Anton,
The Q60 was marketed as a complete cased solution and available as a
motherboard.
Most people who bought a Q60 purchased the motherboard option, as they
have the necessary skills to install the Q60 into a case.
Myself being a QL enthusiast, I have all QL hardware, emulators. I like
the SMSQ/E, Minerva, QDOS operating systems. No matter what platform it
runs on. At present I have QPC2 running a Quad Core Q9550 which makes
the QPC2 emulation very slick. But I also like using QL Hardware based
machines and have 3 standard QLs running connected by Sernet to a QXL on
486 PC, Q40, Atari ST Emulator, Supergold card Aurora QL and QPC2, using
a custom Sernet hub box I made a few years ago.
All in all a pretty diverse setup.
Derek
Anton Preinsack wrote:
Hi to all!
Not long ago I contacted Derek Steward to asked him a few things about
the Q60 for my QL-article (which will be published in the next issue
of Amiga Future, www.amigafuture.de).
To my surprise he told me, that the Q60 is still available from D&D
Systems, if there are at least ten orders for a new batch.
As I am very interested in a Q60 (I think it is still a fine
QL-successor and -replacement) I want to ask, if there are other
people, who are willing to buy a new Q60?
I know, that the price of the Q60 was often criticized, but compared
for example with similar projects in the Atari-world (Milan, Medusa)
the Q60 has a very fair price (for a very special computer in small
quantities).
Beside of this, I suggested Derek to sell the Q60 not only as complete
system but also only the motherboard. I think most of us are able to
build a complete system around the motherboard, so this solution would
be cheaper than buying a complete system (especially when you live
outside of GB - shipping costs!).
In general I find it a little bit sad, that the Q60 wasn´t a greater
success and that there is no new "real" hardware in the QL-land anymore.
Don´t get me wrong: QPC is a great product and I bought it from Jochen
a few months ago. But I think real hardware is important, too. So I
hope, that there are at least nine other people, who are thinking like
me;-)
Kind regards,
Anton
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