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Poll Results - Favorite Calculator Message #1 Posted by Mike on 17 Apr 2003, 5:12 p.m. Here are the results so far on the "Favorite Calculator" poll. Click the photo, for the latest result or to vote, if you have not done so.

Re: Poll Results - Favorite Calculator Message #2 Posted by Richard Garner on 17 Apr 2003, 7:01 p.m., in response to message #1 by Mike I wonder what happened to all those people that said they would not have anything but a 32sII. It looks like most everyone wants the 41c or 42s.

Re: Poll Results - Favorite Calculator Message #3 Posted by Ernie Malaga on 17 Apr 2003, 10:51 p.m., in response to message #2 by Richard Garner >I wonder what happened to all those people that said they would not have anything but a 32sII. It looks like most everyone wants the 41c or 42s. In my case it was a 41CX. I've never seen a 32SII except in pictures in the MoHPC or elsewhere. I have a 32S, however. My appreciation fot it would be much higher if it weren't for the menus. Menus just drive me insane very quickly. For many years I've operated and programmed IBM midrange computers (chiefly System/36 and AS/400) and I have always loved the command line to do my quick work. Command lines beat menus in efficiency any day -- provided, of course, that you know what you're doing. And that may explain why I like the 41CX so much: it uses an equivalent of a command line, when commands are XEQ'd using ALPHA names. Comments? -Ernie

Re: Poll Results - Favorite Calculator Message #4 Posted by Chan Tran on 18 Apr 2003, 11:29 a.m., in response to message #3 by Ernie Malaga Are you sure that command lines are handy when it's on a handheld device and not a device with a full size QWERTY keyboard?

Re: Poll Results - Favorite Calculator Message #5 Posted by Ernie Malaga on 18 Apr 2003, 2:04 p.m., in response to message #4 by Chan Tran Chan: >Are you sure that command lines are handy when it's on a handheld device and not a device with a full size QWERTY keyboard? Most definitely yes. Even in the HP-41's limited alpha keyboard, it takes me just an instant to type X>0 after pressing XEQ and ALPHA, than it does to hunt down the function in the HP-32S menus: [shift][TESTS] [x?0] [>0] Of course a full-size, QWERTY keyboard would be even better. -Ernie

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