hi there!
my name is olaf... i'm from bremen in northern germany... the sharp mz-800 was the 1st computer i've got back in late 1984, when i was 16 years old... i still have it & it also still works... well... except for the quick disk drive (qdd), which isn't loading any of the qds i haven stored almost all of my own little programs on... :-/
my mz-800 has all the extras except a floppy disk drive, as i never liked floppy disks... not even back then in the 80s!
i wish the qdd would work again, so all i'm currently using are the emulator on my windows pc & a few games & stuff that i had on cassettes, which all still work fine...
i need to look after the plotter... as i've moved various times & i'm not sure, if i still have it stocked somewhere in the attic... or if i dumped it before my last move in 2012... as it wasn't of any use for me any longer back then...
afaik, the qdd all of a sudden stopped working sometime in 2013... but i still kept it, because it was connected to the extension unit in the back of the main computer... & i'm not a hardware boffin at all & usually only destroy things, when i use a screwdriver etc. ...
i would be lucky, if i could get a spare qdd... but i very much dislike ebay... so that's why i thought i look elsewhere... & also joined this place now!
if anybody has or knows a place, where i can buy a qdd for a reasonable price (for a max. of 100 €, but really not much more!) i would be rather happy!
btw: the name "mz-808" is due to the fact that i also make electronic music & love the sound of the roland tr-808 drum machine... & roland also once used qds of the same format like the mz-800, which i loved!
by now (actually in the last few days) i've even made a track called "mz-808" feat. 2 sounds, which were creted with the Texas Instruments SN76489 Digital Complex Sound Generator (DCSG), which is the chip that creates the sounds in the mz-800 as well, as u probably already know...
i may post a link to the track, in case anybody here has any interest in hearing some weird electronic dance music maybe...?
i suppose that's all for now from me...
cheers & many greetinx!
olaf a.k.a. mz-808