Trivia can be important

[Gerald H]

Recently Joe Horn raised an interesting question, wanting to find the answer on the Prime:

http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-3212.html

I thought I'd give it a try on the Prime itself.

Taken out of the drawer I saw the keypad again, covered with various orange & light blue smudges. I removed my glasses, & at abut 2 cm distance (I'm pretty myopic) I could make out the meaning of the hieroglyphs.

I abandoned the attempt to use the calculator.

While improving the software is definitely a difficult intellectual task, surely changing the colours & fineness of inscriptions on the keyboard is - trivial?

Or is there some unseen handicap, eg some Chinese group holding the intellectual rights to the colour of ink applied to the keyboard.

The prime lies in my drawer again.