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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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Sharp EL-9000
Graphic programmable calculator
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** 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!
Special features :
First graphic calculator from Sharp.
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The EL-9000 is the first graphic calculator from Sharp. It was certainly designed to counter Casio's pionneer effort in this area, yet it offered a screen half the size of Casio's flagship model, the FX-7000G.
I've first heard about the EL-9000 in high-school, when it was released, as a class mate had one and was very proud of it (France was acquired to Casio's cause at the time).
Since then, i had a weird memory about it : the sequence for drawing a function's graph seemed a bit awkward. On the Casio machines i was used to, launching any calculation or command (like drawing a graph) was done by entering the expression to execute/calculate, then pressing the "EXE" key, which is exactly like the "ENTER" key on computers.
In my memory, drawing a graph on the EL-9000 required the following sequence : press the "GRAPH" key to display to graphing command, then enter the function, then press the "DRAW" key to request the graph calculation and drawing!
A dedicated key just to execute the function graph command! So i grew up with this memory, and as time passed, i started believing the memory could not be accurate.
A few years later, i found an EL-9000 for sale in a second-hand shop, and missed the chance to buy it. It had disappeared from the store when i came back, and even the store itself disappeared a few months later. Thenks to the internet, i eventually did not miss the second chance i had to buy an EL-9000, and here it is!
I have thus been able to test it, and check if my memory was accurate : it is!! I have not done any more test for now, tho, so i couldn't say whether the DRAW key is used only to execute the GRAPH command (well then, why not a dedicated execution key for every command, as they were at it?! :) ) or also has another use.
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Related machines in my collection :
Casio FX-7000G : First graphic calculator
Sharp EL-9300 : Later Sharp graphic calculator
Sharp EL-9600C : Sharp graphic calculator introducing a sensitive screen
Casio CFX-9900GC : A casio machine from the "Graphic User Interface" era
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