Personal barcoder

A personal barcoder, comprising:

• a hand-held unit having a housing, said housing having a top, a bottom and side walls, said side walls having a plurality of slots disposed thereon;
• a longitudinal opening disposed at said bottom of said housing and a clear window strip disposed at said opening;
• a plurality of character carrying members disposed inside said housing, each said character carrying member comprising an elongate and flexible strip having two opposite sides, one side of said flexible strip carrying a plurality of analog numbers and the opposite side of said flexible strip carrying bar code representations of the corresponding analog numbers;
• said flexible strips being selectively slidable longitudinally inside said housing underneath said clear window strip such that when a selected analog number is placed directly underneath said clear window strip, a corresponding bar code representation of said selected analog number is displayed at said opening;
• each said flexible strip having at least one tab disposed thereon and projecting through said slot, said tabs being actuated to display a desired series of analog numbers and position their corresponding bar code representations at said opening for imprinting thereof.