The HP-32S: A thin, light device with a 1-line LCD display, something like 13 separated 5×7 pixel characters. Below is a 40-key keyboard including a power key and orange shift key. The usual functions like sin, cos etc are there, but on the shifted keys are also menus like prob, stat, loop for the wider function and programming library.

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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 26-Feb-2022 07:21:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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   When I started senior high I wanted my own programmable HP calculator, but not a graphing one. My parents gave me the HP-32S-II. The picture below is of the HP-32S 50th Anniversary Edition, but I don't know if there is any significant difference between the various submodels.
   
   I loved this one. Almost every key is a potential variable name or programming label, so in a way you have an alphanumeric keyboard. The keys are lower, rounder and softer than the three models mentioned above, and extremely comfy to type on.
   
   The batteries are three cell batteries and they lasted me all the way through secondary school without a single change.
   
   The screen is character-oriented, but not 7-segment or 11-segment, they're pixeled.
   
   The programming is keypress-oriented, not text files, but the display is proper words, not keycodes. It gets away with one shift key, as functions are in menus like on the 28.