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Sharp PC-E200 series (19881994) The year after Tandy exited the market, Sharp delivered the vastly improved PC-E200. After Tandy However, as the 1980s computer market shifted away from home computers to PCs, pocket computer sales declined and the Sharp PC-1246 became the last Tandy pocket computer, the PC-8, in 1987. The PC-E200 featured 32KB of RAM and a new Z80-compatible processor designed using CMOS technology - that meant it could deliver decent processing speed and yet be powered by four AA batteries. Sure, pocket computers weren't about to replace the PC obsession we had during the 1990s, but they didn't need to - as an educational computer, particularly for computer and electrical engineering, these things would have been brilliant. [Extracted from the article]