SwissMicros Calculator Forum

keithdalby wrote: ↑

Thu May 09, 2019 11:16 pm

Issue?

The clock losing time, after no use for an extended period.

It's really a shame we can't get a reply from the developers on this issue

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2007&p=9673#p9673
It looks like the drifting (RTC) clock issue hasn't been addressed.
I guess this isn't important to anyone.

Since time functions are included in the DM42, a crystal would be very useful to make them accurate. Maybe there's a way to add one ourselves as there was in the HP-45. That calculator had undocumented timer and stopwatch functions but no crystal so the accuracy was terrible. Someone came up with a...

Thanks. It doesn’t make me feel better, but at least it’s confirmation it’s not just my DM-42 experiencing this.
It’s a shame they didn’t add a crystal. The additional cost would have been worth it.

I hadn't used my DM42 for a few months. When I pulled it out of the drawer, turned it on and compared the time on the DM-42 display, to my comptuer's time (which is the reference I used when I first set the time on the DM42), the time on the DM42 was off by several minutes. I don't remember if it wa...

I've just tried updating the FW on my DM41, unsuccessfully. After pressing the program button on the updater tool and pressing the reset button, I could see the updater tool progress bar moving, After a minute or so I saw MEMORY LOST on the calculator (which I assume is normal), but there were no p...

I"ve just updated the FW to V26 and tried to adjust the LCD. When I hold CHS and turn power on, the LCD adjust menu is displayed, but the calc doesn't respond to any of the + - 3 (etc) keys. IS anyone else having this problem? https://www.swissmicros.com/instructions.php It looks like someone f...

I've just tried updating the FW on my DM41, unsuccessfully. After pressing the program button on the updater tool and pressing the reset button, I could see the updater tool progress bar moving, After a minute or so I saw MEMORY LOST on the calculator (which I assume is normal), but there were no pr...

I’m surprised that no one here is talking about this.

http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-9873.html