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Sharp PC-3000

The Sharp PC-3000 was an MS-DOS-based palmtop computer introduced in 1991.[1][2] The "SPC" was designed and developed by Distributed Information Processing Research Ltd. ("DIP") in the UK. DIP had earlier designed the Atari Portfolio and the two machines shared many design features both in hardware and software.

Features

As with desktop IBM PCs, this one-pound device's[3] [4] screen displayed 80-column 25 lines.[5]

Peripherals

The machine was one of the first to support the PC card interface, at the time known as PCMCIA.

Printers, floppy drives, dial-up modems, Fax modems were among the supported peripheral devices.

System software

Choice were MS-DOS 3.3 and Microsoft Windows 3.0 (running in real mode with a mouse).[6]

Application software

The machine came with a suite of built in application providing a simple word processor, calculator and 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheet.

With some tweaking, it was also possible to run WordPerfect, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

Sharp PC-3100

A 2 MB model was produced: the 3100.[7][6]

Notes and references

  1. ^ 1993 in Japan
  2. ^ "Sharp PC-3000 palm top computer".
  3. ^ John C. Dvorak (January 1992). "Sharp PC-3000". PC Magazine.
  4. ^ "It is described as "a 1-pound clone of the. Poqet".
  5. ^ "Sharp PC-3000". Computerworld. October 21, 1991. p. 109.
  6. ^ a b "See just how Wonderful and Versatile the SHARP PC 3000 Palmtop really is".
  7. ^ "DOS Palmtop: Sharp PC-3100 Details and specs". gadgets.notjakob.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=276&sid=4357a3e60ba793e08fe84d06e64f3976. Retrieved 2018-03-22.


Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-3000