1993 Las Vegas
HP User's Meeting Video
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 single DVD for $10.00 including postage or a
single . DVD disk
for $10.00 including postage.
Send a check or Paypal ("jakes@pahhc.org") to:
Jake Schwartz
135 Saxby Terrace
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
856-751-1310 home
856-787-3582 work
1993 HP Handheld Users' Meeting - Las
Vegas, Nevada - 1/9/93
- Introductions
- Pocket laser pointers are now inexpensive
- Comments on Consumer Electronics Show in
general
- Joe Horn comments on the HP48 Goodies
Disks
- Possibilities of new HP machines coming
soon
- HP copyrighted software will be on Goodies
Disk #8
- HP48 revision J ROM is out
- Need a committment for producing Macintosh
Goodies Disks for the HP48
- HP Kittyhawk (1.3-inch) hard drive at the
HP booth
- Flash memory disks for HP95 - more
manufacturers coming
- Sharp PC3000/PC3100 palmtop has been
discontinued with no replacement planned
- What's happened to Intel's PC board 386
palmtop?
- Rumors about HP95 successors
- Dan White of Sparcom speaks on Sparcom
issues
- Sparcom products at the HP booth including
the HP95 docking station
- Drive95 - new file system to handle large
subdirectories
- Drive95 may not remain on the market
forever
- New Sparcom HP48 products coming
- Sparcom will have products for any new
HP48-type units that may appear in
the near future
- New HP95 software announced
- Windows connectivity for 95, HP48
connectivity for 95 coming
- HP48 software for professional engineering
exam badly needed
- Brief discussion of use of calculators in
exams
- Sparcom will include ROM card
copy-protection from this point forward
- A handful of cards for the HP48 will be
revised in 1993, although the PIM
card is not on the early list
- Apple Newton - still talking about a
Summer '93 release. Casio/Tandy PDA
was demonstrated at WCES
- Various consortiums ("strategic
alliances") working on new devices now in the handheld world.
- Sparcom will intro "Quickmate"
for the HP95 - a Quicken-compatible product
- Sharp Wizard 9600 contains 2 MB inside. It
is considered a "pre-Newton" product, designed in the U.S. and produced in
Japan
- The Sharp PC-E500 was discontinued a few
months ago
- New EduCalc News Line started. Two
categories of info with more coming.
- Fax-based dial-up system from HP had been
very successful; EduCalc would like
to do it as well.
- Rich Nelson and Joe Bell talk about Tom
Hooper (long-time HP enthusiast)
- Henry Horn (former editor of HP Key Notes)
says a few words
- Rich Nelson talks about the 16C and
EduCalc selling 11C/15C/16C machines
- Jake Schwartz presents the 16C emulator library
for the HP48
- Rich Nelson talks about approximately a
dozen new products at EduCalc (48 and 95 related)
- Richard Nelson discusses the HP Palmtop
Paper - highly recommended
- PCMCIA 1.0 and 2.0 standards and
manufacturers
- What is the status of the next
calc/palmtop conference that was tentatively scheduled to be in California in 1993?
- Lengthy talk about calculators in the
classroom
- Potential HP "exam mode" coming
in calculators to temporarily disable features
- Texas Instruments much farther along with
their calcs in the classroom
- TI graphing calculators ... new TI-82
replaces the TI-81
- HP48S versus SX - applications and
needs.... Card ports are a hedge against obsolescence
- Sparcom HP95 docking station - a
convenience item which has found its niche
- Bill Wickes / Rick Grevelle / Sparcom
- HPIL card for the HP95 now done by
Interloop
- HP48SX entry points: supposedly 12 points
have been moved in Rev. J
- How will HP exam-mode work?
- "The problem is with the
teachers" - (calcs in classroom)
Winter CES Glimpses (total of
approximately 27 minutes)
- Overview of Las Vegas Convention Center
- HP booth - calculators, HP95, Sparcom
products
- HP Kittyhawk 1.3-inch hard drive
- IBM cellular phone/PDA/PC device demo
- IBM 16-1/2 inch 1280 by 1024 TFT color LCD
display
- Apple Newton under glass
- 3DO Corp. CD-ROM interactive
video/graphics hardware and software products
- Toshiba pen-based portable machine
- Casio/Tandy Zoomer Personal Information
Processor press conference glimpse (camcorder
battery went dead after 3-4 minutes)
- CES main floor
- Sharp "ViewCam" camcorder with
4-inch color LCD for a viewfinder
- Sharp OZ9600 touch-screen Wizard
- Sharp 4-inch portable Crystaltron LCD TV
- Sharp DCC (digital compact cassette)
tabletop player
- Sharp MiniDisc portable players
- Sharp WideVision 16:9 wide aspect ration
NTSC TV
- Motorola fancy color cordless and cellular
phones
- AIWA MiniDisc and DAT portable units
- Casio BoardCopy - digital camera/printer
device
- Sanyo portable MiniDisc player
- Panasonic CPA - a palmtop check printer
and electronic accountant
- Panasonic Interactive Multiplayer
utilizing the 3DO technology
- Virtual Vision product - personal
projection TV in eyeglasses
- RCA CinemaScreen 16:9 NTSC TV products
- Casio TV camera-based "Visual Data
Bank" for BOSS SF-R20 product
- Casio BOSS ROM card development system
- Casio BOSS comm card/cradle
- Motorola multimedia product for CD-I
drives providing full-motion video on
a CD ROM disk
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