Casio Cassiopeia A-20E Review

Casio Cassiopeia A-20E Review | Ashens

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12 жыл бұрын

Ah, Casio. We'll always love you for your cheap but reliable digital watches, and that calculator with a built-in boxing game.
But there's no love for this weird halfway-house device that had no specific use, even at the time. Frankly it's a big pain in the arse. (I only ever saw one of these in the nineties - an insecure businessman was trying to show off by repeatedly referencing it during a conversation and waving it around. The tit.)
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@GothAlice 8 жыл бұрын

For those technically interested, Windows CE is basically Windows 3.1 (not 3.11) updated with the Windows 95 shell to replace Program Manager.

@GothAlice 8 жыл бұрын

Windows 3 as such didn't really _have_ much in the way of a kernel (relying heavily on BIOS), so certainly, one would need to have been crafted to match the hardware (lacking BIOS) and reduced specs, though the 1MB RAM target was the same for the CE kernel as it was for the 3.1 runtime. While there were unique API services made available on the platform (ugh, that object store), desktop-equivalent APIs like GDI, Win32s, , etc. were supported, too. (They just dropped the older APIs and non-Unicode completely.) CE 3 featured large rewrites to achieve microsecond realtime capability, but similarly, the userspace was relatively unmodified. After CE 4, yeah, it turns into more of a unique and beautiful butterfly. So while the kernel tier is certainly distinct to Windows CE-the original developers having locked themselves in a closet for two months to rewrite Win32 from scratch-with principle API compatibility, there is no need to rewrite the entire userspace. This is part of the reason why CE was used to help port games from desktop Windows to the Dreamcast, amongst other odd uses. I've had the misfortune of working on OEM integration for this stuff for education verticals and pre-WiFi era wireless development. Oh, fun times. Such memories. ;)

@GothAlice 8 жыл бұрын

+SwizzleDude Long live open embedded solutions, eh?

@Bro-cx2jc 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the short explanation lady-bro, I like simplified stuff :)

@BurnedPinguin8630 6 жыл бұрын

GothAlice if someone could hack it to have ms dos... Think of the possibilities! Playing games.

@SammyRenard 6 жыл бұрын

wouldn't work, those things ran on non-x86 hardware and ms-dos only knows x86

@cashnelson2306 7 жыл бұрын

When I was 11 or so, back around 2001, a friend and I found one of these in a dumpster and I somehow finagled my way into being the one who took it home. I loved this thing so much, despite of course having no use for it whatsoever. Tried to take it to school, but they yelled at me just like for some Palm knockoff I got a few years later. Knowing every kid has an iPad or whatever in schools now makes me a little salty! I remember the Cassiopeia much more than I do the friend, which says a lot about my interests.....

@BeaverIAB 3 жыл бұрын

Here I was hoping for a discussion about the Cassiopeia but here be bots.

@endermanofficial 3 жыл бұрын

@@BeaverIAB but.... flixzone much bro?

@90sNath 2 жыл бұрын

We don't have iPads in my school. We have highly restricted Chromebooks. Only because of the Hybrid school though.

@qpol 2 жыл бұрын

we still have 2nd gen ipads i brought my macbook to school and my iphone has a VPN because they rarely enforce the rules, and when they do, it’s only a slap on the wrist

@qwertykeyboard5901 Жыл бұрын

Awesome find

@caysonsteward5150 7 жыл бұрын

the keyboard well....starts with s ends in hit SUPERHIT

@ConorDaRobin 5 жыл бұрын

@@novaryx Shit.

@iProgramInCpp 4 жыл бұрын

smallbloodyboxwithphit

@joshlunt7827 4 жыл бұрын

@MineMiguel40 4 жыл бұрын

supershit

@CiromBreeze 3 жыл бұрын

The most "innovative" keyboard I've seen in years.

@aeternalis 10 жыл бұрын

"You could store a whole.... rude picture in it" I lost it. This man is god of comedy sometimes.

@remystoreide 5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@SerenaDeerGirl 4 жыл бұрын

@@darkusblader Aren't you a tad late?

@darkusblader 4 жыл бұрын

@@SerenaDeerGirl ?

@SerenaDeerGirl 4 жыл бұрын

@@darkusblader Why'd you delete your comment lel

@darkusblader 4 жыл бұрын

@@SerenaDeerGirl cant find it

@regularflurfy8174 8 жыл бұрын

"Cobrian comes out" "Oh, good for him." I died

@lemonslice2233 6 жыл бұрын

I wonder if he took the trouble of replacing batteries just to make that joke.

@dormagio 9 жыл бұрын

I realized halfway through this video that I was watching this on an iPad Mini with a bluetooth keyboard case. I am literally watching this review of this device with something a thousand times better and very similar looking. Such is the progression of time.

@Some_One_One 2 жыл бұрын

- I have three of these still and I was a power user of this. I synchronized this with my PC every week. I downloaded into it the Bsquare software suite and gained efficient backup capabilities from this software that created back ups onto the two compactflash card slots. I used the voice recording & voice recognition often. - I made massive complex spreadsheets in Excel & created 100-page Word documents in it for my schooling. I used the calendar for sales-call reminders. I loaded Outlook contacts with everybody I knew. I kept my call logs in Contacts. - Internet connectivity wasn't productive so in didn't bother. - I downloaded mp3 files and they played fine. - I used both memory card slots frequently with 128MB & 256MB compactflash memory cards. - I downloaded a few impressive action games too. - I trained myself to touch type 40 wpm it and I can still do that today.

@crappyatlife Жыл бұрын

Nerd

@Moonwalker917 8 жыл бұрын

I wanted one of these a teen. Turns out now, I don't

@Aero4576 8 жыл бұрын

It may be shitty as all hell but it's fly dude. I want one.

@Mr.McQueen 8 жыл бұрын

Same

@pixelplays2256 8 жыл бұрын

ikr where do u buy these

@pixelplays2256 8 жыл бұрын

what??^

@pixelplays2256 8 жыл бұрын

Thx :3

@McShaggswell 8 жыл бұрын

Hipsters. Hipsters everywhere.

@eltipobuho 7 жыл бұрын

Back when Cassio meant technology, nowadays it means cold sweat of the memory of calculus homework and exams.

@lemonslice2233 6 жыл бұрын

C'mon, they make keyboards and electronic pianos. Not the best ones, but they don't just make calculators.

@rdubby1102 6 жыл бұрын

Now it means 14.99 Illuminator (TM) watches

@BrettonFerguson 10 жыл бұрын

I worked Tech Support for Cassiopeia North America in the '98 and '99. It sucked back then. It sucked the day it came out. HP Palm Pilots were so much better. Palm Pilots were cheaper and worked better. So you can't blame the time period. Half of the calls we got were people calling in pissed off because it did not do what Casio claimed it could do. I felt so bad for the callers, I couldn't defend the product. 8 hours battery life it claimed was if you didn't open any programs or do anything it might last a few hours. I played an MP3 on mine and it died before the 3 minute song finished playing. A new lithium back-up battery would then last 30 seconds. Also synchronization was such a pain in the ass. The IR sync never worked. They were so hard to type on, they sold voice recognition software to type for you, just speak into the microphone. Voice recognition did not work in the '90's. So they had handwriting recognition software which didn't work either.

@NKingTotoro 5 жыл бұрын

did you know drmiller09?

@Silver_wind_1987_ 5 жыл бұрын

So it's a paper weight? Well than

@bizzzzzzle 5 жыл бұрын

Bretton Ferguson did you know drmiller09?

@dosgos Жыл бұрын

That was a helpful summary. Thank you for the insider's view.

@BrettonFerguson Жыл бұрын

@@bizzzzzzle No I did not know DrMiller09.

@moeta486 7 жыл бұрын

6:06 Free Windows CE 2.0 key

@jtmaston6515 7 жыл бұрын

Kevin Rodriguez Jr Current windows CE don't require keys

@Foreverme764 4 жыл бұрын

TheCoolProGamerBG no

@TOASTEngineer 10 жыл бұрын

I suspect, and this is merely a guess, that you're losing voltage because that wad of foil isn't exactly a great contact, and so the thing thinks it's running out of power.

@jhuanbrown3455 4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Stuart needed to tighten up the connection to make it secured.

@jasonking1395 3 жыл бұрын

If it can run, the power connection is fine.

@qwertykeyboard5901 Жыл бұрын

Also, battery hog.

@resneptacle Жыл бұрын

@@jasonking1395 Not if there's a high resistance between the batteries and the device, it could still receive enough power to run but with the foil dropping it down enough through bad contact resistance that it thinks it's running low

@TheBentenator 12 жыл бұрын

I had one of these! I was 16/17 and just started my first job at a fast food restaurant. I saved for weeks to buy one from a local store. I had absolutely no justifiable reason to get one apart from the fact I love gadgets. I remember the serial cable, I remember the back-light noise, I remember the terrible typing. Those were the days... :)

@Lilithe 9 жыл бұрын

The Toshiba Liberetto was out at about the same time, a similar size and it was a real PC of some use. My friend had one. Nice little device. :)

@Chorizosabroso 9 жыл бұрын

im gonna send an email to drmiller09, to see what he is up to nowadays.

@LindseyLouWho 9 жыл бұрын

You'll find him in Town Hall 23, but right now the chat room is full. Try playing Skifree for a bit or just Skee on your Popstation, until someone's mom needs to use the phone and space in the chat room becomes available.

@Ormnephoenix 9 жыл бұрын

2010CiscoLin This made me laugh xD

@xeokym223 9 жыл бұрын

Back in the day *_everyone_* was on AOL or they weren't cool. Then all of a sudden everyone got smart or grew up a bit & moved on. ;)

@RS250Squid 9 жыл бұрын

These days, he probably goes by the name "Professor Miller" :-).

@vlogstubehd4124 9 жыл бұрын

I think he is dead

@maxjunk8553 8 жыл бұрын

you're voice is so gentle, it managed to play through 11 mins whilst having music on without me noticing.

@Doc_Fun 8 жыл бұрын

Holy shit that's a legit 3ds.

@Psythik 8 жыл бұрын

+Dr. Fun But it's 2D and only has one screen. Therefore it's just an S.

@arthurmixed3323 8 жыл бұрын

+Psythik soooo 1s?

@chasecolbert1432 8 жыл бұрын

+Arthur Gaming 2DS*0.5DS

@NeptuneSega 8 жыл бұрын

+Psythik Thanks, Captain obvious!

@rogeliocantillas1722 8 жыл бұрын

+Dr. Fun no its the 1st 90`s laptop that fuck your lives

@BigBillsHellsCars 9 жыл бұрын

"'Cobrian comes out' oh good for him"

@RandomInsano2 3 жыл бұрын

I used a Cassiopeia A10 (worse version of this) to read Project Gutenberg text files on the bus ride to and from campus. Also PocketExcel was great for keeping track of trip expenses. Used it around... 2005? It only cost $60.

@Alexander_Sannikov 7 жыл бұрын

7:30 "used it as a stylus and very kindly pre-chewed it for me" :D

@MajesticDeathray 9 жыл бұрын

8MB? You can store PS2 saves with that much space! Not that it can run any PS2 games. Or any type of game for that matter. :/

@SamJakob1 9 жыл бұрын

Bear in mind, that was ram not storage.

@ItzDatGuy21 9 жыл бұрын

Zabby I think you can get a ps2 emulator on smartphones, tablets etc

@MajesticDeathray 9 жыл бұрын

Tag McSlayer Yeah, but they don't work too well.

@Aelethil 9 жыл бұрын

Zabby What are you talking about? the PSX emulator is on androids (makes me roughly 90% certain IOS has it) And that's the best emulator available for it.. It runs great.. It's mainly the phones hardware that needs to be up to snuff and quite frankly only the Iphone 5s+ and the GS5+ have the hardware available to run them. (however your batter will die..quickly..)

@MajesticDeathray 9 жыл бұрын

Knight Solaire of Astora I meant "Work", as in "Run". I used the wrong analogy, I guess.

@HidanLP 9 жыл бұрын

I'd actually like to have such a thing.

@DangerNoodleReads 3 жыл бұрын

Would you still? XDD

@qwertykeyboard5901 Жыл бұрын

@@DangerNoodleReads I would personally. At the very least as a shelf queen.

@Mick_92 9 жыл бұрын

Can it run [INSERT CURRENT GEN GAME HERE]?

@m-squares7387 9 жыл бұрын

Mick 92 can it run PAC-MAN

@Bronyfan20178 9 жыл бұрын

No, but it can run skifree

@omg2111 9 жыл бұрын

Can it run Tennis for Two?

@Dekasi1112 9 жыл бұрын

Mick 92 Can it rung GTA5 on Ultra.Yes,yes it can.

@tds9058 9 жыл бұрын

It could run far cry 4 on highest setting 60fpd (frames per decade)

@ndm13 7 жыл бұрын

I really want one of these now. Not even joking.

@cjbcjbcjbcjbcjb6083 7 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Emm same xD

@matzo33333 9 жыл бұрын

I once had a similar model, the A-22T. It was quite nice for taking notes in class, since it had a decent keyboard, a wide screen,.and fit in my pocket. It had remarkable battery life, too, apparently because it used aggressive power management to use as little CPU power as needed, but was still able to speed up rather quickly if one were to open a more power-hungry application. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in a tornado. I miss that thing...

@funnyguy5516 7 жыл бұрын

I'm always instrested in old technology and this channel is perfect for me to look at all these interesting finds. Keep up the great work and videos!

@littledrummer3814 9 ай бұрын

This is my first time watching your video and I did not expect this to be a funny one 😂 Very good review and actually not boring!

@Nathan-xt6gz 4 жыл бұрын

He never changes throughout the years, does he? I love how he has kept everything the same. Same intro, same couch, same type of videos.

@xXOmegaXxPlays 8 жыл бұрын

wow I'm gonna upgrade from windows 8 to this! ...I wonder if it can run the original doom

@BurnedPinguin8630 8 жыл бұрын

yep.

@tanner5928 7 жыл бұрын

fuck doom I want to run crisis 3

@judojamie379 7 жыл бұрын

Fallout 4!

@MikeMentzersProdigy_1 7 жыл бұрын

doom 4

@ballandmachanhillproductio6881 7 жыл бұрын

+Deadpool do you only problem with the game King is you have to do you connect to the modem if you want to use any of its Internet features however it was very forward in its time and it's sad that it ended

@LeeBondo 5 жыл бұрын

The most professional video of a right bodge of a product I have ever seen...Brilliant!

@sl9sl9 5 жыл бұрын

The buzzing/whining noise is due to the electroluminescent backlight, which is normally only found on Casio stuff. This required a high voltage and a lot of juice, and it sounds like it hasn't held up very well 20 years later. This also explains why in this video the low battery alert kept going off (I don't mean the coin cell CMOS battery alerts in the beginning), because he was using AA alkaline batteries which only last long in very low drain appliances. With the EL backlight on this device was high drain, hence the issues. If you use rechargeable Ni-Mh batteries instead (which are great for high drain stuff) it should last far longer.

@JPYoutubeAccount 8 жыл бұрын

If companies actually made modern versions of these running Windows 7 or 10, I would get one.

@bladophazer6487 8 жыл бұрын

that's why there are windows 7 and 10 tablets or laptops with detachable screens that turn into tablets; so yeah...

@JPYoutubeAccount 8 жыл бұрын

I mean ones you CAN fit in your pocket

@bladophazer6487 8 жыл бұрын

well i think the closest u can get to that is a phone with a bluetooth keyboard nowadays, and maybe in the future they might be making portable devices compatible with windows os like windows 7, 8 and 10 and with quite a few components like usb's, a good amount of ram and maybe a good processor as well. after all, u never know what the future has in store for us...

@0x1EGEN 8 жыл бұрын

Sony made a pocket laptop that is capable of running Windows. Search up their VAIO mini laptop.

@gunfuego 8 жыл бұрын

why on earth would you want anything with Windows 10? It's the worst os next to windows me.....

@JeliLiam 10 жыл бұрын

RIP bobby the circuit board

@staffsaber534 8 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the handheld scanners we use at the grocery store I work at. They run a gutted version of Windows CE that was customized to work with an IR and QR scanner

@dogrzz7082 7 жыл бұрын

when these were out, my dad acted out like he HAD to have one. and he bought it, sadly.

@Quinton238 10 жыл бұрын

Wow, I actually remember someone's dad brought in their cassiopeia to our class. First time I had ever seen a laptop, let alone one that was that tiny

@ChoobChoob 9 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, I remember seeing some business guy using one of these on the train to Norwich.

@TheMrKillerCraft 8 жыл бұрын

I think your intro is the best i've ever seen on youtube, hi laugh everytime x)

@volkswagenginetta 7 жыл бұрын

i know everyone is joking about if it could run windows 8 or 10, but what i would be curios of it being able to run damn small linux.

@Kippykip 7 жыл бұрын

maybe just the terminal by itself

@buysellwjeannie7996 7 жыл бұрын

volkswagenginetta xxrrrrrsrrss

@JasperJanssen 7 жыл бұрын

ChemicalFun27 nah, if it runs wince it'll also run a Linux based OS (powerwise, anyway). Looking it up it has 8MB of ram. I have actually run, in production use (albeit as a home router) Linux on an old 386 with 4 MB ram. Hell, you *might* even be able to get a GUI to run on it quite decently, with xfce. My early Linux PC experiments sure didn't have more than 8MB and did have a working GUI. That said nobody's ported Linux to this CPU, so you're screwed.

@volkswagenginetta 7 жыл бұрын

Jasper Janssen I didn't even check to see if it was an x32 cpu

@JasperJanssen 7 жыл бұрын

AFAIK Wince was not available for x86.

@Kelton2 10 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who actually thinks this is a decent device and would be useful to a point back in the day?

@futurealarms121 10 жыл бұрын

I can see functionality in the device. For what technology was like back in the day. That is actually quite impressive.

@marcuswaterson 10 жыл бұрын

Brenden White It still has some uses nowadays, like i have one and the many uses of it's impressive, Like even the table or the chair, give it to my grandpa (or grandma), and many many more

@Plumlistic 10 жыл бұрын

it might have been impessive, but it still looks fiddly. same thing with the ipad, its cool but you would be better off with an iphone or a macbook

@FatalTaco 9 жыл бұрын

***** This section is only for computer related or video related topics. Brony arguments should be somewhere else please. BTW how can ANYONE not thought of importing classic PC FPS like DOOM/Quake/Half Life to mobile devices? If there are imports I'd be damned but there seem to be none to my disappointment, just quirky and stupid games in which have DRM for no fucking reason....At least the Classic GTA series were ported...

@SardisTheYardDog 9 жыл бұрын

xx_yoloswegblazeit2fazeit1v1uirlfugu_xx what did he ever do to you? Is it because he's a brony/pegasister?

@ironwolf5837 9 жыл бұрын

This brings back memories of the Palm Pilot. I remember when those were all the rage.

@VinceR3000 2 жыл бұрын

Palm V (c? Can't remember) -loved that thing!

@andymadden8183 4 жыл бұрын

I lost it at "transfer data at the speed of a dead slug". Comedy gold.

@pferreira1983 8 жыл бұрын

16:54 Four shades and not fifty? The device looks like it had potential, just the keyboard that needed sorting out. Also I'm thinking the reason his sound file didn't work is because it was MP3 and it could only play wav files.

@resneptacle 4 жыл бұрын

I'd be surprised if it can play more than even just some simple beeps and clicks

@BabyFawnLegs 4 жыл бұрын

13:14 when you forget how to spell 'unnecessarily' and need to bail out

@TheBlueCoyote 10 жыл бұрын

'sounds like a frog being tortured to death' -- would love to make that line my ringtone!

@575forza 7 жыл бұрын

Just got my A-11 in the mail. So pumped.

@lemeres2478 8 жыл бұрын

God...I feel like I am looking at a 3DS here. It even fits the exact same frickin' stylus! Did cassio sell the design to nintendo when they realized they couldn't make money off it themselves?

@rockerseven 10 жыл бұрын

i gotta wonder if it wouldn't render the dinghy photo because the file extension was .JPG (in all caps) as opposed to lower case. also, i wonder if dr miller's aol email still works lol

@bturner999 9 жыл бұрын

"Where's the commode in this dungeon, I've gotta take a squirt" - Rick Cassio, 1997

@Angrykitty19 6 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to this review as it makes me laugh so much

@jjreinem 10 жыл бұрын

I actually used a HP Jornada 820 running Windows CE 3 to take notes in high school and through most of college until I finally replaced it in 2008. They were actually pretty good machines for that purpose. Everything's solid state so start up times are virtually instantaneous and the machine itself is more or less indestructible.

@artifactingreality 9 жыл бұрын

These did have one use, I bought 50 and used them as a render farm. It was screamingly fast for the time but I had to hire a small boy to sit there putting fresh AAs in. I even made a small profit as I was able to charge £30,000 to render short clips. Of course technology has moved on so much these days I used 50 iPaqs.

@lemonslice2233 6 жыл бұрын

....... *hides*

@sourpatchkid2791 6 жыл бұрын

Whats an ipaq?

@jseden 4 жыл бұрын

I had a few of these back in the day.. they were already outdated then, in the early 2000s (one even had a (256) COLOR screen!).. still fun to play with. I just enjoyed seeing tiny windows.. kind of.. I actually found when when visiting my parents a year or two ago. Couldn't get it to turn on though. I never managed to get one online either, which was really my dream/goal with em. Despite the 33.6kb/s modem.

@CutieFakeKirby 2 жыл бұрын

Woaw, 256 colors you say? That sounds really impressive for back at the time for a thing small as this to have a decent amount of colors!

@jseden 2 жыл бұрын

@@CutieFakeKirby most definitely! Especially compared the the 4 or 16 greyscale that most had. I wanna say that most of the early color pdas were 256 as well, again from the early 2000s.. I wanna say I had a couple that displayed something like 33k colors as well, a few years later.

@BernieFishnotes 2 жыл бұрын

I remember being obsessed with one of these that was in the window of Currys when I was a teenager. I'm sure I would have been horribly disappointed had I ever managed to buy it.

@JoshuaVelanse 10 жыл бұрын

dude u are awesome when u review stuffs so unique man! unlike other pips when they make a review they make it sound boring and plain...keep it up bro!!

@TwinkieDevils 10 жыл бұрын

Is it bad that I want one?

@thepirategamerboy12 10 жыл бұрын

Not really. It's actually kind of an interesting device, honestly.

@PunakiviAddikti 6 жыл бұрын

thepirategamerboy12 I agree, old technology that actually runs decent is fascinating. I also want one, for a decent price.

@gunnergorman3946 6 жыл бұрын

I want one too kind of

@elhistoriero1227 4 жыл бұрын

I want a casio digital diary.

@StevenSmyth 10 жыл бұрын

I don't know. It's funny and all, but it sounds a lot like blaming a stagecoach from the 1850s for not being a car.

@StevenSmyth 10 жыл бұрын

Good point.

@timmydirtyrat6015 5 жыл бұрын

+Steven Smyth Problem is that this was shit when it came out too.

@PatrickMaher4 11 жыл бұрын

This video is amazing! Love to see the old technology!

@planescaped 4 жыл бұрын

Good god that page rendering brought back memories of using the internet as a kid. I remember bringing up a pre-release screenshot of Morrowind before school so I could see it when I got home... I mean it was only a minute or two load but it's the thought. XD

@itsmemaario 9 жыл бұрын

I remember when I had this thing, the only thing I did with it was play Solitaire.

@Meximagician 11 жыл бұрын

That Email address... stay classy Casio, stay classy.

@lampini 11 жыл бұрын

What makes ashens so entertaining is his witty improvised comments. All with that calm British accent

@s4tchm0j0n3s 4 жыл бұрын

Wow....A 486 DX33. I remember our old 486 DX66. I remember being really excited to play a demo of MDK that came on a magazine, and the crushing disappointment at seeing the message "This game requires a Pentium 75MHZ or greater to run" after installing.

@s70rk 8 жыл бұрын

Fuck, I had an email address called "metallicafan-somethingsomething@yahoo.dk". I am now slighty ashamed of myself, thank you Ashens.

@PsylomeAlpha 8 жыл бұрын

Were you running a company out of it?

@s70rk 8 жыл бұрын

PsylomeAlpha No :D But that's a great idea.

@JamesR624 10 жыл бұрын

4:45 Yep. Totally unlike today with Apple trying to patent the rectangle or King trying to trademark the words "Candy" and "Saga". Things are totally more reasonable today.

@REALransoman 6 жыл бұрын

I had the previous version of this way back in 2000. It had windows CE 1.0 and 2mb Ram. Enough to save around 20 word documents. I used it at school for around 6 months and it was brilliant... (For the time). I could work on my essays/projects then find a printer with an infra red port and print them out directly while stood infront of it. At the time it was like a black and white windows 98 laptop.

@MaxiM_PL 9 жыл бұрын

Ahh, I dreamt about owning one of these back in like 1996 when I saw it in a computer magazine... these were the days :P

@systematicdecline24 9 жыл бұрын

"Cobrian comes out!" "Oh well, good for him."

@matg5523 Жыл бұрын

I was actually looking for the Japaneese Jazz-Funk band called Casiopea but here i am.

@ctcards2636 2 жыл бұрын

One of my friends had one of these, I had just gotten the Velo and he got this and I was envious. Loved my velo, but this had a bigger screen.

@ctcards2636 2 жыл бұрын

I still use my 360LX for keeping track of my baseball card collection. Its great to bring to card shows and I have on me a list of everything I have and im looking for in my pocket and I can edit it as I go. Other than using Word and playing a few games there is not much you can do with these anymore. When I had my Velo I use to surf the internet and check my email when i traveled. I miss the simpler times we had, and the patience people had. Remember 56K was fast ! lol

@devonholden1787 5 жыл бұрын

The sarcasm is strong with this one. Quite entertaining

@fishinfool21PSN 9 жыл бұрын

So you can transfer data at the speed of a dead slug XD

@therealtaubyfakebrah4076 6 жыл бұрын

fish owns an obese dead slug with an 18 wheeler on top of it with Down syndrome.

@therealtaubyfakebrah4076 6 жыл бұрын

fish owns that also had a major birth defect and was born paralyzed.

@eugenespeed 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Mr Flavour I am extremely unhappy with your surname. 9 years on, still makes me laugh!

@XZenon 8 жыл бұрын

I remember our old GPS; it was also a PDA with Windows CE...

@ReflectionWorksBerlin 7 жыл бұрын

This was my first mobile computer in i think 1999. But for that time it was great, first time also i used an electronic sqedual. The Keyboard was actually not so bad, and it made this great clicking sound through the speakers. Very robust product, after years it fell down and keyboard and where partial disconected but with a bit of gaffer tape it worked for some more years.

@EmperorDank 9 жыл бұрын

Does this support 4k features?

@breadcanful5365 8 жыл бұрын

.04k

@LiviuDragon 3 жыл бұрын

VGA

@ajfromca 10 жыл бұрын

Such a smart ass, I love it. Subbed lol

@planettheo468 5 жыл бұрын

Ashens, where did you get the games for this? I've been looking for 3 months.

@Ziggurat1 9 жыл бұрын

The reason why it says low battery is because your metal piece to connect the batteries lowers the voltage, and electronics usually use voltage to guess the amount of power left in a battery since it is dependent on that.

@Elifilms100 8 жыл бұрын

Little did we know, it actually can run crysis 3.

@Nothing-pb8hu 8 жыл бұрын

But can it run GTAV?

@TheMrKeksLp 8 жыл бұрын

The special CE version

@nanobotjr 7 жыл бұрын

'Schrodinger's music thingy' 😂

@pearlmax 6 жыл бұрын

Ahh the good old days, back when browsers were named "The Internet".

@PunakiviAddikti 6 жыл бұрын

The most important question is, can you game on it and upgrade it with latest hardware?

@RCT3Crashes100 9 жыл бұрын

I really want one of these. I'm collecting Embedded Windows systems, and I've already got a PDA with Windows XP Embedded installed on it.

@RCT3Crashes100 9 жыл бұрын

It's a Casio PDA of some sort, I know that much

@ajspice 9 жыл бұрын

www.ebay.com/itm/CASIO-CASSIOPEIA-EM-500-COLOR-POCKET-PC-W-ORIGINAL-BOX-DISKS-DOCUMENTATION-/111591585430?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19fb607696

@RCT3Crashes100 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@sinephase 9 жыл бұрын

I have a Witstech A81, I'd sell it for like $15 USD plus shipping. Windows CE is a horrible OS though, you must be a masochist XD

@GuyWithThePie 9 жыл бұрын

Nice Meowth avatar.

@NickG40 9 жыл бұрын

Remember when we all thought that 256 mb was a vast chasm of storage? Good times

@breadcanful5365 8 жыл бұрын

Still got my vintage 2007 256mb flash drive.

@dragonbutt 8 жыл бұрын

Could i stuff it with modern parts, and run windows vista on it? Vista had touch screen compatability, so why not? 8D

@RWL2012 7 жыл бұрын

Watching this again before the Loopy review 😄

@tdp2612 10 жыл бұрын

There modern scientific calculators really are fantastic though

@0Synergy 8 жыл бұрын

can it run crysis?

@archimedesbird3439 8 жыл бұрын

+William Stipcevic cuz if not then its gaaaarbage

@TetrahedronDash 8 жыл бұрын

+William Stipcevic Pfft, you do know it is a very old gadget! If you tried to run a game like SCP Containment Breach or Crysis, it would have a severe lag spike and most probably crash

@shoumikadhikary9193 8 жыл бұрын

+Rouge Take a joke like a fucking joke oh my fucking god rogue you're tearing this family apart stop

@TetrahedronDash 8 жыл бұрын

-_-

@shoumikadhikary9193 8 жыл бұрын

+Rouge YOU'RE TEARING THIS FAMILY APART TYRONE

@quohime1824 5 жыл бұрын

This video got me into hand held PC's. Thanks Ashens

@boredom1000 5 жыл бұрын

If you'd like to buy one, I am selling a working A-22T on ebay. Reply and I'll send a link!

@Scheinweltname 10 жыл бұрын

Very entertaining video! "Annoy()" should definitely be a standard Excel function (or maybe it already is built-in ...).

@Kazuhamino 10 жыл бұрын

Sadly... It loads faster then windows xp laptops did.. Remember those old ones that took like.. 5 minutes to boot and like a million years to load the internet?

@gvman3670 10 жыл бұрын

My XP laptop (Acer) had over a gig of RAM and ran just fine.

@SailorMaxie 4 жыл бұрын

My printer takes a whole minute just to get ready.

@thebakedtoast 9 жыл бұрын

I would actually like to have this.

@StephenFasciani 6 жыл бұрын

That makes one of you. Well.... akubkuku

@KRaZeYProductionz 11 жыл бұрын

well, its always a great idea to make sure your hardware drivers are ACTUALLY COMPATIBLE before upgrading to a new OS. I havbe never had a problem with it and i've been using it since the start of this year.