Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 [video]

Post by AlbertoGP » Wed, May 05, 2021, 9:44 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #48

AlbertoGP wrote: post #37

This was a duplicate of another thread posted one hour earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27034951 The comment I posted on lobste.rs: I’ve been curious about this computer for some years, and bid on one some time ago, but at more than 600 € that was more than I was going to pay for it. As far as I know, the machine is internally the same as the PB-2000C which I do have, just with different key labels and a…

That thread was posted later than this one. You can tell from the item IDs. When we put a story in the second-chance pool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ), the timestamp gets relativized to the re-up time, which can be confusing, though not as confusing as not doing it. More explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... .

Post by dang » Wed, May 05, 2021, 7:52 PM UTC

AlbertoGP wrote: post #51

dang wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That thread was posted later than this one. You can tell from the item IDs. When we put a story in the second-chance pool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ), the timestamp gets relativized to the re-up time, which can be confusing, though not as confusing as not doing it. More explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... .

Thank you for the explanation. I see in those algolia search results that this comes up regularly.

Post by mschaef » Thu, May 06, 2021, 11:17 AM UTC

p_l wrote: post #38

mschaef wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For context, the 50G came out at the tail end of HP's development of calculators. (In fact, the original Corvallis calculator group had disbanded and the group that produced the 50G was a reconstitution assembled in part from the HP48 enthusiast community.) By the time the 50 rolled around, computers had reduced the role of calculators in professional work, and HP was left addressing the enthusiast and educational ma…

don't forget that the form change was done with hp49, in 1999, when scientific/engineering calculators were still in professional work since even in CAD/CAM/CAE era, sometimes you had to work away from the bulky desktops and laptops were still much more expensive and underpowered compared to your typical engineering PC. Of the arguments to move the enter key, only the need to add more buttons is IMO defendable :)

Post by oilbagz » Mon, May 10, 2021, 7:13 AM UTC

tartoran wrote: post #44

oilbagz wrote: post #3

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.. which seems to have inspired a few like-minded souls: https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm

These are very cool devices that I would buy to play around with but, I don't really understand the idea with a hingeless flat screen. That can promote a very bad posture if used on a table as one needs bend the neck to see the screen. Sure, these could be used in handheld mode but how much can you type with thumbs only before you want to use more fingers??