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It has a display button and it also has a ENG button. Does that make sense? Or am I missing something?

Hi, Naim;

I see what you mean. Have you thought that it may be sort of fast "choice selection", or even a shortcut? If you see also, there is a MODES key and RPN/ALG selection key, and I would not be surprised if the "MODES" menu contain ALG and RPN keys as well.

My 2ยข.

Luiz (Brazil)

In the summary of features, the "ENG" key must be what is referred to by "engineering notation conversions: ->ENG, <-ENG". (And that, in turn, may explain the otherwise puzzling green left-arrow above ENG.)

FIX, ENG, and SCI are joined by "ALL" in the features list.

Did anyone noticed that the "Rmdr" function is the only one in mixed (upper/lower) case? I like that HP finally added a remainder to a low/middle-end calc (along with integer divide) but its inconsistent labeling really stands out -- so much so that I'll bet that this is not the final version and (like someone else pointed out on comp.sys.hp48) perhaps this photo/mock-up/whatever is just a test balloon floated to see what people's reaction to the design is.

If the 33S is really due for release in the Sept/Oct time frame, I seriously doubt there is time to re-design the keyboard, even if it is as simple as a re-labelling of some functions.

This is just a gut feel based on the lead time in my industry (custom software development). Perhaps someone with industrial production experience can comment more authoritatively.