Expansion Equipments - Sharp MZ-80B Owner's Manual

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1.2 Expansion equipments
A variety of peripheral devices is available for expanding the MZ-80B personal computer system.
FIGURE 1.3 shows a typical expanded system configuration. With the floppy disk drive, numerous
data and program files can be stored and accessed at high speed . With the printer, hard copies of list-
ings and printed graphic patterns can be obtained. This improved processing efficiency, resulting in
a wider range of applications.
The MZ-80B dual floppy disk drive uses a double density mini-floppy diskette (286K bytes/disket-
te) with a diameter of 5.25 inches, both sides of which are used for recording. It enables use of the
DISK BASIC inter-Pret(!r., which is suitable for practical business applications of the double precision
DISK BASIC interpreter, which performs 16 digit BCD operations. Thus, the expanded system ex-
hibits an ability which is comparable with that of larger computers with the aid of a variety of the
floppy disk operating system software.
The compact MZ-80P5 line printer enables not only program listing, but also graphic pattern print-
ing in the image mode.
FIGURE 1.3 Typical expansion system