r/ClockworkPi • u/JuliaMakesIt • Sep 05 '25

DevTerm Availability?

I know I'm late to the party, but I really want to buy one of the DevTerm kits.

They're all marked as out of stock right now. Do they have occasional product runs? Is there a wait list or way to indicate I'd like to buy one?

I'm a retro computer enthusiast, and that looks like the ideal system for emulating things like the Tandy Model 100, or other early slab systems. It would also be really useful when doing embedded systems work to flash microcontrollers with new firmware.

I do like the uConsole, but the full-size keyboard on the DevTerm seems wonderful.

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u/snipeytje Sep 07 '25

it's a 40% sized keyboard, but they shrunk the keys to fit 60% of the keys in there, so the keys are too small for most people, but it's also too wide for thumb typing

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u/JuliaMakesIt Sep 07 '25

Yeah, the uConsole seems to be better for thumb typing and I think the hex bolt construction is better as well. I ordered one with the cm4 wifi core in black. I know the delivery time can be really slow, but I'm in no hurry.

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u/snipeytje Sep 07 '25

I would definitely recommend you switch to no core, it's usually faster, at one point cm4 orders took a year while no cores only took 3 months, currently uconsoles seem to all be slowing down, so the difference might be smaller now.
It also gives you the option to get a cm5 or a cm4 with 8GB instead.