No answers, but that does sound very prototypey...

Does it boot at all? Is it an Iss. 5 PCB?


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:33 PM, paul <paulh...@ameritech.net> wrote:

> Many a moon ago Mr. Koenig started asking me for the pertinent poo
> about the PM version QL I still have. I finally got it out and took
> a screwdriver to it to get the info he chases.  Somewhere deep in
> the hind brain still lurks the impression that Frank Davis and I
> once fired it up had it working.
> But (Murphy's Law) after a bit of reflecting on what I saw inside
> this old QL has me questioning that memory. I Do recall reading
> that most PM version QL's had the 'dongle' to get the ROM code
> past the 32K memory range.
>
> This particular machine was not made for the USA market, so it
> has the UK connectors on the backside.
>
> The EPROMs in this unit are blue sticky labeled (ballpoint pen)
> QL PM 0000 and QL PM 4000, both are D27128-3's so they are 16K chips.
> So Am I missing some code still??  It's been at least 20+ years since
> it has seen daylight or had power applied to it, so, Yups, the
> original membrane has died. :-)
> Other then that as far as I know its all original. It does have the ROM
> port cover attached. (probably not a validation of anything)
>
> IF I am missing code, was it another 16K chip?
> Anyone have the code that I might not have?
> I do have spare rom cards for the back port.
> I think they are of the 16K variety. (subject to verification).
> That's also if this might ever be operational again.
>
> And the esoteric side note minutia datum, the 8749 has a paper label stuck
> on it that is hand written; IPEX 0.7
>
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