How would you rate your keyboards?

[StephenG1CMZ]

(04-11-2018 05:38 AM)Graham D. Wilson Wrote:  

(04-11-2018 01:36 AM)Geir Isene Wrote:  Om the scale 0-10:
Woodstock (HP-21/22/25/27): 10
HP-18C/19/28: 7

Interesting how perceptions can differ.

For me, of the calculators I own, the 28S has the perfect keyboard, rated above the 29C for example.

But the absolute worst are virtual keys on small touch screens. There's no autocorrect for mistyping a number or pressing the wrong operator.

The really infuriating thing about virtual keys is knowing that (unlike a real keyboard) it could be easy to switch to a qwerty layout for entering text, but being locked into a calculator layout...or on some phones, depending on which path you take through the contact menus, being locked into a single line of numbers when entering phone numbers. But at least with newer phones one can plug in USB keyboards.

As for correcting errors, any real phone keyboard is much worse....Where is backspace/enter?
And have you ever tried typing a short SMS message into a payphone? It beats using morse code, but only just.