IBM PEC

IBM PEC (IBM Portable Entertainemnt Computer) was the first IBM handheld console, and one of the first handheld consoles with colour screen. It was released in 1982 in EE.UU, Europe and Japan. It's hardware is very similar to the IBM PC from 1981, but with lower specs to make it cheaper and portable.

Colour palette
Unlike it's PC counterpart, it uses the Pocket Color Graphics Adaptater (PCGA), it had the same colour palette as the CGA, but with all the 16 colours available at the same time in 90x64.

Cassette catcher
It is to listen music in cassettes. It can be inserted on the cartridge slot, it adds an cassette slot. Some games and software were published in cassetes, like some IBM PC software.

Menu
By default, it shows an cassette player with this options:
 * Bar: The current minute/second of the music
 * Rewind: Rewind the cassette
 * Settings: Configure the cassette player
 * Title bar: It only shows the state of the player, it can show "Playing" (When it is playing an inserted cassette), "Inserted" (If an cassette inserted, but it's not being played) and "No cassette inserted" (When there isn't a cassette inserted)
 * Duration: Shows the duration of the cassette
 * Option label: Shows the name of the selected option, if there isn't an inserted cassette, it shows "Insert an cassette" and all the options are disabled (Only the Settings option is enabled to configure the cassette player), and the title bar shows "No cassette inserted", and the option label shows "Insert a cassette"

IBM PEC-compatible consoles
Like with the IBM PC, many manufacturers made console clones compatible with the original console, even some of them had higher-specs or lower-specs.

Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
There was a clone of the IBM PEC in the USSR, which was called "Электроника ПРБК " (Elektronika PRBK). It used a monochrome screen instead of a colour one to make it cheaper, however, the console still supported colour but colours were seen as greyscale tones due to the monochrome screen. It costed around 650 rubles when it wsa released in 1984.