Pygmy EPROM programmer for Sharp PC-1270

[rprosperi]

The format on the cards is the same, but P*ROM and Pygmy's devtools were quite different and unlikely to be easily found these days. The "SDK" in both cases included a 'compiler', some memory adjusting tools and other tools for loading both RAM and EPROM cards, using programmers like this one.

The 'compilers' were really tokenizers, as the 1270 (and similar series) could only run the tokenized BASIC programs, nominally created on machines like the 1251, 1247, etc. They could not run any binary code. But there were also some tricks they learned about the tokenized byte sequences that let them tweak things to speed up programs, reduce file size, etc. all analogous to the same things done with the 75C/D and 71B.