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? |