>>>>>>>It reminds me of Assembly language. It was used about 35 years ago. Check with Ken Levy.
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>>>>>>LOL ... Ken would have been around 10 years old! <g>
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>>>>>>~~Bonnie
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>>>>>I was using it when I was 12.
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>>>>When I was 12, Assembly Language was the Mechano set instruction sheet.
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>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1600
>>>http://www.flickr.com/photos/60529780@N02/6055545800/
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>>>...but they got some of the info wrong. I graduated high school in 1984 and had owned one for a couple of years at that point - wikipedia says it wasn't out till 1986 so that's obviously not right. Anyway it could run assembly and was a pretty neat device at the time. While all my fellow students were clicking away on their programmable TI-55 II calculators in my physics class I had nifty little BASIC programs I made for my PC1600 - made taking the tests a snap.haha
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>>I should still have this one at my mother's home back in Buenos Aires (if she did not throw away all my stuff, as she confessed she did throw some...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-702P, and when I packed into my moving boxes 15 years ago was still working... good memories :)
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>I remember that one too. I had the Sharp PC1500 - same thing radio shack called the PC-1. I remember the Casio units were out at the same time but there was a few differences (don't recall what now as its been too many years) and I got the Sharp one instead. A year or two later the Sharp PC1600 came out, Radio Shack released there PC2 - same units just different branding. It has a 3 line display instead of a one line display. Coolest thing was it had this iiitty-bitty tiny printer that would print out on cash register tape - and had four tiny tiny ballpoint pens in it so it was a color plotter..hahaha. I remember getting a physics test handed to me in class one day. I turned on my handy pc1600, entered a few parameters in the program I'd written over the previous week, then a few seconds later the answers spit out on my tiny tiny printer. I took the little piece of paper - stapled it to my test (with my tiny tiny stapler I had) - turned it into the teacher, then sat back down in my chair and ate a sandwich and pepsi while my fellow students were feverishly pounding away on their calculators and writing bunch of stuff down...hahaha It actually turned into a big hoopla because a couple of the other students claimed I was cheating - but the teacher let me get away with it because of all the time I spent writing the programs (and thus understood the material).

LOL @ four ballpoint pens