{"id":1007,"date":"2013-10-14T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2013-11-13T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:00:06","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-sharp-pocket-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1007\/retro-scan-of-the-week-sharp-pocket-computer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Sharp Pocket Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sharp_pc-1500a_pocket_computer_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sharp_pc-1500a_pocket_computer_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sharp PC-1500A Pocket Computer - 1983\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;From Sharp Minds Come Sharp Products&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Radio Shack licensed Sharp&#8217;s pocket computer designs for its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/550\/retro-scan-of-the-week-1983-pocket-computer\">TRS-80 Pocket Computer<\/a> line of products.  But here&#8217;s one of the originals, circa 1983: the PC-1500A.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Interface Age, November 1983, p.110 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever lost a pocket-sized gadget and regretted it badly?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong>See Also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/550\/retro-scan-of-the-week-1983-pocket-computer\">BASIC in your Pocket<\/a> (RSOTW, 2009)<br \/>\n<strong>See Also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/806\/retro-scan-of-the-week-asimovs-pocket-computer\">Asimov&#8217;s Pocket Computer<\/a> (RSOTW, 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;From Sharp Minds Come Sharp Products&#8221; It&#8217;s no secret that Radio Shack licensed Sharp&#8217;s pocket computer designs for its own TRS-80 Pocket Computer line of products. But here&#8217;s one of the originals, circa 1983: the PC-1500A. [ From Interface Age, November 1983, p.110 ] Discussion Topic of the Week: Have you ever lost a pocket-sized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[139,150,195,613,611,612,60,610,186],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-advertisement","tag-interface-age","tag-lost","tag-pc-1500a","tag-pocket-computer","tag-retro-scan","tag-sharp","tag-trs-80"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}