Re: [ql-users] Disk interface manuals

2004-02-25 Thread RWAPSoftware
In a message dated 24/02/2004 23:31:22 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Rich, Have you got the QL Medic disk interface manual? I have interface (as the Cumana one :) but no books.I also have scanner and OCR software. cheers, Definitely no medic manual or

[ql-users] QL scanner

2004-02-25 Thread John Taylor
Rick Dennis Briggs tried to get the Quanta committee interested in his idea for a QL scanner using a modified printer way back in the early 1990's. Scanners then were very expensive but as the QL had very poor graphics in those days it didn't take off. The Nottingham group considered it too

Re: [ql-users] QL scanner

2004-02-25 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos ( . )
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:01:50 +, John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Dennis Briggs tried to get the Quanta committee interested in his idea for a QL scanner using a modified printer way back in the early 1990's. Scanners then were very expensive but as the QL had very poor graphics in

Re: [ql-users] Disk interface manuals

2004-02-25 Thread Dilwyn Jones
This was the time when they offered free software and there were two dustbins completely full of cartridges, and an array of networked QLs copying software. Skoglund ended up in a British jail! IIRC, Peter Jefferies who wrote much of the software sold by Sector Software (e.g. Taskmaster and

Re: [ql-users] Disk interface manuals

2004-02-25 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Have you got the QL Medic disk interface manual? I have interface (as the Cumana one :) but no books.I also have scanner and OCR software. cheers, Definitely no medic manual or the cumana one You have a scanner - yes, but do you have a QL scanner - converted a dot matrix printer

RE: [ql-users] Disk interface manuals

2004-02-25 Thread Witchy
Definitely no medic manual or the cumana one Oh well :) You have a scanner - yes, but do you have a QL scanner - converted a dot matrix printer by changing the printhead Quite nifty actually, although no OCR I should start a hardware hacks page on BinarySaurs -

Re: [ql-users] Disk interface manuals

2004-02-25 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 at 15:13:11, wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In a message dated 24/02/2004 23:31:22 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Rich,   Have you got the QL Medic disk interface manual? I have interface (as the Cumana one :) but no books.I also have scanner

RE: [ql-users] Disk interface manuals

2004-02-25 Thread Witchy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Firshman Sent: 25 February 2004 23:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Disk interface manuals I have no Medic manual either. I guess at this point I have to count myself

Re: [ql-users] QL scanner

2004-02-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
John Taylor wrote: Dennis Briggs tried to get the Quanta committee interested in his idea for a QL scanner using a modified printer way back in the early 1990's. Scanners then were very expensive but as the QL had very poor graphics in those days it didn't take off. The Nottingham group

[ql-users] Sampled Sound System

2004-02-25 Thread Timothy Swenson
I know that I can play sound files on the Q40, but has anyone tried making original music. Is the SSS set up for turning the Q40 into, say, an organ? Or would this be fairly difficult? Thanks, Tim Swenson

Re: [ql-users] Sampled Sound System

2004-02-25 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Timothy Swenson wrote: I know that I can play sound files on the Q40, but has anyone tried making original music. Is the SSS set up for turning the Q40 into, say, an organ? Or would this be fairly difficult? Well, the SSS at least doesn't give you any help in this respect. An application

Re: [ql-users] QL scanner

2004-02-25 Thread Jérôme Grimbert
Marcel Kilgus wrote: John Taylor wrote: Dennis Briggs tried to get the Quanta committee interested in his idea for a QL scanner using a modified printer way back in the early 1990's. Scanners then were very expensive but as the QL had very poor graphics in those days it didn't take off. The

Re: [ql-users] Sampled Sound System

2004-02-25 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos ( . )
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:43:28 -0800, Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that I can play sound files on the Q40, but has anyone tried making original music. Is the SSS set up for turning the Q40 into, say, an organ? Or would this be fairly difficult? As Marcel mentioned, the SSS

Re: [ql-users] QL scanner

2004-02-25 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos ( . )
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:21:48 +0100, Jrme Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel Kilgus wrote: John Taylor wrote: Dennis Briggs tried to get the Quanta committee interested in his idea for a QL scanner using a modified printer way back in the early 1990's. Scanners then were very expensive