{"id":1454,"date":"2019-04-08T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2019-07-20T18:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:37:04","slug":"unboxing-the-tedroid-disk-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/unboxing-the-tedroid-disk-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Unboxing the Tedroid Disk Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"

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when we become older, sometime we want to refresh old\npassions but with a bit of modernity. People who have had a Sinclair Spectrum\nhave seen into the QL a really \u201cquantum leap\u201d machine so\u2026.I bought it\nimmediatly! The presence of Superbasic, the PSION suite and some other good\nsoftware made us hope for a great future on that machine. We all know how the\nstory ended and same as other people I selled my QL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as a strange think, I have preserved some floppy disks\nwith nice programs\u2026.because you never know what\u2019s going to happen (I thought)\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, after at least 30 years, thanks to new friend and\ncollegue Giorgio, I bought again a QL; I also attended the 2018\u2019s Qlers Italian\nmeeting in Modena. There I saw what kind of marvelous things we can do with a\n30 years old PC and I have grab the moment to update the QL and use it more\ntime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do that I bought from Tetroid the Disk Interface with a\nmodern compact flash, 768k of RAM and Minerva ROM inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote this article of the TDI unboxing to give to potential buyers some infos about that interface and also to demonstrate it to all humankind  \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Here is the package arrived from Russia … .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pulled away the stuff, first thing that we can see is the 8Gb flash card and the interface into an antistatic bag…
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The first look of interface is that it was made very nice and with some \u201cindustry\u201d tips, without \u201clast minute\u201d remaking, it comes with a 4 pages manual and for those things I give to Tetroid max vote.
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… also under …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The manual, simple but nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now\u2026Why I bought this kind of interface?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the minimum hardware needed to work with QL and give\nit a decent memory expansion, a modern mass memory instead of obsolete floppy\ndisks but with the fdd interface to load and run old programs\u2026 for more speed\nand modern software we have PC emulators and the great \u201cBlack Phoenix\u201d\nenvironment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s get started and\u2026power on system and \u2026.first screen\nis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Into the flash card there are two partitions with some useful stuff but this isn\u2019t the right place to analyze them, I need to work with that software to make a good \u201cworkplace\u201d; I hope in some suggestion by QL\u2019s friends and fans.
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The access speed is good and it makes easy-to-work with the \u201coldest\u201d QL!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also the use of floppy drives is easy and they work fine with some old programs\u2026do you remember some of these?….
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..or this! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is meant to be just a quick step in how to refresh an “old partner of night to use the superbasic …” and rejuvenate a bit !!Questo vuole essere solo un rapido passaggio di come rinfrescare nell\u2019utilizzo un \u201cvecchio compagno di nottate a usare il superbasic…\u201d\u00a0 e ringiovanire un po’ !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This want to be a fast review about an update of our beloved\n\u201cfriend and roommate\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good QL to all!Good QL to all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Max!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi guys, when we become older, sometime we want to refresh old passions but with a bit of modernity. People who have had \n [..more...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}