HP 50g -- too shifty?

[Dave Britten]

I thought the 50g (and going all the way back to the 49g) was a total mess in terms of usability design. Menus all over the place, commands appearing in more than one menu, seemingly redundant menus, key functions that are different if you hold shift rather than pressing and releasing it first, menus with no actual keyboard access (like the old STAT menu, as I recall), MTH, PRG, and CST are no longer all unshifted keys... Add to that the keys being stiffer and more fatiguing than a 48 (and the problem was ten times worse with the 49g, if you can imagine that), and it's no wonder that I keep a 48SX on my desk.