9 Mar
1998
9 Mar
'98
2:46 a.m.
At 12:07 AM 3/9/98 -0600, you wrote:
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Joe wrote:
Doug,
I don't have them for sale. They belong to a friend of mine. If he
decides to sell one, I'll let you know. Do they need a special tape or
will a standard audio tape work in them? What's the expansion unit?
Joe
I just found two Epson HX-20 computers with
expansion units, plug-in
printers and plug-in micro-cassette drives. I've seen lots of these
computers but not the other items. Can anyone tell me about them? What's
a setup like this worth? Everthing is in PERFECT condtion, but no books,
tapes or anything else included.
I was thinking about getting one of these myself, and I checked and found
both ribbons and tapes still available (I think it was on Epson's Canadian
site). I don't think there's a bid enough market for these things to
come up with a pricing guide. Most people still give this stuff away for
free since it's worthless to them.
I'll give you $40 for one to kill two birds with one stone: I'll get an
HX-20, and we'll establish the going market price for them.
9 Mar
9 Mar
6:57 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Joe wrote:
I don't have them for sale. They belong to a
friend of mine. If he
decides to sell one, I'll let you know. Do they need a special tape or
will a standard audio tape work in them? What's the expansion unit?
Thanks, Joe, I would like to buy one, so let me know if he sells. I don't
know much about the HX-20, but I think the expansion unit was memory
expansion (from 16K to 32K?). I've talked to somebody that used to sell
these things as a dealer, and he still has the technical reference manual,
so if we become HX-20 owners, I'll see if I can at least get photocopies
of the tech ref.
BTW, I saw an Epson HC-41 today. I think the HX-20 and HX-40 were sold in
Japan as the HC-20 and HC-40 (which was also called the PX-4, I think).
I've never heard of an HC-41 before today, but it looked sort of like an
HX-20 except it had chicklet keys and a non-QWERTY layout. It was
attached by ribbon cable to a rather large machine; the tiny Epson and
large machine it controlled where being sold as a matched set for $250.
-- Doug
10 Mar
10 Mar
4:56 a.m.
Boy, I really am enjoying these discussions of the old Epson laptops. I just
picked up an Epson HX-40 a couple of weeks ago, so this series now has a
special place in my 'interest catagory'. FYI, Sam Ismail, in response to my
post a couple of weeks ago requesting information on these things, said he too
saw an Epson HX-41, and like the one you saw, was attached to a large
machine... a lathe I believe.
Doug or anyone else: do any of you have any of the interchangeable RAM chips
that were used by these. My HX-40 boots up on a chip that has some pharmacy
software on it... used for ordering via modem, etc. I am curious to see what
other stuff was for these things. When I take the chip out, it boot's to
standard CP/M.
Well, all for now...
CORD
Doug Yowza wrote:
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Joe wrote:
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I don't have them for sale. They belong to
a friend of mine. If he
decides to sell one, I'll let you know. Do they need a special tape or
will a standard audio tape work in them? What's the expansion unit?
Thanks, Joe, I would like to buy one, so let me know if he sells. I don't
know much about the HX-20, but I think the expansion unit was memory
expansion (from 16K to 32K?). I've talked to somebody that used to sell
these things as a dealer, and he still has the technical reference manual,
so if we become HX-20 owners, I'll see if I can at least get photocopies
of the tech ref.
BTW, I saw an Epson HC-41 today. I think the HX-20 and HX-40 were sold in
Japan as the HC-20 and HC-40 (which was also called the PX-4, I think).
I've never heard of an HC-41 before today, but it looked sort of like an
HX-20 except it had chicklet keys and a non-QWERTY layout. It was
attached by ribbon cable to a rather large machine; the tiny Epson and
large machine it controlled where being sold as a matched set for $250.
-- Doug 
5:36 a.m.
New subject: DEC 5500
Hi all,
I'm more of a lurker than a poster. I enjoy lurking, though. :-)
I have the opportunity to snarf a DEC 5500 for free. This is a
refrigerator-sized Q-bus machine that runs an old version of
Ultrix (which is 4.2 BSD based).
There are several cages of disks in the package. Supposedly,
around 2 GB total storage. And, a few DECprinters (9-pin dot matrix).
And, I'm told that it boots.
Has anyone had any sort of experience with one of these?
Nick
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