Hi all,
I just had a setback today. A little thing. It'll take me about a day to recover and get back to where I was. Windows threw a wobbly and was too far gone - needed a reinstall. I lost all my Qeyboard schematics. Not a biggie, I have backups on floppy, but it was just coming up to another backup moment, so the loss is about as big as it can be. I don't remember ever having a problem like this with my QL or Acorn. As for Qeyboard - I now know exactly what I'm doing with it. The design and construction method is now finalised. The prototypes came in and look ok. There was a small mistake which I corrected for the final version. I'm also working on version two. That will be a simpler design with no microswitches, but I need to obtain a whole stack of bubble mats first! Finally, Samsung made a slight mod to the membranes for US QLs to allow for the bending of the top case. They stuck tiny 2mm square bits of adhensive cloth tape to the left three keys in each row, to compensate for the travel limits of the keys at that end of the case. I never saw this on any UK QLs when working at Sandy. Dave http://ql.spodmail.com/
