The Sinclair QL Forum

It’s good to have the fuse map, but it sure would be nice to reverse engineer the equations.

I wasn’t involved in the design or build of the keyboard interface. I would love to reverse engineer it and see if it could be adapted for more modern keyboards - which should be a trivial matter.

SPEM supplied a fair amount of stuff to Sandy. Most of it was decent ideas implemented fairly ok but of very very poor quality construction.

It’s amazing the lengths some people will go to for beer money!

Let’s add to this family picture.

Thank you kindly Sir McSir.

The batteries start leaking because of a chemical process. When discharged, the contents expand compared to new state. Containing a paste with a liquid electrolyte, the electrolyte is the only thing that can move and is forced out. Even if you see no signs of leakage, there can still be some electro...

Was the XTAL on this QL changed from 15 MHz? No, it's a 15 MHz, just has hot glue around it for some reason. The first few machines people got, they would look in them and ooh and ahh a lot, and touch things, and the commonest problem was people breaking the xtal. Hot glue was an elegant solution t...

I'd like the TDI2 card, please.

They were generic cases sourced by SPEM. The cases came with the front and back panels, which were all milled by hand. They were then powder coated and had the logos applied. Some of them, a step was skipped and they shed the white like crazy. A shame, really. The keyboard interface is absolutely wo...