HHC 2023: Moravia Partner Update (Klaas Kuperus and Radim Frydrych)

[@cabezama1970]

...HP42s collector's edition too, please! :O)

[@outofahat9363]

^ this. its my only calculator i use on the phone. i would love to have have it physical too.

[@AntonioCavicchioni]

Why not a collector edition of the HP50g?

[@john_hind]

Just got my 15c CE and it is great! Updated 12c with USBC, rechargeable battery and dot matrix display is welcome news (and hopefully the new platform can eventually be back-ported to the 15c and 16c personalities). I've long hankered after a modernised Voyager in which a dot matrix display fills the entire bezel area above the keyboard. As well as allowing complex numbers (for example) to be displayed in full, this would allow the top row of 10 keys to be 'soft keys' aligned with labels at the bottom of the display (though just the shifted functions of the 7,8,9 and division keys would be soft). With a platform like this, and flashible over USB, hopefully open, firmware the calculator could be multi-functional covering the entire Voyager range of personalities and more without needing any hardware changes (the common keys would be assigned to the bottom three key rows with the differences on the top row soft keys).

[@dosgos]

Awesome vision.

[@Soupie62]

Get a Preonic Ortho keyboard, add a banner style wide LCD on top. Have a battery for Bluetooth mode, and you're 90% there on the Hardware for a new calculator. Custom keycaps and a SDK (for the software side) would let people choose the calculator functions they want. Finance, scientific, programming support. Printing custom labels on the front of keycaps would be a nice little revenue stream.

[@threadripper979]

I'm torn: did the second speaker dodge answering questions intentionally, or does he not understand English well enough to effectively communicate his company's intentions?

[@dosgos]

He gave a clear roadmap on the new 12c as chips are EOL. I think they need to keep some future plans secret from the competition and to generate some hype. And I don't think he wants to overpromise community interaction (even if that is great free consulting) as the staff is probably flat out. Overall, I am really impressed.