10 Apr
2013
10 Apr
'13
3:29 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
I had to Google that to recall what it looked like, but you make a
good point, sir!
I even got the model wrong, I had it in my head it was the TM1. Actually,
it's either the CM-2 or CM-5. Those beasts look like they are trying to
figure out how to take over the world just sitting there.
A friend of mine has a Raspberry Pi and a Sinclair QL case that he got
off eBay, already empty. He plans to design enough interface circuitry
to fit the Pi inside the QL and have the original keyboard work. I
have suggested using the rest of the space for a PSU, powered USB2
hub, possibly an internal speaker(or pair thereof) and see if he can
conceal a card-reader behind the Microdrive slots.
That's pretty slick. The QL is a beautiful machine. I had a Timex/Sinclair
1000 - the USian version of the '81. I remember being disappointed at
running out of memory a quarter of the way through trying to write a
hangman program. The 16K expansion pack kinda ruined the sleekness of the
unit :)