Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz) (06/10/90)
At the CHIP HP Handheld Users Conference held on Saturday, June 2nd in
Hewlett-Packard's Rolling Meadows, Illinois facility (near to Chicago),
Brian Walsh did indeed hand out V2N1 of the HPX Exchange. It was *not* the
64-page double issue that he had been promising for all these months, but
it was a 24-page attempt to get back on track. He says that all folks who
paid their dues for volume 2 will get this issue (and the remainder of
volume 2 as they are generated) in the mail. He told me off the record that
he knows that another issue must come out within a month or so in order to
gain any credibility back with the user community. I agree with him.
In the mean time, a new HP48-related publication was just started, called
the HP48 Forum. This is being produced by a surveying outfit that has sold
HP41-related material for many years now, called Surveyors' Module Inc..
An exerpt of the product announcement and subscription form follows:
PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT
SMI is pleased to announce the introduction of our new CO-OP software producl
line for the HP48SX to be released July 24,1990 and our new publication
"The Forty-Eight Forum" starting June 1, 1990.
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You'll find the "The Forty-Eight Forum" to be informative, educational and
entertaining. So, whether you've bought a 48 already or just considering dat
collection as your next upgrade, subscribing to "The Forty-Eight Forum" could
be the most important step you take this year.
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SUBSCRIPTION FORM
Annual subscription $35.00 Introductory rate $25.00
The Forty-Eight Forum
c/o SMI
250 West New Street
Suite 48
Kingsport Tenn. 37660
phone: 615-378-4821 (Master Card, Visa, Am Ex accepted for phone orders)
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The newsletter is billed as being produced bimonthly (6/year). Stanley Trent
of SMI assures us that The Forty-Eight Forum will not be a pure surveying
journal.The first issue (which I got at the Conference) is 8 pages and con-
tains "Engineering", "Surveying" and "Articles" sections. Hopefully this
newsletter shall grow in size, comparable to the issues we saw from the
older clubs (PPC, CHHU, HPX, HPCC).
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Here's the table of contents of V2N1 HPX Exchange:
page title author
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2 Member Letter
3 Letters
4 A system to run programs Paul F. Hubbert
and Subroutines in EFM/XM
Made Easy (HP41)
10 HP28S Abbreviated Keyboard Stephen J. Thomas
Test and Routines
11 Applications of Symbolic Brian P. Walsh
Calculus, Curve Fitting
and Solvers
14 The Titan File, #16 (HP71) Joseph K. Horn
19 HP28S Matrix Routines Ralf G. R. Bergs
and Assembler
23 HP28S Speed Up Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz
24 HP42S Programmable FAST Jeremy Smith/Kenneth Bourque
24 HP42S SIMON Game Brian P. Walsh
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.....and a table of contents of V1N1 (June 1990) of The Forty-Eight Forum:
2 From the Editor R. Dean Shealy
2 HP48SX Features Stanley Trent
3 Learning to Program the 48 Kenneth Trent
2 HP48SX, The Cat's Meow Larry Hunt
3 HP48SX Soft Keys Kenneth Trent
4 Visual Thinking Ray Depew
6 The SMI Story and You Stanley Trent
Engineering
6 Trapezoidal Channel Jose Martinez
6 The E. E. Toolbox Mike Dodsen
7 From the 28 to the 48 Steve Wiser
8 SMI To Release HP48 Software
July 24, 1990
8 Surveying Steve Kersey
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Jake Schwartz