Imagesource: https://pockemul.com/

If you like old computers, you also might like the other old computers. That is, the ones that you can't connect to a monitor, and only have numeric keyboards and LCD displays.

To be honest, these machines are not less interesting, they are based on the same basic principles and partly even on similar hardware and CPUs as the microcomputers of the early 80s.

But these thingies don't get nearly as much love as they might deserve. Maybe we can change that. The unfortunately unknown authors from the PockEmul Team have been maintaining their emulator for calculators and pocket computers for several years now: PockEmul.

The software implements a whole range of machines from Casio, Sharp, HP, Texas Instruments and NEC. Especially interesting, the Epson HX-20 ... probably the first laptop in the world.

Well, curious now? 🧮