The PPC Calculator Archive

Materials from the conference in San Jose, CA held

9/29-9/30 (over 750 pages) added to the "CD4" section:

The PPC CD#4 was first presented at the HHC2003 Calculator Conference in Newport Beach, California in September. Four different sets of newsletters from the various Australian calculator groups (PPC Melbourne, HPHH Melbourne, CHHU Sydney) are included here. This includes the complete set of 17 editions of the PPC Technical Notes, PPC's premiere journal of advanced HP41 programming applications. Thanks to Graham Fraser, long-time officer in the PPC Melbourne group, we now have issues 1,2,8 and 10 of PPPM Inc. & CHHU Sydney.

This portion of the disk includes the conference proceedings (along with any printed supplementary material obtained at the conferences) from 43 English-language HP calculator conferences up to 2018. It starts with the first one in Santa Clara, California in 1979 (featuring the newly-introduced HP41C) and extends to HHC2018 from San Jose, California.

The current DVD contents:

PPC CD1: 65 Notes/PPC Journal/PPC Calculator Journal/ Plus 1,354 Scannable HP-41 program/barcode files

PPC CD2: PPC ROM Manual / Computer Journal of PPC / CHHU Chronicle/ HPX Exchange / HP65 Key Note / HP Key Notes / HP Journal Articles

PPC CD3: Handheld and Portable Computer Club's 35 Years of Datafile 1982-2016 (205 issues)

Now including 344 Scannable HP-41 program/barcode files from Volumes 1 through 35

Also including the HPCC Datafile Index for Volumes 1-35: An index of 4698 entries indexed five ways (by issue, item title, author, document type and calculator model)

PPC CD4: Australian Newsletters & Handhelds Conference Proceedings 1979-2018

Including The Conference Index: An index of all 1132 entries in all 43 conferences indexed five ways (by conference, item title, author, document type and calculator model)

Including an archive of the HP Solve Newsletter, issues 1 to 33 (2008-2014)

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 5572 pages

This DVD, combining all 4 previous PPC CDs (plus the EduCALC material) is available for $25.00 plus shipping for

As always, for each disk sold, $5.00 will be sent to the British HPCC group to

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 6000 pages of valuable material covering all aspects of HP handhelds from the HP35 up to the HP28S.

The "CD1" and "CD2" portions of the PPC DVD contain all of the pages of the above newsletters plus:

All files are in the pdf format and thus these disks require Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3 or higher.

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.

The disk 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 up to 800 percent of original. All issues which start with a table of contents on page one have this T.O.C. hyperlinked to the articles themselves.

The disk 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. (Increasing the resolution above 300dpi to achieve this would reduce the amount of material which would fit on the disks.) On the other hand, the barcode pages from the PPC ROM Manual, recently added to the disks, 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

If you are interested in obtaining HP Calculator user manuals on CD, be sure to check out

For additional information / archive CD exclusively on the HP41 , check out Warren Furlow's

PPC DVD Disk (combining CDs 1 to 4)	Cost per disk:
If Non HPCC Member:	$25.00
If HPCC Member:	$23.00
Ship within U.S./Canada:	$1.50 shipping
Ship outside U.S./Canada:	$2.50 shipping