ú Subject: London HP Conference Videotape (and others) Available Videotape Available for the Handheld and Portable Computer Club's Anniversary Conference - London, England Sept. 19-20, 1992 The HPCC Conference in September was a great success with interesting speakers, presentations and demonstrations. Over a hundred attendees enjoyed the weekend and look forward to future conferences in Europe. This conference was videotaped in its entirety and is available in VHS format (in American NTSC standard) on two tapes recorded in SLP speed. Total time is approximately 12 hours and 15 minutes. Cost is U.S. $25.00 including postage. A personal check is the preferred method of payment. A list of the taped topics is shown below. Following that is a complete list of all HP handheld-related events on tape. Jake Schwartz (A European PAL-standard version of 135 Saxby Terrace the HPCC videotape is being prepared Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003 and will be probably be made available through one of the user 609-866-6682 work groups in Europe in the near 609-751-1310 home future.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- HPCC Conference Videotape Table of Contents ------------------------------------------- 1. Friday evening, 9/18/92 early-arrivers' informal gathering at the Embassy House Hotel. Richard Nelson of Educalc speaks primarily on the TI81 and TI85 calculators, Sharp EL9300, HP handhelds, Educalc, SunDisk flash EPROM cards for the HP95 (up to ten meg capacity) and the BSE portable battery-powered hard disk drive (up to 120 meg capacity) for palmtops. 2. Saturday morning, 9/19/92 at Imperial College. Introductory comments by HPCC chariman Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz followed by all attendees intro- ducing themselves. 3. Jim Donnelly of HP Corvallis speaks on "The Prehistory of Calculators" with a slide presentation of early mechanical and electronic computing devices from the 19th and 20th centuries. 4. Craig Finseth presents highlights of his "HP Data Base" - a comprehensive collection of information on all HP handhelds from 1972 (HP35) to the present. 5. Views of the HP35 birthday cake, the vendor area and vendor products, the conference registration table and a display of most of HP's handhelds. 6. David Frodsham of DIP speaks on the future of technology for handhelds and palmtops. (DIP was the designer of both the Atari Portfolio and the Sharp PC-3000 palmtops.) 7. Raan Young of HP Corvallis gives a demonstration of the HP95 sending Email via the Ericksson "Mobidem" radio-modem and receiving a page via the SkyTel radio-paging device. (This demo successfully transmitted signals from London to Corvallis, Oregon and back to London again.) 8. Richard Nelson speaks on conference issues, door prizes, etc. 9. Raan Young presents a 28-minute videotaped Hewlett-Packard Corvallis Division plant tour which includes outside shots plus views of the Calculator "Hall of Fame", the lab, HP95 production area and calculator product phone support area. Also included are some brief words from Dennis York, Bill Wickes, Chris Bunsen, Everett Kaser, Greg Sanker and Frank Wales. 10.Mark Ellis of HP U.K. speaks on Hewlett-Packard's vision of the future of palmtop and handheld computing and communicating devices. 11.Richard Nelson says a few words about Educalc HP48 Goodies Disk production by Joseph Horn. 12.Conference first-day speakers' panel Q & A session (mostly directed toward the three Hewlett-Packard representatives). Questions such as "Is the Saturn CPU dead?","What's happening in the HP95 line from here?", "How difficult would it be to port HP48 RPL to another platform?", "Will HP's Kittyhawk 1.3-inch hard drive appear as an HP95 peripheral?", etc. 13.Views of the HP35 "Birthday Party" with cake cutting and awarding of the door prizes. Also is a glimpse of the equipment auction which was held immediately afterwards. 14.Meeting of heads of European HP user clubs to discuss possible formation of a coalition called "HEX" (Handheld European Exchange). 15.Richard Nelson speaks on upcoming third-party products for HP handhelds. 16.Brian Walsh gives a presentation on a proposed HP48 "Help System". 17.Megha Shyam of Sparcom describes his company's current products and gives some previews of upcoming HP48 and HP95 products from Sparcom. 18.Craig Finseth speaks on "The Anatomy of an HP95 Software Application". 19.Graeme Cawsey talks about writing multilingual applications for the HP95 LX. 20.Colin Mason of Mitsubishi Electric gives a presentation "Memory Cards - Technology and New Directions". 21.Brian Walsh talks about System RPL tools. 22.Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz speaks on teaching using handhelds. 23.Lee Woodruff discusses computer algebra systems versus the HP48. 24.Jim Donnelly presents ideas on developing utilities for the HP48 using HP's development tools. 25.Jurjen Bos speaks about "abusing HP48 plot commands" to draw recurrent functions. 26.Jake Schwartz discusses an alternate index to the HP48 manuals. 27.Richard Nelson talks about handheld conferences past and future. A conference in the fall of 1993 is tentatively planned for somewhere on the West Coast (California or Oregon). Also, the PROMPT group from Holland announced that they would like to sponsor a conference in 1994. 28.Mark Cracknell gave some closing remarks and Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz made closing announcements. 29.A visit to the Science Museum to see the Babbage Difference Engine #2 demonstrated. (This replica was completed in 1991 and contains over four thousand moving parts.) 30.Views from the conference breakfast on the morning after. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HP Handheld-Related Conferences, Mini-Conferences and Special Meetings on Videotape Any event or events adding up to nine hours or less (meaning they can be fit on a single BASF Super High Grade VHS T-180 tape) is $15. including shipping. Any events adding up to 18 hours or less (requiring two tapes) is $25. including shipping. Please add 10 dollars for each additional tape. If it is desired that events be recorded at higher videotape speed for better quality, indicate as such. Date Subject Length (HH:MM) ---- ------- -------------- 21. 9/19/92- 1992 HPCC Tenth Anniversary Conference in 12:15 9/20/92 London. Talks on HP48, HP95 and other hand- held related topics such as new products, memory cards, radio paging and Email, and the future of handheld technology. Speakers include Craig Finseth, Jim Donnelly, Raan Young, Lee Woodruff, Brian Walsh, Richard Nelson and many more. Also included is Raan Young's videotaped HP Corvallis plant tour as well as a visit to the British Science Museum for a demo of a newly completed replica of Babbage's 1840's Difference Engine #2. 20. 5/29/92- 1992 Chicago CHIP Group HP Handheld Users's 4:45 5/31/92 Meeting in conjunction with 1992 Summer CES. Topics include using Mac Powerbook with HP48 (Bill Quinlan), HP95 BBS activities (Ted Dickens), HP48 library builder software (Jake Schwartz), CD ROM production (Mike Katz) and HP95 Palmtop Paper activities (Hal Goldstein). Also included is 9th annual CHIP group picnic shots and highlights from the Summer Consumer Electronics Show. 19. 3/27/92- 1992 Spring HP Handheld User's Conference in 13:00 3/29/92 Philadelphia, PA. Dennis York of HP speaks three times on both HP48 and HP95 topics. A total of 13 speakers in all. Both software and hardware topics covered, as well as new 3rd party products for HP handhelds. *** 3/27/92- Philly Conf. Proceedings (110 pg)...... $10.00 *** 3/29/92 HP48 printed System RPL Tools Docs (88 pg.) ...................... $10.00 BOTH OF THE ABOVE DOCUMENTS ........... $15.00 (If docs ordered alone, please add $5. shipping) 18. 2/26/92 Chicago CHIP Group user's meeting in con- 1:45 junction with the National Design Engineering Show. Guest speaker Megha Shyam of Sparcom talks about new Sparcom products and the product development process from Sparcom's and HP's perspective. (HP48 and HP95 material) 17. 1/11/92 Las Vegas HP Handheld Users' Meeting in con- 5:15 junction with the 1992 Winter Consumer Elec- tronics Show (CES). Speakers include Richard Nelson, Gil DeLiso (Sharp), Andy Fu (ACE Tech- nologies), Roy Bryzlowski (HP), Scott Burke (Sparcom). Both HP48 and HP95 material. 16. 8/1/91 - 1991 HP Handheld Users' Conference in Corvallis, 16:20 8/4/91 Oregon. Two days of presentations from 20 or so speakers including Eric Vogel, Greg Sanker and Jim Donnelly of HP. Both HP48 and HP95 material. 15. 5/31/91 Chicago-area HP handheld user's meeting in con- 3:10 junction with 1991 Summer CES. Speakers include Richard Nelson, Brian Walsh, Paul Hubbert, Jake Schwartz, etc. (Both HP48 and HP95 material) 14. 5/1/91 Philadelphia Area HP Handheld user's meeting. 2:30 Karl Smith demonstrates Sparcom's Personal In- formation Manager (PIM) card, Chemistry Appli- cations card and Electrical Engineering Appli- cations card (all for HP48SX). 13. 4/29/91 Philadelphia Area HP Handheld user's meeting. 3:20 Eric Vogel of HP guest speaker. Introduction to the HP95LX. Topics cover hardware, software, third-party support and much more. 12. 4/10/91 Chicago-are HP handheld user's meeting. Eric approx 2:00 Vogel of HP guest speaker. Topics include HP32S II, HP48 PDL, HP48S, etc. 11. 1/12/91 Las Vegas HP handheld user's meeting in con- approx 4:00 junction with 1991 Winter CES show. Also in- cluded is a lengthy set of handouts (70+ pages). Speakers include Richard Nelson, Joseph Horn, Jake Schwartz, Sparcom people. 10. 11/11/90 Phila. Area HP Handheld Club meeting. Bill Wickes 3:45 guest speaker. Covers numerous HP48 topics and related material. 9. 6/1/90 - 1990 Chicago HP Handheld User's Conference. 15:50 6/6/90 Several meetings and speakers including Bill Wickes and Eric Vogel of HP. All material is HP48 related. Other speakers include Richard Nelson, Brian Walsh, Jake Schwartz, Namir Shammas, Lee Woodruff, Brian Maguire, Paul Hubbert, Bill Quinlan, Ron Johnson. 8. 1/6/90 1990 Las Vegas HP Handheld User's Meeting in approx 3:00 conjunction with Winter CES. Speakers include Richard Nelson, Brian Walsh and Jake Schwartz. 7. 6/3/89 1989 Chicago HP Handheld User's Conference. 7:00 Several speakers including Ron Brooks of HP speaking on the HP41's tenth anniversary, plus Q & A. Other speakers included Bill Quinlan, Jake Schwartz, Lee Woodriff, Richard Ledford, Paul Hubbert, Brian Walsh and Bob Prosperi. 6. 1/7/89 1989 Las Vegas HP Handheld Users' Meeting in > 3:00 conjunction with the Winter CES. Chris Bunsen of HP speaks on various topics including HP42S, 32S, 22S, 20S calculators and design philosophies. 5. 6/3/88 1988 Chicago HP Handheld User's Meeting in approx 3:00 conjunction with Summer CES. Ron Brooks of HP introduces the HP22S and HP32S calculators. 4. 1/9/88 1988 Las Vegas HP Handheld User's Meeting in > 3:00 conjunction with Winter CES. Dennis York of HP introduces HP28S, HP19B, HP17B and HP27S calcu- lators. Several other topics discussed as well. 3. 5/29/87 1987 Chicago HP Handheld User's Meeting in con- 3:45 junction with Summer CES. Speakers include Brian Walsh and Richard Nelson. Several topics discussed including HP41/71/75 activities. 2. 2/5/87 Washington D.C. HP Handheld Group meeting at 3:30 Univ. of Maryland. Bill Wickes of HP introduces the HP28C calculator, RPL philosophy and history. 1. 5/30/86 1986 Chicago HP Handheld User's Meeting in con- > 3:00 junction with Summer CES. Janet Cryer and Nancy Ullman of HP introduce HP18C calculator and also discuss HP customer technical support. ---------------------------- end --------------------------------------