HPs portable benchtop LAs of the that era with the same X11R5 GUI were better than the modular touchscreen lab units because on the latter you only had a jog wh

HPs portable benchtop LAs of the that era with the same X11R5 GUI were better than the modular touchscreen lab units because on the latter you only had a jog wheel and were forced to navigate menu hierarchy with touch for everything else. The portable models had hard buttons for every major mode you'd want to switch between, plus an alpha keypad for convenient label editing.