Fast Typing and Other Uses for the HP 95LX

Other lawyers began asking about the small machine I was wielding. Most wondered how I managed to type fast enough on such a small keyboard to keep up with the flow of a meeting or deposition. This is fairly simple for me. I cradle the palmtop in my two hands, holding it by my thumbs and ring fingers. This leaves my index fingers free to type. Based on my experience, I think that touch typing imprints the brain with the hand that is supposed to hit a key, as well as the finger. My index fingers seem to know right where a letter is on the keyboard, even though that letter is not the responsibility of the index fingers on the larger machines.

I recently purchased my wife a 95LX. She is a second-year law student and uses the palmtop to take class notes. We collaborate; buying RAM cards, trading hints, and trying to decipher the HP 95LX User's Guide.

She has complete transcripts of each of her classes in MEMO, stored on Memory Cards. (The 512K RAM cards are well-suited to higher education, if law school fits that description.) As she studies for finals, she uses the Find command to hunt up particular references, a momentary process by computer, a time-consuming search by hand.