Re: Nothing much - Corvus 500 Message #8 Posted by Dave Shaffer on 30 Aug 2002, 2:25 p.m., in response to message #4 by Mike Sebastian (Texas)
Why isn't this the Corvus Forum!? That looks like a great machine, but I don't recall having ever heard of it before, let alone seeing one. All my friends and I wanted the latest HP at this epoch, I guess! (I was just out of graduate school, had a job (and no dependents!), and could conceive of spending a few hundred bucks on a useful toy.)
I've asked about this before, but never got any answers: The Corvus 500, and the HP calcs of this era, all have the arithmetic keys (+ - x divide) on the left hand side of the body, where a right-handed person would like them (at least I do), because you can easily see what operation you are about to do. At some later date, certainly by the HP11, these keys are on the RIGHT hand side of the calculator - not as convenient IMHO. You have to move your hand way to the right, or learn to punch the arithmetic buttons with your little finger. Does anybody know why HP changed the location? The revenge of a left-handed designer??
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