The HP Palmtop Paper
Volume 6, Number 4, July/August
1997
Table of Contents
What happens when 29 enthusiasts gather for the weekend in a state park
to share their love for the HP Palmtops?
By connecting a serial cable between an HP 100LX and a high-quality Setra
scale, this company has streamlined its data collection process.
Early each morning while this user sleeps, an alarm in Appointments runs
a batch file which causes his modem-equipped palmtop to go online. All
automatically, front page articles from The Wall Street Journal and The
New York Times are downloaded via the Internet to his palmtop.
Exchange information between a Zip drive and the palmtop and its PCMCIA
flash card directly, using DoubleSlot.
The HP 200LX can entertain you with games, let you draw pictures, and play
or compose music. To round out the machine's capabilities, Ed shows how
you can make your HP palmtop write poetry - using Lotus 1-2-3!
This company's sales staff uses HP 200LXs, each equipped with a PC card
modem, to take customer orders and transfer the data back to the sales
department offices.
Hal shares his perspective on HP's new five-year R&D program; gives
directions for using HP 200LX PC Cards in HP 300LX Series Palmtop PCs;
and describes a few interesting freeware/shareware programs.