--- title: Toshiba HX-10 (Pasopia IQ) categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - Japan years: - '1983' cpus: - Z80A params: name: HX-10 (Pasopia IQ) image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_hx10_system_s1.jpg company: /companies/toshiba company_name: Toshiba specs: - label: NAME value: HX-10 (Pasopia IQ) - label: MANUFACTURER value: Toshiba - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Japan - label: YEAR value: '1983' - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Microsoft Extended Basic (MSX Basic V1.0) - label: KEYBOARD value: |- QWERTY mechanical keyboard\ 73 keys with graphic symbols and accentuated letters through keys combinations - label: CPU value: Z80A - label: SPEED value: 3,6 Mhz - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: Video Display Processor TMS 9929A - label: RAM value: 64 kb, 30 kb left for programming - label: VRAM value: 16 kb - label: ROM value: 32 kb - 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: SIZE / WEIGHT value: 370 x 245 x 60 mm / 2,8 kg - label: I/O PORTS value: |- 2 joystick sockets\ 1 cardridge slot\ Tape-recorder plug (1200/2400 bauds)\ Composite video output\ Centronics interface\ RF video output\ 1 expansion bus - label: OS value: MSX DOS - label: POWER SUPPLY value: Built-in power supply - label: PRICE value: |- 487 (France, august 85)\ HX-10D : 65.800 yens (Japan) tabs: - photos - adverts - hardware - emulators - links forum_thread: 434 photos: - title: LARGE VIEW subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_hx10_system_s2.jpg - title: KEYBOARD CLOSE-UP subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_hx10_keyboard_s1.jpg - title: LEFT & RIGHT SIDES subtitle: '' text: Power switch on the left side, 2 joystick and printer connectors on the right side. image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_hx10_leftright_s1.jpg - title: CONNECTORS subtitle: '' text: |- From left to right:\ • Two joystick connectors\ • Parallel printer connector\ • Expansion bus connector, mainly used for the floppy drive unit\ • Composite video output\ • Audio output\ • RF Aerial output\ • Tape recorder DIN socket with remote control image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_hx10_connectors_s1.jpg - title: OPENED subtitle: '' text: The keyboard was made by Alps, a big Japanese keyboards manufacturer. image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_hx10_opened_s1.jpg - title: MAINBOARD subtitle: '' text: |- **(1)** Power transformer and regulation components\ **(2)** Anonymous video chip, actually a TI 9929, compatible with the 9918 standard MSX video chip\ **(3)** RF aerial modulator\ **(4)** 32 KB ROM chip containing the Microsoft BASIC and I/O routines\ **(5)** Tape recorder remote control relay\ **(6)** ROM Cartridges slot\ **(7)** Z80A processor, here a Sharp version\ **(8)** Custom Toshiba I/O chip, replaces the standard I/O plus several standard 74xx chips\ **(9)** Keyboard connectors\ **(10)** General Instruments AY-8910 sound generator\ **(11)** 8 x 8264 chips hold the 64 KB of main RAM\ **(12)** 8 x 4116 chips hold the 16 KB video RAM\ **(13)** Video circuitry which provides the composite signal image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_hx10_mainboard_s1.jpg - title: THE BOX subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/toshiba_hx10_box.jpg adverts: - title: US ADVERT subtitle: '' text: |- advert said ...If you want a computer that won't be obsolete in a few years, buy an MSX.\ If you want one of the best-selling MSX computers in Japan, buy a Toshiba HX10. image: /media/museum/pubs/toshiba_hx10_pub5.jpg - title: FRENCH ADVERT. subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/pubs/toshiba_hx10_pub.jpg - title: 'JAPANESE ADVERT #1' subtitle: '' text: This is an advertisement for the HX-10D. If you can read japanese maybe you could tell us what's the difference with a HX-10... image: /media/museum/pubs/toshiba_hx10_pub_jap1.jpg - title: 'JAPANESE ADVERT. #2' subtitle: '' text: The Pasopia IQ seems to be the name of the HX-10 in its native country. image: /media/museum/pubs/toshiba_hx10_pub_jap2.jpg - title: 'JAPANESE ADVERT. #3' subtitle: '' text: I love this advert ! Their pullovers are so... colored. image: /media/museum/pubs/toshiba_hx10_pub_jap3.jpg hardware: - title: HX-MU901 subtitle: Music-Keyboard Unit text: The Toshiba MSX music system HX-MU900 allows user to create 65 different instruments and sound effects as well as 20 different rhythm patterns. Up to 9 notes can be produced simultaneously. The FM tone generation system used in the MSX music system gives it impressive sound quality.Connecting the specially designed music keyboard unit to the FM synthesizer unit allows the music system to be used as a digital keyboard.Floppy disc units and cassette recorders can be used as external data storage devices. image: /media/museum/hardware/toshiba_hx10_hx-mu900_synthesiser_1.jpg - title: 'HX-MU901 #2' subtitle: Music-Keyboard Unit text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/toshiba_hx10_pianokeyb_1.jpg - title: HX-MU900 subtitle: Toshiba FM-synthesiser unit text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/toshiba_hx10_fmsynthe_1.jpg - 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 emulators: - 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: 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: 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: 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 related: - /museum/canon-v-10 - /museum/canon-v-20 - /museum/canon-v-8 - /museum/casio-mx-10-mx-101 - /museum/casio-pv-16 - /museum/casio-pv-7 - /museum/epcom-sharp-hotbit-hb-8000 - /museum/fujitsu-fm-x - /museum/general-paxon-pct-50 - /museum/goldstar-fc-80-fc-200 - /museum/gradiente-expert-plus - /museum/gradiente-expert-xp-800 - /museum/hitachi-ah-200 - /museum/hitachi-h1-h1e - /museum/hitachi-h2 - /museum/mitsubishi-ml-f110-ml-f120 - /museum/mitsubishi-ml-f48-ml-f80 - /museum/mitsubishi-ml-fx1-fx2 - /museum/mitsubishi-ml-g10 - /museum/msx-1 - /museum/national-cf-2000 - /museum/national-cf-2700 - /museum/national-cf-3000 - /museum/national-fs-4000 - /museum/national-fs-4500 - /museum/olympia-phc-2 - /museum/panasonic-cf-2700 - /museum/philips-nms-801 - /museum/philips-vg-8000-8010 - /museum/philips-vg-8020 - /museum/philips-vg-8235 - /museum/pioneer-palcom-px-7 - /museum/sanyo-mpc-100 - /museum/sanyo-phc-28 - /museum/sanyo-phc-30 - /museum/sanyo-phc-33 - /museum/sanyo-wavy-10-mpc-10 - /museum/sanyo-wavy-23 - /museum/sanyo-wavy-3 - /museum/schneider-philips-mc-810 - /museum/sony-hit-bit-10 - /museum/sony-hit-bit-101 - /museum/sony-hit-bit-20 - /museum/sony-hit-bit-201 - /museum/sony-hit-bit-501 - /museum/sony-hit-bit-55 - /museum/sony-hit-bit-75 - /museum/spectravideo-svi-728 - /museum/toshiba-hx-20-hx-21-pasopia-iq - /museum/toshiba-hx-52 - /museum/victor-hc-6 - /museum/yamaha-cx5 - /museum/yamaha-cx5m-music-computer - /museum/yamaha-sx-100 - /museum/yamaha-yis-303 - /museum/yamaha-yis-503-diabolik - /museum/yashica-yc-64 - /museum/yeno-dpc-64 - /museum/yeno-mx-64 oc_id: 438 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230320225113/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=438 date: '2023-03-20' --- The HX-10 was a classic [MSX 1](/museum/msx-1/) computer with no special feature... But it was one of the first MSX computers to be exported outside Japan. It met a good success in UK where it can still be found in flea markets and boot sales... Apparently there were several models of the HX-10 (D, DP, DPN, F, E and S) depending on the country they were sold, but it's not clear what's the difference between them so far... The HX-10 DPN and F had a Scart video output instead of RF/composite outputs, and the HX-10S had only 16 kb RAM. In its native country, the HX-10 was also named Pasopia IQ to fit in the Pasopia family developped by Toshiba. The Pasopia IQ was used for their MSX computers serie.
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