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The Sharp PC-5000 was a pioneering laptop computer announced by Sharp Corporation of Japan in 1983. Like the GRiD Compass which preceded it and its contemporary the Gavilan SC it employed a clamshell design in which the display closes over the keyboard.The PC-5000 was largely IBM PC-compatible with the same 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 processor as the IBM PC and ran MS-DOS 2.0 (in ROM).