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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 15:50:48 GMT
From: @sunic.sunet.se:lmag@amuz2 (Lars Magnusson - AMUZ )
Message-Id: <9104271550.AA09947@amuz2.amuz2.z.amu.se>
Subject: HP 95LX - somethings are missing.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds


A lot of noice have been on the net the past days, concerning 
the new HP 95LX. As an old HP 75C (No 000783 [1982]), I'm pleased 
that Corvallis still can cook up some nice things, but as with 
the 75/72-series I can see that they are not following through on
their ideas. Then (as the material from HP Sweden show, also now 
and has been noted her) Corvallis blundered on the display.

A 40x16 display is nearly as bad as the 32 char displays on
the 70-series computers. Poquet has already shown that 80x24
is possible. Maybe Bill Faus or Everett Kasen can give the 
motivation to the display size. 

Another thing that a lot of 41/70-series users are missing from
HP today are the nice HPIL-interfaces. HP, if you had continued
with that, the life had been a lot easier. There was even a reasonable
diskdrive to that interface. Made a UNIX-lookalike shell to my
75 in -83, and had an opportunity to test it with the disk. Even
with the prices then, it was the poor mans UNIX (nearly). Or why
not use the old tapestation, it's not that bad. Tape as portable
backup and disk at home, kind of like it.

So, Bill and Everett, why not revive the HPIL. It would be a great
thing to have on my PC at work, instead of all those inch-thick 
rs232-cables. You got the HPIB to be a IEEE standard.
 
And when you are at at it, designing the HP 97SX (sounds right in an
old HP-fan's ears, the 9730 was for it's time, a doll), increase 
the size of it so we scandinavians (and others) can get our aa, 
ae and oe chars keys. At the 70-series Corvallis blundered to 100 % 
since the aa (a with a ring above) didn't even exist as a blue
key char. The world does not end at Maine coast line, you know.

Bye the way, since Corvallis are going netmail, why not fix uupc in
the rom. 

To end it, the HP 95 is in the right direction not only for for 
the finance-world, but for all old 60/70/80-lovers, this is what 
many of us in PPC and CHUUG longed for in the biggining of the 80-ies.
As someone noted, 40-series-emulator would be nice, but also for
the 70-series. Think of running the Basic and the Forth, and maybe
a tool to migrate the ViciCalc-files to Lotus ?

By the way, is there any archive-site on the net that carries the
PPC/CHUUG 75-material published around -83 to now? 
(please mail answers on this last one) 

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