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Ok, another "me too" from me for the next batch of this marvelous device, please!

It arrived yesterday, works like a charm!

Perfect, thanks for the update!

I'm interested, too!

Thanks Derek, I just found the british keyboard driver!

Hi,

QL/E is great, but if you do not need QTop, Prowess, QDT, maybe only the Extended Environment (Qpac2) and Qascade is better.

Launchpad works perfectly assuming it is indtalled and configured correctly, it is probably a better solution for a QLSD based QL with 640K ram.

Ok, that sounds like ...

Ah, thanks for the info - so more RAM and better processing power is mandatory.

I'm tinkering with the mentioned interfaces - for the first steps I just downloaded the QL/E packages from Urs' website (thanks!!!). What really surprised me was the fact that huge amounts of RAM are eaten after boot: from ~900 KB RAM only 220 KB (Tetraoid) to 280 KB (QL-SD) are left. That's more ...

Hello, I recently were able to become a proud owner of a internal QL-SD interface. This came with a German Minerva ROM (1g98) - but I have a British QL! I know that there are drivers for "foreign" keyboards, like German etc. - but is there somewhere a English/British *_kbd available?

...what?

Sorry - I'm (still) a newbie when it comes to the QL. I just made the step from a basic microdrive/floppy drive system to a littlebit more sophisticated "Winchester" based QL system (Tetroid/QL-SD). I already played with the usual pointer environment, have ~ 900 KB RAM, Toolkit II and ...