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Sharp PC-3201	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	1980	Z80-A	name company company_name specs tabs photos links comments related oc_id source PC-3201 /companies/sharp Sharp label value NAME PC-3201 label value MANUFACTURER Sharp label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1980 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Sharp BASIC interpreter label value KEYBOARD Full stoke 96 key with 10 function keys, arrow keys and numeric keypad label value CPU Z80-A label value SPEED 4 MHz. label value CO-PROCESSOR None label value RAM 32 KB expandable to 64 KB label value ROM 32 KB (Sharp BASIC) label value TEXT MODES 80 chars. x 25 lines label value GRAPHIC MODES None label value COLORS Monochrome label value SOUND Beeper label value I/O PORTS Tape recorder, Parallel printer label value BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 5.25'' FDD unit (142 or 285 KB per drive) label value OS FDOS (Sharp Operating System) label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unit label value PERIPHERALS I/O card slots label value PRICE About $5200 with printer and 2 x 142 KB discs photos links title subtitle text image SHARP PC-3201 Thanks to **Martin Willemsen** null title subtitle text image TOP VIEW Thanks to **Martin Willemsen** null title subtitle text image DISPLAY UNIT Thanks to **Martin Willemsen** null title subtitle text image FD UNIT Thanks to **Martin Willemsen** null title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com author date text Martial (France) Monday 20th August 2012 In France, was sold in from 1981 to 1983. Mainly for business purposes and running "Mercure" operating system (who became MOS) and many applications.\ The typical system was 2 FD and a dot matrix printer (Manessman Tally MT1000). author date text Stephen Page (UK) Wednesday 25th April 2012 My first computer at work was a Sharp PC-3201 with dual 5.25 inch disk drives that seemed to be here one week and gone for calibration the next, every two weeks! You would often forget to switch the hardware switch from program to operation. And it ran on CP/M. This machine ran our whole company, from managing our parts system of over 1 Million parts with Dbase II to doing the word processing and spreadsheets with Ashton Tate''s Smartware software. author date text Nic (New Zealand) Saturday 18th February 2012 This was the first PC I ever had at the grand age of four. lol. I remember there being a version of the Star Trek game from 1971 along with a heap of other ASCII type games like Pedestrian and Othello. author date text Craig Knights (New Zealand) Sunday 7th November 2010 One was turned in for recycling this week and will be auctioned. http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/135181/eight-tonnes-all-edays-work /museum/atari-pc /museum/sharp-pc-3101 811 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230607230135/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=811 2023-06-07

The PC-3201 was an evolution of the PC-3101 model. It was aimed at the small business users.

Like the 3101, it was a keyboard unit, but the monochrome monitor was a 12" 80 column version and the dual floppy disc drive unit could store 2 x 142 KB or 2 x 285 KB. Several standard interface cards (RS232, IEEE488, etc.) could be plugged into the main unit.

The system offered 32 KB of RAM expandable to 64 KB, and 32 KB of ROM holding the Sharp specific BASIC interpreter.

A dot-matrix printer was also sold by Sharp for the 3101 - 3201 series. In fact it was an Epson FX-80 with a specific character generator ROM.

PC-3000 series systems were very reliable but, because of a strange price policy from Sharp, they never met success.