On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Norman Dunbar wrote: > I suspect you'll find that scholls nowadays are all 'mainstream' in that > they have a pile of PCs running Windows. They are, after all, training the > 'yoof of today' to be able to work in the offices of today, or the next Maybe I wasn't clear... :o) Old PC XTs used to be able to share some of the functionality of the beeb, but now we have these superfast, PCI-only (no ISA) PCs, they just CAN'T do a lot of the things they used to, without very very expensive cards. We're not talking about computer departments, we're talking about technology/engineering departments, where robotics, data acquisition/control practical work is done... > I'd love to see the QL 'bounce back' but I'm afraid I'm very sceptical when > ideas are put forward to get it going as a 'mainstream' computer. I'm sad to > say that the QL - and its derivatives - are more than likely destined to > remain a hobby. I agree with you on this! The QL will not be making any kind of resurgence. However, elements of the QL can go forward in other things, and in such a way that the community benefits. If we had a really compact embedded board with serial/IR keyboard/programming in BASIC (a bit like a super BASIC STAMP module, but more powerful ;) it could sell by the bucketload. It's all a case of what can we convince people to buy, and still benefit the community from. Dave