Sharp PC-3000

[1][2] The "SPC" was designed and developed by Distributed Information Processing Research Ltd. ("DIP") in the UK.

As with desktop IBM PCs, this one-pound device's[3] [4] screen displayed 80-column 25 lines.

[5] The machine was one of the first to support the PC card interface, at the time known as PCMCIA.

Choice were MS-DOS 3.3 and Microsoft Windows 3.0 (running in real mode with a mouse).

[6] The machine came with a suite of built in application providing a simple word processor, calculator and 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheet.