3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
10:04 p.m.
On 2013 Mar 3, at 6:02 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
Brent Hilpert wrote:
Hi Rick, I'll open it up sometime soon and check the board labelling
and let you know.
I knew it was Japanese design/manufacture by the construction and
ICs, but I didn't know which manufacturer.
Here's my favorite (for some def. of
favorite), from 1969, the
ugliest
electronic calculator ever made:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/eec/calcs/CommodoreDAC612.html
The guts of this machine were made by Casio -- with the ugly cabinet
courtesy of Commodore.
I do agree with Brent that this is one of the most unattractive
desktop
electronic calculators made. The combination of the brown upper
case and
white lower case, with the funky '70's woodgrain top is just too much.
By the way, it'd be very interesting to find out the nomenclature
on the
circuit boards of the machine. Casio used an internal numbering
scheme
that usually consisted of a two-digit number, followed by an
alphabetic
character, followed by a dash, and then the board number. For example
14A-3 would indicate board number 3 of the machine with internal
code of
14A.