QL Nostalgia
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:11 pm
So I finally managed to get into the loft space and check out my QL artefacts.
I found 2 QL’s I think one is a JM the other a JS. Twin floppy drives with a TRUMP card extension for interfacing the drives and adding 256K of memory. One of the QL’s has a nine pin D type adapter fitted on the back which goes with the Mersey mouse kit add-on I bought. A QL Centronics printer interface that plugs into a serial port and last but not least two Medalist Delux Joystiks.
As to microdrive cartridges, the original PSION programs and backup copy set, the PSION Match Point twin cartridge and Game instructions. In addition I have a number of other 4x microdrive wallets and a Transform storage box for twenty mirodrives holding a dozen cartridges. Then a couple of boxes of 3½ inch floppies, various copies of bespoken Software programs, some my own and the rest, nearly half, which seem to be a collection from the QUANTA’s Archive Library of about 1992. With them is a collection of QUANTA magazines from Feb 1991 to Jan 1999 (my passed membership years).
A few years back I purchased a USB external floppy disk drive for my desktop PC and using Qemulator have read the QDOS files on some of my collection of QL Floppies. That has only intrigued me the more to now read the microdrive cartridges I have. What I would really like to do is check out if my QL kit is still working the TRUMP card and floppies, but to do that I will need a Monitor. I’ve checked out a few options and now need to pay a visit to our local computer repair shop to seek out the parts.
However my biggest surprise was to find I still have my collection of QL User and QL World magazines.
QL User Mar 1985- Jan/Feb 1986
QL World Jul-Aug 1995 (first six month)
QL World incorporating QL User Mar-1986 to Jan-1987
QL World Feb-1987 to Apr 1990
QL World Dec 1990 to Apr 1992
QL World Jun 1992 to Mar 1993
QL World Volume II issue 5,6
QL World Volume 2 issue 7
QL World Volume 2 issue 7 on the cover, but Vol 2 issue 8 inside.
QL World Volume 2 issue 9,10,11,12
QL World Volume 3 issue 1,2,3,
If anyone has been trying to obtain an article written in any of the above I’m happy to scan it and post it on the Forum.
Note: For my own good and just to clarify the law on such, the copyright of the actual typographical layout of published editions (magazines) in the UK only last for 25 years. So reproducing the magazine or sections as I understand it by scanning does not pose a problem. It would be different if the request was to republish an article for sale.
So this one for the QL Nostalgic
Qbits
I found 2 QL’s I think one is a JM the other a JS. Twin floppy drives with a TRUMP card extension for interfacing the drives and adding 256K of memory. One of the QL’s has a nine pin D type adapter fitted on the back which goes with the Mersey mouse kit add-on I bought. A QL Centronics printer interface that plugs into a serial port and last but not least two Medalist Delux Joystiks.
As to microdrive cartridges, the original PSION programs and backup copy set, the PSION Match Point twin cartridge and Game instructions. In addition I have a number of other 4x microdrive wallets and a Transform storage box for twenty mirodrives holding a dozen cartridges. Then a couple of boxes of 3½ inch floppies, various copies of bespoken Software programs, some my own and the rest, nearly half, which seem to be a collection from the QUANTA’s Archive Library of about 1992. With them is a collection of QUANTA magazines from Feb 1991 to Jan 1999 (my passed membership years).
A few years back I purchased a USB external floppy disk drive for my desktop PC and using Qemulator have read the QDOS files on some of my collection of QL Floppies. That has only intrigued me the more to now read the microdrive cartridges I have. What I would really like to do is check out if my QL kit is still working the TRUMP card and floppies, but to do that I will need a Monitor. I’ve checked out a few options and now need to pay a visit to our local computer repair shop to seek out the parts.
However my biggest surprise was to find I still have my collection of QL User and QL World magazines.
QL User Mar 1985- Jan/Feb 1986
QL World Jul-Aug 1995 (first six month)
QL World incorporating QL User Mar-1986 to Jan-1987
QL World Feb-1987 to Apr 1990
QL World Dec 1990 to Apr 1992
QL World Jun 1992 to Mar 1993
QL World Volume II issue 5,6
QL World Volume 2 issue 7
QL World Volume 2 issue 7 on the cover, but Vol 2 issue 8 inside.
QL World Volume 2 issue 9,10,11,12
QL World Volume 3 issue 1,2,3,
If anyone has been trying to obtain an article written in any of the above I’m happy to scan it and post it on the Forum.
Note: For my own good and just to clarify the law on such, the copyright of the actual typographical layout of published editions (magazines) in the UK only last for 25 years. So reproducing the magazine or sections as I understand it by scanning does not pose a problem. It would be different if the request was to republish an article for sale.
So this one for the QL Nostalgic
Qbits