> except for my new SHARP PC-G850V![0]
I am jelly. I have never seen anything like that in pictures or in the flesh as they say.
Closest I had to that was an HP15C as nerds of my era did.
Havent done much retro beyond a restoration of an Outrun coin op. Alas it’s a project for a friend and once done it will be going to a new home.
[0] The SHARP is roughly an Apple 2 type, 8 bit workstation in your pocket! It has BASIC, C compilier, machine monitor, assembler for both the Z80 and PIC, and a PIC programmer in ROM! The BASIC is full featured, a lot like Microsoft Extended BASIC, and the other tools are solid enough at first glance.
Graphical display like the Model 100 too! And if that were not enough, the thing offers the user 32K and has 11 GPIO pins on one side, and a full system bus, cartridge slot style, on the other!
That pretty much describes my Apple 2, which I do use as an 8 bit workstation. Many developers did just that back in the 80's. Apples developed many Atari, C64 and NES games.
There have been some expansions made for the Sharp. Haven't really gone looking.
Anyhow, very interesting device.