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Gold plated AH ROMs and the Hotel!
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 8:29 pm
by Chr$
Discovered these in a recent purchase - very pretty gold plated AH ROMs, looks like the manufacturer VL or VLI? It's a D09 serial number machine with Iss 5 board.
Anyone who knows who VL/VLI were, let me know.
Also, quite amusingly while googling I encountered the 'Sinclair Rom' hotel, in Norway:
https://www.booking.com/hotel/no/vertsh ... en-gb.html
Re: Gold plated AH ROMs and the Hotel!
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 9:15 pm
by Pr0f
Looks like an early logo of VLSI who started life mostly with ROMs.
Philips aquired them in 1999
Re: Gold plated AH ROMs and the Hotel!
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:08 pm
by pjw
Its possible that the proprietor was indulging in a private joke, but the word 'rom' in Norwegian only means room or rooms, so Sinclair rom simply means Sinclair rooms - not all that weird for a hotel, perhaps. But dont let that stop anyone from visiting
Re: Gold plated AH ROMs and the Hotel!
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:48 am
by vanpeebles
If I stayed in the Sinclair Room, I'd expect the walls to be covered in speccy and QL stuff, and a huge photo of Sir Clive on the wall
Re: Gold plated AH ROMs and the Hotel!
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:25 am
by 1024MAK
Chr$ wrote:Discovered these in a recent purchase - very pretty gold plated AH ROMs, looks like the manufacturer VL or VLI? It's a D09 serial number machine with Iss 5 board.
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Anyone who knows who VL/VLI were, let me know.
Also, quite amusingly while googling I encountered the 'Sinclair Rom' hotel, in Norway:
https://www.booking.com/hotel/no/vertsh ... en-gb.html
VTI not VLI, is VLSI Technology, Inc.
See the
Wikipedia article.
Mark
Re: Gold plated AH ROMs and the Hotel!
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 6:32 am
by bwinkel67
Chr$ wrote:Discovered these in a recent purchase - very pretty gold plated AH ROMs, looks like the manufacturer VL or VLI? It's a D09 serial number machine with Iss 5 board.
Anyone who knows who VL/VLI were, let me know.
Are you selling them?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sinclair-QL-AH ... 4258893341
Re: Gold plated AH ROMs and the Hotel!
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:31 pm
by Chr$
Thanks for the comments and maker ID.
No, that's not me selling them. Certainly look the same though.