On 18/12/2010 11:39, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
Morning,
very interesting to read. Tony also send a letter in theses days
to
me, saying that the prototype PCBs exist, but that they were not
of a
good quality. Unfortunately, he never mentioned deeper things
about
software etc. It was a very mysterious thing in these days. Would
be
very interesting to know, what kind of software was written for
the
Futura.
Even nice to see again a QPLQ printed letter from Tony (to Urs)
printed on his Epson LQ 2500.
Cheers...Ralf
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Where is this PDF on Sandy Futura - have I missed something?
http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch/QL_FUTURA.html
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Ah right - now that looks interesting...
You know the sad part.... I came across some expansion boards (two
or three) which had those connectors like the QL edge connector with
3 rows of pins, but no-one seemed to know what they were, so they
got thrown out....
--
Rich Mellor
Yes indeed, very interesting. Be wary of downloading the zip file BTW,
about 154MB. My PC said 2 hours to download it (showing only about
20Kb/s at the moment though, so much for broadband).
The original Futura was to be a QL compatible, then the Italian parent
company were said to have pulled the plug on Futura and Sandy went
ahead only with a QXL-style plug in card for PC (anyone know what that
was called?), though I don't know if that went into production and how
many got sold. The variety of boards Urs shows in the video probably
implies both typed of boards were in the box, along with a few other
Sandy RAM cards etc.
Would be interesting to hear from Urs how he got hold of all this!
Dilwyn Jones
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