The Casio PB-1000 is a handheld computer released by
Casio
is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. I ...
in 1987. It featured a
touchscreen
A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is ofte ...
display which consisted of 16 keys built into the screen, arranged in fixed positions on a four by four matrix.
The computer itself included 8Kb of
RAM
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Animals
* A male sheep
* Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish
People
* Ram (given name)
* Ram (surname)
* Ram (director) (Ramsubramaniam), an Indian Tamil film director
* RAM (musician) (born 1974), Dutch
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and it was possible to install a 32Kb memory expansion card.
The PB-1000 was programmable in both a custom version of the
BASIC language and an
assembly language. A
ROM
Rom, or ROM may refer to:
Biomechanics and medicine
* Risk of mortality, a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of death for a patient
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card could be added for CASL assembly for the educational COMET simulator.
See also
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Casio calculator character sets Casio calculator character sets are a group of character sets used by various Casio calculators and pocket computer
A pocket computer was a 1980s-era user programmable calculator-sized computer that had fewer screen lines,
Some had only one line ...
External links
Casio PB-1000 J.Roa blog projectsPocket Computing: PB-1000Obsolete Computer Museum: Casio PB-1000Casio PB-1000 page at www.old-computers.com
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Pocket computers
Products introduced in 1987