Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz) (09/01/90)
Last Call for Videotapes of the Chicago CHIP Group Hewlett-Packard
Handheld Users Conference - June 1, 1990
Now that I'm almost completely caught up in copying videos from the HP
Handheld Users Conference from last June, I thought I'd mention the avail-
ability of the tapes just once more before retiring from the video business
(until the next conference).
This material is sixteen hours long, available on 2 T-160 VHS (NTSC) video-
cassettes. It comprises four meetings: two informal meetings immediately
before and after the formal full-day conference, plus the regular CHIP
group Chicago area HP handheld users meeting held a few days later. There is
valuable information in many of the talks, especially those from the two
folks from HP Corvallis, namely Bill Wickes and Eric Vogel. The set of tapes
is available for 15 bucks (which includes postage). We're up to 38 copies
already ordered (and almost all distributed) and shooting for the all-time
record (currently held by New Kids on the Block, I think) of a few million.
Jake Schwartz
135 Saxby Terrace
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
609-751-1310 home
609-866-6268 work
Note: The conference proceedings (approx. 120 pages bound) are also available
(for $15.) from
Jack Stout (CHIP Group Coordinator)
1946 N. 18th Avenue
Melrose Park, Illinois 60160
708-345-5970 home
708-455-1813 work
Here's a detailed rundown of the contents of the videotapes:
Chicago CHIP HP Group Handheld Users' Conference
Videotapes - June 1-6, 1990
Rolling Meadows, Ill. /Franklin Park, Ill. / Chicago, Ill.
Tape Number One
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A. Friday, June 1st, 1990 evening at Ace Metal Crafts, Franlkin Park, Ill.
Pre-conference informal gathering (Copied from 2-hr 8mm source)
1. Milling around (short)
2. Brian Walsh speaks about the status of the HPX group and the new
V2N1 issue of the HPX Exchange newsletter (released that night)
3. Stanley Trent talks about SMI (Surveyor's Module, Inc.) company,
their new publication called "The Forty-Eight Forum" (first issue
out now) and upcoming ROM cards for the HP48SX from SMI
4. Richard Nelson speaks on various topics:
a. Possibly starting up his own new publishing activity
b. Current and new products - Casino 48 card, HP48 Demo Card, etc
c. HP48 products such as the CMT disk drive, 3rd party RAM and EPROM
cards and barcode readers
d. Forthcoming SMI Cards in surveying, games and E. E.
e. Intel flash memory prospects
5. Richard Nelson leads a discussion on software protection in the HP48
and the user community's responsibility
6. Discussion on HP48 sales figures, HP48 ROM revisions, new books on the
HP48, "informator" products, calc. trade-ins
7. Next HP Conference to be held in Corvallis, Oregon Aug 2-4 1991 at the
Oregon State University facilities. (More new HP high-end products may
be out by then)
B. Sat. June 2, 1990 formal conference at the HP facility in Rolling
Meadows, Illinois. Part 1 of 2 (copied from an 8-hr VHS source)
1. Announcements and Intro (Richard Nelson)
2. "Customizing the HP48SX User Interface" (Brian Walsh)
3. "User Programming Experiences" (Ron Johnson)
4. "Practical and Fun Applications on the HP48SX" (Bill Quinlan)
5. "The HP48SX Equation Library Card" (Eric Vogel)
6. "Simplified 3-D Graphics for Handheld Computers" (Lee Woodriff)
7. "HP48 RPL: Personal Problem Solving Reaches New Heights" (Jake
Schwartz)
8. "The New Framework of the HP48SX" (Namir Shammas)
9. "HP48SX Software Development / Q & A" (William Wickes)
C. Sat. June 2, 1990 - Closer closeups from the formal conference
(copied from 8mm source)
1. The prototype of the HP48 overhead projector device
2. Lee Woodriff's dynamic 3D graphics displays on the HP48
3. The row of PC's in back of the room set up for disk copying
4. Bill Wickes' slides of prototypes of HP machines, peripherals, the
design team, the HP development system for software and hardware on
the HP48
(end of VHS tape #1)
Tape Number Two
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C. Sat. June 2, 1990 - Closeups continued
4. Bill WIckes' slides continued
5. HP48 logic board closeups
D. Sat. June 2, 1990 - formal conference part 2 of 2 (copied from VHS
source)
1. "HP28/48 3D Graphing" (Brian Maguire)
2. "Kermit and the HP110 Portable Computer" (Paul Hubbert)
3. Closing announcements, door prizes, etc. (Richard Nelson)
E. Sat. June 2, 1990 evening - informal gathering at Ace Metal Crafts
(copied from 8mm source)
1. Milling around
2. Richard Nelson speaks about the swap-disk activities
3. "RS-232D and the HP48" (Jim DeArras)
4. Bill Wickes speaks on various topics:
a. HP48 Development Systems for RPL and assembly language software
b. Eric Vogel adds info about development of the HP Solve Equation
Library Card
c. The issue of multiple sets of assembly mnemonics for the Saturn
CPU inside and outside HP
d. How the HP48 Vectored ENTER feature works, with examples of a
binary integer calculator, a simulated printer trace mode and a
fractions arithmetic calculator
e. How to undo a STO over an object or PURGE of an object
immediately after it is accidentally performed.
f. Memory usage in the HP48
g. Memory saving techniques / forcing garbage collection/ "permanent"
memory versus "temporary" memory
h. Bill's two upcoming HP48 books "The HP41-HP48 Transition" and
"HP48 Insights"
i. HP48 Objects and object handling
j. Why was IEEE floating point format abandoned on the HP48?
k. Compiling and decompiling
F. Sun. June 3, 1990 - Brief shots at the CHIP annual picnic at Paul
Hubbert's house in McHenry, Illinois / CHIP birthday cake
G. Sun. June 3 - Mon. June 4, 1990 - Summer Consumer Electronics Show
Highlights - Chicago, Illinois (copied from 8mm source)
1. Shots outside McCormick Place Convention Center
2. The Sony Exhibit -
a. New CCD-TR4 camcorder
b. Promotional film
c. Camcorder closeups on CCD-TR4 and CCD-TR7 new models
d. Sony "Video Component System" (only currently available in Japan)
e. Old versus newer "FL" (flat loading) small 8mm tape transports
3. Panasonic - new "Palmcorder" models VHS-C camcorders
4. Sharp -
a. Prototype 14-inch LCD color TV (960 by 480 resolution)
b. New model 6220 4-lb 286 laptop with hard disk and VGA LCD
5. A new video product originally called "Del Vision" - a 3D image
produced without need for special viewers or glasses. The image of the
girl dances above the glass plate, between two little plastic models.
6. Sanyo new 5-disk CD changer that works like an old record changer
7. Toshiba High-Definition Television direct-view demo
8. JVC compact VHS-C "component video system"
9. NEC Turbo Express handheld color-LCD game unit with tuner
10. JVC -
a. Touch-screen based universal remote control unit
b. "CD + Graphics" demos
c. Digital Audio Tape models
11. Technics "MASH" CD changer (top-loading)
12. Panasonic HDTV presentation on rear-projection model
13. A 100-disk CD changer
14. Konami new helmet controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System
15. Selectronics handheld bible and other units
16. The "Phantom" computer chess machine which moves its own pieces
H. Wed. June 6, 1990 - CHIP HP Group regular semi-monthly meeting at Ace
Metal Crafts (copied from 8mm source)
1. Brian Walsh speaks on utilizing GROBS in Custom and Temporary HP48
menus
2. Ron Johnson speaks on the HP48 Library Builder software that Bill
Wickes released to the public domain at the conference
3. Richard Nelson speaks on:
a. HP48 text in graphics displays
b. How will the user libraries be managed?
c. Next HP Handheld conference in Corvallis in 1991
d. How does one get the HP internal card-port documentation for the
HP48?
e. Clues on the next HP handheld machines coming in the next year
(End of VHS tape #2)
(this tape ends abruptly, but the meeting was over just about 5 minutes
after the tape ended)