Always wanted to play about with one of these machines. All the best getting it to work! On 9 May 2015 4:47 pm, "Earl Evans" <e...@retrobits.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Howard Pepper <ac...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> I hope I'm not out of line here, but if I paste a link to where you can >> order batteries and adapters for the Epson PX-8, and it isn't acceptable >> on the list, please delete my post. >> >> I got my PX-8, and the replacement batteries from this site. They >> aren't the cheapest in the world, but I didn't feel like making my own >> battery pack: >> >> http://www.notebooksupplies.com/epson/px8.html >> >> Howard >> >> > I've had Batteries Plus make a couple of packs for me, and they have > worked great. The cost was quite reasonable also, and I knew I was getting > fairly fresh NiCad cells. They helped me bring one of my PX-8s and my HX-20 > back to life. > > It's true that the PX-8 won't work without a functional battery. One of > the limitations of the beast. > > Once you get it working, you should build a cable to use vfloppy, a > virtual disk drive for the PX-8 that runs under Linux. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/vfloppy/files/ > > With that, you can really open up the software available to you. Feel free > to contact me off-list if you want to chat about that further. > > - Earl > > > >
