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# Installing a Hard Disk

Here is the saga of my recent activities in updating my QL to be really modern and have a HARD DISK! (An old QL with Super Gold Card, Hermes, Minerva, SMSQ/E, Sermouse). I write this because it shows how naive one can be. Hard disk? Easy – buy one.