The HP 41 on the HP 20b Message #26 Posted by Gene Wright on 6 Aug 2008, 11:07 a.m., in response to message #24 by Scott Newell
When looking at the HP20b, Jake Schwartz and I were talking about the HP41 put onto the HP20b hardware.
One basic issue: There aren't enough keys.
With the HP41 rocker keys at the top, we are short some keys.
HP 41 has 35 keys and four rocker keys at the top for a total of 39 keys.
HP 20b has 37 keys.
But, it would seem a creative use could be made of the two extra physical non-rocker keys on the 20b to address this issue.
Perhaps the UP and DOWN arrow key could be used for ALPHA or PRGM as shift functions, etc.
Might be possible. :-)
Gene
P.S. Oops. Just occurred to me that someone might have clicked on this thinking I had an HP 20b actually RUNNING the HP 41. Sorry, but no... not yet! :-)
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