My Epson HX-20 still works!

Thursday, September 29. 2016

My Epson HX-20 still works!

Eight years ago, I wrote in the history of my computer usage,

In 1988, when I entered grammar school, [...] I did a bit more serious BASIC programming on an Epson HX-20, which I still own today, but isn’t working anymore. [...] My cousin René taught me some BASIC things like how to use the random number generator.

Well, it turns out that this machine is still alive, as you can see in this video:

You can even watch me loading my cousin’s learning program from the micro cassette—that very lines he’d written for me on Dec 29th, 1988. Though, its output was designed for a separate and larger screen that I don’t own anymore.

I’m pretty sure that this machine had slept from ~1995 until I woke it up now. I hope I can also have a look at my other programs on that micro cassette.

Posted by Stephan Paukner in Information Technology at 20:44 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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