The PPC CD-ROM Set: A Work in Progress
Updated April 20, 2013
Introducing PPC DVD Version 2.042:
All four PPC CDs combined on a single disk
and accessible from within the Acrobat environment:
PPC CD1: 65 Notes/PPC Journal/PPC Calculator Journal
PPC CD2: PPC ROM Manual / Computer Journal of PPC / CHHU Chronicle/ HPX Exchange / HP65 Key Note / HP Key Notes / HP Journal Articles
An Updated PPC CD3: Handheld and Portable Computer Club's 30 Years of Datafile 1982-2011
An Updated PPC CD4: Australian Newsletters & Handhelds Conference Proceedings 1979 - 2012
Including The Conference Index: An index of all 868 entries in all 37 conferences indexed five ways:
By conference
By item title
By item author
By item type (article, paper, outline, program, slides, etc.)
By item's related calculator model
Now including the HP Solve Newsletter Index: An index of all 281 entries in all 31 issues indexed five ways:
By issue
By item title
By item author
By item type (article, promo, interview, etc.)
By item's related calculator model
24,727 pages of material spanning 1968 to 2012
This DVD, combining all 4 previous PPC CDs is available for $25.00 for
non HPCC members or $23.00 for HPCC members plus shipping
($1.50 in U.S. or Canada; $2.50 elsewhere)
As always, for each disk sold, $5.00 will be sent to the British HPCC group to
support their continued efforts (with over $1400. generated to date)
The DVD includes the updated PPC CD3:
Another year of Datafile issues
HPCC's 30 Years of Datafile 1982 - 2011
Another year of additional issues totaling 132 pages (totaling 6996) featuring:
Repairing HP9800 Desktop Calculators (4-part article)
Analyses of the HHC2010 and HHC2011 programming challenges
Symbolic Algebra on HP Calculators (Part 4)
Preview of the HP39gII
Electrical calculations on RPL calcs
Announcing the 12C 30th Anniv. and 15C LE models
Additional articles related to the HP10bII+, 12C, 50g
HP Calculator History: 49g+, 48gII, 39g+, 40g+, 33s
The DVD also includes the updated PPC CD4:
Version 2.042: Australian Newsletters plus Conference Proceedings (1979-2012)
Now featuring the HP Solve Newsletter Index:
Selecting the index navigates to the 281-item index sorted by issue:
From here, alternate versions sorting by article title, author,
document type and device model may be selected:
This disk includes 10,727 pages of scanned Australian calculator newsletters and 37
sets of proceedings from calculator conferences.
This disk was first presented at the HHC2003 Calculator Conference in Newport Beach, California in 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 portion of the disk includes the conference proceedings (along with any printed supplementary material obtained at the conferences) from 37 English-language HP calculator conferences up to 2012. It starts with the first one in Santa Clara, California in 1979 (featuring the newly-introduced HP41C) and ends with HHC2012 from Nashville, Tennessee. A total of 10,531 pages are included.
| 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.
The PPC DVD contains all of the pages of the above newsletters plus:
Below is the breakdown of the disks' contents:
The CD1 portion consisting of 65 NOTES/PPC Calculator Journals Volume 1 through Volume 14 (the end) plus all the Chicago-area CHIP group newsletters 1991 to end of publication in 2005 and the Philadelphia-area PAHHC handout lead articles from 1992 to May, 2000 (5000+ pages)
The CD2 portion 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.
| PPC DVD Disk (combining CDs 1 to 4) | Cost per disk: |
| If Non HPCC Member: | $25.00 |
| If HPCC Member: | $23.00 |
| Ship within U.S./Canada: | $1.50 shipping |
| Ship outside U.S./Canada: | $2.50 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 disk is and what it is not....
The disk is 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 disk is 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' DVD set from the HP Calculator Museum
For additional information / archive CD exclusively on the HP41 , check out Warren Furlow's
