9 May
2002
9 May
'02
6:50 a.m.
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Stan Barr wrote:
What surprised me was that even my Sharp 1251 pocket
computer that amazed
everyone at work at the time (Basic and 3.5K in your shirt pocket...)
is 20 years old now...is this the smallest classic computer??
5 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 15/32 inches, 4 ounces, 0.03 Watts...
It's been almost 20 years since I got my Epson RC-20. I had to get
somebody to bring it from Japan, since it was never exported (and all of
the built-in software uses katakana characters).
It is a WRISTWATCH (and not a ridiculously big one like the RUPUTER), that
has a Z80 wannabe (compatible, but not from Zilog), touch screen, RAM, and
a serial port. Although it purports to have ROM, it's actually
non-volatile or low power RAM which can be rewritten using a serial port
accessory (which I don't have) "ROM-Roader"
I don't think that anybody has ever ported CP/M (or Linux) to it.
Even the Atari Portfolio is now ON-topic.