{"id":1028,"date":"2014-02-17T15:38:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T20:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2014-02-17T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T21:31:33","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-sharp-wizard-9600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1028\/retro-scan-of-the-week-sharp-wizard-9600","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Sharp Wizard 9600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sharp_wizard_9600_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sharp_wizard_9600_small.jpg\" alt=\"Kraft Super Mario Bros. Macaroni and Cheese flier flyer Advertisement 1994\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>tap tap tap&#8230;tap tap&#8230;tap<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the early 1990s, a kid in my neighborhood had his own Sharp Wizard (we all thought he was rich or spoiled &#8212; probably both), and it was one of the most incredible things I&#8217;d ever seen.  It was a tiny electronic organizer with a full QWERTY keyboard that one could have mistaken for a pocket-sized PC.<\/p>\n<p>That same kid later offered to sell his Wizard to me, but my dad turned him down because he was asking too much.  So I&#8217;ve never had a Wizard of any model in my collection.  I did buy a NES advantage from him for $7 though.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Scientific American, February 1993, p.19]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the smallest device (from the pre-smartphone era) you&#8217;ve ever used for word processing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tap tap tap&#8230;tap tap&#8230;tap In the early 1990s, a kid in my neighborhood had his own Sharp Wizard (we all thought he was rich or spoiled &#8212; probably both), and it was one of the most incredible things I&#8217;d ever seen. It was a tiny electronic organizer with a full QWERTY keyboard that one could [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","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=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}