Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Just to be masochistic, I copied the old version 1 Psion Quill,
Abacus, Archive, Easel set and tried running them. They did run OK
on the 128K QL (well, run OK is perhaps stretching it a bit for
those old V1 programs!). If anyone wants copies for posterity...surely
not!
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Hello Christopher,
Many thanks for offering, I'll send a few along when I manage to pick
out the ones most wanted. Can you please privately send me the postal
address to which you'd liek them to be sent.
(Thanks also to Phoebus and Alex for their offers, your turn may
I know this is going to be a stupid question...have you tried the
eternal
spinners in the other drive: I brought BJ in 3D land may years ago
and it
read fine in MDV1_, but in MDV2_ it just eternally spun (whereupon I
hit
reset and spiked the tape as opposed to doing the sensible thing of
Just to be masochistic, I copied the old version 1 Psion Quill,
Abacus, Archive, Easel set and tried running them. They did run OK
on
the 128K QL (well, run OK is perhaps stretching it a bit for
those
old V1 programs!). If anyone wants copies for posterity...surely
not!
Why not...just
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In-Reply-To: NJWSRHFWRD8JD98MG64TYSIMGRON.3df8e4bf@quantumcentral
I have a GC machine set up just for this archive activity - 2
3.5 drives and 1 5 1.4 drive. I don't know where Phoebus is
located but I'm in
, December 13, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: [ql-users] 5.25 inch disks and MDVs
In-Reply-To: NJWSRHFWRD8JD98MG64TYSIMGRON.3df8e4bf@quantumcentral
I have a GC machine set up just for this archive activity - 2
3.5 drives and 1 5 1.4 drive. I don't know where Phoebus is
located but I'm in Croydon(London
I have just spent a jolly day wrestling with old 5.25 inch disks and
QL microdrives!
Ah, nostalgia. Got my original 1984 JM QL, Gold Card, 5.25 and 3.5
inch drives attached, a big boxful of old 5.25 inch disks (many of
which I never copied to 3.5 inch disks all those years ago) and a box
of
??? 12/12/2002 1:50:09 ??, ?/? Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??:
As there are a few of my old programs on the disks I couldn't read,
and it might be an interesting exercise to update some of these, if
anyone has access to 5.25 inch drives and a willingness to try to copy
these for me, I
