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From: fin@norge.unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-48 TEXT (was Re: HP95 keyboard?)
Keywords: size,typing
Message-ID: <4254@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 15:20:17 GMT
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References: <1991Jun10.063838.20847@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <4252@uc.msc.umn.edu> <1991Jun10.142009.13349@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
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In article <1991Jun10.142009.13349@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu.UUCP (Carl Mueller) writes:
>In article <4252@uc.msc.umn.edu> fin@norge.unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth) writes:
>>In article <1991Jun10.063838.20847@marlin.jcu.edu.au> zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Ross Alford) writes:
	...
>>However, I find it difficult to type alpha stuff.  Basically, I press
	...
>Does nobody read the manuals?  It is no wonder that you find it difficult
>to type alpha stuff on the 48!!!!  Try pressing the ALPHA key TWICE and then
>typing lots of letters.  You'll find it much easier (though I'm not saying
>that the 48 was designed for easy text entry).

I read the manuals.  I know about this.  I don't use it.  Why?

Too confusing.  Most of the time that I am typing alpha text, it is
because HP has so well hidden which menu the function is on (don't
those people believe in reverse indexes?) that I have given up
(hunting through the menus) in frustration and all that I want to do
is enter the name of the <censored> operation.  The last thing that I
want to do is deal with yet another confusing mode.

Craig