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What It Was Designed to Do
The HP Palmtop isn’t meant to be used for everything that you use a desktop PC
for—just the things you need most often while “on the move:”
* A personal information manager: It offers you a complete address book,
appointment calendar and to-do list capabilities.
e An analytic tool: It gives you the “what-iffing” ability of Lotus 1-2-3 and the
ability to solve for missing variables (HP Solver).
¢ Enough memory capacity to store and manipulate quite a bit of data.
Ithas MS-DOS built-in, too, but that’s mainly so you can add other analytic tools—
and send/receive files to/from a desktop PC for the tasks it’s not so good at.
If You Already Know About PC’s
You'll find that many of the Palmtop’s features behave like those of other PC’s. All
the built-in applications have Lotus-like menus, from which you select any item
by typing the first character of its name. And, at the bottom of most screens is a
list of highlighted items corresponding to the function keys (F1){F©)) on the top of
the keyboard. To execute a listed command, press the corresponding function key.
One big difference between the Palmtop and other PC’s is that you can have
multiple applications open simultaneously in the Palmtop—and switch by press-
ing just one key (although you can’t access the DOS prompt or run a DOS-based
application unless all built-in applications are closed (more about this on p. 114).
If You Already Know About HP Calculators
If you've used any of HP’s recent financial calculators, you'll find that the Palmtop
Calculator feature can do just about everything they can (though it may take you
some time to adjust to how those calculator features look on the Palmtop’s screen).
The big difference between the calculators and the Palmtop is how the Palmtop
uses built-in Lotus 1-2-3 templates to do statistical and cash-flow analyses.
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