50g

My TOOL soft menu shows the following:
EDIT, VIEW, STACK, RCL, PURGE, CLEAR

In liew of what is indictaed in the manuals:
EDIT, VIEW, STO, RCL, PURGE, CLEAR

Any idea what the problem is and how to fix it?

I don't think there is a problem, I have two and they have what yours has. You could always make a custom menu. Besides, those manuals are pretty much usseless anyway

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "exsierra" <exsierra@...> wrote:
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> My TOOL soft menu shows the following:
> EDIT, VIEW, STACK, RCL, PURGE, CLEAR
>
> In liew of what is indictaed in the manuals:
> EDIT, VIEW, STO, RCL, PURGE, CLEAR
>
> Any idea what the problem is and how to fix it?
>

Hello, the TOOL menu has two different presentations depending in the mode that the calculator is working, the menu that is showing in your calculator, appears when the calculator is working in RPN mode, the second menu that you see in the manual, appears when your hp 50g is working in ALGebra mode.

My 50g has the first menu with "stack" in third position regardless of whether in RPN or Algebraic mode. How does one get "sto" to show in third position? Thanks, Steve

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Juan C." <jcbuchin@...> wrote:
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> Hello, the TOOL menu has two different presentations depending in the mode that the calculator is working, the menu that is showing in your calculator, appears when the calculator is working in RPN mode, the second menu that you see in the manual, appears when your hp 50g is working in ALGebra mode.
>

Ditto for me. It would seem to be logical to have STO and RCL next to each other in the same menu. Could certainly create my own custom menu, but thought this to be odd since the documentation(s) indicate that they are together in the same menu.

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "aa0p3" <aa0p@...> wrote:
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> My 50g has the first menu with "stack" in third position regardless of whether in RPN or Algebraic mode. How does one get "sto" to show in third position? Thanks, Steve
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Not sure if you'd want STO right next to RCL...with a value on the stack and wanting to recall a variable...it's just one fingerslip to overwrite the variable you just tried to use. At least the 'hard' keys are shifted to differentiate between RCL and STO.
Just a thought, from experience of my own clumsiness...

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "exsierra" <exsierra@...> wrote:
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> Ditto for me. It would seem to be logical to have STO and RCL next to each other in the same menu. Could certainly create my own custom menu, but thought this to be odd since the documentation(s) indicate that they are together in the same menu.
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> --- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "aa0p3" <aa0p@> wrote:
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> > My 50g has the first menu with "stack" in third position regardless of whether in RPN or Algebraic mode. How does one get "sto" to show in third position? Thanks, Steve
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> >
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What everybody else said is a very good point, but I feel that there is a useful alternative to simply manipulating your menus. When you have a program that has many aspects to it, use CHOOSE boxes. For example, I just wrote a "standard program set up" program that uses CHOOSE boxes and case statements to get to where you want to go. Say you wanted to convert from polar to rectangular and vice versa. But you also wanted to add, subtract, multiply, divide and find the average of complex numbers in either polar or rectangular format and you didn't want to have to use parethesis or commas. You could do that with one CHOOSE box. If you wanted to work with a specific electronic circuit that uses specific formulas you could use more than one CHOOSE box e.g. have an electronics selection box with "RCL circuit" as one choice. Then have a RCL circuit CHOOSE box to select series or parallel and finally one to pick if its an RC, RL, LC, or RLC. You can also use message boxes to tell you what format or order to enter your data in. This avoids having to use parenthesis and commas and so on. This might insult the sensibilities of hardcore programmers by causing a 1 second delay in execution but I think it organizes the programs so that you don't have so many to worry about. I'll add the program to my files.