Hi all.... There will be an online Swap Meet where you can trade, sell, swap or even give away your unwanted gear, and maybe pick up a bargain! The event will happen on Thursday 1st May, from 6pm to 9pm UK time. All are welcome!
Features include the presence of many people in the community who can do deals or answer questions, including: RWAP: a random selection of QL hardware, software and accessories! Sandy: auctioning off a prototype Sandy SuperRAM 896K expansion card, plus a quantity of tested, formatted microdrive cartridges with new felt pads! People like you: search your closets and draws and trade something you don't use for something you might! The swap meet will be held in the Marketplace section of QL Forum, and the auction and live action swapping will be happening in the chatroom. Forum: http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=4 Chat: http://www.qlforum.co.uk/mibbit.php If you want to publish lists of what you have to sell or trade, or what you're looking for, you can post them in this thread, or on the "For Sale" or "Wanted" sections of the marketplace in anticipation of the big event. Please hold the actual deal-making until May 1st, 6pm though! I know, it's an experiment. Let's see how it goes. There may well be a few well known 'celebrity faces' dropping by during the evening, so I am sure the conversation will be lively! :) Mark it on your calendars: May 1st, 6pm-9pm UK time. And now an update on developments at Sandy Electronics.... Microdrive felt pads.... These are our best seller. Over 100 packs shipped. Combining all unsolicited customer reports, we're seeing about a 70% success rate in making bad microdrives usable. Sales of these has now recovered the development cost and covered almost half the cost of developing SuperRAM. Battery adapters.... These are now shipping. I don't think any have arrived yet (they have to go by surface mail) but I can't wait to see peoples' reactions. They are available in SAFT red and QL black. QL on a Stick.... Dilwyn has updated QLoS to latest versions, and has also heavily updated the documentation. This is shipping now. Comes on a custom engraved black USB drive that looks the part. Minerva.... We had a small setback with the Minerva MK IIs which we're working hard to resolve. We will have a large batch of Minerva MK 1s available soon... SuperRAM.... SuperRAM is coming along nicely. It's a surprise extra project. Up to 896K of static RAM, simply the fastest RAM expansion for the black box QL. It shadows internal memory and video RAM too for an extra boost. Also, it has a through connector, so it can make any floppy interface into a Trump Card beater! Should be shipping in late June.... UltimIDE.... Not much to report here. There is progress. I have laser etched the CompactFlash cards that will be included. They look amazing. There will be a lot more to report in 3-4 weeks... :) If anyone has any questions about the swap meet or Sandy developments, I will happily answer them here... RWAP will have stock of felt pads, QL on a Stick, Minerva and SuperRAM as they become available. They will also be available direct from the Sandy store. I have made the decision to not list prices or link to sale pages because this is not an ad - it's an update. If the list-owner gives me permission to list prices or give links, I will do so in future, but only if there is something significant to announce. I will also not sell products until they are available to ship off the shelf. Thank you for reading! -- Dave Park Sandy Electronics, LLC d...@sinclairql.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm