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From: anlyyao@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Casio PB1000
Message-ID: <140400005@cdp>
Date: 24 Jan 91 11:45:00 GMT
References: <538589786@1991Jan23.172506.2794@waikato.ac>
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!anlyyao    Jan 24 03:45:00 1991


In Germany the PB1000 still is on sale, in Taiwan as well. In Korea
(where I live now) you won't get it - and also I don't use it anymore.
It has been a nice 'beast' as you say, but I believe the competition
from notebook computers etc. is too strong.

Two hints:
- The cable between lower and upper half broke after 1 year of use.
  So don't open and close the calculator when not necessery.
- One day my MD-100 drive/interface went on strike. Some cheap buffer
  capacitors on the internal board touched the EMI shielding alu foil
  above that board and short circuited the power. I just had to bend them
  down.

If we now would have 1988, then I would buy the PB-1000 again.

Goetz