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This was my first computer that my famely bought when I was 5. So I have spent meny hour playing games on this machine. I still have it, and one game also. wonder if it works!!

This was my first computer. It took ages to boot as basic had to be loaded from tape. I spent ages typing in basic programs which used charictor based graphics. It was given to me for my birthday and when it said press EXEC I would not press it as i thought it ment delete or kill what I had just spent hours typing in.

My first computer where I learn BASIC. Still working !

It was my second computer after a couple of years using a ZX81. I enjoyed it a lot and spent hundreds of hours on it. I learned BASIC, PASCAL, FORTH and FOTRAN using my Mz-731. I remember I made some programs based on Scientific American articles. The best one was to represent and move an hypercube using the plotter to render the hypercube in red & blue (one eye each) and using a red-blue glasses you could see it in 3D. I have just tryed it today after 20 years and it still works. Unfortunately my programs tape is lost.

The Sharp MZ-731 was the first computer I ever got my hands on. My dad bought one in 1983 when I was 6. I was fascinated by the games and always wanted to write one myself. In the summer break after 2nd form I started reading the BASIC manual and trying my hands at coding. Now I'm 28 and studying Information Theory and Electronics in the 10th semester. I'm going for the finals this year. If my dad hadn't bought that computer when I was little who knows if I ever got interested in computers at all.

I wanted a C64 but I got a Sharp MZ-721 and I loved it. I learned how to make my own programs in basic. Got a printer plotter for my next birthday. I spent hours on this computer. I spent a lot of time finding Pokes that would give me advantages in games. I got a better Basic tape that gave lots of extra commands. It was fun. Then the Commodore 128D came out cheap. So my MZ went into storage, sold it at a garge sale in 2000 for Aus$40.

Este cacharrito fué mi iniciacion a los ordenadores. Mientras todos tenian Amstrad y/o spectrum, yo tenia esto, lo que hizo que tuviera que generar mis propios juegos. Una maravilla de ordenador

You will find everything you need about the Sharp MZ 700 at : http://www.sharpmz.org

my parents bought an MZ721 as our first computer... we used it for games for a couple years, and it's been in the loft ever since. Would love to find an emulator with games for it.