HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
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> You cannot do it.
> 
> There are no PEEK or POKE statements available and there are no backdoors
> to the processor.  ...

Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee ....

Don't you just LOVE a challenge?  Now it's only a matter of time.


Regards
Ray Depew
Integrated Circuits Business Division
Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
rrd@hpfiqa.fc.hp.com
From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Which SuperCalculator to chose?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 12:53:50 +0100
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk

I find the HP48 slow to use
Is the HP48 rom compiled? is that it?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Where to buy HP48SX
From: gabe@qed.cts.com (Gabriel Gonzalez)
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:42:21 GMT
Organization: The QED BBS, Lakewood CA

gan@mtl.mit.edu (Chock Gan) writes:

> I lost my 28S and am looking to replace it with a 48SX.
> Where's the best mail-order place to get one? 
> Anyone with experiences with New York mail-order places or EDUCALC?
> Does anyone have phone numbers for EDUCALC?
> Is the promo where HP gives a free serial cable and rebate coupons 
> for slot-in cards over or is there one at all?
> 

EDUCALC is an excellent place for anything to do with the HP48 series.  It 
is very complete, they are cool, they have the lowest prices, and they have 
the stuff on stock most of the time... their numbers:

EDUCALC
Orders, tech support, cust service:  (800)677-7001 & (714)582-2637
8am to 5pm west coast time, mon-fri.

Credit card orders: 24 hrs 365 days, (800)535-9650 ext. 9157
FAX orders: 714-582-1445

Call and order a catalog....

see ya.


------------------------------
gabe@qed.cts.com (Gabriel Gonzalez)  or  qed!gabe
The QED BBS -- (310)420-9327
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: bayomi@bldghsc.lan1.umanitoba.ca (Dennis Bayomi)
Subject: HP95LX C: drive corruption w/ACT! installation
Organization: Computer Department, Medicine, Univ. of Manitoba
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:39:34 GMT

Dear Fellow 95LX users,

  HELP! I have somehow corrupted my C: drive (internal RAM drive) while 
performing an automated installation of ACT! version 1.0 for the HP95LX 
using the COM1 port on an 8088 based PC from Mind Computers.  The 
installation proceeded without difficulty until the PC indicated the 
installation was complete. The PC program exited to the DOS prompt but the  
HP95LX screen remained frozen with the ACT! insignia on the screen.

  I was able to recover use of the 95LX only with a cold restart(CTRL-SHIFT-
ON and answering No to Initialize RAM Disk?). I am now unable to access the 
Filer Application with the HP95LX. The 95LX is only able to muster a 
pathetic "I/O Error Press ESC to Continue" when the Blue Filer Key is 
pressed. (The ESC key doesn't work here either-some silly iterative loop).

  I was using ACT version 1.0 for the 95LX and an upgraded 95LX (1MB RAM).  
Has anyone else had this problem? (and more importantly, is it possible to 
reformat the C: drive without losing any files or least recover these files 
with losing much data?).

Anxiously awaiting any ideas...Signed  Pankaj Chand
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: James.Gorak <James.Gorak@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: Psion 3 listings
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:53:48 GMT

In <92288.144256RATKINS@ESTEC.BITNET> RATKINS@ESTEC.BITNET writes:

>Some time ago someone posted details of sources of Psion-3 listings.
>Can someone out there remind me from where I can obtain such programs?
The following software is available via FTP from src.doc.ic.ac.uk
in directory /public/packages/psion/icdoc/. The info is from the README
file in the same directory which I received in mid September.
 
    Subject: README (/public/packages/psion/icdoc/@src.doc.ic.ac.uk)
    X-Complaints-To: ftpmail-admin@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com
    Status: RO
 
    This Psion archive is maintained by sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk
 
    These files are all PC format files.
 
    -r--r--r--  1 root         4387 Sep 11 12:47 puzzle.opl
            15 squares puzzle by Stephen J Lacey sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk
    -r--r--r--  1 root          6228 Aug  3 16:58 3dos.zip
            dos commands on your psion
    -r--r--r--  1 root          2739 Aug  3 16:58 agenda.zip
            Series 3 Agenda file format
    -r--r--r--  1 root          3917 Aug  3 16:58 alias101.zip
            allows you to create new main menu icons
    -r--r--r--  1 root          5650 Jun  8 20:10 bank.zip
            handle your bank accounts
    -r--r--r--  1 root         13184 Jun  8 20:10 bit.zip
            bitmap graphics editor
    -r--r--r--  1 root          2378 Jun  8 20:10 charset.zip
            full screen (well 2 of them actually) display of the Series 3
            character
    -r--r--r--  1 root          6691 Jun  8 20:10 convert.zip
            program for calculating currency conversions
    -r--r--r--  1 root          4736 Jun  8 20:10 diarycnv.zip
            convert ORGANISER LZ and MC400 Diary files respectively to
                    Series 3 Agenda file format
    -r--r--r--  1 root         29627 Aug  3 16:58 flick2.zip
            Animation on the Series3
    -r--r--r--  1 root          2398 Jun  8 20:10 iconedit.zip
            edit a program's icon
    -r--r--r--  1 root          8846 Jun  8 20:10 mines3.zip
            Minesweeper is based on the game supplied with Windows v3.1
    -r--r--r--  1 root         19378 Jun  8 20:10 oplhel.zip
            Opl Assistant
    -r--r--r--  1 root          2048 Jun  8 20:11 bistro3p.opl
            Calculate bistro bills
    -r--r--r--  1 root           896 Jun  8 20:11 dtmf.opl
            proc to dial DTMF tones from OPL
    -r--r--r--  1 root         13686 Jun  8 20:11 filescop.opl
            examine and edit files
                                 ******
-- 
James.Gorak@mixcom.com
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:22:01 GMT
Subject: Re: need help with 48sx home made cable
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
From: gunawan@envmsa.eas.asu.edu 
Subject: ===> HP-28C FOR SALE <===
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Keywords:  HP-28C
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:20:00 GMT

	FOR SALE: HP-28C calculator

	Mint condition, clean, comes with box, manuals, complete!
	I also give you the 28S Easy Course book.

	I'm asking $80. You pay the shipping charge.

	Interested? Please contact: 

	Leo
	sie_0148@bigdog,engr.arizona.edu
-------------------------------------------------------------
     I'm posting this for a friend, do not reply to me.
From: akcs.hedman@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Brent Hedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: remote control program for HP41CX ? (with infra red module of course)
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:40:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpcvbbs.2addcecf.4720.1comp.sys.handhelds.1

Hansjoerg, I was wondering the same thing. If you get any responses to
your message could you forward them to me? I would sure appreciate it.
Brent
From: akcs.khuber@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Kevin Huber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: TI 85 & HP48SX sec connections
Keywords: ti85 hp48sx hserial connections
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:40:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpcvbbs.2addb9d7.4912comp.sys.handhelds

Hello,
   I was wondering how feasible it would be to connect an HP48SX to
a TI-85.  I assume the connection is easy given the same # of wires,
but what about parity, handshaking, etc.?  Given the HPs
high-programmability I'm almost certain a connection could be made.
   Does anyone out there on the net have ansome good information
regarding the pinout on the TI or any otherwise related material?

   Thanks,
   Kevin Huber <khuber@ub.d.umn.edu>
               <khuber@va.d.umn.edu>
               <kehuber@carleton.edu>

P.S.  Does anyone have any inside info on new HP calcs?  They're due
      to produce another masterpiece anytime now... ;-)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.handhelds:2210 comp.sys.palmtops:3122
From: pete@egh-qc.uucp (Pete Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: PSION SERIES3 - problems
Keywords: psion series 3
Date: 7 Oct 92 07:41:14 GMT
Organization: Surgical Materials Testing Lab (SMTL)

rharnwel@axion.bt.co.uk (Richard Harwell) writes:


>After using my series 3 (ver. 1.80F/ENG) for about 3 months now something
>annoying has started happening. Each time I open it up, a black plastic
>film normally hidden between the Application keys & the screen gets trapped
>between these two parts of the machine. I need to half open the device,
>then ease the plastic back inside with the edge of a credit card while
>carefully opening the unit up.

>I should send it back to Psion I suppose, but I do not feel that I can now
>afford to be without it for however many weeks or months !

Richard,

I'd ring up Psion and make a fuss.  Tell them you cannot afford to be
without it for more than a few days.  We had 2 machines with problems
- the first took a few weeks to get fixed. When the second one was
delivered without the black fascia, I jumped up
and down enough so they sent a replacement by courier the next day.

You've got nothing to lose.
Pete
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more understand able excuses when its wrong. There is a lot more 
science than you think."
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:41:13 GMT
Subject: Re: HP 48-SX SYSTEM for sale (printer, EQ library, interface)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds


> Great news!  I have a complete 48SX system for sale.  I used it in my 
> mechanical engineeering career, but now I have moved on to dentistry!

Wow, think of all the "reading between the lines" one could do with this
paragraph!  (Don't even get me started...)

-- Ray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: dyhec@westminster.ac.uk (dyhec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: PSION SERIES3 - problems
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:32:19 GMT
Organization: University of Westminster

In article <92283.171237KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET> KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET writes:
>Here in the US when I went through the well known problems with the duff
>icon key-strip (went through 3 machines before I got my present one which

Eeek!  What well known icon strip problem?  I've recently bought a 2nd hand
Series 3, which I believe is about 4 months old.  Its version 1.77F/ENG, if
that's any help.  What's going to go wrong with it?

BTW, does anybody know of any sites I can get OPL programs / Shareware etc of
the Series 3?

Thanks for your help
Jon R-B
Xref: sparky comp.sys.handhelds:2225 comp.sys.palmtops:3152
From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: PCMCIA vendors and manufacturers list
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 11:09:38 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) recently posted a fine
article listing PCMCIA sources, etc.

>Last revision 1992.09.29
>These are in no particular order.  I am but a customer of some of these
>companies.  This information is not guaranteed, and may be outright
>wrong.  Use at your own risk.  Please send additions or corrections.
>This file is available via anonymous ftp on the Internet as
>csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop/pcmcia.sources.

In the section entitled "Companies with PCMCIA slot equiped machines:"
I noticed an omission.  Commodore-Amiga now has one such machine, the
Amiga 600.  Available in Europe for some time, it's now being sold in
America.  I'm not sure what level of PCMCIA compliance the slot
follows (1.0?  2.0?  The slot itself looks pretty thin in the
pictures, but the hype I've seen in magazines seems to indicate that
one will be able to use PCMCIA-based modems, etc., and doesn't that
imply compliance higher thatn 1.0?)

Contact info:

  Commodore Business Machines, Inc.
  1200 Wilson Drive
  West Chester, PA, USA, 19380


A copy of this posting has been mailed to anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu.


/* Rick Plavnicky   plav@cup.portal.com */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: jeff@eng.umd.edu (Jeffrey Frey)
Subject: FM-RCARD - Correct your Records!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 12:36:58 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

By the way, most palmtop discussions are in comp.sys.palmtops.

                        MS-DOS PCMCIA Palmtop Computers

Name          CPU        MHz     W x D x H          Weight      Display RAM     Slots        Cost       Battery
                                               

FMRcard    80C286    4/8  295X210X26.5mm   900g        640X400 dot   2 PCMCIA   Y198K   2 AA, 
				          2 gray level    (JEIDA v4)              8 hrs claimed
				          VRAM 4kB		      @ 4MHz*
				          (not really VGA)

   *I've never got more than 2 hours of continuous use at 4MHz
ALSO:  Non-backlit LCD, not a great contrast ratio, but after all it's running on 3V.
          Output ports: 1-RS232C serial (25 pin); 1 proprietary bus for floppy disc, RAM add-on, modem
          Included RAM: 1Mb, expandable externally to 3
                       ROM: 2Mb; contains DOS-3.22 (Abort? Retry? Fail? asked in Japanese), 
                       		calendar, calculator, comm. software including XMODEM, 
			network software, Japanese wordprocessing.

GOOD:  Weight, size of keyboard and screen (comfortable typing and seeing, when the light is right), use
	of AA cells.
NOT SO GOOD:     NOT PC-compatible so I can't use GeoWorks
	      Only English-language software available in card form is WordStar 5.0, which is OK
	        since I'm a WordStar fan.  Otherwise, Japanese Microsoft Works, Multiplan, Chart, and
	        Lotus 1-2-3, as well as BASIC and a lot of other packages.


Incidentally PCMCIA cards are clearly going to take over storage for small computers, so it might make sense
for prospective buyers who even now insist on having hard disks and floppies to look for a computer that
contains, in addition to those, a PCMCIA slot--e.g., the Sharp 6781, which looks like a very good buy to me.
Anyone have any experience with it?

Jeff
From: noel@wtgdir.UUCP (noel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP48sx for sale
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 03:02:36 GMT
Organization: wtgdir
Reply-To: grace!wtgdir!noel@moscom.com

I have a HP48sx for sale.  Includes serial cable for Macintosh.  It
also has a 128k ram card and the Equation Lib.

Will not split.  Consider reasonable offers.


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grace!wtgdir!noel@moscom.com or noel@aber.umsl.edu           
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: jws7793@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP 42s $60
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:39:16 GMT
Reply-To: jws7793@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Hp 42s calculator
with orignal manuals

$60
From: s4uhkm@fnma.COM (Howie Michalski)
Subject: Using COMMO on the LX
Reply-To: s4uhkm@fnma.COM
Organization: Fannie Mae
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:43:03 GMT

Anyone using Fred Brucker's {COMMO} communications program on the HP95LX?

I use it on my full-size PC and love it.  Any feedback would be appreciated!

Cheers,
Howie

BTW, I don't yet have an LX, but would graciously accept one as an early 
Christmas gift <grin>

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From: sh09@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STEVEN HIGGINS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Linear Programming on HP41/42S
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:02:04 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


    I was wondering if anyone knew of an FTP site which carried programs
    for the HP41 or HP42S calculators.  I've seen a few special interest
    groups for the HP48S, but nothing else.  I am specifically interested in
    an implementation of the Simplex method.

    Thanks ahead of time,

    Steve Higgins
    sh09@lehigh.edu
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From: phj@gestalt.austin.tx.us (Patricia Ju)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Wanted: Used sub-notebook or info on sub-notebooks
Date: 13 Oct 92 04:06:38 GMT

I'm interested in purchasing a sub-notebook PC.  Something under $600,
preferably.  If you have one that you'd like to sell or if you have
specs/other information (reviews, &c) on any such computers, I'd
really appreciate your posting or emailing me directly.

Patricia
phj@remus.rutgers.edu
From: fussy@hairball.Eng.Sun.COM (Tom Fussy - Display Development)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Casio B.O.S.S. SF R-10
Date: 8 Oct 1992 22:34:01 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: na
Reply-To: fussy@hairball.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: hairball


Can anyone familiar with the Casio BOSS SF R-10 please describe the `Free File'
function?  The catalogs I have seen are useless for this.  Also, has anyone
seen them in stores yet?  What price?

Thanks,
Tom Fussy
From: rharnwel@axion.bt.co.uk (Richard Harwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: PSION SERIES3 - problems
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:18:25 GMT
Reply-To: rharnwel@axion.bt.co.uk (Richard Harwell)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


In article <1992Oct13.140659.8773@bristol.ac.uk>, smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:

(Refering to the post about having new Psion sent before returning old one)

|> Don't believe that's an available option over here.  From what I've
|> heard, Psion(UK) no longer automatically replace bad Psion 3s.
|> Allegedly returns are now at a low enough level that they can take time
|> to diagnose the problems and in many cases decide to repair, rather
|> than replace, the machine
|> -- 

True, Psion do not offer the US deal, but only yesterday I went to their
London office (85 Frampton St), where they happily exchanged my Series 3.
No receipt needed, no quibble.

Richard
From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: PSION SERIES3 - problems
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:19:12 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <1992Oct15.113219.24445@westminster.ac.uk> dyhec@westminster.ac.uk (dyhec) writes:

>BTW, does anybody know of any sites I can get OPL programs / Shareware etc of
>the Series 3?

 Here is part of two letters from Roy Atkins on some Psion Stuff,
but readers please send more as I want some

Thanks Roy

>Message 5/19  From Roy Atkins - QSR                 
>
>I already have downloaded PD Psion-3 files from one source; I believe there
>are others and I remember seeing a reference in an earlier posting. The only
>reference I have so far is src.doc.ic.ac.uk under packages/psion/icdoc. Most
>of these files are in IBM PC format and are compressed using ZIP.

--next message (edited)

>I use the ibm ftp protocol to log into the server (in this case src.ac....)
>(which is Imperial College PD Library).
>Once into the server I download the files to my address. 
>I log in as "anonymous".

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From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: PSION SERIES3 - problems
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:06:59 GMT
Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Organization: University of Bristol

In article <92283.171237KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET> KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET writes:
>all I had to do was to phone up tech support at
>PSION-US (who by the way are the best bunch of tech support personnel that
>I have dealt with so far), explain the problem (don't even have to plead
>dire hardship) and they would issue me with an RMA number. Then I would phone
>up the PSION-US order dept, explain to them that I would be returning a
>machine with such-and-such RMA number and could they please send me a
>replacement machine. The deal is that they get my credit card number but not
>charge my account unless they do not receive the duff machine back within
>3 weeks. In the meantime, I could continue to use my duff machine until the
>new one arrives and I have ample time to send the duff one back before the
>3 week deadline expires.

Don't believe that's an available option over here.  From what I've
heard, Psion(UK) no longer automatically replace bad Psion 3s.
Allegedly returns are now at a low enough level that they can take time
to diagnose the problems and in many cases decide to repair, rather
than replace, the machine.

-- 
Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
 P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!uknet!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132
From: akcs.ejf@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (edward joseph fasula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: SmartROM & Spreadsheet for the HP48.
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:40:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpcvbbs.2ad9c4d9.4888.1comp.sys.handhelds.1

I am interested in your product.  The Educalc representative did not know
of the rebate you have posted.  Most importantly, I'm sure some people
would like to get the software on diskette.  Will you please post your
company address in Italy so we can order directly now?  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
From: ted_cowan@univel.COM (Ted Cowan)
Subject: HP42s and base conversion
Keywords: HP42 HP42s hex hexadecimal programming assembler HP42-S HP42S
Organization: univel (a partnership of Novell and USL)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:32:41 GMT

Hey all you HP42s experts!  Can an HP42s be programmed to enter directly  
into A..F input mode allowing the entry of hex digits (without having to  
hit the A..F function key)?  Can a program be written to permit 1-key mode  
switching from HEX A..F entry to DECIMAL to BINARY to OCTAL and back to  
HEX A..F?  I have all the manuals I can buy on the HP42s and nowhere can I  
find a program that enables this.

On a related subject, does anyone know how to program the HP42s in its  
assembly language?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds