Sharp PC-1360 find

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I am a big fan of the PC-1500(A) in the Sharp pocket computer line. Great machine, but a little bulky. With that in mind, and of course looking for a bigger screen, I was lucky to find a basically new PC-1360. Seemed like a great tradeoff to trying to cary G850. Have been playing with it for the past few days, and I have to say, nice machine, but it is slow...

Comparing CPUs, 1500 has a 1.3MHz LH5801 while 1360 uses SC61860 at (I believe) 768KHz. Running any non-trivial BASIC program, the 1360 takes about twice as long, or longer to complete. Graphics are not really feasable from BASIC. All in all, a bit of a disappointment, I was expecting it to be faster, not so much slower.