OK, I'm no calculator aficionado like Dave, but over the last few years I've come to appreciate the value of having one you like on the bench for the thousand times a day you reach for it. I've tried different scientific calculators and found various things I like and don't like. But the one feature I desperately want that I cannot for the life of me seem to find is a BACKLIGHT. I don't want to, nor do I always have the luxury of, being directly under 10 billion lumen fluros. Quite often I'm in some dark corner of the room, or figuring out an idea in the middle of the night, and I can't see a damn thing on the screen. And I also don't really want to spend a million bucks for some vintage LED display thing that lights up great, but can barely display a basic sum.
I've googled, I've asked in stores, and aside from super expensive graphing calculators with way more bells and whistles than I need I can't find a single thing that's readable in low light. Any suggestions? I've tried phone apps and hated them for the lack of physical buttons, and I don't need a full on computer either, just something easy to grab and move around with that has the basic scientific functions needed for everyday work.