Saturday, July 18, 2020

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. 

Sharp PC-1246, cute little bigger, isn't it?
Pretty little bugger, isn't it?