Re: Best Keyboard of the HP 28/48/49/50 Series Message #6 Posted by Mike Morrow on 12 July 2012, 1:04 a.m., in response to message #5 by Les Koller
The location of the 50G ENTER key, placed in proper ergonomic position in the same column as the /x-+ keys, is superior to and more logical than any of the idiotic post-Spice placements of the ENTER key on the left side and the /x-+ keys on the right side. No matter which side of the keyboard these five keys are located, they should always be in the same column. For the 50G, they are, though not as well arranged as they should be.
The 50G has the best keyboard of anything HP made after the HP-41 and Voyager era, with its great high contrast color scheme. The color schemes of the 48Sx (and Pioneers) of sickly orange on feces brown, and that of the 48Gx of low contrast low definition light blue and purple on greenish gray are doubtless both the poorest keyboards in the history of HP. There must have been some "artistic types" in HP's industrial design team for whom ergonomics and usability were alien and ignored concepts.
Edited: 12 July 2012, 1:26 a.m.
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