HP 50g -- too shifty?

[Joe Horn]

(01-11-2017 05:15 PM)Marco Polo Wrote:  

(01-11-2017 11:33 AM)franz.b Wrote:  what is the sense of the HIST button? :-)

IMHO none. Just a waste of a key that could have been better used.
Same story for 'Symb' and 'X' keys.....

HP did us a service by making some primary keys kinda useless, because that makes those keys available for your favorite key assignments. If all the primary keys were essential, then all your key assignments would have to be on shifted keys, which would be annoying.

My current primary key assignments include:

• [HIST] performs UNDO (-41.3 KEYEVAL).
• [Symb] performs << DUP NEWOB Nosy >>.
• [APPS] toggles between the Menu 73 (stack commands) and the Library 256 menu.
• y^x, sqrt, /, *, +, -, [+/-], and 1/X all detect and handle longfloats automatically.
• [SIN] converts any object to a formatted hex string ('DCOD').
• [COS] converts a hex string to the corresponding object ('COD').
• [TAN] performs DEL (which performs a CLEAR if no edit line exists).