My 'newest' one: an Epson QX-10

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com>
Date: Mon Sep 21 12:04:31 1998

"Don't touch it, it's EVIL." A line from the Time Bandits I believe...
I actually won a QX-10 with its Titan PC card in a contest once. It was
surrealistically slow running MS-DOS, not very compatible, and just
plain weird. I also had the hard disk card for it. Weird system.

QXPC should finish if the Titan card is working. I may have the source
to it (don't ask :-) I'll see...

--Chuck

Jason Simpson wrote:
>
> I picked up an Epson QX-10 yesterday for $22. It came with 256k of RAM, CP/M
> 2.2, Valdocs 1.19 and Valdocs III+.
>
> Most intruiging is the single card in the expansion slots: a Titan
> Technologies QX-PC. I gather that this was a 8088 and memory that allowed the
> Epson to run MS-DOS and MS-DOS software (kinda like its big brother, the QX-16).
>
> I have the "QX-PC Pre-boot" disk and the "MS-DOS v2.11" disk that apparently
> came with the Titan card. On the Pre-boot disk is a CP/M system and two .COM
> files: QXPC, which when run claims to be testing the QXPC card but never
> finishes; and QXDISK, which complains about the harddisk(!) being
> misconfigured or not responding and returns to the CP/M prompt.
>
> Is/was there a harddisk option for the QX-10?
> What other options are/were available for it?
> Any ideas about what might be wrong with the QXPC card?
>
> I noticed there's a whole lot more information about the Epson portables (the
> HX and PX) on the 'net than there is about the QXs.
>
> -jrs
Received on Mon Sep 21 1998 - 12:04:31 BST