Re: latest hp33 display Message #6 Posted by Paul Brogger on 3 Aug 2005, 7:36 p.m., in response to message #1 by david bowers
I've got one of each. The newer display is really not much better than the old. They tried to make the decimal point and comma larger, but not at the expense of shoving aside the digit pixels on either side.
It's as if they tried to make do without major alterations to the "mask" (or whatever) used to manufacture the LCD. As a result, the d.p., when viewed in isolation, is indeed larger. But when squeezed between two digits (especially, between two 2's, as in "2.2") it disappears as readily as it did before -- maybe even more so.
I wouldn't waste a drop of sweat over it: either way it's THE major problem with the model. (Even more so, IMHO, than the weird keyboard, if you can believe that!)
Other than the decimal point, the HP-33s is a fun unit to use, and it's reassuring to have an almost-shirt-pocket portable RPN programmable available once more.
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