DM42 News

[efroymson]

From another thread (http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-624...60554.html):

Quote:Hope it's not too late to jump in, but I had a thought about the DM42 that I'd like to share. If I understand correctly from the images/teasers posted earlier in this thread, this device will have an extra 6 buttons dedicated to soft menus. The way I see it, it would be a shame to not utilize them to cram more functionality into this calculator. I propose adding shifted functions to this top row of keys. My idea is to add all the functionality of the HP 17BII to the DM42 in order to give it all the functionality that the Pioneer series has to offer. Dedicate a shifted key to each of the items in the 17BII Main Menu: "FIN", "BUS", "SUM", " TIME", and "SOLVE". Let me go through these.

Is this still a possibility? If not via shifted keys, then perhaps there is a menu somewhere that has an empty slot for the top level here? Or it could be the default "custom" menu?

I recently expanded my collection of HP calculators (more on that later, perhaps) and the 17bii is a neat one, for all the reasons mentioned by MDBarrett88 in the post I quoted from. Somewhat off-topic, I asked it to solve for AA where AA=AA+1. I was worried it would not accept that equation (it does 'test' them somehow) but it was okay with it. The answer, if you are wondering, is -1.05E12 (more digits available if you need them). I suppose that is a number which, from the calculators perspective, doesn't change if you add 1 to it. I felt a little mean doing this, tricky human putting one over on the innocent machine ...