DM42 News

[Guenter Schink]

Sorry no DM42P as holidays gift 2016

SwissMicros are still refining the hardware. New prototypes, final versions hopefully, will arrive there in January.

Granted no additional delays occur, the first 50-100 developer samples will be available mid February. These are aimed towards adventurous people who like to be on the bleeding edge of progress. They will be asked to serve as beta testers willing to frequently update their calculators and help with bug reports.

Roll out of the real stuff then may happen sometime in the 2nd quarter of 2017.

The hardware experienced some redesign. Other than originally planned, there will be no SDcard support. That proved rather difficult and not really necessary due to other backup and restore capability, particularly flash memeory and USB.

There are good news however. The calculator will behave as an storage client when hooked to a USB-Host (PC/MAC/Android, IPad?, etc.) Thus you can conveniently load and store your programs and calculator state while the calculator is powered by USB.

In addition, flash is increased by 4MB, that gives a total of 9MB of which about 1.5MB are necessary for the system itself.

Günter