The Sinclair QL Forum

As some of you know, Freescale had a technology exchange with Tekmos , which is primarily defence & medical chip manufacturers. One of the designs was the 68020. See Lynn's Blog for more details. Lynn Reed is the President of Tekmos. Lastly, had a brief chat with Lynn about 68020, and I mentione...

... and the old english cars are no better!

I'll get my coat...

Hi Ian from West Yorkshire!

Cheers,

Tim.

Good luck with that Dave!

Well, the blue box is, as you all surmised, contains the QL's power regulators on the QL's heatsink. However there is no air flow through the blue box, so reducing the advantage of putting the heatsinks outside the QL. The Q+4 is interesting. The Q+4's PCB has got the drill holes and the markings fo...

Yep, the ultimate enthusiasts QL alright. I have to take apart (*) the Q+4, just to see what the former owner did fitting the floppy disk & parallel interface inside the Q+4. Need also to work out what the blue box is. TTFN * - I'm an engineer (**) ** - Engineers specialise in taking things apar...

Right, I'd thought I'd boot up the BBQL - discovered both of my QL power supplies are in Yorkshire whilst I'm in Edinburgh for the fortnight. Ho hum. Ho bloody hum. So, thought instead I'll take the covers of the BBQL. Photos are here:- http://www.flickr.com/photos/78350575@N08/sets/7215762967165122...

You all are like kiddies - want! want! want this minute!

Well I'm sorry but:

> Tune in next week

'coz my XYL and myself are off for a long weekend up in the Scottish highlands.

Sorry...

Well the BBQL(*) has arrived, but no time to really to power-on/test/take to pieces yet. However, from peeking under the flap (where the QL keyboard should go), I see there's the Minerva ROM, and a chocolate PCB daughterboard (Hermes? Hermes-like?) for the AT keyboard and serial ports - the ports ar...

Well the blue-boxed QL has been dispatched today apparently (so long!) - with the age of the 10 second kiddies, me included (mental age), why does post etc take too long?!