From: Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48,comp.sys.handhelds,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: London HP Conference Videotape (and others) Available
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:39:29 PST
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. Following that is a complete list
of all HP handheld-related events on tape.


Jake Schwartz                            (A European PAL-standard version of
135 Saxby Terrace                        the HPCC videotape is being prepared
Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003             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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         HP Handheld-Related Conferences, Mini-Conferences and Special
                           Meetings on Videotape
    
         Any event or events adding up to nine hours or less (meaning they
    can be fit on a single BASF Super High Grade VHS T-180 tape) is $15.
    including shipping. Any events adding up to 18 hours or less (requiring
    two tapes) is $25. including shipping. Please add 10 dollars for each
    additional tape. If it is desired that events be recorded at higher 
    videotape speed for better quality, indicate as such.
                
                                          
    Date                  Subject                            Length (HH:MM)
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21. 9/19/92-  1992 HPCC Tenth Anniversary Conference in           12:15
    9/20/92   London. Talks on HP48, HP95 and other hand-
              held related topics such as new products,
              memory cards, radio paging and Email, and the
              future of handheld technology. Speakers include
              Craig Finseth, Jim Donnelly, Raan Young, Lee
              Woodruff, Brian Walsh, Richard Nelson and many
              more. Also included is Raan Young's videotaped 
              HP Corvallis plant tour as well as a visit to 
              the British Science Museum for a demo of a newly 
              completed replica of Babbage's 1840's Difference 
              Engine #2.

20. 5/29/92-  1992 Chicago CHIP Group HP Handheld Users's          4:45
    5/31/92   Meeting in conjunction with 1992 Summer CES.
              Topics include using Mac Powerbook with HP48
              (Bill Quinlan), HP95 BBS activities (Ted
              Dickens), HP48 library builder software (Jake
              Schwartz), CD ROM production (Mike Katz) and
              HP95 Palmtop Paper activities (Hal Goldstein).
              Also included is 9th annual CHIP group picnic
              shots and highlights from the Summer Consumer
              Electronics Show.

19. 3/27/92-  1992 Spring HP Handheld User's Conference in        13:00
    3/29/92   Philadelphia, PA. Dennis York of HP speaks
              three times on both HP48 and HP95 topics. A
              total of 13 speakers in all. Both software and
              hardware topics covered, as well as new 3rd
              party products for HP handhelds.

*** 3/27/92-       Philly Conf. Proceedings (110 pg)...... $10.00
*** 3/29/92        HP48 printed System RPL Tools 
                      Docs (88 pg.) ...................... $10.00
                   BOTH OF THE ABOVE DOCUMENTS ........... $15.00
                  (If docs ordered alone, please add $5. shipping)


18. 2/26/92   Chicago CHIP Group user's meeting in con-            1:45
              junction with the National Design Engineering
              Show. Guest speaker Megha Shyam of Sparcom 
              talks about new Sparcom products and the product
              development process from Sparcom's and HP's 
              perspective. (HP48 and HP95 material)
         
17. 1/11/92   Las Vegas HP Handheld Users' Meeting in con-         5:15 
              junction with the 1992 Winter Consumer Elec-
              tronics Show (CES). Speakers include Richard 
              Nelson, Gil DeLiso (Sharp), Andy Fu (ACE Tech-
              nologies), Roy Bryzlowski (HP), Scott Burke 
              (Sparcom). Both HP48 and HP95 material.
         
16. 8/1/91 -  1991 HP Handheld Users' Conference in Corvallis,    16:20
    8/4/91    Oregon. Two days of presentations from 20 or so 
              speakers including Eric Vogel, Greg Sanker and 
              Jim Donnelly of HP. Both HP48 and HP95 material.
                
15. 5/31/91   Chicago-area HP handheld user's meeting in con-      3:10
              junction with 1991 Summer CES. Speakers include 
              Richard Nelson, Brian Walsh, Paul Hubbert, Jake 
              Schwartz, etc. (Both HP48 and HP95 material)
                
14. 5/1/91    Philadelphia Area HP Handheld user's meeting.        2:30
              Karl Smith demonstrates Sparcom's Personal In-
              formation Manager (PIM) card, Chemistry Appli-
              cations card and Electrical Engineering Appli-
              cations card (all for HP48SX).                
                
13. 4/29/91   Philadelphia Area HP Handheld user's meeting.        3:20
              Eric Vogel of HP guest speaker. Introduction to 
              the HP95LX. Topics cover hardware, software, 
              third-party support and much more.                 
                
12. 4/10/91   Chicago-are HP handheld user's meeting. Eric     approx 2:00
              Vogel of HP guest speaker. Topics include HP32S 
              II, HP48 PDL, HP48S, etc.                      
                
11. 1/12/91   Las Vegas HP handheld user's meeting in con-     approx 4:00
              junction with 1991 Winter CES show.  Also in- 
              cluded is a lengthy set of handouts (70+ pages). 
              Speakers include Richard Nelson, Joseph Horn, 
              Jake Schwartz, Sparcom people.
       
10. 11/11/90  Phila. Area HP Handheld Club meeting. Bill Wickes    3:45
              guest speaker. Covers numerous HP48 topics and
              related material.
                
9.  6/1/90 -  1990 Chicago HP Handheld User's Conference.         15:50
    6/6/90    Several meetings and speakers including Bill 
              Wickes and Eric Vogel of HP. All material is HP48 
              related. Other speakers include Richard Nelson, 
              Brian Walsh, Jake Schwartz, Namir Shammas, Lee 
              Woodruff, Brian Maguire, Paul Hubbert, Bill 
                   Quinlan, Ron Johnson.
                
8.  1/6/90    1990 Las Vegas HP Handheld User's Meeting in     approx 3:00
              conjunction with Winter CES. Speakers include 
              Richard Nelson, Brian Walsh and Jake Schwartz.
         
7.  6/3/89    1989 Chicago HP Handheld User's Conference.          7:00
              Several speakers including Ron Brooks of HP 
              speaking on the HP41's tenth anniversary, plus 
              Q & A. Other speakers included Bill Quinlan, 
              Jake Schwartz, Lee Woodriff, Richard Ledford, 
              Paul Hubbert, Brian Walsh and Bob Prosperi.
         
6.  1/7/89    1989 Las Vegas HP Handheld Users' Meeting in       > 3:00
              conjunction with the Winter CES. Chris Bunsen 
              of HP speaks on various topics including HP42S, 
              32S, 22S, 20S calculators and design philosophies.
                
5.  6/3/88    1988 Chicago HP Handheld User's Meeting in       approx 3:00
              conjunction with Summer CES. Ron Brooks of HP 
              introduces the HP22S and HP32S calculators.
                
4.  1/9/88    1988 Las Vegas HP Handheld User's Meeting in       > 3:00
              conjunction with Winter CES. Dennis York of HP 
              introduces HP28S, HP19B, HP17B and HP27S calcu-
              lators. Several other topics discussed as well.
                
3.  5/29/87   1987 Chicago HP Handheld User's Meeting in con-      3:45
              junction with Summer CES. Speakers include Brian 
              Walsh and Richard Nelson. Several topics discussed 
              including HP41/71/75 activities.
                
2.  2/5/87    Washington D.C. HP Handheld Group meeting at         3:30
              Univ. of Maryland. Bill Wickes of HP introduces 
              the HP28C calculator, RPL philosophy and history.
                
1.  5/30/86   1986 Chicago HP Handheld User's Meeting in con-    > 3:00
              junction with Summer CES. Janet Cryer and Nancy 
              Ullman of HP introduce HP18C calculator and also 
              discuss HP customer technical support.

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