Finally the GL is shipping. These last few months have been chaotic to say the least. In the August Report we stated that Robert Maxwell had purchased a controlling interest in Sinclair Research. In early August Maxwell withdrew his offer which was to have been finalized in September. Although still suffering from acute cash flow problems, Sinclair did manage to collect 10 million pounds sterling by selling approximately 146,006 computers to Dixon’s, an electronics chain. Sir Clive still controis the company he founded.
We mentioned last month that we had received a double expander which did NOT need external power. Unfortunately. we cannot recommend it. We tested the unit with the CST disk interface and with a PCML 254k RAM. Either peripheral by itself functioned fine — but together gave very mixed results. Sometimes everything worked satisfactorily for a complete session and then other times we would get a system crash after as little time as 30 minutes. The expander we tested was not buffered and that may be the reason but it seems that there was not enough power to drive everything off of the computer’s power supply alone.