Nixdorf LK-3000

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon May 3 14:52:37 1999

Preface: I'm still in the process of getting Informations about
it form some former Nixdorf development guys.

> >Many modules were made for it. There are the general purpose modules,
> >like the Calulator, and I think there was a Computer module but I'm not
> >certain (if there was then I don't have one but I want one). Of course
> >its primary goal in life was to be a language translator, and I happen to
> >have English-Spanish, English-Italian, English-Polish, English-Arabic, and
> >probably a couple others that I forgot (I have one unit with the Arabic
> >alphabet above the keys :)

Arabic Keyboard ? WAY cool - I have to see it before I can belive.

> Do you have any spare module?

Especialy Erabic ones ?

> >I have one carthridge that was already popped open, so I looked inside and
> >found nothing extraordinary. Looks like a TI microcontroller of some sort
> >and a ROM or two. But yes, the smarts are definitely in the modules. The
> >actual handheld unit is really just a dumb terminal.

> Any actual info on the pinout of the cartridges? It seems like this unit has
> hacking potential...

Maybe now, back then it was _quite_ expensive.

> >I believe the Nixdorf LK-3000 is the first (uh-oh, there's that
> >word again) handheld computer device, first introduced in 1978 or 1979.

> The dates I found indicated 1975.

Nop, Salam is more correct.


Gruss
H.

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