Sharp PC-G850VS

[smp]

I received my Sharp PC-G850VS today. Not bad for overall shipping time. I have to say that by the tracking information, it spent more time in the US Mail going between NY, CT, MA & NH than it did in Japan Mail, Japan Customs, transit & US Customs. Oh well...

The unit that I received was definitely not the one shown in the BIN photos. It has some screen scuffs and it's a bit dirty, although there are plenty of signs that someone attempted to clean it up. I was relieved to see the battery compartment is nice and clean.

It appears to be fully functional. I have a BASIC program in now and it is running fine. I entered the program directly in right away, and then I entered it in again via the Text Editor so I could save it to the RAM Disk. It looks like the internal OS automatically manages the 32K RAM between the various memory spaces for the Text area, the BASIC area and the RAM disk. Pretty cool!

Thanks for the excellent manual, once again. I'm working my way through it now. When my USB-to-TTL (5V) adapter arrives, I'll be able to try interfacing with my Mac for moving files back and forth.

Thanks for listening.

smp