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Aristus

(71,873 posts)
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 01:13 PM Dec 2017

Anyone remember 'Dataman'?



I got one for Christmas, 1977; Whew! Forty years ago, now. It was the gotta-have toy that year. In retrospect, it seems to have prefigured the smart phone. Except you couldn't call anyone with it...
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Anyone remember 'Dataman'? (Original Post) Aristus Dec 2017 OP
I had one of these at the time... hunter Dec 2017 #1

hunter

(40,476 posts)
1. I had one of these at the time...
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 07:45 PM
Dec 2017


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Scientific

Awesome little beast, if you remembered some of the scientific functions were approximations, and others would take up to fifteen seconds.

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