---
title: "QColumn"
type: "article"
slug: "qcolumn"
url: "http://localhost/article/qcolumn/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/qcolumn.md"
published_at: "2026-03-13T17:22:30+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-13T17:22:31+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Regular QL column with two hardware tips (Microdrive safety during power-off and humidity considerations) and a full SuperBASIC type-in program called Pangolins, a binary-tree animal guessing game adapted from library tape 2.0 with save, load, and print functions added."
category:
  - name: "The RAMTOP"
    slug: "the-ramtop"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/the-ramtop/"
post_tag:
  - name: "QL"
    slug: "ql"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/"
  - name: "Superbasic (programming language)"
    slug: "superbasic-programming-language"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/superbasic-programming-language/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
    slug: "sinclair-ql"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
indiv:
  - name: "Gabe Schaffer"
    slug: "gabe-schaffer"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/gabe-schaffer/"
publication_r:
  id: 39272
  title: "The RAMTOP"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/the-ramtop/"
authors_r:
  - name: "Gabe Schaffer"
    slug: "gabe-schaffer"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/gabe-schaffer/"
issues_articles:
  - id: 50273
    title: "The RAMTOP Sep-Oct 1987"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/the-ramtop-sep-oct-1987/"
pages: "7"
pubdate: "Sep-Oct 1987"
archive_link: false
---

# QColumn

Regular QL column with two hardware tips (Microdrive safety during power-off and humidity considerations) and a full SuperBASIC type-in program called Pangolins, a binary-tree animal guessing game adapted from library tape 2.0 with save, load, and print functions added.