What do you do with a circa 1985 Casio FX-451 calculator with a bad keyboard? Well, if you are [Poking Technology], you transplant the inside of the calculator to a new custom keyboard. There are t… ...

That's the year I got my first musical keyboard, the PT-80. Introduced that year for around $100, the Casio PT-80 was hailed as a "technological marvel" in the 1985 edition of Songwriter's Market .

Casio continues to make new keyboards, and finally, after all these years, the sleng teng has returned to its spiritual home (models SA-46 and SA-76 are the ones you want). This time around ...

It's 1989. You're upstairs in your room, fresh batteries in your Casio SA-1, prepping for your concert. The built-in beats are hot. You've been listening to the "Wake me up before you go-go" demo ...