In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> Urs writes: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> On January 12th 1984 the QL was launched! >>> >>> Let's sing "Happy birthday". >>> >>> Regards...Urs >>> http://mypage.bluewin.ch/QLvsJaguar/ >> >> Just finished singing. >> >> Time to start planning the Great 25th QL Anniversary Bash? >> >> Per >Which is only 3 years away...To think I was _only_ 24 when it all >started...ouch! > >The only thing which jars slightly is that Urs celebrates the >"announcement date", in true Clive style, rather than the >*availability* date. > >And to think that these days he's (Clive, not Urs) more into little >radios and underwater scooters and bikes than QLs (or any computers I >guess). Yes, another birthday ... :-) The other week I saw the Sinclair C5 being driven by a young man ... becoming a collectors item, now of some value; and matching the new green agenda. Another item of news was that Herman Hauser is one of the backers for a new development from Cambridge science and technology - plastic based computer processing. Herman was a "rival" of Clive Sinclair with the BBC computer, in the earlier innovative days of UK based computing. -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
