Look what I found (ancient laptop)

JohnCleary

http://www.update.uu.se/~jolkkonen/bilder/sharp-pc5500.jpg

Found one of these today in the back of an office, but cant get much info on google from it. Its a Sharp PC 5500 ... anyone know the specs on them?

Don't suppose it would be worth money to someone... Aparantly some vintage laptops/PC's are making money on eBay... what do ye reckon?

dr zoidberg

That would get loads on eBay for pure vintage value. Some nerd somewhere will want one.

The tax man

From:http://www.classiccomputer.co.uk/default.php?Name=SharpPC5000


Sharp PC5000
Release Date 1983
Price £1195
CPU 8088 16 bit
Operating System MS DOS
Physical RAM 128KB
Max Physical RAM 256KB
Physical ROM KB
Character Display 80 x 8
Display Resolution 640 x 80
Display Colours 1
Languages Included BASIC
Keyboard 72 keys, 8 Function keys
Storage Cassette unit
Other Storage 5 1/4" Floppy Disk Drive Double sided Double density
Expansion Slots Bubble Memory, Parallel, RS232
Audio N/A
Diamentions 326mm x 305mm x 87.5mm

If you think thats bad, I've a Sharp MZ700 pc tucked away.Look at these specs for pure....em...computing power:D
Pic
Sharp MZ700
Release Date 1983
Price £420
CPU Z80A (3.6MHz) 8 bit
Operating System Cassette OS
Physical RAM 64KB
Max Physical RAM 64KB
Physical ROM KB
Character Display 80 x 50, 40 x 25
Display Resolution 80 x 50
Display Colours 8
Languages Included BASIC
Keyboard 69 keys, 5 function keys
Storage Cassette unit (1200 baud)
Other Storage
Expansion Slots Parallel, Sharp BUS
Audio N/A
Diamentions 440mm x 305mm x 85mm

JohnCleary

LOL madness, I Wonder what it'd be worth

The tax man wrote:

From:http://www.classiccomputer.co.uk/default.php?Name=SharpPC5000


Sharp PC5000
Release Date 1983
Price £1195
CPU 8088 16 bit
Operating System MS DOS
Physical RAM 128KB
Max Physical RAM 256KB
Physical ROM KB
Character Display 80 x 8
Display Resolution 640 x 80
Display Colours 1
Languages Included BASIC
Keyboard 72 keys, 8 Function keys
Storage Cassette unit
Other Storage 5 1/4" Floppy Disk Drive Double sided Double density
Expansion Slots Bubble Memory, Parallel, RS232
Audio N/A
Diamentions 326mm x 305mm x 87.5mm

Mossy Monk

lol, to own that would be brilliant

Scraggs

does it work?

Scraggs

those crazy americans...

Dave!

yeah you'd definitely get some money for that on Ebay! People buy all sorts of wierd sh!t -- remember, Americans are also able to see it!

JohnCleary

Yeah it works as far as I can make out! Might take a few pics and stick it on eBay

arbeitsscheuer

Give you a fiver for it.

Dave!

5.50

BrokenArrows

If you have all the power cables and the manual it will increase the value alot more.

godtabh

The tax man wrote:

CPU Z80A (3.6MHz) 8 bit

isnt that very fast!

Mossy Monk

oh yeah

like lightning

arbeitsscheuer

lighting going through treacle, carrying 5 Anne-Nicole Smiths, and having gotten really out of shape physically.

BrokenArrows

kearnsr wrote:

isnt that very fast!

The average computer you buy nowdays is probably about 3GHZ

Thats 3000MHZ and that laptop is 3.6MHZ
Which makes the new computer 833 times faster

DemonOfTheFall

Without counting the extra work per clock cycle that newer computers would do aswell.

Fire it up there and get us a SuperPI 1M time for it. Should be ready sometime tomorrow.

KdjaCL

CS wouold get 45fps on that.



kdjac

djmarkus

Stick FEAR on her there. it'd work a dream!

tintinr35

DaveMcG wrote:

5.50

5.55

DonkeyStyle \o/

"laptop"?
You'd have to be pretty tall to fit that on your lap. :eek:
Still, it'd be priceless to pull one of those out of your bag in a meeting and run some lame presentation on it
...before making a call on your 80's brick mobile of course.

Pigman II

I keep expecting a monkey to walk up to it and nervously touch it.

danniemcq

The tax man wrote:

If you think thats bad, I've a Sharp MZ700 pc tucked away.Look at these specs for pure....em...computing power:D
Pic
Sharp MZ700
Release Date 1983
Price £420
CPU Z80A (3.6MHz) 8 bit
Operating System Cassette OS
Physical RAM 64KB
Max Physical RAM 64KB
Physical ROM KB
Character Display 80 x 50, 40 x 25
Display Resolution 80 x 50
Display Colours 8
Languages Included BASIC
Keyboard 69 keys, 5 function keys
Storage Cassette unit (1200 baud)
Other Storage
Expansion Slots Parallel, Sharp BUS
Audio N/A
Diamentions 440mm x 305mm x 85mm

lol my ma bought this in an auction few years back for a fiver

DonkeyStyle \o/

Pigman II wrote:

I keep expecting a monkey to walk up to it and nervously touch it.

Eurgh :eek:
Take it to Sex / Sexuality tbh. :rolleyes:

aidan_dunne

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

"laptop"?
You'd have to be pretty tall to fit that on your lap. :eek:
Still, it'd be priceless to pull one of those out of your bag in a meeting and run some lame presentation on it
...before making a call on your 80's brick mobile of course.

Actually, based on that suggestion, what I think would be a great idea would be to take it apart, strip the guts out of it and somehow do a mod-job on it in order to build a modern, kick-ass machine into it somehow. Then pull it out, as you say, during a meeting and wait for everyone to start pointing and laughing at you (the laptop, people, the LAPTOP! Before you all start making smutty comments! ). Boot it up, load up DOOM 3 or FEAR or some other really high-spec game and start playing away and then see how quickly the smiles are wiped from their faces! Now that would be cool!

Okay, I know it's not really a practical option, what with it being a laptop and all, but you never know. It might just, just be possible to do it somehow. After all, we've seen over the years how guys have managed to build modern PC's out of the likes of old Commodore 64's and even original 8-bit Nintendo systems so it might be just about possible to somehow shoehorn modern bits into it. I think if you could it would be really cool and, as I said, a great way to wipe the smiles off some people's faces!

DonkeyStyle \o/

Sure you could probably fit an entire laptop into the big boxy part to the rear of that monster (maybe one of the really small Sony vaio ones) and hook up a lot of things externally. (ie. without completely gutting the vaio)
tbh I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already done this.

Scoops

tintinr35 wrote:

5.55

5.57

Dave!

That's me done Enjoy your computer