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Sinclair QL

Sinclair ZX · 1984

Sinclair's business machine, and one of the great might-have-beens. A 68008 with proper multitasking, a genuinely advanced BASIC, and Psion's office software — announced before it worked, shipped with a dongle hanging out of the back, and hobbled by the Microdrive tape loops nobody could make reliable. Linus Torvalds learned on one. It killed Sinclair's credibility in business and is now a serious collector's machine.

As catalogued

Maker
Sinclair
CPU
Motorola 68008-7.5
Memory
128K, 640K
Board issues
Issue 5, Issue 6, Issue 7
Styles
QL, QL with the kludge board
Regions
PAL (UK/Europe), NTSC (Timex/US)
Chassis
black wedge with two Microdrives
OS
Sinclair QDOS

Chips

5
CPU
Motorola MC68008, Motorola MC68008P8
ZX8301
Sinclair ZX8301
ZX8302
Sinclair ZX8302
IPC
Intel 8049, NEC D8049
ROM
FB, PM, AH, JM, JS, MG (later, multilingual)

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