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  • What's new in my pocket computers pages?

    Friday, October 15th : Ricoh RDC i-700 received
    Device securised this morning! No page for it yet; will be one some day.

    Wednesday, September 15th : Sharp MI-10 added
    Created a page for the Sharp MI-10 i've received.

    Friday, July 23rd : new homepage, new machines listed
    My collection reached 49 units yesterday as i've received 2 new watches. Added them to the list (no pages yet) and changed the homepage to a weblog format.

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    Casio CQ-1
    Autonomous calculator, clock, stop watch & calendar
     
    ** THIS ITEM IS NOT FOR SALE! **
    IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A USER MANUAL
    or IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A RESELLER/REPAIR STATION,
    I'm sorry, but I will not reply to user manual requests or to dealer location inquiries anymore.

    Please read my FAQ page that might help you if you have any of these questions in mind.
    Feel free to contact me for any other question or comment regarding this machine!






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    Definitely anchored in the 70's with it's massive round plastic design and fluorescent LED bar display; the CQ-1 may seem quite simple and just remotely related to most of the devices i gather in my collection.
    Definitely this is not a large-screen programmable machine. Not even does it have alphanumeric display or any kind of user-available memory. But my collections also focuses on pionneering machines, and the CQ-1 is one of these!
    What makes it a pionneer is actually not much; yet it makes the little device an important milestone. Electrically autonomous calculators existed prior to the CQ-1. Non autonomous multi-featured calculators also existed priori to the CQ-1. What makes the CQ-1 different is that it is the first autonomous multi-feature calculator!
    Think convergence... It seems obvious today that a PDA should include a built-in clock, a calendar, and even a calculator accessory. Well there had to be a first step, a pioneer offering several computer-controlled features in a single device... step forward CQ-1!



    Memory : no data memory
    Programming language : no programming ability
    Display : fluorescent LED bar digits
    Processor type : -
    Ports : -


    Related machines in my collection :
    Here's a selection of other pionneering devices & unusual machines :

    Casio FX-190 : weird hybrid calculator. Definitely another Casio pionneer, maybe not that much of a milestone though.

    Casio PF-8000 : said to be the first consumer character-recognition databank calculator.

    Casio IF-8000 : first touch-screen PDA

    Ricoh RDC-I700 : communicant digital camera well ahead of it's time

    Sharp MI-10 Color Zaurus : first color display PDA (also with imaging abilities)

    Hewlett-Packard Omnigo 100 : two-modes PDA with foldable keyboard long before Tablet PCs

    Palm Pilot 5000 : this list could not be complete without the machine that revived the PDA market; and had everyone use the word "a palm" instead of "a PDA"