I have many pocket computers, sadly not that one. My Casio VX-4 might be closest. Not cheap currently $400
https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/j714515522
Still my all time favorite for the 70 colors ist the Casio PB-100
Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
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Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#12I have many pocket computers, sadly not that one. My Casio VX-4 might be closest. Not cheap currently $400 https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/j714515522 Still my all time favorite for the 70 colors ist the Casio PB-100
Same here: I have been looking for this one for a while.
Edit: thanks for that site: I will be very poor soon.
Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#13Did I have Nokolisp running on Atari Portfolio in 1989? No recollection of anykind. Must have been, because why not? But I had very serious floating point computing needs, because GPS was not yet invented. I managed to install Turbo Pascal in it and steal someones Nautical Almanac - algorithms.
Github seems to agree there where at least some *.LSP - files in Portfolio, doing god knows what. https://github.com/timonoko/sextant
Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#14Did I have Nokolisp running on Atari Portfolio in 1989? No recollection of anykind. Must have been, because why not? But I had very serious floating point computing needs, because GPS was not yet invented. I managed to install Turbo Pascal in it and steal someones Nautical Almanac - algorithms.
Github seems to agree there where at least some *.LSP - files in Portfolio, doing god knows what. https://github.com/timonoko/sextant
My Guess: SEX.LSP seems like an attempt to Lispify the SEX.PAS file, by utilizing Turbo Pascal's floating point capabilities.
Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#15I learned programming around 1985 on one of these Casio pocket computers. It ran Basic interpreter not lisp. Incredible little machine. It looked like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/143595147094 I probably would not be a software engineer at a top company today without it.
Wow, that display is tiny (^_^)
Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#16The title ticks all the HN top post boxes. Lisp. Pocket computer. Casio. Eighties.
It's not a HN thing, it's everyone with a passion for technology, the same way how someone with a passion for cars will appreciate an old-timer rather than his Toyota Corolla.
Honestly, stuff like this provides some much needed escapism for me as I feel burned out from scraping all the cruff from the bottom of the Jira barrel wihch is most "tech" jobs nowadays and miss the days I used to just tinker with stuf I enjoy. Now, after 8 hours of shoveling dev-ops/CI-CD crap or fixing last-minute shit that randomly broke due to updated lib or package, I just want o put the laptop away and be done with "tech" for the day.
Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#17I learned programming around 1985 on one of these Casio pocket computers. It ran Basic interpreter not lisp. Incredible little machine. It looked like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/143595147094 I probably would not be a software engineer at a top company today without it.
That was my second Casio "calculator" for Uni, loved it. It had a huge display with four lines :-) -- my first one was a Sharp (Radio Shack) with a single line. Both programmable in BASIC.
I can still remember the fog clearing out of my mind when I started to understand what the code was doing. Being able to plan something up, program it and see it work was an absolute blast, a gateway drug to a career still going strong after several decades.
Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#18I learned programming around 1985 on one of these Casio pocket computers. It ran Basic interpreter not lisp. Incredible little machine. It looked like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/143595147094 I probably would not be a software engineer at a top company today without it.
Casio did produce a series of those (I read that thanks to this yesterday). Quite impressive to a C environment in your pocket that long ago. Even more impressive how it died silently. In the 90s mainstream all that was left was graphing calc with a basic like dialect.
Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#19Did I have Nokolisp running on Atari Portfolio in 1989? No recollection of anykind. Must have been, because why not? But I had very serious floating point computing needs, because GPS was not yet invented. I managed to install Turbo Pascal in it and steal someones Nautical Almanac - algorithms.
Wasn't the Atari Portfolio used by John Connor in the Terminator movie to hack that ATM?
Re: Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]
#20I have many pocket computers, sadly not that one. My Casio VX-4 might be closest. Not cheap currently $400 https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/j714515522 Still my all time favorite for the 70 colors ist the Casio PB-100
Same here: I have been looking for this one for a while. Edit: thanks for that site: I will be very poor soon.
I've spent already a lot of money on that site :-)