1993 Summer CES/ HP Special User's Meeting
Video Available
On Friday, June 4th, 1993, the Chicago Area
CHIP HP handheld user's group held their
annual special users' meeting in conjunction with the 1993 Summer
Consumer Electronics Show. Over thirty people were
in attendance. Hewlett-Packard's Dennis York (head of calculator
R&D) was the special guest speaker and
made lengthy and detailed presentations on both the new HP48GX
and the HP100LX. In addition, Richard
Nelson presented a slide tour of a disassembled HP48GX, Jake Schwartz spoke on the HP16C Emulator
library for the HP48SX and Brian Walsh
discussed the recently held HP48 programming contest (which was
administered via the Internet by Robin Getz). This
marathon meeting lasted over six hours. A
copy of the meeting's festivities along with approximately two
hours of material from the Summer CES is available on a 3 DVDs for $15.00 including shipping or a single
DVD disk for $10.00
including shipping. Please send a check or Paypal ("jakes@pahhc.org") to:
Jake Schwartz
135 Saxby Terrace
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003-4606
phone: 856-751-1310 weekday
evenings and weekends
856-787-3582 work
email:jake-s@water.waterw.com
Below is a summary of the contents of the CHIP
meeting/CES video:
CHIP Group Meeting:
- Introductions / Discussion of the CHIP
programming contest (held during the
meeting)
- Slide tour of the HP48G/GX by Richard
Nelson (with frequent commentary by
Dennis York)
- Dennis York presents and demonstrates the
HP48GX
- CHIP programming contest review/discussion
on HP48 programming in general
- Dennis York speaks on the HP100LX (with
transparencies)
- Q & A with Dennis York
- Jake Schwartz speaks on the HP16C Emulator Library
for the HP48SX
- Discussion on EduCalc issues by Richard
Nelson
- Brian Walsh discusses the Internet HP48
programming contest (administered by
Robin Getz)
- Handout discussions and additional Q &
A until the meeting ends (after 3
AM)
Summer CES shots:
- McCormick Place / overall floor shots
- Panasonic/3DO "REAL" Interactive
Multiplayer
- Motorola "Wireless World"
presentation
- Philips CD-I / Todd Rundgren presents his
"No World Order" interactive audio CD-I disk
- 3DO Multiplayer screens
- AT&T videophone glimpse
- Dauphin DTR-1 486 subnotebook computer
demo
- Tandy/Casio "Zoomer" PDA press
conference - complete with demo
- Shots from McCormick North building
- Multimedia/Animation glimpse
- A glimpse at the video game area:
- Sega / Jurassic Park
- Nintendo
- Davis Instruments' PC/Weather gear
- Rolodex organizers
- NewTek Video Toaster model 4000 demo
- Panasonic "Wrist Communicator"
900-MHz cordless phone/wristwatch
- Kodak Photo CD portable player unit / 3D
ad photos / Apple Macintosh-based Photo CD imaging
workstations and output samples
- Virtual Vision personal projection TV /
glasses
- Samsung portable mini disc, CD-I, DCC and
widescreen TV
- Thomson/RCA widescreen TV, DSS - Digital
Sound System presentation, photos
with Nipper and Chipper and HDTV presentation (until tape
ends)
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