The Sinclair QL Forum

What, I think, dd-rocelec and others are saying is: Rochester: Old designs just re-manufactured on existing dies. Tekmos: Design re-created from an old die, then manufactured on new dies (so the clock speed can be higher). So, you can replace your 680x0 easily from a BBQL/(Super)Gold using a Rochest...

The 68020 lives again, through a company called Tekmos. Through a collaboration with Motorola, they reverse-engineered the old 68020 to produce a compatible replacement.

See: http://www.tekmos.com/products/68020-microprocessors

Agreed. Unfortunately I am moving house next week and don't have the patience as I've got other things that are more pressing.

Sorry,

Tim

Hi QL Forum-ites,

Put a Trump Card on Ebay - 99p start!

See: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121603382492? ... 1555.l2649

The only thing is it's local collection only...

Collect from Shipley (North Bradford), West Yorkshire


Thanks,

Tim

I've got another Q+4 interface (from the blue keyboard-less QL I bought on Ebay). That Q+4 has not got the ROM or the chips for the 26-way and the 20-way (Didn't I see a picture in one of the QL mags hooking up a harddrive to the Q+4?).

Tim

> 2. Such an event should be hold in the home country of Sinclair and the QL, in England.

Most of the production of the ZX81 / Spectrum / (QL?) was based in Dundee by Timex.

The closest real Airport is Edinburgh, with excellent rail links.

Therefore I propose Edinburgh!

A long... long... time ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth*, well 1992-ish, a pimply faced youth (PFY) toured the electronic engineering facility of Edinburgh University. In one room, there were lots of QLs powered up. When the PFY asked what the QLs were doing, the head of department said the QLs ...

From your scope, it seems to me that the bottom trace (2) is the clock and the top trace (1) is the data coded as FM: 100kHz = '1', 50kHz = '0'.

That way, if the microdrive is slow or fast it doesn't matter because the recorded clock that matters.

Go on, what's the interface pictured in photo 2 at the top left please?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sinclair-QL-p ... 27d2b8160d

Thanks,

T.

Erm... http://www.theregister.co.uk/about/company/contact/ (The link is bottom left)

Either send an email to tony.smith@theregister.co.uk (Hardware Editor) or email the generic news team news@theregister.co.uk

Tim
[A reader of The Register, including BOFH]