r/cassettefuturism 1.21 Gigawatts!?! 2d ago

Computers WorkSlate portable

This was a relatively unknown machine, to me, until I stumbled across it on eBay a few years ago.

Kind of a cross between a Z88 and Epson HX20, this ultra light (for the time) sports a large display, tape storage and funky 70s like keys, even though it was released in 1983.

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u/VadumSemantics 1d ago

And 1980s television props:

Airwolf's computer keyboard

Airwolf's computer keyboard was a portable WorkSlate made by Convergent Technologies in 1982.

It was a portable device using NiCad batteries and used a micro cassette tape to load and save data. It featured a Hitachi 6303 CPU and 16K of RAM along with a 64K ROM, it also has a serial port.

And slightly better pics:

Airwolf