Not quite a quantum leap…

… but a step forward. A couple of years ago – must have been more than ten – I bought an Sinclair QL from ebay. The guy I got it from marked it as defect and still it was quite expensive for me that time. The good thing was burried down in the basement and me tinkering with a lot of old computers lately dug it out and took it to the last HomeCon. Hessi brought his one along with the missing PSU. A quick hookup showed that nothing was working, not even the power LED. Mhhh.. dead on arrival? On Hessis QL the power LED went on, at least. We opened up both computers. My was missing the voltage regulator which was replaced by some strange wire construction that was connected to… mhh… well… nothing. Hessis missed out the video chip – so there was little luck his might send out a signal. We changed parts to and fro and found out that despsite the missing parts and the broken keyboard membrane both our systems seem to work. A short search on the web revealed that RWAP Software had all we needed to get our babies running again.

Today I finally had some time to open up the case and replace the membrane and put a plug to the PSU. Tatataa… QL is alive, in almost all its glory. Mine is missing the lefthand micro drive. I hope Rich from RWAP can help me out once more with this.

Here are some pictures of the membrane swap.