Sorry to disappoint, but there is no news of new RomDisqs being available...
However, how much interest would there be in a 3D printed case for the QL RomDisq - expected price would be £9 + Shipping + VAT
The design would be based on the QL EPROM cart design.
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Was someone tasked/hoping to re-produce them?RWAP wrote:Sorry to disappoint, but there is no news of new RomDisqs being available...
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There is only Tony FIrshman who has made them in the past, but he said "there is too high a minimum order for the chips required, plus I have forgotten how to make them"Chr$ wrote:Was someone tasked/hoping to re-produce them?RWAP wrote:Sorry to disappoint, but there is no news of new RomDisqs being available...
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Re: QL RomDisq Cases
Hi,
I asked for a Romdisq to be repaired, but I got the same reason for not repairing the Romdisq, high minimum order quantity of the flash ram chips.
Which strange, as I can buy them easily at no minimum order quantity.
But I doubt that the design files will be released to me for construction.
I asked for a Romdisq to be repaired, but I got the same reason for not repairing the Romdisq, high minimum order quantity of the flash ram chips.
Which strange, as I can buy them easily at no minimum order quantity.
But I doubt that the design files will be released to me for construction.
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Derek
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I think the main issue is that there are no design files!Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,
I asked for a Romdisq to be repaired, but I got the same reason for not repairing the Romdisq, high minimum order quantity of the flash ram chips.
Which strange, as I can buy them easily at no minimum order quantity.
But I doubt that the design files will be released to me for construction.
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Re: QL RomDisq Cases
Be totally obsolete anyway, once the QL-SD ROM thingy comes out . Mind you, I'm probably not the only one quite partial to obsolete stuff.
Romdisqs should be re-made. I suspect it's possible nowadays to go bigger than 8mb fairly cheaply?
Romdisqs should be re-made. I suspect it's possible nowadays to go bigger than 8mb fairly cheaply?
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Granted, ROMDisq is about as compact as it can get. QL-SD ROM is about 1cm deeper but actually also a bit narrower. Other than that there‘s probably no advantage to it.
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By the way, a printed enclosure would be a good thing for QL-SD because there‘s nothing to stabilise it in Z-direction when changing SD-cards. Does still work of course.