After my random cassette player repair (!!??) I decided to play with an old Sharp organiser, printer and cassette player interface.
By Julian
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
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Lusted after these in the Argos catalogues way back when.
ยฃ200 they were.
I like the keyboard used on the old Sharp organizer. The old organizers are simple to use and safe to hack because they do not enter the internet network. I wonder if it is not possible to update the battery and include a memory interface to avoid the old storage on the tape? Good work.
We used to have an IQ-8300M it had half the memory of yours, but it had a slot for memory cards. Kinda sad I disassembled it before I could try if it worked. I was surprised when I found out it had three or four physical cores in it. Still have the complete manual with me tho.
I had a Sharp Wizard 8000 in the early 90s, which looked exactly like this except for some of the printing on it, and had less memory (64K as I recall). There was also an 8200 which had twice as much memory.
It looks like this model takes the add-in cards just as mine did. I had the spreadsheet card and used it a lot. It was character mode, but still amazing how much spreadsheet power they packed into the tiny amount of storage on that card. I think I had the dictionary card too. Only a handful of card models were made. They predated PCMCIA cards and looked similar but with just one row of pins. The interface was right on the card, through the touch-sensitive window on the unit. Among other things, I made a spreadsheet on it to track my car's miles per gallon.
Whenever I went to a store or other place of business, I entered their hours and phone number (and sometimes address if needed), for easy and quick reference. This was before the web, kids, so having that information at hand was very handy.
I even taught myself to touch-type on it! Not fast of course, and it was just barely big enough — my fingers rubbed together.
The Sharp Wizards were amazingly powerful in their day. Then the Palm Pilot came along and pretty much ate their lunch. Sharp responded with their Clie line which were good products but the market had moved on. As far as I know, no one ever did anything similar with add-in cards with the interface right on the card.
Omg this is so frustrating to watch! Give the printer time! I had one, it's slow as f*ck. It just needs you to wait patiently.
Had a Sharp IQ organizer in Tripoli LY which had telemetry interfaces for something like a PSTN modem, AOL kinda thingy, with a touchscreen smart card cum memory card, is this similar?
awesome features!
SCREEEEEE BIBBLE BIBBLE BIBLE SCREEEE EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ah, the sounds of my childhood ๐
wow I have the EL 6910 model and this one is so different
Wow, that took me back! ๐คฃ I was shouting at the screen "TAKE THE REMOTE PLUG OUT!"
"V has come to"
Such impatient guy
I LOVED this video. Seriously, at my age of 44-ish this is exact the kind of nostalgia that I love.
More of this Julian. MORE!!!! More!!!!!!!
Maybe the head is not working and it is printing because if you listen, it appears to be printing 2 lines. Is the paper thermal or ink?