Talk:Sharp MZ

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Processor[edit]

I understand the Sharp MZ-80K used Sharp's own licenced copy of the Zilog Z-80, and this precluded this range from being sold in the US. The main article is not clear about which machines use the 4 bit processor, and say this was used in the MK-80Z which is incorrect. Can this article be updated?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.44.253 (talk) 20:26, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The MZ80K and A used the LH0080, the MZ80B used the LH0080A licensed versions of the Z80 and Z80A. Whether or not it precluded sale in the US I am uncertain. The Knight's International User Group certainly had members in the US and reported that Sharp had started selling in the US, though this MAY have referred to the PC3200 range, which was also Z80 based. JRV— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.4.134 (talk) 10:00, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Monitor[edit]

Note from a Sharp MZ-700 owner: I happen to own an MZ-700 and I can asure you that it has no built in monitor. It is however a model sold in Norway, so it might be a scaled down edition. A friend of mine did own an MZ-800 and it had no monitor either and came with a 5.25" floppy drive. For photo proof: http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/first700.htm Jan A.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.4.134 (talk) 10:00, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can confirm this. I had a loaner MZ721 and MZ800 (directly from Sharp Germany) and it had no built-in monitor. Sejtam (talk) 05:23, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Major problems with this page[edit]

This page misses out the entire MZ-80A product line. 4-bit processor was only in the MZ-40K. MZ-700 was its own series, nothing to do with the 80K. Numerous factual inaccuracies. I will see if I can't sort something out.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.127.61.250 (talk) 09:40, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unencyclopedic text removed from article[edit]

The following was on the defunct Talk:Sharp MZ-80K page and was removed from the main article in 2006:

An old MZ80K user

The graphics set was derived by re-mapping the 256 characters and then displaying these on screen in the required character position. Animation was possible, however it required the remapping and juggling of 255 8x8 arrays, which were the character set and when you used the existing character set you had to re map it before being able to display any text. Took me a week to do a simple animation of a fork likt truck ! Hey, in the 80's this was cool and amazing at the time, video on an ipod freaks me out now !— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2fort5r (talk • contribs) 10:29, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CP/M and other Disk OSes[edit]

This is missing information that MZ80A, MZ700 and MZ800 could run CP/M There was also a native DOS for the dual floppy disk for the MZ80A and pssibly others (I remember running Turbo Pascal and ucsdd pascal on the MZ80A and MZ700) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sejtam (talk • contribs) 05:21, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]