HP-42S "reinterpretation"

[Dave Britten]

(05-05-2015 04:59 AM)HrastProgrammer Wrote:  

(05-04-2015 10:57 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  On a related note, did anybody else see these and immediately start salivating, both for what the product is as well as what it isn't?

https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/po

I saw this but didn't start salivating at all because it's just a childs toy as far as real "electronic music making" is concerned. Their OP1 synthesizer is a little better but for 949 EUR you can buy a real computer which runs circles around it (although it is not so portable).

Anyway, for calculator emulation it looks rather interesting (providing that it can be "repurposed") but doesn't have enough keys, IMHO.

Yeah, it would need more buttons, and a general-purpose dot-matrix/segmented LCD, but the mass-produced look of it makes you wonder if it's a slight customization of a existing platform from an outside vendor.

As for being toys, they're clearly not meant to compete with stage or studio synthesizers, but would an HP 42S spinoff really be expected to eclipse Mathematica or other high-end software?