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I found an interesting article about Minimicro, who produced some commercial software for various Sharp pocket computers. One that particularly caught my eye was "Easi-Calc", described as a spreadsheet-type program for the PC-1211. Particularly impressive since that computer has a little over 1,400 bytes of user memory (okay, I'd be surprised if it's much more sophisticated than, say, the tabulator program for the HP-97, but you never know).

http://www.pc-1500.info/2014/11/04/easi-...minimicro/

Some of what I see mentioned in the article:

Easi-Calc - Spreadsheet-like program
Easi-Thought - Some kind of outliner/mind-mapping tool
Easi-Note
Easi-Trend
Easi-One
Easi-Text

Does anybody have any surviving copies of any of these programs? I assume they all came on cassette tapes. The PC-1500 version of Easi-Thought is available for download from that article, but that's the only one I see.

(10-06-2021 07:28 PM)Dave Britten Wrote: [ -> ]I found an interesting article about Minimicro, who produced some commercial software for various Sharp pocket computers. One that particularly caught my eye was "Easi-Calc", described as a spreadsheet-type program for the PC-1211. Particularly impressive since that computer has a little over 1,400 bytes of user memory (okay, I'd be surprised if it's much more sophisticated than, say, the tabulator program for the HP-97, but you never know).

http://www.pc-1500.info/2014/11/04/easi-...minimicro/

Some of what I see mentioned in the article:

Easi-Calc - Spreadsheet-like program
Easi-Thought - Some kind of outliner/mind-mapping tool
Easi-Note
Easi-Trend
Easi-One
Easi-Text

Does anybody have any surviving copies of any of these programs? I assume they all came on cassette tapes. The PC-1500 version of Easi-Thought is available for download from that article, but that's the only one I see.

WAV files of the software (you can record them to cassette and CLOAD them) are here:
http://www.pc-1500.info/2014/11/04/easi-...minimicro/

(10-06-2021 10:35 PM)toml_12953 Wrote: [ -> ]WAV files of the software (you can record them to cassette and CLOAD them) are here:
http://www.pc-1500.info/2014/11/04/easi-...minimicro/

Am I missing something obvious? That looks like the link I posted - I only see Easi-Thought for the PC-1500 on there.

(10-06-2021 11:31 PM)Dave Britten Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-06-2021 10:35 PM)toml_12953 Wrote: [ -> ]WAV files of the software (you can record them to cassette and CLOAD them) are here:
http://www.pc-1500.info/2014/11/04/easi-...minimicro/

Am I missing something obvious? That looks like the link I posted - I only see Easi-Thought for the PC-1500 on there.

You're not missing something. I didn't check the link you gave and only saw the one WAV file there. Sorry!