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   - title: Casio PB-100 japanese commercial
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-  comments:
-  - author: Nauman (Washington, DC)
-    date: Monday 25th April 2011
-    text: My father bought it from Saudi Arabia (where he had a civil engineering job in 1982) for me when I was 12 years old. I learned my first programming language, BASIC, on it. Astoundingly enough, 30 years later, it is still the best calculator I''ve ever owned and I still use it. In 30 years, I''ve replaced the batteries twice or three times I think. It is truly a marvel. Who makes technology these days that''ll last 30 years?
-  - author: Jalmari Raippalinna (Finland)
-    date: Saturday 4th September 2010
-    text: |-
-      My first computer, taught me programming when I was 8 years old. I ported lunar lander from ZX Spectrum to PB-100 when I was 9 yers old and only now I understand who unbelievably cool that was, I just wanted to play the game back then.
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-      Now I am a CTO, this computer made the programming my lifestyle!
-  - author: UZsie (ITA)
-    date: Monday 17th June 2019
-    text: |-
-      My first PC, I recall two things, a blackjack game crammed in the 544 bytes.\
-      And a regularity race among friends where the actual average speed was kept by me using the pb100 as a mere calculator.\
-      The first leg we had 30 secs margin, and the guys with 10 secs margin taunted us. They simply lucked out after that, so we won all the other legs. $P
-  - author: Sean Pead (South Africa)
-    date: Wednesday 11th January 2017
-    text: I had one of these with a dock for a tape recorder to store programs. My brother still has it and it works perfectly still
-  - author: Sukesh Hoogan (India)
-    date: Sunday 8th January 2017
-    text: One could attach a thermal printer FP-12 to it.
-  - author: Rikus Combrinck (South Africa)
-    date: Tuesday 5th April 2016
-    text: I got mine as a Christmas gift in 1982 or 1983. I was about 10 at the time and learnt to program in BASIC on it before moving on to a Commodore 64, two or three years later. I still have it in a box somewhere. Great memories!
-  - author: Dave Tierney (Western Australia)
-    date: Saturday 12th July 2014
-    text: I bought mine in 1983 and loaded it with navigation programmes for off shore-sailing and later used it until 1989 for scheduling transport services. I dug it up again after we moved house, put a couple of new batteries in it and its away working again. All I have to do now is find the book and manual and I''ll have another to play with.
-  - author: Twilighte (Uk)
-    date: Wednesday 8th August 2012
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-      I bought a PB-100 from a Truro charity shop in about''85 and it became the fun thing to mess about on whilst in college. I even bought the or-1 later and managed to write a very simple arcade game using / and $ and \_ characters together with $ for the main craft.\
-      Unfortunately the on/off button lost coherence one day and I never managed to fix it. It eventually got taken apart and binned but the fond memories still linger,
-  - author: Dennis (UK)
-    date: Thursday 19th April 2012
-    text: |-
-      It was on one of these that I learned to program in Basic. With the added memory chip ( extra 2K IIRC ) I turned it into a Pilot Nav Computer.
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-      In the UK Clive Sinclair then brought out his ZX and Spectrum computers and we never looked back.
-  - author: Maunu (Estonia)
-    date: Monday 28th March 2011
-    text: |-
-      In 1992 a guy, who had braught it from abroad, sold it to me. It was helpful to write some programs for routine calculatings at school. Then I forgot it for years, meanwhile it survived a flood...\
-      Now I gave it to my child for school computings. Maybe teaching her a little programming and playing with mp3-player as a program saving destination as I have a docking unit also.\
-      BTW, any RAM Expansion Pack for sale? $)
-  - author: Farid (Pakistan)
-    date: Sunday 25th May 2008
-    text: |-
-      Got one in 1984 ! Learned programming on it and used it for a couple of years before I got my Commodore 64.
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-      It was small, but you could actually write some very interesting code with it.
-  - author: alessandro (italy)
-    date: Saturday 21st April 2007
-    text: still have it . it's in poor condition after 5 years of programming during my school period . 0.5K where not really much but I manage to run several program for electronic calculation . good time goes by
-  - author: Thomas Lienhard (Switzerland)
-    date: Sunday 21st March 2004
-    text: it had a 455kHz ceramic resonator that was used as system clock!
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