Does anyone
have any detailed information on the Casio AI-1000? This
is (was) a pocket-sized computer in the vein of those old BASIC
handhelds, except it's programmable in Lisp, of all things... I'm
interested in what it's capable of, it just looks like a neat little
device but there's not a lot of detail out there other than basic
hardware specs.
Really...? I've never heard of this. It sounds like a WHOLE lot of
fun! Please share any information that you may find.
> And of course if anyone has one they're just gonna throw away, drop me
> a line :).
I'm afraid mine isn't for the throwing away just yet, but I'll stand in
line for the info - any info - if people have it!
I got the machine a few years ago when a friend of a friend emigrated to
the US and left his classic computer collection behind. (In fact I got
most of the collection, because I was the only one in that circle who
could afford the storage space. But I digress...)
It programs in LISP. It has a japanese text editor in which you type
phonetics on the QWERTY keyboard and it generates appropriate syllable
characters from one of the Japanese writing systems. I never discovered
how to edit a LISP program, so correcting mistakes was rather frustrating...
I bought a book on microcomputer LISPs, and the programming examples
worked, but it used none of the editing methods in the machine-specific
appendices.
A word of warning. This machine is not fast. Even a quite simple LISP
program can take a while to run.
Philip.