On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 at 00:10:10, Dexter wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
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>On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Bill Waugh wrote:
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>> Yep I spoke to Arnie once or twice, I think the Italian keyboard was
>> SPEM, they flogged them off eventually as they fitted straight into the
>> QL connector and I bought one it was pretty good.
>> IIRC Arnie bemoaned the fact that Tony kept changing the spec and I do
>> recall him (Arnie) telling me that the Italian parent company had pulled
>> the plug ( can't recall the Italian companies name, definitely was not
>> Sandy )
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>SPEM sounds about right. They were making a low cost memory that we used
>to sell. It involved unplugging an IC, inserting the board into the IC
>socket then inserting the IC into the board. I didn't like the design at
>all - it was mechanically unsound and slow.
and a few wires to the 68008 - not an easy job.
Yes - mechanically it was terrible, and I rescued a lot of QLs where the
board fell off. You were not the only manufacturer. A lot of people
were also seduced into removing all the 64k and replacing, or
piggy-backing 256 - yuk.
> The expanderam 512K was
>measurably faster.
Yep - external memory is 30% faster.
>
>Afterwards, when the QL market started to shrink, they moved from Manton
>Heights to Stanley St, and rebranded themselves as "Power Computing"
>making floppies for amigas and ataris.
... and as Power Computing they sold that really really awful noisy
switched mode replacement for the pretty good reliable QLs 7805.
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