Sinclair QL Factory Test Jig

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Sinclair QL Factory Test Jig

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Am interested to see if anyone else has ever come across one of these???

From what I am told it maybe a Genuine test rig from the production factory.
When I had access to a QL it booted up and ran various keyboard, memory, IO and microdrive tests
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Wow, certainly looks like it doesn't it. Be interesting to get a copy of the ROM data in it.


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Love seeing that stuff like this has survived!


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passat20se wrote:Am interested to see if anyone else has ever come across one of these???

From what I am told it maybe a Genuine test rig from the production factory.
When I had access to a QL it booted up and ran various keyboard, memory, IO and microdrive tests
Holy moly, wonderful find!! That thing needs to be reverse-engineered and duplicated to save the legacy.


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Re: Sinclair QL Factory Test Jig

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Shame I no longer have a QL to use in on :roll:


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passat20se wrote:Shame I no longer have a QL to use in on :roll:
I have a few to use it on ;)


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Thank you for posting the pictures passat20se - never having seen one of those jigs before, it was great to view the photos. Goes to show, a lot more of these historical items than we think may be about, somewhere!


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Re: Sinclair QL Factory Test Jig

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Chr$ wrote:
passat20se wrote:Shame I no longer have a QL to use in on :roll:
I have a few to use it on ;)
I'll swap you it for a working Ql !


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passat20se wrote:
Chr$ wrote:
passat20se wrote:Shame I no longer have a QL to use in on :roll:
I have a few to use it on ;)
I'll swap you it for a working Ql !
You know what, I'd be up for that!


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Re: Sinclair QL Factory Test Jig

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Chr$ wrote:
passat20se wrote:
Chr$ wrote: I have a few to use it on ;)
I'll swap you it for a working Ql !
You know what, I'd be up for that!
Let me know. No guarantee it still works but it did 8 years ago!!


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