Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!halley!pedz From: pedz@bigben.mpd.tandem.com (Perry Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Programmable alpha on for HP48? Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 90 16:49:33 GMT References: <5998@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <25590042@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM> <6036@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Sender: news@halley.UUCP Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX Lines: 19 In-reply-to: bio_zwbb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU's message of 7 Aug 90 13:28:31 GMT I agree completely with William Busa. The thing that HP might have missed is they have produced too good of a machine. I did not buy the 48 for a "calculator". Instead I bought it as an electronic check book. (Something which the market still has not addressed.) I use it to hold all my check entries and I sorta went off the deep end and added all of my credit card transactions and all sorts of neat stuff. Sure it is not a qwerty keyboard but alot of the personal orginanizer things are not qwerty either. Plus I am such an HP bigot that I literally can not deal with anything but RPN when I want to use a calculator. So the point is that I think I am probably using the machine for something they never envisioned. Back to the basic question though: the INPUT and PROMPT things are not enough. I think the original intent was to use menus more than I do now but it just doesn't fit in my application. It might also be that I am use to the 41's style of input which is not really what the 48 does. pedz