Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!goanna!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!chudich!rcoahk From: rcoahk@chudich.co.rmit.oz (Alvaro Hui Kau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP-28 to HP-48 changes Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 91 03:28:52 GMT References: <20898@shlump.nac.dec.com> <25590122@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> <1991Mar13.140731.11318@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> Sender: @minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia. Lines: 25 mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Mueller) writes: >Nobody has said anything about the difference in the number of key presses >for certain often used functions. 1/x, square root of x, sin, cos, tan, >y^x, and swap all required two key presses on the 28 and only 1 on the 48. How about trying to type a >= or <= or a simple 'DUP'? On the 28s, they are easy to find but on the 48sx, they are extremely hard to find! Anyway, that's why the little reminder booklet is for... >This tells me that some thought went into the design of the 48. (And not >just thought about what wonderful functions can be crammed into one >calculator.) >I just wanted the people at HP to know that I appreciated these seemingly >minor changes as well as the other more major changes between the two >calculators. A new 48sx owner...... =============================================================================== Alvaro Hui |ACSnet akkh@mullian.oz 4th Year B.E.\ B.Sc. |Internet & akkh@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU University of Melbourne |Arpanet rcoahk@koel.co.rmit.OZ.AU