I shall bear that in mind for when I need a few things in one go.

Practice on some crap ones first! The main issue is the old sponge not coming off properly. Sometimes it falls off in one piece, other times you end up with a thin layer of gunk and Verdigris on the brass spring plate and you have to scratch and rub away for ages... which if you're unlikely will cau...

This stuff, cut thinner and smaller (obviously):

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/123963891898

Ok, well the re-felting went fine and I was able to dir both of them. v2.1, same as provided on Dilwyn's site. They don't run though and on attempting to copy the contents to win1_ both failed at the main 'exe' files, which are called QLSS and QLBG. I suppose I could format them 6+ times to stretch ...

I'm going to re-felt them and then see how healthy they are, what I can get to run etc. Be interesting to see if there are references to the UK names, what the red start screen looks like etc.

I was surprised to find these two gems in a lot of mostly Spectrum related stuff that I received today. I get a little bit excited by QL related original stuff, for which google holds no images (how sad is that)! I know that the actual US software is available on Dilwyn's site, but here are pics of ...

I couldn't find a schematic either, but here is a copy of the paperwork from Dilwyn's site which shows the 2 logic chip types next to the Eproms:

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/manuals/cstramplus.pdf

Sorry, one more, didn't quite all fit in the 2 messages...

And a few more pics..

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I've had this for a 6+ months and it didn't work. It looked like a previous owner had messed with it and there was some messy soldering and something or other missing from the PCB. It was so messy, I couldn't even see that the missing component had 3 pins. I looked into it further today and thanks t...