Pocket computer
A pocket computer was a 1980s-era user programmable calculator-sized computer that had fewer screen lines, [1] and often fewer characters per line, than the Pocket-sized computers introduced beginning in 1989.[2] Manufacturers included Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Sharp, Tandy/Radio Shack (selling Casio and Sharp models under their own TRS line) and many more. The last Sharp pocket computer, the PC-G850V (2001) is programmable in C, BASIC, and Assembler. An important feature of pocket computers was that all programming languages were available for the device itself, not downloaded from a cross-compiler on a larger computer.
Sharp PC-E500S pocket computer
The programming language was usually BASIC.
References
- Some had only one line
- Andrew Pollack (March 26, 1981). "The Portable Computer". NYTimes.com.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pocket computers.
- Pocket Computer Museum
- Soviet Calculators Collection (English)
- www.calculators.de – Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices
- List of pocket computers manufacturers
- http://www.angelfire.com/planet/geraldk/Gdkpc4.htm
- http://oldcomputers.net/
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