--- 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 forum_thread: 154 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 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).