Am 23.08.2012 um 18:58 schrieb Dilwyn Jones: >> any one got any tales of annoying little things which in retrospect are >> quite charming? >> >> cheers >> >> fern > 1. It faced away from you with a standard microdrive ribbon cable. You had to > fold and crease the short cable to make it face the right way.
I used to have a leftover drive from my Spectrum and never used it on the QL because of that. I seem to recall my cables were too short to be twisted to have that d**n thing the proper way round. And, facing backwards, it looked embarrassingly amateurish. > 2. Spectrum microdrives would not format cartridges on a QL, though you could > usually read and write OK. I think there was a bit of a speed difference > IIRC, that Sinclair made changes to make QL drives work at higher capacity. Don't remember that. I /think/ format worked with my drive. But, too long gone….. Tobias _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
