Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Pocket Computer

February, 15th, 1985


It all depended on how big your pocket was, the PB-700 cost me just a few pennies under a hundred pounds and was a bright light in those early winter months. I loaded it up with three expansion modules, rampaks, and I had something to play with on the daily train journey.

I would program it, using BASIC, with those interesting column calculations from McDonnell Douglas, Lug sizing logic and of course, a slot machine simulation that became the most played game in the office (next to Microsoft Flight Simulator and Infocoms Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).

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