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(06-03-2021 01:56 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  

(06-03-2021 08:31 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  I wish they would bring back HPIL. HPIL was the entire reason I got into the 41cx, after being a TI-58c and -59 user. (It's not that the 41 wasn't very much superior to the TI's—it was, of course—but without HPIL and the accompanying interface converters to IEEE-488 primarily, followed by RS-232 and finally parallel, I never would have made the leap.)

Yes! That's why I wonder why people buy the SwissMicros 41x. The only advantage I can see to the 41 series was the interface to external hardware.

I agree with both of you. There was some talk in the early stages of development of supporting hpil over usb as with the PIL-Box communicating with pyilper. If that is done by SM or a third party, that might persuade me to get a 41x. More so if the PIL-Box could be used to connect to real hpil devices.

If we're making a wishlist of next projects from SM, I'd love to see a 27S with expanded memory and some of the Solver extensions mentioned by Thomas for the plus42. Solving problems by describing them as a set of interrelated equations and then observing the effect of altering the initial state is a wholly different mode of thinking than the methodical step by step programming approach.