On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 at 20:23:59, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: <003101c22136$9baaae40$e2065cc3@default>)
> >> Well that was an interesting tirade. I have no intention of going >into a >> lengthy discussion of this in deference to those of you who have >become >> as heartily sick of the whole thing now as I was in trying to deal >with >> Peter in the first place. I do feel, and I apologise in advance here >> that there are a few inaccuracies that should be stated. I will keep >> this as brief and blame free as I can. >It's obvious there's some unhappiness on both sides of this. > >The Q40 is dead, long live the Q60. > >The Q60 is a success, no two ways about that. The entire first batch >is almost sold out from what Dennis and Derek told me, so we are >probably better off getting all of this off our chests then forgetting >about it and see the positives to come out of it, namely that Peter >and D & D Systems have a good product which seems to be selling well. >The loan Q60 I had from D&D for a while has now gone back to them and >I shall miss it. Brilliant piece of kit. Although I didn't get time to >use it as much as I'd have liked while it was here, I did use it >enough to know that it never once crashed (apart from my programming >mistakes), was wonderfully fast to use and had some nice software on >it - preinstalled commercial quality software being a bit of a new >idea on QL-compatibles. > >I realise I'm changing the topic here a bit, but please believe me, >whatever may have happened between you in Q40 days, the Q60 deserves >to do well (I can't see how it can fail) because as far as I can see >the concept is good, and between them Peter and D&D seem to have such >a good product on their hands. > >Accordingly, by all means get this off your chests lads, but don't >forget also that the Q60 is such a wonderful system when you actually >get to use it! The Q40 is OK too. Systems that worked did work well and did not crash. ... and of course was very fast as well. -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.demon.co.uk http://www.firshman.demon.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG