On Sun, 7 May 2000, John A. Maier wrote:

> Whoah!
> 
> The Sinclair QL actually was produced!  Obviously it was  not sold here   
> in the US, or I'd have on :-)
> 
> I have an OLD Radio Electronics with a review of the 68K based Sinclair   
> in '95 or '96, look kind of neat for that time in computing.
> 
> Where did the QL40 come in?
> 
> > 	The 'Q40' QL successor would certainly be capable of running
> > 	NetBSD... if anyone is interested in doing the work :)
> >
> 		http://www.q40.de/machine.html

	Various companies produced hardware addons to the QL - one even
	went as far as to produce a 68040 based machine which ran (I
	believe) a slightly modified version of the QL Operating System.
	This was the Q40, and as far as I know you can still get them if
	you're interested :)

	The original QL was a neat if quirky idea - somewhat handicaped by
	a keyboard that made the Atari ST look almost good, and the
	unforgettable 'microdrive' (a minute version of a stereo 8-track,
	used to store data). The whole focus of the microdrive wasn't
	to be fast, high capacity, or reliable, but to be small. On that
	at least, it succeeded.
	
		David/absolute
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