21 Mar
2006
21 Mar
'06
4:30 p.m.
>> Is this the machine that can't work
without a module because there's no
processor in the main machine?
Yes. By itself, the machine is just a one-line LED screen, a chicklet
keyboard, and a cartridge slot. All of the computation is done in the modules. Most of the modules are for language
translation. But two of the
modules are really interesting -- Electronic Notepad (#LK-3500) and Filing
System (#LK-1001) which give the system primitive word processing and a
flat-file database. There was a scientific calculator module as well, and
Ah, nothing _that_ exciting, then.
I was hoping for soemthing that was user-programmable (even a
programmable calculator). I assume the calculator module is not RPN,
which instantly meakes it unusable for me.
-tony