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excerpt: "Bob named it. After helping Don Walterman build and review the Falkenberg DIY kit to put a QL into a PC type mini tower case and seeing the system that Bob had built for his own QL that was all in black, it inspired me to want to do the same."
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# “Black Beauty”

Bob named it. After helping Don Walterman build and review the Falkenberg DIY kit to put a QL into a PC type mini tower case and seeing the system that Bob had built for his own QL that was all in black, it inspired me to want to do the same.