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was launched at the same time with 128K of internal non-volatile memory. Both models shared the same form factor. A custom fitted leather, padded carrying case was also available for both models. The devices opened in landscape rather than portrait orientation with the IC Cards slot position
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and were incompatible with the latter. The IC Cards were inserted in a slot behind a transparent plastic panel with an overlay touch-sensitive sensor organized in a 4x5 array of touch zones, thus allowing up to 20 "buttons" to be used for control of IC Cards functions. The selection of IC cards
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The OZ-7000 was about 6.3 inches (163 mm) tall, 3.7 inches (94 mm) wide closed, 7.25 inches (184 mm) open, and 0.85 inches (21.5 mm) thick closed, making it much larger than later PDAs. It featured a serial port (proprietary connector) to attach to a
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series, Sharp moved to production of clam-shell design/touch-sensitive display devices. Newer Wizards had an integrated IR transmitter allowing data exchange with PCs or other OZ-9xxx devices. The innovative design had the main features of the initial
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included a memo pad, a telephone pad, calendar and scheduling with alarms and repeating events, multi-time zone clocks, and a calculator, thus covering all the basic functions found in PDAs since. The keyboard was not
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included memory expansion cards, a thesaurus dictionary, a Time and Expense Manager, an Investment Planner, a bilingual and 8-Language translators, an "Encyclopaedia of Wine" and even games like "Box Jockey" (a
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were the last of in this family of PDA in the Wizard line. Later Wizard organizers were smaller, dispensing with the expansion slot and soon bore little resemblance to the original
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for the OZ-7000, thus turning the organizer to more a PDA-like device. The same version of BASIC had been used in later Sharp PDAs, both Wizards and pocket computers such as the
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The later Sharp Wizards were something between an electronic databank and a PDA. They were small, lightweight devices with keyboards but no touch screen, running on a Zilog
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followed later in 1991, with a larger (240 x 64 dot) screen and 64K of internal, non-volatile memory. The
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of internal memory and a 96 x 64 dot (8 lines x 16 characters or 4 lines x 12 characters) black and white
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with controllable contrast but without a back light. A major advertised feature of the model was the
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released in 1989, making it one of the first electronic organizers to be sold. The name
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a non-US organizer with 3 MB memory, thus abandoning the IQ prefix used earlier.
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Opened Sharp Electronic Organizer (sold as Sharp Wizard in the US) model ZQ-770.
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for these devices were not backwards compatible with the OZ-7xxx series.
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In 1991 Sharp released also a series of IC cards allowing programming in
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was used for the USA market, while in Europe the device was known as the
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line which continued this PDA family for Sharp. Due to new features,
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The expansion cards (IC Cards) were about the same size and shape of
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Now integrated into other Sharp divisions or business groupings
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In 1991 Sharp released an enhanced version of IQ-7000 — the
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expansion slot for accessory cards developed by Sharp.
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electronic organizers
Sharp Corporation
Windows
Macintosh
thermal printer
cassette tape
kilobytes
LCD
PC Cards
standard
Sokoban
Tetris
chess
backgammon
Lotus 1-2-3
QWERTY
BASIC
Sharp PC-E500S
Zaurus

Z80
The Wizard of Oz
"The Wizard" (Seinfeld)
SĹŤko-ban game on Sharp IQ-7200
archived
Sharp Wizard
Curlie
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