Sharp PC-1500

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Sharp PC-1500

The Sharp PC-1500 with printer/plotter and cassette interface in travel case. On display at the Musée Bolo, EPFL, Lausanne.
Generation	First
Release date	1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Lifespan	1981-1985 (4 years)
Discontinued	1985; 39 years ago (1985)
Successor	Sharp PC-5000
Related	Sharp PC-1211 Sharp PC-1251

The Sharp PC-1500 was a pocket computer produced by Sharp between 1981 and 1985. A rebadged version was also sold as the TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-2.

The whole computer was designed around the LH5801, an 8-bit CPU similar to the Zilog Z80, but all laid-out in power-saving CMOS circuits. Equipped with 2 KB of on-board RAM, the programming language is BASIC. Later, German engineers provided an assembler for the machine.^[1] Later even a C compiler followed. An external slot is available and accepts memory (from 4 KB to 32 KB) and ROM modules.

Eight versions of this pocket computer with 2 KB memory:^[2]

• Sharp PC-1500 - Japanese version (1981)
• Sharp PC-1500 - Japanese version with blue paint around LCD. CE-157 Kana module bundle model. Known as PC-1500D (1984)
• Sharp PC-1500 - European, Australasian and North American version (1982)
• Sharp PC-1500 RP2 - Brazilian version (1982)
• HiradasTechnika PTA-4000 - Hungarian licence.
• HiradasTechnika PTA-4000+16 - Hungarian licence (with internal 16 KB memory extension)
• Tandy TRS-80 PC-2
• Nanfeng PC-1500A - Chinese license (CKD assembly from Japanese components)

Two versions with 8 KB memory:

• Sharp PC-1501 - Japanese rework with 8 KB memory (1984)
• Sharp PC-1500A - Western rework with 8 KB memory (1984)