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title: Sharp MZ 800 - MZ 1500
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categories:
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- Computers
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types:
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- Home Computer
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origins:
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- Japan
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years:
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- '1984'
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cpus:
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- Zilog Z80 A
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params:
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name: MZ 800 - MZ 1500
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image: /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz800_1.jpg
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company: /companies/sharp
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company_name: Sharp
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specs:
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- label: NAME
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value: MZ 800 - MZ 1500
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- label: MANUFACTURER
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value: Sharp
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- label: TYPE
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value: Home Computer
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- label: ORIGIN
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value: Japan
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- label: YEAR
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value: October 1984
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- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
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value: None
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- label: KEYBOARD
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value: Full-stroke 70 keys with 5 function keys, editing & arrow keys
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- label: CPU
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value: Zilog Z80 A
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- label: SPEED
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value: 3.5 MHz
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- label: RAM
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value: 64 KB
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- label: VRAM
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value: 16 KB (up to 32 KB)
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- label: ROM
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value: 16 KB
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- label: TEXT MODES
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value: 40 x 25 / 80 x 25
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- label: GRAPHIC MODES
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value: 320 x 200 / 640 x 200 - Hardware vertical scrolling accelerator
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- label: COLORS
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value: 4 (320 x 200 and 16 if extended VRAM), 2 (640 x 200 and 4 if extended VRAM)
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- label: SOUND
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value: 3 channels, 6 octaves + white noise generator
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- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
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value: 44 (W) x 30.5 (D) x 10.9 (H) cm. / 4.3 Kg.
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: Centronics, Joystick (2), Z80 Bus, Tape, RGB
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- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
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value: Tape recorder
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- label: POWER SUPPLY
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value: Built-in PSU
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- label: PERIPHERALS
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value: Quick-Disc unit, external single or dual FDD unit
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tabs:
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- photos
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- adverts
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- hardware
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- software
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- emulators
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- links
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forum_thread: 218
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photos:
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- title: MZ 1500 USER MANUAL
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz1500_user.jpg
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- title: MZ-800
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz800_2.jpg
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- title: MZ-1500
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subtitle: ''
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text: Notice the QDD (Quick Disk Drive) instead of the tape-recorder.
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image: /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz1500_1.jpg
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- title: MZ-1500 IN USE
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/mz1500.jpg
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- title: MZ-1500 (FRONT)
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz1500_3.jpg
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- title: MZ 1500 (TOP)
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz1500_2.jpg
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- title: MZ-1500 (REAR)
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz1500_rear.jpg
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- title: BOX
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/sharp_mz800_box_1.jpg
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adverts:
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- title: JAPANESE AD
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/pubs/sharp_mz1500_pub1.jpg
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- title: JAPANESE AD
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/pubs/sharp_mz1500_pub2.jpg
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- title: 'GERMAN LEAFLET #1'
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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"The Personal Computer MZ-811 is a class of itself. Its infinite applications mark it."
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Courtesy of **www.sharpmz.org**
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image: /media/museum/pubs/sharp_mz800_germanad_1.jpg
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- title: 'GERMAN LEAFLET #2'
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Preliminary/New product leaflet. For exhibitions only
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"The new Personal Computer from SHARP - particularly developed for personal use."
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Note the optional Quick Disc drive.
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Courtesy of **www.sharpmz.org**
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image: /media/museum/pubs/sharp_mz800_germanad_2.jpg
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- title: 'GERMAN LEAFLET #3'
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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"There music puts in it"
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Courtesy of **www.sharpmz.org**
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image: /media/museum/pubs/sharp_mz800_germanad_3.jpg
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- title: 'GERMAN LEAFLET #4'
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subtitle: ''
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text: Courtesy of **www.sharpmz.org**
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image: /media/museum/pubs/sharp_mz800_germanad_4.jpg
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- title: JAPANESE AD
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subtitle: ''
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text: An advertising for the MZ 1500 (with the Quick Disk drive) in a Japanese magazine.
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image: /media/museum/pubs/mz-1500.jpg
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- title: FRENCH PICTURE (APRIL 1987)
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subtitle: ''
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text: This picture was used for promoting Educatel, a French private computing school.
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image: /media/museum/pubs/sharp_mz800_prm-pic_1.jpg
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hardware:
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- title: DOUBLE FLOPPY DISK DRIVE
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz800_fdd_1.jpg
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- title: MZ-1U05 BOX
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz800_1u05.jpg
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- title: 'MZ-1U05 EXPANSION BOX - VIEW #1'
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subtitle: ''
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text: The MZ-1U05 expansion box fits directly in the rear of the MZ 800 case. It provides 4 card connectors.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz800_io1.jpg
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- title: 'MZ-1U05 EXPANSION BOX - VIEW #2'
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz800_io2.jpg
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- title: MZ-1F11 QDD BOX
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz800_qdd_box.jpg
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- title: MZ-1F11 QUICK DISK DRIVE
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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The Quick Disk Drive uses 2.8" sequential floppy disks (64 Kb, two sides). The whole disk is read in about 9 seconds.\
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It was, contrary to the MZ 1500 (the japanese version of the MZ 800), an an optional device.\
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The QDD came with an enhanced version of the S-Basic (Sharp basic) to handle sequential files & directory. It can be used as a way to backup the RAM Disk card (a 64 KB RAM used only to store data).\
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The QDD can be connected also to a Sharp MZ 700, the interface card on the photo is the MZ 700 interface card.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz800_fdd.jpg
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- title: FRENCH FDD UNIT
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subtitle: ''
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text: 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.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz80b_frenchfdd_s1.jpg
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- title: MZ 80P3 - DOT MATRIX PRINTER
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz80k_printer.jpg
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- title: MZ-P4 PRINTER
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_printer_80b.jpg
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- title: MZ-P6 PRINTER
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sharp_mz80_gp6.jpg
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screenshots:
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- title: BASIC INTERPRETER
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz1500_basic_ss.jpg
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- title: FEIZER II
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_feizerii.jpg
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- title: FLAPPY
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_flappy.jpg
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- title: KNIGHT
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_knight.jpg
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- title: PACMAN
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_pacman.jpg
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- title: SPARROW
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_sparrow.jpg
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- title: TENNIS
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_tennis.jpg
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- title: THUNDER FORCE
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_thunder_force2.jpg
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- title: BURNIN RUBBER
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_burnin_rubber.jpg
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- title: DEVIL LAND
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/sharp_mz800_devil_land.jpg
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emulators:
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- title: EMUZ-2000
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url: http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~object/
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platform: Windows
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text: SHARP MZ-80B / 2000 / 2200 emulator for Windows
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- title: MZ-800 Emulator page
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url: http://mz-800.aktualne.cz/
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platform: Windows
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text: MZ-800 emulator for Win 9x/Me/2000/NT
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- title: Zdenek Adler's MZ-800 Emulator page
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url: http://mz-800.xf.cz/
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platform: Windows
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text: MZ-800 emulator for Windows
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- title: Sharp MZ 800 Emulator Pages
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url: http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe/mz800/mz800.html
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platform: Other platform
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text: ''
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- title: UMZE Project Site
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url: http://umze.nfo.sk
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platform: Other platform
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text: MZ-800's Java emulator
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links:
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- title: MZ 800 Arjan Habin's Hompage
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url: http://home.wanadoo.nl/neptunes/
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text: ''
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- title: MZ-800 Retro museum
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url: http://www.wagemann.li/subpages/mz800/
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text: A new German web site (in English) dedicated to the MZ-800
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- title: SHARP download centrum
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url: http://sharp.wz.cz/
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text: For downloading MZF files (now Czech only)
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- title: Sharp Games
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url: http://sharpgames.atspace.com
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text: Some homebrew games in develoment for the MZ
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- title: Sharp MZ-800 website
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url: http://mz-800.xf.cz
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text: Czech sharp mz-800 comunity
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- title: The Sharp Users Club
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url: http://sharpusersclub.org
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text: Very useful web site done by the UK Sharp Users Club
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- title: www.sharpmz.org
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url: http://www.sharpmz.org
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text: THE website for all MZ fans !!
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related:
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- /museum/sharp-mz-2000
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- /museum/sharp-mz-2200
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- /museum/sharp-mz-2500
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- /museum/sharp-mz-2800
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- /museum/sharp-mz-3500
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- /museum/sharp-mz-5500-5600
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- /museum/sharp-mz-700
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- /museum/sharp-mz-80a-mz-1200
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- /museum/sharp-mz-80b
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- /museum/sharp-mz-80c
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- /museum/sharp-mz-80k
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oc_id: 208
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606140754/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=208
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date: '2023-06-06'
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---
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The sharp MZ 800 was the successor of the [MZ 780](/museum/sharp-mz-700/). It was partially compatible with the 700 series and the old [MZ 80K](/museum/sharp-mz-80k/) series as well.
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It was sold under three reference numbers:\
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• **MZ-811** without tape drive,\
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• **MZ-821** with built-in 1200-baud tape drive,\
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• **MZ-831** with tape drive and built-in 4-colour printer-plotter.
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The Tape drive could be substituted for a Quick-disk drive unit. The Quick-Disc was a small 2.8-inch disk with sequential access.
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Like the MZ 700, there was no language in ROM, it had to be loaded from tape, quick disk or floppy disk. The ROM only contained boot code, OS calls and special code to allow the user to use the 64 KB RAM as a virtual disk.
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A single or double 5.25" disk drive could be connected to the MZ 800. It then worked under a special version of CP/M called P-CP/M. Some great products like Wordstar, dBase II and Multiplan were adapted to it. Under CP/M, it was possible to read multiple disk formats from the 360 KB (Sharp format) to the 720 KB (CP/M IBM PC format).
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The MZ 800 was sold in Japan under the name **SHARP MZ 1500**. The MZ 1500 had the same characteristics except its black case, a built-in Quick-Disc drive and a slighty different graphic video management.
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