The PPC CD-ROM Set: A Work in Progress
(October 2007)
Announcing another Update to PPC CD #3
Version 4.00: Handheld and Portable Computer Club's (HPCC)
Twenty-Four Years of Datafile 1982 - 2005
In conjunction with the HHC2007 HP Handheld Conference in San Diego on 9/29/07 and the HPCC 2007 Conference in London on 10/13/07, a revised version of PPC CD3 (containing two more years of Datafile issues) was introduced. It is now available for $10.00 plus shipping. For HPCC members, it is available for $8.00 plus shipping. Like before, for each disk sold, $5.00 will be sent back to HPCC to support their continued efforts (with greater than $550.00 already generated for HPCC as of 10/07). Shipping charges are as follows: within the U.S. or Canada - $1.50 (total $11.50 / 9.50); elsewhere - $2.50 (total $12.50 / 10.50).
For combined shipping with other PPC disks, see below.
(August 2007)
Announcing another "slight" Update to PPC CD#4:
Version 1.11: Australian Newsletters plus Conference Proceedings (1979-1999)
The previously-available black-and-white low-res scanned "Calcunuts" article,
is now available in much higher quality and in color
This disk includes 4,782 pages of scanned Australian calculator newsletters and 23
sets of proceedings from calculator conferences.
This disk was first presented at the HHC2003 Calculator Conference in Newport Beach, California on 20 September. Four different sets of newsletters from the various Australian calculator groups (PPC Melbourne, HPHH Melbourne, CHHU Sydney) are included here. This includes the complete set of 17 editions of the PPC Technical Notes, PPC's premiere journal of advanced HP41 programming applications. Thanks to Graham Fraser, long-time officer in the PPC Melbourne group, we now have issues 1,2,8 and 10 of PPPM Inc. & CHHU Sydney.
This disk includes the conference proceedings (along with any printed supplementary material obtained at the conferences) from 23 English-language HP calculator conferences prior to 2000. It starts with the first one in Santa Clara, California in 1979 (featuring the newly-introduced HP41C) and ends with HHUC1999 from Vancouver, Washington (featuring the newly-introduced HP49G). Over 4700 pages are included. (Starting with the 2000 HP Calculator Conference held in Los Angeles, separate conference CDs were produced. )
This CD is available here for U.S. $10.00 plus shipping: within the U.S. or Canada - $1.50 (total $11.50); elsewhere - $2.50 (total $12.50).
For combined shipping with other disks, see below.
Now accepting Paypal (see below)
| To obtain info on videotape from HP conferences going back to 1986, click here. |
PPC, formerly the HP65 Users Club, was formed in June of 1974 to support user-exchange of information related to Hewlett-Packard
Personal Programmable Calculators. PPC published a newsletter, originally called 65 NOTES; later later the PPC Journal or the PPC Calculator Journal, roughly 8 to 10 times per year from 1974 through 1987. It also produced the PPC Computer Journal, covering HP 70-series and 80-series computers, published in parallel with the PPC Calculator Journal from 1982 through 1984 (and then both calculator and computer coverage was merged back into the PPC Journal starting in 1985).
CHHU, the Club of Hewlett-Packard Handheld Users, started in 1984 and published the CHHU Chronicle between 1984 and 1986.
Also, HPX, the Handheld Program Exchange, picked up after CHHU ceased operation and published the HPX Exchange between 1987 and 1990.
The above newsletters comprise around 6000 pages of valuable material covering all aspects of HP handhelds from the HP35 up to the HP28S.
A set of CD-R disks is now available which contains all of the pages of the above newsletters plus:
Below is the breakdown of the disks' contents:
Disk 1 consisting of 65 NOTES/PPC Calculator Journals Volume 1 through Volume 14 (the end) plus all the Chicago-area CHIP group newsletters 1991 to the present and the Philadelphia-area PAHHC handout lead articles from 1992 to May, 2000 (5000+ pages)
Disk 2 consisting of the PPC ROM Manual; PPC ROM Pocket Guide; PPC Pocket Hex Table; PPC Computer Journal; CHHU Chronicle; HPX Exchange, HP65 Key Note, HP Key Notes & relevant HP Journal articles from 32 issues ranging from 1968 to 1996. (2000+ pages)
All files are in the pdf format and thus these disks require Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3 or higher.
(Acrobat reader would not fit on the disks themselves. It's available as a free download from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com)
The PPC CD1 and CD2 disks are available as a set for $20.00 plus shipping.
Cost per disk: $10. If purchasing disk #3 and HPCC Member:
subtract $2. (for Disk 3 only) Ship within U.S./Canada: 1 disk: $1.50 shipping 2 disks: $2.50 shipping 3 or 4 disks: $3.50 shipping Ship outside U.S./Canada: 1 disk: $2.50 shipping 2 disks: $4.00 shipping 3 or 4 disks: $6.00 shipping
Send a check to:
Jake Schwartz
135 Saxby Terrace
Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003-4606
USA
Now accepting Paypal as well For Paypal, please use "jakes@pahhc.org" as the destination.
Sorry - I'm not equipped to directly accept credit cards. Also be advised that my bank charges me around $15-20. to convert checks drawn in foreign currency.
Feel free to contact me via email at jakes@pahhc.org or by phone at 856-751-1310 (evenings, weekends) for additional information.
What the disks are and what they are not....
The disks are a reference tool, with all pages scanned images in Adobe Acrobat format. Navigation buttons within each newsletter will provide movement from page to page, issue to issue, volume to volume and from any issue in any volume to any other. All indexes which were provided in the pages of the newsletters are included. Some of them have their entries hyperlinked to the referenced articles. Pages of text and diagrams will print approximately as cleanly as the originally scanned pages, and may be viewed within Acrobat Reader magnified up to 800 percent of original. All issues which start with a table of contents on page one have this T.O.C. hyperlinked to the articles themselves.
The disks are not a single-source search mechanism to find information on subjects entered by the user. This would require indexing all the material (which would be perhaps a lifetime project since type fonts, sizes and printing quality varies from article to article and page to page, causing OCR software to choke). They also are not a library of downloadable software. The listings are there, and you may therefore key them in. Also, it is likely that the supplied barcode for many of the programs in the issues will not print of high enough quality to be scanned with an HP41 wand. (Increasing the resolution above 300dpi to achieve this would reduce the amount of material which would fit on the disks.) On the other hand, the barcode pages from the PPC ROM Manual, recently added to the disks, were added at 600 dpi, and thus should scan in reasonably well.
For additional information about the London's Handheld and Portable Computer Club, check out
http://www.hpcc.org on the web.
If you are interested in obtaining HP Calculator user manuals on CD, be sure to check out
Dave Hicks' CD set from the HP Calculator Museum
For additional information / archive CD exclusively on the HP41 , check out Warren Furlow's
