business and for fun Features include font shape generation banner printing and more HPGrapbics 4510 Greencove Ct Olympia WA 98502 Norton Utilities HP110 Plus Allow you to recover deleted Portable files and organize your electronic and external disks Also in cludes an extra 3 5 disk additional utilities and instructions for running utilities on the Portables and HP150 Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 PrinterTalk HP110 Plus Expands formatting capabilities of MemoMaker you can change type styles in the middle
12. news is that it is very good program For a full review see the Aug 25 1986 issue of InfoWorld where it fared very well PrimeTime is a time and task management system that organizes and keeps track of time commitments things to be done assignments given to others notes and reminders and also is a personal phone directory It is designed to help you get things done focus on your high est priorities and use your time more effectively It can be run either as a memory resident program or as a regular application InfoWorld concludes in its review at 99 95 Prime Time is a full featured time management tool Unlike other programs that promised to get us organized PrimeTime ac tually did We found that PrimeTime provided us with the motivation and means to organize the major functions on our desk PrimeTime works and is worth every nickel While using PrimeTime we not only were able to more ef fectively utilize our time but we were also able to gain greater control over assignments we had given to co workers as well I have just started using it on my Compaq Deskpro I find it even better than HP s Time Manager Again remember that this program runs only on the IBM PC HP Vectra or true compatible and files are not transferable from HP Time Manager into PrimeTime Perhaps it is best to use HP Time Manager when traveling and PrimeTime on your PC at the office I have decided to put it on our price list at the back of
13. ready to be Loaded Compiled and Run Some of the pro grams have even been compiled for you so you don t need Turbo Pascal in your computer to run them The level of difficulty of the programs varies from simple to advanced with the majority of programs skew ed toward the simple end of the continuum Thus Pascal programmers from beginners to experts will find examples on the disk that they can learn from All of the programs have been tested on the HP110 Portable and they work Almost all the programs will also work on the Portable Plus However many of the pro grams do not incorporate error trapping As a result they may produce I O errors or run time errors if they are given inappropriate input data Another way cf saying this is to Turbo Pascal Customized To Your HP Portable or Portable Plus at No Extra Charge Turbo Pascal is clearly the Portable and Portable Plus pro gramming language of choice Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper THE ENTIRE SYSTEM INCLUDING EDITOR CONSUMES LESS THAN 40K Turbo Pascal is superior in terms of EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A poc PROGRAMMER THE WORDSTAR TYPE portability to other machines EDITOR ALONE IS WORTH THE programmer s environment PRICE OF TURBO PASCAL memory consumption When You Buy From Personalized Software You Receive 10 Subs r disc unt Other Borland Turbo Pascal p products egg e The disk includes pr
14. this issue PrimeTime retails for 99 95 subscribers can purchase it for 89 95 Alternatively you can contact WiseWare at 3176 Pullman St Suite 106 Costa Mesa CA 926206 714 556 6523 NEGOTIATION AND CREATION I have always been fascinated by both the creative process and persuasive ability I remember reading with interest reviews of two pieces of IBM PC software developed by Experience In Software The Art of Negotiating and The Idea Generator The Art of Negotiating is based on the classic text in the field also named The Art of Negotiating by Gerard I Nierenberg The Idea Generator is based on Nierenberg s The Art Of Creative Thinking Before the microcomputer age such topics as creativi ty and negotiation were taught through books and seminars A book is essentially a passive linear medium for learning Seminars are expensive and time consuming and learning retention often drops off quickly Software is an interactive medium You act and it re sponds it responds and you act Potentially software is an excellent means both to teach and to apply specialized knowledge The Art of Negotiating and The Idea Generator are designed to help business people discover new ap proaches to negotiating and creative thinking As I traversed the maze of COMDEX booths I was pleased to encounter Experience In Software s booth I talked with Roy Nierenberg Gerald s son who is president of the company I asked him some questions
15. 9 10 Project Management Power for Lotus 1 2 3 Fulfill your project management needs with your favorite software tool Project 8 9 10 delivers PERT Critical Path planning and analysis through integrated templates based in Lotus 1 2 3 Features e PERT Time Estimates e Critical Path Plans Project Calendars Multi Project MasterPlans Complete 36 Page Manual Exceptional Value at 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Postage paid order form and 60 day guarantee are on in side back cover or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 on 3 disk for HP Portables and HP150 Lotus and 1 2 3 are trademarks of Lotus Development Corp reviewed in issue 1 of 75e Portable Paper It provides a good introduction to the HP110 for novice through in termediate users Portable Plus owners will also find the book of value although some sections will not pertain The book retails for 16 95 Portable Paper subscribers can purchase it from Personalized Software for 15 95 The second book is one of my favorites on Lotus 1 2 3 Tips Tricks and Tracks This book discussed in The Portable Paper issue 5 contains many short useful specifics on how to make better use of Lotus The book retails for 19 95 and we sell it for 18 95 to our subscribers QUE Corporation is at 7999 Knue Rd In dianapol
16. Also produces overall critique of document strength of delivery use of jargon grade level Uses more than 2 200 rules and a 45 000 word dictionary and works with most word processors Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit First video game designed for The Portables Borland Turbo Pascal Customized For The Portables Turbo Pascal the HP Portable programming language of choice out strips others in price performance compatibility memory consump tion and programmer environment The WordStar type editor alone is worth the price Borland has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra disk with their product customizing the Turbo editor to The Portables editing keys Also available Turbo Pascal Toolbox which creates a data base file management system and Turbo Pascal Tutor 2 0 a step by step interactive tutorial on Turbo Pascal program ming Typing Whiz Better than almost any typing program on the market designed spe cifically for The Portables and the HP150 Immediate numeric and graphic feedback of your progress WordPerfect 4 1 Disk based Portable PLUS version of the best selling word processing package Includes spelling checker and thesaurus The Word Plus An excellent spelling checker with a choice of two dictionaries 45 000 words and 35 000 words plus the ability to input addi tional words and abbreviations of your own Also does word counts Custom
17. DOS Now type the following two lines ds s dir Then type CTRL z and you have created a batch file that sorts and lists files by size To invoke this batch file just type look you will get a listing of files with the largest ones at the end Being able to view the largest files is invaluable when you need to delete files and free up disk space CPU This stands for Central Processing Unit In the 1950 s CPU referred to an entire large computer Later the term came to mean just that part of a large computer than per formed all the arithmetic and control functions involved in computing In most large computers the CPU also in cludes the main memory of the computer In microcom puters the term CPU refers to the microprocessor that is the brain of the computer In the HP110 and Plus the CPU is a microprocessor called the 80C86 It is the low powered version of the CPU in some IBM PC clones PORTABLE COMPUTER PERIPHERALS amp ACCESSORIES PACKARD 9114B Portable Disc Drive 88014B Replacement Disc Drive Battery 2225B Portable Thinkjet Printer 82199A Replacement Thinkjet Battery 82164A HP IL RS 232 Interface 82169A HP IL HP IB Interface HP 12C Financial Calculator LIST OUR PRICE PRICE 795 00 629 00 55 00 49 00 495 00 399 00 45 00 39 00 295 00 249 00 395 00 329 00 99 00 79 00 These are just a few of the products in our large inventory of Hewlett Packard computers calculators printers plotters an
18. Disk series makes it easy to take full ad vantage of what you learn in The Portable Paper Subscribe to The Portable Paper on Disk series today Only 7 50 per disk think of what your time is worth With each Portable Paper issue you ll receive a disk 1987 series 6 disks 45 00 1986 series all 6 issues on one disk 39 95 1986 and 1987 series 7 disks 59 95 save 25 60 day no risk trial If after 60 days you are dissatisfied with this product for any reason you may return it for a full refund To order use the postage paid form at the back of this issue or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 amp 0B86 CTS 0 IGNORE 0B87 DSR 0 IGNORE 0B88 DCD 0 IGNORE 0B89 Aux 0 serial 1 82164 2 Modern HP110 users need only to be able to read and write sector 0 This I figured would be easy all I have to do is use the intr function of Turbo Pascal to call interrupt 25 absolute sector read WRONG I tried that and it blew away my whole Edisc including this article It just so happens that the HP110 BIOS pushes the flags on the stack This causes an extra byte to be on the stack when Turbo gets in control again and Turbo is not pleased Anyway I managed to figure out a routine that works Here it is Note this routine is for the Portable only Portable PLUS users can declare a variable to be at the absolute location of the da
19. MSWord it is word n Using Time Manager With Pulse Dialing Exchanges Nigel Ball of Australia writes about techniques to get Time Manager on the original HP110 to use pulse rather than tone dialing for older phone equipment A variation of the technique will probably work on the Plus if you copy your tm com file from b memo tm to the A drive and run a copy of the patched program from the A drive The debug program that Nigel mentions is built into the Plus HP110 users can find the debug program on most any DOS machine s operating system disk Nigel writes that there are two alternatives for pulse dialing If you are using the HP110 s internal modem the only choice is to put a capital P as the first character of the phone number Time Manager will then dial using pulses In general this will not cause a problem if you dial the number through a tone dial exchange as most still accept the pulse dialing JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 9 THE PORTABLE PAPER The alternative relates to the use of an external auto dial modem Some of us don t have any choice as HP ship ped units without modem to Australia after the initial ship ment In this case the P in the phone number field will still work However it is possible to patch Time Manager so that it always pulse dials To make the patched version of Time Manager you will need the MS debug program and a copy of tm com on drive A From DOS type rename tm com tm xxx Then type deb
20. and file transfer using CRC CCITT or XMODEM protocol YTerm 82867K Opt 400 95 Plus Enables Portable Plus to communicate and exchange files with IBM mainframes as well as run full screen applications designed for IBM 3278 terminals Outside Vendor Acculink HP110 Plus Async file transfer and terminal emulation JE Systems Box 359 112 Main St Newmarket NH 03857 603 659 5891 CompuServe Starter Kit HP110 Plus Gets you started on CompuServe an electronic infor mation service that includes HP Forum Includes 25 of free time complete users guide permanent user ID number and preliminary password and OnLine Today CompuServe s monthly magazine Can be ordered from Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 POLYXFR HP110 Plus Provides error free transfer of both ASCII and binary files between PC s minis and mainframes also run ning Polygon software Polygon Associates 1024 Executive Parkway St Louis MO 63141 6304 314 576 7709 Computation amp Analysis Outside Vendor 1 2 3 for Business HP110 Designed for use with Que s best selling book 1 2 3 for Business Fourteen practical business models are contained on the diskette QUE Corp 7999 Knue Rd Suite 202 Indianapolis IN 46250 800 842 7162 BOTTOMLINE V HP110 Financial planning and decision support system that allows a twelve month cash flow budgeting and break even analysis ILAR Systems Inc 1300 Dove St Suite 200
21. battery pack and keep both plugged in When one loses power replace it with the other This seems clumsy to us What if you want to do several hours of disk intensive work At Personalized Software we have a better solution 2 in fact Either will solve the problem SOLUTION 1 This is a special power sup ply It will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just remove the battery pack plug Solution 1 into the open slot and into your wall outlet It s that easy And lets you run your HP9114 to your heart scon tent It costs 129 if you re a Portable Paper subscriber 145 if you re not SOLUTION 2 A power supply and battery pack Solution 2 includes Solution 1 and a modified HP battery pack you can substitute for yours How many times have you wished you had a 2nd external disk drive Personalized Software is selling for a limited time complete HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial discount Call 515 472 6330 for details 18 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 Our special battery pack lets your Portable run directly off your wall outlet You can plug in the regular HP charger at the same time so your battery pack always stays completely charged Solution 2 sells for 199 to Portable Paper subscribers other wise it s 225 Both solutions are custom made Both solve the HP9114 battery prob lem And both will let you finish your work 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER U
22. cartridge box along with the fixing felt pad rod Include your name and address Send to THE LASER GROUP THE LASER GROUP 1300 Waverly Place Joliet IL 60435 Phone 815 727 2600 LaserJet is a trademark of Hewlett Packard For literature or questions call or write Depending on such factors as availability how long the car has sat on the lot the shorter the better less finance charges and how much the dealer wants to move the car you should be able to get the car for between 200 and 750 over the dealer s cost between 10 620 and 11 170 in the example In my case in the 150 mile radius around the small town where I live my choices were limited Therefore having the various options sticker and wholesale listed in my computer was very helpful especially when it came down to negotiations I could quickly determine the wholesale price add 200 and make my offer It was during negotiations where I found The Portable most valuable Having the figures in a Lotus spreadsheet put me in a better position than the salesman in coming up with figures quickly Tax extra options and so forth could be computed quickly In addition with the computer always available to me I felt the intimidation and control factors normally in his favor on his turf shifted quite a bit The Portable itself gave me an air of sophistication and knowing what I was doing that helped get to the lowest price more quickly It also ga
23. customers and that HP will do everything possible to in troduce 75e Portable Paper to past and future customers If we could rub Aladdin s lamp a few times for the Portable Plus our wish list would be as follows IBM PC XT compatibility please Either via a new ROM BIOS or a ROM translator chip F9 and f10 keys could be assigned to Menu and User System keys and Alt to the Select key If we could only gain access to the moun tain of first class PC XT software whose developers will never be able to justify special versions for the non compatible HP laptops Upgrade your most useful ROM based software to the LATEST IM PROVED VERSIONS Word 3 0 and Lotus 1 2 3 2 01 especially When everyone else in the PC XT AT universe now has access to these im portant upgrades why shouldn t top dollar Portable Plus owners have ac cess to them too Come down out of the stratosphere on RAM Drawer RAM chip pricing Make the superb integrated package ENABLE available to Portable Plus owners in ROM As many software reviewers have said ENABLE is in a class by itself among integrated pro grams Compared to the other leaders Symphony Framework and the Smart System ENABLE is not only superior to any of them but also the only one that would comfortably fit in the Plus s RAM and electronic disk Increase the 80C86 clock speed to an up to date 8MHz As a long term HP shareholder and HP customer I reall
24. file I made this discovery while trying to inter face a mainframe computer to a TV character generator for election coverage The generator was hard wired for 9600 baud but provided a ready to receive signal at all times Thus our computer sent data at a full 9600 baud rate and we lost all but 2 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 about every fifth or sixth character Our solution was to add an external buffer and baud rate converter We sent data at 600 baud from the main frame buffered it and sent it to the character generator at the needed 9600 baud The effective data trans mission rate was 600 baud even though the character generator was working at 9600 Baud rate is the rate of data ex change for only one byte of data plus the required data formatting informa tion The effective baud rate is the total system communication rate for the entire file including the system overhead time Your stated 2400 baud is the effective baud rate while 19 2K is the true baud rate John Jacob Mation Engineering Charlotte NC PC Magazine Goodies You published a part of my letter in the November December 1986 issue concerning the utilities from PC Magazine You added that the pro grams were available as BASIC pro grams from PC Magazine s bulletin board They are in fact also available in assembly code but more impor tant the executable files are also available and that is the way I have obtained all of them I have tri
25. for good material that is clear succinct and useful to a significant portion of our reader ship I especially like material that contains principles that can be ap plied in different situations I en courage everyone to take the initiative and send us material you think others can benefit from As you have seen in each issue a large number of you are already sending us comments letters and articles If we charged 3 an issue and published twelve times a year keep ing the same quality and quantity of content and form it would be most difficult to survive We do everything I can think of to tell HP Portable users about ourselves but my guess is not more than 10 to 15 of HP Portable users have even heard of us Thats 15 of a small specialized market of approximately 30 000 to 40 000 users We have no complaints With your patronage and support com bined with relatively low overhead we are doing well We have about 1500 subscribers Our best selling piece of software PrinterTalk bas sold about 250 However tbe major computer magazines bave bundreds JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 1 THE PORTABLE PAPER of thousands of subscribers and gain most of their revenue from adver tising Frankly dealing with corpora tions has been one of my greatest challenges Many companies route a single issue of The Portable Paper to many users By the way you need our permission if you want to copy any portion of The Portable Paper
26. get all the text formatting and printing control you need FastAid s Ed Keefe Team Up Put the MemoMaker enhancing utilities of PrinterTalk amp primario to work for you Existing Format110 owners get PrinterTalk for only 19 95 Existing PrinterTalk owners get Format110 for only 19 95 THE PORTABLE PAPER briefcase like products to soft padded carrying cases Hard Cases If you need hard core protection Wilson Cases Inc might have the solution Suppose you want to ship your Portable and peripherals with your other airline baggage rather than take your Portable equipment on the plane with you You could do it with a Wilson Case These hard cases come in two forms The Durantran style cases are 100 airline approved and have externally mounted steel locks and handles The more expensive cases meet or exceed all Air Transport Association standards for re usable shipping containers Wilson cases are used to ship testing and analyzing equipment computers and other sensitive equipment so your Portable ThinkJet and Disk drive would certainly be safe in either kind of case I spoke to sales manager Bob Gartin and gave him the dimensions of Portable equipment He said that he could custom make his high quality hard cases to our specifica tions for 209 and 249 You still will want your HP or other soft case for local travel and for protection within the hard case For an extra 30 they can create internal padding t
27. keyboard SIMPLE uses case statements Erase pas will allow you to erase a file from the electronic disk without leaving the Turbo editor SIMPLE Exermenu pas Along with a companion program menugen pas this program will produce menus from which any option can be chosen simply by moving the cursor almost like Lotus 123 sliding menus except that the choices are listed vertically rather than across the top of the screen Useful in creating menu driven application programs INTERMEDIATE Fact pas is a demo program that uses recursive techniques to compute the factorial of a number SIMPLE Fibonaci pas computes the Fibonacci numbers from 0 up to 1700 South Willow Street Manchester NH 03103 HP 9114B HP IL DISC DRIVE HP 2225B THINKJET PRINTER HP 18C CALCULATOR LA oco Authorized Dealer LIST SELL 195 00 636 00 495 00 396 00 175 00 HP s new idea will change your mind about calculators Here s why You can tell it what you want it to do In your own words Just Define your own special business formulas Or push a few buttons to get built in business formulas Then fill in your own numbers The Business Consultant gives you answers unmatched by any other business calculator And oh Foal yes It also docs everything other business calculators can do Only more easily Order the Business Consultant today PHONE 603 669 1641 In New Hampshire 1 800 227 8090 In New England
28. negotiation The program s specific use is to prepare for a single negotiation with printed out put that you can use as a basis for discussions with your own team and for analysis of the outcome of the negotia tion Although some screens may seem awkward the pro gram can be used by people who have almost no computer experience to study and prepare for the most important in terchanges they have with other people The September 29 1986 review of Idea Generator ends We found the Idea Generator s structured approach to problem solving forced us to clarify our goals But where it really earns its keep is in the number of ideas for solutions it helped us generate The bottom line is that those tackling little or occasional problems may be satis fied using their outline program But managers of entre preneurs who need a boost in brainstorming will find that the Idea Generator really can stimulate fresh thinking about old and new problems Let s hope that Experience In Software comes up with a solution for Portable users The Art Of Negotiating comes with a 5 1 4 disk a manual a workbook and The Fundamentals of Nego tiating which is the hardbound collection of two volumes The Art of Negotiating and Creative Business Negotiating The product retails for 495 We will give The Portable Paper subscribers a 20 discount 395 and we ll offer the product on 3 1 2 disk At this time the Idea Generator works only on the IBM PC or tr
29. of The Portable Paper 101 MACROS FOR LOTUS 1 2 3 I talked with the very personable author of this program Michael Lunsford at COMDEX He sells versions on 3 5 inch disk HP format These collections of macros are useful and also are excellent learning tools for Lotus novices and experts alike Novices can use the clear well written manual and the 101 Macros disk to learn about macros and put them to use right away Power users will find a number of these macros valuable and will pick up useful techniques by studying them The macros I looked at worked fine on both the HP110 and Portable Plus Some of Michael s files contain ing and describing the macros do assume a full Lotus screen and the IBM PC line drawing character set How ever sixteen line HP110 Lotus users will have little difficul ty traversing the screens Also the aesthetics of the HP ROMANS characters on the Lotus screen rather than line drawing IBM PC character set shouldn t bother any Port able user too much Macros include recalculating ranges double spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells addressing form letters and printing labels automatically Other macros let you put TODAY in words judge column widths of Print Range and be more flexible as to where you end up when doing a Copy There are over 90 additional macros The cost of the product is 49 95 from Macropac In ternational 19855 Stevens Blvd Suite 168 Cupert
30. performance Package includes compiler linker librarian four memory modules numerous library functions low level input output functions the Terminal Indepen dence Package and more Pascal by Microsoft 45447D 350 HPIIO Plus programming language designed for use with MS DOS Pascal by Microsoft accepts and compiles pro grams written according to the ISO standard and the full Microsoft Pascal syntax extensions Programmer s Tools 45419C 325 HPIIO Plus This package contains MS DOS software develop ment utilities and documentation to help you develop or adapt programs for the Portable and Port able Plus Technical Reference Man 45559K 100 Plus Contains information necessary to develop both hardware and software for the Portable Plus Outside Vendor AZTEC C HP110 A complete implementation of UNIX V7 C includes relocating assembler linkage editor library utility debugging aids overlay support and run time rou tines for I O utility and scientific functions Manx Software Systems 1 Industrial Way Eatontown NJ 07724 800 221 0440 Borland Turbo Products Turbo Pascal HP110 Plus The HP Portable programming language of choice Turbo Pascal outstrips others in price performance compatibility memory consumption and program mer environment The WordStar type editor alone is worth the price Includes extra disk customizing Turbo editor to the Portables editing keys Turbo Toolbox HP110 Plus Creates
31. surface mail 6 air Other countries 6 surface 18 air All other products In North America Add 4 for one item 7 more than one item FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 Outside North America Add 3 surface mail 10 airmail We bill or charge non U S orders for the actual postage if it exceeds these amounts om a eS To ao oe ee ec ee ci i a SE Mee eR ae eee ee ee ee me a em m me eem Ee eee Cree eee ceo eer GO e mm ama ne A ee eee H CompuServe Starter Kit Gets you started on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP forum Includes 25 worth of free time com plete Users Guide permanent user ID number and preliminary password and CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today DOS Tools Portable Utilties Disk Vol 1 Well over 50 excellent public domain programs that enhance DOS all tested on The Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clari ty and ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents The Editor The Formatter separate packages The Editor Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right justify Easy to learn and use Uses less than 40K Versions for HP110 Plus IBM PC HP150 all on master disk The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multi line headers footers page
32. that although their were some original logistics prob lems he was very pleased with the results It is really great I d recommend it highly for increased viewing power HP110 or Portable Plus users can send their machine to Axonics for one week to receive the 300 upgrade Dave Cox VP of Marketing told me that have at least two other products HP Portable users might be interested in First of all they used to manufacture an HP IL to Cen tronix converter This means you could hook up your Port able with the parallel printer you have running off your IBM PC or compatible David told me that if there is in terest contact me or Axonics they will manufacture more The other product of interest is a portable true letter quality Daisy wheel serial printer 12 characters per sec ond 13 pounds A C only The Brother HRIO retails for 349 David said he would send me a Brother HRIO for review for he seemed to recall some difficulty making it work with The Portable We ll report the results Axonix Corporation can be contacted at 417 Wakara Way Salt Lake City Utah 84108 801 582 9271 If you would like to order any of their products including the backlighting through us we ll give The Portable Paper subscribers a 10 discount ue THE PORTABLE PAPER The following is a list of software available for the HP110 and the Port able Plus personal computers This list was compiled by Hewlett Packard and based on inform
33. the working directory WHEAROUT COM Gives percent of wear on disk in HP 9114 disk drive WHEREIS COM Searches disk to find the specified file APPENDIX A Describes the contents of subdirectories HP110 SOURCE 123DEMO found on the DOS Tools disk UTILS DOC Reprints on disk The Portable Paper Vol 1 Issue 4 utilities Gives practical examples of many of the files on the DOSTools disk stand Given the state of the art in writing and test ing software there s no guarantee that every item of software works as doc umented without a hitch However most of the test ing and evaluating was done by Hal Goldstein publisher of The Portable Paper and by Gary Good man and Thomas Page Anyone who has read Gary s and Tom s articles in past issues of The Port able Paper already knows of their conscientiousness and thoroughness 5o look through the list If evenone program proves useful DOS Tools could pay for itself immediately With more than 50 docu mented and tested pro grams to try out and use it s the bargain of the cen tury Order yours today Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools 49 95 39 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RUNS ON HP Portable e Portable Plus e HP150 IBM PC HP Vectra 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signatu
34. to get a feel ing for whether the programs would run on The Portables Based on his response I was not optimistic but I agreed to be sent review copies of the programs so I could test them on The Portables Here is what I found After doing some experiment ing I got The Art Of Negotiating to work perfectly on the 20 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 Portable Plus It will not work on the Portable On the HP150 not only doesn t it work but when I tried it with pc exe the utility we sell with the Norton Utilities to make them work on the HP150 it corrupted the directory table making the disk unre dable In order to make it run on the Plus I set console mode as Alternative in the System Config menu All the cursor and function keys required by the program worked fine When the program requested f10 the Portable Plus User System key did the trick In general if an IBM PC program does not run directly using Alternative mode is the best strategy to get the program to run on either Portable Unfortunately Idea Generator did not work at all The screen locked up immediately I called Roy and he said he would have his programmer look into it We will review The Art Of Negotiating in detail in a future issue In the meantime I will quote the last paragraphs of InfoWorld s reviews of the two products In the April 15 1985 issue the reviewer concludes The Art of Negotiating is a useful program that guides you through the preparation for a
35. two companion utilities that work only on The HP Portables SideChar lets you create your own sideways characters 8 t Quit P te Print L te Lese ta Save Its called SideWinder and it s perfect for Lotus 1 2 3 print nnnnnnnnnnnsaw Prise cns 3 files MemoMaker files or any other text ASCII file that s too Simply fill in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built E wide for a normal page in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs ia whatever sideways characters you wish i Just type in the file name and SideWinder does the rest Exi ces m E printing up to 53 rows sideways for as long as your paper St etch amp Print lets you make line drawings on your screen E using the cursor and function keys B supply lasts You ll never need to cut and paste again T SideWinder s high quality graphics characters are TE bo indistinguishable from ordinary characters and SideWinder tes A S prints just as fast as your ThinkJet can PESO CE dann a 3 M rae A ae It s a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a chi o T In addition a builtin mini text editor lets you get inside your Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal print files and easily create cdowuble width and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp E characters and underlines Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the sc
36. version 1 2 or earlier send it to us with a self addressed stamped printer envelope or send us 7 50 and we ll replace it with Great for labels envelopes short notes any small version 1 2A 20 less disk space than 1 2 typing task e Perform advanced features supported by your printer such as superscripting and subscripting 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR PRINTER PrinterTalk stores the escape sequences command codes that tell your HP printer how to perform attri butes and print functions Escape sequences are already built into PrinterTalk for ThinkJet LaserJet and car tridges and other HP printers and you can easily customize PrinterTalk for any other printer as well check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Special Low Price BOTH PROGRAMS now ONLY 59 95 A 90 VALUE Formatt10 lets you format headers footers and page numbers all centered left or right justified chain or merge documents and preview your document on screen Formatt10 also lets you send your document to your disk file or printer and compensates for widow and orphan lines Disk includes the manual and Turbo Pascal source code Format110 usually sells for 39 95 now with PrinterTalk it s only 59 95 Order both today and
37. weekly This had been accomplished and completed at 4PM May 7 1985 The fire ignited at 10PM that date Inasmuch as all inventory was a total loss as well as office and equip ment we were without any record of what we no longer had It had been the practice to carry the back up floppies off site which fortunately had been done As soon as the CPU could be replaced the hard disk ini tialized and the backup files restored we were in a position to offer the JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 3 THE PORTABLE PAPER insurance carrier hard copy evidence of what had been the extent of the in ventory loss In a lighter vein I have a modest procedure to pass along to other readers It may be presumptuous to assume that none of them has discov ered this but frequently the simplest solutions are the least obvious My suggestion relates to a clogged ThinkJet cartridge I have discovered that after removing the cartridge from the printer straightening a pa per clip and gently inserting it into the small orifice at the rear of the car At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable Portable PLUS and ThinkJet And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers tridge exerting very slight pressure against the bladder within until ink oozes from the jets restores the car tridge to its normal function Wipe any excess ink from the jets before re installing the cartridge into its ca
38. ABLE PAPER seems an endless task that requires just enough attention to prevent you from doing any other useful work The best albeit expensive solution is to pick up a second HP9114 Here is a tip from Looking Glass author Ed Keefe to speed up things a bit whether you have one or two exter nal drives Before doing the copy go into System Config from PAM and set Memory to the maximum You may even want to copy off a few files first and use pack before setting Memory The diskcopy still takes an interminable amount of time but it is faster and you ll have to switch disks less often Apparently diskcopy uses whatever internal memory is available to do its thing Portables HPLink Card and Hard Disk From talking to subscribers I find there is still a good bit of confusion about using the HP110 or Portable PLUS with a hard disk system Hopefully this will clear things up Here is an explanation from Corvallis see the last paragraph of this section for a summary The Portable Plus like the HP110 runs MSDOS 2 11 which is inherently limited to 4085 clusters on a disk about 16 megabytes on most disks However the two pro ducts behave differently when you attempt to access a larger hard disk that has been formatted by MS DOS 3 0 Such hard disks are encountered for example when talk ing to an IBM AT over Portable Desktop Link When the HP110 accesses a hard disk it assumes the disk is MS DOS 2 xx format Reading a larger di
39. Data Sort it does not physically do the sort on disk The DOS Tools disk is available from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 for 49 95 plus 4 shipping 39 95 to Portable Paper subscribers Use the order form in back of this issue Buying a New Car with The Portable In future Portable Papers we will discuss the use of the Portable as a tool for the salesman The Portable can also be most helpful when making major purchases My wife and I were recently in the market for a new car I did not want to spend a lot of time shopping around however I also wanted to get the best possible price My Portable was a great help from start to finish Initially I entered sticker prices of cars including op tions into Lotus I also recorded the dealership salesman s name phone number and comments from any visit I soon narrowed my choices down to several models Fortunately I was able to get the actual dealer costs of the car and options from one salesman If you cannot get the dealer s cost directly from a salesman there are a number of methods for obtaining this information The best is to obtain a current copy of Edmund s Car Prices which lists the dealer costs of all car models and options This publication can be found in the car section of your local bookstore or magazine stand Another method is to take a percentage off the sticker price usually between 9 to 12 and up to 20 on options You
40. Epson printer also sends escape se quences to the PRN device RAMDSK ARC Archived utility for HP150 only creates internal RAM disk RENDIR COM Renames subdirectories RNGNAME COM Displays and restores range names for Lotus worksheet ROMAN8 WKS Provides ability to enter any Roman8 character into Lotus worksheet SDL COM Produces directory listings sorted by name size date or extension SEPARATE COM Breaks large text files into smaller files for MemoMaker SM COM SpaceMaker Converts EXE files to COM files and thus saves disk storage space and disk access time SQPC COM Squeezes files to make them take up less space Unsqueeze with TY TEE COM Causes a program or file to be output to both the screen and a file or printer TJETA COM Configures ThinkJet printer easily from the HP Portable TOWS COM Converts ASCII document files to WordStar and Portable Plus MemoMaker format for editing and reformatting TRANSLIT COM Converts one or more characters of one file to different character s and copies result to second file TREEDIR COM Displays names of all files in each directory along with date time and file size TRIM COM Extracts selected columns from a file TY COM Unsqueezes files squeezed by SQPC VDL COM Allows user to selectively delete files from a group of files Program lists files one by one and asks user whether to delete WAIT COM Delays execution of a batch file until specified time WD COM Saves and restores
41. IL device of any kind The well known HP IL commands are incor porated into this program so you can use all HP IL devices you want with your Portable or Portable Plus All command and ready class mes sages are possible with this small but powerful program The only re striction is the fact that the program must be implemented in a BASIC en vironment On the other hand one might consider the fact that BASIC normal ly is versatile enough to read files from a disk in order to print them anywhere on an HP IL device I have tried several texts created with The Writer MemoMaker and WordStar and all could be printed with a well fit BASIC program Also the readings from a DMM like the very expensive HP3468A can be taken in by this lit tle program If anyone is interested I will copy this program for him her at the modest shipping cost of 10 or the corresponding amount in Dutch Guilders You will receive a 3 5 disk containing the program a brief but lucid description of commands plus parameters needed to run the pro gram and my best wishes Send your request plus check in my name to Mr R M Franquinet Mentbensberg seweg 13 NL 6816 PR Arnhem The Netherlands I hope The Portable Paper will last as long as the Portable lasts R Franquinet The Netherlands SideWinder author Paul Grimmer s HP IL transfer utility beta tested and approved by Looking Glass author Ed Keefe will be ready positively by the next
42. JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 31 THE PORTABLE PAPER For the convenience a Of our subscribers the Portable Paper on Disk series No more having to type listings by hand Now every batch file macro and program listing from every issue of The Portable Paper is available on disk one convenient disk per issue The Portable Paper on Disk series saves you time and effort in implementing the ideas you read about in The Portable Paper And each disk contains some bonuses you won t find anywhere else Each disk in the series contains e Ready to use DOS batch files Lotus macros Pascal program listings Reflection command files etc as listed in The Portable Paper e the text of the Portable Paper articles that explain the programs macros and files that are on the disk e where feasible the public domain software mentioned in that issue of The Portable Paper THE PORTABLE PAPER ON DISK FOR THIS ISSUE INCLUDES pack com page 5 newcar wks 8 switch bat 9 Official HP prod list 23 Looking Glass glossary program plus Pascal source code 28 Wizadry sector segment list plus Pascal code 31 amp More esurprise extras that can include eutility software unavailable from any other source portions of articles that are too long or too specialized for publication in The Portable Paper itself but which are of interest to a significant number of readers The Portable Paper on
43. N UTILITIES IBM PC HP Vectra are also an excellent disk management sys tem Here are some examples of what you can do Let s say you want to sort directories and files physically on disk either by name ex tension size date time or by any combina tion of these Just use the ds disk sort com mand I use this one to sort my electronic disk files by size all the time Then when I display the directory the larger files come at the end of the list and I can see at a glance which ones to move elsewhere to free up any needed amount of disk space Or let s say you remember putting the Indispensible PC Magazine Don t compute without it The New York Times You ll bless this disk Peter McWilliams The Personal Computer Book Personalized Software is authorized to distribute THE NORTON UTILITIES on 312 disk customized for users of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 phrase a penny saved is a penny earned into a text file on your electronic floppy or hard disk but you can t remember which file it was or even which directory How to find it No problem Just type ts for text search specify the phrase and the program will display every occurrence of the phrase iden tifying each occurrence by directory and file Or let s say you can t remember which sub directory you put a given file into Instead of hunting for the file manually just type ff find file and specify the
44. Newport Beach CA 92660 714 476 2842 e Moneycalc Plus and Tax Planner Plus HP110 1 2 3 from Lotus templates Personal financial planning 50 templates Moneytree Software 1753 Wooded Knoll Rd Suite 200 Pbilomatb OR 97370 503 928 2140 Microcomputer Statistical System HP110 MSS Software PO Box 774 Greenwood IN 46142 317 882 8907 Sigstat HP110 Mainframe statistics 77 programs for business in dustry and education Significant Statistics 3336 N Canyon Rd Provo UT 84604 801 377 4860 Database Management Hewlett Packard dBASE II 9 45468D 500 HPII10 Plus Data base management is easy with dBASE II You can construct and manipulate data files for general ledger check management and writing and other functions Executive Card Mgr 45555K Opt 400 295 Plus Plug in ROM Software Has the simplicity of a desktop card file with the power of a fully functional file manager Designed for professionals and managers ECM stores up to 64 000 cards per file a comprehensive built in report writer and sorting Design your own card format with up to 255 lines of information per card Executive Card Manager Templates 45441D 125 Plus Provides instant fill in the blank user productivi ty Consists of a collection of modifiable card file and report formats representative of 21 business environments and situations well addressed by Executive Card Manager Outside Vendor dBIII Compiler HP110 Plus dBASE III Compiler t
45. Return from DOS and you ll see pack com in the listing You can get the corrected version from us in several ways If you ordered DOS Tools or The Portable Paper On Disk 1987 from us you ll find pack on the disk Alter natively if you send us a formatted disk with a self addressed stamped envelope we ll be happy to put pack on the disk at no charge Finally if you order the Time Manager disk from us for 7 50 you ll find the corrected pack on it JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 5 THE PORTABLE PAPER HP Responds To HP110 Users I received many calls and letters in response to Bill Cross s The Portable Paper issue 6 page 5 call for HP110 owners to unite for an upgrade I sent three of the most eloquent letters from John G Berg of Philadelphia R K Gladden of Valley Forge PA and Robert H Whitman of Berkeley on to Corvallis for a response Respond they did with bad news The HP Portable computer division has investigated the possibility of upgrading the Portable HP personal com puter to include more memory and the addition of an enhanced display The decision to not provide an upgrade has been based on the following To include more memory would require a total rede sign of the machine The cost of this would be approx imately the list price of The Portable Plus personal computer The new enhanced screen is not available in a 16 line version from our vendors Again to redesign the box and software to accommoda
46. Two units were evaluated and I had problems with each I do not have that problem with my not very portable VenTel modem Connecting the TravelComm to the Portable s 9 pin RS 232 was a bit of a problem that was solved by making a short adapter cable This was rather inconvenient and made the TravelComm much less portable I hope your new model will offer a 9 pin male plug to mate with the Portable s RS 232 port Just in case Iam enclosing data on the Portable s RS 232 port To insure more secure connec tion to the Portable I think the plug should be mounted on a short pigtail I do not feel the plug on The Portable is sufficiently strong to support the TravelComm I hope you have found my comments useful Let me assure you that I will review your new product promptly and fairly in a real operating environment You have a product that we HP Portable users need I hope that a favorable report can be given to our readers soon When I spoke to the Touchbase folks in Las Vegas they were very much aware of Tom s efforts and spoke of the possibility of supplying a 9 pin connector for their new modem for Portable users If Thomas can recommend 16 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 the product we will distribute the new modem through Tbe Portable Paper The new modem is called the WorldLink 1200 It is a 500 1200 bps modem compatible with the extended Hayes AT Command Set Its features include auto dial auto answer and pulse and tone dialin
47. U VD NM ad end var reg regpac afil text begin intr ll reg call equipment check if reg ax and C000 lt gt 0 then begin printer exists assign afil prnexist rewrite afil close afil end end Q How can I take data output by a Turbo Pascal program and bring it into Lotus for graphing Ingemar Odenbrand Sweden A The easiest way of doing this is to use the import function of Lotus If you can get your data into a file where each 110 continued closing the deal and going home Instead you can use that 15 minutes to compute interest rates try different options or write a memo My reading taught me to keep financing trade in and the price of the new car separate If you choose to finance through the dealer the 1 2 3 s financial functions are most useful to check the dealer s figures Once you agree on price trade in and financing you can use Lotus to make sure that when the figures are all mixed together and sales tax gets added nothing extra slips in Your Portable gives you both the computing and psychological power to help prevent paying more at closing time then you should When I was in my salesman s office other salesman would steal a glance at me working at my Portable while I dealt with their colleague I ended up making the deal I wanted and I believe The Portable was a great help I recommend having The Portable at hand during any number is on a different line and or separ
48. a database file management system Turbo Tutor HP110 Plus 24 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 A step by step interactive tutorial on Turbo Pascal programming Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Cosort HP110 general purpose sort merge facility for end users and system developers Information Resources Box W 70 Boundale S Manbasset NY 11030 516 365 7629 CRT RM COBOL Reprogramming Tool HP110 Plus Dictionary based program generator for RM COBOL which is a high level ANSI 74 COBOL with multikey ISAM Cybernetics 8041 Newman Ave Suite 208 Huntington Beach CA 92647 7089 714 848 1922 EDIX Programming Editor HP110 Screen oriented text editor offers insert and over type modes user settable word wrap margins and tabs side to side continuous scrolling and much more Emerging Technology Consultants Inc 2031 Broadway Boulder CO 80302 303 447 9495 File Utilities II HP110 A package of UNIX style software tools specially adapted for the MS DOS environment Fourteen utilities are provided The Programmer s Shop 128 Rockland St Hanover MS 02339 800 421 8006 LIF 150 110 Utility HP110 Allows file interchange with HP technical computers Oswego Software 507 N Adams Oswego Il 60543 312 554 3567 NGS Forth HP110 A complete Forth language development system Next Generation Systems PO Box 2987 Santa Clara CA 95055 408 241 5909 Pascal Programs For The Portable HP110 Plus A dis
49. a hard reset if they are changed With the help of HP Corvallis I managed to dig up some documentation about where PAM stores the con figuration for both Portables The configuration is stored slightly different for each Portable On the HP110 the con figuration information is stored in sector 0 on the Portable Plus it is stored in segment 40 hex The address within the sector or segment of each of the configuration values is shown below Plus 110 Description 0B60 01C8 EDISC size Number of 4k blocks above 64k on P 0B61 01C9 Number of external drives 0B62 OICA Disk write verify O ON 0B63 01ICB Power Save Mode 0 On 0B64 01CC Display timeout 0B65 01CD Cursor type 0 underscore 0B66 OICE Console mode 0 HP 0OICF Console Font 0B67 01DO Beep 0 long 0B68 01D1 Plotter Interface 0 30 hpib 31 hpil 32 serial 33 82164A 0B69 01D2 Printer type 0 A lpah Graphics l Graph 2 Alpha 0B6A O01D3 Printer interface same as plotter OB6B 01D4 Printer pitch 0 None 1 norm 2 Expanded 3 Compressed 4 expandedcompressed OB6C 01D5 Printer Spacing 0 No config 1 6 lpi 2 8 lpi 0B6D 01D6 Printer Skip Perf 0 No config 1 On 2 Off Datacom Config serial 01D7 Serial Port 0 Modem 0B6GE 01D8 Baud Rate 2 110 5 300 7 1200 13 9600 0B6F 01D9 Word Length 0 Zbit 1 8 bit 0B70 OIDA Stop bits 0 1 stop 1 2 stop 0B71 0IDB Parity 0 Even 1 Odd 2 None 0B72 OIDC XON XOFF pacing 0 on 0B73 OIDD CTS 0 IGNORE
50. ackard s networked electronic mail system for the HP3000 Its features include interactive and batch mail transfer that lets you choose when mail is transferred immedi ately or at a pre set time message filters that let you choose which messages according to subject or sender are transferred to your Plus In Tray and Out Tray where messages can be created and manipulated without linking to the 3000 and a Personal Mailroom on the 3000 that acts as your own sorting office for message storage before transfer to the Plus With AdvanceMail your messages from HPDeskMan ager s In Tray are batched and sent to your Plus so that you can review them at the time and place of youyr choosing off line from the minicomputer You can also set up and specify a time for unattended file transfer to and from the 3000 MemoMaker connection can be specified as the Ad vanceMail word processor so MemoMaker users do not have to learn a new text editor Also HPDesk Manager style distribution lists with full to from cc and bcc addressing are available from Ad vanceMail AdvanceMail has been designed based on the needs of Portable computer users such as travelling professionals and salespersons For example these users might require a simple modem connection GTE Telenet with X 25 and direct serial connection all in the same day With Ad vanceMail it s easy to make the switch The Plus version of this product uses an interface con sistent with Ad
51. al hundred dollar simple HP calculators yes DOS Tools Done By the time you receive this issue those of you who have already ordered Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools should have received your disk and manual or will get it within the next two weeks What an effort Last issue I spoke of Gary Goodman s great work sifting through files of public domain software finding the good stuff that works on The Portables Gary also reworked some of the documentation making it more accurate and clear We at Personalized Software edited revised rewrote and added examples to that documentation and indexed the whole thing creating a 65 page printed manual in the process We also contacted the authors of the programs whenever possible to gain permission to use their copy righted material There are 55 programs on the disk and it was like creating 55 separate products for the marketplace A few of the programs we listed last issue are not in cluded on the disk because of copyright conflicts However we added several others for the Portables In addition we included two for the HP150 only a RAM disk program and an IBM PC emulator Also we added a great file manager in the spirit of PAM but much better which runs on the IBM PC and compatibles only The other 52 programs all work on both the Portable and the Portable Plus The manual still is not perfect Since the different programs are written and documented by different au
52. al version of the programs for the IBM PC for which the label PC DOS has become popular Many programs written to run in a PC DOS controlled machine will not work in a computer with a different version of MS DOS 30 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 MODEM In computer jargon modem refers to the equipment used to communicate between computers over the phone line In general it is a device which MOdulates or changes the frequency of a tone in response to a signal and or DEModulates the altered tone to recapture the imbedded information The human voice is a modulator The human ear is a demodulator The human brain is a very complex modem much more complex than the simple modems used in computers Computer modems modulate a single tone called a carrier wave in accordance with incoming digital signals and then demodulate the altered tone to recapture the digital signals RAM Random Access Memory often called the main memory of the computer It consists of thousands of tiny transistors that get turned on and off and thereby can be used to hold information in binary form The computer keeps track of what is stored in this memory and thus can retrieve the contents of a memory location just by referring to the loca tion by a number This number is often called an address since its use is very similar to the use of numbers on mailboxes ROM Read Only Memory So called because such memory can t be recorded on Typically Read Only Memory chips are
53. an AdvanceMail installation may include Plus systems with different configurations If you are An existing Plus user with Reflection 1 installed order 82879K Opt 400 A new user for AdvanceMail order 82870A Opt 400 An AdvanceMail user who also wants terminal emula tion order 82870K Opt 400 and 82863K Opt 400 A system administrator responsible for the installa tion of AdvanceMail order 82870K Opt 400 and 82863 Opt 400 HP and Gateway to Put Synergist on Plus Hewlett Packard and Gateway Systems announced a development agreement to enhance and add proprietary features to Gateway s fourth generation language Synergist Synergist provides a specialized programming environment to quickly and easily develop custom appli cations that integrate portable computers PCs and mini computers Applications developed using Synergist soft ware allow data processing functions to be split between a personal computer and a minicomputer based on the most efficient use of processing power HP sales reps will be involved in pilot development systems using Synergist software solutions EPROM News The latest news on Personalized Software providing EPROM backup service is good It is possible to store more data at a more reasonable cost then we originally figured Our plan at this point is to offer a backup service That is we will back up data or any purchased software from disk If we back up a commercial product we must have pro
54. any number of pegs SIMPLE Listt com is the compiled modified version of the Pascal source code listing program The original source code for the program along with further documentation may be found in the book Turbo Tutor now available from Personalized Software ADVANCED long Lnpmt pas is a program that will let you figure the periodic payments to a loan using the compound interest formula The payments are figured assuming that they are paid at the end of a compounding period INTERMEDIATE Loga pas This short program replaces the missing log to the base 10 function in Pascal SIMPLE Longmult pas will let you multiply two 25 digit numbers together and find the product with up to 50 digit accuracy The program handles only integer values INTERMEDIATE Ltrhdfil pas and ltrhdlst pas are two programs that perform the same function only differently They both show you how to generate your company s logo on a dot matrix printer SIMPLE but requires understanding of dot matrix printers Maze pas generates a random maze on the Portable s display and then solves the maze in 30 seconds or less INTERMEDIATE Menugen pas is the companion program for exermenu pas It generates a menu from the directory of files on your disk IN TERMEDIATE Miniadv pas A very very simple adventure game No characters to invent no weapons to wield no spells no curses Just get yourself into the puzzle get the treasure and get out of the
55. ated by a space on the same line you can import it directly into Lotus To do this just put your cursor in the cell where you want Lotus to load the data and type FIN file import numbers Your file name must have a suffix of prn Lotus will put each value in a cell and each line in the datafile represents a row in Lotus If you want to include text as well as values the text must be in quotes Cliff Looyenga provides technical support for HP PC s and HP30005 and in those circles be is known as The Wizard He bas developed a number of Portable and Portable PLUS utilities You can reach Cliff via CompuServe ID 75106 2130 major business negotiation especially when you are in the other person s territory Scrolling Trick T Wesley Erickson of San Luis Rey CA writes about a sim ple trick that many of us might overlook Say you do a DOS dir to get a directory listing or use the DOS type command to examine a file Almost always the top of the directory or file scrolls off the screen Using the up arrow Prev or home key will uncover up to 47 lines of the listing with HP110 and up to 61 lines of Portable Plus When you get up to the top and you want to clear the display enter the DOS cls command Faster Diskcopy One of the most frustrating acts for a Portable user is back ing up 720K floppy disks using one disk drive The insert ing and removing disks during the DOS diskcopy command JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 33 THE PORT
56. ation and prod ucts supplied by vendors as of September 10 1986 The list will be updated as new products become available and existing Portable soft ware is tested for reliability on the Portable Plus The products are listed by sub ject within each subject they are either HP or non HP vendor distributed products HP products can be ordered from your HP dealer or by calling 800 538 8787 Se a So gt Accounting Systems Hewlett Packard Rags to Riches Ledger 45520C 99 HP110 Ledger is an easy to use accounting package for small businesses Integrates with Rags to Riches Sales Receivables or Payables modules Payables 45523C 99 HP110 This easy to use program helps small businesses analyze their cash flow Integrates with Rags to Riches Ledger Receivables 45522C 99 HP110 This automatic billing system for small businesses shows a customer s payment status at any given time Integrates with Rags to Riches Ledger Sales 45521C 99 HP110 This product provides easy to use record keeping and sales analysis for small retail businesses In tegrates with Rags to Riches Ledger Outside Vendor CYMA Accounting Series amp The HP110 Shoebox Accountant CYMA Corporation 2160 E Brown Road Mesa AZ 85203 602 835 8880 Communications Hewlett Packard Reflection 1 82863K Opt 400 395 Plus Plug in ROM Software This powerful data communications product pro vides DEC VT102 terminal emulation
57. aving this file as switch bat exit MemoMaker Subsequently any time you are in Time Manager and you want to switch back and forth between your first and second Name amp Address file simply type switch from the Time Manager Calendar screen After typing switch you will be asked to hit any key to return to Time Manager Do so and go to Name amp Address You will see that the ad dress lists have been switched HOW IT WORKS Actually the concept is quite simple if you diagram the process Unfortunately it is one of those ideas not well suited to words This technique for switching address files is a variation of a classic procedure first year computer science students learn switch bat is a batch file that is typing switch from Time Manager causes the DOS commands within switch bat to be executed Those commands within switch bat rename the two files holding the two address lists in a way that Time Manager never knows what s hap pening Time Manager assumes the file tm nam is its Name amp Address file That s all it cares about that there is a file named tm nam As Joel Nossoff states It s a little like the old game of THE PORTABLE PAPER usical Chairs except with one extra chair instead of one ss The switch batch file provides a temporary filename x the Name amp Address file about to become inactive It renames the formally inactive Name amp Address file tm nam The reason two tempora
58. can also refer to such books as How To Buy A Car by James R Ross St Martin s Press NY 4 95 where percentages are specif ed depend ing on the type of car I entered both the sticker and wholesale price of the car into Lotus Let us suppose for example the sticker price of a car is 10 000 In addition I want air condition ing and a fancy radio that have sticker prices of 1000 and 500 Let column A contain the name of the car or op tions column B the sticker price and column C the estimated or actual cost of the car to the dealer In this case I assume that the dealer markup is 9 on the car and 12 on the options The Lotus spreadsheet looks like this Car Sticker Wholesale Car X 10 000 9 100 Air Cond 1 000 880 Radio 500 440 Total 11 500 10 420 8 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 Attention LaserJet Owners Now You Can Cut Costs By Recharging Your Used Laser Cartridges When the Laser Group recharges your cartridge all you have to do is pull out a seal there s no mess and no fuss We guarantee that it will print as dark and last as long as a new one The Cost Only 54 per cartridge or less in quantity Try It At No Risk Let the Laser Group recharge your cartridge if you aren t satisfied simply replace the recharged cartridge with a new one and tell us to void your invoice on Steps to Follow Put the used cartridge in a light proof bag immediately upon remov ing from printer Re pack it in an empty
59. created by a chip manufacturer and contain programs or data This type of memory device can not be altered by the user nor can the contents of the chip be lost when the elec trical power to the computer is interrupted It is almost as if the contents of the chip are etched in silicon RESET This usually means to restart a computer from the ini tial turn on state This is sometimes tricky to do on the HP Portables since the computer is not able to be turned completely off If the computer crashes and the keyboard locks up using the CTRL Shift Break keys may get the computer to reset itself If that doesn t work try holding down the contrast key until the computer shuts off If that fails to get you out of trouble you may have to remove the back panel of the computer and press the little red button SOFTKEY Also called function key On the HP series 100 computers these keys are labelled fl through f8 Menu and User System These keys are soft in the sense that their meaning is not as hard and fast as the alpha and number keys You may change the meaning of the soft keys by writing a small escape sequence in a text file You may then use the DOS command type name of softkey file to redefine the meaning of the softkey For example to define the fl key to activate the dir command use the escape se quence ESC amp kf0alk5d3L dirdir USER Anyone who applies computers to their work or entertain ment Users are sometimes categori
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61. d ings and we will be running future The Portable Paper ar ticles on using The Portable in the selling environment The other interesting conference I attended was led by HP engineer and CompuServe forum Sysop Bill Crow Bill has apparently developed quite a reputation for his presen tations 100 s of attendees filled the meeting room Bill s most entertaining and informative talk concerned infor mation services and public bulletin boards and Compu Serve in particular I will try to share some of that knowledge in future issues of The Portable Paper Finally the show gave me an opportunity to talk with a number of subscribers many of whom are now new subscribers I gathered information for several interesting articles and I think I found some excellent prospects for contributors Next year s September 1987 conference will be in Las Vegas and we have already reserved a booth I hope to see more of you there PACK is Back The pack utility is fixed pack is built into the Portable Plus and available in the public domain for the HP110 As we discuss in The Portable Paper issue 2 the original version has a serious bug if you create subdirectories on your Edisc The bug has been fixed in the latest releases of the Plus and in disk form If your version of PACK has 792 bytes and is dated 1985 it has the bug The 896 byte version with the 1986 date works correctly To check bytes and date if you have the Plus do a dir b bin and
62. d by the P A M Print Files option contained in the File Manager Menu SIMPLE Pwrl0 pas is a short program used to illustrate two methods of constructing the missing 10 N function in Turbo Pascal SIMPLE Quicklst pas is a program meant to be run without prior compilation It was designed to print out a Turbo Pascal program without leaving the editor SIMPLE Rename pas will allow you to rename a file on the electronic disk or external disk without leaving the Turbo editor SIMPLE Screen pas is a program that will show you how to design custom input screens for data input Each field has a fixed length and the cursor hops from field to field automatically INTER MEDIATE Ted pas is benchmark program The program solves the problem What are all possible combinations of numbers from 1 to 20 for which the relationship A n B4n C4n D n where n is allowed to be 2 3 4 Better than half a million com putations in under 5 minutes SIMPLE Tempconv pas is a program to convert a given temperature in any one of 5 scales to temperatures in the other four scales The program is adapted for the Portable with Turbo Pascal from the book Practical Pascal Programs by Greg Davidson Osborne McGraw Hill SIMPLE Textstat pas will give you all kinds of statistics about the number of words and number of sentences that are in text files on a disk INTERMEDIATE Timetest pas is a simple little program that demonstrates the use of an include
63. d supplies Please call for prices on any Hewlett Packard products not listed We accept VISA Mastercard and American Express I COMPUTER PRODUCTS DIVISION OF GRAPHIC ARTS SUPPLY 519 Hamburg St Buffalo NY 14204 800 851 1511 800 231 0678 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 THE PORTABLE PAPER DOS Disk Operating System as in MS DOS This is a collection of programs that will let you manipulate information on the disks of your computer However MS DOS is more than just a disk management program MS DOS also in cludes programs that will let the CPU talk with the keyboard and the display and manage the memory of the computer EDISC Electronic disk or RAM disk as it is sometimes called is not really a disk at all but rather is random access memory that has been programmed to behave like a disk It will maintain a directory of the files kept on the disk Most Ediscs on desktop computers are volatile That means they will lose information when the power is shut off In the HP Portables power is always flowing to the memory of the computer so the information on the Edisc is retained This is true even if the display is shut off or the machine times out ESCAPE This refers to 1 the ESC key on the keyboard and 2 a par ticular character ASCII character 27 which HP printers typically require to for instructions For example sending the characters Esc amp k2S from your computer to a ThinkJet printer causes the prin
64. dita 26 SV NETOS Lu s oy ea nb a eva gula CO US pon USE Redon 26 Eprom NEWS ies puma eee ds eda d eet 26 Through The Looking Glass 27 Wizardry Configuration Changes From DOS 31 HP Portable User Groups Read this list It may look long and bor an incredible amount f t It s a list of the more than 50 programs on Port able Utilities Disk Vol ume 1 DOS Tools Each program performs a spe cific task to make life with your Portable more enjoyable and productive The programs are all in the public domain which means that if you search ed long enough you could find them for free on var ious electronic bulletin boards in magazines and in the archives of local user groups But consider this Even if you had the time to track this many programs down what about evaluating them and making sense of the documentation It would be a formidable task but we have good news You don t have to do it we ve already done it for you That s right we ve combed through hundreds of public domain utility programs that run on the Portables and HP150 and have selected only the best ones for inclusion in Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools We ve not only made sense of the document ation but in many cases we ve actually rewritten it A printed 65 page user manual con taining program documentation Contents of Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools ADDCOL COM J
65. ds exceptionally fast Even in the desktop market it is dif ficult to find a word processor with this many useful features at this low a price For the Portables THE EDITOR simply can t be beat See for yourself Order your copy risk free today RUNS ON HP Portable o Portable Plus g HP150 o IBM PC HP Vectra 99 95 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE 30 THE EDITOR and THE FORMATTER together Only 99 95 total Portable Paper subscribers only Note The user manual itself is a challenge and no technical support is available We therefore recom mend THE FORMATTER for strong computer users or those already familiar with text formatters Ifyou need any of the features listed above and if you re willing to spend the time it takes to learn the commands THE FORMATTER is for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER 59 95 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Application to Mail at Second Class Postage Rates Pending at Fairfield IA ITOR gives you all these t editing features Search and replace Just tell THE EDITOR what word or phrase to look f
66. e BASIC However I can offer you another idea How about creating a batch file to run your BASIC application that would first run a program to determine if 0B74 OIDE DSRO IGNORE 0875 OIDF DCD 0 IGNORE Datacom Config 82164A 0B76 0 Power off 1 Power on 0B77 OIEO Baud Rate 2 110 5 300 7 1200 13 9600 0BT8 OE Word Length 0 7bit 1 8 bit there is a printer available For example 0B79 01E2 Stop bits 0 1 stop 1 2 stop echo off 0BZA O1E3 Parity 0 Even 1 Odd 2 None chkprn 0B7B OlIE4 XON XOFF pacing 0 on 0B7C 01E5 CTS0 IGNORE a TARP T ae ee ane rer eee 0B7D 0lE6 DSR 0 IGNORE e program c pino ut a Ag Tile 1 a pa er OB7E 01E7 DCDO0 IGNORE exists When your basic application starts up the first thing Datacom Config Modem Portable plus only it would do is test for the existence of this file If the file D d 0B80 0 Power off 1 Power on von 0B81 Baud Rate 2 110 5 300 7 1200 13 9600 exists you know there is a printer available Below is a sim 0B82 Word Length 0 7bit 1 8 bit ple little Turbo Pascal program to do this 0B83 Stop bits 0 1 stop 1 2 stop program test 0884 Parity 0 Even 1 Odd 2 None type regpac record 0B85 XON XOFF pacing 0 on ax bx cx dx bp si di ds es flags integer 32 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 instant Access Pop Ups for the Portable Plus E CALCULATOR BI NOTEPAD B MACROS AND MORE It s a program called Shelp shell help and it runs on the P
67. e THE NORTON UTILITIES Just type qu for quick unerase give the first letter of the name of the file you erased and the file gets restored Miraculous as it sounds in many cases that s all there is to it How can a deleted file get unerased f ES et Or lt n E c ts eye Fon yw Simple The file isn t really deleted in the first place When you delete a file all that actually gets erased is part of the file s directory en try That s why it only takes an instant to delete an entire file Without a directory en try DOS can t find the file but THE NORTON UTILITIES can Now what about those cases where you can t possibly recover a file because you ve already partially overwritten it with other files Surely THE NORTON UTILITIES can t help you then Wrong they can THE NORTON UTILITIES won t recover the entire file of course but they can help you restore the portions of the file that still remain on the disk It s done with a powerful utility called nu that lets you display change and capture to a file any information on any disk In complex cases you may need to do some detective work but nu will help you find whatever remains on the disk thereby saving you from countless hours of retyping lost data In my opinion the ability to recover lost RUNSON HP Portable NORTON UTILITIES well worth the price But there s even more HP150 le Portable Plus to the pachage THE NORTO
68. e should be able to put your software on a chip for you WordPerfect In ROM May Be Some Time Coming M Daniel Lunt VP of Marketing for WordPerfect Corpora tion replied to The Portable Paper contributing editor David Hughes query about WordPerfect in ROM Lunt said in a letter dated Aug 14 1986 WordPerfect Corporation is aware of the desirability of WordPerfect s main program in ROM and it is a possibility we are considering depend ing on the level of demand we have for this request How ever in analyzing this prospect our programmers have encountered difficulties due to the way WP EXE overwrites portions of executable code space after initial startup But as I mentioned it is an option we are considering WordPerfect is the best selling IBM PC word processor and is available on 3 1 2 disk for the Portable Plus The product retails for 495 subscribers can order it from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 for 299 WordPerfect Corporation can be contacted at 288 West Center St Orem Utab 84057 801 227 4000 Through the L ma By Ed Keefe Dn pouce Twas brillig and tbe dnb toves Did gyre and es in the wabe JABBERWOCKY by Lewis Carroll One of the things that makes the world of computing so befuddling is the flood of new words that seems to come with the territory The computing field is rife with jargon Some have even called this overuse of buzzwords and jargon compubabb
69. ed How to Free Up Disk Space J To see how badly your electronic disk is fragmented just type in the command chkdsk on the PAM command line or at the DOS A gt prompt and press Return The com puter will use a different word for fragmented namely non contiguous And if you find that your electronic disk contains mostly non contiguous files you can use the pack com program to free up the holes on the electronic disk Then you will be able to alter the size of your com puter s memory even though the files may be more non contiguous than before But I Digressed In writing this column I took a side trip and designed an automated Glossary that would let me keep track of all the buzz words and then fill in the definitions as I developed them I have asked Hal to include this program on the Disk 28 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 of the Month Portable Paper On Disk from Personalized Software The glossary program is a modified version of the sample program from the Turbo Pascal Database Tool box It will let you look at modify or add to almost 100 different words from the field of microcomputing I prom ise to go into more detail about the program in the next issue of the Portable Paper Beyond that I will show you how you can design your own record management system on the HP 110 or Portable Plus computer with the edlin and find programs If you re in the market for a database program you may want to hold off buying one un
70. ed to run one of the BASIC versions using the HP Micro soft BASIC compiler Errors were reported but much to my surprise when I tried to run the program the executable file was produced and it ran properly The best way to obtain the programs is of course to get the executable files directly from PC Magazine You can obtain these files via modem by dialing 212 696 0360 at 300 or 1200 baud 8 data bits 1 stop bit and no parity Ralpb J Watson M D Los Altos CA HP IL Transfer Utility As a novice in your Portable ranks but as a user for many years of HP products I would like to express my admiration for your nice publication I still have to explore thoroughly to discover all the goodies for my HP110 I bought my Portable in July without knowing that this machine s HP IL Interface Loop was not the HP IL I knew from the 41 the 75 and the 71 I have a few HP IL devices that THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume two Number one January February 1987 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Department Editors Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Editorial Consultants Steve Cooperman Edward Goldfinger Contributing Editors David Hughes Art Director George Foster Typography The Word Form Corporation Circulation Rita Goldstein Frances Kempton Glen Frank Advertising Manager Steve Cooperman The Portable Paper ISSN 0886 9138 is published bimonthly by Personalized Software at R R 4 Box 310 Fairfield IA 52556 Sub script
71. er and send it out with a mailing list compiled with the List Manager Personal Org Pack 35157D 125 HPIIO Organize your life Let The Calendar help schedule appointments The List Manager organizes phone and address list and The Planner track home finances and investments The Planner 35155D 49 95 HP110 An easy to learn spreadsheet program The Planner is perfect for people who occasionally need to analyze spreadsheets The Speller 35154D 49 95 HP110 This convenient spelling checker can be used with The Writer WordStar MemoMaker and Volkswriter text files The Writer 35153D 49 95 HP110 A friendly full featured word processing package The Writer is ideal for people who do occasional writing and editing Outside Vendor Executive Planning Calendar HP110 Lotus 1 2 3 electronic datebook US only Remex Corporation 6095 28th St SE Suite E Grand Rapids MI 49506 616 942 9800 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 23 THE PORTABLE PAPER Shelp 55 Plus An installable device driver which gives access a pop up calculator note pad keyboard macros and a remote off function from within any non graphics based application Designed to increase productivi ty with practical efficiency User s Library 1000 NE Circle Blvd Corvallis OR 97330 503 757 2000 Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Traveling Software HP110 Plus Tracks personal and business appointments and ex penses An exte
72. ernally to the PC Depending on the option you choose the disk drive costs between 355 and 535 David s answer about the usefulness of his drive for Portable users was good enough to warrant this descrip tion of his product He said that if you have your Manzana disk drive attached to your IBM PC at the office you can bring 3 5 disks back and forth to and from work using your HP9114 disk drive with your Portable at home I also told David that many Portable users have re quested a lighter less expensive alternative to the HP9114 that runs directly off a normal wall outlet According to David the difficulty would be in interfacing his unit with The Portable and he doesn t think the effort would be justified in the number of units he could sell If you have suggestions or want to convince him otherwise contact David or the company For more information contact Manzana Microsystems PO Box 2117 Goleta CA 93118 805 968 1387 Finally if you decide which Manzana disk drive you would like to purchase and know its part number Person alized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 would be happy to order it for you If you re a Tbe Portable Paper subscriber well give you a 10 discount PORTABLE PROTECTION CASES I visited several vendors who had products for transpor ting Portables Their products ranged from hard cases to Printerlalk takes up 39K disk space Shorter 25K version sufficient for most app
73. et their attention At times I felt like a toned down carnival hawker calling out to passers by Excuse me do you or your company use HP Portables I made some interesting discoveries First of all despite the fact that many participants were Portable users and represented companies with as many as 200 Portables almost no one had heard of The Portable Paper Second ly I was amazed to find out how many Portables and Port able Plus s were used simply as terminals to communicate with the company HP3000 Thirdly although it was no surprise to find people having troubles with the HP110 Ter minal package I found Portable Plus Reflection 1 users also experiencing a great many difficulties I left my wife holding the fort for two conference ses sions In the first HP s Rick Baker Terry Tallis and Buzz Walker led a discussion on sales force automation the latest buzz word The discussion focussed on the different aspects of the sales process and how HP Portables can con tribute to a more productive operation Terry Tallis promis ed he would send me notes of this most interesting session In the session Terry also reported some interesting initial findings on actual research HP has been conducting with its own sales force HP will be attempting to show their major accounts the wisdom of equipping their sales forces with Portable Plus s by their own example One of the things I always respected about HP when I worked for t
74. f you have a Portable Plus you won t be able to read the disk However you lose nothing by letting the desktop computer rather than The Portable be the controller Do this by typing hplink from DOS or PAM on the Portable The desktop must have a file named config sys with the line device hpil sys and the file hpil sys on the hard disk root directory if no path command used Now the Port able s Edisc becomes drive D to the desktop in most con figurations and you are ready to do any file transfer Thanks to so many of you who are will ing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an opportunity to share tips answer questions discuss other pro ducts trade free software and Lotus templates and meet other professionals As you will notice some areas have more than one contact person and some major areas have none If you are in a miss ing area and would like to organize a group contact us If your groups combine also tell us We will publish this column each issue keeping it up to date Write Local Users Groups Box 869 Fairfield IA 515 472 6330 California Southern California We meet 2nd Thur 7 9 at HP sales office 5161 Lankershim Blvd North Hollywood Re quest PORTOVEC Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 Los Angeles County Southern California Call during day Blue Chip Computer 34 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 System 9701 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles Elmar M Gomez 213 553 3393
75. fe collected and tested most of tbese programs witb 14 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 contributions from tbe Wizard Cliff Looyenga In addi tion Cliff supplied several additional advanced routines not mentioned in the article including one which makes the ThinkJet behave like an Epson graphics printer Also Paul Grimmer author of SideWinder the sideways printing program for HP machines has added some other routines and modified some of Cliff s Pascal Programs for the Portables is available from Personalized Software for 49 95 If you subscribe to The Portable Paper the price is 44 95 If you subscribe and bave bougbt any Turbo Pascal product from us you cost is 39 95 Subscribers can purchase a Pascal Starter Kit including tbese programs Turbo Pascal and Turbo Tutor for 149 95 You may use tbe order form in back of tbe issue or contact Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 515 472 6330 Products that work with The Portables COMDEX New Products For Portable Users by Hal Goldstein My wife Rita and I attended COMDEX in Las Vegas last month looking for products that can be used with the Portables For those of you not familiar with the microcomputer subculture Fall COMDEX is THE trade show of the year This year because of the new 80386 powerful fast computers desk top publishing and the new laptop computers the 80 000 plus audience crowd ing to view 1200 exhibits seemed especially excited
76. fer you can order the product from us but you ll have to add an extra 10 Cliff really wants to keep the price down I think you ll find it good investment Running Your HP Portable Version of Turbo On The PC By Ed Keefe To new owners of Turbo Pascal and veteran hackers as well Did you know that your version of Turbo Pascal can run on the IBM PC XT as well as on the HP110 Move your copy of the Turbo Pascal files to the IBM PC using the HP IL interface card or via the data communications 10 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 port The drive from which you start your system should contain a file named config sys This file must include the line device ansi sys The boot disk must also contain file ansi sys which can be found on your system DOS disk Restart your system Now issue the command tinst This will lead you into the installation procedure for Tur bo Pascal Go to the S creen option in the tinst menu There install the program so that it will run on a TI Professional computer Would you believe a piece of soft ware for the HP 100 series that runs on an IBM PC and behaves like a TI computer What you will have is a working copy of Turbo that will let you run programs on the IBM PC that you develop on the HP110 What you will not have are all the IBM PC goodies that come with Turbo for the PC color sound turtle graphics and windows But you will be able to write Pascal code that uses the HP escape codes that works cor
77. file c time inc The timetest program itself shows that Turbo Pascal can perform 1000 multiplications of real numbers in about 0 75 seconds fast enough The multiplica tions are inside a loop INTERMEDIATE due to calls to the system View pas This is an alternative to the type and more com mands from MS DOS It will scroll the contents of a text file on the screen and then signal with More to get the next screen IN TERMEDIATE Xrfact pas stands for eXtended Range Factorial The pro gram will for example find 5000 4 22857783 10416325 in about 25 seconds INTERMEDIATE Xrmult pas This program will let you find the product of two numbers when the product is greater than 1038 the nor mal dynamic range of real values in Turbo Pascal IN TERMEDIATE In closing let me say that I wish that I had such a com pilation of programs when I first started learning Pascal several years ago I hope the programs on this disk will prove useful in learning more about Turbo Pascal and that they will save you a lot of time money and effort in your quest to make your Portable even more useful If you run into trouble using any of the programs on the disk please feel free to write to the compiler of the collection Ed Keefe c o Fastaid Co 314 S W Ankeny IA 50021 I answer questions promptly usually within one or two days but I am not always available for phone calls due to an exceptionally heavy teaching load Ed Kee
78. for widow and orphan lines and much more Purchase both products at the same time and receive a 33 discount subscribers only Private File Protects your confidential letters documents spreadsheets programs and data communication files Private File scrambles your file so only you can unscramble it Shel Se Whether you re a Lotus spreadsheet a Memo Maker memo or almost any program Shelp gives ou immediate access to a notepad and calculator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros that is assign up to 31 characters to a single keystroke Written exclusively for the Portable PLUS ww This program written specifically for the HP Portables the HP150 and the ThinkJet printer allows you to print your spread sheets or any other text file sideways This means you can print your 60 column by 40 row spreadsheet on the ThinkJet from your Portable as one long printout without cutting and pasting All 3 work on the HP110 Plus HP150 and IBM PC Project 8 9 10 a Lotus template Helps you manage small to medium projects Milestone also for small to medium projects On HP110 you need to scroll to see entire Milestone screen Pertmaster for medium to large projects specify which machine All three are reviewed in Vol 1 Issue 6 of The Portable Paper RightWriter Flags errors in grammar style usage and punctuation inserting comments directly into your document without mistakes
79. g It supports Bell 103 212A and CCITT V 21 V 22 communication standards so it is usable in most countries throughout the world It is full duplex and includes an adapter cable for optional acoustic cups It comes with a 9 volt standard alkaline bat tery the battery is good for about 10 hours of use It is shirt pocket sized 4 x 2 4 x 1 and weighs 6 5 ounces with battery It comes with a two year warranty and retails for 199 We will announce if it becomes available through us or you can contact Toucbbase Systems 16 Green Acre Lane Northport NY 11768 516 261 0432 MANZANA S 3 5 DISK DRIVES I asked David Gluck the president of Manzana MicroSystems how HP Portable users might make use of his 3 5 disk drives I ll tell you a little about his disk drives before sharing his answer Manzana disk drives attach to the IBM PC and com patibles and come with software able to read and write both HP and IBM formatted disks Each disk drive is about the size of a video cassette and fits conveniently next to the monitor If you have an IBM PC or XT or a compatible with a 37 pin D connector Manzana has a disk drive that plugs in directly to your PC with no extra software or hardware Otherwise you will require an additional half slot mux adapter card from Manzana to connect the Manzana disk drive to your compatible or IBM AT Manzana disk drives can be bought self powered or can run off the PC s power and can run internally or ext
80. g Laboratories Inc GW BASIC is a U S trademark of Microsoft Inc Lattice C is a U S registered trademark of Lattice Inc Microsoft and Multiplan are U S registered trademarks of Microsoft Inc WordStar Professional is a U S trademark of MicroPro International Corp ZORK is a U S registered trademark of Infocom Inc Saleseye is a U S trademark of High Caliber Systems Inc Acculink is a U S trademark of IE Systems Inc Reflection 1 is a U S trademark of Walker Richer amp Quinn Inc formats footnotes or endnotes in WordStar textfiles PLUS Notes Pop Up Plus Productivity SHELP By David Hughes WHO STOLE MY NOTEPAD The most frequently used office tools are often taken for granted How many times have you needed a calculator to quickly check your figures in the middle of writing a proposal on your computer How many times have you looked around the office for a scrap of paper or a missing memo pad to scribble down an important thought while talking on the telephone These situations so often catch us while we re working on a project and can t afford the time to dump the current application HELP FROM SHELP Shelp a memory resident application designed exclusive ly for the Portable Plus offers a clever solution to the prob lem of the missing notepad and the misplaced calculator Invoke Shelp by depressing Ctrl Shift Extend Char within any non graphics program and the Shelp main me
81. graphy file constructs a bibliography of entries cited Footnote numbers and and numbers cross references Pro Tem Software 814 Tolman Dr Stanford CA 94305 415 497 1000 Miniword HP110 Operates on both micro and mini computers Minisoft Inc 15600 Redmond Way Redmond WA 98052 800 682 0200 Personal VI Plus Provides a large subset of the UNIX vi editor and at tempts to mimic the command syntax and operation of the UNIX vi editor as closely as possible Oak Hill Software 73 Hillyer Circle Middletown NJ 07748 201 671 1333 Spellbinder amp Spellbinder Scientific HP110 Powerful word processing and office automation Spellbinder Scientific adds scientific symbols Lexi soft Inc PO Box 1950 Davis CA 95617 916 758 3630 WordPerfect Plus Professional documents are turned out in record time Features include a thesaurus spelling diction ary and columns displayed side by side WordPerfect Corp 288 West Center Street Orem UT 84057 801 224 4000 Personalized Software PO Box Credits 1 2 3 and Lotus are U S trademarks of Lotus Development Corp WordStar is a U S registered trademark of MicroPro International Corp SORCERER is a U S trademark of Infocom Inc dBASE II is a U S registered trademark of Ashton Tate MicroPlan MicroPlan Consolidation Module Rags to Riches Ledger Rags to Riches Payables Rags to Riches Receivables and Rags to Riches Sales are U S trademarks of Chan
82. hem is that they expected its employees to use HP equipment That way HP employees could enjoy the same advantages and limitations of HP hardware and software as their customers This policy in the lab environ ment inspired many new products In keeping with this philosophy HP reasons that if it really believes in the Portable Plus as a productivity tool for a sale force then the best way to show the customer is by its own example Therefore HP is currently engaging in project to equip over 1000 of its sales force with Portable Plus s Only good for all Portable users can come from this project The HP salesperson wants a tool that will help him do his job simply and directly The last thing he wants is for his Portable to embarrass him in front of a client or waste his valuable time Therefore more software and techniques should become available to make The Portables easier to use when the sales force discovers limitations it will be able to provide direct and vocal feedback to the fac tory at Corvallis right from the field Real world feedback can only improve enhancements and future Portable of ferings Another benefit that will come out of the project will be the knowledge gained from the methodical research performed on the use of Portables by the HP sales force This research will attempt to uncover which aspects of the sales process are most enhanced by the use of Portables Terry Tallis promised to keep me up to date on the fin
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84. ines As technologies develop I think HP s approach of us ing electronic rather than mechanical means for program and data storage can only increase HP s lead in creating self sufficient full functioning truly portable computers We backed the right horse Portable Paper Is Good But Costs Too Much Your Portable Paper is a good infor mative journal Because it is so machine specific almost all articles in it are relevant in some way or another Your content is also quite dense there is more technical infor mation per square inch of page than any other journal I have read Keep up the good work Our company DuPont has sev eral hundred HP Portable Plus s just in my division alone and I have been promoting The Portable Paper to my colleagues Your subscription price is quite high though I would like to see The Portable Paper eventually go monthly and have a subscription price of nearer 3 00 issue It would then be some what easier to justify a subscription I firmly believe you would greatly in crease the number of subscriptions You re doing the right thing by distributing HP Portable hardware and software Since HP has such a limited amount of Portable software and much needed accessories like the Empowerer you will be one of the first to take up the slack You should find this segment of your business quite lucrative Since so many of us do not subscribe to CompuServe please provide a libra
85. ino CA 95014 800 227 2400 The Portable Paper subscribers pay only 44 95 and can order from Personalized Soft ware PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 READY TO RUN ACCOUNTING I also talked with Steven Manus president of Manusoft and author of several Lotus 1 2 3 templates Ready to Run General Ledger Ready To Run Accounts Payable Ready To Run Accounts Receivable Ready To Run Billing Inventory and Ready To Run Payroll Steven just sent me review copies of his products the other day He feels they should run fine on the Portable Plus However Steven thinks they will be awkward to use on the 16 line Portable A special version for Lotus 1 2 3 on the HP150 is currently available However the products normally come on 5 1 4 disk If these accounting packages run well on the Plus and our reviewer thinks they are worthwhile we will put them on our price list and make them available on 3 5 disk In the meantime you can reach Ready To Run people at the Manusoft Corporation 8570 W Wasbington Blvd Culver City CA 90232 213 559 1561 The general ledger retails for 69 95 the other modules 49 95 and all five packages for 249 95 QUE BOOKS We also spoke to the folks at QUE Corporation They re the ones who publish specialized books on various pieces of microcomputer hardware and software Two of the books I recommend especially for Portable users The first one The HP110 Portable Power To Go was PROJECT 8
86. into this wallet that folds down to 4 x 9 and fits in to a man s jacket pocket This product sells for 9 95 and comes in blue red grey maroon and brown If you call ask them for a catalog as they have other disk products Portable users might be interested in RIGHTWRITER Ed Keefe in The Connection column issue 3 page 22 discussed RightWriter from DecisionWare RightWriter 2 0 flags errors in grammar style usage and punctuation with comments inserted directly into the document to point out errors It produces an overall critique of a document in cluding strength of delivery use of jargon and grade level It generates a list of misspelled slang and uncommon words RightWriter uses over 2200 rules and has a diction ary of 45 000 words RightWriter 2 1 has not yet been announced but will be available in January It runs with most word processors and adds 500 more rules to pick up grammar and punctua tion errors DecisionWare is located at 033 Wood Street Suite 218 Sarasota FL 33577 800 992 0244 RightWriter is normally sold on 5 1 4 disk for 95 You can order it on 3 5 disk from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Subscribers pay 89 MIND PROBER Mind Prober asks a series of questions that you can answer about yourself a friend or an associate It has received good reviews and is said to print a surprisingly accurate and useful personality report This product is a
87. ion rates one year U S and U S posses sions 55 Canada Mexico add 3 surface mail 6 air other countries add 6 surface mail 18 air Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circu lation and Advertising Offices PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 O Copyright 1987 Personalized Software all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or her own investigations and deci sions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsbility or liability for the use of information contained herein Application to mail at second class postage rates is pending at Fairfield IA 52556 POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 I thought could be talked to by the Portable But this was my mistake to the point that I had not made in quiries about the meaning of HP IL with the Portable My HP IL converter HP82166A and my HP IL Video In terface the Danish Micronix inter face were completely disregarded by my Portable What a pity E zi 4 uo NE THE PORTABLE PAPER But I have a nice binary pro gram for the GWBASIC or MS BASIC _ user it can handle all problems con cerning speaking and listening to an HP
88. is IN 46250 800 428 5331 TURBO PASCAL NUMERIC METHODS TOOLBOX Borland International introduced several new products at COMDEX including an impressive equation solver called Eureka that is available only for the IBM PC and true com patibles However they did have a new toolbox of Turbo Pascal routines that engineers and scientists in our Portable audience will find of interest it will probably be available on 3 5 disk January or February According to Borland Turbo Pascal Numerical Methods does for Turbo Pascal what the IMSL and NAG mathematical routines do for mainframe FORTRAN users The Toolbox implements the latest high level mathematical methods to solve the most common problems that arise in science and engineering Because Toolbox comes com plete with source code you have total control of your applications JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 15 THE PORTABLE PAPER The package consists of modules most of which are independent Each module has generic procedures that can easily be adapted to your own programs as well as a sample program to demonstrate the usefulness of the pro cedures in that module The modules include Zeros of a function Interpolation Differentiation Integration Matrix Inversion Matrix Eigenvalues Differential Equa tions Least Squares Graphics and Fourier Transforms The graphics module which demonstrates Least Squares and Fourier Transforms graphically works only with Turbo Pascal Graphix Toolb
89. issue of Tbe Portable Paper Compliments For The Paper Suggestions For The Plus To Pat Fobes Hewlett Packard Inc 1000 NE Circle Blvd Corvallis OR 97330 Dear Pat As happy owners of a Vectra and HP110 for almost a year we re about _ to upgrade to a more powerful laptop ortable After surveying the field we ve narrowed the choices down to the NEC Multispeed Toshiba 1100 and the HP Portable Plus We agree that HP s philosophy of omitting built in 720K floppy drives is made up for by having tons of elec tronic disk and a slumber mode in which everything is preserved in RAM when you turn off the machine Competing products forget every thing in the off mode and HP s bat tery life is in a class by itself But the lack of IBM PC XT DOS compatibility and the far above market prices HP charges for extra RAM in the RAM drawer put the Port able Plus at a serious price perform ance disadvantage compared to the NEC and Toshiba offerings For us the deciding factor irf favor of going with the Plus is the in credible support for it provided by Hal Goldstein s Personalized Software company and his superb The Port able Paper For example his Printer Talk 1 2A and Format110 4 0 utilities turn the almost useless for our needs MemoMaker into a powerful versatile useful tool I sincerely hope HP realizes how much Hal is helping turn the HP110 and Portable Plus into more useful tools for HP
90. itself By way of background information most of the pro grams were designed to illustrate certain aspects of Turbo Pascal for a college course in Application Programming in Business For that reason you will find that most of the programs are oriented toward business applications rather than math or scientific applications There are four major categories of files on the disk 1 There are files with the extension com These are pre compiled ready to run Pascal programs for which the source code is included as well z 2 There are files with the extension pas These are ASCII files written in the Pascal language When input into Tur bo Pascal what comes out are compiled runnable com program files Each pas file on the disk is briefly described later in this article 3 Each of the pas files has a corresponding file with the extension doc which contains a small amount of docu mentation The documentation will at the very least tell you how to get the pas file to run as a program The docu mentation for some of the files is more extensive It may describe what input is expected and what you should ex pect for output The documentation may also call atten tion to certain features of the program 4 There also are files which end with the extension inc These are INClude files Pascal procedures that are used by other Pascal programs on the disk 12 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 All told there are over 210 000 bytes of code t
91. ized to the HP Portables Beyond lt MemoMaker by Hal Goldstein Let s face it MemoMaker is an adequate word processor but it has its limits No search and replace No simple way to merge files No destructive backspace key To delete the last character you have to use the left arrow key and the deletion key s No compressed or expanded printing No but why go on If you use Memo Maker you probably have your own list of things you wish it could do Well we have good news Now there s an easy to use text editor that runs on the Por table and Portable Plus that will satisfy almost every item on your wish list And the program comes with a built in bonus It also runs on the HP 150 IBM PC and HP Vectra which means that now you can use the same program and files on your desk top that you use on your Portable The program is called THE EDITOR It does everything MemoMaker does plus a heck of a lot more And you don t have to go to the expense of buying WordStar for the Portable or MS Word for the Plus to go beyond MemoMaker s capabilities THE EDITORS s most valuable features are listed on the chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR is a real blessing I use it daily instead of Memo Maker and I ve silently given thanks to its author Ed Gilbert many many times Just afew minutes with THE EDITOR that s all it takes to be up and running and I think you ll be a fan of his too I
92. k full of Turbo Pascal source code prepared specifically for Portable users Personalized Soft ware PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 PC Forth HP110 Laboratory Microsystems Inc PO Box 10430 Marina Del Rey CA 90295 213 306 7412 Programming HP110 Plus PH D PO Box 5009 Los Alamitos CA 90721 213 438 6973 Prolog 86 HP110 An interpreter for the programming language Prolog The Programmer s Shop 128 Rockland St Han over MA 02339 800 421 8006 RM COBOL Ryan McFarland COBOL HP110 Plus Cybernetics 8041 Newman Ave Suite 208 Huntington Beach CA 92647 7089 714 621 0581 Project Management Outside Vendor Milestone HP110 Plus Project manager for small to medium projects Per sonalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Pertmaster HP110 Plus Creates updates and reports on project plans For medium to large projects Westminister Software Inc 2570 El Camino Real Mt View CA 94040 415 941 6800 Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Project 8 9 10 HP110 Plus A Lotus template that helps you manage small to medium projects Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Sales Force Automation Outside Vendor The Saleseye Lead Mgt System Plus Follow up management system Integrates a compre hensive database word processor and time manage ment system into one High Caliber Systems Inc 165 Madison Ave Suite H
93. le Compubabble makes as much sense to computer novices as does the Lewis Carroll s Jab berwocky The Role of Jargon There seems to be no easy way to circumvent the use of jargon Jargon performs the useful function of com municating ideas in the fewest possible words Jargon helps insiders communicate more easily even though it may keep outsiders at arms length I have seen the puzzled look on students faces when they first hear the words bit and byte The puzzled ex pression often changes to a knowing look when I explain that a bit is like a dit or a dah in Morse code A byte is a JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 27 THE PORTABLE PAPER series of eight dits and dahs it is just another name for a letter from the alphabet or a number Associating a bit with a dit or dah is easy to do ina classroom Making parenthetical remarks is hard to do in the pages of a journal such as The Portable Paper There are not enough pages in any journal to elaborate on all the jargon Jargon for the HP Portables However Hal Goldstein the publisher asked me to share with you the meanings of some of the jargon from the lex icon of Portable computing To get started I tried putting myself in the frame of mind of one of my beginning computer students Then I scanned the first six issues of The Portable Paper I dis covered more than 275 words that might cause newcomers to scratch their heads in wonderment Sure I found all the usual jarg
94. le to move any of the windows or the main menu anywhere on the screen by depressing Ctrl Extend Char and the desired cursor key The Calculator has a provision for pasting the result of a calculation into the text of a document at the desired cur sor location The memories and accumulator are saved until they are explicitly cleared I consider the Notepad the most practical feature of this tiny software gem It ends the frantic search for note paper while talking on the telephone My only criticism is that the notepad isn t a little wider The 17 column width is satisfactory however 25 columns or more would make more sense to me The Keyboard Macros facility is a helpful aid when you re creating text with MemoMaker or The Editor Up to 26 macros may be defined a sequence of up to 31 alpha numeric characters including blanks can be assigned to each one Each macro may then be invoked by depressing Ctrl Extend Char and the key you ve assigned to the macro Shelp s Keyboard Macros can be most helpful to Lotus users You can define simple macros within Shelp usable from any spreadsheet Every Lotus spreadsheet can access these Shelp macros yet Edisc space is conserved since a copy of each macro does not have to be stored within each spreadsheet Unfortunately Shelp does not let you mimic more complex Lotus macros containing cursor movement or However every day macros for saving and retrieving files changing directories setting p
95. lephone relay switches instead of transistors One of her co workers found a moth trapped in a relay and beaten to death They extracted the bug and taped it in a log book and labelled it the first actual computer bug The bug is still kept in the Navy s computer museum COM FILES These are files that end with the 3 letter extension com The abbreviation com stands for COMmand A command file consists of binary code that will turn the computer in to a word processor or a spreadsheet machine etc You may execute or run com files You may copy them and rename them However in renaming such files do not leave off the com If you use the command type filename gt where filename is the name of a com file your screen will show you a strange lot of characters The computer is trying its best to display binary code and making a mess of it CON con is the name of a file in the DOS operating system It is HEWLETT a physical file known as the CONsole which is the same as the display or screen Just as you can send information to a disk file or get info from the disk file so can you copy a file to the CONsole You can do this with the command copy filename gt con A more valuable use of con is for copying information from the console to a disk file with the command copy con lt filename gt For example assume you have the Norton Utility ds which sorts and lists directory files Type copy con look bat and Return from
96. lications included on PrinterTalk disk terTalk The MemoMaker JEEN M emomaker users Now you can take advan tage of all your printer s features not just bold and underline PrinterTalk Version 1 2 A an easy to use software package from Personalized Software prints your MemoMaker files allowing you to Change attributes type styles anywhere within the files you print Enhancer It does the things you wish MemoMaker could do SINGLE KEY OPERATION Instead of a hard to use intricate series of control codes a single labelled function key sends commands to your printer Simple help screens in plain English tell you what to do and all commands are summarized on a single sheet of paper for ready reference The user manual is clear and concise and includes easy to Bold underline italic compressa x panded follow exainples of all commands whatever your printer supports e Control numerous print functions including number of copies lines per inch lines per page spacing including double triple quadruple automatic page numbering Avoid paper waste by preventing annoying form feeds Use your HPIIO as an electronic typewriter PrinterTalk connects your keyboard directly to your Use you printer s full potential Order PrinterTalk Version 1 2A today 49 95 including manual 44 95 for Portable Paper subscribers FREE UPDATE If you already have
97. like rebuilding the machine The cost of redesigning reburning and rein serting the ROMS are prohibitive The once existing possibility for an HP110 upgrade had to do with the new green screen The problem HP has is that HP purchases its screens from an outside vendor No vendor will build a 16 line screen since only 25 line screens are in demand When I was an HP software engineer I found fellow employees incredibly concerned about the customer and his ability to upgrade From my dealings with Corvallis I have no doubt they made a thorough investigation as to the possibilities of upgrading the HP110 Where I think HP fell down this was also my experi ence when working for HP was in not informing its in credibly loyal customers of their efforts and the details of why upgrading was not feasible Perhaps a gesture such as a trade in policy so that original HP110 owners could upgrade to a Plus without having to spend the time and ex 6 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 pense trying to sell their original machine would be ap propriate From the point of view of HP110 users the fact re mains they bought a machine albeit a new technology that is now obsolete Perhaps that is the fate of pioneers Given the advances in technology all our current com puters will be obsolete in 5 years The question that the HP110 user might ask himself is was it worth it My guess is the answer would be the same of the original owners of the sever
98. m is known as a work around solution The Terminal program on the HP110 has several bugs and workarounds described in issue 4 The Portable Paper is the best source for workarounds for these bugs Once you have learned some of the work arounds from this source you will be ready to tap into the HP Forum on CompuServe and find even more work arounds for the Terminal program The Last Word PORTING Porting is a term borrowed from the world of canoeing In the context of computer jargon the term can be applied to carrying a portable computer for eventual use or merely for maintaining a look of professionalism The HP Port ables although somewhat maligned in the computer press have the best track record for rugged porting They have been designed to withstand the rigors of travel This column is not the last word however in computer jargon There are many more buzz words in the lexicon of computer users I hope that the few words listed here will help you sound more knowledgeable as you go about your business of computing and porting Until next time Happy Porting Ed You may have found that some of your not so favorite words were missing from thts glossary Here are some suggested places to turn The Portable Paper issue 2 page 5 which provides an introduction to DOS vocabulary the glossary of any introductory computer book such as PC DOS by Peter Norton or PC DOS MS DOS by Alan Boyd your user manual Looking Glass w
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100. n addition to the many great features listed to the right there are five more I especially want to emphasize 1 THE EDITOR s Lotus like menus make it incredibly easy to use x TT J Beyond MemoMaker Part Il THE FORMATTER gives you advanced formatting capabilities that even THE EDITOR can t handle like multi line headers and footerseautomatic hyphena tion you can even add your own words to the built in dictionary euser specified page length and line lengtheautomatic page numberingetables and charts etable of contents generationeand more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special for matting codes into your EDITOR MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer The Portable Paper Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 lt You won t believe all the word processing features this 99 95 program contains and it takes up less than 40K of memory only 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 2 THE EDITOR creates ASCII files which means you can send your files to and from almost any other program or computer without special formats or codes 3 THE EDITOR will automatically back up your files to protect you against mistakes When you save a file THE EDITOR saves not just the current version but the previous one as well 4 THE EDITOR takes up less than 40K of memory 5 THE EDITOR loads and saves files and executes comman
101. name of the file and the directories to search through The program does the rest Other useful features include the fa com mand which lets you change file attributes for THE NORTON UTILITIES are among the most helpful utilities l ve run across I use them myself every day and in my opinion they re a must Here s why By Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper example to make erasable files unerasable or vice versa and the fs command which tells you the total file size of a group of files I often use it to find out the total disk space occupied by my Lotus worksheet WKS files or by all my text files from a given project Because of their great helpfulness and ease of use THE NORTON UTILITIES are already a best seller in the IBM PC market Personal ized Software is authorized to distribute them on 3 1 2 disk for users of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 All it takes is a few keystrokes to customize THE NORTON UTILITIES to your machine just follow the simple customization instructions included on the disk Also included in our package are the stan dard 5 1 4 disk sold by Peter Norton for IBM PCs and as a bonus several public domain utilities we ve tested on the Portables There s also a utility called PC EXE that allows THE NORTON UTILITIES to run on the HP150 THE NORTON UTILITIES are a time saver for you and a life saver for your data Use them just once and you ll wonder how
102. ng alternative spellings Microsoft Word 45549K Opt 400 375 Plus Plug in ROM Software Now you can take Microsoft Word with your Portable Plus without a disk drive MultiMate 45554K 495 Plus Plus in ROM Software Opt 400 A page oriented word processor with powerful editing and format ting features Wordstar 45400D 550 HP110 One of the most popular word processing packages available WordStar features advanced text formatting THE PORTABLE PAPER editing and print functions on screen preview and simple integration with other systems Wordstar Professional 45427D 550 HP110 This four in one package contains everything you want to meet your word processing needs WordStar CorrectStar MailMerge and StarIndex Wordstar Professional Options 45429D 250 HP110 Add all of the WordStar Professional Options Cor rectStar MailMerge and StarIndex to your existing WordStar software package requires WordStar ver sion 3 3B or later Outside Vendor Editor The HP110 Plus Includes many features not in MemoMaker including search replace embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right justify Uses less than 40K Easy to learn and use Versions for HP110 Plus IBM PC and HP150 all on master disk Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Footnote Bibliography HP110 Plus Bibliography compares citations in manuscript with entries in a master biblio
103. nsive project management system is also available Traveling Software 11050 5th Ave NE Seattle WA 98125 800 343 8080 Typing Whiz HP110 Plus Better than almost any typing program on the market Immediate numeric and graphic feedback of your progress Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Programming Hewlett Packard BASIC by Microsoft 45445D 300 HPIIO This BASIC interpreter lets you write a program cor rect it then test its logic with easy to use commands BASIC by Microsoft 82862K Opt 400 300 Plus Plug In ROM Software Program on the go with BASIC and the Portable Plus Compiled BASIC by Microsoft 45446D 395HP110 Plus Compiles BASIC executes programs faster and uses less memory than interpreted programs It s also compatible with most of the interpreted syntax FORTRAN by Micrsoft 45449D 395 HPIIO Plus Designed for use with MS DOS FORTRAN is a Microsoft subset implementation of the ANSI stand ard V 77 FORTRAN The program helps programmers implement computer bound applications while maintaining code transportability GW BASIC BY Microsoft 45450D 395 HP110 Plus This product combines an advanced BASIC inter preter with a full screen editor graphics command set data communications features and other power ful programming capabilities Lattice C Compiler 45452D 495 HP110 Plus The Lattice C Compiler is the industry standard C language for programmers interested in
104. nting of lengthy documents from the 9114 disk drive INTERMEDIATE uses file I O Chartime pas Ever wonder how fast your typing speed is on your Portable This program will give you the answer SIMPLE Cmult pas will let you multiply two complex numbers together SIMPLE Compare pas is useful in program development It com pares the contents of two text files e g source code files such as main pas and main bak to determine what changes you may have made from one version of the program to the next ADVANCED Copy pas will allow you to copy a file from the electronic disk to the external disk or vice versa without leaving the Turbo editor SIMPLE Count pas produces a frequency count of all the characters in any text file Its real purpose is to demonstrate DOS s redirection of input and output with the use of the and gt symbols INTERMEDIATE Customer pas is a mailing list program with the added features that you can specify how many copies of a mailing you want to send to a customer AND on which months of the year INTERMEDIATE uses sets Draw pas is Cliff Looyenga s program that will let you use the grfll0 inc files to change the Portable s display into an etch sketch type of machine ADVANCED due to minimal documentation EMUL 3270 is one way to redefine the Portable s keyboard In this case the keyboard emulates that of an IBM 3270 data entry terminal With some modifications you can make the keyboard behave like a Dvorak
105. nu in stantly appears in the middle of your current application Four of the most needed productivity tools are now at your fingertips A four function Calculator with ten memories for quick math calculations A Notepad for capturing those elusive thoughts that leave as quickly as they come Keyboard Macros useful for taking the drudgery out of repetitive typing of frequently used words or phrases This facility is perfect for storing medical or scientific terms bnsiness names legal phrases or Lotus Macros An OFF function for when you want to shut off your computer but don t want to leave the current application 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 MultiMate is a trademark of Multimate International A FRIENDLY COMPANION Once you ve installed Shelp you ll probably never remove it from the Edisc since it s so helpful Shelp is a relatively small 12 5K application installed as a device driver to the MS DOS operating system which resides in the Portable It can be called from within any non graphics program such as Reflection 1 PC2622 MemoMaker Time Manager Lotus 1 2 3 The Editor Pertmaster and WordPerfect 4 1 Shelp does not work with Microsoft Word since Word operates in the graphics mode The activities of the application cur rently in use are suspended until you return from Shelp Each of Shelp s four functions appears as a pop up win dow when invoked from the main menu It is possib
106. numbers table of contents glossary capabilities and mroe Works with almost all printers Note Documentation is in draft form no technical support available HP9114 Empowerer A hardware product that prevents the HP9114 disk drive from running out of juice in the middle of your work Plug in empowerer to your HP9114 and a normal wall outlet and you can run your HP9114 forever 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 Useful as themselves and also as learning tools for novices and experts alike these macros include recalculating ranges double spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells addressing form letters and printing labels automatically The Norton Utilities Customized For The Portables Allow you to recover deleted Portable files and organize your electronic and external disks Peter Norton has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra 312 disk formerly available only on 5 4 disk with each package sold The disk includes The Norton Utilities addi tional utilities and instructions for running The Norton Utilities on the Portables and the HP150 The Portable Paper The only publication exclusively for Portable and Portable Plus users Portable Paper on Disk One disk with each 1987 Portable Paper issue Ready to use DOS batch files Lotus macros Pascal program listings Reflection command files etc plus explanatory text as listed in The Portable Paper Saves hav
107. o ex amine play with and learn from Although the programs work none of them are finished products How well they finally work will be a measure of your growing expertise Of course you may use all or part of any program in the programs you write You will not be violating any copyright laws nor will you have to pay any royalties Here is a list of the program files on the disk along with a few words about what each one is designed to do Each program is also rated as SIMPLE INTERMEDIATE or ADVANCED These assessments refer to the level of dif ficulty of the program The assessments are the judgment call of one person and are only meant as a relative in dicator Beginners might want to look at the SIMPLE pro grams first and work their way up Bayes pas is a program from probability theory It incorporates prior and conditional probabilities to produce a pay off matrix This program has been adapted from Practical Pascal Programs by G Davidson Osborne McGraw Hill 1984 INTERMEDIATE Boxes pas is a modification of the program Box on page 132 of the Turbo Reference Manual v 3 0 It is an example of text graphics on the Portables SIMPLE Brkevn pas is a program to compute the linear break even point of producing an item or service The idea for the program comes from Elements Of Pascal Sherman and Holder Wiley 1984 SIMPLE Cachelpas This short program is an attempt to simulate disk caching to speed up the pri
108. o protect your Portable ThinkJet and HP9114 from one another so you can ship without softcase If you are interested in purchasing a Wilson case for your Portable contact me at Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 and we ll get them working on it We ll take something off his quotes for subscribers Otherwise if you have your own specifica tions or want to talk to them directly contact Wilson Case Inc our neighbors to the west of us at PO Box 338 THE HP9114 EMPOWERER Juniata Nebraska 68955 402 751 2145 e Attache Case For Your Portable Investment Software makes a sharp looking brown leather attache case designed for Portable usage A center piece divides the case so that The Portable can go in one half and disks papers notebooks etc can go in the other half It looked to me like a Portable and either the ThinkJet or the HP9114 might fit in one half but it would be tight I d recommend the case if you wanted a single hand some case to carry both The Portable and a brief case worth of paraphernalia on trips The retail cost is 169 plus 10 shipping plus California tax if applicable Investment Software is located at PO Box 2326 Roseville CA 95746 916 791 2724 The Portable Paper subscribers Contact Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 if you would like the case for 155 plus shipping e Soft Padded Cases For ThinkJet And Portable We also l
109. of of purchase E CHIP computer sustems E 17958 Ventura Blvd Encino CA 818 996 3132 9701 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles CA 213 553 3393 HP 9114B HP 2225B THINKJET PRINTER HP 92261L THINKJET PAPER HP 92261B THINKJET PRINTHEADS Box of Ten Cartridges CALCULATOR SPECIAL Model List Special HP 11C 56 00 48 00 HP 12C 99 00 80 00 HP 15C 99 00 80 00 HP 16C 120 00 89 00 HP 41CV 175 00 135 00 HP 41CX 249 00 190 00 HP 71B 525 00 394 00 NEW HP IL DISK DRIVE 795 00 U HEWLETT PACKARD Authorized Dealer List Special 636 00 396 00 19 95 79 50 495 00 29 00 99 50 Our Ad was designed using Desktop Publisher by Lexisoft on an HP LaserJet Plus This Word Processing and Page Composition program is now available at Blue Chip It still isn t completely clear how this development will affect our own products We will continue to make our software available on disk it may also be possible to purchase an EPROM either alone or as a backup But no matter how we decide to make our software available we will structure the program so that purchasers of our soft ware will at the very least be at no financial disadvantage if they later want to put that software in EPROM Again this is our current thinking Hopefully we will have an announcement by next issue of The Portable Paper If you can t wait you might try Louren Hansman at Jotalogic Systems LTD 156 D Valley Stream Dr Ne pean Ontario K2H 9C6 Canada h
110. of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and more Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Private File HP110 Plus Protects your confidential letters documents spreadsheets programs and data communication files by scrambling files so only you can unscramble them Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 515 472 6330 Sidewinder Sidewinder Utilities Plus Allows you to print your spreadsheets or any other text file sideways Soutbern Software 2853 Ramsey Drive New Orleans LA 70114 504 391 9465 Personal ized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Word Processing Hewlett Packard MemoMaker Built In HP110 MemoMaker Time Mgt 45504K Opt 400 195 Plus Plug in ROM Software A powerful personal time manager featuring multiple date time alarms address phone list with auto dialer archive search functions priority lists with carry forward feature and integrated MemoMaker word processor Microsoft Word 45474D 375 HP110 A powerful word processing program Microsoft Word offers extensive formatting capabilities and features like windowing on line help and an undo command to help with mistakes Microsoft Spell 45556D 80 HP110 Plus A spelling correction program for use with Microsoft Word Reduces writing effort by locating misspelled words displaying the context in which they occur red and proposi
111. ograms to access Portable graphics Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor and Pascal Programs for Portables pue s Portable Paper eB jie ud IME dh Retail subscribers Turbo Pascal 99 95 89 95 Ba Toolbox di Turbo Tutor 39 95 35 95 cud Me E Turbo Toolbox 69 95 62 95 management system Pascal programs for Portables 49 95 44 95 Starter Kit 179 95 149 95 Turbo Tutor Disk and manual for learning Turbo Pascal Includes many features for experienced users All Borland products are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 credit card to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 THE PORTABLE PAPER Is Your LCD Screen Hard to Read We backlight your favorite H P portable with an elec troluminesent panel Including the HP 110 and Portable Plus computers as well as backlighting popular LCD based instruments amp test equipment We guarantee a 1 week turn around Covered by standard warranty The Thin E L backlight is priced at 300 Return shipping is included Dealer inquiries invited Axan The Portable Peripherals People 417 Wakara Way Salt Lake City Utah 84108 Call 801 582 9271 admit that many of the programs are fragile You can ex ercise your budding programming skills to make them more rugged As far as can be determined none of the programs will cause the Portables to crash or lock up That s something in
112. oins two files horizontally by appending corresponding lines ARC512 ARC Archived ARC file compression and library utility ARCE COM Extracts ARChive files from ARC 5 12 and previous versions ASK COM Adds interactive capability to batch files Prompts user with message and waits for yes no response BEEP COM Makes a beep sound CHANGE COM Changes or displays file attributes read only archive system hidden CLEAN COM Converts WordStar HP150 or Portable Plus MemoMaker document files to ASCII and removes control codes COPYNEW COM Backs up files if no identical file on the destination disk Also backs up whole directory structure creating matching subdirectories CPU COM Displays computer s clock speed CVTBIN COM Converts files from ASCII to binary when downloaded with CompuServe READ command CYPHER COM Enciphers and deciphers a file to keep it confidential DIRALL COM Displays attributes and pathnames for ALL files on a disk DIRS COM Gives total disk space occupied by a set of files l DUMP COM Dumps and edits a disk or file in hexadecimal and ASCII FDATE COM Changes the time date stamp on a file FDUMP COM Lists a file in hexadecimal and ASCII FF COM Sends a form feed to the printer FGREP COM Searches a group of files for a specified string HC COM Converts binary files to from hexadecimal ASCII files HP IBM COM Does a best fit translation from HP ROMAN 8 character set to IBM PC Line Draw character set
113. on such as bits and bytes But I also found a lot of words that are peculiar to the world of HP Portable computing A Couple of Exaniples For example the word alarm is peculiar to the HP 110 and Portable Plus computers HP has given its laptops the abili ty to maintain an appointment calendar which is set up by either using Time Manager or creating a pam alm file see user manual When an appointment comes due the com puter will automatically beep or sound an alarm That s one description of an alarm However an equally valid definition of alarm for the Portable user might be the following the feeling you get whenever your computer gives you the shadowy message that it can no longer read drive A and you must press the fl key to reformat your in ternal disk and send 8 hours work into oblivion Or take the word fragmentation Fragmentation is a word that describes a problem with HP Portables It simply means that the files on your electronic disk are no longer neatly arranged in separate locations Due to erasing old files and creating new ones the files have become disjointed For those who have ever tried to increase the size of memory or electronic disk and have not been able to do so fragmentation is a very frustrating problem Fragmen tation leaves a lot of holes on the electronic disk The com puter doesn t know that these blank spaces on the disk are reclaimable It will try to prevent them from being destroy
114. ooked at Field Pro computer cases distributed by Amherst International These are rugged attractive cases covered by a lightweight abrasion resistant waterproof stain and mildew resistant fabric This fabric covers several layers of 1 4 to 1 2 high density shock foam and soft urethane foam There are full side and top zippers the finest available that let you have complete access to equipment as well as items stored in internal pockets HP Portable users will be interested in two of their matching cases Their V12085 laptop carrying case weighs 1 25 pounds and is 12 5 x 13 x 3 5 It is padded better If you ve been frustrated trying to use your HP9114 external disk drive only to have the battery quit before you ve finished your work then you know the problem Now you need the solution THE PROBLEM The charge on your HP9114 battery doesn t last long enough for you to do all you d like to For that matter in some cases it doesn t last long enough to do half of what you d like to According to Hewlett Packard you get up to 40 minutes of continuous usage before the battery dies We ve never gotten more than 20 Just formatting disks transferring files or running disk intensive software and getting it to work can be a major triumph Plugging in the HP9114 doesn t help either That only recharges the battery it doesn t let you keep working WE HAVE THE SOLUTION The official HP suggestion is to buy another
115. or and it will find every place you ve used it At your option it will display each occurrence or replace the occurrences either selectively or globally Windows THE EDITOR will display two separate portions of text at the same time one above the other You can view and edit two parts of the same file or even two different files simultaneously Backspace delete You can erase the last character with a single keystroke No limit on file size If you re an HP110 Portable user you re no longer confined by MemoMaker s 819 Line limit You can have as large a file as internal memory allows File merge You can merge two or more files to gether with ease Compressed and expanded You re no longer restricted to bold and underline You can imbed control charac ters in your text to tell your printer to print all or part of your text compressed expanded bold underlined or whatever else your printer can handle Unlimited line length Your files are no longer limited to 80 characters per line This means for ex ample you can print 132 character lines on your ThinkJet printer in compressed mode Lines per page You can specify the number of lines per page using the control codes required by your printer Easy in easy out You can exit from THE EDITOR run another program then type a one word command and be back in THE EDITOR in a flash exactly where you left off This includes exiting and ret
116. ortable Plus from within any non graphics program Here s all you do Press Ctrl Shift Extend char and up pops the Shelp menu 1 2 3 po 3 6 4 e 3 18 11 12 13 18 15 16 Choose Calculator and get a 4 function calculator that works just like a pocket calculator with memory You can paste results at the cursor location in whatever application you were using when you invoked Shelp save results in ten different storage registers and retrieve them again with two quick keystrokes E Calculator 63 29 ESC toSexit Choose Notepad and a scratch pad pops up on your screen Type whatever you want into it exit to your application and then recall the notepad whenever you want No more having to scribble notes on paper to remind you of phone numbers things to do or bright ideas Note Pad Call Pers Softw 515 472 6330 4 15 mtg w Alice ESC to exit Choose Key Macros and you can assign strips of up to 31 typewriter characters to any of the 26 letters in the alphabet This saves you having to type the same phrase over and over again Example If you type United States a lot you could assign the entire phrase to the U key Just move the cursor to U in the Keyboard Macros menu and type United States To recall United States simply press Ctrl Extend char then U Presto United States appears at the cursor location in your application
117. ortable Plus only disk based 495 00 299 00 Fire wora pine 22 1000 129 00 re REN MEE IE NN a a FM MN UN e MUNI eS TE MM PR Iowa residents add 4 6 tax NENNEN Shipping and handling see box at right Lo Specify Disk Size O 3 O 534 TOTAL PORTABLE PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 VOL 2 NO 1 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE ON ALL PRODUCTS If within 60 days you are dissatisfied with a subscription or product for any reason you may return it for a full refund Should you become dissatisfied with a subscription after the 60 day period we will refund the unused portion of your subscription ncludes free 1987 Subscriber Disk Available only to subscribers 5 Available only to those whose subscrip tions include at least one 1987 issue The 7 50 includes shipping Alter natively you may mail in a formatted disk and a 39 self addressed stamped enve lope to receive the software at no charge 5 Specify whether HP110 Portable Plus or IBM PC Subscriber price is 39 95 if you pur chased any other Turbo product from Per sonalized Software FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 Credit Card holders may order by calling 515 472 6330 Monday through Friday or by sending CompuServe EMAIL to ID 72257 714 SHIPPING AND HANDLING Portable Paper subscriptions Subscription prices include U S Second Class mailing Outside the U S add the following amounts Mexico and Canada 3
118. ox which is available from Borland for 69 95 and works only on the IBM PC or true compatible not The Portables However the rest of the package should work on The Portables Finally according to the Borland engineer I spoke with some of the modules especially the matrix opera tions require over 200K of memory HP110 users might have to clear off their Edisc Borland International is located at 4585 Scotts Valley Dr Scotts Valley CA 95066 800 255 8008 CA 800 742 1133 Turbo Pascal Numeric Methods Toolbox will retail for 99 95 The Portable Paper Subscriber cost will be 89 95 when it becomes available TOUCHBASE DESIGN 1200 HAYES COMPATIBLE SHIRT POCKET MODEM I visited the friendly folks at Touchbase Design makers of Portable 1200 baud modems They have a brand new Hayes Compatible 1200 baud modem they want us to review We have mentioned their original product the Travel Comm 1200 several times in past issues of The Portable Paper Thomas Page of Houston reviewed that product and found it unacceptable for HP Portable users In his let ter to the manufacturer on November 25 1986 Tom said about the TravelComm 1200 Unfortunately I had a prob lem with this product that made it impossible for me to recommend it to readers of The Portable Paper I tried communication with several computers including the IBM PC with CrossIalk RBBS and CompuServe I could not download from CompuServe or from the PC using XMODEM
119. pelling checker or create new dic tionaries for specialized uses T Maker includes a macro 22 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 Oswego Software LIF 110 allows your portable SERIES 300 4 LO read stniEs 200 SERIES 80 lt r i SERIES 70 HP 1000 HP 9000 HP TERMINALS HP CALCULATORS 64000 MICROPROCESSOR Call us A Oswego Software Inc _ 312 554 3567 ER 507 North Adams St TELEX 858 757 Osweqo IL 60543 language and user definable menu system so you can customize the program to your needs It contains On Line Help Sonja sent me a pile of positive reviews and told me its mostly marketed in Europe that s why it is not well known in the states My first round of testing on The Portables dampened my enthusiasm The good news was I was able to get up all the screens in the tutorial The bad news is that the key board did not respond as specified For example CTRL Q or fl are supposed to exit the editor however CTRL finally got me out I tried both HP and Alternate Console Mode from PAM s System Config and no combination worked correctly I will be in touch with T Maker Com pany to see what if we can get the program to work prop erly I hope so T Maker retails for 295 They are at 7 Maker Com pany 1973 Landings Dr Mountain View CA 94043 415 962 0195 AXONICS BACKLIGHTING AND MORE Axonics are the folks that will backlight your Portable Peter Smith of Arlington VA wrote me a short note telling me
120. puzzle without being eaten by the ogre For further documen tation see the book Programming Your Own Adventure Games in Pascal by R C Vile Jr TAB Books 1986 INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED long Mybaseco pas This program will convert a number in any base to a number in any other base SIMPLE Payoff pas is another program from Practical Pascal Pro grams by G Davidson Osborne McGraw Hill 1984 It has been adapted to run on the Portable under Turbo Pascal The program lets you assess your reward for choosing one of several options which are all dependent on different states of nature IN TERMEDIATE due to math involved Pert pas is a Program Evaluation and Review Technique PERT program adapted from a program in Practical Pascal Pro grams by G Davidson Osborne McGraw Hill 1983 INTER MEDIATE JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 13 THE PORTABLE PAPER Petals pas is a guessing game that will give you hours of frustrating fun Guess the number of petals around the rose SIMPLE Prodfile pas combines three separate programs from the Turbo Reference Manual v 3 0 The programs are the three Prod uct programs beginning on pages 99 through 107 Here they are relegated to the status of procedures and are called by a simple menu INTERMEDIATE Prtmodes pas This very tiny program wili create a file emphsizd prn which will contain 6 bytes These six bytes will change a printer to emphasized or bold print mode when the file is accesse
121. ransforms applications written in dBASE III command language into programs that be directly executed without the presence of dBASE HI WordTecb Systems PO Box 1747 Orinda CA 94563 415 254 0900 Notebook II HP110 Plus Ideal for keeping research notes bibliographies product descriptions and client and customer records and for cataloging documents and collec tions Pro Tem Software 814 Tolman Dr Stanford CA 94305 415 497 1000 Retrieve All HP110 Text manager and proximity key word search Telesis Art International Inc 60 West 75th St 6E New York NY 10023 212 580 2609 Electronic Spreadsheets Hewlett Packard 1 2 3 from Lotus Built in HP110 An important tool for making business decisions 1 2 3 from Lotus offers you the combined powers of information management spreadsheet analysis and a business graphics program 1 2 3 from Lotus 45548K Opt 495 Plus Plug in ROM Software Outside Vendor MicroPlan amp Micro Plan Cons Module HP110 Helping you to access frequently needed data MicroPlan is a valuable aid for analyzing information The Consolidation module lets you use MicroPlan for incorporating data you obtain from mainframes timesharing services and other software packages Chang Labs 5300 Stevens Creek Blvd San Jose CA 95129 1088 408 246 8020 Engineering Outside Vendor Fluid Engineering Liqtherm Multidia HP110 Pumpcurv and Pumpsys Several packages designed to help increase produc tivi
122. re to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 PUBLISHER S MESSAGE Toshiba Zenith yes IBM these are names you are hearing about in the Port able computer marketplace Perhaps you have second thoughts about your HP110 or Portable Plus After all you could be getting true IBM compatibility built in mechanical disk drives a faster processor a hard disk a more readable screen or a better keyboard Hal Goldstein probably for less money Despite the advances represented by these new machines I think HP Portables are the only full featured truly portable laptops available What makes The HP Portable unique in the MS DOS world of laptops is its ROM based software and RAM disk capability HP has taken the position that mechanical disk drives attached to a unit decreases portability A mechanical disk drive takes much more power to run weighs more and is much less rugged Furthermore a mechanical disk drive is slow Those of you used to Lotus 123 in ROM on The Portable see how you enjoy finding the Lotus disk waiting for Lotus to load finding your data disk and waiting for Lotus to retrieve a file It will be interesting to see what direction HP takes My guess is that it will put a lot of effort into enhancing the Portable Plus More RAM capacity greater IBM compatibili ty a hard disk these are directions in which HP might be going with the Plus and with future mach
123. reen 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder e e y 3 SideWinder 969 95 dn J Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or sen B 59 e 95 fi or P or table P aper SU bscr l ber S check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 3 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 SideWinder 1 01 owners may upgrade to current version 2 01 which supports 8 chars inch by sending is l 105 rows for QuietJet Printer Personalized Software 7 50 or by mailing a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and the SideWinder master disk 4 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 THE PORTABLE PAPER Interex For those of you not familiar with the world of HP com puters Interex is the international Hewlett Packard users group In theory it represents all users of HP computers In practice it is a forum for the HP3000 and HP1000 world of multiuser computer systems Every year Interex hosts a show for the HP3000 and series 100 microcomputers Very few of the 300 vendors at the Detroit September 1986 show had anything to do with microcomputers In fact we were the only represen tatives of the HP Portable besides Hewlett Packard itself Most of the attendees represented Fortune 500 companies I found this first experience having a booth in a show both exhilarating and exhausting My wife and I were on our feet eight hours for three straight days constantly meeting new people and trying to g
124. rint parameters changing JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 25 THE PORTABLE PAPER column width typing sum and so forth can easily be created within Shelp The Shelp OFF function is an essential feature For ex ample if you have only 512K of memory and are using WordPerfect in the resident mode i e c wp r d a OFF is the only means of shutting off the Plus without losing WordPerfect or your document WordPerfect disables the display timeout DOS users will enjoy not having to go to PAM to turn off the machine In general you will find it convenient to be able turn off your Portable any time whether it is plugged in or just to conserve the battery RECOMMENDATIONS Shelp is a great product It is a clean easy to use applica tion that can equip you to combat the tyranny of the urgent Once installed you ll wonder how you existed without it PRICING INFORMATION Shelp is available on 3 5 or 5 1 4 disc from Personaliz ed Software for 55 00 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers To order use the postage paid order form in the back of this issue or send payment or credit card in formation to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 515 472 6330 Hewlett Packard Announces AdvanceMail For Plus Tbe following information was taken from a Hewlett Packard press release AdvanceMail is a computer mailing application for the Portable Plus that provides you with off line access to HPDeskManager Hewlett P
125. riter Ed Keefe is an author programmer and Computer Science instructor He is the president of The FastAid Co 314 SW Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe I D is 73277 1064 110 7 WIZ RY by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga Configuration Changes from DOS To work from PAM or to work from DOS This is a ques tion that I and many others have thought about PAM has the advantages of easy application selection and access to configurations PAM s main disadvantage in my opinion is lack of speed which results in always having to wait around for the Reread Discs But then again waiting around for a computer is a pet peeve of mine PAM s speed becomes tolerable however if you set external disks to None in PAM System Config but then you can t access your C drive If you decide you want to work from DOS you can get your Portable to bypass PAM and boot directly into DOS by creating a file called config sys with the following line in it shell b bin command com b bin p If you create an autoexec bat file you won t get asked for the time and date The problem still remains of how to alter the System Configuration menus without going into PAM The ob vious solution would be to write a program to do this alteration but there are two main problems in creating such a program First documentation of where PAM stores the configuration information is virtually nonexistent and second some of the configuration values require
126. rrier Bob Glass Indianapolis X ray s And The Portable I have been using the HP110 for over two years now The portability of the unit is absolutely essential to my business We are manufacturers representative servicing the electrical industry o9 gt a ti at MN WE HH HEE SWHEPHEE huuuuuu Die ae e e ee ar Poe mm x as or am oe ren am me oe am ww wm tomar GE G2 15 32 72 35 TET TE HEREHERE HenBEEID Oe Ge G5 GE TE tp GE 3g te te GP VP EE ce ig CE RD GE GE EE GE TD TE GE TE TE OTE OH juu Equo eee PERE EE HEE GHG ter G2 R255 EE BE SS Ee XI ES EE TE BE ZI EZ EZ ER SE ED BS HSE er xz St ET Bo SS Es Sv Pets ac Tt Tz S2 32 if fo 22 22 iF ZS 2 7 85 BE Tz IT O32 SE TS 2T I2 gr CES gm CT am Fe TS TF TS Recently I began using commercial air travel regularly It seemed that about every two to three times my HP110 went through the security x ray unit I had an electronic disk fail ure Just when I would get on the plane with a weeks full of work the HP110 would prompt Memory Lost Press to Reformat My question is does passing the 110 through the security x ray have anything to do with this memorv problem Jeffrey T Dawson Tampa Ed Does anyone know No more cutting and pasting Now pes can non it sideways OPTIONAL EXTRAS Southern Software of New Orleans creators of SideWinder have also created
127. ry file names are required is because two files cannot just trade names For example suppose the two files tm nam and tml nam held the two address lists Now suppose you want Time Manager to ac cess the names and addresses in tml nam Try to figure out how to make tm nam turn into tml nam and tml nam into tm nam without creating a new temporary file You can t do it DOS From Time Manager You can issue any DOS command from Time Manager just type the command from the Calendar screen This means you never have to go back to PAM except to change con figuration settings For example if you want to use Lotus 1 2 3 from within Time Manager just type 123 from the main Time Manager Calendar screen The one limitation is that you tie up extra internal memory when you call pro grams from Time Manager rather than PAM since Time Manager stays resident HP110 users can type memomakr 123 or terminal from the Time Manager Calendar to invoke MemoMaker Lotus 1 2 3 or Terminal Plus users must do a little exploring to see what com mand calls their specific ROM application From DOS first go to drive B type typing the command b Then issue a dir Each subdirectory in the listing stands for one of your ROM based applications Change to the directory contain ing the application you are interested in For example you could type cd msword Then type type pam mnu The se cond line of the file is the DOS command you are looking for In the case of
128. ry of public do main software like the DOS Tools As to The Portable Paper s con tent I think you have a good mix of DOS MemoMaker Lotus telecom munications and miscellaneous Ninety percent plus of the people in my organization had no previous ex posure to these topics While some of us have advanced faster than others everyone can get something good out of The Portable Paper Now some stuff for you The en closed disk and article contain two items you may want to include in future products First an article for intermediate level Lotus users In keeping with your tradition of brief but substantial information this arti cle should fit in Lotus B Drive pretty well The other submission is a Lotus template for use with HP s Z fold Jetlabels part number 51620L It is useful for small lists of labels Please consider it and its related documen tation within the public domain since I have given away copies to many of my colleagues If you do not consider them worthy of publication I have en closed a SASE for their return Also if you have submission requirements send me a copy Larry D Klotz Bossier City LA Ed Thanks for tbe input and tbe ar ticles We currently bave no submis sion requirement and are bappy to accept articles or outlines in any form disk tbe ideal paper Com puServe or audiotape ASCII files are the safest but we can read most any word processing format We are always looking
129. se postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Please allow 3 4 weeks for delivery than the Portable s case and comes with adjustable shoul der strap and padded handle Inside the case a padded flag folds over the computer and fastens with velcro The flap has an internal pocket for diskettes and documents The other case the V12005 can be used either for the ThinkJet or the HP9114 According to the Amherst Inter national representative Hewlett Packard has bought a number of these cases to carry ThinkJets The case is ful ly padded and has dual zipper slide The strap type han dle may be hooked between the handle of the Portable case and carried in piggyback fashion The case contains a cable wallet and room for miscellaneous components and documents The Portable case retails for 59 95 the ThinkJet case for 39 95 Portable Paper subscribers can purchase them from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 for 54 95 and 36 95 respectively You can contact Amberst International directly at 800 547 5600 540 N Commercial St Manchester NH 03101 e Disk Carriers Finally the folks at CompuCover 1 Andalusia St PO Box 310 Mary Esther FL 32569 800 874 6391 gave me a sam ple of one of their disk wallets I like it You can put six 3 5 disks
130. sk will give unpredictable results because garbage is returned Writing to a larger hard disk will destroy some if not all of the data on the disk DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ACCESS A LARGE HARD DISK FORMATTED BY MS DOS 3 0 or higher FROM THE HP110 Ihe Portable Plus always checks the size of the disk before attempting any file operations If the disk size is to large to be valid under MS DOS 2 11 the operation will return a NON DOS DISK ERROR message There is no danger of destroying the disk the computer simply refuses to talk to it When either Portable is connected to an MS DOS 3 xx machine over Portable Desktop Link the recom mended procedure is set up the Desktop as the controller by installing hpil sys on the desktop and running hplink on the Portable and do all file operations from the desktop This allows files to be transferred in or out of the Portable s Edisc and because the desktop handles access to its own disks the disk is fully accessible Additionally note that a 20 megabyte 9133H or 9134H drive formatted by either Portable will only have 16 megabytes of usable space To get a full 19 megabyte capacity format the disk with an HP150C then all the disk is usable by either Portable In summary never run hplink on the desktop e g IBM AT if the desktop contains greater than a 10 megabyte hard disk If you do and you have a Portable you ll destroy the contents of the disk with a file operation such as copy i
131. ta var x array 1 512 of Byte Absolute 40 B60 type sector array l 512 of byte var buff sector procedure to read or write sector zero off the disk procedure disk__io readsector boolean var buffer sector type registers record ax bx cx dx bp si di ds es flags integer end var regpac registers begin with regpac do begin ax 0 disk to read sector from bx ofs buffer disk transfer address ds seg buffer exis b number of sectors to read dx 0 sector to read end inline 54 55 16 1E if readsector then intr 25 regpac save registers get sector else intr 26 regpac or write sector inline 9D 1F 17 5D 5C restore registers end You now have all the information you need to put together a program to control all the configurations from DOS I m not sure which values require a hard reset to take effect I experimented with the cursor underline box and it DID require a hard reset I think if you experiment around you can figure it out just remember to BACK UP YOUR EDISC The Wizard Responds Q If I use the LPRINT statement in BASIC and the printer is not connected to my Portable Plus it hangs my program Is there any way to determine from BASIC if I have a printer connected or not Gerald Watry Bloomington MN A I don t think there is a way to do it from BASIC unless you try to interface BASIC to assembly language but then again I don t us
132. te the 25 line enhanced display would approximately match the list price of The Portable Plus In other words unless some third party comes up with a brilliant solution no upgrade is possible When HP first came out with The Portable it was designed to be a self sufficient box with no hooks for upgrade sort of like the original Apple MacIntosh The thinking was that with a powerful spreadsheet Lotus an easy to use word processor MemoMaker a 300 baud modem terminal software and enough Memory Edisc RAM for space for most applications 95 of most Port able user s needs would be satisfied In addition at the time the HP110 first came out the state of the art in screen technology was such that a 25 line LCD display was unreadable I think most HP110 users would agree that it is a remarkably self sufficient box However we all want more in this case more memory more screen more soft ware more telecommunication speed more flexibility In order to take advantage of new technologies that made possible the 25 line screen ROM and RAM drawers and 1200 baud modem on a chip Corvallis engineers vir tually had to start over when designing The Portable Plus Although the outsides of The Portable and Portable Plus look the same the insides of the two machines are com pletely different Therefore because of original design decisions in creating the HP110 which were based on older technolo gies upgrading the HP110 would be
133. ter to print in compressed mode Such escape codes are not printed or displayed rather the computer or printer performs the operation demanded by the code that follows the Escape character HP IL HP IL which stands for Hewlett Packard Interface Loop is a protocol i e an agreed upon set of conventions that creates a loop for devices that connect peripherals printer disk drive etc to computers It is exclusive to the HP handheld computers and laptops such as the 110 Each peripheral device must contain an HP IL integrated circuit This HP IL IC will process signals coming from a com puter pick out those signals addressed to it and pass on signals for other peripherals on the HP IL HIDDEN This term refers to a file on a magnetic disk whose name does not appear in the directory listing To see the names of some hidden files on the B drive of the HP110 or Plus use the command chkdsk b v af I O This is an abbreviation of Input and or Output It usually refers to a device as in I O device which is a piece of equipment that can be connected to the computer e g a printer output device or a keyboard input device MS DOS See DOS above MS DOS is a set of programs that teaches your computer how to use the disk drive keyboard and display MicroSoft Corp wrote the Disk Operating System MicroSoft will sometimes modify the operating system programs for a particular company Thus MicroSoft has written a speci
134. the 9114 disk drive You can speed them up by moving them to the electronic disk or by mov ing the batch files to the head of the directory on an exter nal disk This last bit of advice is easy to do only if you have the Norton Utility program ds Simply rename your favorite batch file to al bat and then use the ds com program to sort the directory on the disk alphabetically Finally rename your batch file whatever you like A sample batch file is included in the definition of con below BYTE In computer jargon a byte is the same as 8 bits binary digits The term byte often means the same thing as a character Thus the 4 letter word byte has 4 characters or 4 bytes worth of information in it A computer with 272 Kilobytes of random access memory would be able to hold 272 1024 characters of information is computerese for multiplication A Kilo in computerese is 1024 or 2 raised to the 10th power 272K bytes may seem like a lot but after using the HP110 most users agree that it i THE PORTABLE PAPER doesn t seem that way All users want 130 more memory than they currently have BUG A bug is an error in a program Reportedly the word bug became part of computer jargon when Adm Grace Hop per the author of the COBOL computer language found the first real bug in a computer As she tells it she was working on the Mark II computer when the computer died The Mark II was a computer made up of te
135. thors the documentation is not as consistent as I would have liked although we made great strides in that direc tion The programs were written by strong programmers and much of the original documentation assumed that the audience was as familiar with computer vernacular as the programmer Where possible we toned that down and translated to English We also added many examples since I have always found examples to be the best way to learn something With more time I think we could have made the manual even more readable However I think users from novice through sophisticated will find the disk extreme ly useful A familiarity or at least lack of fear of DOS does help DISK HIGHLIGHTS Highlights of the disk include pack arc512 copynew in stallp prnconf trim and vdl pack is the revised pack pro gram without the subdirectory bug It is the version that comes with the new ROM B Portable Plus Arc512 allows you to archive a group of files into a single much more compact file for backup purposes or data transmission This is the only item of shareware on the disk if you use the program you are requested to send 35 to the pro gram s authors Installp is HP s automatic install utility It files alone makes THE Erased your files Get them back with The Norton Utilities It happens to the best of us One slip of a finger and a whole week s worth of text or data is past history But not if you hav
136. til you have a chance to play with your own record management system It may be all that you ll ever need Back To Jargon Here without further delay are some of the words com monly associated with an uncommon computer The words are in alphabetical order courtesy of the built in sorting routine of the automated Glossary program BACKUP This term often refers to a copy of the files that you use on your computer It is a good practice to make backups of all your important documents and data as well as making backup copies of your programs Some people will tell you Happy are the faint hearted for they hath made backups Some programs will make backups for you These backup files usually end with the three letters bak Backing up your files from the electronic disk of the HP Portables is a MUST especially before you try out any new piece of software New software may sometimes corrupt the contents of the electronic disk BATCH FILE This is a program consisting of one or more DOS com mands put into a file whose filename ends with bat The operating system will respond to your entering the name of the batch file by running this batch file program Your computer will execute each of the commands in the batch file in sequence as if you had typed them into the com puter thus saving you from having to retype a frequently used set or sequence of commands There is one problem with batch files they are slow when executed from
137. ty where and when you need it Systek 963 N Brandywine Corona CA 91720 714 734 1351 h2s Data Acquisition amp Control Plus 3 D Imaging Systems 1108 NE 200th Seattle WA 98155 206 363 0706 Entertainment Hewlett Packard Sorcerer 92243YA 34 95 HP110 Plus A follow up to Enchanter this game tries your valor in the quest for the title of Sorcerer Now a full fledged member of the Circle of Enchanters it s up to you to rescue Belboz the Necromancer and save the kingdom Zork I 92243CA 29 95 HPIIO Plus Open the door to an exciting underground empire with Zork I Escape if you can with your life and the 20 treasures of Zork Outside Vendor Tiger Fox HP110 Plus An arcade type game of changing mazes and double pursuit Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 515 472 6330 Personal Solutions Hewlett Packard The Calendar 35151D 49 95 HP110 A personal time management program presented in a daily calendar format The Calendar provides you with options to review daily monthly and yearly calendars The List Manager 35152D 49 95 HPIIO This package is an information management program for individuals who need to collate lists of names account numbers addresses and phone numbers The List Manager also includes report generation and sorting capabilities Personal Corres Pack 35156D 125 HPIIO This combination pack lets you compose a letter on The Writer correct spelling errors with The Spell
138. ual Software can be contacted at 1163 I Chess Dr Foster City CA 94404 800 331 3313 The retail cost is 59 95 for Professor DOS and 69 95 for Individual Train ing For 1 2 3 Two of our staff novices with 1 2 3 and DOS will try out both the cassettes and the disks and we ll report back SOME TIDBITS For those of you who cannot live without your HP12C calculator when working on your IBM PC Popular Pro grams has a solution for you For 69 95 89 95 if you want the HP12C s programming capabilities you can run their program Pop Up PC 12C If you run the 58K pro gram as memory resident you can pop up an HP12C clone any time you wish You can also run it as a normal stand alone program If you order through Personalized Soft ware we ll take 10 off the retail price The folks at Abacus Software gave me a copy of Tur bo Pascal Tricks and Tips Skimming through the book it seems appropriate for intermediate users There are well written sections on searching sorting Input Output routines DOS and more Abacus Software is at PO Box 7211 Grand Rapids MI 49510 206 241 5510 THE WORD PLUS ON OUR PRICE LIS In 75e Portable Paper volume 1 issue 3 page 22 Thomas Page reviewed a spelling checker called The Word Plus that works well on both the Portable and the Portable Plus Many customers have called in and asked us to supply this software customized for the Portables on 3 5 disk The product has received positi
139. ue compatible It comes with 5 1 4 disk a very readable manual and the book The Art Of Creative Think ing It retails for 195 Subscribers can order the product from us for their PC at 179 MORE TEACHING TOOLS DOS AND LOTUS Fliplrack Learning Systems will be sending us a set of audio tapes on DOS and on 1 2 3 for review They have receiv ed positive reviews in a variety of journals including PC Magazine Lotus Magazine and Inc These magazines tout the cassettes as an excellent self paced means to come up to speed on DOS and 1 2 3 quickly There are four 2 hour Lotus audio cassettes and three 2 hour DOS cassettes FlipTrack Learning Systems can be reached at 999 Main St Glen Ellyn Il 60137 800 222 3547 DOS retails at 69 59 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Lotus retails for 89 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers We received from Individual Software two 5 1 4 soft ware programs for the IBM PC designed to teach DOS and PCI delivers the news News qvem Mt menm The HP Chronicle The only newspaper devoted exclusively to HP 3000 computer users Each monthly issue includes the latest news productivity tips new products help columns and classifieds uot altogether noe CPU HP Design amp Manufacturing The journal for scientists engineers HP s new CAD system and others who use a Gr dae from 9 to 2 dimensions HP technical com puters Each monthly Veztra s nhanmced issue
140. ug debug will respond with a version number and a prompt Type scs 100 ffff 41 54 44 after the debug should re spond with something like xxxx 8665 where xxxx is a hex number that may vary Then type the following three lines without the e 8665 41 54 44 50 W q Now from DOS rename tm xxx tm com This process replaces the normal stored Hayes or compatible modem dialing prefix ATDT with ATDP so that pulse dialing is always assumed when using an external modem Turbo PASCAL A Attention Pascal Programmers Cliff Looyenga our Wizard has developed a number of excellent routines for Pascal programmers at a most rea sonable price He calls the package PCVIEW PCVIEW is for the Turbo Pascal programmer who wishes to use forms in his application for either displaying or inputting data With PCVIEW the programmer can create these forms so they automatically work on the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 and the IBM PC The PCVIEW system consists of a program to create and modify forms two sample demo programs and all the Pascal source code necessary to create forms and to display the forms on the four com puters The 60 page manual is well written and indexed and contains a clear explanation of how to call the routines and what each routine does You can order PCVIEW directly by siding 24 95 plus 2 shipping to Advance Solutions PO Box 567 Veradale WA 99037 505 928 4147 Mastercard and Visa accepted If you would pre
141. urning from DOS which means you can delete copy and rename files while running THE EDITOR Right justification and automatic paragraph indent A simple command right justifies your text and at the same time automatically indents your paragraphs however many spaces you wish Undelete Erased something you want back No problem A simple command will un delete the last word line or block of text deleted Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change upper case to lower case and vice versa without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar and in terms of the convenience and in creased productivity you gain I feel that THE EDITOR is a truly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today
142. vailable from us and also from Human Edge 1875 South Grant 4th Floor Suite 480 San Mateo CA 94402 2669 CA 800 824 7325 US except CA 800 624 5227 for 49 95 Subscribers ordering from us pay 44 95 A TIME MANAGER FOR THE PC One of the questions I am most frequently asked is will the Portable Time Manager run on the IBM PC or the THE PORTABLE PAPER HP150 Unfortunately the answer is no The best you can do is transfer your to do list tm tdo address list tm nam appointment list pam alm and notes not to your desktop PC Since these are ASCII files they can be read by most word processors and some database managers but itis up to you to manipulate them and put them in a form palatable by other programs If you re hooked on Time Manager and would like an equivalent better program on the PC one is available It s called PrimeTime from Wiseware The bad news is that er analiz eer to Persona 1a 52590 field 1 Box 869 Fal z 472 6330 Runs on the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and Touchscreen Typing Whiz is one of the better typing programs on the market and is priced competitively If you want to learn or improve your typing buy Typing Whiz Typing Whiz is on my highly recommended list Dave Mark L A Scrug Notes newsletter JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 19 THE PORTABLE PAPER there is at this time no way of transferring files back and forth from Prime Time to HP s Time Manager The good
143. vanceMail running on the Touchscreen 26 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1987 Vectra and IBM PC but also takes into account the ex pected environment for the Plus as well as its limited local backup and disk storage space Note that an installation of AdvanceMail for the Plus requires site specific procedures that tailor communica tions to your company s needs Once these procedures have been developed at the HP3000 site they can then be installed into each Plus HP3000 System requirements are as follows HP3000 running MPE V version G 01 02 or later HPDeskManager software version A 03 00 or later direct or modem dial in connection to the Portable Plus and ATP terminal inter face NOT ADCC terminal interfaces Portable Plus requirements are a Plus with Ad vanceMail and the Reflection 1 datacom program a minimum of 384K memory and 188K main memory direct or modem dial in connection to a 3000 and an ex ternal disk drive for set up only MemoMaker Time Management ROM is required only if the user wants MemoMaker as the AdvanceMail word processor Ordering Information AdvanceMail with Reflec tion 1 ROM HP 82870A Opt 400 AdvanceMail System Administrator without Reflection 1 ROM HP 82870K Opt 400 Reflection 1 Terminal Emulation HP 82863K Opt 400 Site licensed AdvanceMail software HP 828708 Opt 400 Five sets of manuals including Setting Up Advance Mail for the System Administrator HP 82870T Typically
144. ve confidence having a familiar tool in an unfamiliar en vironment At any moment I could turn and work on my Portable thus taking control of the situation I found it also useful to play what if with the spread sheet while the salesman checked with his manager about my offer According to my reading normally this is an excellent intimidating tactic for the salesman he leaves you alone for 15 minutes to anxiously sit and think about continued on page 34 Getting More Than 100 Time Manager Names and Addresses A number of you have written in with workarounds to the Time Manager limit on the size of the file containing names and addresses Here is the solution offered by Joel Nossoff of Altadena CA Joel writes Have you ever been frustrated with the limit of 100 entries in the Time Manager Name amp Address file Or perhaps you would like to keep your business ad dresses separate from your personal files Here is a handy technique for keeping two distinct lists each with a 100 entry capacity It was given to me by Ed Grimes head of HP Customer Education in Los Angeles The idea can be extended to create as many 100 name files as you require In MemoMaker create a new file called switch bat and type the following with the first character of each line in column 1 if exist tml nam goto tml tm2 rename tm nam tml nam rename tm2 nam tm nam goto exit tml rename tm nam tm2 nam rename tml nam tm nam exit After s
145. ve notices in such columns as Jerry Pournelle s popular Chaos Manor Byte magazine After talking this over with the publishers of The Word Plus we will augment their 5 1 4 disk with an ad ditional 3 5 disk containing specific customization for the Portables The Word Plus retails for 150 from Oasis Systems 2765 Reynard Way San Diego CA 92103 609 453 5711 Portable Paper subscribers can purchase the product from us for 129 by giving us a call at 515 472 6330 or using the order form in back of this issue T MAKER Rodman Sharp of Sante Fe put the T Maker Company publishers of integrated package T Maker in contact with me T Maker s Sonja Roizen sent me a review copy and was very encouraging she felt T Maker would run on The Por tables The literature that comes with the machine says it works fine with the HP150 but I will double check T Maker would be ideal for the Portables since it re quires only 128K to run and it includes as one integrated package a full word processor relational database free form spreadsheet bar chart graphics and a 55 000 word spelling checker The word processor includes automatic footnoting multiple screen forms and rapid field restruc turing Its free form spreadsheet is simple to use and the data base manager allows multiple screen forms and rapid field restructuring Separate data bases can be linked to create new ones or to generate sophisticated reports You can add words to the s
146. y appreciate HP s dedication to engineering excellence and manufacturing quality My thanks to all of you at HP for bringing us superior products at the leading edge of technology cc Hal Goldstein Editor The Port able Paper Rodman A Sharp Ph D Sharp Associates Santa Fe NM Hello From Saudi Arabia Greetings from the land of the burn ing desert where wine and women are lacking I would like to inform you that I have received my five copies of The Portable Paper and am thrilled with what I have discovered about my Portable Plus Here in Arabia infor mation concerning the Portable is hard to come by even HP is a bit slow when it comes to this micro Enclosed please find my subscrip tion renewal for another two years I hope that I ll be able to last in the Kingdom for that long I notice that you are supplying a subscriber s disk if the subscription is renewed by the 30th of September as long as the camels cross the desert in record time this renewal should reach you by then Ken Preston Saudi Arabia The Importance of Backup In May of this year we sustained a devastating fire that destroyed our warehouse and office complex The office contained records dating from April 1930 Our computer system includes a Zenith Z 100 CPU which contained approximately 2 75 Megabytes of program and 4 Megabytes of data files Its primary use is inventory con trol It had been my practice to backup about three times
147. you ever did without them Order your copy at no risk today 3 ENORTON UTILITIES 3 o J DATARECOVERY W DISK MANAGEMENT THE NORTON UTILITIES 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield I 52556 515 472 6330 THE PORTABLE PAPER is useful for automating the installation of a program ora group of files onto the electronic disk and as a PAM ap plication Prnconf allows your HP IL ThinkJet printer to emulate an EPSON printer Trim lets you extract specified columns of data from a file useful for importing data into Lotus vdl provides a more convenient less dangerous procedure for deleting files than either the DOS DELete command or PAM s File Manager The DOS Tools disk creates some competition for ourselves Tjeta and printit do quite a lot of what our PrinterTalk program does making it easier for Memo Maker users to make full use of the ThinkJet Our Wizard Cliff Looyenga s cypher is similar to Private File in that it allows you to encode and decode files for security pur poses Finally sdl mimics my favorite Norton Utility ds This 2K program lets you get an immediate directory listing of your files sorted by name extension size or date However unlike
148. zed as novices some one who has just seen their first computer to power users those who use their computers as more than a glorified typewriter or calculator i THE PORTABLE PAPER UTILITY Refers to a class of computer programs that supposedly are useful to have when working with a computer The most famous collection of such utility programs is the Nor ton Utilities which will let you do such things as recover disk files that were unintentionally deleted or will let you sort the directory on a disk Various users groups and distributors of software often maintain a collection of util ity programs for a particular kind of computer Personal ized Software distributes both the Norton Utilities and another disk full of such programs WORD WRAP You encounter this phenomenon in such computer pro grams as word processors The computer will let you type in a whole paragraph without ever hitting the Return key at the end of each line of print The program will automatically take words that extend beyond the preset right margin and put them at the beginning of the next line of text WORKAROUND Often when a program contains some bugs and the authors of the program do not have an easy way to patch the program so that it will work correctly they will offer a method of getting the task done that will let the user avoid the bugs in the program This method of avoiding or recovering from a bug in a progra

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