Re: [ql-users] Wherefor art thou, GoldFire?

2001-02-11 Thread Peter Graf
Nasta wrote: >Also, let me give a small >contribution to the developing hardware vs developing software debate: >people who have never tried jumping through hoops while bending backwards >in order to get the parts they need, at reasonable quantity and reasonable >price, will only understand the n

Re: [ql-users] Wherefor art thou, GoldFire?

2001-02-11 Thread Bill Waugh
Peter Graf wrote: > > Nasta wrote: > Snip > In the QL scene we have got (in our own style) what the Atari has not. > Maybe we have the fastest 68K computer there ever was. It is reality and it > works. And now? Are we proud? Is there a lot of interest? A lot of noise? > Not yet. I get some posit

Re: [ql-users] Wherefor art thou, GoldFire?

2001-02-11 Thread Peter Graf
Bill wrote: >> Hard times for QL hard-ware these days. > >We hear you >We sympathise >We are very grateful >We buy what we can >We can't buy the stuff for the rest though. Thank you very much, Bill! Folks like you are the ones who keep things moving. I shall not forget your encouragement. Peter

Re: [ql-users] Wherefor art thou, GoldFire?

2001-02-11 Thread ZN
On 2/11/2001 at 1:49 PM Peter Graf wrote: >On the Q40 I minimized the availability problems by restricting myself to >components especially chosen for that reason. But I had a price to pay: The >chips are not cheap (because I use 4 of them) and so small that it was >endless work to squeeze the lo

[ql-users] London Quanta Group meetings

2001-02-11 Thread Malcolm Cadman
Hi all, Just one of my occasional mails to encourage you all to come along ! We just had our February meeting today, address is always in the Quanta magazine. Yet if you are not a Quanta member here are the details. *** 2.00p