On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 at 15:56:48, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Just got 4 S-13 QLs , a Sandy SuperQ-Board w/ mouse port (D-9) and a
>ton of microdrive carts.
>
>Wow! These are my first US spec QLs and they are REALLY heavy muthas! :-)
>Made by Samsung (No wonder they reminded me of my QL D-plus (that's how
>we called the Samsung QLs in Greece)
>and apart from a crack down on the ribbon cable (it can be cut and
>reused) the membranes appear to be in perfect condition...
>
>However I got no PSUs so If anyone would care to answer the other
>question I just posted or have at least one US PSU that would like to
>sell, I am game :-) (Contact me, pls, pls, pls!)
>
>The Sandy SQB is an Issue 3 (1987) (so far so good) but there's
>something weird about the QLs. At least one that I opened has lots of
>extra cables bridging the mainboard , an unidentified circuit board
>connected on the first four ram chips (from the left) Two top row, two
>bottom row. Also have CH3 / CH4 switch (The usual US VCR "channels"
>(IIRC UHF 32-33)) and LOTS and LOTS of insulation, RF protection,
>chokes etc...
Sounds normal US spec to me.
It was a real overkill. They should simply have metallised the case.
.... after all FCC regs allow mutual interference as long as the
customer is warned. That always stuck me as very sensible.
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