The Sinclair QL Forum

Ralf R. wrote:Third day without toilet paper in the supermarket. People should buy soap instead of toilet paper, you get infected in your hands.....

People are still selling news papers There is only a shortage of the soft stuff...

I will be spending a bit more time on a couple of hardware projects with all this isolation going on. A keyboard adaptor for PS/2 to work with existing IPC - using a single pic micro and a handful of resistors, and build someone elses ps/2 mouse to quadrature signals board - again using a single PIC...

Try a post in the wanted section - someone on here often has spare parts or could point you in the right direction hopefully

Other countries can manage, why the hell can't the British STFU and listen to advice? Well, since you've come up with the topic, I find it a bit irresponsible that the UK is not taking action, nor is France doing it. Leaving the population at the expense of possible immunization is going to be defi...

pjw wrote: Be alert, but not alarmed; stirred, but not shaken!

Love that quote

I really don't understand the mentatlity of bulk buying - most people have enough stored up to live for a couple of weeks in the house - might need to be inventive with recipees. In our supermarkets in the UK - dried pasta is almost always sold out - shelves are empty - but you will have no problem ...

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That sort of thing.

One possible solution to the lack of an AC supply would be one of those 5V to +/- 12V switch mode boards - they are around on ebay. To use one of these, you would need to unsolder the 2 12V regulator devices that provide the +12V and -12v supply and wire in your outputs from the board - then take a ...

many thanks Dilwyn

I tried requesting membership on the quanta home page, it seemed to go through ok, but I have not heard a been since then - that was over a week ago, just wondering if this organisation is still active ?

Dave.