Sharp PC-1475

[robve]

Congrats Dave on your rare vintage find! The Sharp PC-1475 (1987) is easily my favorite "old style metallic" Sharp with great functionality all contained in a nice landscape-style package. It appears to be the last in this long line of "old style metallic" Sharp PC. It has an extended version of BASIC, 20 digit precision, takes 2x32KB RAM cards, has matrix/vector functions, 2var statistics, and a RAM file system. It works forever it seems on two cell batteries.

Later machines like the Sharp PC-E500 and PC-G850 are great too. The E500 is faster and has a bigger screen, but the plastic dark monotone casing is not my thing, but the PC-E500(S) runs Forth!

The PC-1475 is a classic BASIC programmable. It has no symbolic operations (it has strings in BASIC) or anything resembling a CAS, for which the HP-28C/S (1986-1992) and later model HP or TI are better in that respect. But we should remember that the HP-28C came on the market after Sharp's long run of "old style metallic" pocket computers.

I don't believe there is an English manual in existence. I heard that it was not sold in the UK or US. The German manual is my primary source of information. Some technical data is posted here.

- Rob