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The MZ-700 was launched in Japan in October 1982.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 \u2018worthy of serious consideration.<\/p>\n
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