Offered here is RARE Vintage SHARP MZ-711 computer that was built in Japan and issued around 1981. This is a very interesting machine. It is a color computer similar to the Commodore 64 with a built in datasette. As can be seen, the unit does power on and display its normal boot screen. Sharp MZ este o serie de calculatoare personale vanduta in Japonia si Europa de catre firma Sharp incepand cu 1978. Calculatorul MZ-700 este de fapt un calculator Sharp 80K avand in plus grafica color. A fost lansat in 1982 fiind primul calculator Sharp fara monitor integrat, dar avand integrate un casetofon si o imprimanta.
The MZ-700 was launched in Japan in October 1982, but did not appear in the U.K. until October 1983. lt was the first Sharp home Computer with colour, but it came without a built-in display unit; instead, sockets were provided for a colour TV or an RGB Monitor; or a B/W TV set or a Mono Monitor. lt also had a built-in printer I/F with a switch which allowed you to run the MZ-1P01 4-pen plotter-printer or a more standard MZ-80P5( K ) dot-matrix printer.
Thus, with its clock speed of 3.5MHz, the MZ-700 seemed to meet many of the criticisms levelled at the MZ-80A when it was launched in June 1982. But it was still only a halfway-house - the printer I/F only suited Sharp printers, the screen was only 40 columns, and to run disk drives you needed an extra interface of some kind.
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Sharp (Japan) Model. MZ-700 series MZ-711 had no built in peripherals. MZ-721 (illustrated) had a tape deck. MZ-731 had a built in plotter and tape deck. September 1983 in UK. £250 for MZ-711 Data cassette deck £40 extra Printer/plotter £130 extra. Microprocessor type. LH-0080 @ 4 MHz (Sharp's version of the Z80A) ROM size. I have Sharp 711, 721 and 731 main units, two data recorder MZ-1T01 and two plotter MZ1-P01. Type computer country Japan year 1983 os none – monitor in ROM cpu Sharp LH-0080 (Zilog Z80A compatible) speed 4 MHz ram 64 KB rom 2 KB graphic text mode 40 x 25, graphic mode 50.
The MZ-700 was reviewed in the PCW Magazine in February 1984. By then most of the competing machines had high-res graphics, and the reviewer was hard on the MZ-700 over that. But he was impressed by the alternative languages available, and concluded that the MZ-700 was ‘worthy of serious consideration‘. The prices below come from this review; significantly, there is no mention of disk drives:
MZ-700 | £250 |
Colour Plotter / Printer | £135 |
Data Recorder | £50 |
P5 Printer | £350 |
All these are INC VAT; in the same Magazine: BBC Model B £350, Commodore 64 £240
Model Numbers :
- MZ 711 was the basic model without any peripherals
- MZ 721 has an integrated tape recorder
- MZ 731 has built-in plotter and tape recorder
Manufacturer: Sharp
Date: 1st January 1983
Date: 1st January 1983
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Item | Manufacturer | Date |
Your Computer - July 1983 | Jul 1983 | |
Personal Computer World - February 1984 | Feb 1984 | |
Practical Computing - November 1984 | Nov 1984 |
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