Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

[Tony Firshman]

On  Mon, 12 Jan 2004 at 18:21:17,  wrote:
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Hi QL'ers

Time is moving so fast those days!

On January 12th 1984 (exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs lauched the
Apple Macintosh) Sir Clive Sinclair presented the QL professional computer
to the world in a hollywood-style event at the Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde
Park Corner, London. Today, 20 years later we (the QL-community) congratulate
to the QL's 20th birthday and celebrate!
Do you remember?
Of course.  I wasn't there, but a journalist friend of mine was.  He 
showed me the glossy spiel, and I ordered a QL there and then.
It arrived late May.
I remember well as the QL changed my life in many aspects. Summarized I mean
it changed it in very positive way. I would say that without the QL and its
technology I would not be at the business position I am today...
Similarly it introduced me to _real_ computing and programming.

It also was my main income from about 1986 to 1994.
The work I do now for http://wn.com is a direct result of the 
programming grounding I got with the QL.

I even got a great deal of income in the late 80s to mid 90s  database 
programming in Archive (and latterly Arcplus).  This was on the PC of 
course, but the QL was the catalyst for that programming, and indeed the 
Arcplus program.

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