Poll: Which layout do you prefer?
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Layout a) 64.58% 31 64.58%
Layout b) 35.42% 17 35.42%
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A sweet little poll about the WP 31S layout
04-15-2014, 07:57 AM
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RE: A sweet little poll about the WP 31S layout
(04-14-2014 07:16 PM)walter b Wrote:  Apparently the WP 31S is interesting for many.

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True. Looking at the layouts they are both very clean and elegant and it really comes down to how often one uses certain function groups. I find it hard to really choose one over the other.

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Asked myself, why this layout has so much appeal to me. Even though the machine is non-programmable...
Only answer I came up with: So much cleaner and less confusing, almost the elegance of the HP-41.
Get me right: The 34s is a perfectly balanced and elegant machine, given the hardware constraints, but I never quite understood, how HP could go away from the downright solid approach of XEQ ALPHA Something] ALPHA. It kept the keyboard clean and you never had to think a minute, in which menu this or that instruction might hide. MODE, TEST P.FCN and X.FCN are well thought out, but I have to admit that I just have to check two catalogs far to often to find a specific thing...

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That said: It should even be possible - in the end - to compile and distribute BOTH layouts for the same firmware and distribute ONE overlay where people would only have to shift a few keys between two rows. I'm sure, some compiler-savvy dissident will be happy to do this, just for the heck of it. When the 34S has six different firmware packages...

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RE: A sweet little poll about the WP 31S layout - anetzer - 04-15-2014 07:57 AM
Poll result and a new question - walter b - 04-19-2014, 09:19 PM
Here we go! - walter b - 04-21-2014, 02:34 PM



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