Casio Film Card calculators


Casio Film Card was a serie of credit card size ultra-slim solar powered pocket calculators produced in 1980s. Being the thinnest calculators in Casio's Slime Line serie it become electronic badge and promotional merchandise branded by banks, luxury brands, airways, railways and other companies.

Models

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Mini Card

The Film Card serie predecessed by the Mini Card serie introduced in 1978 with the LC-78 Mini Card, a battery powered credit card size basic calculator with only arithmetic, square root, percentage and memory register operations. Most of the models in this serie has metal case in a landscape orientation and low-profile elastometric keypad with pushing plastic or metal caps, or silicone rubber keypad, also equipped with sliding swithes to power on/off and mode switching.
  • LC-78
  • LC-791/.../797G
  • LC-80
  • SL-70/71
  • SL-701/701G/70G
  • SL-702
  • SL-720L
  • ST-24 Card Time, PW-60, DC-600 Data-Cal and UC-360 'ABC
  • ML-720 Melody Card and MG-770 Game & Melody''.
  • QA-70 Time Face
  • DI-100 Travel Dictionary, DI-200 Buisenes dictionary'''

    Film Card

The Film Card serie models commonly are less than 3mm tall ID-1 card size designed in landscape orientation with a flat dustproof and waterproof keyboard with membrane switches, were addition button is double-wide. Casio noted "U.S. Pats. 4,121,284 4,371,923 4,942,516" on its back.
  • SL-7
  • SL-500
  • SL-750
  • SL-755
  • SL-760/761/762/763/764
  • * SL-760ECO
  • * SL-760C
  • * SL-760LB
  • * SL-760LC
  • * SL-760LU
  • * SL-760T
  • * SL-763
  • SL-770
  • SL-777
  • SL-800
  • SL-850
  • SL-900
  • '''SL-950'''

    Scientific calculators

Following the LC-78 Mini Card basic calculator, Casio developed same size scientific calculators:
  • fx-48/58
  • fx-98/98B
Following the Film Card serie, a serie of ultra-slim scientific calculators introduced as well:
  • fx-88
  • '''fx-915/995'''

    Other

Models of the Film Card sub-serie of SL serie and similar cards also introduced in many series, were the most common model dissignation was 700.
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700-+-++++++--±-----+
800+-----++----------
Other+-+-+-+-+++±++++++

C-800 Paper Card was version of Film Card calculator. D-50/60 'Desktop solar powered ultra-slim flat square calculators released in a style of branded dustproof and waterproof calculators of the Film Card serie.
TH-8 Crystal Cal was a version of the Film Card with a transparent resistive touchscreen keyboard.
FM Card, AM Card and FM&AM Card was series of credit card size FM/AM radio receivers with attachible headphones. As a part of these series introduced two side cards with a solar powered calculator on the opposite side:
  • RD-80 Film Card & AM Card
  • RD-85 AM Radio & Data-Cal
  • RD-90 Film Card & FM Card
  • RT-20 AM Card
Phone Card EZ-500/600 solar powered phonebooks in landscape orientation.
Solar Data Bank DC-E700/E800' was a solar powered version of battery powered card size Data Bank DC serie of personal organizers, enhanced with permanent memory encryption protection.
Other ultra-slim battery powered models included various features of personal digital assistan:
  • Calculator & Watch PW-100/150
  • Card Clock serie: CC-100, CC-120U and CC-130U
  • Universal Calendar UC-700
  • DI-700 Travel dictionary
  • DI-2100 and DI-2150
  • Currency Convertor CV-700
  • Financial Calculator BF-700
  • P.I.N. CODE CAL PN-50
  • Check Book CB-700
  • Data-Cal DC-180/200 and DC-600/.../700/.../850

    Micro Card

Casio Micro Card serie introduced M-811 and M-812 key chain calculators are the next generation of Casio's Micro Mini M-810 and Micro Compact MC-811 battery powered pure arithmetic matchbox size calculators.

Technological impact

Casio development of Film Card serie finalized miniaturization of solary powered ultra-slim card size calculators technologies, competted at the time by:
File:DM-15C.JPG|thumb|SwissMicros DM-15C, an ID-1 card size version of HP Voyager HP-15C
  • Braun's Solar ST1,
  • Canon's Solar Card Calculator CA-107, MyCard LS-700B/720B, FlashCard LS-701/701H/715/717H/718H/777, LS-704/704G calculators.
  • Citizen's W8,
  • "GUCCI" branded two way powered calculator by Aurora Consumer Calculators',
  • KMC's KMC-8000 and KMC-9000D,
  • Philips' LDB 8451,
  • Sanyo's Amorton Card CX-12/16, Solar Star CX-20,
  • Sharp's Sharp Card EL-865/865H/868/876/878S, Foldable Card EL-866, Fineline WN-20,
  • Systema's Stonehart EX-2 Solar,
  • Texas Instruments' TI-1786 TI Card, TI-35/37 Galaxy Solar.
Discontinued by all major manuacturers in 2010s, development of similar calculators continued by merchandise manufacturers and as electronic badge by DIY electronics makers. Modern smallest solar and two way powered basic arithmetic calculators commonly fits to 6-11mm tall ID-1 card size:
  • SL-777 Film Card successors: SL-787/790L, SL-160, also Sharp EL-869S/879L.
  • SL-70 and SL-770 Film Card successors: HS-4G, also Citizen SLD-100NR.
  • SL-7 Film Card successors: SL-C100, SL-100L and SX-100.
Samsung SGH-P300 was the first full featured camera phone in a size of the 8.9mm tall ID-1 card serie, having a built-in arithmetic calculator it also was J2ME MIDP 2.0 enabled feature phone allowing its users to install any advanced software calculator as a 3rd party MIDlet.

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