Turbo Pascal alternatives

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(02-23-2015 11:24 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  I love those old pocket computers, even if the Sharp ones make it either clumsy or impossible to keep multiple programs in memory. The Casios make it a little easier with multple program spaces, though memory is still pretty tight.

Anybody ever used one of those Japanese Sharp/Casio pocket computers from (I think) the '90s? I see a lot of them on ebay, and the inclusion of both BASIC and C on most of them is rather intriguing. I think they were meant for use in CS classes.

Dave - It's been many years, but the Sharp PC-E500 and -500S were excellent and fast machines from the mid-90s with a pretty wide BASIC vocabulary, and they also could use C and assembler IIRC. These may have been Z80-based, like the PC-1600. I don't think the compiler and assembler were built-in, but it's been too many years to be sure. I've hunted for them on TAS every now and then, but they seem to either end at odd times (for me) or be priced beyond my curiosity threshold at the time. And to think I had a drawer full of them when I worked at Sharp... who woulda thought?