DM42 is now open-source!

[Michael de Estrada]

(04-08-2018 02:51 PM)andylithia Wrote:  However, DM42 isn't, and will never be the case. The scale of vintage HP community is extremely small here in China (China was never the market for high-end HP handhelds). And anyone who's in the Chinese HP community has well above average education level. We will just spit on the shameless clones and buy the genuine one.

The main market for cheap Chinese knockoffs is not China, but the rest of the world, including the USA where I live. I don’t think they have a negative effect on the high end quality and vintage market, and serve a useful purpose to augment the market IMO. For example, I bought a dozen new Victor V12 clones of the HP 12c, so that I could save wear and tear on my classic HP 12c. I’ve got one in my kitchen, one on my workbench in my garage, one in the glovebox in my car, etc. They also make good stocking stuffers at Christmas time. The interesting thing about the Victor V12 is that it is not advertised as an RPN calculator, and can also be setup to operate in algebraic mode, although it lacks parentheses, so it is not very useful as a non-RPN calculator.