I first saw this in Denver when I was visiting family but at the time I didn't have enough money to buy one. Fast forward a few years and I first had an FX-4000P and then an FX-7000G. I spent many hours on the 7000G and created and copied down a number of programs. Memory was small and it ate up batteries but I quite enjoyed using it.
Good one. The Casio fx-5800P has a 28.5 KB program memory, and so did the fx-4850P. They use BASIC-like program language. The 4800P had 4500 bytes of program memory.
Thanks Kenna. I wanted to create a niche content that would appeal to calculator collectors. Let me know if there are any calculators you would like to see videos on.
@@CalculatorCulture Thanks for the reply. It's always very cool to see that content creators read your comments, so I appreciate it. I think it'd be interesting to see something on the worlds first programmable calculators, in the mid 60s. Something like the Mathatron. Though it looks and sounds more like a typewriter than a calculator. I can't find information about it easily, so I would appreciate a video like that, if it's possible. Cheers.
Hi everyone, I’ve just got a CASIO 7000G calculator in mint condition from eBay with original box, the two manuals, soft carry bag and the Calc itself with fresh bats for $29 dollars. Long time sought after by me in that precise condition.
A fellow calculator lover...immediate subscription! :-) I'm about to do a video on the sharp EL9200, wish I had a 7000G...only have a 7700G representing Casio in the ring.
I had this calculator at school and was so cutting edge at the time. I wrote a horse racing program on it to relieve the boredom of history lessons. Everyone wanted to play it !
Thanks for reviewing this magnificent calc. Yes, contrary to expectations, it wasn't the innovators at TI or even HP who pioneered the graphing calc, but the (often humbled) Casio! In 1985 I was attending AP Chemistry and Physics classes in my senior year, and desperately needed a scientific calc. I ended up getting the fx-7000g's smaller sibling, the fx-6000g with a reduced height, angled screen (there was also an fx-6500g with a flat screen). In a nutshell, these two calcs were mindboggling for their time, and I used mine a lot during the boring classes (english lit, ahem). Eventually I hacked together a ballistics game that consumed all the available memory, leveraging the fact that these casios, like the fx-4000p, accept implied multiplication (important tip there), thus omitting redundant '×' keystrokes. I've made the proggie available online at the bottom of my humble fx-6000g page: ganjatron.net/retrocomputing/casio-fx6000g/index.html Other escapades included 3D plotting routines, animations, and whatnot. It helped that these calcs were surprisingly fast for their time. I agree with your verdict that these calcs were groundbreaking but hamstrung by small memory, a lack of expansion and mass storage, and high battery consumption. Most of these issues (expect for the last) were addressed by the subsequent fx-8000g, which I happened to pick up at a flea market several years ago. In general, these calcs are now surprisingly cheap -- just because they're not labelled HP, TI or Sharp. 😉
Yeah there are actually quite a lot of highly collectable and expensive Casios, like the fx-201p and fx-603p. I’m not sure exactly why this one is very cheap to pick up. possibly a combination of being under appreciated and also that it was produced in large numbers?
@@CalculatorCulture I think part of the lack of appeal for the graphing Casios is that they're simply not as sleek and sexy as their predecessors, nor the HP Voyagers for that matter. The 7000g is simply HUGE. A shame really, when you consider the relatively powerful programming model they offer.
I had one of these. It was great until it was stolen off my desk. It's only real faults were the modes confused people that weren't used to them and those darn screws on the back for battery access.
How do I turn the contrast up and down? I've put new batteries in mine, and the readout can't be seen from the front, when the calc' is facing me...I have to lean it away from me, to read anything on it. What do I do?
Common problem with this series, but as the channel owner said, mode then left/right do the trick for the whole range.....just replaced some batteries in a 7700G and also suddenly had a very dim display so have just googled how to do this :-)
So I got one of these and I put new batteries in, turned it on, nothing, I already hit reset, but idk if the reset button is missing because it doesn’t seem like an actual button, I hear no clicking and wonder if I should get it checked out somewhere
I remember one kid at school in the 1980s who had one of these, and the graphing capability was just a superfluous gimmick that only provided seconds of interest then. I got one myself a couple of years ago just to see how it performed as a calculator, and it hardly compares to my old fx-4000P which I still use. It's bulky, inelegant, the display is unreadable, there's no contrast thumbwheel, it devours batteries, and it can't do permutations and combinations. It sits in a drawer with no batteries in and I never use it.
Hey man, I LOVE your videos, but, and I mean this in the most RESPECTFUL WAY: can you please speak up? I literally cannot hear you in all of your videos. Im sorry if this came off mean :(
Mine still works!!!
In 1986, drawing curves was magic.
And with its 422 program steps I had coded a Mastermind game.
I first saw this in Denver when I was visiting family but at the time I didn't have enough money to buy one. Fast forward a few years and I first had an FX-4000P and then an FX-7000G. I spent many hours on the 7000G and created and copied down a number of programs. Memory was small and it ate up batteries but I quite enjoyed using it.
Originally had a price tag of $90. Dollars way back in 1985, some $240. Of today’s dollars.
Good one.
The Casio fx-5800P has a 28.5 KB program memory, and so did the fx-4850P. They use BASIC-like program language.
The 4800P had 4500 bytes of program memory.
got it stolen twice v v
I see potential in this channel.
Thanks Kenna. I wanted to create a niche content that would appeal to calculator collectors. Let me know if there are any calculators you would like to see videos on.
@@CalculatorCulture Thanks for the reply. It's always very cool to see that content creators read your comments, so I appreciate it.
I think it'd be interesting to see something on the worlds first programmable calculators, in the mid 60s. Something like the Mathatron. Though it looks and sounds more like a typewriter than a calculator.
I can't find information about it easily, so I would appreciate a video like that, if it's possible. Cheers.
I love this channel!
SAME!
Wow this calculator is way too advance for 1985. Truely, Casio is the world leader of calculators!
Hi everyone, I’ve just got a CASIO 7000G calculator in mint condition from eBay with original box, the two manuals, soft carry bag and the Calc itself with fresh bats for $29 dollars. Long time sought after by me in that precise condition.
A fellow calculator lover...immediate subscription! :-) I'm about to do a video on the sharp EL9200, wish I had a 7000G...only have a 7700G representing Casio in the ring.
I had one of these in school. Wonderful bit of kit.
I had this calculator at school and was so cutting edge at the time. I wrote a horse racing program on it to relieve the boredom of history lessons. Everyone wanted to play it !
That Casio puts high precedence on parentheses... So "6÷2(1+2)" would result in "1" while "6÷2×(1+2)" would result in "9"
Thanks for reviewing this magnificent calc. Yes, contrary to expectations, it wasn't the innovators at TI or even HP who pioneered the graphing calc, but the (often humbled) Casio!
In 1985 I was attending AP Chemistry and Physics classes in my senior year, and desperately needed a scientific calc. I ended up getting the fx-7000g's smaller sibling, the fx-6000g with a reduced height, angled screen (there was also an fx-6500g with a flat screen).
In a nutshell, these two calcs were mindboggling for their time, and I used mine a lot during the boring classes (english lit, ahem). Eventually I hacked together a ballistics game that consumed all the available memory, leveraging the fact that these casios, like the fx-4000p, accept implied multiplication (important tip there), thus omitting redundant '×' keystrokes. I've made the proggie available online at the bottom of my humble fx-6000g page: ganjatron.net/retrocomputing/casio-fx6000g/index.html
Other escapades included 3D plotting routines, animations, and whatnot. It helped that these calcs were surprisingly fast for their time.
I agree with your verdict that these calcs were groundbreaking but hamstrung by small memory, a lack of expansion and mass storage, and high battery consumption. Most of these issues (expect for the last) were addressed by the subsequent fx-8000g, which I happened to pick up at a flea market several years ago.
In general, these calcs are now surprisingly cheap -- just because they're not labelled HP, TI or Sharp. 😉
Yeah there are actually quite a lot of highly collectable and expensive Casios, like the fx-201p and fx-603p. I’m not sure exactly why this one is very cheap to pick up. possibly a combination of being under appreciated and also that it was produced in large numbers?
@@CalculatorCulture I think part of the lack of appeal for the graphing Casios is that they're simply not as sleek and sexy as their predecessors, nor the HP Voyagers for that matter. The 7000g is simply HUGE. A shame really, when you consider the relatively powerful programming model they offer.
Bought mine new back in the day & still have it.
yeah this era of Casio calculators (and actually Casios in general) are very reliable.
I had one of these. It was great until it was stolen off my desk. It's only real faults were the modes confused people that weren't used to them and those darn screws on the back for battery access.
I still have mine. I bought it new and paid dearly for it. (And yes, it still works.)
I purchased mine in 1985, I'm still using it today, I changed the batteries last week for what, if my memory is good, the 7th time.
That's amazing.
Me too.
Batteries are always easy to find.
The presentation of the calculations is very pleasant.
And the programming language is very intuitive.
I had this calculator and casio formula in 1995..
5:03 I tried doing that on the fx-7500g but it just returned as 0
I can set up contrast of display:
Mode, left/right
Or
Mode, up/down
Nice calc Ive one
I don't know the reasons why my calculator (fx-7000g) now has a totally black screen. Does anyone know the way to fix it?
How do I turn the contrast up and down? I've put new batteries in mine, and the readout can't be seen from the front, when the calc' is facing me...I have to lean it away from me, to read anything on it. What do I do?
You tap the Mode key and the left and right arrow keys to adjust the screen contrast.
@@CalculatorCulture Thanks for that. What I did, in the end, was just use the reset hole at the back and that sorted it.
Common problem with this series, but as the channel owner said, mode then left/right do the trick for the whole range.....just replaced some batteries in a 7700G and also suddenly had a very dim display so have just googled how to do this :-)
Does it have any way of controlling the brightness of the screen?
You can adjust the contrast by tapping Mode and then tapping left or right arrow.
So I got one of these and I put new batteries in, turned it on, nothing, I already hit reset, but idk if the reset button is missing because it doesn’t seem like an actual button, I hear no clicking and wonder if I should get it checked out somewhere
I have a slightly different one, FX-7000GA (approx. 1990). Is it the same in terms of functionality?
Probably yes. Casio used the A suffix for lower power usage versions of its 80s calculators.
I have one of those from a thrift shop it has missing pixels on the top row.
Yes dead pixels are a common issue.
I remember one kid at school in the 1980s who had one of these, and the graphing capability was just a superfluous gimmick that only provided seconds of interest then. I got one myself a couple of years ago just to see how it performed as a calculator, and it hardly compares to my old fx-4000P which I still use. It's bulky, inelegant, the display is unreadable, there's no contrast thumbwheel, it devours batteries, and it can't do permutations and combinations. It sits in a drawer with no batteries in and I never use it.
Yeah I find the large screen useful for programming though.
Hey man, I LOVE your videos, but, and I mean this in the most RESPECTFUL WAY: can you please speak up? I literally cannot hear you in all of your videos. Im sorry if this came off mean :(
Hi. I had issues with the audio in a lot of the earlier videos... although the audio is not great it is a lot better in my more recent ones.