Sharp PC-2500 Users Guide

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(09-10-2020 08:42 PM)robve Wrote:  The PC-1360 looks similar to the PC-1350, but internally they are different machines. The PC-1360 has several additional BASIC instructions. Some PC-1350 BASIC instructions will not work on the PC-1350. The memory layout is different and the expansion cards are different.

Interesting. Two of the engineers that wrote the f/w for those told me (I worked at Sharp '88-'00) they were 'quite similar', though what you're describing sounds more like these were later versions of quite different earlier model lines. At one point, there was an effort to try to consolidate the many (sometimes quite different) Pocket Computer Product lines into fewer 'families' of models. Perhaps calling these the 1350 and 1360 was an attempt to do that? And I suppose from the perspective of the guys that built them, they probably are 'quite similar' inside, though notably different to you and me.

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