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MICRONIQUE HECTOR HRX	Computers	Home Computer	France	1983	Zilog Z80 A	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos adverts hardware screenshots emulators links related oc_id source HECTOR HRX /media/museum/photos/micronique_hector_hrx_3.jpg /companies/micronique MICRONIQUE label value NAME HECTOR HRX label value MANUFACTURER Micronique label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN France label value YEAR Summer 1983 label value END OF PRODUCTION 1985 ? label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Forth label value KEYBOARD AZERTY, Mechanical keyboard, 53 keys label value CPU Zilog Z80 A label value SPEED 5 MHz label value RAM 64 kb, 48 kb free for user label value ROM 16 kb, up to 64 kb label value TEXT MODES 40 x 22 label value GRAPHIC MODES 112 x 78 with 4 colors\ 243 x 231 with 4 colors label value COLORS 15 (8 colors, 2 brightness) label value SOUND 1 voice, 4 octaves label value SIZE / WEIGHT 47 x 27 x 10 cm label value I/O PORTS 2 joysticks plugs\ Video RGB output (scart / secam)\ Centronics, Rom-pack, Disk-drive on the same port label value BUILT IN MEDIA Tape recorder (1500 bauds) label value POWER SUPPLY Internal power supply label value PERIPHERALS Joysticks\ Robot arm\ Disc2 disk drives\ BASIC 3 rom-pack label value PRICE 754 (France, november 83)\ 4950fr (France, november 83)\ HRX + Disc2 = 760 (France,may 86) photos adverts hardware software emulators links 154 title subtitle text image HECTOR HRX /media/museum/photos/micronique_hector_hrx.jpg title subtitle text image ANOTHER HECTOR HRX Just below "Hector" is written "Fabricant (=manufacturer)" followed by a french flag...yeah ! /media/museum/photos/micronique_hector_hrx_3.jpg title subtitle text image FRENCH ADVERT (1984) /media/museum/pubs/micronique_hector-hrx_pub_periph_1.jpg title subtitle text image THE ROBOT 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. /media/museum/hardware/micronique_robot.jpg title subtitle text image THE CONTROLLERS 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. /media/museum/hardware/micronique_controller_1.jpg title subtitle text image MISC. HARDWARE Joysticks, printer cable, B&W and color modulator, Basic ROM add-on for the 2HR... /media/museum/hardware/micronique_accessoires_1.jpg title subtitle text image SOME DOCUMENTATION /media/museum/hardware/micronique_docs.jpg title subtitle text image DISC 2 Double Disk Drive 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. /media/museum/hardware/micronique_disc2_1.jpg title subtitle text image DISC2 Another picture 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. /media/museum/hardware/micronique_disc2_2.jpg title subtitle text image DISC2 First Model Here the "DISC2" logo differs from the later versions. /media/museum/hardware/micronique_disc2_3.jpg title subtitle text image DISC2 PROTOTYPE Michel Henric Coll, the man behind the Hectors, presents the Disc2 prototype in 1983. /media/museum/hardware/micronique_disc2_proto.gif title subtitle text image DEMO HR Makes use of the High Resolution This looks like a demonstration of the High Resolution. It must have been on the Demo tape... /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_hr.gif title subtitle text image LE DRAGON DU DONJON Makes use of the High Resolution Maybe the most beautiful game for the Hector computers. /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_dragon_du_donjon.gif title subtitle text image POKER Makes use of the High Resolution /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_poker.gif title subtitle text image BUDGET Makes use of the High Resolution /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_budget.gif title subtitle text image F1 Makes use of the High Resolution A classic auto-race game /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_f1.gif title subtitle text image PIEGE Makes use of the High Resolution /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_piege.gif title subtitle text image TAXIS Makes use of the High Resolution /media/museum/software/micronique_ss_taxis.gif title url platform text DCHector http://dchector.free.fr/ Windows Excellent Interact/Hector emulator ! title url platform text MESS - Interact, Hector1, Victor, 2HR, 2HR+, HRX, MX40, MX80 HTTP://WWW.MESS.ORG/ Multiplatform All machines are emulated since 0.136 and Disc2 until 0.141 by Yo_Fr title url text Hector - l'ordinateur français! http://hectorvictor.free.fr/ French website dedicated to Hector / Victor Lambda computers /museum/micronique-hector-mx /museum/micronique-victor-hector-1 /museum/micronique-victor-hector-2hr-2hr /museum/micronique-victor-lambda 142 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20221205022150/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=142 2022-12-05

The HRX is only a 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).