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title: Sharp MZ 5500 - 5600
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1983'
cpus:
- Intel 8086
params:
name: MZ 5500 - 5600
company: /companies/sharp
company_name: Sharp
specs:
- label: NAME
value: MZ 5500 - 5600
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Sharp
- label: TYPE
value: Professional Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Japan
- label: YEAR
value: September 1983
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full-stroke keyboard
- label: CPU
value: Intel 8086
- label: SPEED
value: 4 MHz
- label: RAM
value: 256 KB (up to 512 KB) (Sharp MZ 5521), 128 KB (MZ 5501, MZ 5511)
- label: VRAM
value: from 96 KB to 1932 KB (3 or 6 graphic pages of 640 x 400)
- label: ROM
value: Unknown
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 80 x 25 / 40 x 25
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 640 x 400 - 320 x 200
- label: COLORS
value: monochrom
- label: SOUND
value: 3 voices / 8 octaves
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Centronics, RS 232c
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: One 5.25'' FDD
- label: OS
value: EOS 16 - MS DOS
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in PSU
tabs:
- photos
- hardware
- emulators
- links
photos:
- title: A PHOTO OF THE MZ 5500 ADVERTISING IN A JAPANESE MAGAZINE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: CP/M 86 MANUALS
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
hardware:
- title: FRENCH FDD UNIT
subtitle: ''
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.
image: null
- title: MZ 80P3 - DOT MATRIX PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: MZ-P4 PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: MZ-P6 PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
emulators:
- title: EMUZ-2000
url: http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~object/
platform: Windows
text: SHARP MZ-80B / 2000 / 2200 emulator for Windows
links:
- title: Sharp Games
url: http://sharpgames.atspace.com
text: Some homebrew games in develoment for the MZ
- title: The Sharp Users Club
url: http://sharpusersclub.org
text: Very useful web site done by the UK Sharp Users Club
- title: www.sharpmz.org
url: http://www.sharpmz.org
text: THE website for all MZ fans !!
comments:
- author: ukl (germany)
date: Friday 18th July 2008
text: hello, i have lot of service manuals from an former sharp employ - so if any one interested - pls contact me.
- author: Maximiliano Abad (Argentina)
date: Friday 6th August 2004
text: |-
I have a Sharp MZ-5521K. Please i need Help about this product. I need Software, manuals. etc. ANY HELP.\
The MZ5521k it´s original and excelents.\
Thanks
Hola, Mi nombre es Maximiliano Abad. Tengo una Sharp MZ-5521K en excelente estado y deseo conseguir toda la informacion posible respecto a ella... Software, Manuales... Drivers ... Lo que sea que sepan o tengan podria ayudarme a restaurarla. Desde ya muchas Gracias
related:
- /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
oc_id: 296
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230608212419/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=296
date: '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).