Presenting your collection of non HP calculators, is anyone interested of that?

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(04-08-2022 05:17 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  The Sharp Elsi Mate PC-1200 is very interesting as this has a label that this is a "Pocket Computer" yet is a vertical format machine.

Generally speaking, Sharp marketed horizontal format devices as Pocket Computers and vertical format devices as calculators. While it was not uncommon to market horizontal devices as calculators (e.g. the EL-5500, El-5500II, EL-5500III which were all retail channel "calculator" models of the VAR channel PC-1403 line) I've never seen the opposite of a vertical format device positioned as a Pocket Computer.

Looking around a bit quickly, I see only the PC-1200 and PC-1201 and PC-1300S that are of this type, and all are from the late-70's, so probably before they standardized the naming and channel conventions used for most of the later models we all know.

Possibly related:

Roughly the same era and technology. While the PC is "truly" programmable, the EL has no flow control. Maybe that had some influence on naming back then?

Totally unrelated: Dirt is much better seen in photos than on the calculators themselves. I think a have a plan for a rainy weekend day. Unless my wife gets another idea...