Sharp PC-1600 Clipart

I'm cleaning up a scan of a PC-1600 Manual for publishing, and I needed a clean clipart of a PC-1600 that hadn't been scanned in 500 times, so I made one myself. Measured with a caliper and a jeweler's glass, I've tried to get the details as exact as I could. Corrections are welcomed. This couldn't have been done without the help of others. Thanks go out to the awesome Pocket Computer community, especially twitter users @r0_hw and @Erickira34 for their help with the Japanese Glyphs. SVG previews seem to be terribly wonky in Chrome, but the downloaded .svg looks just fine.

As openclipart.org doesn't allow logos, I'm adding the logo version here.

The Sharp PC-1246 - A very smol BASIC computer for your 1.2 kb needs.

Since back in my school/apprenticeship days here in Germany, I've had a bit of a weakness for programmable mobile technology. Back in the 80's this basically meant pocket computers.

Not to be confused with the Windows mobile contraptions that came along much later, these were calculators on steroids with a qwerty keyboard*, an alphanumeric LCD display*, RAM and a programming language (usually BASIC*).

The pocket computer market had quite a few entrants, but the two major players were Sharp and Casio. My first Pocket Computer is the one we'll be looking at here, the Sharp PC-1246. 

Pretty little bugger, isn't it?

My, it's been a bit.

It seems quite a shame that I've let this little spot lie dormant for so long. I'm going to try and rectify that little oversight in the near future. Content might veer over into retro computer technology somewhat. I'll try to pepper my posts with other content every now and then.

If be happy to see you here again. Take care, friends.