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sa-penguin · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2018 09:18 AM by sa-penguin.)

This reminds me of an idea I had years ago:

1. Let the users open the calculator, and rearrange the keys as they see fit,
2. Have the "keypad to function matrix" as a user-modifiable file or table. Similar to how /etc/hosts resolves names to IP addresses.

You want to switch the basic operators to left or right? Change the order? Go for it.
Are you primarily using finance functions? You can customize for that too - replace trig keys with PMT, PV, etc.
You want to replace the alphabet with Greek / Japanese / Korean / Thai / Klingon? Anything that's Unicode could be in the key lookup file.

It's not likely to happen. But hey, I can dream.

EDIT:
Reading the 43S forum notes, found this from Walter:

Quote: There is, however, a medicine for those who would rather die than accept the 4 operators there: you're free to reassign each and every key and function of the 43S except USR. Hope this helps.

Yes, that helps. All we need now is the ability to physically move labelled keys around.