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title, categories, types, origins, years, cpus, params

title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Sharp MZ 5500 - 5600	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	1983	Intel 8086	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos hardware emulators links related oc_id source MZ 5500 - 5600 /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz5500_1.jpg /companies/sharp Sharp label value NAME MZ 5500 - 5600 label value MANUFACTURER Sharp label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR September 1983 label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke keyboard label value CPU Intel 8086 label value SPEED 4 MHz label value RAM 256 KB (up to 512 KB) (Sharp MZ 5521), 128 KB (MZ 5501, MZ 5511) label value VRAM from 96 KB to 1932 KB (3 or 6 graphic pages of 640 x 400) label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES 80 x 25 / 40 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES 640 x 400 - 320 x 200 label value COLORS monochrom label value SOUND 3 voices / 8 octaves label value I/O PORTS Centronics, RS 232c label value BUILT IN MEDIA One 5.25'' FDD label value OS EOS 16 - MS DOS label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU photos hardware emulators links 303 title subtitle text image A PHOTO OF THE MZ 5500 ADVERTISING IN A JAPANESE MAGAZINE /media/museum/photos/mz_5500.jpg title subtitle text image CP/M 86 MANUALS /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz5600_cpm86.jpg title subtitle text image FRENCH FDD UNIT Instead of selling the original Sharp FDD unit, the Sharp French subsidiary (Sharp Burotype Machines) preferred to made their own unit. The case could hold up to 4 drives. The drives were Canon models. /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz80b_frenchfdd_s1.jpg title subtitle text image MZ 80P3 - DOT MATRIX PRINTER /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz80k_printer.jpg title subtitle text image MZ-P4 PRINTER /media/museum/hardware/sharp_printer_80b.jpg title subtitle text image MZ-P6 PRINTER /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz80_gp6.jpg title url platform text EMUZ-2000 http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~object/ Windows SHARP MZ-80B / 2000 / 2200 emulator for Windows title url text Sharp Games http://sharpgames.atspace.com Some homebrew games in develoment for the MZ title url text The Sharp Users Club http://sharpusersclub.org Very useful web site done by the UK Sharp Users Club title url text www.sharpmz.org http://www.sharpmz.org THE website for all MZ fans !! /museum/sharp-mz-2000 /museum/sharp-mz-2200 /museum/sharp-mz-2500 /museum/sharp-mz-2800 /museum/sharp-mz-3500 /museum/sharp-mz-700 /museum/sharp-mz-800-mz-1500 /museum/sharp-mz-80a-mz-1200 /museum/sharp-mz-80b /museum/sharp-mz-80c /museum/sharp-mz-80k 296 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230608212419/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=296 2023-06-08

This computer wasn't 100% MS-DOS compatible, but is intended to work under EOS 16.
EOS 16 is an operating system, which looks like UNIX and is fully compatible with Concurrent CP/M and CP/M 86 and can execute programs for MS-DOS 1.4 or MS-DOS 2.0.

Sharp developed a Z80 card for the MZ 5600, with this card, EOS 16 can execute programs written for EOS V3 (EOS for 8 bit systems) or CP/M 80.

The EOS 16 shell is very powerful and uses UNIX features.

The MZ 5600 supports several disk formats: 640 KB (when it is used with MSDOS), 800 KB (to use programs written for the MZ 3541) or 320 KB (old MS-DOS format).