Re: TI-H: I know I'm going to regret this...
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Re: TI-H: I know I'm going to regret this...
From: John Teffer <jdteffer@c4.net>
> David Knaack wrote about his $3000 Epson QX-16:
>
> > Yes indeed, it will run CP/M or MS-DOS (some sub version of 2).
Generally
> > it sits
> > in the ValDocs main menu. Anybody remember that?
>
> Yeah, I have a QX-10, the 16's little brother.
I still have never seen the QX-10. I always wondered about
it because lots of the documentation on the 16 refered to the
10.
> Love that big red
> "Stop" button.
Came in handy for lots of games :)
That was my favorite keyboard for a long time, had a great
feel to it.
> Too bad my monitor's dead. It draws signal and
> power through the same weird connector, convenient, until it breaks.
Apparently they changed that for the 16, because, unless I recall
incorrectly, it uses two cables, one for power and one for signal.
For many years the QX-16 ran a very nice monochrome green screen,
it was great for graphics in high resolution mode (seven hundred and
some pixel resolution I think). Eventually we found a kind of crappy
second hand CGA monitor to put on it so DOS games would be
more fun. I remember running StarFlight on that computer. It was
actually a custom hacked version. The QX-16 used a different
interrupt for the keyboard, so for all the regular MSDOS games I
wanted to play my dad had to go in an hack the keyboard routines
so they would work.
DK
I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is
us.
-- Konrad Lorenz
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