{"id":550,"date":"2009-03-16T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2009-03-16T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:19:16","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-1983-pocket-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/550\/retro-scan-of-the-week-1983-pocket-computer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> BASIC in your Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pc4_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pc4_small.jpg\" alt=\"TRS-80 Pocket Computer  PC-4 Ad - 1983\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The iPhone has nothing on this.  (Click for full advertisement.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here we see the state-of-the-art in 1983 pocket computer technology, the TRS-80 PC-4.  I have the <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/trs80pc1.html\" target=\"_blank\">PC-1<\/a> in this series, and it still seems advanced.  How many other pocket calculators allow you to program in full BASIC?<\/p>\n<p>I remember taking my PC-1 to high school in the mid-1990s and programming on the sly in my ELP class.  It felt so high tech &#8212; and my model was made in 1980!  Ah, those were the days.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Personal Computing, 1983 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> What was the first PDA or pocket computer you ever used?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone has nothing on this. (Click for full advertisement.) Here we see the state-of-the-art in 1983 pocket computer technology, the TRS-80 PC-4. I have the PC-1 in this series, and it still seems advanced. How many other pocket calculators allow you to program in full BASIC? I remember taking my PC-1 to high school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-technology-commentary","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}