27 Jan
1998
27 Jan
'98
5:44 p.m.
I think I have 2 of these somewhere, but called PC7000's. One with a HDD and
the other with 2 FDD's. No Docs unfortunately.
I think they have some unusual distinction, the first backlit LCD screen
maybe (from memory).
-----Original Message-----
From: Cliff Gregory <cgregory(a)lrbcg.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 28 January 1998 10:24
Subject: Interesting Find
Found an interesting (at least to me) luggable/portable
at the local thrift
the other day. It's a Sharp PC-7100. Very compact and sharp (no pun)
design. About half the size and weight of an old Compaq, with a
detatchable
keyboard, tiltable LCD screen, 5.25 floppy, 20 meg hard
drive. It booted
fine from the hard drive (MSDOS 3.2).
I haven't taken the time to open it up and look inside, but I ran MSD from
a
floppy, and it reported the computer to be a
Sharp/ERSO, 8088 or 8086
processor, 704k RAM. When I browsed the ROM memory, the result was:
aVADEM-SHARP Personal Computer System Firmware Version 3.0B copyright 1985
Vadem Inc.
I did a cursory search on the net for more information but came up empty,
so
if anyone can help with more info or docs for this one,
I would appreciate
it. BTW, the screen has a blue/purple sort of tint to it. Kind of
attractive in a psychodelic sort of way ( oh please, no more drug-related
threads <g>).
Cliff Gregory
cgregory(a)lrbcg.com