50g

Joe:
Also the OS is still the same as the one in my HP-28S from 1986!  Brilliant 
for it's day but HP should have continued and developed a MathCad type GUI 
with a PC application sync (may be to Mathcad).  I think students and 
professionals migth have adopted it as a standard.  Way too late now!
Brian
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Colannino" <joecolannino@...>
To: <50g@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [50g] what happed?


> The problem with the 50G was the change in the position of the enter key.
> HP blew it with the change and underestimated customer resistance to it.
> Microsoft committed the same faux pas when it rearranged the Excel user
> interface.  For the same reason, the qwerty keyboard remains popular 
> despite
> its shortcomings.  This lesson has been repeated so often that you would
> think HP would have figured it out.  But it didn't, and the 50G has 
> declined
> in popularity because of it.
>
> Joe