I've been doing a lot of looking around recently and I've noticed tons of crossover on parts and cases and keys and keypads. I would just scoop up as many damaged or undamaged units as inexpensively as possible experiment on them find the similarities and then maybe you can just leave your grandfather's one alone until you're certain you can do it without damaging it.
Wikipedia search for Tandy pocket computer, Casio pocket computer and sharp pocket computer. Also substitute the word calculator and portable when searching. Some of the similarities are simply machines with different labels on them some of them are non-intuitive with different interfaces for the same body model. Also there are tons of in-between models that aren't listed anywhere that you can still find but were hardly marketed or didn't last long OR were only released in Europe or Japan. Cassette and printer interfaces use the connector as Model T's although Sharp and Casio also created different format interfaces. Good luck! On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, 10:09 AM Nickolas Nolan <[email protected]> wrote: > So I'm aware the m100 group may not be the best place to ask. may also > post on vcfed. My past grandfather's pocket computer, marketed as either > the trs80 pc-3 or the sharp pc-1251 has had a broken lcd for some time now. > > http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc3.html > > Obviously, this one is just a bit more sentimental to me as it and the nec > 8201a can be credited for my interest, leading to my current career. > > I'm having a heck of a time getting the lcd safely off the unit to find a > part number, and I don't know if these LCDs are unique to that product. > does anyone know anything about them? Perhaps other > calculator/PocketComputer models that have the same size lcd? With any > leads, i may be able to broaden my search for other dead models. > > Thanks, > Nick >
