50g

To get back to the home menu you can simply type alpha alpha home

that's turning on the alpha lock and just typing home.

cheers Mick

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, "Fred  Hoeldtke" <ehoe@...> wrote:
>
> You need a private teacher as  you are very lost.  Are there any
schools, math lessons or programming
> groups near you.   MY SUGGESTION IS LEARN ON AN OLD HP48G PERHAPS
FROM YAHOO OR OTHER ,  GET THE BOOKS AND 98 PERCENT AT
> YOUR LEVEL WILL APPLY.   
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: matthiasrampke 
>   To: 50g@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:02 AM
>   Subject: [50g] Re: HOW TO..... ON THE HP50G
> 
> 
>   Hi J,
> 
>   I think we'll have to check some terminology here.
> 
>   I assume with "a clean menu with the 7 numbers on the left" you mean
>   the stack display. If your calc is in RPN mode you can always get
>   there by pressing ON (repeatedly if needed). You can clear out any
>   numbers/items there with CLEAR (RSHIFT <=).
> 
>   The HOME directory is the basic place to put variables etc. On the HP
>   calcs the Memory is organized in a Drive/Folder structure, much like
>   on a desktop computer. You can have a look at it with the file manager
>   (FILES).
> 
>   In general: with the HP49(+) HP introduced some features to help
>   novice users, namely Algebraic mode and Choose Boxes. 
> 
>   The first everybody should abandon immediately. The HP command set and
>   interface are just not built for it, and it will slow anybody down.
>   Learning RPN is a matter of minutes, mastering it a matter of
>   practice. When you see it creep into how you view formulae (i.e.
>   inside-out), you will know you're there. It's worth it.
> 
>   Choose Boxes (i.e. the full-screen menus popping up all the time) are
>   a great way of learning your way around the (admittedly sometimes
>   confusing) menu structure. Once you get to know which-is-which and
>   what-is-where you can speed up your work considerably by changing flag
>   117 to Soft MENU. Then most menus will only use the keys A-F (try it
>   out, you'll see). They no longer obscure the stack, allowing you to
>   work much more fluently, especially if you often need several items
>   (units, commands.) from the same or "close" menus.
> 
>   Have fun, M.
> 
>   PS: please DON'T YELL!!1!
> 
>   --- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, J <professorman40@> wrote:
>   >
>   > Hello Group!! It was a great idea to have a group like this. I have
>   a question: HOW DO I GO BACK TO THE HOME MENU when I am stuck on some
>   other manu? To make it clear: I want to find which key or combination
>   will clear the screen and put me on the home menu. I often get stuck
>   and spend half hour to get back to a clean menu with the 7 numbers on
>   the left and start over. There has to be a way. On the Ti-84 I used to
>   have you could always go back to "home" very easily. Please help!
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