PB-700: 1983 pocket computer

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My first computer, or what I remember as such, is older than me. Passed down by my father, it was made by CASIO in Japan in 1983, the year System V launched.

200 × 88 × 23 mm, 4 KB of RAM, 4 lines of 20 characters or 32 lines of 160 pixels, with optional printers, tape, and RAM expansions I never saw.

Mine still works great today. And by great, I mean that plotting sin(x) and cos(x) across the screen in BASIC, highlights of my childhood, still takes mere minutes to complete.

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Booklet (in French)

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