Toshiba HX-10

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Toshiba HX-10 with cartridge slot extension.

Toshiba HX-10 was a MSX - home computers from Toshiba , which was launched in May 1984 to the market. Right from the start it was produced with a large number of peripheral devices. Printers , cassette recorders , floppy disk drives , monitors , cartridge slot expansions and modems for this computer were offered at the same time . Software produced by Toshiba was also offered, such as word processing and spreadsheets with the option of creating graphics such as pie charts . The computer was therefore also suitable for professional office use.

description

Striking external features are the relatively large function keys and the cross-shaped arrangement of the cursor keys. The dimensions were 370 × 245 × 60 millimeters and the computer weighed 2.8 kilograms. The computer was equipped with a Z80 A processor, a Texas Instruments TMS-9929A ​​video chip, 64  KB RAM (30 KB free for your own programming) and 16 KB video memory. The interfaces were a cartridge slot , two joystick connections, a composite video and an HF video output, a connection for a cassette recorder, a Centronics connection (printer) and an output for the cartridge expansion.

variants

  • HX-10 P , with a QWERTY keyboard and a PAL video output. This variant was specially designed for the European market.
  • HX-10 DK , was equipped with a Kanji character ROM.
  • HX-10 DPN , with a Scart video connection.
  • HX-10 F , with an AZERTY keyboard and a SECAM video interface for the French market.
  • HX-10 S / SA , with a modified QWERTY keyboard for the Spanish market. The main memory was only 16 KiB.

Miscellaneous

The first episode of Channel 4's three-part television film series Damon and Debbie (Fall 1987) had a Toshiba HX-10 in Debbie's room.

literature

  • Dietmar Eirich: MSX - the first home computer standard. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-453-47052-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ computinghistory.org.uk, Toshiba HX-10 . Retrieved May 1, 2010
  2. ↑ Dietmar Eirich, MSX. The first home computer standard. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1985, ISBN 3-453-47052-4 .
  3. ↑ Old-computers.com, Toshiba HX-10 , accessed May 1, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b c d e faq.msxnet.org, Hardware , accessed on May 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ Starring the Computer, Toshiba HX-10 , Retrieved May 1, 2010.