Q60

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Peter
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Dave wrote:I think it's fair to say that if someone were to make a batch of 20 or 25 Q60s, they would all sell.
I'm sure 25+ would have sold, if made 10 to 5 years ago.

Today the monitor misery bothers me somewhat. I fail to find true multisync these days.

I'd say 15 is save, 20 almost safe.


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Many of the components get a price break at 20 or 25, so making 25 would not cost that much more than making 15. If you have ten extra almost free, it means you can recover the cost in the first 10-15 sales which is a good motivation.

I, and I imagine a lot of other people, would have bought a Q60 if it had been available as a bare board. That alone could have potentially doubled sales.

Still, it's the fastest QL clone out there.

For now :)


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Well, I don't have a clue how many would sell, but I would buy one. So that's at least one sale.

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I forgot to say, that I sprayed the XPC Cube Black and used Black CDROM & Floppy Drives.


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My MPlane/Aurora based QL is possibly the smallest QL in the World. If I could just get a QL-SD it would be complete. It does use an external floppy, though.

It contains an MPlane, a tiny telecoms PSU, an Aurora, Gold Card and QubIDE with 2MB CF.

I used a Neoware CA21 case:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/lot-0f-2-CA21-N ... 1466594810

A VLT60-3000 PSU:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/EOS-VLT60-3000- ... 1260771205

I have about 50 of the PSUs. They can comfortably run an entire QL and all accessories including SGC. They provide 5V @ 8A, 12V @3A and -12V @ 0.5A. They measure 102mm x 51mm x 25mm. Compact!


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Re: Q60

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How does the Neoware CA21 case compare to this?
http://q40.de/q60/miniq60.html

The new Q60 case we work on would be smaller, as it has no floppy.
And the smallest will hopefully be the Q68, just 8 x 10cm including all the connectors. ;)


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I have you beat on the Q60 case by a small margin, but nothing will ever be as small as the Q68.


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Peter wrote:How does the Neoware CA21 case compare to this?
http://q40.de/q60/miniq60.html

The new Q60 case we work on would be smaller, as it has no floppy.
And the smallest will hopefully be the Q68, just 8 x 10cm including all the connectors. ;)
That case looks the same as the one my Minis-QL Aurora/SGC/Mplane/Qubide/RomDisq/CF/Floppy disk is built into. Yes, you really can get all that lot into those cases.
Perfect for MPlane backplanes, in fact I'd suggest they were probably designed with that case in mind in the first place!


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