QL upgrade date set

SINCE Sinclair began deliveries of the QL at the beginning of May, three different versions of Superbasic have been sent out with machines.

“The first version issued to customers was FB, which was a penultimate version of the firmware,” said a Sinclair spokesman.

“The other versions, PM and AH, are almost identical, but AH is the final version, and an improvement on the others.”

To find Out which variant is on a given machine, users should type in Print Ver$. The name of the variant should appear on the display.

Sinclair began delivery two weeks ago of QLs with the Eprom inside the machines rather than inserted in the Rom cartridge slot.

Machines delivered from the end of July should have the Superbasic in Rom rather than Eprom.

The conversion of QLs with ‘dongle’ Eproms is also scheduled to begin at the end of July.

“Our intention is to stagger the recall of machines,” the spokesman continued, “and, as yet, we do not know how long customers will be without their QLs when recalled. The service will be absolutely free to customers.”