StrangeRover
StrangeRover t1_j9l6c7r wrote
Reply to comment by RealCowboyNeal in Sharp EL-2607 my Dad has been using to do his income taxes since the mid-80s. by AnalogFeelGood
Late-30s engineer here but I learned 10-key "helping out" at my family's small business back in the early 90s.
It still frustrates me up this day that Excel doesn't have an entry mode equivalent to the 0/00 switch on an old 10-key (e.g. "1547" comes up as "15.47"). Of course I could use a helper column, but the inconvenience isn't worth it for less than 50 or so lines.
StrangeRover t1_j9la4q6 wrote
Reply to comment by mets2016 in Sharp EL-2607 my Dad has been using to do his income taxes since the mid-80s. by AnalogFeelGood
Computer keyboards aren't optimized for 10-key data entry. The operations don't fall naturally to hand in the same way.