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DM42 early units vs. current?
09-11-2020, 03:20 AM (This post was last modified: 09-11-2020 12:21 PM by Sylvain Cote.)
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RE: DM42 early units vs. current?
(09-06-2020 01:56 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I've got a DM42 that I bought from the first release batch in 2017, and I've never been in love with the keyboard.
"Willing to live with" is probably a better way to describe it.
This is exactly my thought.

(09-06-2020 05:25 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I had to open mine up, peel up the keyboard sheet to clean the clean contacts
I have flex the keys but did not go to the extent to peel up the contact sheet.
It is slightly better but then again we are a world apart from the HP-42S or the HP-41.

(09-06-2020 05:25 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  and put some shims under the lopsided ENTER key to make mine livable.
I should do that, because the enter key only works when I press on one side.

(09-06-2020 01:56 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I'm considering buying a second one, but only if the keyboard quality has improved to at least match the DM41L.
My DM41X beta unit is better but key miss is frequent enough that I do not trust it forcing me to look at the screen all the time.
On the standard HP-41, I type with two hands and I am faster than what the calculator can handle and that includes the 41CL at 50X.
So for me the DM41X keyboard is very, very frustrating, but I understand that I am probably not the targeted audience for it.

Still I will buy the DM41X when available in the hope that the keyboard will be better on the production units.
Like you, I am still on the fence about buying a second DM42 and for the same reasons.

What is still puzzling me is that the keyboard on DM1xL series is very good in general.
I use a HP-16C and a DM16L daily and I have no issue at all with the DM calculator.

Sylvain

edit: I wrote DM41L but DM41X was intended, now corrected
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RE: DM42 early units vs. current? - Logan - 09-08-2020, 11:14 AM
RE: DM42 early units vs. current? - johanw - 09-11-2020, 01:39 AM
RE: DM42 early units vs. current? - johanw - 09-24-2020, 06:20 PM
RE: DM42 early units vs. current? - Sylvain Cote - 09-11-2020 03:20 AM
RE: DM42 early units vs. current? - Hlib - 09-30-2021, 04:39 PM
RE: DM42 early units vs. current? - DavidM - 09-30-2021, 11:59 PM
RE: DM42 early units vs. current? - Hlib - 10-01-2021, 03:25 PM
RE: DM42 early units vs. current? - Uli - 10-01-2021, 10:33 PM



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