30 May
2013
30 May
'13
4:44 p.m.
In a bid for the least impressive boot sequence, here the Epson TF-20:
http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/tf20/TF-20boot.avi
Why they gave the thing 64 kByte and not a proper firmware will probably
always be a mystery.
Once booted, 280 kByte of the remaining diskspace could be used by the
HX-20, PX-8 or PX-4.
Fred Jan
30 May
30 May
6:45 p.m.
Interesting Fred.
I wonder how many of these were actually sold for the likes of the HX-20?
Terry (Tez)
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Fred Jan Kraan <fjkraan at xs4all.nl> wrote:
In a bid for the least impressive boot sequence, here
the Epson TF-20:
http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/tf20/TF-20boot.avi
Why they gave the thing 64 kByte and not a proper firmware will probably
always be a mystery.
Once booted, 280 kByte of the remaining diskspace could be used by the
HX-20, PX-8 or PX-4.
Fred Jan
31 May
31 May
3:50 p.m.
In a bid for the least impressive boot sequence, here the Epson TF-20:
http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/tf20/TF-20boot.avi
Why they gave the thing 64 kByte and not a proper firmware will probably
always be a mystery.
Have you looked at the hardware and the system tracks on the disk? This
thing, for all it claims to be the disk drive for the HX20, etc, is
actually a full Z80-based computer running something very close to CP/M
(!). I often wonder how hard it would be to use it as such (there's a
second serial poot too, if you need it).
-tony
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