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A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
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A hobbyist describes their journey into retro-computing after discovering the ability to run BASIC software and Telnet on vintage Casio pocket calculators. The project evolved from simple programming experiments to integrating amateur radio contact logging.
About a eight weeks ago I had virtually no interest in calculators. Blank, dull, tedious-looking objects that remind me of long, arduous rainy afternoons in 1980’s/1990’s school maths classes.
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