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The Casio AL-1000

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Re: The Casio AL-1000

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Post by knight17 »

louisrochal wrote: post #29
newbear wrote: post #16

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Thanks for the Wiby link.

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https://millionshort.com/

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Post by AlbertoGP »

JohnStrange wrote: post #22
pjmlp wrote: post #20

When I was in university, the calculator dream of many engineers was the Casio FX-850P, I got the follow up model Casio FX-880P instead. I wonder which model is now being favored in Portuguese universities.

I wish they would still make calculators as beautiful as that one instead of all the cheap plastic we get today. All the Casio FX-880P would need is a slightly faster processor and a slightly more modern programming language with structures and hash tables. There is even a guy in Germany who still makes PC connection cables for them - although only as a hobby and he's booked out for months in advance.

The one guy I know about is actually from Spain, although he does sell worldwide both through his own shop and through eBay: http://www.casio880.com/en/product/interface-cable-for-calcu... https://www.ebay.de/usr/javitopo

I'm still deciding whether to buy it from him or build my own following this guide: http://blog.damnsoft.org/rs232-ttl-adapter-for-vintage-fx-ca...

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Post by billforsternz »

sundaysailor wrote: post #25
sundaysailor wrote: post #24

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>Man that was a lovely little machine. Indeed. There even was a little dot matrix printer peripheral by Casio. It printed on silvery rolls of aluminium-coated paper, I think by electrically burning out dots from the coating. I did ASCII plots of function graphs on it. And some love notes to my girlfriend. Fond memories...

Also I admire the engineers having developed the firmware for these machines in the eighties under God knows what conditions. It was flawless.

Actually, the seventies :- )

Re: The Casio AL-1000

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Post by billforsternz »

billforsternz wrote: post #23

I don't go this far back but I do have fond memories of the Casio Fx 501P (I think that was the number) that I bought in 1980. I agonised long and hard over the decision whether to go for that or the 502P (128 program steps versus 256 steps) but my poor student status made the decision for me. It was a beautiful thing and much much cheaper than HP or TI competitors. I fondly remember conceiving and implementing my fi…

For the record - I did remember the name correctly and it turns out (I should have realised) that these machines are properly remembered on Wikipedia and elsewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-502P_series

One small highlight: Power consumption 0.0008W.

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