Pocket computer

A pocket computer was a 1980s-era user programmable calculator-sized computer that had fewer screen lines, [1] and often fewer characters per line, than the Pocket-sized computers introduced beginning in 1989.[2] Manufacturers included Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Sharp, Tandy/Radio Shack (selling Casio and Sharp models under their own TRS line) and many more. The last Sharp pocket computer, the PC-G850V (2001) is programmable in C, BASIC, and Assembler. An important feature of pocket computers was that all programming languages were available for the device itself, not downloaded from a cross-compiler on a larger computer.

Not to be confused with Pocket-sized computer, Pocket PC, DIP Pocket PC, Poqet PC, or ZEOS Pocket PC.
Sharp PC-E500S pocket computer

The programming language was usually BASIC.


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References
  1. Some had only one line
  2. Andrew Pollack (March 26, 1981). "The Portable Computer". NYTimes.com.
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