This was one of my earliest Japanese vintage PCs, before I had the idea to start blogging about them. I found a couple of photos of them and decided to…

Some of the hardest things to find are Sharp X1 D disks. If you’re not familiar, the X1 D uses 3″ disks, as opposed to 3.5″ disks. Physically quite different…

This has been an active week for my X1 systems. First, I picked up a set of two external floppy drives. There was a disk stuck in one of them,…

I had a perfectly functional and definitely nice-looking Sharp X1 Turbo Z keyboard, but I managed to find one that looked just a bit better still. This one was super…

After finally getting an X1 tape drive, I can now play Laser Planet! I bought it a few months ago on Mercari even though I couldn’t immediately use it, because…