On 13/12/2011 06:05, Alison Cassidy wrote:
Hi all,
I just joined your mailing list and have rejoined the QL community
after ... umm ... a break of some 25 years :) My name is Alison Cassidy, I'm
originally from Ireland tho' I'm now living in the US and have been for some
years. I'm a diagnostic developer at Apple Inc. and have been working
professionally with computer hardware and software for some 26 years now. As a
very young teen, I started on Commodore PETs - that would have been 1979 or so.
I 'progressed' to the ZX80, 81 Spectrum and ORIC-1. I remember building RAM
packs for the ZX series out of my bedroom and selling them on to fellow-nerds
at school :) One Summer, I saved up all my cash from my Summer job and blew it
all on a new QL. That was in 1984 or so, and my parents were *not* impressed!
For my birthday, I remember my aunt and uncle buying me a blank Eurocard and a
SP0256 speech chip, and I went on to interface it to the QL, producing, I
believe, the first speech synthesizer for the QL.
Anyways - I managed to pick up a second-hand one on eBay last week. It
showed up on my doorstep today and I'm now drowning in a wave of nostalgia.
*sigh* :) I've no idea if the thing works or not - it's supposed to - but I'm
going to try fire it up later this week. Can't wait to get back into QL
programming again!
Best regards,
-- Allie - http://www.alisoncassidy.com
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Welcome Allie,
It is nice to see new people joining up to the mailing list (and
returning to the QL).
Alas some of us have been here from the very beginning - others are too
enjoying the joys the QL for the first time, or after a break.
You may also want to check out the QL forums - www.qlforum.co.uk and the
QL wiki - www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki
Kind Regards
--
Rich Mellor
RWAP Software
Specialist Retro Computer Dealer
http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
-- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com
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