The Sinclair QL Forum

Hi Everyone,
Well as mentioned in my welcome message here is my list of bits and pieces for sale as a job lot to clear for £100 cash on collection from Romford, Essex.

There are 4 QLs but they all have faults as follows but may have other problems ( limited testing on my monitor with a RGB cable )
1, unit boots to initial screen but keyboard not working
2, unit boots to initial screen but keyboard not working
3, unit shows power led on but no video on screen.
4, unit shows no activity (dead)


There are 2 power supplies and both seem ok but only briefly tested on the above semi working units.

The following other bits are not tested
2 light guns
1x Joystick
Modem stack
various cables

Books as follows
1 x QL User manual
1x QL Service manual photo copy
various QL books for software etc

Large collection of Quanta booklets with some in binders
1987 x 11 issues in binder
1988 x 12 issues in binder
1989 x 12 issues in binder
1990 x 11 issues in binder
1991 x 11 issues
1992 x 12 issues
1993 x 11 issues
1994 x 7 issues
1996 x 12 issues
1997 x 12 issues
1998 x 3 issues

15x Sinclair QL User Magazines
First ever Issue July 1984 through to Dec 1985

Sinclair QL World Magazines 1985
Issue 1 2 & 3

33x Sinclair QL World Magazines
March 1986 through to Dec 1988 (but missing November 1988)

36x Sinclair QL World Magazines
Jan 1990 through to March 1993 but not complete see below
11x1990 February is missing
11x1991 February is missing
11x 1992 May is missing
3x 1993 only

Nice haul, the lightguns are for the ZX Spectrum +2/+2A/+3 machines!

Blimey, £100! Normally I would snap them up, but on this occasion I'll leave it to someone else as I have enough to be getting on with. Even though I could probably find someone to collect them, I don't think they would be close enough to Romford to abide by the current rules.

In fact, it must be tricky selling anything at the moment.

Thanks Guys,

Was not sure about the light guns lol

Yes I thought I would list the bits now and then when poss who ever needs them can pop over. I have more bits to sort out but will list them in a few days.

All the best

Hello Phil,

though living too far away to buy the items, I would like to know what revisions the four QLs are. May you post the four serial numbers (Dxx-xxxxxx on the bottom), please?

George

Would love to get the completely dead machine to Adrian of Adrian's Digital Basement. Noel and I had talked about getting him a dead QL during November. Would be interesting to see him debug a QL.

1984 wrote:Hello Phil,

though living too far away to buy the items, I would like to know what revisions the four QLs are. May you post the four serial numbers (Dxx-xxxxxx on the bottom), please?

George

Hi George,
as below in order
1, D06-005036
2, D11-037813
3, D10-011297
4, D14-103080

bwinkel67 wrote:Would love to get the completely dead machine to Adrian of Adrian's Digital Basement. Noel and I had talked about getting him a dead QL during November. Would be interesting to see him debug a QL.

I may have another dead QL but will need to sort out more boxes from the garage

Dear Phil,

thank you very much.

Especially D14-103080 (between D15-102325 and D15-108201 already mentioned in this forum) is interesting cause it confirms that the D14 and D15 revisions were produced concurrently, like the D09 and D10 revisions.

George

Phil K wrote:

bwinkel67 wrote:Would love to get the completely dead machine to Adrian of Adrian's Digital Basement. Noel and I had talked about getting him a dead QL during November. Would be interesting to see him debug a QL.

I may have another dead QL but will need to sort out more boxes from the garage

I'm assuming you wouldn't want too much for a 5th broken one. I would PayPal you postage (plus anything additional) if you would be willing to pack it up and send it to an address in the US (not mine but Adrian's who lives in Oregon I believe). I don't think it would need a power supply since he couldn't use it anyway (it seems you only had 2 PU's for 4 QL's and likely they were UK). Royal Mail can actually be pretty reasonable in my experience.

It would be neat to see him try and repair a completely broken QL (so the more non-working the better -- i.e. bad keyboard membranes are just a simple part replacement but no screen and no boot-up would be perfect). He's got an audience of close to 100K so great to have that many folks getting a look at a QL. Plus he'd likely fix it so that would rescue a dead one :-/