| HX-10 (Pasopia IQ) |
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HX-10 (Pasopia IQ) |
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Toshiba |
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Home Computer |
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| BUILT IN LANGUAGE |
Microsoft Extended Basic (MSX Basic V1.0) |
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| KEYBOARD |
QWERTY mechanical keyboard\
73 keys with graphic symbols and accentuated letters through keys combinations |
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| SPEED |
3,6 Mhz |
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| CO-PROCESSOR |
Video Display Processor TMS 9929A |
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| RAM |
64 kb, 30 kb left for programming |
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| TEXT MODES |
Mode 0 : 40 x 24\
Mode 1 : 32 x 24 |
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| GRAPHIC MODES |
Mode 2 : 256 x 192 with 16 colors (Hires mode)\
Mode 3 : 64 x 48 with 16 colors (Multi colour mode)\
32 sprites |
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| SOUND |
General Instruments AY-3-8910 Programmable Sound Generator\
3 channels, 8 octaves |
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| SIZE / WEIGHT |
370 x 245 x 60 mm / 2,8 kg |
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| I/O PORTS |
2 joystick sockets\
1 cardridge slot\
Tape-recorder plug (1200/2400 bauds)\
Composite video output\
Centronics interface\
RF video output\
1 expansion bus |
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| POWER SUPPLY |
Built-in power supply |
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| PRICE |
487 (France, august 85)\
HX-10D : 65.800 yens (Japan) |
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| LARGE VIEW |
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| KEYBOARD CLOSE-UP |
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| LEFT & RIGHT SIDES |
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Power switch on the left side, 2 joystick and printer connectors on the right side. |
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| CONNECTORS |
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• 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 |
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| OPENED |
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The keyboard was made by Alps, a big Japanese keyboards manufacturer. |
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| MAINBOARD |
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**(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 |
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| THE BOX |
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| US ADVERT |
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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. |
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| FRENCH ADVERT. |
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| JAPANESE ADVERT #1 |
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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... |
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| JAPANESE ADVERT. #2 |
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The Pasopia IQ seems to be the name of the HX-10 in its native country. |
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| JAPANESE ADVERT. #3 |
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I love this advert ! Their pullovers are so... colored. |
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| HX-MU901 |
Music-Keyboard Unit |
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. |
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| HX-MU901 #2 |
Music-Keyboard Unit |
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| HX-MU900 |
Toshiba FM-synthesiser unit |
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| NATIONAL CF-2131 |
16 KB RAM expansion |
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| CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION |
Box |
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| PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION |
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RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges.
Thanks to Daniele from Italy |
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| MEGA RAM DISK 256 |
from DDX (Brazil) |
This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243 |
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| PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W |
Scanner/Printer interface |
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. |
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| SONY HBI-232 |
RS232c cartridge |
Used to connect serial printers. |
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| YAMAHA MOUSE #1 |
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This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port.
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** |
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| YAMAHA MOUSE #2 |
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Brand new!
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** |
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| PHILIPS VW0020 |
80-col dot-matrix printer |
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. |
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| SANYO PHC-DR II |
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| SANYO PHC-DR II |
Front |
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| SANYO DR-202 |
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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. |
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| NATIONAL RQ-8030 |
tape-recorder |
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| BIT-CORDER |
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Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers. |
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| fMSX official Homepage |
http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX |
Multiplatform |
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. |
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| openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection. |
http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/ |
Multiplatform |
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. |
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| Noobsaibot73 (Spain) |
Sunday 29th April 2012 |
This MSX computer is also known as "The CPC MSX" because its keyboard has the same colors in its keys as the CPC has (red, blue, green and black). |
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| A. T. (Finland) |
Saturday 11th September 2010 |
This model was my first experience with MSX. My father bought it in 1985. When I was three, I tried to play Shark Hunter with it, but I really couldn''t. I also thought that the BASIC-compiler was a word-processor. My father used to produce digital music with it, but he didn''t bother to save his work to cassettes every evening and mostly the computer was turned on overnight. In 1990 overheating had damaged the computer''s motherboard and service couldn''t repair it anymore. I give minus to it''s integrated power supply, but otherwise it was a good computer. |
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| Bascule (Brighton, UK) |
Monday 16th April 2007 |
Blimey - I loved my HX-10 when I was a kid. Was a quantum leap upgarde from my 1K ZX81! Had tape games (Level 9 adventures, mostly) and a couple of carts (Konami Time Pilot, for one). The UK ad campaign included the anoyying wireframe bloke ("Allo Tosh, got a Toshiba?") who seemed sooo cool at the time. Came with a free tape game based on the wireframe bloke - no idea what you had to do, just collected stuff. MSX basic was easy, as was creating sprites. Swore I would be a programmer. Left school '86, didn't program a thing until about 2002... |
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| Matthew Thomas (England) |
Tuesday 6th August 2002 |
I recently found a HX-10 while clearing out a loft. I attached it to my television and started it up. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a tape recorder so I just thought I would have a look at what is there, without any game attached. Basically, what I found is an MSX Basic interpreter which spits out neccessary output from your programs according to what you write. For example:
print "hello world"
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hello world\
Ok
However, it is somewhat annoying not being able to save any programs, and finding anything helpful to do with MSX Basic has proven to be an arduous task. Nonetheless, this is a cool retro machine. Enjoy it. |
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