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Texas Instruments Compact Computer 40

Texas Instruments · 1983

A handheld BASIC computer aimed at engineers, with a 31-character display and battery-backed memory that kept your program for months. Its Hexbus peripheral system was meant to connect printers and drives; the drive never shipped, so the machine could never save to tape or disc. A capable orphan.

As catalogued

Maker
Texas Instruments
CPU
TI TMS70C20-2.5
Memory
6K, 18K
Styles
CC-40
Regions
NTSC (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
portable with a one-line 31-character LCD
OS
TI BASIC

Chips

1
CPU
TI TMS70C20

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