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The 4Gb SDHC cards are actually more than you can buy 16's for when I looked on Amazon / ebay - for known good brands. My guess is these are driven by the portable device market and cameras, so higher storage capacity cards are in greater demand and consequently a better seller for the makers.

As ...

Out of interest, does it make much difference whether the card is type 4 or type 10, given the relatively small file sizes for QDOS/SMSQE programs? I have a 16GB type 10 which I could use as an extra drive, but that seems overkill, so I am going to buy a 4GB one instead. I note that the card ...

Many thanks.

I won't be running SMSQ on this particular card, but I should still be able to format it. I did wonder about FSUTIL, but I assumed perhaps incorrectly that the file had to have some sort of header in it, even before being available to the Q68.

I did a search, but seemed to come up short on this query.

With regard to the Q68 and creating QLWA file system containers - how do I do this in a 64 bit Windows environment? I don't mind dropping to the command line to run something.

I looked at the tools for QL-SD, and tools for creating virtual ...

Many thanks Richard, the disks arrived today

UK: 240V 5V
EU: 240V 5V
USA: 110V 5V
Rest of World: No idea of the mains electricity in every country.

Too many options.
Yes I know Derek. There have not yet been damages by wrong supply, no major problem.

Maybe it would be an option to offer a USB to 2.1 mm cable, so people can use USB style ...

It also supports all the enhanced floppy stuff - not that there is any QL software around to make use of that I don't think.

What is the "enhanced floppy stuff" ?

I'm glad you asked - I have no idea ! :-) (well not much of an idea) Still trying to find out exactly what this is and what it does ...

Many thanks Richard - I will have to have a good look there after lunch - that's a much more reasonable price.

I wasn't going to look at floppies, but it seemed to be a good choice to make that interface available on my build, as it's a 1 chip solution (not including rom or decoding). The chip I ...

I aquired a ps/2 drive yesterday - which needs some reworking of the cable to make it work with a QL interface supporting such drvies - but I was looking through my large stash of floppies and it appears i have foolishly let my box of ED diskettes go along with my gold card some time ago.

Does ...

Brrings an interesting thought though...

Is there any protection on the 5V input against over voltage or reverse voltage?

It is a very real possiblity, given that the input socket is a standard format, and there are any number of 5v, 6v, 9v and 12+v supplies out there...