Behold the WP-30S

[Sanjeev Visvanatha]

(03-07-2014 11:54 PM)Gene Wrote:  Thanks to Eric for making this one (and ONLY as of now) overlay, here is the WP-30S. I think it looks great. Thanks to Sanjeev Visvanatha most of all for doing the work to get a .bin file. Thanks to the WP-34S team for doing all of the really heavy initial lifting. :-)

I used an HP 20B to make this since the overlays were black and I wanted an entirely black machine. I really like the looks.

Why the WP-30S ? Personally, I loved the idea of a fairly SIMPLE non-programmable machine and the WP-31S has continued to grow in complexity compared to the WP-30S, IMO. Just my 2 cents.

FYI... a couple of changes to the layout were made for this overlay. 1) The letters were not put on this. Since they are used to jump to menu options, Eric and I decided they were more cluttering than required. 2) A couple of abbreviations were changed. PARTS became PART for example.

What do you think?

Gene

P.S. Sanjeev... I do wish that shift CLEAR would not open up at Clear All. Is there any way to tinker with the .bin so it does not do that? :-)

Ooohh! This looks nice. We can call the 30S with the codename 'Vader'

Now that you have a proper overlay, the layout looks even better to me. A few comments:

1. The inverse Trig functions do not appear correct. They should be ASIN, ACOS, ATAN or SIN^-1, etc.

2. I like the all black look, and if Alpha navigation of catalogs is not desired, I could remove that code and we could live with the overlay. Alternatively, if Alpha navigation is desired, I would modify the code to put the Alpha keys in better positions than in the current layout.

3. Yes, CLALL could be renamed to move it from first catalog position. But what would we rename it to so that it doesn't occupy the first position?

4. PART only tells a part of the story For 31S, we are using MORE. That may be better for 30S as well.

I am so glad that there was enough interest for Eric to create an overlay!

Just so you all know, 30S may get some layout updates, but nothing drastic. And behind the scenes, there is plenty to clean up.

Sanjeev

p.s. How do I get an overlay ??

EDIT - I prefer to have some Alpha labels since RCL/STO use named registers on the 30S. As well, the distributions use I, J, etc. So, my vote is to put the Alpha designators on the background overlay, in smaller non-bright fonts.