On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Dilwyn Jones
wrote:
>
> Sad though that, as Tobias said, it seems that Jan has no plans to do any
> further work on the 'new' Qubide.
>
> Dilwyn Jones
>
If I had a schematic and code, I would be happy to (re)design anything out
there. I don't have any production a
On 03/02/2011 16:48, ql-users-requ...@lists.q-v-d.com wrote:
> Peter Baily wrote, on 3/Feb/11 13:11 | Feb3:
>> >
>
>
>> > However, we should not be surprised that most
>> > people use PCs; after all this exchange of views, news, etc. would not
>> > exist unless we were using PCs.
> By PCs I take i
Hi Geoff,
> Thanks for participating in this discussion, Peter.
Thank _you_ for your QUANTA work!
> You have always been very loyal to Quanta after the help they gave
> you over the Q60.
Just for the records, the Q60 design and prototypes were all completed
and financed by me, without any help.
On 03/02/2011 22:43, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
- Original Message - From: "Lee Privett"
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
This might help though, so Qubide still an option?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IDE-SATA-Bi-Directional-Adapter/dp/B000
On 3 Feb 2011, at 23:25, Stephen wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm one of the apathetic subscribers but will put my head above
> the parapet to comment
>
> Having been a Quanta member since close to its inception I am happy to
> continue to pay my sub. It's trivial enough to be hardly worth the bothe
I'm afraid I'm one of the apathetic subscribers but will put my head
above the parapet to comment
Having been a Quanta member since close to its inception I am happy to
continue to pay my sub. It's trivial enough to be hardly worth the
bother of cancelling the direct debit. However, I start
- Original Message -
From: "Lee Privett"
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
This might help though, so Qubide still an option?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IDE-SATA-Bi-Directional-Adapter/dp/B000YSMBSW
Lee Privett
At just under £20,
This might help though, so Qubide still an option?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IDE-SATA-Bi-Directional-Adapter/dp/B000YSMBSW
Lee Privett
-
Sent from my Laptop running XP
but emulating the QL using QPC2
This would be fantastic if possibl
Am 03.02.2011 21:09, schrieb Dilwyn Jones:
- Original Message - From: "Dilwyn Jones"
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
Are the Super Gold Card schematics available along with the CPLD
equation file?
With this info, designing a
In the context of putting my own money where my mouth is, I would be
happy to help in any project to rewrite the constitution.
I am not a lawyer, but I have had some legal training in the UK plus
Works Council training in the Netherlands and have had a lot of
experience of constitutions. I onc
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Dilwyn Jones
wrote:
> Oops, failed to spot that some schematics at least are already on his
> website (haven't looked at them in detail).
>
> Also, I didn't stop to think that not many IDE hard disks are
> available nowadays, they all seem to be e-SATA etc. So a new
In the context of putting my own money where my mouth is, I would be happy
to help in any project to rewrite the constitution.
I am not a lawyer, but I have had some legal training in the UK plus Works
Council training in the Netherlands and have had a lot of experience of
constitutions. I onc
- Original Message -
From: "Dilwyn Jones"
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
Are the Super Gold Card schematics available along with the CPLD
equation file?
With this info, designing a replacement using up to date components
(ap
Are the Super Gold Card schematics available along with the CPLD
equation file?
With this info, designing a replacement using up to date components
(apart from the CPU) would be fairly easy and I'd be happy to do it
and make it open source.
Cheers
Malcolm
This would be fantastic if possible
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Malcolm Lear wrote:
>
>
>> I hate to disappoint some people but the idea of Quanta sponsoring a new
>> Gold Card is a non-starter. As I understand it the components of the old
>> Gold Cards are no longer available and the development of a new one would be
>> a compl
On 3 February 2011 19:29, Malcolm Lear wrote:
>
> PS, I'd be able to put on an SPI interface as well. This would allow the
> Microdrive units to be replaced by SD FLASH slots.
>
> Malcolm
>
>
That would be awesome!!
Rob.
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PS, I'd be able to put on an SPI interface as well. This would allow the
Microdrive units to be replaced by SD FLASH slots.
Malcolm
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I hate to disappoint some people but the idea of Quanta sponsoring a
new Gold Card is a non-starter. As I understand it the components of
the old Gold Cards are no longer available and the development of a
new one would be a complicated and risky matter. Halfway through the
last decade some
--
From: "Rich Mellor"
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:21 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
Many thanks for the email and raising these points for discussion.
Perhaps you would be so kind as to repeat the original email on the QL
--
From: "Peter Graf"
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 11:18 PM
To:
Subject: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
I guess QUANTA members benefit more if my time goes into QL hardware and
drivers, than into the other work you mentioned :-)
It's absolut
Many thanks to all the people who have replied although we still need a lot
more replies.
I particularly like the positive content of many of the replies. Why can't
we recreate this sort of enthusiasm right throughout Quanta? After all I did
not say I wanted Quanta to close, I said the time
who have missed the whole move through Gold Card/Super Gold
Card/Q40/Q60 phase and are unable to do anything with with their
128K QLs either. So my question is are there enough QL users out
there to warrant additional hardware projects? and if not, what else
can the QL be used for in its curren
Any new hardware for th QL is always welcome especially if it enables people
who have never upgraded to upgrade to something that extends the life of the
QL or brings it up to date with current technology in some small way. For
those of us that emulate through a variety of OS's, hardware upgrade
On 03/02/2011 17:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I'd always understood the order to be FB, PM, AH, JM, JS, MGx; I think I
read that in an early edition of QL User. PM was supposedly never
released.
FB allegedly stood for "Full of Bugs", AH for "Angela's Holiday". Not
sure
about the others...
JM appare
I'd always understood the order to be FB, PM, AH, JM, JS, MGx; I
think I
read that in an early edition of QL User. PM was supposedly never
released.
FB allegedly stood for "Full of Bugs", AH for "Angela's Holiday".
Not sure
about the others...
JM apparently stood for John Mathieson, one of the
On 03/02/2011 16:34, Neil Riley wrote:
*died not dids !
"Neil Riley" 03 February 2011 16:32>>>
My first QL arrived after many months of waiting... as no doubt did everyone.
No dongle as i recall but it dids within a few minutes of switching on, so
was promptly retuned. A replacement arrived
*died not dids !
>>> "Neil Riley" 03 February 2011 16:32 >>>
My first QL arrived after many months of waiting... as no doubt did everyone.
No dongle as i recall but it dids within a few minutes of switching on, so
was promptly retuned. A replacement arrived a week or two later with AH Roms,
It
My first QL arrived after many months of waiting... as no doubt did everyone.
No dongle as i recall but it dids within a few minutes of switching on, so
was promptly retuned. A replacement arrived a week or two later with AH Roms,
It at least was reliable for the time I owned it.
Seeing as I or
On 3 Feb 2011, at 15:05, Ade Vickers wrote:
>
> I'd always understood the order to be FB, PM, AH, JM, JS, MGx; I think I
> read that in an early edition of QL User. PM was supposedly never released.
> FB allegedly stood for "Full of Bugs", AH for "Angela's Holiday". Not sure
> about the others..
On 3 Feb 2011, at 13:08, Rich Mellor wrote:
> Turbo and Q-liberator would have fun compiling the AT command if it was
> written on the FB ROM !
Since anything is possible Turbo could be adapted to cover this . . . BUT only
if there is sufficient real demand.
George
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On 3 Feb 2011, at 14:24, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Norman Dunbar wrote, on 3/Feb/11 14:19 | Feb3:
>>> By PCs I take it you mean machines running Windows.
>>> I access this group but don't use a PC.
>> Likewise, given the definition above. But not the same as you.
>>
>>> Guess how. Forbidden fruit
Rich Mellor wrote:
>
> On 03/02/2011 12:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
> >> It was followed by FB which may never have left the
> factory - we know
> >> that Psion had to alter their boot programs to cope with the
> >> difference in the AT command in the FB ROM compared to
> later QL ROMs
> >> (th
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 3/Feb/11 14:19 | Feb3:
By PCs I take it you mean machines running Windows.
I access this group but don't use a PC.
Likewise, given the definition above. But not the same as you.
Guess how. Forbidden fruit is a clue (8-)#
Um, is a "pineapple"?
:-)
Not a 'pine'
> By PCs I take it you mean machines running Windows.
> I access this group but don't use a PC.
Likewise, given the definition above. But not the same as you.
> Guess how. Forbidden fruit is a clue (8-)#
Um, is a "pineapple"?
:-)
Cheers,
Norman.
--
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Lt
It was followed by FB which may never have left the factory - we know
that Psion had to alter their boot programs to cope with the
difference in the AT command in the FB ROM compared to later QL ROMs
(they didn't bother checking for the earlier PM ROM). No-one else had
to make this change
Peter Baily wrote, on 3/Feb/11 13:11 | Feb3:
However, we should not be surprised that most
people use PCs; after all this exchange of views, news, etc. would not
exist unless we were using PCs.
By PCs I take it you mean machines running Windows.
I access this group but don't use a PC.
Guess
Rich Mellor wrote, on 3/Feb/11 12:21 | Feb3:
We have now managed to resurrect an early example of the Sinclair QL
home computer as it was first unveiled to the expectant media, complete
with the slow v1 Psion software and the infamous Dongle (or Kludge)
which contained one third of the QL's opera
> Geoff wicks wrote:
> Last weekend several people castigated me for suggesting that Quanta should
> be wound up.
>
> Now it's time to see if you are prepared to put your money where your mouths
> are.
>
> I am not asking you to to do anything drastic like joining the committee, but
> somethin
On 03/02/2011 12:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
It was followed by FB which may never have left the factory - we know
that Psion had to alter their boot programs to cope with the
difference in the AT command in the FB ROM compared to later QL ROMs
(they didn't bother checking for the earlier PM ROM).
It was followed by FB which may never have left the factory - we
know that Psion had to alter their boot programs to cope with the
difference in the AT command in the FB ROM compared to later QL ROMs
(they didn't bother checking for the earlier PM ROM). No-one else
had to make this change or e
We have now managed to resurrect an early example of the Sinclair QL
home computer as it was first unveiled to the expectant media, complete
with the slow v1 Psion software and the infamous Dongle (or Kludge)
which contained one third of the QL's operating system.
In 26 years of being involved
Now that we finally seem close to new QL hardware, I wonder if it's
the
right time to ask for another decline in QUANTA activities.
I rarely attend an AGM, but I consider to come this year. If I find
the
time, I would demonstate some of the QL projects I had started but
abandoned due to the op
Rich Mellor wrote:
> However, this year, as I am no longer able to subsidise my business
> through full time employment, I am seriously having to look at the
> cost of staying overnight in Manchester and with current attendance
> levels, wonder whether a 2 day show is justifiable, or whether Quant
On 03/02/2011 10:33, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The Quanta website should not be too difficult, as it is built around
a content management system, so updating the content should be a
matter of just editing the text.
--
Rich Mellor
If only it were that simple! I've used CMS'es in work over the years
The Quanta website should not be too difficult, as it is built
around a content management system, so updating the content should
be a matter of just editing the text.
--
Rich Mellor
If only it were that simple! I've used CMS'es in work over the years
and they generally are, when they work.
On 02/02/2011 22:25, Lee Privett wrote:
Taking what has been said at face value and as a returning member of
Quanta and living in the south east I am both excited and saddened by
the current state of affairs, my response to each point is as follows:
1: QUANTA MAGAZINE - I would volanteer for e
On 02/02/2011 23:18, Peter Graf wrote:
Hi Geoff,
Last weekend several people castigated me for suggesting that Quanta
should be wound up.
Now it's time to see if you are prepared to put your money where your
mouths are.
I guess QUANTA members benefit more if my time goes into QL hardware and
--- On Wed, 2/2/11, Geoff Wicks wrote:
> From: Geoff Wicks
> Subject: [Ql-Users] Reality Check
> To: "ql-users"
> Date: Wednesday, 2 February, 2011, 20:39
> Last weekend several people
> castigated me for suggesting that Quanta should be wound
> up.
>
>
> 8: KEYBOARD MEMBRANES
>
> Not real
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