Oddest mismatch in hardware for a given purpose...

[David Griffith]

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Josh Dersch wrote:

> I have in my grubby little hands an Elektronika MK-85 calculator, which 
> externally is a spot-on clone of the Casio FX-700P BASIC programmable 
> calculator.  Functionally, it's identical as well, with a few enhancements 
> (pixel-addressable graphics, a Cyrillic character-set, etc)

With all the stuff that the Russians did with PDP-11 knockoffs, I wonder 
what would have happened if DEC took the market of home computers 
seriously.  The UKNC (which to me resembles an MSX), is particularly 
interesting.

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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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