Sharp PC-1500 (and TRS-80 PC-2) : technical reference manual

Sharp PC-1500 technical reference manual(*).
© 1983 Sharp Corporation.

This 160 pages manual published by Sharp in 1983 provides a detailed description of the PC-1500 machine language and microprocessor.
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Contributed by : Tom Berry.

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Table of contents

1. Machine Language

2. LH5801 Microprocessor

• 2-1. Outline of LH5801
• 2-2. Internal structure
• 2-3. Functions
• 2-4. LH5801 instructions
• 2-5. Command list
• 2-6. Electrical characteristics and timings

3. LH5801/LH5811 I/O port controller

• 3-1. Outline
• 3-2. Functions
• 3-3. Internal structure
• 3-4. Functions
• 3-5. Specification

4. PC-1500 hardware description

• 4-1. PC-1500 system configuration
• 4-2. PC-1500
• 4-3. Connector signals/LSI signals
• 4-4. Key matrix and key code chart

5. PC-1500 software

• 5-1. BASIC commands related to PC-1500 machine language
• 5-2. Internal code chart
• 5-3. Expression of variable and program
• 5-4. System subroutines

6. Machine language programming examples

[Reference]

• 1. Determining printing character size and direction
• 2. Restoration of array and two-character variables
• 3. Knowing the use of CE-150
• 4. CMT format
• 5. Circuit diagrams

(*) This software is made available for documentation purpose only, since the PC-1500 is now an obsolete computer. This is not a commercial site. If you own a copyright on this program and do not want it to be available from this site, please inform me and I will remove it.

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