From: Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.hp48,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: London Handheld Conference Videotape Available
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 92 21:23:16 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world


        Videotape Available for the Handheld and Portable Computer Club's
           Anniversary Conference - London, England Sept. 19-20, 1992


The HPCC Conference in September was a great success with interesting
speakers, presentations and demonstrations.  Over a hundred attendees
enjoyed the weekend and look forward to future conferences in Europe.
This conference was videotaped in its entirety and is available in
VHS format (in American NTSC standard) on two tapes recorded in SLP speed.
Total time is approximately 12 hours and 15 minutes. Cost is U.S. $25.00 
including postage. A personal check is the preferred method of payment. 
A list of the taped topics is shown below. 

Jake Schwartz                            (A European PAL-standard version
135 Saxby Terrace                         of this videotape is being worked
Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003             on and will be probably be made
                                          available through one of the user
609-866-6682 work                         groups in Europe in the near
609-751-1310 home                         future.)

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              HPCC Conference Videotape Table of Contents
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1. Friday evening, 9/18/92 early-arrivers' informal gathering at the Embassy
   House Hotel.  Richard Nelson of Educalc speaks primarily on the TI81
   and TI85 calculators, Sharp EL9300, HP handhelds, Educalc, SunDisk flash
   EPROM cards for the HP95 (up to ten meg capacity) and the BSE portable
   battery-powered hard disk drive (up to 120 meg capacity) for palmtops.

2. Saturday morning, 9/19/92 at Imperial College. Introductory comments by
   HPCC chariman Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz followed by all attendees intro-
   ducing themselves.

3. Jim Donnelly of HP Corvallis speaks on "The Prehistory of Calculators"
   with a slide presentation of early mechanical and electronic computing
   devices from the 19th and 20th centuries.

4. Craig Finseth presents highlights of his "HP Data Base" - a comprehensive
   collection of information on all HP handhelds from 1972 (HP35) to the
   present.

5. Views of the HP35 birthday cake, the vendor area and vendor products, the
   conference registration table and a display of most of HP's handhelds.

6. David Frodsham of DIP speaks on the future of technology for handhelds
   and palmtops. (DIP was the designer of both the Atari Portfolio and the
   Sharp PC-3000 palmtops.)

7. Raan Young of HP Corvallis gives a demonstration of the HP95 sending 
   Email via the Ericksson "Mobidem" radio-modem and receiving a page via the
   SkyTel radio-paging device. (This demo successfully transmitted signals
   from London to Corvallis, Oregon and back to London again.)

8. Richard Nelson speaks on conference issues, door prizes, etc.

9. Raan Young presents a 28-minute videotaped Hewlett-Packard Corvallis
   Division plant tour which includes outside shots plus views of the 
   Calculator "Hall of Fame", the lab, HP95 production area and calculator
   product phone support area.  Also included are some brief words from
   Dennis York, Bill Wickes, Chris Bunsen, Everett Kaser, Greg Sanker and
   Frank Wales.

10.Mark Ellis of HP U.K. speaks on Hewlett-Packard's vision of the future
   of palmtop and handheld computing and communicating devices.

11.Richard Nelson says a few words about Educalc HP48 Goodies Disk production
   by Joseph Horn.

12.Conference first-day speakers' panel Q & A session (mostly directed toward
   the three Hewlett-Packard representatives). Questions such as "Is the
   Saturn CPU dead?","What's happening in the HP95 line from here?", "How
   difficult would it be to port HP48 RPL to another platform?", "Will HP's
   Kittyhawk 1.3-inch hard drive appear as an HP95 peripheral?", etc.

13.Views of the HP35 "Birthday Party" with cake cutting and awarding of the
   door prizes. Also is a glimpse of the equipment auction which was held
   immediately afterwards.

14.Meeting of heads of European HP user clubs to discuss possible formation
   of a coalition called "HEX" (Handheld European Exchange).

15.Richard Nelson speaks on upcoming third-party products for HP handhelds.

16.Brian Walsh gives a presentation on a proposed HP48 "Help System".

17.Megha Shyam of Sparcom describes his company's current products and gives
   some previews of upcoming HP48 and HP95 products from Sparcom.

18.Craig Finseth speaks on "The Anatomy of an HP95 Software Application".

19.Graeme Cawsey talks about writing multilingual applications for the 
   HP95 LX.

20.Colin Mason of Mitsubishi Electric gives a presentation "Memory Cards - 
   Technology and New Directions".

21.Brian Walsh talks about System RPL tools.

22.Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz speaks on teaching using handhelds.

23.Lee Woodruff discusses computer algebra systems versus the HP48.

24.Jim Donnelly presents ideas on developing utilities for the HP48 using
   HP's development tools.

25.Jurjen Bos speaks about "abusing HP48 plot commands" to draw recurrent
   functions.

26.Jake Schwartz discusses an alternate index to the HP48 manuals.

27.Richard Nelson talks about handheld conferences past and future. A
   conference in the fall of 1993 is tentatively planned for somewhere on
   the West Coast (California or Oregon).  Also, the PROMPT group from
   Holland announced that they would like to sponsor a conference in 1994.

28.Mark Cracknell gave some closing remarks and Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz
   made closing announcements.

29.A visit to the Science Museum to see the Babbage Difference Engine #2
   demonstrated. (This replica was completed in 1991 and contains over
   four thousand moving parts.)

30.Views from the conference breakfast on the morning after.

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