On 12 Dec 2009, at 11:44, Anton Preinsack wrote: > > 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;-)
Yes, the Q60 is a good machine. One thing it has that QPC2 does not is the Floating Point Unit. Simon Goodwin wrote some software using this unit to replace the SMSQ/E trig functions. I think these routines come with the Q60 software. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
