Anyone have any suggestions for modern cases that fit the Aurora + backplane + SGC nicely?
Fancy tidying up the one I have obtained!
Aurora Cases
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Re: Aurora Cases
No they are all the correct way up!vanpeebles wrote:Do your boards end up like an E shape with the aurora or gold card upside down?
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That's using the low profile backplane - that rig looks familiar Does it still have the funky green 'Q' button
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let me know if you are getting rid of that case - wouldn't mind putting something else in it again
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It does. That your old machine?Pr0f wrote:That's using the low profile backplane - that rig looks familiar Does it still have the funky green 'Q' button
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It was, it housed a hideous but very compact Amstrad 8088 PC, it was crying out for a QL!
I see the temperamental hard disk has been ditched in favour of Solid state disk - a much better idea.
It got sold after redundancy to a guy in Godalming who had it as part of a computer magazine - he didn't care if it worked or not - which was sad. Glad to see it is still doing the rounds
The PS/2 style connector on it's own at the back is I2C from the Minerva board - it is wired to match the pinout of the I2C boards that Elektor magazine published some years back - I have their CD of all past projects - I may be able to dig out the PDFS for those if you are at all interested in that area = PM me your email address. The 2 x 3.5mm jacks on the back are the QL network ports
I see the temperamental hard disk has been ditched in favour of Solid state disk - a much better idea.
It got sold after redundancy to a guy in Godalming who had it as part of a computer magazine - he didn't care if it worked or not - which was sad. Glad to see it is still doing the rounds
The PS/2 style connector on it's own at the back is I2C from the Minerva board - it is wired to match the pinout of the I2C boards that Elektor magazine published some years back - I have their CD of all past projects - I may be able to dig out the PDFS for those if you are at all interested in that area = PM me your email address. The 2 x 3.5mm jacks on the back are the QL network ports
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The picture is how I got it, the previous owner added the solid state disk and reset switch (and I believe changed the qubide card as old had failed). The reason I was thinking of re-housing was I am trying to debug why the minerva RAM test is trying to test ROM, and obviously failing at that test. This may mean I need to dismantle it anyway.Pr0f wrote:It was, it housed a hideous but very compact Amstrad 8088 PC, it was crying out for a QL!
I see the temperamental hard disk has been ditched in favour of Solid state disk - a much better idea.
It got sold after redundancy to a guy in Godalming who had it as part of a computer magazine - he didn't care if it worked or not - which was sad. Glad to see it is still doing the rounds
The PS/2 style connector on it's own at the back is I2C from the Minerva board - it is wired to match the pinout of the I2C boards that Elektor magazine published some years back - I have their CD of all past projects - I may be able to dig out the PDFS for those if you are at all interested in that area = PM me your email address. The 2 x 3.5mm jacks on the back are the QL network ports
Im going to change the floppy for a Gotek device for easier loading of software onto it.
Graeme