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QL vDrive upgrade

Any 680x0 based information, repairs, images, upgrades and other cool stuff that is not Atari and Amiga based but based on the Motorola 68K range of processors
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exxos wrote: Thu Dec 09, 2021 10:20 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Thu Dec 09, 2021 9:59 pm Oooh, lots of movement today :)
*giggles* It's an age thing :lol:

Sorry.. I really did try and resist :lol: :hide: Yeah I know.. I'll go ban myself for a week now..
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@rubber_jonnie Are you sure that doesn't rate a :slapface: or even a :chairsmack: or two?
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JezC wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 11:08 am @rubber_jonnie Are you sure that doesn't rate a :slapface: or even a :chairsmack: or two?
I'm being kind, after all it is Christmas 😁
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Wow, some fine grained tracking info here:

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Still not left Russia yet though as far as I can tell!!
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At least it's no-longer held hostage by Putin. ;-)
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stephen_usher wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 12:22 pm At least it's no-longer held hostage by Putin. ;-)
I honestly can't tell!!
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No sign yet of the Gold card, but it isn't due until tomorrow, which will be 3 weeks and I have a sneaking suspicion it may be longer yet.

All tracking ceased on 13th December, but to be fair a similar thing happened with my FloppyEmu from the states and that arrived ok.
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Probably stuck in British customs then.
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stephen_usher wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:24 pm Probably stuck in British customs then.
Or floating in the channel!!

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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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rubber_jonnie wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:33 pm
stephen_usher wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:24 pm Probably stuck in British customs then.
Or floating in the channel!!

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Nah, Russians aren't targeted by the Home Secretary.
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
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