The Sinclair QL Forum

I hope you get to use all of that gear occasionally!

My mailman explained that because my CN22 customs labels are handwritten, they get individual scrutiny. If they were pre-printed "business, professional" labels and already data entered into the USPS system, they would undergo no further scrutiny. I am signing up for a label printer and et...

I am interested in this. If you're interested in open sourcing or licensing your design when it's finished, please email me off-forum.

I bet that is where some good money is: making those LP6 cards.

It's the silliest thing. I am allowed to ship batteries as they are fitted/installed in the device, they contain less than 1 oz of lithium, and there are less than 3 of them. And then a package with batteries in it gets through, and ones that have no batteries in them are rejected. Only one solution...

If only we knew the inner workings of the chip, we would maybe be able to work on a compatible replacement. If that information were available, it would be a modest proposal to do a "Mega Gold Card" using an '030 at 50 MHz or so. That said, hooking it up to an old school QL does result in ...

I have had three of my battery holder shipments to the EU returned to me by USPS. They apparently read "battery holder" on the customs form, and declined to put them on the plane but just shipped them back to me, because USPS does not like to ship batteries. I do know that one has been del...

QL2 might be ready before either of those come up for sale

Yes, the two ground pins 1a and 1b are at the bottom. The three VIN pins are at the top, 32a and 32b, plus 31b.

I made this handy laminate that I use with a dry erase marker when hooking stuff up - great for keeping track...
QL on right, thru-conn on left.

Hi TCAT, :) I have also had this struggle. Mostly because the labels do not match the markings :) The square hole is pin 1. That usually means pin one of row A, which is the row closest to the board's edge. In this case, the square hole would go at the bottom/front of the board, nearest the board ed...