Tony Firshman wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 at 17:34:43, paulholm wrote:
> >OK, what do I win for this machine??? > >I am holding in my lap as I type this missive:::: > >(Drum Roll Please) D03-001123 > The first prize. > It doesn't beat my first machine - but that was lost in the post > back to Sincair. > >The number is heat stamped in the case. > >It also has a bright green round sticker with PM written in > >ball point. > >The ROMs are actually E-PROMS, 1 per socket with dark blue labels > >QLPM 0000 and QLPM 4000 hand written, the 8749 has a yellow sticker > >that has IPCx 0.7 hand written on it. > >Anyone know where in the hierarchy of machines this fits??? > I suspect they started at 1000. > IPC 0.7 is very very bad. > Looks like a very early ROM - JM is the earliest I have seen (other > than my first QL - but I didn't remember letters in those innocent > days) You don't suppose that since the 8749 was an INTEL chip that it didn't work as Sinclair was lead to believe that it should?? All the units we serviced over here didn't have any stickers on any of the original chips. May have never ran across the IPC 0.7 untill this particular machine Wonder if this machine is the oldest in captivity? I might be willing to flip the circuit board to get at the motherboard version. That info of interest?? I do have a RAW QL motherboard still here. It has the microdrive sub-boards still attached to it. Thought about putting it on E-bay, but haven't yet. Think there might be a market for it as a curio?? -- Paul Holmgren Hoosier Corps #33, L-6 2 57 300-C's in Indy
