The Sharp PC-E220 was a 1991
pocket computer
A pocket computer was a 1980s-era user programmable calculator-sized computer that had fewer screen lines,
Some had only one line and often fewer characters per line, than the Pocket-sized computers introduced beginning in 1989. Manufacturers in ...
from
Sharp Corporation
is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Since 2016 it has been majority owned by the Taiwan-based Foxconn Group. Sharp employs more than 5 ...
featuring 32 KB
RAM
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, 128 KB
ROM
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and a 3.072 MHz
CMOS
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CPU which was
Z80A
The Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced by Zilog as the startup company's first product. The Z80 was conceived by Federico Faggin in late 1974 and developed by him and his 11 employees starting in early 1975. The first working samples we ...
compatible. The display was able to display 4 lines x 24 characters/144 x 32 pixels. Programming languages were
BASIC
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and Z80-Assembler.
The computer was powered by four consecutively ordered
AA batteries
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which makes this computer the biggest of the Sharp pocket computer range, whereas the CPU made it the fastest. The BASIC interpreter is mostly compatible with the interpreter of the PC-14xx series.
See also
*
Sharp pocket computer character sets The Sharp pocket computer character sets are a number of 8-bit character sets used by various Sharp pocket computers and calculators in the 1980s and mid 1990s.
Character sets PC-12xx and PC-14xx series
The Sharp PC-14xx series (like the Sharp ...
References
External links
*http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/pc-e220.html The Sharp PC-E220 Homepage
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