Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-25 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Hi folks, summer is almost over and I'm still recovering from my Sinclair Microdrive Nightmare *1. Dilwyn Jones wrote: And if you plug a ZX Spectrum microdrive drive unit into the QL expansion port there were several problems: 1. It faced away from you with a standard microdrive ribbon

Re: [Ql-Users] the heat!

2012-08-25 Thread fernando gonzalez
oh! that would be depressing if it happened now, i'm wfh and i've just kicked off a full build. i totally forgot about power surges and brown outs, we lived in a converted maisonette back then with wiring going back to the fifties so even the neighbour's fan heater would freeze the computer.