Hi all One of my remaining QL tasks is to let the ITC profs remember from where the real experts/technologies are (were) coming from. Doing that I experienced the same impressions as Rick did. Once the young ITC profs hear and see what and how a QL and QDOS operated some 20 years ago they get very interessted/impressed.
Eg. Our company is in a network of about 30 ITC companies. In summer 2004 the monthly "First monday" event was organised by me around my private QL thing. It was named "The roots, the cousins, the innovations". We had a very special guest. Tim Bucher, cousin of my wife and Vice President at Apple (at that time). Both Tim and I had very personal speeches and presentations. I did some live QL demos. Eg. having > 100 jobs running in parallel under SMSQ/E compared to Windows NT 4 where NT went down on that. Tim did impress us all with his inventions. My computer museum was on display with different QL systems running software. We even had a working original Macintosh from 1984. The 40 or so attandes were impressed and even today, almost 3 years later people talk about it one day or another. Some resources: http://www.computervalley. ch/website/veranstaltungen/firstmonday/020804_TimBucher.htm http://www.computervalley. ch/website/veranstaltungen/firstmonday/Foto_Gallery_Tim_Bucher.htm http://www.computervalley.ch/020804/Besuch_Tim_Bucher.pdf http://mypage.bluewin.ch/QLvsJaguar/QL.html Enjoy the Sunday...Urs ----Ursprüngliche Nachricht---- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 11.02.2007 01:23 An: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Betreff: [ql-users] A QL Trip Down Memory Lane I just thought I'd share a recent QL experience with everybody! The company I work for is very keen on promoting personal development outside the normal boundaries at work. Think outside the box is one of the MD's catch-phrases. Anyway, as IT Manager of this company, it became my turn to organise something concerning to my field but not directly work related: so I organised a little presentation and history tour, using my collection of PCs as illustrations. People were able to have a go, play with them, run programs and generally see how computers have developed over the years. To illustrate my presentation, I used my ZX81 (the first PC I ever owned), BBC Model B, BBC Master, Spectrum+3, Amiga 1200, Z88 and of course the Sinclair QL. I was wonderful to see the amount of fun people had with these older machines, and some of the younger members of the company were really surprised at what had constituted a computer "back then"! It's such as shame that for many youngsters today, learning ICT (as the schools irritatingly insist on calling it) is simply learning how to use Microsoft products . . . . One of the most interesting comments was how "cool" the QL looked . . . it seems that well-designed retro is in!!!! _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List <a href="http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm"; target="_BLANK" >http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm</a> _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
