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From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
Subject: Fair price for used 512K HP-95LX?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1992 14:18:05 GMT

Now that the 1 meg version of the HP-95lx is on the street for under $500, 
what's a fair price for a used 512K version in good condition?   E-mail, 
or post opinions here. Thanks.

************************
* These are my opinions only.*
************************
From: fin@unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: freyja 1.4 problems
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:18:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Apr16.201815.8006
Organization: University of Minnesota, Networking Services.

In article <1992Apr15.151054.18967@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, jblue@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (john blue) writes:
|> I am using the .EXM of Freyja 1.4. When I edit any small file (<777
|> bytes so far) the cursor does not behave correctly. For example:
	...
|> I reloaded Freyja 1.3 and it did not do this with the same freyja.ini
|> file.
	...

*Sigh* Apparantly, this happened when I put in the fix for the help
crashing.  I _thought_ fixed it properly...

Workaround: have a buffer with > 1 page (1024 bytes) in it.  The
problem should vanish on all buffers.

Do *NOT* run 1.3.  It will do awful things to your memory, due to a
call to malloc/free that I had missed.  As it turned out, the
truncation of files was only the tip of the iceberg...

Can anyone say "version 1.5?"  I knew you could.  Can anyone say,
"after I've finished this other really nifty 95LX tool that I'm
writing...?" (a couple of weeks, I hope).

Craig A. Finseth			fin@unet.umn.edu
1343 Lafond				Craig.Finseth@nic.mr.net
St Paul MN 55104-2437			+1 612 644 4027
USA
From: howard@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Howard Price)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:41:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Help! 95 <---> communication. How?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard NSG-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops

/ hpopd:comp.sys.palmtops / leschack@world.std.com (Richard LeSchack) / 10:30 am  Apr 14, 1992 /

> Subject: Help with 95 <---> 48 communication. How?
>
>     I've tried exchanging text between HP48SX and HP95LX
> via IR with no success. Would somebody who knows how to
> do this please email me a few clues. Thanks.
>
>                                    --- Dick
> ----------


You CAN do this.  The two units have to be *VERY* close together (almost
touching).  Use the COMM program on the 95LX and use KERMIT.  I'm not sure
about the settings on the 48, but make sure you config the COMM app on the
LX to use the IR port (it's easy to miss).

Howie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: wizard/hp95lx
From: vcmgt0j7@VAX.CSUN.EDU (Mingfang Li)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:51:17 GMT
Reply-To: vcmgt0j7@VAX.CSUN.EDU
Organization: Cal State Northridge

In article <kuofj2INN750@news.bbn.com>, fjh@bbn.com (Frederick J Hirsch) writes:
>1. There has been some discussion of why the wizard is better than the hp95.
>Could you please provide more details as to what is better? Also, why did 
>you get the 95 if you were happy with the wizard?

Wizard's software is better designed, phone book, memo (truly what it means), 
appointment book (especially its weekly view), and outline programs are very 
well conceived. Its keyboard is better.

Why HP95LX?  More memory and DOS COMPATIBILITY.





>
>2. has anyone compared derive to the hp48?
>
>3. can anyone tell me (please!) how to write an add-in for lotus 2.2
> (in the 95). I'd like to be able to select a range of cells, and then feed it 
> to a c-program, and then put the results in another range of cells. Is this
>possible?
>
>Thanks
>
>Frederick (fjh@bbn.com)
>
=================================================================
Mingfang Li
Department of Management, California State University, Northridge
Internet: MLI@VAX.CSUN.EDU
=================================================================
From: marco@mothra.rose.hp.com (Marco Gonzalez)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:06:00 GMT
Subject: Re: 80 columns on the 95??
Organization: HP Networked Computer Mfg. Operation
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops

>In comp.sys.palmtops, harringt@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Big Al) writes:

>    This may seem really disgusting to some people... but does anyone have
>    a program to give you 80 columns on the 95LX?
>
>    Way back when I had a C64 (40 column machine) there was an assembly
>    hack that gave you 80 columns.  With the graphics capability it should
>    be possible - probably make someone go blind but...
>
     Right, the C-64 could display 80 columns by using a re-defined character
     set and rewriting all the screen handling routines. The trick worked
     by having each character to be 4-bits wide instead of the regular 8.
      That gave you 3 pixels for the character itself plus 1 pixel for the
     space between each character.

     BUT!... the C-64 has 320 pixels horizontal resolution. Remember the
     HP95LX has only 240 pixels horizontal resolution!!.
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

     So, with 320 pixels / 4 pixels per char, gives you 80 columns.
	      240 pixels / 4 pixels per char, gives you 60 columns.

     Therefore, at least with this scheme, you CANNOT have 80 columns on the 95.


			** Best Regards **
			Saludos desde Guadalajara, Mexico!

			Marco A. Gonzalez
			Systems Technology Division - Guadalajara
			Hewlett Packard Company.
			marco@hpgdm105.hp.com
From: ma690188@mbir.bcm.tmc.edu (R. Mark Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: BASIC on the hp95
Date: 16 Apr 1992 15:25:41 GMT
Reply-To: ma690188@mbir.bcm.tmc.edu (R. Mark Adams)
Originator: ma690188@mbir.bcm.tmc.edu


I am considering buying an hp95, and I am curious as to _how_ complete
the MS-DOS included is.  For instance, does it have BASIC in ROM?  What
about the DOS externals?  (I had a Portfolio, and many of the externals
simply were not included in the 'DOS' instalation.)

If BASIC does not come with the machine, has anyone tried GW-BASIC or
something similar on the '95?


+-<rMark>------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+
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| R. Mark Adams, N5YYY           |                                  |   - <|  |
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From: everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Everett Kaser)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:03:22 GMT
Subject: Re: HP95 Upgrade info?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops

admiral@m-5.Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht @Sun Micro Mt View. ) writes...
>Can someone post or e-mail me the facts on upgrading to the
>1 meg version? I need to know:
>- Price. (I think it's $180, but not sure)

It's $190.

>- Time needed for upgrade.

It seems that people are getting their units back in about 8-10 days.

>- Where and how to send the unit.

Call the HP Corvallis Service Center at (503) 750-3850 for more information.

** Everett Kaser                   Hewlett-Packard Company
** ...hplabs!hp-pcd!everett        work: (503) 750-3569   Corvallis, Oregon
** everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com        "Today is a good day for change."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: ALKIRE@acuvax.acu.edu (AL KIRE)
Subject: Re: Need help finding POQET RAM cards
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20
Organization: Lost in NETland
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 21:17:00 GMT

In <1992Apr15.184252.23166@news.larc.nasa.gov> dmk@air31.larc.nasa.gov writes:

> Hi netters,
>    Recently I purchased a POQET palmtop with a 64K free RAM card. I
> _need_ more storage space. Can anyone give me information on a good
> source for these cards? Can I use HP cards? (The connectors on the
> end look identical) And can I use a card larger than 512K?
>    Any support would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel Koppen
> dmk@air31.larc.nasa.gov

My understanding of the POQET is that it uses cards that conform to the PCMCIA
1.0 standard.  That means any RAM cards that fit that standaard will work.  The
last I heard there were up to 2 meg cards available.  I know you can get cards
from Digital (1-800-PC-BY-DEC), but I doubt they are the cheapest.  Digital is
the one marketing the 640K version of the POQET.  They also have some of the
POQET specific applications (they will execute in ROM without cluttering your
RAM).
From: edp@math.zko.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: HP-95 backups, shell archive
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:20:34 GMT
Reply-To: edp@math.zko.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1992Apr8.073920.14093@i2unix.dist.unige.it>,
gouthier@torino.maraut.it (Paolo Gouthier) writes:

>Please post the backup program to: eddie.mit.edu in distrib/hp95lx/inbound.

You apparently missed the part of my posting where I said I couldn't
post the backup files (neatly) because I don't have the software to make
a shell archive.  If somebody will provide a pointer, I'll post the
files.


                                -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
                                "Always mount a scratch monkey."
                                edp@alien.enet.dec.com
From: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: 95LX COMM program
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:14:48 GMT
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center

In article <1992Apr14.112444.27317@edsi.plexus.COM> chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi) writes:
>bull@noao.edu (Frank Bull  CCS) writes:
......
>The one last thing I miss is sending multiple files from the 95LX to a
>PC.  I can send multiple files from PC->95LX, but not the other way
>around.  The file selector doesn't have any (obvious) way of tagging
>files and then sending them.  Kermit is a batched protocol, so why do we
>have to suffer in sending one file at a time from the 95LX?

The FILER has a TAG option, F9, and a TAG ALL option, ALT-F5. Also,
you can install a "real" Kermit program on the 95LX and have full
wildcard capabilities for file transfer both ways. In addition, with
DC95 and DCS95 you can use XCOPY to move multiple files to and from your
95LX.

Vic Roberts
GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
roberts@crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: edp@math.zko.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: HP-95 password /automatic
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:14:09 GMT
Reply-To: edp@math.zko.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <65300121@hpcvra.cv.hp.com>, everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com
(Everett Kaser) writes:

>Thanks for the answers.  Again, this doesn't sound like a common problem (I
>haven't heard of it before), so it's likely to be something peculiar about
>your setup (or no one else is using the password feature :-).  Do you have
>a CONFIG.SYS?

There's a CONFIG.SYS on A: (the Derive card), but I booted without the
card and inserted the card later (when the 95 was off).

> An AUTOEXEC.BAT?

Same thing; there's one on A:, but it was not present at boot.

>APNAME.LST?  What's in them?

Yes, my APNAME.LST is:

C:\bin\cmcalc.exm,c300,ComputerMath
C:\bin\dialtone.exm,b700,DialTone
C:\_sys\hb.exm,2300,Hearts&Bones
C:\bin\klondike.exm,2500,Klondike
C:\_sys\tfox.exm,1400,TigerFox

You're probably familiar with those programs; the non-HP ones were taken
from the irisa (spelling?) FTP site and used without modification.

>Do you use any file compressors such as DIET or STACKER?

Nope.

>The 'lead-time' alarm problem you described doesn't ring any particular bells
>for me either.  Something smells fishy on the dock.

I'll reboot now and avoid using the non-HP applications except for
Derive and let you know if the problem recurs or not.


                                -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
                                "Always mount a scratch monkey."
                                edp@alien.enet.dec.com
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Atari Portfolio Interrupts
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:36:38 GMT
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


This is from Don Thomas, head of the Portfolio Division at Atari:

 
Information regarding the custom Portfolio interrupts are available to
from Atari U.S. to U.S. destinations in a handbook entitled: "Portfolio
Technical Reference Guide". It costs $60 plus $3.50 S&H. I can only ship
to U.S. and Canada though. I don't know how the other Atari worldwide
offices handle it. They would need to be contacted individuially.
 
BTW, PowerBasic libraries which show examples of screen handling and
other interrupts are in the APORTFOLIO libaries posted by BJ Gleason.
 
Don Thomas
 
 
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From: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: PIMs and HP95LX
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:31:01 GMT
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center

In article <1992Apr13.170213.3866@csun.edu> vcmgt0j7@VAX.CSUN.EDU writes:
......
>How about Turnado, InfoSelect's older brother?
 
     I am sure Tornado would work as well, but have not tried it.


Vic Roberts
GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
roberts@crd.ge.com
From: jjd@bbn.com (James J Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Macintosh interface for HP95LX
Summary: Nuvotech?
Keywords: macintosh
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:15:59 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

Recently I asked if anyone in this newsgroup knew of a connectivity
solution between the HP95LX and the Macintosh.  A local dealer
showed me a list of HP95 3rd party products and one of them sounded
exactly like what I was looking for.

It was a described as "HP95LX to Macintosh Connectivity Pack" and was
sold by Nuvotech at 1 800 4 NUVOTECH. I called that number and a
recording referred me to 800 538 8866.  That number is for a company
called Focus which bought all Nuvotech's products except the HP95LX
product.  They suggested contacting HP, but HP didn't know anything
about it.

		--Jim Dempsey--
		jjd@bbn.com
From: everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Everett Kaser)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:35:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Two Copies of Memo Editor on the HP95
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops

ya16@uk.co.gec-mrc (Ian Powell) writes...
>What I did was to add the line "A:\MEMODICT.EXM,BE00,New Memo II" at the 
>bottom of my APNAME.LST file in C:\_DAT, re-booted the machine and 
>presto, I could start up a second copy of the Editor by pressing CTRL-
>{MEMO}.

Well, obviously you've got it "working", but *I'd* be REALLY nervous about
this.  First, placing an entry in the C: drive APNAME.LST that points to A:
(or vice versa, A: that points to C:), has been known to cause problems, and
was never intended to be supported (and isn't).  Secondly, there potential for
confusion in the memory mapping with two copies open at the same time, swapping
back and forth between them, and closing them in different orders.

Anyway, I don't have any specific hard-and-fast case where "this will NOT work"
but it makes ME very uneasy (of course, so do most carnival rides, these days,
but I think THAT's just my inner ear :-).

** Everett Kaser                   Hewlett-Packard Company
** ...hplabs!hp-pcd!everett        work: (503) 750-3569   Corvallis, Oregon
** everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com        "Today is a good day for change."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: leschack@world.std.com (Richard LeSchack)
Subject: Help! 95 <---> communication. How?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 10:30:52 GMT


Subject: Help with 95 <---> 48 communication. How?

     I've tried exchanging text between HP48SX and HP95LX
via IR with no success. Would somebody who knows how to
do this please email me a few clues. Thanks.

                                    --- Dick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: PIMs and HP95LX
From: vcmgt0j7@VAX.CSUN.EDU (Mingfang Li)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:02:13 GMT
Reply-To: vcmgt0j7@VAX.CSUN.EDU
Organization: Cal State Northridge

In article <1992Apr13.161624.973@crd.ge.com>, usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.055847.22014@csun.edu> vcmgt0j7@VAX.CSUN.EDU writes:
>>Wonder if HP95LX users have tried some of the PIMs (Personal Information
>>Management) on HP95LX?  Would very much like to hear your experience,
>>reactions and any insights you have to share.
>>
>>Some of the packages that come to my mind include Lotus Agenda, InfoSelect,
>>Memory Mate, GrandView.......
>
>Many of us, including me are using Infoselect. It does not take much disk
>space, can be configured to display only one window at a time in the
>upper left hand corner of the screen, and the default window can be set to
>match the 40 x 16 character 95LX screen. The only problem is that the GET
>function runs slowly on battery power since the 95LX goes  into Light Sleep
>mode. Also, the menus are not visble without scrolling, but this is not
>a problem for experienced users. Infoselect is one of the most useful
>applications on my 95LX.

How about Turnado, InfoSelect's older brother?  



>
>I have heard that other people use Memory Mate. As I understand it Agenda
>is more of a problem due to large disk space requirements, but I think some
>people are using it. Don't know about Grandview.
>
>Vic Roberts
>GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
>roberts@crd.ge.com
=================================================================
Mingfang Li
Department of Management, California State University, Northridge
Internet: MLI@VAX.CSUN.EDU
=================================================================
From: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: BASIC on the hp95
Date: 17 Apr 92 02:42:58 GMT
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center

In article <11307@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> ma690188@mbir.bcm.tmc.edu (R. Mark Adams) writes:
>
>I am considering buying an hp95, and I am curious as to _how_ complete
>the MS-DOS included is.  For instance, does it have BASIC in ROM?  What
>about the DOS externals?

95LX does not include Basic, and has only basic DOS externals, such as
Chkdsk, Format, etc.  It does not include Xcopy, Replace, and many others.

>
>If BASIC does not come with the machine, has anyone tried GW-BASIC or
>something similar on the '95?
>
Yes, some people have run it. but 95LX does not support any standard DOS
graphics mode, and the serial port has a bug which prevents Basic from
working with the port.


Vic Roberts
GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY
roberts@crd.ge.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.palmtops:1513 comp.sys.handhelds:1266
From: leif@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Leif Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: ylisp, freyja 1.3, diet, DC95
Date: 6 Apr 92 10:12:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: unixhub.3699
Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In a previous article jblue@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (john blue) writes:
>freyja : I am using the systems manager compiient freyja. It does not
>seem to work with diet loaded as a TSR. here is my autoexec.bat file
>
>This allows freyja to work ok. but when i take the rems out reboot and
>try start freyja nothing happens.
>
>echo off
>rem c:\util\diet -z >nul
>rem c:\util\diet -z -p -tc:\tmp
>path=c:\;c:\util;c:\turbo;c:\lisp
>prompt $p$g
>echo Press any key for SysMgr
>echo Press Ctrl-C to enter DOS
>pause
>$sysmgr
>
>John Blue
>jblue@copper.ucs.indiana.edu

Hi, I have gotten this to run successfully, both with and without compacting
freyja.exm with diet.  The only thing I can see in your autoexec.bat file
that might be a problem is the lack of a trailing backslash on the temporary
directory path.  I used the following line in my autoexec.bat:

C:\bin\diet -z -p -tc:\tmp\

Note the trailing backslash.  Good luck!

-Leif

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: PIMs and HP95LX
From: vcmgt0j7@VAX.CSUN.EDU (Mingfang Li)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:58:47 GMT
Reply-To: vcmgt0j7@VAX.CSUN.EDU
Organization: Cal State Northridge

Wonder if HP95LX users have tried some of the PIMs (Personal Information 
Management) on HP95LX?  Would very much like to hear your experience, 
reactions and any insights you have to share.

Some of the packages that come to my mind include Lotus Agenda, InfoSelect, 
Memory Mate, GrandView.  I suppose we are all interested in extending the 
usefulness of HP95LX, if so, going beyound the basic information management 
capacity available on 95LX should be a natural step.

Thanks in advance for your attention.

=================================================================
Mingfang Li
Department of Management, California State University, Northridge
Internet: MLI@VAX.CSUN.EDU
=================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.handhelds,misc.forsale.computers
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: Psion Organizer II XPs for sale
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 14:37:23 GMT

In article <70157@bcsaic.UUCP> smithh@atc.boeing.com (Lonnie Smith) writes:
>
>I'm trying to get a handle on the architecture(s) of the systems frequently 
>described in this news group.  So, a "Psion Organizer II" is not a meaningful
>tag for me at the moment.  Is there a FAQ or other document which describes
>the palmtop computers y'all talk about?

I'm working on one ...I'm almost done, and the first cut will be
posted for commentary on CSP in a day or so...

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"