Hi All; For those poor mis informed folk -- the Epson QX-10 was not a laptop. Many of the common features that are in use in keyboards today first appeared on the OX-10 (Help key, Undo key and others). Jerry Parnell (held stock in IBM ---- ick!!!!!!) was a major influence in the demise of the QX series. He spent 3 days with Chris Ratowski to review to the Valdocs III Integrated Software package. He saw a beta version with some bugs in it. In the course of those three days he kept saying what a great piece of software Valdocs was. Chris explained several times that it was a beta version and not quite ready for release. Jerry was at that time a reviewer for the three major computer mags (Personal Computing, Byte Mag. and Popular Computing). Epson was just approaching the big time with 100,000 QX-10s sold in the USA and Chris was countering on Jerry's reviews as a big market boast. Will Jerry released these reviews in all three mags at the same time and the market for Epson QX-10 dropped over night. He never said the version he saw was beta and proceeded to rip the QX-10 apart with very much erroneous information; it was obvious that he hated anything that wasn't IBM (esp if it was better which the Epson was). It was ten times the computer. I know much more about if any are interested. I have a QX-10 complete that I bought in 1986 or 1987 (don't remember). It still works somewhat. I the Valdocs software, CPM 80 and much other software. The reset button was by passed as it failed and the keyboard cord has been spliced together. It also has a 300 baud modem and the beta version of an optical mouse which works with Val Draw only. I was a beta tester for the Epson QX-10. I know first hand most of its history and what came with it. I had a complete collection of all mags written for it. Don't know what I did with them. I am interested in selling it if some one wants it. It also needs a new clock battery (nicad). I am not sure the floppies are still readable????????????? doug kreation(a)juno.com