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[OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #1 Posted by Diego Diaz on 27 Mar 2012, 11:44 p.m. Hi all, Although not related with HP whatsoever, I think that some Casio enthusiasts may also be active members of this forum. Therefore it could also be a good place to ask for help/info. I've been unable to find any of the ROM cards for the PB-2000C, so I finally built my own OM-53B (BASIC ROM). Now I'm looking for a copy of the BASIC manual in English or Spanish (the only one I've found on-line is in German). Thanks for your attention. Diego. PS. Finding any other ROM card and/or their manuals would also be most interesting... ;-) Edited: 27 Mar 2012, 11:49 p.m.

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #2 Posted by Nick_S on 28 Mar 2012, 2:04 a.m., in response to message #1 by Diego Diaz That is an interesting device and the only one I have come across with the option of a Pascal language module. The related AI-1000 seems to have offered a built-in Lisp language interpreter. I just downloaded the emulator for the PB-2000c and added in the files to turn it into a AI-1000 from this web site: http://www.pisi.com.pl/piotr433/pb2000ee.htm Now I need to figure out how to use it... Nick Edited: 28 Mar 2012, 3:05 a.m.

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #3 Posted by pascal_meheut on 28 Mar 2012, 3:15 a.m., in response to message #2 by Nick_S Quote: That is an interesting device and the only one I have come across with the option of a Pascal language module. Yes but the Pascal language module was built by a third-party and is almost impossible to find. It was also much faster than the C interpreter. Quote: The related AI-1000 seems to have offered a built-in Lisp language interpreter. I just downloaded the emulator for the PB-2000c and added in the files to turn it into a AI-1000 from this web site: Yes. I have one and it is a nice little machine. Basically a PB-2000C but with Lisp instead of C. The FX-890p is also a nice machine, with builtin C like the PB2000C but faster and can even boot MS-DOS (more or less). Quote: Now I need to figure out how to use it... Lot of Idiot and Silly Parenthesis... Basically, use the PB2000C documentation but write Lisp instead. I have the whole paper documentation but it is in japanese...

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #4 Posted by Diego Diaz on 28 Mar 2012, 3:42 a.m., in response to message #2 by Nick_S Yep, Although, AFAIK, the PASCAL language ROM card was not from CASIO but from a third party (personal?) project. CASIO ROM cards I'm aware of are: - OM-51P: Prolog. - OM-52C: C. (note that "C" is factory standard language for the "PB-2000C" so, this card is for its Japanese counterpart "AI-1000" which factory standard is LISP) - OM-53B: BASIC. - OM-54A: Assembly language. - OM-32: No clue so far. I've seen a picture but has no info on the label. May be a 32K Flash ROM? PASCAL is the only 'third party" card I've read about. Certainly one of the most interesting vintage devices from CASIO. Cheers. Diego. (edited) Seems I was too slow typing, most of my reply already posted by Pascal... :-) Edited: 28 Mar 2012, 3:46 a.m.

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #5 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 28 Mar 2012, 4:01 a.m., in response to message #4 by Diego Diaz For those who don't know yet, I've written software to manipulate disks in the format written by the MD-100 accessory. It works with the PB-1000 and the PB-2000C. Piotr Piatek has written an emulator for the MD-100 but it will only work with the emulated calculators, not the real devices. A suitable PC interface is lacking. Links: http://www.mvcsys.de/doc/casioutil.html http://pisi.com.pl/piotr433/index.htm

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #6 Posted by Diego Diaz on 28 Mar 2012, 7:50 a.m., in response to message #5 by Marcus von Cube, Germany Hi Marcus, I for one do know about your work on this peculiar machine and the emulator for the MD-100. I'm trying to build a USB interface for it, but my lack of C languaje knowledge leads me to seek for BASIC alternative ROM (then found the remaining ROM options) Another toy for my spare time... :-) Cheers. Diego.

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #7 Posted by Lourensk on 28 Mar 2012, 8:55 a.m., in response to message #4 by Diego Diaz Found in the silicium forum: the OM-32 ROM cards are not for use with the PB-2000C or AI-1000, but the "Sandvik Coromant TRIM 8401T" industry pocket computer, that was built in 1987 or 2 years before the PB-2000C. The 8401T housing looks like the FX-770P series, but the hardware is almost the same as the FX-850P or FX-603P. (HD62002 @ 1.228 MHz) It has 8 KB RAM thats even PEEKable (Address range: 0-8191). The Basic seems to be a light version of the FX-850P, but it's not possible to write own programs. The machine is only able to execute Basic programs from OM-32 ROM cards. So the OM-32 ROM contains only a tokenized Basic program, but not the interpreter itself like the OM-53B for the PB-2000C. There are 4 different OM-32 program versions: OM-32(v31) "Drehen" OM-32(v32) "Fräsen" OM-32(v33) "Bohren" OM-32(v34) "Wirtschaftlichkeit" If there is no label on your OM-32 to identify it, you can use a PB-2000C in the following way: -Put the OM-32 card into the PB-2000C and switch it on -Type "clear mon" in the CAL mode to call the hidden monitor -Type "B" EXE "0" to switch to bank 0 -Type "EC10" EXE "40" EXE to map the OM-32 in bank 3 -Type "B" EXE "3" to switch to bank 3 -Type "DD" EXE and check the first value for the program version -Type "D10" EXE for the date of the program

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #8 Posted by Bill (Smithville, NJ) on 28 Mar 2012, 7:13 p.m., in response to message #4 by Diego Diaz Quote: PASCAL is the only 'third party" card I've read about WOW! Pascal & Prolog, plus Assembly and C. What a handheld. Being a avid fan of Pascal, this really got my attention. I'd love to hear more about the Pascal option - how much of the language did it support? Did it support RECORDS? I've been playing around with the old Byte Tiny Pascal and thinking about trying to port it to a Sharp PC-1600. It's only integer, but if I could get the Runtime transfered to the 1600, then should run rings around the built-in basic. Now you have me thinking that I need to get a Casio PB-2000C and start the search for the rare Pascal card (probaly a very long search). Bill

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #9 Posted by Diego Diaz on 29 Mar 2012, 3:42 a.m., in response to message #8 by Bill (Smithville, NJ) Hi Bill, The first part is fairly easy, a few of them (PB-2000C) are usually available at eBay... not cheap though; but everynow and then a reasonably priced one showed up. On the second part, finding the (extremely elusive) Pascal card, well... er, just let me wish you the best of lucks... :-) I haven't even found a single picture of it... but the last reference I've found of an eBay sale hit the $510 mark... BTW the OM-53B BASIC got the same price, one minute later... and all this was in 2008! All the best. Diego

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #10 Posted by Bill (Smithville, NJ) on 29 Mar 2012, 9:56 a.m., in response to message #9 by Diego Diaz Hi Diego, You're right - getting the PB-2000C is fairly reasonable - less than $200 at present for a "NIB" with Spanish manual. But you have totally discouraged me on ever getting the Pascal card, unless someone starts creating a duplicate of one. I'd still like to know how complete was the Pascal card - Records, pointers, etc. I guess I'm back to looking at porting the Byte Tiny Pascal to my Sharp PC-1600, if I ever want to have a handheld pascal computer. Of course, I have Turbo Pascal & C on my HP-200LX. But I enjoy playing around with the old Z-80 code on the 1600. Thanks, Bill

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #11 Posted by Nick_S on 29 Mar 2012, 11:50 a.m., in response to message #10 by Bill (Smithville, NJ) I also have a soft spot for Pascal, though I'm interested to see how it has evolved into its grandchild Oberon. Nick Edited: 30 Mar 2012, 5:26 a.m.

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #12 Posted by Diego Diaz on 29 Mar 2012, 10:00 p.m., in response to message #10 by Bill (Smithville, NJ) Hi again, "Duplicating" these cards is also pretty straight forward, they're just a ROM chip. But I've been unable to find the ROM images of CASL (Assembler) nor Pascal and this is more likely copyrighted. I don't know who is the developer of the Pascal card otherwise I could try to contact him and ask for permission... Seems that all we can do is to have to keep an eye on TAS... :-( Back to the original aim of this thread: I'm still interested in the BASIC manual (English or Spanish). If anyone have it or knows who may have it I'll appreciate any info. If you prefer private contact please use clonix41(at)gmail(dot)com. Best wishes. Diego

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #13 Posted by pascal_meheut on 30 Mar 2012, 12:08 a.m., in response to message #12 by Diego Diaz Quote: I don't know who is the developer of the Pascal card otherwise I could try to contact him and ask for permission... "DL-PASCAL was developed by the Swedish company Data-Larsson also responsible for the FX-9860G CASIO SDK. It was available as ROM card or soldered-in instead of built-in C." You can try http://datalarsson.se/ for instance.

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #14 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 30 Mar 2012, 2:18 a.m., in response to message #12 by Diego Diaz Diego, do you know my BASIC Comparison Sheet? It might give you a head start. The BASIC is roughly identical to that of the PB-1000 and very close to that of the FX-850P. Both stem from the PB-700 BASIC but are vastly improved (e.g. long case sensitive variable names).

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #15 Posted by Diego Diaz on 30 Mar 2012, 4:40 a.m., in response to message #14 by Marcus von Cube, Germany Hi Pascal, Marcus, Thanks, I'll mail them and will let you know when/(if) I got a reply. Yes I have got your detailed BASIC comparison sheet (thanks for the good job) it has been my 'Rosseta stone' to try some of my (very outdated) BASIC programming skills. Thanks for all the replies and advices. All the best from Caribean Sea. Diego

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #16 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 30 Mar 2012, 6:01 a.m., in response to message #15 by Diego Diaz Quote: 'Rosseta stone' I like the expression. :-)

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #17 Posted by Namir on 30 Mar 2012, 10:19 a.m., in response to message #14 by Marcus von Cube, Germany Marcus, The BASIC comparison sheet is very impressive. I use it when I have a model that I have no manuals for and is listed in the table. It is a life saver!! Namir

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #18 Posted by Xerxes on 1 Apr 2012, 7:55 a.m., in response to message #8 by Bill (Smithville, NJ) Quote: I'd love to hear more about the Pascal option - how much of the language did it support? The implementation is very close to Turbo Pascal 5.0 and it supports all elements of this nice language. Pascal

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #19 Posted by Lourensk on 28 Mar 2012, 5:33 a.m., in response to message #1 by Diego Diaz Hi Diego, Do you have additional info about the ROM pack you have build ? Is the Hex or Bin image available? schematics? Best regards, Lourens

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #20 Posted by Diego Diaz on 28 Mar 2012, 7:18 a.m., in response to message #19 by Lourensk Hi Lourens, Files .BIN are available at Piotr's page "Emulator" (see Marcus post above). I don't have the details here (far away from home), just a picture (collage) of what it's available on line with my own card in the lower right corner (front view not the tracks, sorry) Any how the board is just "wiring" the card connector (45 pins, 1mm pitch) to a 28F512, programmed with the .BIN file. You can use any ROM type you like provided the package is flat enough to enter into the narrow card slot and the tracks connect every pin with its corresponding signal. The "Service manual" gives every detail and is also available in Piotr's page (Below Emulator link). Obviously, a ROM programmer is required... :-) Hope this helps, I can send you more details as I get back home in a few days. Best wishes. Diego. Edited: 28 Mar 2012, 7:23 a.m.

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #21 Posted by pascal_meheut on 28 Mar 2012, 7:37 a.m., in response to message #20 by Diego Diaz Too bad the Pascal is not available. But if I had time, I would give a go a Prolog programming to remember my youth :-)

Re: [OT] Casio PB-2000C info request. Message #22 Posted by Lourensk on 28 Mar 2012, 7:39 a.m., in response to message #20 by Diego Diaz Hi Diego, Nice work ! I will try to find a matching connector, the rom and programming it is no problem. The next challenge will be to find the Basic manual you mentioned, also CASL and PROLOG would be nice to have.. Keep up the good work, Thanks! Lourens.

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