Hi Alison, Just when I was getting used to being one of only two QL users still in Ireland, you had to come along.... :))
Where about where you originally from? I'm willing to guess Northern Ireland...?? We have a former Apple employee in the US who now works for AMD, I think in Canada. Anyway, most of the guys here have beaten me to the info i was going to send on, if you need and help, just shout - we're a fiendly bunch. Darren. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Alison Cassidy <coot...@me.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > -- *Darren Branagh.* _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
