HP Handheld Users'
Meeting and 1995 Winter CES Glimpses Video
The 1995 Winter Consumer
Electronics Show and annual January HP users' meeting in Las
Vegas was recorded on videotape. The meeting lasted approximately
2 hours and 50 minutes with glimpses and press conferences from
the CES another 2 hours and 40 minutes (totalling roughly five
and a half hours). At the meeting, Joseph Horn informally
previewed HP48 Goodies Disk #10 and did some demos.
A copy of this video is available on 2 DVDs for
$10.00 including postage or on a single DVD disk for $10.00 including postage.
Please send a check or Paypal ("jakes@pahhc.org")to:
Jake Schwartz
135 Saxby Terrace
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003-4606 USA
856-751-1310 home (M-F > 6:30 PM and any time on weekends)
A summary of the video's contents follows:
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HP Handheld Users' Meeting - Las Vegas,
Nevada Jan 7, 1995
- Introductions by Richard Nelson
- Jake Schwartz talks about activities of
the Philadelphia Area HP Handheld Club and HP48
programming classes
- Richard Nelson speaks on the Orange
County, Calif. HP group
- Brian Walsh and Paul Hubbert talk about
the Chicago CHIP group's activities
- Paul Hubbert talks about inkjet printers
with respect to HP versus Epson quality
- Other HP user groups, college and othewise
- Small portable printers Citizen PN60 and
Pentax Pocketjet
- HP48 "training" video is
worthwhile viewing
- Next HP Conference August 5-6, 1995 in
Minnesota sponsored by Craig Finseth
- Texas Instruments' TI80 graphing
calculator to be released in Spring for middle-school
students with a street price around 60-70 dollars
- HP12C/48G/48GX price reductions a
Singapore Divison strategy to increase sales
- TI the dominant force in school
calculators
- New TI prototype calc w/QWERTY keyboard
seen at CES - for release in '96... Teaching community
codesigning it.
- TI Calc Based Lab (CBL) plug-in product:
how is it selling?
- School calculators: middle school
represents a larger potential market than all others
- Casio CFX-9800G 3-color LCD graphing calc
introduced at CES
- Richard Nelson finally in financial
stability, new condo will house calc library and
"museum"
- Handheld instrumentation may be revived
within HP soon
- RCA DSS digital satellite system prominent
at the CES
- Creative Labs' "Share Vision"
PC/video over phone lines in a monitor window
- Joseph Horn briefly demos HP48 software:
- Flag browser (extremely fast)
- HP48 battery checker
- Jazz development software
- "GRBX" Message box
builder which combines text with a GROB
- "->COD/COD->"
turns objects into code objects
- The latest "Friday the
13th" program
- PCT ("PC Tools") Library
- Memory Viewer application
- "ED33/AV33"
Editor/Viewer for objects in 33-column/small-font
mode
- USAG disassembled using Jazz; Jazz
editor, reassembly demonstrated
- Custom menu key turned into a
clock display and time function
- "SPORT" port object
search utility
- "PACK/UPK" Fast object
packer/unpacker
- Self-extracting packed GROBs
- Grey-scale GROB viewer
- Graphic drawing/fill program
- "FATCAL" updated
calendar program
- "LIBEX" library
extractor
- Jake Schwartz demos OMNIBUS spreadsheet
ROM card with three examples
Winter CES Glimpses:
- Las Vegas Convention Center outside and in
- Main Convention Center floor shots
- Panasonic:
- Newest GPS handheld receiver
w/large LCD and PCMCIA slot
- NeoFile CF-CR100 business card
reader/organizer handheld
- Personal Intelligent Communicator
PDA
- Cinema Vision 16:9 NTSC television
- AT&T Video Information Center TV
set-top interactive box demo
- Sharp:
- ViewCam camcorder with
"viewcamport" still video modem
- PC8700 Color notebook computer
w/16-bit audio
- ViewCam accessories
- Mini Disc Information poster and
products
- 8.6-inch LCD displays
- Mobile GPS with CD-ROM maps
- 21-inch TFT color LCD display
prototype
- Zaurus PDA presentation exerpt
- Casio:
- Digital Watch display
- JG-100D "Infraceptor"
watch w/infra red-to-digital diary comms
- "Telememo" watch data
bank
- CFX-9800G 3-color LCD calculator
literature
- Casio press conference presenting:
- FP600 "MegaVision" video
projector
- QV10 LCD digital still video
camera
- LT70P Video Phone system
- Play Inc. "Snappy" Video Grabber
high-res (up to 1500 by 1125) device >
size="2" >demonstration
- Timex Data Link watch w/Microsoft PC
software and optical communication
- More views from inside the Convention
Center
- Intel presentation on Pentium processor
applications
- Sony:
- Intro movie
- Magic Link PDA
- Digital cellular phone
- MD-Data portable minidisc-based
computer drive (140 meg capacity)
- MD speech recorder
- NT-2 digital voice recorder and
digital dubbing NT station
- MZ-E2 Minidisc portable
player/recorder
- DAT tapes, TCD-D7 DAT
player/recorder and SBM super bitmapping adapter
- GPS/CD-ROM car units
- Digital Video Cassette tape
cartridges (2 sizes)
- Digital vs. analog screen
demos
- Digital VCR prototype and
picture
- DVC specifications and
industry participant list
- Digital Video Disc (DVD) proposed
format player prototype and presentation
- High-density multimedia CD and DVD
specs
- Digital home control
"touch-panel"
- Car Digital Signal Processing
components
- Microsoft/Bill Gates presentation: The
Executive Perspective on Microsoft Home: Introducing
Microsoft "Bob" PC software (taken from the
three-camera switched video feed provided in the room)
- Outside views of signs promoting upcoming
CES events in 1995
(end)
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