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From: Bruce Horrocks on 8 Dec 2007 19:34
sc_usenet(a)hotmail.com wrote:
> the 10BII. It looks like the 17BII+ is trying to be metallic like the

It's not *trying* to be metallic, it *is* metallic. The fascia is
stainless steel and looks pretty good in real life.

Regards,
--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey
England
(bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: sc_usenet on 8 Dec 2007 19:52
On Dec 8, 7:34 pm, Bruce Horrocks <07....(a)scorecrow.com> wrote:
> sc_use...(a)hotmail.com wrote:
> > the 10BII. It looks like the 17BII+ is trying to be metallic like the
>
> It's not *trying* to be metallic, it *is* metallic. The fascia is
> stainless steel and looks pretty good in real life.

Whoops, that was poorly phrased. What I meant to say was that the 17BII
+ was trying to be like the TI by being metallic.

However, since I have never had a 17BII+ or a TI financial calculator
in hand, I obviously wouldn't know that it actually looks nice (off
the computer screen :)

S.C.

From: John H Meyers on 8 Dec 2007 21:18
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:23:39 -0600, pak.mikh wrote:

TW:
>> the first on the past to the return to professional looking designs.

> Yes, but what about big enter key?

It's called INPUT on the financial calcs
(the extra "ENTER" label on the keyboard
is just to give "=" something to do while in RPN mode :)

For comparison:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00000JBLQ [original HP17Bii]
http://www.moravia-europe.eu/files/product_items/foto_big/208_new_HP_17BII+.jpg

As you can see, aside from moving the original faceplate labels
to the slanted lower key face, the layouts are identical.

From past experience, however,
one can not count on the calculations to be identical
(the originals sometimes out-class their progeny :)

[r->] [OFF]
From: reth on 8 Dec 2007 22:13
On Dec 9, 11:34 am, Bruce Horrocks <07....(a)scorecrow.com> wrote:
> sc_use...(a)hotmail.com wrote:
> > the 10BII. It looks like the 17BII+ is trying to be metallic like the
>
> It's not *trying* to be metallic, it *is* metallic. The fascia is
> stainless steel and looks pretty good in real life.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Bruce Horrocks
> Surrey
> England
> (bruce at scorecrow dot com)

I like it better than the 35S mainly because of the missing weird
cursor keys.
Cheers,
Reth
From: Publicly Anonomous User on 19 Dec 2007 12:45
pak.mikh(a)gmail.com wrote in news:49ac3ff5-6f90-4cb1-9ba1-7a67757c18c2
@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

> Well, it seems like new 50g series design is on the way.


*/Pats wallet/*
*/Eyes screen/*

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