Re: Updates from OpenRPN Message #2 Posted by valentino ducati (switzerland) on 15 Mar 2005, 7:53 a.m., in response to message #1 by Hugh Evans
Thank you Hugh for the interesting article.
I hope you will find interested people from the following groups:
. Hardware oriented guys with connections to possible manufacturers of the shell, keyboard, LCD and other electronics
. Software experts who can help implement *fix to something usefeul
. Normal end user interested in the final product
I'm IT consultant, but was never hardware related and 15 years ago I wrote my last Cobol program (never changed side to C, VB, Java etc.). So I count me to the last group.
And I suppose the normal end users are the big venue here (and in comp.sys.hp48). Apart from the very impressive shell designs in Voyager, Pioneer and "big" Pioneer style: Can you condense in a few statement what we end user can expect to get in a first production lot?
To make my question concrete, a few questions from my personal point of view:
a) of which material will the shell be made of (alu? inox? some plastic?)
b) will there be a choice in formfactor (P/L) for the 1st series?
c) may I buy a fully customized keyboard (and labels and functions)? E.G. I like many shift keys rather then menus (f,g,h like hp67)
d) will there be a choice for inyard technical details (amount of RAM, MHz of processor, real time clock...) leading to a openRPN43 S or G or V?
e) will there be a choice for external peripheral connection features (HP-IR, serial, USB, SD, LAN, WLAN hehe, I'm dreaming...)? Like a openRPN43G vs GX.
I will stop here. I could write a book about my wishes!
Hope you see the point of my introductory question.
Thank you for the lot of work until today.
Valentino
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