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What is the issue though, does Minerva report a RAM problem with an error screen full of large digits?

I think that would be fine. You'll probably have to press it down onto the chip and keep holding when testing - whatever is needed to ensure the connection is good. I've used that method before, sometimes it cures the issue other times it leads to different patterns on screen and sometimes it makes ...

Was a very useful device. Always worked very well for me, the only little problem was that as it was uncased, it got dusty I'm not using mine currently, as my Gold Card QL has been reduced for now to two floppy drives since getting QIMSI. Previously, I had a mix of DD, HD and ED floppy drives. Well...

Checked mine and I have one with a GC sticker like yours with mods on the rear and also a D2 as BSJR describes with the mods incorporated into the PCB design.

Napsternds found this information today in an internal Sinclair newsletter: https://sinclairqles.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/whatsapp-image-2024-01-17-at-11.20.25.jpeg Good to learn that all of the 'foreign' QLs would have been delivered with the Psion v2 versions and also interesting that there we...

The wiki indicate me more or less what I already know, the wiki indicate that the one without sticker is for the trump card. This has not sense, because one of the IC of the trump card, one of the 74LS175 has the unique proposal of provide the signals for the 3rd and 4th Drive. So I wondering why t...

Thanks Bruno, pleased it was of use to you.

napsternds wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:24 am

Chr$ wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 5:15 pm A little disappointed that the pic is not a Spanish QL keyboard.

That was on purpose. Spanish keyboard was introduced in 1985. So it's not 40 yet....

Excellent, I didn't know that!

https://sinclairqles.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/gigantografia.jpeg Coming soon... Very soon we will report on the workshop, which had 40 visitors and in which there were interviews and tinkering. A little disappointed that the pic is not a Spanish QL keyboard. But pleased you stopped at 40 visitor...

I think the left pin when you look at the QL from the front is the input, but am not 100% without checking. Just check it with a multimeter, the output pin will be 5v.