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Minimicro software for pockets (Easi-Calc, Easi-Thought, Easi-Text, etc.)
10-06-2021, 07:28 PM (This post was last modified: 10-06-2021 07:29 PM by Dave Britten.)
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Minimicro software for pockets (Easi-Calc, Easi-Thought, Easi-Text, etc.)
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.
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10-06-2021, 10:35 PM
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RE: Minimicro software for pockets (Easi-Calc, Easi-Thought, Easi-Text, etc.)
(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/

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10-06-2021, 11:31 PM
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RE: Minimicro software for pockets (Easi-Calc, Easi-Thought, Easi-Text, etc.)
(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.
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10-07-2021, 12:16 AM
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RE: Minimicro software for pockets (Easi-Calc, Easi-Thought, Easi-Text, etc.)
(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!

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