From: Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48,comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Videotape of Las Vegas HP Users' Meeting Available
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 21:23:11 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world


          1993 Las Vegas HP User's Meeting Videotape Available

     On Saturday, January 9th, 1993, a meeting of HP users was held in Las
Vegas in conjunction with the Winter Consumer Electronics Show. The group
consisted primarily of HP48 and HP95 users along with Richard Nelson from
EduCalc and a brief visit by Dan White of Sparcom. Discussion ranged from
handheld and palmtop issues to calculators in the classroom. Jake Schwartz
also spoke about an upcoming software product for the HP48. The meeting 
lasted around three hours.
     This meeting was videotaped, along with approximately a half hour shot
at the CES itself, showing glimpses of products from Sharp, HP, Casio, 
Panasonic, Motorola, IBM and others. There is a total of 3-1/2 hours of
material and it is available on a VHS tape for $15.00 including postage 
and a printed rundown of the tape's contents. Send a check to:


    Jake Schwartz
    135 Saxby Terrace
    Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

    609-751-1310 home
    609-866-6682 work

      
Note: The 12 and a half hour videotape of the HPCC Handheld/Palmtop 
Conference held last September in London was previously being offered as a
standalone two-tape set. Since the above meeting in Las Vegas will also fit
onto the same two-tape set, they are both available together for the cost of
the London Conference by itself ($25.00 including postage). If a rundown is
desired on all the speakers and subjects of the London videotape, please
send me Email.

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      1993 HP Handheld Users' Meeting  - Las Vegas, Nevada - 1/9/93

1. Introductions
2. Pocket laser pointers are now inexpensive
3. Comments on Consumer Electronics Show in general
4. Joe Horn comments on the HP48 Goodies Disks
5. Possibilities of new HP machines coming soon
6. HP copyrighted software will be on Goodies Disk #8
7. HP48 revision J ROM is out
8. Need a committment for producing Macintosh Goodies Disks for the HP48
9. HP Kittyhawk (1.3-inch) hard drive at the HP booth
10.Flash memory disks for HP95 - more manufacturers coming
11.Sharp PC3000/PC3100 palmtop has been discontinued with no replacement
   planned
12.What's happened to Intel's PC board 386 palmtop?
13.Rumors about HP95 successors
14.Dan White of Sparcom speaks on Sparcom issues
15.Sparcom products at the HP booth including the HP95 docking station
16.Drive95 - new file system to handle large subdirectories 
17.Drive95 may not remain on the market forever
18.New Sparcom HP48 products coming
19.Sparcom will have products for any new HP48-type units that may appear
   in the near future
20.New HP95 software announced
21.Windows connectivity for 95, HP48 connectivity for 95 coming
22.HP48 software for professional engineering exam badly needed
23.Brief discussion of use of calculators in exams
24.Sparcom will include ROM card copy-protection from this point forward
25.A handful of cards for the HP48 will be revised in 1993, although the
   PIM card is not on the early list
26.Apple Newton - still talking about a Summer '93 release. Casio/Tandy
   PDA was demonstrated at WCES
27.Various consortiums ("strategic alliances") working on new devices now in
   the handheld world.
28.Sparcom will intro "Quickmate" for the HP95 - a Quicken-compatible product
29.Sharp Wizard 9600 contains 2 MB inside. It is considered a "pre-Newton"
   product, designed in the U.S. and produced in Japan
30.The Sharp PC-E500 was discontinued a few months ago
31.New EduCalc News Line started. Two categories of info with more coming.
32.Fax-based dial-up system from HP had been very successful; EduCalc would
   like to do it as well.
33.Rich Nelson and Joe Bell talk about Tom Hooper (long-time HP enthusiast)
34.Henry Horn (former editor of HP Key Notes) says a few words
35.Rich Nelson talks about the 16C and EduCalc selling 11C/15C/16C machines
36.Jake Schwartz presents the 16C emulator library for the HP48
37.Rich Nelson talks about approximately a dozen new products at EduCalc 
   (48 and 95 related)
38.Richard Nelson discusses the HP Palmtop Paper - highly recommended
39.PCMCIA 1.0 and 2.0 standards and manufacturers
40.What is the status of the next calc/palmtop conference that was tentatively
   scheduled to be in California in 1993?
41.Lengthy talk about calculators in the classroom
42.Potential HP "exam mode" coming in calculators to temporarily disable
   features
43.Texas Instruments much farther along with their calcs in the classroom
44.TI graphing calculators ... new TI-82 replaces the TI-81
45.HP48S versus SX - applications and needs.... Card ports are a hedge against
   obsolescence
46.Sparcom HP95 docking station - a convenience item which has found its niche
47.Bill Wickes / Rick Grevelle / Sparcom
48.HPIL card for the HP95 now done by Interloop
49.HP48SX entry points: supposedly 12 points have been moved in Rev. J
50.How will HP exam-mode work?
51."The problem is with the teachers" - (calcs in classroom)

Winter CES Glimpses (total of approximately 27 minutes)

1. Overview of Las Vegas Convention Center
2. HP booth - calculators, HP95, Sparcom products
3. HP Kittyhawk 1.3-inch hard drive
4. IBM cellular phone/PDA/PC device demo
5. IBM 16-1/2 inch 1280 by 1024 TFT color LCD display
6. Apple Newton under glass
7. 3DO Corp. CD-ROM interactive video/graphics hardware and software products
8. Toshiba pen-based portable machine
9. Casio/Tandy Zoomer Personal Information Processor press conference glimpse
   (camcorder battery went dead after 3-4 minutes)
10.CES main floor
11.Sharp "ViewCam" camcorder with 4-inch color LCD for a viewfinder
12.Sharp OZ9600 touch-screen Wizard
13.Sharp 4-inch portable Crystaltron LCD TV
14.Sharp DCC (digital compact cassette) tabletop player
15.Sharp MiniDisc portable players
16.Sharp WideVision 16:9 wide aspect ration NTSC TV
17.Motorola fancy color cordless and cellular phones
18.AIWA MiniDisc and DAT portable units
19.Casio BoardCopy - digital camera/printer device
20.Sanyo portable MiniDisc player
21.Panasonic CPA - a palmtop check printer and electronic accountant
22.Panasonic Interactive Multiplayer utilizing the 3DO technology
23.Virtual Vision product - personal projection TV in eyeglasses
24.RCA CinemaScreen 16:9 NTSC TV products
25.Casio TV camera-based "Visual Data Bank" for BOSS SF-R20 product
26.Casio BOSS ROM card development system
27.Casio BOSS comm card/cradle 
28.Motorola multimedia product for CD-I drives providing full-motion video
   on a CD ROM disk  

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