The Sinclair QL Forum

RalfR wrote:

tofro wrote:They're listed in the famous "ZX Microdrive Book"

Is that the book from Jochen Merz? I remember that he has written a book of that.

Seems to be the book from A.Pennel. Jochen has written a similar one.

But you could use the CUB with the OPD to test it out? That's 2 OPD's in Germany then at least, there can't be many. When Tony Firshman has sent the OPD with a monitor to me, the monitor was totally destroyed, a slightly bad package. So I had to modify my CUB to test the OPD. All work as expected b...

Well, the price is 4x to that, what I have paid in Deutsche Mark, when I bought my QL at Vobis in Aachen at 1985. And then it was new, not 24 years old.

What a price.... The problem is: If people buy that, the price range seems to get higher on and on.

tofro wrote:They're listed in the famous "ZX Microdrive Book"

Is that the book from Jochen Merz? I remember that he has written a book of that.

I am really impressed!

I do not quit right remember but someone told me, that MDV handling on the Spectrum/IF 1 was hardware and on the QL it is software or vice versa. Would be interesting to know, how it is handled by OPD

Great crisp monitor view!

I have to look, where I have the cartridges but I think, the labels are all handwritten.

Bad cartridge, I think

Peter wrote:Absolutely great job! Will you sell this? Can german key caps be used as well?

I think, all QL are mechanical the same, it's just the ROM, which defines the keys.

BTW: Is that an Aurora board, where the "Aurora Interface" is plugged into?

Chr$ wrote:Those Dave Walker mdvs that you mention, are they original copies?

Yes, I have got them from Dave. all glued with selotape on a thick A4 paper .

Unfortunately, DW's website isn't there anymore.