{"id":1083,"date":"2014-10-06T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2014-10-06T10:57:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:57:52","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-tie-pulling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1083\/retro-scan-of-the-week-tie-pulling","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Epson QX-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/epson_qx10_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/epson_qx10_small.jpg\" alt=\"Epson QX-10 Personal Computer Boss Secretary Pulling Tie CPM advertisement - 1983\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>There&#8217;s a madman at the computer!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A fellow donated an Epson QX-10 to my collection some years ago, but I have never run it because I lack the proper monitor cable.  This fascinating machine ran the CP\/M operating system and came with a full suite of office-centric software tools, called VALDOCS, wrapped in a semi-graphical user interface layer that ran on top of its host OS.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I&#8217;ve noticed from my QX-10, one of the coolest things about it is that it has specially engineered low-profile 5.25&#8243; floppy drives.  That was a unique thing to have in 1983, and it made the QX-10&#8217;s case very dense and compact.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Interface Age &#8211; May 1983, p.34]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What do you think the world world be like if CP\/M, rather than MS DOS (PC DOS), shipped on the IBM PC in 1981?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a madman at the computer! A fellow donated an Epson QX-10 to my collection some years ago, but I have never run it because I lack the proper monitor cable. This fascinating machine ran the CP\/M operating system and came with a full suite of office-centric software tools, called VALDOCS, wrapped in a semi-graphical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[139,150,918,240,252,920,195,78,917,60,919],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-advertisement","tag-boss","tag-cpm","tag-epson","tag-funny","tag-interface-age","tag-office","tag-qx-10","tag-retro-scan","tag-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}