Re: HP12C - SST in RUN-Mode doesn't work correctly Message #8 Posted by Mike Morrow on 6 Jan 2010, 8:29 a.m., in response to message #7 by twanke
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The 12C has such a nice form factor, quality keyboard and simple, ergonomic user interface.
Unfortunately, it has the "landscape" keyboard layout which has proved to be less than optimal for a **handheld** calculator. I've used the HP-15C and HP-12C both for 24 years. The layout is cute, but it definitely "bites the big one" for real, actual, practical use as a **handheld**, regardless of two-handed or one-handed keyboard use.
Doubtless, HP learned from the Voyager landscape experiment that keyboards in that configuration should not be utilized on later machines (other than the never ending legacy of HP-12C mutants).
I doubt that HP will make the mistake of bringing back the HP-15C. Such a model would likely use the original HP-15C ROM image, which would be a tremendous step backward from its 1988 replacement, the excellent HP 42S. That is still the finest RPN calculator ever made (by very large margin over the HP-15C), now more than 22 years later.
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