In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gwicks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Those of us who went to the Sinclair show in Norwich a couple of years ago
>had a very strong impression that the Spectrum has not moved on to the same
>extent as the QL. We saw stall after stall selling Spectrum hardware and
>soft
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gwicks wrote:
>> Then there's the lack of USB and printer support.
>
> But just a provocative thought. Have you ever tried to connect a USB only
> laptop to a parallel printer? PC World don't know the answer to that one,
> but I do mainly because o
David McCann wrote:
> The QL no longer has enough users to make commercial products viable,
> nor to produce enough programmers to support open-source products.
True, but why does nobody seem to see that it's possible to get help
from friendly open source folks outside the QL scene? There is good
In a message dated 15/02/2007 09:40:16 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seeing all this discussion about possible new hardware etc. and the risks
etc.
is why I've come to the conclusion that there's never going to be any new
hardware. It's just not economically viable:
(a) The
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From: "Malcolm Cadman" <>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
>Well ... 2 years is a long time in computing ... :-) ... so may be some
optimism that new ideas can take seed.
And in those 2 yea
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From: "David McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons
> To keep an old computer going you need a reasonable user-base and a
> perceived function. The Spect
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Chagouri-Brindle
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Malcolm Cadman wrote:
>>
>>
>> Both old and new users are stimulated by something new.
>>
>> Repeating a list that I gave earlier - probably 3 item ranges will be
>> suited :
>>
>> 1 - £50 to £100 a card of some ty
I've been following the debate in a rather detached way since all I use
now is QemuLator running SuperBasic (nicer than XBasic and I have a lot
of existing software), the Editor (friendlier than Emacs), Abacus (for
one spreadsheet I can't be bothered to convert), and (occasionally)
QMaths.
To keep
GoMMC, a RomDisq on steroids but with the opportunity to
remove the mem card, excellent.
Once again, Id buy one if developed for the QL.
Neil
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15 February 2007 12:58 >>>
Hi,
To stimulate the debate further.
I still believe that new hardware stimulates new software, whi
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
>
>
> Both old and new users are stimulated by something new.
>
> Repeating a list that I gave earlier - probably 3 item ranges will be
> suited :
>
> 1 - £50 to £100 a card of some type, probably modular too, that most
> people would have an interest in to add to their e
Hi,
To stimulate the debate further.
I still believe that new hardware stimulates new software, which all
goes together to create activity and interest.
The QL with the original QDOS and the newer SMSQ/E has an OS that is
still interesting and capable of development.
The form factor of the or
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gwicks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
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>From: "Malcolm Cadman" <>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
>
>
>>In other words Quanta could give £5,000 of members' money
omega wrote:
> Have you ever think why on earth is the spectrum still so strong?
Is it? I have actually no idea.
> There are knowledged people willing to share for NO PROFIT.
Oh well, then we only have to find some of those and we're all good.
That should be easy ;-)
> This makes the spectrum s
On 15 Feb 2007, at 09:19, Jérôme Grimbert wrote:
> I need room...
>
> The following packages might be available, if you manifest yourself
> here
> or by email, at the coming soon Eindhoven QL show of 24.03.2007:
*sighs*
I'd happily take the 150 Euro package, or the whole lot, but I can't
be
Hello Jan,
Thanks for your comments, I can understand your point of view and maybe
you're
right, The QL was doomed from the beginning as it was too expensive for
the
'kids' and in my opinion should of been "designed" as a high end games
machine/
business machine instead of just the latter. I rea
Seeing all this discussion about possible new hardware etc. and the risks etc.
is why I've come to the conclusion that there's never going to be any new
hardware. It's just not economically viable:
(a) The cost in time and money to design and build would be high.
(b) The size of the market is too
I need room...
The following packages might be available, if you manifest yourself here
or by email, at the coming soon Eindhoven QL show of 24.03.2007:
- package A: QL(JS)+SuperHermes+SGC+Miracle 40MB harddisk+modem+twin ED
drives+mouse+many hundreds of floppies, including some ED floppy (most
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