Tag Archives: PC-1500

PC-1600 : industrial housing

You all know the standard PC-1500/1600 “leather” pouch.
It’s ok for common use.
But it’s unusable in industrial environment !

A company (don’t know which) has developed the perfect housing.
It can protect a PC-1600 and let the keyboard use.

You have two kinds of closing :
– One who definetly close the housing
– One who let access to I/O ports after removing a small trap door.

See the access for the power adapter

This housing is perfect for the PC-1500 too, excepting for the power adapter plug position.

PC-1500, the family portrait

With the advent of small 8th and 9th so I have to redo the family photo.
So this is a total of 9 different versions of our favorite pocket computer.

PC-1500D_006

Come on, I made ​​you presentations!
From left to right and from top to bottom:

– Sharp PC-1500 Europe and North America.
– Sharp PC-1500A Europe and North America.
– Sharp PC-1500 Japan.
– Sharp PC-1501 Japan.
– Sharp PC-1500 Japan blue.
– Sharp PC-1500 RP2 Brazil
– Hiradastechnika PTA-4000 Hungary
– Hiradastechnika PTA-4000 + 16 Hungary
– Tandy / Radio Shack PC-2

What makes us 4 beautiful colors!

PC-1500D_010

Few more pictures :

PC-1500D_009PC-1500D_008PC-1500D_007

Before you go on your Internet browser to try to find those missing in your collection here is the order of rarity (the rarest to most common)
– Sharp PC-1500 Japan blue.
– Sharp PC-1500 RP2 Brazil
– Hiradastechnika PTA-4000 Hungary
– Hiradastechnika PTA-4000 + 16 Hungary
– Sharp PC-1501 Japan.
– Sharp PC-1500 Japan.
– Tandy / Radio Shack PC-2
– Sharp PC-1500A Europe and North America.
– Sharp PC-1500 Europe and North America.

I wish you good looking …

The blue brother : Sharp PC-1500D

Hello, don’t i promised great news ’till end of the year?
Well, here’s the first news: Blue brother arrived with his printer, in a nice briefcase.

PC-1500D_001

That’s a long time since I was looking for and patience paid off.
Here are some pictures from all angles:

PC-1500D_002

PC-1500D_003

PC-1500D_004

On Japanese sites it has the reference Sharp PC-1500D.
But, to my knowledge, there is nothing to give this name.
Its serial number is very interesting because it puts to the latest PC-1500 manufactured and before the PC-1500A.

PC-1500D_005

Internally it is a version A04 identical to the other PC-1500 A04.

No, the only thing that distinguishes it is blue.
Nay, superb blue !!!

This is the ninth of the family.

Some french magazines from the 80’s

In the 80’s in France there was lot of magazines with articles and programs for the pocket computers.
The best website to read them is Abandonware !

“Le Sharpentier” ended in 1987 but was continued as “Nano Ordinateurs”
Readers of “Alles für Sharp Computers” have read some pages from “Le Sharpentier” in their magazine.

Here is a selection for the PC-1500 :


Click to read Hebdogiciel

Click to read L'Ordinateur de Poche

Click to read Le Sharpentier

Click to read Nano Ordinateurs

Click to read List

Click to read Trace

Pocket computer user’s manuals

Here are the pocket computer user’s manuals (OCR).

All manuals are scanned from my own materials.
If you have some of the missing manuals (or not in this list) to offer (or sell) please tell me.
I’m searching these manuals in brazilian for the PC-1500 RP2 !
If you download something, please fell free to write a little comment.
(For now the comments need to be validated before being published)

Manuals BRLink
PC-1500_RP_INSTR(Not original cover)
Download
PC-1500_RP_PROGDownload

MANUALS CNLink
PC-1500_CNDownload
NANFENG PC-1500A 0MISSING
NANFENG PC-1500A 1MISSING
NANFENG PC-1500A 2MISSING

Manuals DELink
Download
Download


(Book offered by
www.ledudu.com)
Download

Manuals ESLink
Download
PC-1500A Manual de instruccionesMISSING
Download

Manuals FRLink
Download
PC-1500A Intruction manualMISSING
Download

Manuals HULink
HU_PTA-4000_ProgDownload
HU_PTA-4000Download
Add-on for PTA-4000+16
HU_PTA-4000_16
Download

Manuals ITLink
PC-1500 Instruzioni per l'usoMISSING
Download
Download

Manuals JPLink
JP_PC-1500_Instruction_manualDownload
Download
Download

Manuals NLLink
NL_PC-1500-Programma_voorbeeldenDownload

Manuals USLink
Download
Download
Download
Download
Download

Manuals TandyLink
Download (US)
Download (FR, NL, DE)
Download (US)

CE-165 W Specifications

Yes, you have correctly read the title !
I have informations about the unfindable PC-1500 extension : the CE-165W !

CE-165W

Many of us have long sought this device without finding anything.
But luckily a friend had a few pages stapled, lost in a pile of documents.

What is the CE-165 W ?
This is not an EPROM programmer.
I guess you are disappointed …
But it is actually a programmer for the CE-160 modules.
It can program 16 once.
The verification phase is done by module.

You can download all 4 pages of specifications by Sharp.
CE-165 specifications.pdf

I will speak later of the CE-160 and we will detail its operation.
Ah, many sites say that its capacity is 16Kb … but this is false, it is 7.8 Kb.

Please, note that the CE-165W needs a CE-155 module plugged inside the PC-1500.
The pocket computer must have enough memory to store the source program.

If you want to share these informations please share the link to this page. Thanks.

PTA-4000+16

It’s another under license production by Hiradas Technika.
Do you use the module port to expand memory ? Yes ! 16KB more with CE-161
But they don’t !
Their PTA-4000+16 is nothing but a PC-1500 with a self made 16KB memory board inside.
Crazy, no ?
Stupid ! The module port has being removed and it’s door is glued.

PTA-4000-16_018 PTA-4000-16_019
PTA-4000-16_003 PTA-4000-16_005

Look at the buzzer… it’s now on the CPU side.
PTA-4000-16_009 PTA-4000-16_012

PTA-4000-16_016