Hypothetical WP 35S

[anetzer]

(01-21-2016 05:14 AM)vido Wrote:  Swissmicros is very active in producing machines, I think it would be extraordinary if there was a kind of collaboration between you and them, in order to have a custom hardware with a mature software.

I too am wondering, given the rather prominent interest in the WP 43S, whether SM would not be willing to go a few steps in that direction.

If there is a market for full size voyager clones there surely also is one for a model that is oriented to WP 43S specifications.These should be definable I guess? Plus that model could be fitted with an HP 42S or HP-41 emulator by other people who know how to implement these on a defined hardware (producing a base model with different key cap labels after all is something that SM has practice with so far).

The million dollar question is: How many of these would have to be ordered to get SM into designing appropriate hardware in collaboration with the WP 43S - team and what would they cost? Given the kind of business they are in they should be able and possibly willing to give cost estimates for different numbers of sold pieces.

I guess that most of the forum members put enough confidence in the team and if enough of us commit, alternative emulators might only be a question of time as well.

I mean, there's no strict need for SM to only produce Voyager replicas with HP ROMs...