Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!clarkson!heron.qz.se!s1039 Date: Thu, 2 May 91 12:08:18 met From: Lars Magnusson Message-Id: <9105021008.AA03818@heron.qz.se> Subject: Re: HP 95LX - somethings are missing. In-Reply-To: <25590151@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.> References: <9104271550.AA09947@amuz2.amuz2.z.amu.se> Organization: QZ UniversitetsData AB Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds In article you write: >Lars Magnusson writes... >> HP 95LX.... ...... >>the size of it so we scandinavians (and others) can get our aa, >>ae and oe chars keys. At the 70-series Corvallis blundered to 100 % >>since the aa (a with a ring above) didn't even exist as a blue >>key char. The world does not end at Maine coast line, you know. .... >The 95LX has a CHAR key, which gives you two-keystroke access to all of these >"accented/double" characters. First the CHAR key is pressed, then an alpha >key. The "international" versions of the 95LX have these characters >printed on the overlay, to make it easy to find them. > >Everett >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe we northen europeans ar a bit backwards, but we dont want out umlaut-char at a to-stroke, we want it as one-strokers, at least the lower case, they are used so often in the language that even at non- touchtyping to-strokers are a negative thing. It's time that the US makers realises this fact. Ask Zortech what happened in Europe, when the first update of their C++ was distributed as US 7-bit ascii. Not even Your peers, the English could print out their pound sign. That Zortech survived that, is probably due to that they are an european company, migrated to US (not counting Walther Bright). Europe are to consitute for ca 40 % of the US companies future revenues, and US about 30 % according to some surveys. I'm not negative to Corvallis, I likes your products, but there sometimes missing that little edge, thats burns out the competition, and the screen the umlaut chars are typical of those. See my critisism as constructive. My old 32 and 75 have been used for calculating well-loggs for the swedish nuclear desposal program, and did it better than my boss's methods. The 75 where not a true handheld, according to the present HP definition. Would have ruined my clothes if I tried, BUT touchtyping (with my old miner hands at least) was possible, that the size where in large right. The problem where that making a wordprocessor, running in Basic - able to translate the right keys to swedish chars, slowed touchspeed down a bit. And the 32 char display gave some problems. 75 size with a foldup 80x24 display, some readjustments concerning the keyboard for the umlauts and the rs232 on the loop (have a parallel to day) that o'l bird would do 40 % of my job today, had even a simulation of my older 32, minus programmingcapabilty, running at a switch key. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lars Magnusson ! EUNET : lmag@z.amu.se Dept. of Computing ! KOM : s1039 (s1039@heron.QZ.SE) AMU Jamtland ! Tel : + 46 63 14 56 00 Box 603 ! Fax : + 46 63 12 33 42 832 01 Froson (Ostersund) ! Sweden ! (Ostersund - candidate for Winter Olympics 1998) ==========================================================================