User`s guide

User To User (cont.)
Users send us a disk, flash card, or
an HP Palmtop, and we will return
a disk and simple instructions for
transferring files to a
Windows CE
machine from a Windows
95 or NT
desktop.
Making the plan work busi-
ness-wise will be a little tricky. We
will have to engage
in two market-
ing efforts -
one for buying palm-
tops and another for selling them.
At least for a while, unless we can
make a large buy, we won't have
much control as to how much
inventory of Palmtops we can
build up. Furthermore, for this
activity to be profitable enough to
make it
worth the effort (given the
many expenses, the dollar amount
involved, and relatively low vol-
ume)
we will need to buy Palmtop
equipment at 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of
resale. We hope that customers
understand this when they see that
we might offer $100 for a 200LX
that we advertise at $285.
In order for everyone to feel
that they are treated fairly, we will
need to
add value on both the buy-
ing and selling end. For example,
when we buy a used Palmtop we
will include, free, a $35 Handheld
PC Magazine subscription and
offer our HP 95LX/l00LX/200LX
to HP 320LX file transfer service at
half price.
On the other end, when
we sell a refurbished or upgraded
Palmtop, we will offer our HP
Palmtop Paper CD Infobase as well as
other products and services at
greatly reduced prices.
We hope you will view our
entering the used Palmtop arena as
an opportunity to get your spouse,
children
or colleagues Palmtops at
reduced prices. Alternatively, you
can take advantage of our rates to
purchase a
backup palmtop or an 8
megabyte
double speed machine.
You, The HP Palmtop Paper
reader, know the value of HP
Palmtops more than anyone. We
will really appreciate your patron-
age
in this new enterprise and your
recommending our company to
colleagues as a reputable, knowl-
edgeable source of inexpensive HP
Palmtop equipment. In return, we
should be able to continue publish-
ing
The HP Palmtop Paper at least to
the millennium.
Three Classic Games
I recently discovered three classic
games of logic that run nicely on
the HP Palmtop. Battleship
(SEAHUNT.EXE . ) comes with
sound effects and taunts you as
you try to guess the location of the
com pu ter' s ba ttleshi ps before the
computer guesses yours (see
Screen 1). But don't trust the com-
puter!
On the "average" level the
computer seems to play fair and
you can win. (For example, I won
one round when I bunched all my
ships together. The computer calls
you a "wimp" for playing at that
level). However, at the most
advanced level the computer has
either an incredible algorithm that
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