HP 35s missing keystrokes

[Thomas Radtke]

(01-24-2015 07:14 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote:  Then I started talking with folks who are actually using it for real work and discovered that the unit really doesn't have all those bugs, and that the bug-list is really more of an annoyance complaint to HP.

Maybe. It came when no one believed there would be an HP calculator with a large enter key again. The first pictures (the 35s as toy for Tims baby IIRC) revealed an old style keyboard and nice colors, and there was a video about the mechanical keyboard design. The 35s addressed everything users critizised about the 33s. You imagine how well it was received. Surely I ordered one as soon as possible. Then came one bug report after another. No complete set of composing/decomposing functionality for complex numbers, making e.g. R<>P conversions difficult, lockups, and all the other bugs were discovered. Of course the owners were greatly disapointed.

The 35s and its development team (the design was truely a great job!) deserved a bugfixed firmware and I bet TW et al. tried to get one but failed at some point.