QL vDrive upgrade

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Re: QL vDrive upgrade

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stephen_usher wrote: 25 Nov 2021 11:32Bah!
More Bah!

Price already up to £101, somebody put a bid in over the weekend. Will do a last minute bid see if I can get in there.
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I'll cross my fingers. :-)
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stephen_usher wrote: 29 Nov 2021 10:18 I'll cross my fingers. :-)
Thanks!!!
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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stephen_usher wrote: 29 Nov 2021 10:18 I'll cross my fingers. :-)
Very much outbid at just over £160 including postage :(

Pretty confident somebody was sniping....
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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:(

I only bid in the last few seconds usually.
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stephen_usher wrote: 29 Nov 2021 17:56 :(

I only bid in the last few seconds usually.
I did bid in the last few seconds, the last 3 as it happened, but my bid wasn't enough, and the usernames for the bids were rather suspect.

I may just order a Gold Card from SellMyRetro, they're around the £100 mark. For what that card went for you could have got a new SGC from SMR too.
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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Yeah. No point bidding more than for the Tetroid card.
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stephen_usher wrote: 29 Nov 2021 20:02 Yeah. No point bidding more than for the Tetroid card.
Absolutely not.
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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stephen_usher wrote: 29 Nov 2021 20:02 Yeah. No point bidding more than for the Tetroid card.
Gold card now on order from Tetroid 😊
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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Re: QL vDrive upgrade

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rubber_jonnie wrote: 30 Nov 2021 22:05
stephen_usher wrote: 29 Nov 2021 20:02 Yeah. No point bidding more than for the Tetroid card.
Gold card now on order from Tetroid 😊
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Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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