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Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 10:05 pm
by NormanDunbar
vanpeebles wrote:I'm sure there's a joke there about all the pi's.
There were 3.14 of them?
Sorry best I could do at short notice, although it appears that a piebald pony has approximately 3.14 testicles!
I'll get my coat!
Cheers,
Norm.
Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 10:13 pm
by vanpeebles
Well I've heard of the dogs doodars but never the ponies!
Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 5:47 am
by swensont
Dilwyn - Thanks for the info and pictures. Glad you are having a good time. About the closest I get to a QL show is the Bi-annual visit from Graeme (XorA).
Tim
Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 12:19 pm
by dilwyn
NormanDunbar wrote:vanpeebles wrote:I'm sure there's a joke there about all the pi's.
There were 3.14 of them?
Sorry best I could do at short notice, although it appears that a piebald pony has approximately 3.14 testicles!
I'll get my coat!
Cheers,
Norm.
I assume vanpeebles meant something like "who ate all the pis". But I like the "there were 3.14 of them", Norm, which is nearly true as I think we had difficulty getting one of them started.
Not as much activity here today, but I gather 9 of those present yesterday had a nice time at the "get-together" at the restaurant until late last night. I didn't go, as I had an appointment with a TV set for a certain rugby match (did I mention to English readers that Wales somehow won?
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Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 1:23 pm
by dilwyn
OH NO, THE ROBOTS HAVE FOUND US
mr15.jpg
Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 1:28 pm
by dilwyn
mr17.jpg
(you need to have watched Doctor Who on TV to understand that - inspired by a comment from Derek Stewart that he'd watched Doctor Who on TV last night)
Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 1:46 pm
by tofro
EXTERMINATE!
Tobias
(Who lives in a country that somehow managed to entirely ignore the Doctor the last 25 years.)
Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 2:02 pm
by dilwyn
A Pandora custom QL case, with side removed showing an Aurora card, Super Gold Card and a Q-Plane backplane. I think there was a Qubide in there somewhere too. Joking apart, John and Sarah Gilpin, who designed these cases, say they were explicitly designed to make it easy to encase an Aurora system, although if you remove the 5.25inch drive bay at the top front, it is possible to install a QL motherboard instead of an Aurora. Apparently "only" about 30 of these were made in total so they are a bit of a collector's item now.
mr18.jpg
Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 6:54 pm
by vanpeebles
I managed to get a pandora
I never knew the original mobo would fit in the top
Re: QL Workshop in Manchester
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:45 am
by Cristian
dilwyn wrote:mr17.jpg
(you need to have watched Doctor Who on TV to understand that - inspired by a comment from Derek Stewart that he'd watched Doctor Who on TV last night)
The DALEKS !?!