{"id":5099,"date":"2015-10-10T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T00:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2015-10-10T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T00:57:37","slug":"personal-computer-c-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2015\/10\/personal-computer-c-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal computer, c. 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister and I are doing some organizing in our father’s condo. Dad’s a retired electrical engineer who saved almost everything, and he has several decades worth of electrical gear. Including this:<\/p>\n

\"Sharp<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a Sharp PC-1500 Pocket Computer, which apparently ran the same operating system as the famous Radio Shack TRS-80 computer. What you’re seeing above is the computer nested in its docking station, which has a little printer built into it. For memory, you hitched up a cassette player, and at top left there’s a special computer memory cassette. There are several boxes of software — not sure how that worked — plus a keyboard overlay (on the ground in front of the computer) which goes with one of the software packages.<\/p>\n

Abby remembers this computer well, because Dad had a biorhythms program that fascinated her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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