Sharp: The Amazing Pocket Computer in Living Color

Sharp's PC-1500 was - like Epson's HX-20 and Tandy/Radio Shack's Micro-Executive Workstation - one of several LCD-based hand-held computers around at the time, although Sharp's model looks a little more like a giant calculator than most.

It ran a 1.3MHz LH-5801 CPU[source: https://oldcomputermuseum.com/sharp_1500.html], which was a close clone of Zilog's popular Z80 but which was built using CMOS technology, meaning that it consumed much less power.  It also came with 2.6K RAM which could be upgraded to 10.6K and ran an extended version of BASIC.

It was first released in Japan in 1981, with a European, Australian and US release the following year. In 1983 it was retailing for £169[source: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6008/Sharp-PC-1500/], which is about [[169|1983]] in [[now]].


