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- Subject: Videotape of Las Vegas HP Users' Meeting Available
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 21:23:11 PST
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- 1993 Las Vegas HP User's Meeting Videotape Available
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- 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:
-
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- Jake Schwartz
- 135 Saxby Terrace
- Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
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- 609-751-1310 home
- 609-866-6682 work
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-
- 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
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- 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)
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- 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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