Wireless computer keyboards range from £9.99 to £99.9 some even with built in trackpads and rollerball (or dead mice as I like to call them. Its the form over function debate again, while nice to have a retro feel, its got to perform extremely well. For me the QL was the whole thing, the case the colour SuperBasic, the microdrives, I didn't realise it the time but some of my programming relied on the fact it took so long to get data off the little black 8-track wannabees. The sum of the parts being less than the whole? even the black Sinclair name has a certain charm. Anything that throws a nod in the QL direction if good for me, how about being black:)
If it can be carried under the arm to a meeting could be the criteria... Lee - Back to the QL- Mark said -----How important is the original keyboard/case to this product design? I'm contemplating gutting one of my old original QL's and refitting with uQLx on a Beagleboard or Pandaboard, and maybe an arduino for keyboard/microdrive interfacing. This solution would preserve the original look/feel, but isn't really reproducible on a large scale. I'm also researching keyboard enclosures that could house a SFF ARM board. Regardless of whether a solution like this went the FPGA or ARM w/emulator route, how do you house it? Or does it matter? One could produce a decent looking retro case for a BB or PB and just require a USB mouse/keyboard from the end-user. The uQLX route is interesting to me because I plan on finishing this experiment in the next couple of weeks and move on quickly to building driver software for the additional interfaces (MMC, USB, network ,etc). FPGA is more interesting to me personally due to the greater challenge, but it'd have to be a coordinated effort and will take longer. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
