Hi Derek,
Am 12.12.2009 um 12:59 schrieb Derek Stewart:
The Q60 was marketed as a complete cased solution and available as a
motherboard.
Most people who bought a Q60 purchased the motherboard option, as
they have the necessary skills to install the Q60 into a case.
O.k., thank you for clarification. How much was the motherboard?
Myself being a QL enthusiast, I have all QL hardware, emulators. I
like the SMSQ/E, Minerva, QDOS operating systems. No matter what
platform it runs on. At present I have QPC2 running a Quad Core
Q9550 which makes the QPC2 emulation very slick. But I also like
using QL Hardware based machines and have 3 standard QLs running
connected by Sernet to a QXL on 486 PC, Q40, Atari ST Emulator,
Supergold card Aurora QL and QPC2, using a custom Sernet hub box I
made a few years ago.
Cool collection ;-)
I returned to the QL a few months ago and beside the QPC2-system (I
use it in a virtual machine on MacOSX) I own two QLs (one German, one
GB) and a QLX2-card in an old PC. Currently I try to sell the QLX2-
card to safe money for a Q60.
Anton
All in all a pretty diverse setup.
Derek
Anton Preinsack wrote:
Hi to all!
Not long ago I contacted Derek Steward to asked him a few things
about the Q60 for my QL-article (which will be published in the
next issue of Amiga Future, www.amigafuture.de).
To my surprise he told me, that the Q60 is still available from D&D
Systems, if there are at least ten orders for a new batch.
As I am very interested in a Q60 (I think it is still a fine QL-
successor and -replacement) I want to ask, if there are other
people, who are willing to buy a new Q60?
I know, that the price of the Q60 was often criticized, but
compared for example with similar projects in the Atari-world
(Milan, Medusa) the Q60 has a very fair price (for a very special
computer in small quantities).
Beside of this, I suggested Derek to sell the Q60 not only as
complete system but also only the motherboard. I think most of us
are able to build a complete system around the motherboard, so this
solution would be cheaper than buying a complete system (especially
when you live outside of GB - shipping costs!).
In general I find it a little bit sad, that the Q60 wasn´t a
greater success and that there is no new "real" hardware in the QL-
land anymore.
Don´t get me wrong: QPC is a great product and I bought it from
Jochen a few months ago. But I think real hardware is important,
too. So I hope, that there are at least nine other people, who are
thinking like me;-)
Kind regards,
Anton
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