This advert is for the somewhat-flawed Epson QX-10, a machine aimed at the IBM/Sirius market and which was launched less than two months after Epson's previous HX20 portable.

The QX-10 was a Zilog Z80-processor-based dual-floppy machine with 192KB memory. Its slow speed of 4MHz combined with what was a tricky operating system in TPM - apparently a bit like command-line MS-DOS - made it hard to use, and the software that shipped with it was often buggy.

However, its retail price of less than £2,000, or about [[1900|1983]] in [[now]], was actually competitive, with both of its rivals - IBM's 5150 PC and the ACT Sirius 1/Victor 9000 - starting at over £2,300[source: "Epson launches QX10 as rival to Sirius/IBM", POCW, 25th November 1982, p. 5].