The Sharp IC Card was an expansion card for a range of electronic organisers produced by Sharp, beginning with the PA-7000 in Japan in 1987. In 1988, the range was introduced elsewhere, with the IQ-7000 in Europe and the OZ-7000 in the US. In the US the range was branded as Wizard, and in Japan the range became known as BusinessWare or BWare.
The electronic organisers in this line offered features such as a calendar, address book, calculator and alarms, but a range of credit-card sized IC Cards could expand the functionality to include language translators, a thesaurus, money planners, a small number of games, spreadsheets, BASIC programming, and additional memory. Just one IC Card could be used at a time, and slotted into expansion slot that displayed the surface of the card below a transparent touchscreen.
The electronic organisers also incorporated a proprietary connection for a dedicated printer, but this could also be used to connect to certain models of Nikon SLR camera and cards were available to control and save the settings on the camera via the organiser. It was also possible to connect an organiser to a PC via an RS232 socket converter for backing up data.
The last electronic organiser in the family that could take IC Cards appears to be the Sharp PA-S1s for the Japanese market, and this was still in production until at least 1999.
