10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
8:35 p.m.
Josh Dersch wrote:
I have in my grubby little hands an Elektronika MK-85
calculator,
which externally is a spot-on clone of the Casio FX-700P BASIC
programmable calculator. Functionally, it's identical as well, with a
few enhancements (pixel-addressable graphics, a Cyrillic
character-set, etc)
Pixel-addressable characters. I wouldn't really call it
"graphics"
since there are gaps between the character cells.
Internally though, they're 100% different -- the
processor in the
MK-85 is a Russian PDP-11 knockoff.
There is also the MK-90, with a larger
graphics display and removable
RAM cartridges. Purportedly came with a RAM cartridge containing a
Tetris game, but there are no known surviving copies of the game.
Eric