AN INDEPENDENT ARCHIVE OF HISTORIC COMPUTING

I / THE COLLECTIONS

The Library.

Machines, languages, experiments, and ideas.
Preserved for the curious. Open to discovery.

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EXPLORE THE COLLECTIONS01 — 06
01 / ARCHITECTURE & ASSEMBLY

CS617

Exploring the HD61700 architecture of the Casio PB-2000C and AI-1000.

T8_BENCH_LOOP · HD61700ROM / ASM
T8_BENCH_LOOP:
        ; Timed counting core is unchanged from r012 and r011.
        ; Native BRK is not asynchronous in this card-ROM running state.
        ; No OFFCHK, MENU, or keyboard decoder in the counted core.

        CAL     T8_GETTM
        LD      $10,$8
        SBC     $10,$24
        JR      NZ,T8_WINDOW_DONE
        ADBW    $16,$SY
        LDW     $20,$16
        SBCW    $20,$22
        JR      NZ,T8_BENCH_LOOP
ASSEMBLY · EXPERIMENTS · COURSEEXPLORE
02 / LANGUAGE & RUNTIME

DL-Pascal 1.2

The language, its graphics, its runtime, and the experiments that reveal its behavior.

DrawCell · DL-PASCALPASCAL / ROM
procedure DrawCell(R,C,Color:Integer);
begin
   X := (C - 1) * SIZE ;
   Y := (R - 1) * SIZE ;
   Xp := X + 1;
   Yp := Y + 1;
   Line(X,Y  ,Xp,Y , Color);
   Line(X,Yp ,Xp,Yp, Color);
end;
LANGUAGE · GRAPHICS · COVERAGEEXPLORE
03 / THE POCKET COMPUTER
Editorial composite of a Casio PB-2000C in front of its Spanish-language manuals; composed from Javier’s photographs

PB-2000C

The machine, its memory expansions, language cards, maintenance and hardware modifications.

DISCOVER
04 / RESTORATIONS
Restorations: editorial montage of four original repair photographs by Daniel, including a Casio Z-1GR

Restorations

Repair histories and careful recoveries: Sora, MD-120, Z-1GR and more.

DISCOVER
05 / ORIGINAL WORK

Research &
Reports

Investigations, technical papers, modifications, and reproducible experiments.

DISCOVER
06 / THE REFERENCE DESK

References &
Archives

Historical manuals, the original catalog, and links to researchers and communities.

DISCOVER
THE READING ROOMA GUIDE

Beyond the entrance.

CS617 is now open, with its syllabus and available reading editions. DL-Pascal now joins the available collections; other materials will open progressively as they are prepared.

01

CS617

Read the course syllabus and its locally available chapter PDFs for the PB-2000C and AI-1000.

OPEN COURSE INDEX ↗
02

DL-Pascal

Language reference, coverage testing, ROM investigations, and practical graphics and programming examples.

OPEN DL-PASCAL COLLECTION ↗
03

PB-2000C

The PB-2000C hardware collection, memory upgrades, language cards, and documentation.

OPEN PB-2000C COLLECTION ↗
04

Restorations

Documented restorations and repairs of historic computing hardware.

OPEN RESTORATIONS COLLECTION ↗
05

Research & Reports

Original technical studies, measurements, and carefully curated reports.

COLLECTION IN PREPARATION
06

References & Archives

External resources and historical documentation. Explore Piotr’s pocket-computer reference site ↗.

COLLECTION IN PREPARATION