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Does anyone have a full kit like the pc 2 with printer cassette player and cassette’s?

siliboi

siliboi

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Recently got interested in these they seem really cool maybe I could graph in all four colours, or use those tiny tape programs like with the 1246. Sound off about your setup !
 
Are these just like handheld calculators with printers and cassette memory ? What else can they do other than run basic some run c as well it seems.
 
I have a Texas Instruments TI-74 that CAN support a cassette interface and printer, but last I looked the peripherals sold for horrific amounts.

Also yes, these just ran a BASIC interpreter and you ran your programs written in BASIC, or you had options ROMs if they fit and you ran those....in BASIC. They look really pretty but unless you know exactly what you want to do with a full keyboard and a single-line display they sharply become unusable for anything.
 
Are you talking about the TRaSh-80 PC-2? Did not know it did color. I have the printer and cassette interface/dock for one, and only recently started looking for something to put in it. Lost a few bids, but it's not on my must-have list.
 
The color plotter was more common in the Sharp livery as the CE150 instead of the 36-3605 from Radio Shack. Keeping track of what Sharp products could be used on the Tandy makes getting an affordable addon easier.
 
NeXT said:
I have a Texas Instruments TI-74 that CAN support a cassette interface and printer, but last I looked the peripherals sold for horrific amounts.

Also yes, these just ran a BASIC interpreter and you ran your programs written in BASIC, or you had options ROMs if they fit and you ran those....in BASIC. They look really pretty but unless you know exactly what you want to do with a full keyboard and a single-line display they sharply become unusable for anything.
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Ya they are very aesthetic from the ones I’ve seen like the pc 2 or the Panasonics sharps and more. I was talking with the gf about how neat it was that they played tapes and had a printer and played funkier games from the tapes
 
utuberangerbob said:
Are you talking about the TRaSh-80 PC-2? Did not know it did color. I have the printer and cassette interface/dock for one, and only recently started looking for something to put in it. Lost a few bids, but it's not on my must-have list.
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Ya it does 6 colours as long as you get the other colour inks
 
Yes, I have a full PC-2 kit in my collection with all the Tandy peripherals. However, the PC-4 is still my favourite because it's tiny, it has segmented programming spaces and it was my first.
 
ClassicHasClass said:
Yes, I have a full PC-2 kit in my collection with all the Tandy peripherals. However, the PC-4 is still my favourite because it's tiny, it has segmented programming spaces and it was my first.
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Ya that ones really attractive I want to build something like this with a little bigger display on a breadboard for fun what did you do with it when you first had it ?
 
siliboi said:
Awesome I’ll give this a look I assume I’ll have to use a virtual machine or my old xp pc
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The one I pointed to also works on later Windows versions. If Windows isn't what you want, https://pockemul.com/ has versions for Mac, Android, online, and ios in addition to Windows. The PC2/PC1500 is one of the free emulations though offers to subscribe to get at a lot of other emulations will be provided. There are a lot of other emulators for other pocket computers and programmable calculators out there.

All of these tiny pocket computers take a while to understand the programming model. I think it makes more sense to learn how it works before spending lots of time and money getting the real thing. Just don't try to learn several machines at the same time; the differences will cause confusion.
 
siliboi said:
Ya that ones really attractive I want to build something like this with a little bigger display on a breadboard for fun what did you do with it when you first had it ?
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It played a few games, naturally, but it also did computations for my high school chemistry class (enter a formula, get an atomic weight), some calculus work, etc. That one got Coke spilled on it, but my second one is still in my possession and did a lot of concentration gradient computation in the graduate biochem lab when I was trying to run gels and the like.
 
krebizfan said:
The one I pointed to also works on later Windows versions. If Windows isn't what you want, https://pockemul.com/ has versions for Mac, Android, online, and ios in addition to Windows. The PC2/PC1500 is one of the free emulations though offers to subscribe to get at a lot of other emulations will be provided. There are a lot of other emulators for other pocket computers and programmable calculators out there.

All of these tiny pocket computers take a while to understand the programming model. I think it makes more sense to learn how it works before spending lots of time and money getting the real thing. Just don't try to learn several machines at the same time; the differences will cause confusion.
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I’m trying it on iOS now really good app!!
 
ClassicHasClass said:
It played a few games, naturally, but it also did computations for my high school chemistry class (enter a formula, get an atomic weight), some calculus work, etc. That one got Coke spilled on it, but my second one is still in my possession and did a lot of concentration gradient computation in the graduate biochem lab when I was trying to run gels and the like.
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Would you ever consider parting with it
 
krebizfan said:
The one I pointed to also works on later Windows versions. If Windows isn't what you want, https://pockemul.com/ has versions for Mac, Android, online, and ios in addition to Windows. The PC2/PC1500 is one of the free emulations though offers to subscribe to get at a lot of other emulations will be provided. There are a lot of other emulators for other pocket computers and programmable calculators out there.

All of these tiny pocket computers take a while to understand the programming model. I think it makes more sense to learn how it works before spending lots of time and money getting the real thing. Just don't try to learn several machines at the same time; the differences will cause confusion.
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Isn’t it just simple basic from the time similar to the ti83
 
siliboi said:
Isn’t it just simple basic from the time similar to the ti83
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The BASIC may be simple but some of the BASICs used hotkeys for each command while others required typing the entire command.
Sharp had 3 major strains of BASIC for the Pocket Computers plus the mini-Fortran of the PC-1300 series.
Casio BASIC used a calculator style arrow to assign values to a variable instead of the more typical equals sign.

It is just easier to work only one pocket computer at a time. It takes me about 15 minutes to remember the machine specific syntax.
 
krebizfan said:
The BASIC may be simple but some of the BASICs used hotkeys for each command while others required typing the entire command.
Sharp had 3 major strains of BASIC for the Pocket Computers plus the mini-Fortran of the PC-1300 series.
Casio BASIC used a calculator style arrow to assign values to a variable instead of the more typical equals sign.

It is just easier to work only one pocket computer at a time. It takes me about 15 minutes to remember the machine specific syntax.
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Very cool I just saw on market place a pc1400 with printer with paper in working condition with batteries and a plug for printer was on for 250 and she dropped it to 75 I got it for 70 her husband just died of cancer poor thing. And. She may have the cassette player it came with cases AND the manuals just printed some stuff simple strings guy has loads of programs printed on paper using them as bookmarks in the manual so that’s cool too she’s looking for the cassette player so if I got that and some cassettes that would be killer I’m wondering if the ce 126 can print graphs or shapes using basic
 
Now I’m looking all over for peripherals like the ce 127r

Floppy ce 140f

Ce 153

Ce 125 graphics printers and things look floppy’s seem pretty rare
 
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