Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!grep!vic From: vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: some more 48SX questions Message-ID: <1991May02.101546.19526@grep.co.uk> Date: 2 May 91 10:15:46 GMT References: <6723@acorn.co.uk> <1991Apr28.010558.28283@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr29.124228.3238@ifi.uio.no> <1991Apr29.184607.26315@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) Organization: Grep Limited, LEEDS, UK Lines: 24 In article <1991Apr29.184607.26315@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1991Apr29.124228.3238@ifi.uio.no> janl@ifi.uio.no 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... >>But of course: those are on the back of the Quick Reference booklet, which >> comes with the calc. >I noticed. That was sensible, but not as sensible as putting them on >the keyboard. To save clutter on the keyboard of the HP-41, HP placed a little decal on the back of the HP-41 which detailed various keys for the alpha keyboard. I believe that this idea was considered for the HP-48 and was rejected (but I don't know why). Perhaps someone will be selling an adhesive alpha keyboard layout as an add-on ? vic -- Victor Gavin