The HP Palmtop Paper

Jan/Feb 1992

Table of Contents

PUBLISHER'S MESSAGE

LETTERS

REVIEWS: Infrared Interface

Connect this little box and adapter to your LaserJet Printer's parallel port and you can send your printing jobs directly from your 95LX to your printer via the 95LX's hidden infrared port.

REVIEWS: Games

A waste of time, maybe, but games are one of the most requested items from our User Questionnaire. Here's a listing of the games we've found so far.

RAM CARDS AND RAM CARD DRIVES

A RAM card expands the disk storage space on your 95LX. Is there a difference between the various cards available? Is there danger of losing files on a RAM card? Is it possible to use your RAM card like a floppy disk directly with your desktop PC?

HP 95LX SUPPORT: FREQUENT QUESTIONS

This article continues the one begun on the front cover of the Fall, 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper. Thanks again to the HP technical support staff for compiling these answers to the most often asked HP 95LX questions. In the next issue we will list the most frequently asked questions about the HP 95LX on CompuServe's HPSYS forum.

HP 95LX SUPPORT: Books

A thick, comprehensive reference, a small, pocket reference organized around tasks, and a well-organized Lotus tutorial are the first three books on the HP 95LX that we've seen.

HP 95LX SUPPORT: CompuServe's HPSYS Forum

This article covers recent changes in the HP Systems Forum, and discusses the most popular files you can get from the forum's libraries.

DOS CONNECTION: System Compliancy

This article discusses System-Manager-compliant software that will run in conjunction with the HP 95LX's built-in applications. Many future articles in this publication will be based on the ideas introduced here.

THE DOS CONNECTION: A Menu Engine

These menu systems let you access DOS programs from a hotkey, much like the built-in applications.

QUICK TIPS FOR THE HP 95LX

THE DOS CONNECTION: Shareware Comm Program

COLUMN: Looking Glass

Ed reviews Video Display Editor (VDE), a popular freeware word processor modified to run on the 95LX.

COLUMN: Savvy User

Tom discusses CompuServe, fixing the problem with his 95LX's serial port, his new 1MB memory card, and making Lotus spreadsheets more space-efficient.

COLUMN: Programming

Ed reviews Forth programming on the 95LX using Essex Marketing Service's UTIL package. He also finds a source for Turbo Pascal 3.02

COLUMN: How Do You Do That?

Bil. Alvernaz inaugurates his new "How Do You Do That" column by explaining how to set up and use the built-in DataComm program. He demonstrates HP 95LX communications capabilities showing how to access CompuServe and MCI Mail.

COLUMN: Getting Started

What is System RAM, the RAM Disk, and the relationship between them? How do you adjust the ratio between them and what do you have to watch out for?

THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS: European Conference

Hal talks about some of the products he saw at a conference for European HP 95LX developers and discusses the distribution of The HP Palmtop Paper outside the U.S.

THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS: What's New?