Joe:
Also the OS is still the same as the one in my HP-28S from 1986! Brilliant
for it's day but HP should have continued and developed a MathCad type GUI
with a PC application sync (may be to Mathcad). I think students and
professionals migth have adopted it as a standard. Way too late now!
Brian
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html
Also the OS is still the same as the one in my HP-28S from 1986! Brilliant
for it's day but HP should have continued and developed a MathCad type GUI
with a PC application sync (may be to Mathcad). I think students and
professionals migth have adopted it as a standard. Way too late now!
Brian
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Colannino" <joecolannino@...>
To: <50g@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?
> The problem with the 50G was the change in the position of the enter key.
> HP blew it with the change and underestimated customer resistance to it.
> Microsoft committed the same faux pas when it rearranged the Excel user
> interface. For the same reason, the qwerty keyboard remains popular
> despite
> its shortcomings. This lesson has been repeated so often that you would
> think HP would have figured it out. But it didn't, and the 50G has
> declined
> in popularity because of it.
>
> Joe