--- title: Pioneer Palcom PX-7 categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - Japan years: - '1985' cpus: - Zilog Z80 params: name: Palcom PX-7 company: /companies/pioneer company_name: Pioneer specs: - label: NAME value: Palcom PX-7 - label: MANUFACTURER value: Pioneer - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Japan - label: YEAR value: '1985' - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: MSX Basic and P-Basic - label: KEYBOARD value: Excellent seperated QWERTY keyboard - label: CPU value: Zilog Z80 - label: SPEED value: 3.58 MHz - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: Standard TMS (MSX 1) VDP + additionnal TMS 9928 /A VDP for video processing - label: RAM value: 32 KB + 2 KB - label: VRAM value: 16 KB + 16 KB for the 2nd VDP - label: ROM value: 48 KB (32 KB BIOS/BASIC + 8 KB P-BASIC) - label: TEXT MODES value: |- Mode 0 : 40 x 24\ Mode 1 : 32 x 24 - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: |- Mode 2 : 256 x 192 with 16 colors (Hires mode)\ Mode 3 : 64 x 48 with 16 colors (Multi colour mode)\ 32 sprites - label: COLORS value: '16' - label: SOUND value: |- General Instruments AY-3-8910 Programmable Sound Generator\ 3 channels, 8 octaves - label: I/O PORTS value: |- 2 joystick sockets\ 1 cardridge slot\ Tape recorder (1200/2400 bauds)\ RGB & Monitor video out\ Centronics port\ Video in & video out (COAX)\ Audio stereo Out (2 x RCA)\ Audio stereo In (2 x RCA)\ Laser Disc Player Interface (Laser Vision)\ System Control Input\ System Control Output (x 3)\ Keyboard socket\ Headphone out\ Controller port - label: OS value: MSX DOS tabs: - photos - adverts - hardware - software - emulators - links photos: - title: A JAPANESE PX-7 subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: DETAIL OF THE PX 7 KEYBOARD subtitle: '' text: 'Notice that the keyboard has 3 special keys (not present in the MSX standard keyboard) : Superimpose to do genlocking and two keys to choose the video input: Video and Computer.' image: null - title: FRONT VIEW subtitle: '' text: Here again, there are a lot of possibilities. The cartridge slot looks like a floppy drive. There are 2 joystick sockets and 2 volume controls ! image: null - title: A COMPLETE JAPANESE PALCOM PX-7 subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: THE BACK OF THE SYSTEM subtitle: '' text: There are many connectors there ! We can notice the stereo audio outputs and inputs at the left, and some video connectors next to it. image: null - title: THE PX-TB7 GRAPHIC TABLET subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: THE PX-7 OPENED subtitle: '' text: http://pcmuseum.i-o.net.au/ image: null - title: KEYBOARD CLOSEUP subtitle: '' text: http://pcmuseum.i-o.net.au/ image: null - title: JAPANESE MODEL subtitle: '' text: '' image: null adverts: - title: ENGLISH ADVERT. subtitle: '' text: 'We can see here the Palcom PX-7 with all its Pioneer extensions : the graphic tablet, the Laser Disc player, a joystick and even the TV is a Pioneer !' image: null - title: JAPANESE ADVERT (1984) subtitle: '' text: |- from Japanese MSX magazine dated July 1984\ This advert features the PX-7 connected to a Laser Disc ! image: null hardware: - title: 32K RAM EXTENSION subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: PX-TB7 subtitle: Graphic tablet text: '' image: null - title: VIDEO MIXING TABLET subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: NATIONAL CF-2131 subtitle: 16 KB RAM expansion text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/national_cf2131_16k-cart.jpg - title: CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION subtitle: Box text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/casio_or216_16kbramexpansion_box.jpg - title: PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION subtitle: '' text: |- RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges. Thanks to Daniele from Italy image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_cartridges_s1.jpg - title: MEGA RAM DISK 256 subtitle: from DDX (Brazil) text: This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243 image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_megaram256-ddx_1.jpg - title: PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W subtitle: Scanner/Printer interface text: The FS-IFA1 is the printer/scanner interface (left on the picture) and the FW-RSU1W is the handheld scanner (right on the picture). These expansions are for MSX2 systems. image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_fs-ifa1_fw-rsu1w.jpg - title: SONY HBI-232 subtitle: RS232c cartridge text: Used to connect serial printers. image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_msx_rs232c-cartridge.jpg - title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #1' subtitle: '' text: |- This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port. Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s2.jpg - title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #2' subtitle: '' text: |- Brand new! Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s1.jpg - title: PHILIPS VW0020 subtitle: 80-col dot-matrix printer text: |- This printer was a rebadged version of the Seikosha GP-500.\ It was a 80-column, 50 CPS model with a 7x5 dot matrix head.\ Commodore and Atari used same hardware basis for their MPS-801 and 1029 printers. image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_printervw0020_s1.jpg - title: SANYO PHC-DR II subtitle: Side text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_side_1.jpg - title: SANYO PHC-DR II subtitle: Front text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_front_1.jpg - title: SANYO DR-202 subtitle: '' text: The ADSS system allowed to quickly search a specific program in a cassette tape and load it. Seach time for a C60 cassette was less than 1 minute. image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc28_dr202tapedrive_s1.jpg - title: NATIONAL RQ-8030 subtitle: tape-recorder text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/national_tape_rq8030.jpg - title: BIT-CORDER subtitle: '' text: Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers. image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb201_bitcorder_1.jpg screenshots: - title: STARTUP SCREEN subtitle: '' text: This is the startup screen of the Palcom PX-7. You have the choice between the P-Basic (Pionneer Basic) and the MSX Basic alone. image: null emulators: - title: fMSX for MS DOS Homepage url: http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html platform: MS DOS text: '' - title: fMSX for MS DOS Homepage url: http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html platform: MS DOS text: '' - title: BlueMSX url: http://www.bluemsx.com/ platform: Windows text: Excellent free MSX emulator - title: BrMSX url: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm platform: Windows text: A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler - title: BrMSX url: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm platform: Windows text: A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler - title: CompuJunk's MSX Emulator url: http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/ platform: Windows text: A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator - title: CompuJunk's MSX Emulator url: http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/ platform: Windows text: A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator - title: RuMSX url: http://members.eunet.at/lexlechz/msx.html platform: Windows text: A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X - title: RuMSX url: http://members.ping.at/lexlechz/msx.html platform: Windows text: A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X - title: Virtual MSX url: http://www.msxnet.org/vmsx/ platform: Windows text: An other MSX 1 emulator for Win 95 / Win NT - title: fMSX for MAC OS Homepage url: http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html platform: Apple text: '' - title: fMSX for MAC OS Homepage url: http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html platform: Apple text: '' - title: fMSX official Homepage url: http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX platform: Other platform text: 'fMSX is a portable MSX emulator ported on : Amiga OS, Mac OS, MS DOS, OS/2, Sony Playstation, Risc OS, Towns OS, Unix / X, Win95 / NT, X68K.' - title: fMSX official Homepage url: http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX platform: Multiplatform text: 'fMSX is a portable MSX emulator ported on : Amiga OS, Mac OS, MS DOS, OS/2, Sony Playstation, Risc OS, Towns OS, Unix / X, Win95 / NT, X68K.' - title: openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection. url: http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/ platform: Multiplatform text: This new MSX emulator can reproduce, among many other MSX, MSX2and MSX2+ machines, both Panasonic Turbo-R models. Be sure to get the catapult frontend and the system roms from FUNET. links: - title: Baboo! url: http://www.baboo.net/baboo.shtml text: MSX dedicated Yahoo clone. Essential ! - title: FILE-HUNTER.COM url: http://www.file-hunter.com/ text: Excellent! All MSX emulators, sources and utilities! - title: FTP da MSXBr-L/MSX.Org.Br url: http://www.caetano.eng.br/msxsoft/ text: Excellent brasilian software archive - title: MOAI TECH url: http://www.moai-tech.com/ text: Spanish/English website with interesting content - title: MSX Hardware List url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/hardware.html text: An impressive list of MSX hardware. The Bible !!! - title: MSX Ressource Center url: http://www.msx.org/ text: Essential site ! - title: Possi's Konami MSX Page url: http://dynamo.geol.msu.ru/MSX/ text: Nice page dedicated to all Konami MSX games (roms, scans, mids, etc.) - title: The MSX Games Box url: http://www.msxgamesbox.com text: All about MSX gaming (games, covers.etc.). More Fun, Less Mhz! - title: The MSX Museum BOX url: http://www.msxmuseumbox.com text: More than 190 different MSX models in pictures. - title: The ultimate MSX Faq url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org text: Here, you can find near all hardware pieces related to MSX. - title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com text: The MSX home computer system comments: - author: MAndatory Dog (Shitland) date: Tuesday 17th July 2018 text: Miroslave Werner, no need to post image of your own piece, we arent interested. - author: Darren (Australia) date: Friday 18th July 2014 text: |- Hi Craig (in Australia) I have 1 of the (off loaded) Pioneer PX-7 MSX Computers - author: Roger Jowett (Ulster Londonderry) date: Saturday 6th April 2013 text: |- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v$zsjTpFR0oYQ please help we have zx spectrum 48k and one 128k program running at 6mhz using external ram and snapper discs from velesoft site - author: Miroslav Werner (Czech Republic) date: Tuesday 15th February 2011 text: Palcom PX-7 was also available in dark silver (almost champagne) in Japan. If you are interested, I can post images of my own piece. - author: Craig Hursey (Australia) date: Monday 23rd August 2004 text: Also some units were off loaded in Australia by Pioneer. These were also Black units & Graphics Tablet was avaliable as well. 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It has an enhanced feature : as the [Sony SMC 70](/museum/sony-smc-70/), it has an interface (Laser Vision) to control a videodisc player and to do genlocking (superimposing pictures and texts above the Laser Disc image). It was mainly used for video production/editing. The european PX-7 was black whereas the japanese version was black and silver. A graphic tablet (PX-TB7) was also sold with the Palcom PX-7. With this thing you could create illustrations, shapes and various backgrounds, then store up to 8 of these shapes with their respective animation programmes into the computer memory. The LD-700 Laser Disc Player was also sold as an option. When linked to the Palcom PX-7, the computer could entirely control it and exchange information. Pionner also sold the ER-101 interface (Laser Vision) unit which made it possible for all MSX computers to have the same functionalities as the Palcom PX-7.