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Thu, 04/14/2011 - 16:10

My First computer -:

Sharp MZ-700
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.

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

Manufacturer: Sharp
Date: 1st January 1983

Manufacturer: Sharp
Model: MZ-700 (MZ-711, MZ-721, MZ-731)
Released: 1983
Production ends: ?
Processor: Z80A, 8 Bit
Mhz: 4
Co-Processor: -
RAM: 64 KB
ROM: 8 KB
Operating Systems: Basic on Tape
Graphic, Resolution: Graphic: 80x50, Text: 40x24
Colors: 8
Sound: 1 Channel, mono (Chip: 8253)
Ports: Printer, Tapedrive, HF, Joystick, RGB, Video
Keyboard: Typewriter, 69 Keys
Internal Drives: Tapedrive
Specials: Basic not in ROM
Accessories: Tapedrive, Plotter,...
Sold in: worldwide

And as for the graphics.......

I spent 2 years creating a game in Sprite basic.......LOL no one got to see it because we had no internet:mad:

Happy shooting

Cheers
Heatsinkbod

(Jon)

KILL em ALL and then KILL em ALL again!!

Happy shooting - Kill em ALL and kill em again

Cheers

Heatsinkbod

&nb

Thu, 04/14/2011 - 17:05

tigger

What was your first computer...........

I had Atari 800xl programs on audio tape. Remember Boulderdash?? or Tanks?? lovely time that was

always look on the bright side of death

Fri, 04/15/2011 - 08:13

MAW Blackwidow

What was your first computer...........

i had a Commodore 64 wen i was 10years old

i liked playing lemmings

Type Home computer
Release date August 1982 [1]
Discontinued April 1994
Operating system Commodore KERNAL/
Commodore BASIC 2.0
CPU MOS Technology 6510
@ 1.023 MHz (NTSC version)
@ 0.985 MHz (PAL version)
Memory 64 kB RAM + 20 kB ROM
Graphics VIC-II (320 × 200, 16 colors, sprites, raster interrupt)
Sound SID 6581 (3× Osc, 4× Wave, Filter, ADSR, Ring)
Connectivity 2× CIA 6526 Joystick, Power, Cartridge, RF, A/V, IEEE-488 Floppy/Printer, Digital tape, GPIO/RS-232
Predecessor Commodore VIC-20
Successor Commodore 128

Fri, 04/15/2011 - 10:30

ubersoldier

re first computer

hi all ....
cant remember the make but it was similar to the zx spectrum
about the same size with rubber keys ...."orion" i think....
never a very popular model ...no software or games apart from the ones i typed in from magazines of the day .
then moved onto the intelivision console one of the first games consoles lotsa fond memories of that one ....then the atari 2600 ,and worked my way through the range, xl, xe,jaguar
these actually got me into repairing/upgrading as they came with very little memory and i started by upping the memory.
was fun cos you had to remove/desolder the old chips and replace them ..16 to 32 mbytes and only £147 pound...bargain!
still have xl somewhere ....
then got my first pc.... 286 intel, paid 400 second hand
16meg memory 40 meg hard drive with a cdrom ....thought i was the bees knees.....
stripped that down so many times, i could do it blindfolded
then 386 486 intels then moved to AMD for the equivelant of the 586.....building my own systems by this time.
generally as a new processor came out i upgraded to it
and now i run a dual core AMD athlon 2 255 with 4gig of memory 1 terrabyte hard drive ,cant afford anything better....but i do got 4 of them lol.

Fri, 04/15/2011 - 14:33

castro

What was your first computer...........

My first computer was a set of three lines of beads red, yellow and blue. "those were the days". But I had to play with it outside cos the shoe-box we lived in did'nt have enough room.

Fri, 04/15/2011 - 16:12

AAAAheatsinkbod

castro wrote:

My first computer was a set of three lines of beads red, yellow and blue. "those were the days". But I had to play with it outside cos the shoe-box we lived in did'nt have enough room.

Ahh well I had one of those to and my kids have it now but it dont get used much they have a choice of it or a XBOX / PC / TV / SKY / DS and so onnnnnnnnnnn they have it hard

Happy shooting - Kill em ALL and kill em again

Cheers

Heatsinkbod

&nb

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