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So this QL I got has a couple of extra D9 sockets. A male at the left edge and a female next to the rf out. Any idea what they might be? Cheers

That does sound most interesting, you might have to take the top off and take some pics!

Brad wrote:So this QL I got has a couple of extra D9 sockets. A male at the left edge and a female next to the rf out. Any idea what they might be? Cheers

At a guess I would say this is a Minerva with I2C port on a DB9 and a QIMII interface out to a mouse port.

Lifting the lid is probably the only way you will know, but boot screen will tell you if you have Minerva - the qimi interface doesn't show up in the ROM banners as it's just a couple of I/O ports

No psu currently so can’t power on. I’ll lift the lid and photo the internals.

Pr0f wrote:

Brad wrote:So this QL I got has a couple of extra D9 sockets. A male at the left edge and a female next to the rf out. Any idea what they might be? Cheers

At a guess I would say this is a Minerva with I2C port on a DB9 and a QIMII interface out to a mouse port.

Could as well be a SuperHermes, which also exposes 2 additional D9s (one High-speed serial, the other serial mouse).

You'll never know before you look under her skirt...

Tobias

tofro wrote:

Pr0f wrote:

Brad wrote:So this QL I got has a couple of extra D9 sockets. A male at the left edge and a female next to the rf out. Any idea what they might be? Cheers

At a guess I would say this is a Minerva with I2C port on a DB9 and a QIMII interface out to a mouse port.

Could as well be a SuperHermes, which also exposes 2 additional D9s (one High-speed serial, the other serial mouse).

You'll never know before you look under her skirt...

Tobias

I thought about that, but he didn't mention any keyboard connector as an extra port - but as you say - visual inspection is the way forward

Pr0f wrote:
I thought about that, but he didn't mention any keyboard connector as an extra port - but as you say - visual inspection is the way forward

My SuperHermeses don't expose the keyboard connector, as I figured the QLs that have it have working keyboards.....

tofro wrote:

Pr0f wrote:
I thought about that, but he didn't mention any keyboard connector as an extra port - but as you say - visual inspection is the way forward

My SuperHermeses don't expose the keyboard connector, as I figured the QLs that have it have working keyboards.....

Quite a few people run the SuperHermes with Aurora - where there isn't usually a QL keyboard. I did say in my first post 'At a guess' - and also indicated that looking inside would be the only way to know for sure - I feel like I am on trial dude....

I'll get some pics this afternoon, if only to put a halt to the witch trials!