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1,289 discussions, 9,527 archived comments; pages no longer carry the comments themselves. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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£100 (UK, 1982)
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forum_thread: 1284
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- title: 'YOUR COMPUTER ARTICLE #1'
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text: Dated october 1982
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image: /media/museum/pubs/your-computer_oct-1982_sanyo-phc-systems_2%5B1%5D.jpg
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- author: Ian (Canada)
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date: Tuesday 7th March 2023
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text: I have an example of this computer. It was acquired in modern times following an estate sale, so its history is obscure, but it is a working copy in good condition. I have found the firmware of this machine rather dismal. As your website points out, it can handle integer variables only, which is very limiting. Added to that, it can only deal with variable names of a single character, severely compromising human-friendliness and restricting software to a total of 26 variables. There is no array capability. The ZX81 was a comparative supercomputer next to this little flower! I located on the Internet exactly one program of any use written in Tiny Basic, which ports to the PHC-20''s Sanyo Basic rather nicely$a "Mastermind"-type guessing game. Having adapted and typed it in, it was successfully stored on tape. The tape dialog is comparatively slick, displaying the names of programs encountered as it searches for the one requested. The physical tape interface is a 5-pin DIN. The pinout
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is such that the tape cable for a Radio Shack CoCo 2 can be used, but with the far ends reversed, i.e. the CoCo2 "Mic" line becomes the PHC-20 "Ear" line, and visa versa. Other than that, I don''t know what to tell you, since I''ve found the system too limiting to play with this machine extensively.
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oc_id: 1319
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230604031258/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1319
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