21 Mar
2006
21 Mar
'06
5:19 p.m.
That's a matter of opinion. :) I happen to think it's very exciting,
because even though it's not a handheld computer in the modern sense, it was
one of the most direct ancestors of what came just a couple years later.
Right. Any chips at all ? (LED drivers, for example). I asusme this means
that unrepairable faults are likely to be in the modules (e.g. a dead
microcontroller, which will be custom programmed) and not in the machine
itself?
>> Ah, nothing _that_ exciting, then.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell [mailto:ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:31 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Nixdorf LK-3000 on Yahoo! auctions
>> 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