🇯🇵 Casio PB-770 & FA-11: Part 1 [TCE

[@itwsntme]

Casio's industrial design was truly top notch at the time

[@juanvalu1]

Entre 1987 y 1993 tuve mi PB-770 en la universidad en la carrera d Ingeniería Civil y me fue de mucha ayuda en materias como Estructuras de Concreto Armado,Topografia, Acueductos y Alcantarillados y lógicamente en Programacion BASIC,Todavia tengo la unidad pero solo funciona como calculadora,no guarda los programas al apagarla, saludos desde Popayán, Colombia, Julián Andrés

[@Brfff]

¡Gracias por contarnos tu historia con esta maquinita! Todavía necesito arreglar la unidad de casete de este.

[@MichaelEhling]

21:40 "... bloody bankers..." I'm laughing still.

[@Aeduo]

I can definitely see a lot of the influence in these Japanese portable computers, that inspired the elektronika mk-90. :p Even the like, expansion dock is super similar. I kinda wish these Sharps/Casios took off as the de-facto programmable calculator rather than TI.

[@andrewwasson6153]

I’ll bet there are nicads that are in a semi-open circuit condition (preventing power from getting to the computer) in the base along with really old capacitors and a charging system. The dock for my Sharp PC1251 is similar and contains nicads and a controller circuit. Neat unit. The syntax errors in that version of basic would drive me up the wall. Since when does 10 PRINT “HELLO” result in an error?

[@rdengin]

Very interesting machine! I wonder whether it had ever had reasonable application.

[@Brfff]

This one was used by a bank in the mid-to-late-80s (judging by the 7-digit phone number ... Australia moved to 8-digit phone numbers in the mid-90s). I suspect it would've been used by someone like a "loan officer" who would travel to clients to discuss a loan. They might enter client details, print out results, modify the loan parameters and show the difference (i.e. savings if you took a shorter loan term or had higher repayments). Previously they would've had to rely on just a calculator ... this would've been a "high tech" fancy way to woo a client ... especially in the 80s. /Brett

[@rdengin]

@@Brfff The more I learn the more I assure that efficiency has nothing to do with demand in the market!

[@WacKEDmaN]

damn thats a cool unit..never knew that existed!.. thanks for the look!

[@RickSwartz]

My favorite 4-liner from Casio! The OR-8 RAM modules only fit the PB-770 (the previous model, the PB-700 used the OR-4 4kb modules) and are as rare as hen's teeth today. The PB-770, although mostly identical to the PB-700 supported more RAM and allowed for user defined characters. Let me know if you decide to sell that unit, it's in excellent condition.

[@Brfff]

Definitely! Want to try the plotter out but so far I've only found the paper for sale in bundles of 20 rolls ... a little excessive ;) /Brett

[@Brfff]

One of these rare videos when someone bothers to "dislike" it ... how bizarre ... 🤔

[@gshingles]

Worth it, just for the little happy pen jiggle :)

[@happycamper9300]

How wide is the paper on this printer ?

[@ssisaias]

We have just found a FA-11 dock in the middle of some things that were put aside for a long time, it seems to be in almost perfect condition, does anyone know how much its worth, thinking about putting it for sale... (sadly the PB-770 unit was not there as well.)

[@Brfff]

Checking the "sold" listings on ebay is a good way to measure what people will actually pay. There's a few listings for the FA-11 itself, asking $300-800 ... but checking sold listings has a couple that sold for $100-odd, with the computer included (not just the dock). Hope that helps!

[@ymsh-fx8xo]

not cload，，CASIO PB-700 use SAVE 'FILE NAME' to save program and use LOAD to load program.