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+title: MICRONIQUE HECTOR HRX
+categories:
+- Computers
+types:
+- Home Computer
+origins:
+- France
+years:
+- '1983'
+cpus:
+- Zilog Z80 A
+params:
+  name: HECTOR HRX
+  image: /media/museum/photos/micronique_hector_hrx_3.jpg
+  company: /companies/micronique
+  company_name: MICRONIQUE
+  specs:
+  - label: NAME
+    value: HECTOR HRX
+  - label: MANUFACTURER
+    value: Micronique
+  - label: TYPE
+    value: Home Computer
+  - label: ORIGIN
+    value: France
+  - label: YEAR
+    value: Summer 1983
+  - label: END OF PRODUCTION
+    value: 1985 ?
+  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
+    value: Forth
+  - label: KEYBOARD
+    value: AZERTY, Mechanical keyboard, 53 keys
+  - label: CPU
+    value: Zilog Z80 A
+  - label: SPEED
+    value: 5 MHz
+  - label: RAM
+    value: 64 kb, 48 kb free for user
+  - label: ROM
+    value: 16 kb, up to 64 kb
+  - label: TEXT MODES
+    value: 40 x 22
+  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
+    value: |-
+      112 x 78 with 4 colors\
+      243 x 231 with 4 colors
+  - label: COLORS
+    value: 15 (8 colors, 2 brightness)
+  - label: SOUND
+    value: 1 voice, 4 octaves
+  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
+    value: 47 x 27 x 10 cm
+  - label: I/O PORTS
+    value: |-
+      2 joysticks plugs\
+      Video RGB output (scart / secam)\
+      Centronics, Rom-pack, Disk-drive on the same port
+  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
+    value: Tape recorder (1500 bauds)
+  - label: POWER SUPPLY
+    value: Internal power supply
+  - label: PERIPHERALS
+    value: |-
+      Joysticks\
+      Robot arm\
+      Disc2 disk drives\
+      BASIC 3 rom-pack
+  - label: PRICE
+    value: |-
+      754 (France, november 83)\
+      4950fr (France, november 83)\
+      HRX + Disc2 = 760 (France,may 86)
+  tabs:
+  - photos
+  - adverts
+  - hardware
+  - software
+  - emulators
+  - links
+  photos:
+  - title: HECTOR HRX
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/photos/micronique_hector_hrx.jpg
+  - title: ANOTHER HECTOR HRX
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Just below "Hector" is written "Fabricant (=manufacturer)" followed by a french flag...yeah !
+    image: /media/museum/photos/micronique_hector_hrx_3.jpg
+  adverts:
+  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (1984)
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/pubs/micronique_hector-hrx_pub_periph_1.jpg
+  hardware:
+  - title: THE ROBOT
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: |-
+      Wooaaa ! Isn't this thing cool ?! A real robot for your own, just to try to move an egg from one place to another ! Well ok, it's expensive : 19.950 fr ...
+
+      Apparently it was just for the HRX.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/micronique_robot.jpg
+  - title: THE CONTROLLERS
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Ok, they are ugly. But they are originals ! The joystick has 8 directions and there is a fire button. But the special feature is the knob at the top of the stick to play pong or breakout games. And this means that the Hector have analogic/numeric convertors and that it's possible to conceive very interesting devices.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/micronique_controller_1.jpg
+  - title: MISC. HARDWARE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Joysticks, printer cable, B&W and color modulator, Basic ROM add-on for the 2HR...
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/micronique_accessoires_1.jpg
+  - title: SOME DOCUMENTATION
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/micronique_docs.jpg
+  - title: DISC 2
+    subtitle: Double Disk Drive
+    text: |-
+      Here is the DISC2, the double disk-drive for the Victor / Hector computers, produced around 83. Isn't it big ?! But it was aboveall quite expensive ! 6500 fr for one 200k disk-drive...
+
+      In fact, the DISC2 specifications are not very clear and it seems that there were several versions produced... In 83, the disk-drive capacity seems to be 200k whereas in 85 there are two versions : 360k et 720k.
+
+      Anyway, they are both 5"1/4 disk-drives and the operating system runs under CP/M 2.2.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/micronique_disc2_1.jpg
+  - title: DISC2
+    subtitle: Another picture
+    text: |-
+      Here is what a Hector advert says about the Disc 2:\
+      \- Intelligent disk drive (!)\
+      \- 64k RAM, 4k ROM\
+      \- CP/M 2.2 Operating System\
+      \- The "DISC2 communication system" (COS) only takes 1k in the Hector memory.\
+      \- Sold with 1 or 2 disk-drives\
+      \- A second Disc2 can be connected to the first one\
+      \- Capacity from 167.936 characters to 671.744 characters.
+
+      Apparently the Disc2, was conceived to be used with the HRX (and the MX of course), but the advert offers free adaptation of the 2HR+ for a Disc2 purchased.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/micronique_disc2_2.jpg
+  - title: DISC2
+    subtitle: First Model
+    text: Here the "DISC2" logo differs from the later versions.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/micronique_disc2_3.jpg
+  - title: DISC2 PROTOTYPE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Michel Henric Coll, the man behind the Hectors, presents the Disc2 prototype in 1983.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/micronique_disc2_proto.gif
+  screenshots:
+  - title: DEMO HR
+    subtitle: Makes use of the High Resolution
+    text: This looks like a demonstration of the High Resolution. It must have been on the Demo tape...
+    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_hr.gif
+  - title: LE DRAGON DU DONJON
+    subtitle: Makes use of the High Resolution
+    text: Maybe the most beautiful game for the Hector computers.
+    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_dragon_du_donjon.gif
+  - title: POKER
+    subtitle: Makes use of the High Resolution
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_poker.gif
+  - title: BUDGET
+    subtitle: Makes use of the High Resolution
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_budget.gif
+  - title: F1
+    subtitle: Makes use of the High Resolution
+    text: A classic auto-race game
+    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_f1.gif
+  - title: PIEGE
+    subtitle: Makes use of the High Resolution
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_piege.gif
+  - title: TAXIS
+    subtitle: Makes use of the High Resolution
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_taxis.gif
+  emulators:
+  - title: DCHector
+    url: http://dchector.free.fr/
+    platform: Windows
+    text: Excellent Interact/Hector emulator !
+  - title: MESS - Interact, Hector1, Victor, 2HR, 2HR+, HRX, MX40, MX80
+    url: HTTP://WWW.MESS.ORG/
+    platform: Multiplatform
+    text: All machines are emulated since 0.136 and Disc2 until 0.141 by Yo_Fr
+  links:
+  - title: Hector - l'ordinateur français!
+    url: http://hectorvictor.free.fr/
+    text: French website dedicated to Hector / Victor Lambda computers
+  comments:
+  - author: Tim Locke (Canada)
+    date: Saturday 4th October 2014
+    text: Text mode seems to actually be 40x28.
+  related:
+  - /museum/micronique-hector-mx
+  - /museum/micronique-victor-hector-1
+  - /museum/micronique-victor-hector-2hr-2hr
+  - /museum/micronique-victor-lambda
+  oc_id: 142
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205022150/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=142
+    date: '2022-12-05'
+---
+
+The HRX is only a [2HR](/museum/micronique-victor-hector-2hr-2hr/) with some more memory (RAM of 64kb) and above all, a new integrated language, the Forth !! Yes, you read well : FORTH. At this time, as the Jupiter Ace was no longer produced, the Hector HRX was simply the only micro-computer in the world with Forth originally integrated (at least I think).