QL interest at Earl’s Court

LARGE crowds turned up for the Earl’s Court Computer Fair last weekend.

The Sinclair stand dominated the show and the QL’s on display attracted much interest. The machines appeared without their external Eprom boards and Sinclair is claiming now to he sending out machines to customers in this form.

After Dragon’s announcement that it has called in the receiver it was surprising to see the company out in force. Dragon’s big stand was rumoured to have been paid for by GEC
so the Dragon may yet overcome its latest crisis.

Commodore showed its Plus/4 and C16 machines. The Vic 20 machines on the Commodore stand were outnumbered 15 to I by C64s.

Acorn launched its expansion unit for the Electron — the Plus 1. For £59.90 the add-on gives the Electron Centronics printer and joystick interfaces and twin Rom cartridge slots.

On the software side there was little of interest. The one exception was Psion’s Match Point tennis game for the Spectrum.