Sharp electronic organizers with the IC card slot (Wizard OZ/IQ/PA/PI series)

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I can finally present you the complete set of IC cards from the PI-3Cx lineup for the Zaurus 'PI' organizers. As can be seen from the photo, only a few cards have been released, especially with application software. Since the release of PI-4500 onwards, which allowed installing applications (called 'add-ins') directly into the organizer's memory, the software distribution shifted from individual IC cards to floppies & online repositories as a much cheaper medium.



There are multiple variants of PI-3C95 and PI-3C9F with different amounts of memory. Here are two versions of the PI-3C95 card.



One additional card doesn’t belong to the PI-3Cx series but is related to the PI-8000 organizer. The card 'CE-PA1' is part of the 'PHS Adapter,’ peripheral accessory, which connects a supported organizer to mobile phones of the then-new PHS standard. Early batches of PI-8000 didn't have built-in support for this new standard. The IC card contained the corresponding firmware update.