30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
1:58 a.m.
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:29:12 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
it? :-)
Nope. It's a Tandy Pocket Computer. It has a one line LCD display.
It's highly non-buzzword compliant. I mean, you program it in BASIC for
God's sake. I think it has 4K of memory.
On 30/09/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at
earthlink.net> wrote:
> My Tandy Pocket Computer (a PC-8) still has the same battery in it
that
> it did when I bought it used. Granted, I
don't hammer away at it
> extensively, but I've coded in BASIC programs to factor numbrers to
> their primes and various other tasks and fooled with it enough. I
am
> talking about a machine as thin as a light-duty
calculator which
uses a
> coin battery. I've owned it personally for
more than four years now
and
> it STILL has the same battery. And it has
retained my BASIC
programs
that long.
OK, I'm impressed, I have to admit it.
It's hardly a 32-bit mutitasking GUI-based RISC machine, though, is