strange programmable on ebay

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This is not mine, nor do I know the seller or get a comission. This strange thing popped up on my feed and just in case someone here finds it interesting H E R E it is.

I notified Victor Toth but he already has one that doesn't work and doesn't want another. I guess that's because even HE can't put a Gamma Function into it ;-)

Here's Victor's note on it (with info the seller didn't know) from an email:
"It's actually called a PC-1270 (see https://www.rskey.org/CMS/index.php/exhi...%20PC-1270). It is not a programmable calculator. I would call it a "programmed" calculator. It allowed a developer to prepare a program on one of its programmable cousins (might have been the PC-1246; see https://www.rskey.org/pc1246), transfer the program to the PC-1270 in its CMOS memory, and then sell the PC-1270 with or without a printer as a purpose built device.

Unfortunately there is no way that I know of to extract any programs on a PC-1270. Then again, I never looked really hard, as given the age of these devices, their CMOS batteries are almost always dead, which means that any programs are long gone. Without an installed program, it is basically a fancy 4-function calculator."
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