At 21:27 17/01/2003, you wrote:
Or equiv (Tandy had them as PC-2 or something, iirc).
The goal of my classic collection is to get one of every computer I've
programmed over the years. One of the first computers I programmed was a
PC-1405 (actually, I can't remember the exact model).
Sharp did a whole stack of these pocket machines. I think the PC-1275 was
the most common (small black thing) - in fact, you can still get them today
brand new... (I forget where exactly, it was part of a yacht navigation
system IIRC).
I found one of these in a pawn shop. By brother
"stole" it. I found
another. This was my one classic computer that was helluva useful. So
useful I took it with my places. And, well, I've just lost it. I've
checked eBay and there are a few Sharp Pocket Computers, but W@W L@@K @
T3H PR1C3Z! Buy it now for "only" 300 USD!
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3000156764&catego…
So, does anyone here have one they don't need and/or would be willing to
let go for a reasonable price?
I think I've got three PC-1360s, maybe four - just the machines in their
slip cases. I also have a whole stack of 8k & a few 32k RAM cards to go in
them. Unfortunately, I don't have any instruction manuals or boxes. One of
them (+ some spare ram cards) is yours for the cost of shipping or a swap
of something similar in size/weight.
I've also got 3 or 4 PC1275's, but most of them don't work (they were badly
abused in a past life).
A company I used to work for used literally thousands of various models of
these machines, and I (for my sins) had to look after them all - this
mostly involved swapping out broken ones & re-loading the software on them.
Somewhere, I have a copy of a piece of software called TransfilePC which
allowed one to develop/store PC-xxxx software on your PC, then download it
to the Sharp via the parallel port. I have the connector cable, but I seem
to have lost the disc with the software on it :(
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Cheers, Ade.
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