Nuvotech HP 95LX Connectivity Kit

 Nuvotech's connectivity kit is intuitive and has the look and feel of Windows (without the memory requirements of Windows). It comes with a serial cable, which makes life easier when setting things up. The only bad news with this kit is that you need 115K of disk space to install it on your HP 95LX. Fortunately, after installation is complete, you can free up more than half of that, leaving 47K on your 95LX. You'll also need about 500K of disk space on your PC. At press time, Nuvotech needed 520K of RAM to run on a PC. That will be reduced to somewhere in the neighborhood of 400K soon.

Only a DOS version is available, but Nuvotech plans to cover all the bases with planned releases of this connectivity kit for Windows and the Macintosh. Their 75-page User's Guide is comprehensive and includes an ample number of illustrations, diagrams, and highlighted notes.

 If you can follow simple instructions, you should have no problem installing this software on both your PC and the HP 95LX.

 Once you've installed and set up Nuvotech, you'll need to modify or create APNAME.LST like you did with IntelliLink.

 Nuvotech's install program helps you install the necessary files on to your HP 95LX. The process, although a bit involved, is much better than attempting to copy files over on your own, as we'll see when we get to the next program reviewed here.

Nuvotech's Connectivity Kit is very intuitive. The main menu screen with large directional arrows shows the directories on both the PC and HP 95LX (see Figure #3). The command buttons are located between the directory listings. Other options are listed at the bottom of the screen. You'll always know what's going on in this program. Nuvotech's easy-to-follow program structure makes it easy to use.

 You can translate the following file formats using the Nuvotech Connectivity Kit:

 The translation feature in the Nuvotech Connectivity Kit works exceptionally well. Just point and click to make your selections. It's easy to make changes so the program isn't restrictive at all.

Merging PHONE or APPT files is so easy, it seems like cheating. Once you select the merge option, you need to decide which file records will be included in the output file and then whether to merge into the selected destination file or into a newly created file.

 Perhaps the nicest feature of Nuvotech's Connectivity Kit is that you get all of the look and feel of a Windows 3.0 interface without the need to ever leave DOS (or add anything in the way of memory or hardware to your current system). After working with this program for awhile, you'll wonder why more programs can't look and work like this without Windows.