MSX Info pages

History of the MSX Info Pages

The MSX Info pages have been online in june 2008 for TEN years!

It all started in 1998, when I did an inventory of all the MSX things (Toshiba HX10, SVI.738 X'Press and NMS8280,all in working order and heavily extended and with many accessories and covered with dust) .
To tell about what I had and knew was the first purpose of the site. And a nice exercise in publishing on the web.

From 1998 on I started to collect MSX items, and collect also information about MSX. And publsih it. But the name MSX Info Pages was born only after 5 years, as you can see on the screenshots of the page over the years.

Sites where the MSX Info pages have been stored.
Note that only the msx2.com url is dead, all the others still work (and forward to the latest and greatest).
Also the email address I adopted in 1998 (msxhans at yahoo dot com) still works.

1998-2001 http://www.geocities.com/msxhans
Site with frames, made with Frontpage Express, 10MB in size
Mostly on the NMS8280 and SVI.738 X'Press technical info and Pascal programming.

2001-2004 http://www.msxhans.msx2.com (dead url!)
Number of documents, scanned from paper to PDF, growth in size to 500 MB.
Also added large collections of sources from famous MSX programmers.

2004-2005 http://members.chello.nl/h.otten
Most files stored on Funet, size 1 GB
More technical information, new sources and articles,

2006-2007 http://www.hansotten.com
Most files stored on msxarchive.nl, consolidation, user attributions and a new design in html.

2008- now http://msx.retro8bits.com
Enough storage to host everything in one place, including other files from Funet as a mirror.
The site is now maintained with a CMS (CMS Made Simple).

Many MSX users have helped me. Persons I want to specially thank for their help with the MSX Info Pages