The Sinclair QL Forum

I have submerged a computer in mineral oil, which works almost as well, but it has the same problems as Fluorinert - It creeps along by cappilary action between wire and insulation, then oozes out of the ends of all of the cables into your hard drives, power supply etc. Fire is a common result. :/ I...

Since a long term project is to design a QL2, I have been thinking about the case design process. One thing decided early on was that the QL2 PCB should fit in a QL case, but also mount happily in a picoATX case. This led me to think about extended ideas for case design. I have spent some time sketc...

I'm lucky to only be designing boards with no internal cuts or angles.

QL2 might have some interesting panels though - it is likely to have SD storage. That's a whole other discussion...

I've taken some time out from working on SuperRAM to resolve my hard drive woes for once and for all. I bought a 500GB SSD and installed it in my laptop. After two bouts of copying data over USB (five hours) I now have a spritely, quick booting, feisty laptop back, with super fast storage. Now, back...

I'm from Texas. Sometimes, I look outside and it's sunny, then I look outside again and it's still sunny!

Sometimes, our weather doesn't change for MONTHS!

It's pretty beat up. The cigarette residue on it was the worst I've seen in many years - I cleaned that off for you.

It does look like a reasonably well thought out buffer/line driver card though.

The slack is normally 10mm in a new cartridge and 17-25mm in an older cartridge.

Just experiencing an SSD in my daily use machine for the first time (I have had a 120GB SSD in a server for a while)... My previous boot time was 1m 42s, through USB2 with an external drive because the internal drive had died. With the SSD, it's 7 seconds. Safari used to take 16 seconds to launch. N...

The tape is spooled onto the outside of the loop, and drawn from the inside. There's no way to run the tape in reverse. Instead of the loop going to the inside of the spool it would simply tangle at the capstan. Don't think of it as the tape being pushed to the outside of the loop - always think of ...

Shun the unposter. Shuuuuun. SHUUUUUUN! *points at Simon*

No, seriously though, good to hear you're in good health... oh, wait...

Feel better soon