old tech

[handrawn]

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which I was given as a present [second-hand]

it has been given, and still gets, a lot of use - every few years, as today, it needs taking apart and cleaning and piece of sellotape at top left second pic replacing [that is old tech ]

so what is it - not difficult I'm thinking... but bonus points for the make....and the year of manufacture [give or take a couple]

[wizard509]

Frankly I'm puzzled, handrawn, i was thinking it could be a calculator but the speaker doesn't seem right for that. then I thought it could be an electronic dictionary, or game. If it is a calculator I have no idea which one.(certainly not a TI) none of the ones I owned do not make a beep or any other kind of sound.

[Acorn]

I would hazard a guess at Othello/Reversi around 1986, made by Digital.

Acorn

[Jonopen]

It looks like it might have an 8 x 8 grid. Is it some kind of pocket chess game?

[handrawn]

or game

that it is larry

Othello/Reversi around 1986, made by Digital

spot on with the date, but Othello/Reversi it is not

Is it some kind of pocket chess game?

have a cigar Jono [you don't need to smoke it]...

anyone any idea of the make.....

[Acorn]

1986 Kasparov Pocket Chess Electronic Computer Game


it was the 12 switches for the type of chess piece that threw me - I miscounted!
The two banks of LED paired pins is the clincher.

I recall a very techie training course in 1984 where we were given parts of PCBs to determine original function.
I think I even played against the beast in a shop in Gloucester and won. I thereafter shunned all computer games as not up to much.

Acorn

[handrawn]

model is spot on.... but we still need the make... and as it's you, the chip number ....