Yep, the retelling I heard from the David Karlin (I worked with him after Sinclair went bust) was the micro drives didn't meet the spec that he designed the gat

Yep, the retelling I heard from the David Karlin (I worked with him after Sinclair went bust) was the micro drives didn't meet the spec that he designed the gate array to. The only real hardware bit that we could rib him about was the serial port design, but I can't even remember what was wrong with it now (handshaking?) I do wish I'd snaffled the QDOS listing that got thrown away during an office move.