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| TRS-80 Pocket Computer | |
| Posted by: stevep on 2008-04-06 19:46:43 I was in a thrift store today and found a TRS-80 Pocket Computer (PC-4) for $12.00. It has it's pouch so it's in good shape cosmetically and appears to work. | |
| Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2008-04-06 20:07:57 oooh awesome. got any pics? | |
| Posted by: mboconnell on 2008-04-11 13:48:22 Is that anything like the pocket computer John Connor had in T2? Maybe you could hack some ATM's with it... | |
| Posted by: Temetka on 2008-04-11 14:15:51 This thread is useless with pics.... | |
| Posted by: Aoresteen on 2008-04-11 14:35:40 RS had a series of them. You could program them in a BASIC like language. They were popular with engineers at the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Pocket_Computer I always wanted one but never did make the plundge. When RS closed them out I was too late and all had been snapped up in my area. | |
| Posted by: stevep on 2008-04-11 14:47:52 Guys, here is a picture of my TRS-80 Pocket Computer. Sitting on top of my MacBook 🙂  | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-04-11 15:12:38 John Connor was packing an Atari Portfolio. | |
Posted by: Aoresteen on 2008-04-11 15:40:39John Connor was packing an Atari Portfolio.And if you have ever worked with an ATM, you know that it is impossible to 'crack' one the way John Connor did. When a card is inserted into an ATM, it reads the mag stripe on the card. It does not do multiple reads (as in hundreds) and the card reader can NOT accept the card PIN. The PIN comes from the keypad. There's no way an ATM could ever accept a PIN from the card reader. After three tries with a PIN the card is disabled. But it looked good on the screen! I did ATM projects for NationsBank in the 1990's. We used to joke about cracking our ATMs a la John Connor. | |
| Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2008-04-11 15:59:39 man they just do not make calculators like they used too! my Ti-84 feels positively cheap. the buttons are way too loud, too. | |
| Posted by: quinterro on 2008-04-15 08:24:00 I have used one of those way back in high school. Between my Junior and Senior year I bought a Tandy PC-7 pocket computer. Really limited in comparison to yours - no tape interface, 1.5 Kb RAM, a tiny display and a keyboard that really sucks.  | |
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-04-15 10:43:38 I have a pc-6 purchased new in the 80's, still works. | |
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