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Tindie Maker Marketplace Mar 13, 2025

Power Up Your SHARP Pocket PC #TindieBlog #PC1500 #TRS80 #PC2 #RAM #Expansion
https://blog.tindie.com/2025/03/power-up-your-sharp-pocket-pc/

Power Up Your SHARP Pocket PC

During the 1980s, many vendors sold small, pocket-sized computers that ran BASIC. Despite their small size and low power consumption, they were relatively capable and could interface with tape stor…

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Linux User Group Nürnberg ✅Sep 26, 2024

Wieder etwas aus unserer Retrokiste:

Wer erinnert sich noch an Freeware oder Shareware? An die Listings, die in verschiedenen Zeitschriften abgedruckt waren und die man selbst seitenweise in den Rechner reinhacken musste?
Wenn man Glück hatte, lag noch eine DOS-Floppy-Disk im Heft dabei und mit noch mehr Glück lies sich diese auch noch einlesen.

Hier mal ein Beispiel aus den Jahr 1985. Wohl auch schon eine frühe Form vom Opensource Gedanken.

#retro #freeware #shareware #pc1500

The VintNerd Aug 29, 2024

A pack of games on cassette tape for my iPhone Pocket Computer would be interesting 🤔🤣

#Tandy #RadioShack #TRS80 #PocketComputer #PC2 #Sharp1500 #PC1500 #263702 #Games #Cassette #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd

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Pango Aug 22, 2023

@metin Since you seem interested in graphics, #pc1211 had basically none; single line of 24? chars, until someone found a way to derail BASIC interpreter and access the first columns of pixels.
You could access pixels natively on #pc1500, but again display was small. 4 colors plotter was amazing.
#mz80k had an interesting font with symbols
#mz80b could display 40 or 80 columns text and 2 switchable graphic pages, all ORed together. Could be used for page flipping, etc.

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Pango Aug 22, 2023

@metin First personal computer I touched in 1980 was a #Micral (80-20?), thanks to a high school professor that gave me access to one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral
Then I had several #Sharp computers, a #pc1211 that my father bought, then temporary access to a #pc1500 (with small plotter!), #mz80k and #mz80b, thanks to a Sharp reseller (Mr #Laussucq, in #Dax).
Got my first #ibmpc #Thomson clone in 1983 or 1984.