Many of the components get a price break at 20 or 25, so making 25 would not cost that much more than making 15. If you have ten extra almost free, it means you can recover the cost in the first 10-15 sales which is a good motivation.
I, and I imagine a lot of other people, would have bought a Q60 if it had been available as a bare board. That alone could have potentially doubled sales.
Well, I don't have a clue how many would sell, but I would buy one. So that's at least one sale.
Mark
Standby alert
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year
QL, Falcon, Atari 520STFM, Atari 1040STE, more PC's than I care to count and an assortment of 8 bit micros (Sinclair and Acorn)(nearly forgot the Psion's)
My MPlane/Aurora based QL is possibly the smallest QL in the World. If I could just get a QL-SD it would be complete. It does use an external floppy, though.
It contains an MPlane, a tiny telecoms PSU, an Aurora, Gold Card and QubIDE with 2MB CF.
I have about 50 of the PSUs. They can comfortably run an entire QL and all accessories including SGC. They provide 5V @ 8A, 12V @3A and -12V @ 0.5A. They measure 102mm x 51mm x 25mm. Compact!
The new Q60 case we work on would be smaller, as it has no floppy.
And the smallest will hopefully be the Q68, just 8 x 10cm including all the connectors.
The new Q60 case we work on would be smaller, as it has no floppy.
And the smallest will hopefully be the Q68, just 8 x 10cm including all the connectors.
That case looks the same as the one my Minis-QL Aurora/SGC/Mplane/Qubide/RomDisq/CF/Floppy disk is built into. Yes, you really can get all that lot into those cases.
Perfect for MPlane backplanes, in fact I'd suggest they were probably designed with that case in mind in the first place!