Sharp electronic organizers with the IC card slot (Wizard OZ/IQ/PA/PI series)

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(12-12-2021 02:27 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Amazing collection, thanks for sharing this here. I've never seen most of these, and not able to read Japanese, don't have a clue what most of them are, though some of the early ones were around the office when the early Western market cards were being developed. But I don't see the golf game card, are the game cards included here?

Thanks. In Japan, Sharp had multiple card lineups:
PA-7C - productivity & entertainment cards developed & published by Sharp
PA-3C - productivity, entertainment & games cards developed & published by 3rd parties
PA-9C - successor to PA-7C; cards from this family supported increased resolution of PA-9xx0 organizers' screens. Some of 3rd parties worked on these cards as sub-contractors
PA-5C - successor to PA-3C with the support of PA-9xx0 organizers' screens
PV-1/2C - cards for the first keyboardless Sharp organizer (and first PDA) PV-F1. Some of them could be used with PA/PI organizers
PI-3C - cards for Zaurus/PI line of Sharp's PDAs

Golf game and other games, some of which were later released in the west, are from PA-3C (& 5C) family. In Japan, Golf, Tetris, Sokoban & Hatris were published by 3rd parties whilst in the west Sharp was the sole publisher of these titles. Here they are in comparison: