The PPC Calculator Archive: A Work in Progress Since 1998
Updated April 1, 2025
Introducing PPC Archive Version 2.47:
(Click to skip down to the price schedule)
(Approx. 46.1GB, now offered on a
64GB USB flash drive )
With roughly 5,000 pages of new material
In Section 1:
65 NOTES / PPC Journal / PPC Calculator Journal /
Handheld Calc Technical Papers / U.S. Navy Programmable Calc Materials /
Philadelphia PAHHC-group Newsletters(1980-2000) /
Chicago CHIP-group Newsletters (1985-2004) /
Atlanta Chapter (ACHHU) Newsletters (1983-87)
(16,249 pages)
(No updates)
Still containing the Philadelphia PAHHC, Atlanta and Chicago-area CHIP newsletters
In Section 2:
PPC ROM Materials / Computer Journal of PPC / CHHU Chronicle / HPX Exchange /
HP65 Users' News / HP65 Key Note / HP Key Notes / HP Digest / HP Journal Articles
(4,254 pages)
Updated PPC ROM Order Name Lists and CHHU Member Lists:
(Updated the Indexes with sort by CHHU Member No., Last Name, City, State, Country
& PPC Member No.):
plus added October 1981 HP Journal:
In Section 3:
Handheld and Portable Computer Club's (HPCC)
42 Years of Datafile 1982-2024
(214 issues; 9,495 pages)
Including updating the Datafile Index, currently with 4,853 entries:
In Section 4:
New Zealand + Australian Newsletters 1976-1995
and Conference Proceedings 1979-2024
(25,147 pages)
Added 4 conference proceedings:
and updated the five-way conference index
(now with 1,651 entries):
This section now contains
71 sets of proceedings from calculator conferences.
In Section 5 (the EduCALC Library):
EduCALC Catalogs / Technical Notes /
Newsline Messages / Additional EduCALC Materials
(6,499 pages - no updates)
Includes the catalog collection:
along with the catalog index, with 23,963 entries:
Along with the Technical Notes collection:
Plus the EduCALC Newsline collection (1992 - 1996):
Plus the "Additional Materials" section (1974 - 199x):
In Section 6 - HP-Related Miscellaneous Materials section:
Individual and "multiple-issue" documents, foreign documents,
foreign newsletters plus Elek-Tek catalogs and
HP Measure & invent newsletters
(2,038 documents / 26,631 pages)
Including 10 new/updated individual documents:
Added 15 "Serial" documents
Including Miscellaneous Catalogs (1978-86):
Plus added 76 Foreign publications
(each with an English translation):
Also added 1 Issue to the Elek-Tek Catalog collection:
Still containing the HP Measure / HP invent (1968-2001) issue excerpts:
The current Archive contents:
Section 1: 65 Notes/PPC Journal/PPC Calculator Journal/ plus 1,354 Scannable HP-41 program/barcode files (16,249 pages)
Section 2: PPC ROM Manual / Computer Journal of PPC / CHHU Chronicle/ HPX Exchange / HP65 Users' News / HP65 Key Note / U.S. & European HP Key Notes / HP Journal Articles (4,254 pages)
Section 3: Handheld and Portable Computer Club's 39 Years of Datafile 1982-2023 (214 issues, 9,496 pages)
o Now including 352 Scannable HP-41 program/barcode files from Volumes 1 through 37
o Also including the HPCC Datafile Index for Volumes 1-37: An index of 4,853 entries indexed five ways (by issue, item title, author, document type and calculator model)
Section 4: New Zealand Newsletters, Australian Newsletters & Handhelds Conference Proceedings 1979-2024 (25,147 pages)
o Including The Conference Index: An index of all 1651 entries in all 71 conferences indexed five ways (by conference, item title, author, document type and calculator model)
o Including an archive of the HP Solve Newsletter, issues 1 to 33 (2008-2014)
o Also including the HP Solve Newsletter Index: An index of all 300 entries in the 33 issues indexed five ways (by issue, item title, author, document type and calculator model)
An EduCALC Catalog Library: Almost all EduCALC catalog issues, Catalog Indexes, Technical Notes, Newsline transcripts and other materials totaling 6,499 pages
HP-Related Miscellaneous Materials: 2038 various documents related to HP calculators totaling 26,631 pages
This Archive, combining all 4 previous PPC sections (plus the EduCALC
and Miscellaneous HP material) is available for
$25.00 plus shipping for non HPCC (British Club) members or
$23.00 plus shipping for HPCC (British club) members.
>>> NOTE on Changes to Shipping Costs: <<<
Postage costs continue to increase.
Since the U.S. postage cost is now around U.S. $5.00
and the cost for shipping elsewhere is around U.S. $20.00,
these are the shipping charges moving forward.
Complete chart of costs:
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$25.00 |
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Member: |
$23.00 |
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$5.00
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$20.00
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*** Additional Savings Opportunity #1: ***
If you have previously purchased the Archive
within the past five years, the price is discounted by $5.00
if you specify in your order the exact version
you previously purchased.
(Versions >= 2.37 qualify for this discount)
*** Additional Savings Opportunity #2: ***
Another $5.00 discount is available if the
most recent version purchased on USB drive
is returned to be re-programmed.
As always, for each copy sold, $5.00 is sent to the British HPCC group to
support their continued efforts (with over $3900. generated to date)
PPC, formerly the HP65 Users Club, was formed in June of 1974 to support user-exchange of information related to Hewlett-Packard
Personal Programmable Calculators. PPC published a newsletter, originally called 65 NOTES; later later the PPC Journal or the PPC Calculator Journal, roughly 8 to 10 times per year from 1974 through 1987. It also produced the PPC Computer Journal, covering HP 70-series and 80-series computers, published in parallel with the PPC Calculator Journal from 1982 through 1984 (and then both calculator and computer coverage was merged back into the PPC Journal starting in 1985).
CHHU, the Club of Hewlett-Packard Handheld Users, started in 1984 and published the CHHU Chronicle between 1984 and 1986.
Also, HPX, the Handheld Program Exchange, picked up after CHHU ceased operation and published the HPX Exchange between 1987 and 1990.
The above newsletters comprise around 13,000 pages of valuable material covering all aspects of HP handhelds from the HP35 up to the HP28S.
The "Section 1" and "Section 2" portions of the PPC Archive contain all of the pages of the above newsletters plus:
- The issues of HP65 Key Note and
HP Key Notes (HP's support newsletters for programmable calculator users);
and
- All relevant handheld-related articles
from the Hewlett-Packard Journal, 1968 to the end of its publication run
in 1998.
Below lists the highlights of the archive's contents:
The Section 1 portion consisting of 65 NOTES/PPC Calculator Journals Volume 1 through Volume 14 (the end) plus all the Chicago-area CHIP group newsletters 1991 to end of publication in 2005 and the Philadelphia-area PAHHC handout matrials from Jan 1980 to Sept 2000 (16,249 pages) Now also includes 5,854 pages from Jackie Woldering's 1,354 program/barcode files
The Section 2 portion consisting of the PPC ROM Manual; PPC ROM Pocket Guide; PPC Pocket Hex Table; PPC Computer Journal; CHHU Chronicle; HPX Exchange, HP65 Key Note, HP Key Notes & relevant HP Journal articles from 38 issues ranging from 1968 to 1996. (4,254 pages)
For the other sections, see the info above.
All files are in the pdf format and thus the archive requires Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3 or higher.
Send a check to:
Jake Schwartz
135 Saxby Terrace
Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003-4606
USA
Now accepting Paypal as well For Paypal, please use "jakes@pahhc.org" as the destination
Sorry - I'm not equipped to directly accept credit cards. Also be advised that my bank charges me around $15-20. to convert checks drawn in foreign currency.
Feel free to contact me via email at jakes@pahhc.org or by phone at 856-751-1310 (evenings, weekends) for additional information.
What the archive is and what it is not....
The archive is a reference tool, with all pages scanned images in Adobe Acrobat format. Navigation buttons within each newsletter will provide movement from page to page, issue to issue, volume to volume and from any issue in any volume to any other. All indexes which were provided in the pages of the newsletters are included. Some of them have their entries hyperlinked to the referenced articles. Pages of text and diagrams will print approximately as cleanly as the originally scanned pages, and may be viewed within Acrobat Reader magnified many times the original. All issues which start with a table of contents on page one have this T.O.C. hyperlinked to the articles themselves.
The archive is not a single-source search mechanism to find information on subjects entered by the user. This would require indexing all the material (which would be perhaps a lifetime project since type fonts, sizes and printing quality varies from article to article and page to page, causing OCR software to choke). They also are not a library of downloadable software. The listings are there, and you may therefore key them in. Also, it is likely that the supplied barcode for many of the programs in the issues will not print of high enough quality to be scanned with an HP41 wand. (Jackie Woldering's barcodes should scan successfully, however.) On the other hand, the barcode pages from the PPC ROM Manual, more recently added to the archive, were added at 600 dpi, and thus should scan in reasonably well.
For additional information about the London's Handheld and Portable Computer Club, check out
http://www.hpcc.org on the web.
If you are interested in obtaining HP Calculator user manuals on CD, be sure to check out
Dave Hicks' USB drive from the HP Calculator Museum
For additional information / archive exclusively on the HP41 , check out Warren Furlow's