Urs Koenig writes: >>> Time to start planning the Great 25th QL Anniversary Bash? >>> >>> Per > Dilwyn wrote: >>Which is only 3 years away...To think I was _only_ 24 when it > all >>started...ouch! > The QL is 23 now (2007-1984), so only 2 more years to go before > the big party.
Yes Dilwyn, you really must debug that calculator of yours ;o) > I was 16 when it all started. How can a 16 years old teenager > afford > a 650GBP system (QL, Monitor, Printer)? Hmmm. I had to save 2 > years > all the money I could get (working after school, etc.). I just found the original receipt for my first QL, Serial number D12-059637, dated 12/03/1985 for NOK 6,900 (about GBP 650). I had been fiddling around with the wonderful HP41CX programmable calculator for a couple of years before that, and was on the lookout for my first real computer. When I read about the QL in Personal Computer World I knew that was the machine I wanted. None of the other computers on the market in those days could hold a candle to the QL in terms of specs, software and price. I waited for it to arrive in the shops for a long while, but was told that there was a delay due to conversion of the machine for the Norwegian market. I ordered mine in November 1984 (I think). It was worth the wait. I still have it and as far as I know it still works (or did about a year ago). >>The only thing which jars slightly is that Urs celebrates the >>"announcement date", in true Clive style, rather than the >>*availability* date. > The delays at Sinclair with the QL were not that bad for me. The > german > QL became available in Switzerland in September 1985, I bought my > QL > on January 20th 1986 when I had the money together and after the > QL > had its official price cut. > > Urs Per _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
