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Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads?

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, 2011 @05:28AM from the count-backwards-divide-by-zero dept.

dotancohen writes "Although the telephone has the 1-2-3 key on the top row, most calculators and keyboards have 7-8-9 on the top row. Switching between the two destroys muscle- and spatial- memory. Do any slashdotters use a scientific calculator with 1-2-3 on the top row? I've already scraped and resoldered my Casio fx-82 calculator to have 1-2-3 on the top, and remapped the numpad in Kubuntu, but if there exist any calculators like this already on the market, I'd buy two."

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Re:Its the phone company that caused the problem by Nethead · 2011-09-24 06:02 · Score: 5, Informative

Not true:
http://www.vcalc.net/Keyboard.htm
On a side note, back in my teens, I would make $5 for swapping the top and third rows of buttons on a standard WECO 25xx phone so that they matched an adding machine. The ladies in the office loved it.

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