Casio PB-100

Following tables comes from the user's manual of PB-100

 

YEAR 1983
COUNTRY Japan
CPU unknown
SPEED unknown
COPROCESSORS none
ROM unknown
RAM 544 steps (1568 with expansion board)
VRAM N/A
TEXT Modes dot matrix display, 12 chars, 5x7 dots each one
GRAPHIC Modes N/A
COLORS N/A
SOUND none
I/O Ports Custom I/O port for Cassette interface (FA-3) and printer.
Media N/A
Operating System N/A

This page would be a little tribute to this computer, dad of all modern machines. The maximum configuration of the machine include a cassette interface (FA-3) and a little thermic printer.

Other Characteristics:

Programming language Basic
Number of programs Max 10 (P0... P9)
Power supply 2 x CR2032 Lithium Batteries
Power consumption 0.02 W
Weight 116g (included batteries)

Following program samples are taken from the book ';Casio PB-100: Learn as you go';.

CT-TIME Method to fill-in totally magnetic tapes
CROSS TOTAL Calculation of vertical and horizontal totals
SCHEDULER A little scheduler for dates
T-LIST Telephone directory
TIMETABLE Timetable
GOLF GAME Golf game, the ball is represented by numbers
SLOT GAME Slot machine simulation
STATI-O A statistical program
REGRESSION ANALYSIS Regression Analysis
AAGR Annual Average Development
BASE CONVERTER Converter decimal <--> n base
LCM-GCM Least common multiple, Greatest common measure
PRIME-I Calculation of prime-i
UNIVERSAL P-CAL Calculations of roots and powers
SL-EQ Simultaneous Linear Equations
PI Pi simulation program

 


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