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From: fledley@condor.mbir.bcm.tmc.edu (R. Mark Adams)
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Subject: Re: some more 48SX questions
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Date: 2 May 91 15:50:54 GMT
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In article <1991Apr28.010558.28283@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
|> In article <6723@acorn.co.uk> asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) writes:


|> Alpha letter is uppercase, alpha leftshift letter is lowercase.  (And alpha
|> rightshift letter is special characters, which are impossible to remember
|> without a chart; HP really should have put these on the keyboard.)  There
|> is also a lowercase lock, which I think is alpha leftshift alpha.
|> -- 
|> And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
|> "beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry


I think HP should have printed the special keyboard on the _back_ of the HP-48,
like they did on the HP-41.  I used to refer to the table printed on the back
of that calculator all the time, and I miss that sort of feature on the 48.  How
expensive can it be to print a label on the back?

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