The museum thread
Why this brand matters
Casio's calculator and pocket-computer lines repeatedly blurred the border between 'calculator' and 'computer'. It helped create the graphing-calculator category, while its PB machines explored touch zones, expansion and even C as a built-in programming environment.
That makes Casio central to the museum's calculator story: not just a competitor to TI and HP, but one of the companies that repeatedly changed the physical and software vocabulary of the handheld mathematical computer.
Major machines and families
This is a historical map of the machines relevant to this museum's story, not merely a list of the models currently emulated.
| Period | Machine / family | Why it belongs in the story | Museum status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Casio Mini | Mass-market personal electronic calculator that helped move calculation from office equipment to consumer product | Historical context |
| 1981 | FX-702P | Programmable pocket computer/scientific calculator with BASIC | Not yet emulated |
| 1983 | PB-700 | Pocket BASIC computer with QWERTY keyboard and expansion | Not yet emulated |
| 1985 | fx-7000G | Widely recognised as the first graphing scientific calculator | Not yet emulated |
| 1986 | fx-8000G | Early graphing calculator with program memory and external I/O | Playable |
| 1987 | PB-1000 | Advanced pocket computer with 192×32 display and touch-sensitive function areas | Playable |
| 1989 | PB-2000C | Pocket computer built around ANSI C rather than BASIC as its headline language | Playable |
| 1990s | FX-870P and later PB/FX pocket computers | Continued the compact C-programmable handheld-computer branch | Playable: FX-870P |
| 1996 | CFX-9850G family | Colour graphing calculators that broadened Casio's education platform | Not yet emulated |
| 1999 | Algebra FX 2.0 | CAS-capable graphing line | Not yet emulated |
| 2003 | ClassPad 300 | Stylus-driven symbolic graphing platform | Not yet emulated |
| 2005 | fx-9860G | High-performance monochrome graphing family with USB and add-ins | Not yet emulated |
Continue the story
Casio in context
Brand histories overlap: CPUs, operating systems, standards, classroom adoption and software ecosystems routinely crossed manufacturer boundaries.
Technical specifications and chronology on this manufacturer page are intended to remain traceable to original documentation and established archives. See the source path for this family →