Re: [Ql-Users] London QL Quanta Group Meeting - September 2008- cancelled
Combining Tony and Malcolm with my Welsh origins then - --- Borough Welsh Congregrational Chapel + PS - The building is an architectural gem, for anyone interested in historic buildings --- reminds me of a nearby galvanised steel constructed country chapel known locally as the Corregationalists! AveAgooDaye all of ye, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] sub-£100 notebook
Thanks Richard for your informative and helpful machine assesments. However, about (8GB) SSD... I am ignorant! SSD? please Richard. TIA Greetings to all John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] C48 cartridge
Re; Dilwyn's I've just had to scrap my son's old Epson Stylus C48 printer, which is beyond economic repair. We have a single unused TP066 black cartridge for it, which I'll happily post to anyone to avoid binning the cartridge. = Me too ditto, with a unopened HP cartridge '29 Black' (516 29GE). recyQLing! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
hitchies wrote: Tony said - What a con! === I'll take that as an apology then. Apology for what? My you are sensitive today. I was not criticising anyone. Tony === ..that's enough patronising. Thank you Tony. Regards to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Tony said - What a con! === I'll take that as an apology then. Also, why separate DELL only for the (valid) flaming? - surely MAXTOR need to learn something too regarding their own advertised product support which they honour not? Not raining in Wales though! John ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Re; This does not apply to Seagate (and Maxtor) or Western Digital. They do not ask for any information other than disk serial number. Tony === Tony must think I imagined it ;-) But, in case it is of further interest ,I copy two correspondences (from April 2004) below. I have a lot more including something 'formal' from Dell's legal dept! Regards to all, John in Wales == From ME .. Can you help with this please? I bought from DELL (as I have told them) because I knew that they used only the best third-party suppliers. I have explained to them that surely (as it is stated by you on the device) it is underwritten by you - so why should DELL hesitate? In effect, to put it starkly, this situation puts MAXTOR - as well as DELL- in a bad light. . = From DELL - Please include the following line in all replies. Tracking number: ET20040309_006363 Dear John. Thank you for contacting Dell Hardware e-support and services I understand your concern, but sorry to say that Dell treats only warranty issued on the time of purchase, not the warranty from the manufacturer. Once the part is purchased by any vendor and sent by Dell it is Dell's product and we will not consider the warranty of the manufacturer. I have even discussed the same with my manager and we will not be able to help you in this issue. = From MAXTOR - Thank you for your email. When Maxtor sells hard drives to Computer Manufacturer's, they also sell the warranty of the drive to the PC Manufacturer. Therefore in this case Dell now owns the warranty of Maxtor drives which they use in their PCs. Maxtor no longer cover the warranty of their drives once the drives have been sold to PC Manufacturers. If you have any other queries, please do not hesitate to contact us again. Kind Regards, Edwina Fogarty, Customer Support, Maxtor Ireland. end-jgh ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Happy New Year to all! Tony said Check the guarantee. Seagate have a seven year one and that now covers Maxtor. Western Digital also have a long one. I have used all three many times successfully. -- In case this raises too many hopes... I was ( 3years ago) refused the clear terms of a maker's guarantee simply because I had bought the HD as part of a new machine built and supplied by a third party company(Dell) .. i.e. not direct from Seagate (or was it Maxtor?). When in the army I would have said I was choked! - 'cause I was. Thanks to all who have contributed here during 2007 and especially to those who maintain the list. It's great. Best regards, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Punters
Norman wrote... Who needs a spring when you have gravity? Please send me some (in green please) Norman! Thus, Malcolm wrote... I guess it also helps to be slightly mad ... :-) John in Wales (not raining) Attendee ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Punters
punters...? it's a bit shady Arfur Dailee. Before I vote, I'm waiting to read what we get when we Dunbar-it! When speaking English in Wales we say bloke blokes unless, in the feminine case, when it is blokess blokesses. The Welsh have a word saeson. This is often (mis)used to mean that other lot,of uncertain origins. So let's adopt that !! :-) Next contributor I'll punt, will be Dilwyn?! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
Marcel wrote: VirtualPC for Windows is not an emulator like QPC, ... only run x86 systems on an x86 machine. I realised I might be missing something. And I was! :( Thanks Marcel, its 68000 clear now! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Stupendipity!
Dear New-house Norm. (...if I may address you thus ? ;-) Re: You have missed the 'any old iron' exchange then ? The Old-Iron was having a silent period. I am well now... thank you. May you be happy in your new house. [Should things get too hectic, try 'SLUG 25'!] (OT- c?) Regards to all - to those here who now help me with my English - and not forgetting those with ISP Tiscali sized current head-aches; of course. But especially to those who write contributive and helpful, joined-up stuff on this list. What lovlee wether weir XP-rensin.! John in Wales PS Not spell-checked. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Stupendipity!
[It's very quiet here - unless my eList-software has become invisibly unplugged! So - ] - Oh the ache! You QLusiasts just won't believe it! Here, on this list, I could have been shunned forever. Because - As a black-boxless but very ongoing QPC enthusiast, how could I have been so careless? 3 years ago, I gave away a Super Gold Card and (accidentally) my well thumbed, well loved, annotated copy of my 'GOLD CARD User Manual'. I did. I really did! :( :( I hear Call yourself a QL enthusiast do we? etc. etc. [O.K. shut up. ;-)] I just kicked the shredder (often) and grieved. You all know what excruciating fun, unstructured/uninformed-parameter juggling, can be - especially when you don't know how many balls should be in the air. And don't we just love it, when we've a bus to catch or Big Brother is just starting on the tele.? Nowhere, nowhere had I gre(a)y-haired had the foresight (for instance) to write on any high wall or omnibus panel - in any hand - in any colo(u)r(s) - on any scale - at any time of the day - or night - anywhere in the village - near or far from the fuzzhouse - that (of course) - BPUT#4,1,2,2,3: rules printer 2 to scale 3 - O.K.? or made it possible, if the mood was to take you (of course) for you to nip 'round a corner to read - 2,3 60 63 1x2 480 1.41 2x2 240 1.41 = Rules Seikosha O.K. ? Yesterday, oh wonderful day! looking for a special piece of waterproof board (for my cycle bag,what else?) I eyed a well-dusty box file. And there, rent-free, in that documentation doss-house, at my elbow, **it** was, in hiding. *And* some of its long lost unbundled pals! Yipee :) :) The blue file? Well, its labelled spine, boldy and neatly reads - '1.2.2.g System (non-bundled) Software - small documentations'. I kid you not. What else? So, rejoice with *me*, but believe in your *own* systems Greetings to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] e-mail address: format
David said - === At 13:49 12/05/2007, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid format string for internet e-mail addressing? Looks OK but their site does not seem to be offering email a/cs, do you have to aquire a domain first ? == As this is in connection with a 'business client' I am helping, I substituted (1 for 1) the alphas case, but not the '@' or the '.' sss. or 'co.uk'. Therefore, it does not surprise me that - like just those WMD's - this pseudo 'site' does not exist either. Thanks however for your comments and advice. For those still interested and reading on :) 1. It seems that my O/Ex [Version 6.00.2900.2180.(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158] edits the 'original' [address] to this form - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then reports back - This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: Unrouteable address 2. Since getting QL-list advice, I have tried using the 'original' address from another PC. (It seems to have worked... it hasn't come back.. yet!) Thanks and regards to all, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] e-mail address: format
Hello everybody/anybody QL, Can anyone please tell me if - [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid format string for internet e-mail addressing? (It's strictly based on one that keeps being rejected and returned as 'invalid'.) Thanks in advance, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] New QUANTA web site launched
Thanks Dan - a great resource. Thanks too, Marcel, for e-mail info. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Wiki
Re Norman's: I vote for Rich's new one over Wikipedia. We can keep it relevant and all we have to do is put an external link on the Wikipedia one at each and every available opportunity. I vote for Norman's vote for Rich's proposal. Or,plainly(!) I concur (as medics say). John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Wiki
Re: ghoughpteighbteau! - Lau, I like it! :) :) :) John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] OPD Expired!
Re: ...Richard, somewhat upset as he's only had the OPD a week :( Commiserations Richard. It's just not fair! Hope it can be fixed. :) Best wishes, John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings + QL Chat
Hi everyone! Regarding my - = Anyone else getting duplicate/triplicate copies of some list mailings lately, please? == This problem (undiagnosed) now seems to have gone away! In reply to Geoff's Do the duplicates come in at the same time or at different times? I can say at the same time. My thanks to Geoff, Malcolm, Rich and (the Not Very Far Away ) Norman. There's quite a lot of off-subject traffic here now. Personally I enjoy it but I do understand that others may not :( Is 'QL Chat' dead - does anyone know? John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] This list: Rrepeat postings
Hi everyone! Anyone else getting duplicate/triplicate copies of some list mailings lately, please? John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Comment from the Traditional QUANTA Committee
Tony wrote - === Forwarding? Does that mean 'replying' too? ... and is the default a '' character? When I last looked (in OE) I think it mentioned the term 'quote text in-line'. == Message Auto Options in OE are - reply, reply all and forward. Related default settings are in - tools/options/send/plain text settings. They include - indent the original with ' ' when replying or forwarding Best wishes to all - [including lurkers and Scotsmen] but especially those who, like me, have stubbornly attempted to change the CaSe of superbasic variable names on the fly etc.! Goodole QUANTA put me right (with ). My thanks to that author. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Glossary Terms WAS Thor Service/Technical Manual
Marcel wrote -
Tony's talking about kbit/s, I presume you're talking about kbyte/s.
75kb/s is pretty much what can be expected from Tony's DSL upload
bandwidth.
==
Sorry Marcel, but from this posting I still do not know whether your
'75kb/s' are kilo-bits or kilo-bytes! ;-)
This [kb-thing] is a very old and well cooked chestnut.
I was relieved a couple of years ago when, from discussions (technical
publications) I came to the conclusion that the consensus was now that:
Kb/s represented kilo bytes per second
and
kb/s represented kilo-bits per second
Now I'm in the dark again. More light please!! Thanks.
==
All this has brought to mind again an idea.
Recently I read, cover to cover, a national (educational) text book on IT;
from scratch to 'A' level and I shall not waste time describing the horrors
(contradictions and ambiguity) of the text and of its plentiful 'old'
exam-board questions. It is its glossary that interests me here. [ The
discussion above is quite representative of some of the annotations with
???'s I have pencilled in there.]
What I propose - for our amusement - is that occasionally I quote on *this*
list from one of the short definitions in that glossary. The implication
being that I will be throwing it out (to the dog(s)!) to chew over - if they
like. If there is a dog fight, or a howl, I shall wait (and learn) on the
sidelines. Else; after a decent time I shall throw in another piece of meat
from the same source.
It seems to me that this might benefit all readers - whatever their current
position in the knowledge-stakes. {Remember TV's 'Yes minister'? and how
do I
know that I need to know...!?}
You doggies out there might like to give me your comments on this ..
With best wishes to all for 2007
John in Wales
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Re: [ql-users] waiting for QPC print - meanwhile
Re: Let me know Bill if you would like me to e-mail that page to you - it's quite short. Yes please John if it's no trouble So, here we go Bill. - Stephen Morris' 1986 Archive User's Reference Manual p141 with - COMMANDS FOR PRINTING - [OCRd and p.read!] Command - = Spoolon (filename) (filename) export Effect - Opens a list file to receive all printer output. === How to Use - Before entering a printing command (such as Dump or Lprint) enter the Spoolon command, followed by a suitable filename. The program assumes that the file is to be contained on the current data drive and attaches a default .LIS extension if no other is given. From this point on, anything that would otherwise have gone to the printer is instead stored in the list file, in a form suitable for later printing. This file can include entire data files, printed with the Dump command, or individual items, printed with Lprint. It may also include a program listing (see the Lust command in Chapter 16). If the printouts are to be incorporated in a Quill document, rather than being directly printed, then you should add the Export parameter to the end of the command: this option is covered in more detail in Chapter 20. Once the file is complete it must be closed with the Spooloff command described below. Comments - = Only one list file can be open at a time. The list file has a special format which cannot be used for other purposes. You cannot read the contents of the list file back into memory. It can only be used for background printing, or if the Export parameter has been added, for import to Quill. Background printing is achieved with the Xchange Output command (see below). __ Command - === Spooloff === Effect - Closes any open list file = How to use - When you have finished directing printer out put to the list file, enter this command and the file will be closed. [endjgh] Relearning QL - you and me both. Best wishes Bill; John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.22/590 - Release Date: 16/12/2006 17:39 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] waiting for QPC print - meanwhile
Marcel wrote - For the record, if at all, the SPOOLON command should probably be issued before all the LPRINT statements... === At some time (empirically based) I have annotated Stephen Morris' 1986 User's Reference Manual p141 with - SPOOLON SCREEN - valid with 'dump' and 'lprint' SPOOLOFF ..use before 'lprint' to printer if SPOOLON SCREEN has been used. Let me know Bill if you would like me to e-mail that page to you - it's quite short. Seasons' Greetings to all, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.18/586 - Release Date: 13/12/2006 18:13 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Booting QPC2 v3.3 and Hot_Keys and QPACII etc/ New XCH boot
My thanks to you Marcel, Rich and Per for your advice regarding this. The problem is now solved ... though I shall have to follow the sages' advice and get meself updated! It is a **big** boot - with many Procs. It seems that I was clumsy with the SB editor and accidentally renumbered (=relocated) a line of code, when I meant to delete it. Putting that right put things right. I am returning to QDOS after several (unavoidable) years away. I have a new Proc in the (QPC2) boot to call EXCHANGE from a command line. Below is some code that I wrote when I had SMSQ/E on a SGC. The code means nothing to me now however [age!]. Are such parameters/safeguards advisable in the QPC2 environment. Would anyone like to comment please?. 1600 : 1610 DEFine PROCedure XCH 1620 REMark EXECUTE XCHANGE + jgh ++ 1630 REMark If TK2 then 'EX' may be used with param 'n' (as below) 1640 REMark Empirically (by 26 controlled tests in jgh '837K free' system) - 1650 REMark XCHANGE[itself] always grabs 297.5 + (n-64)K [wkg K] THUS - 1660 REMark IF n64 n=64! XCEPT: n=0 XCH grabs some but not allRAM (517K in jgh) 1670 REMark n0, XCH has no cursor!: (n-64) availble RAM, QLlocks up ! 1680 REMark so, Max 'n' for jgh '837K free' system was 535 1690 : 1700 Xmem=750: Xpram$=INT((Xmem-297.5)+64) : REMark Use Notes above 313.5 1710 CLS #0:PRINT #0\\ TO 3;Loading: XCHANGE\ RAM Allocated: ;Xmem;'K' 1720 DATA_USE flp1_: EX XCHANGE;Xpram$: REMark IfNotTK2 useexec, NO param. 1730 CLS #0 1740 : 1750 END DEFine XCH 1760 Can I scrap the parameter detail? - it works (?) now with - 'ex win1_exchange' Regards to all John in Wales (jgh) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/566 - Release Date: 03/12/2006 16:36 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Booting QPC2 v3.3 and Hot_Keys and QPACII etc
Greetings from Wales. I have a problem boot program for these progs (above) - and I have read the documentation... and seen the example boot progs published there! ;-) 1 = If I call my HOT_RESs HOT_DOs family from code inside a boot PROCedure, the system freezes with funny (random ?) graphic rainbow pixels in the area inside QPC2's (ver$ 3.23) window but outside any previously written (QPC2) area. [In a clean fresh implementation] If I hide the call (behind a REM) and then run the boot again things all seem OK - except of course nowt (from that procedure) is 'resident' etc. Then, if I immediately use a SBASIC command line to call that same SB procedure - I get all my QPACI's etc and the cursor and I'm cookin' on gas in the wider environment - it seems! :) Any suggestions please? PS: with this SMSQ/E (v.3) I am **not** including PTR_GEN, HOT_REXT or WMAN anywhere in my boot. 2 = But how about this too, please. When I do a dir. (via windows explorer) of QPC2's floppies, either the master or backup, there is a file in the listing with the name - SMSQE.BIN However, to my bewilderment, W/Me shows me that one of the properties of these files is - 290Kb 'AVG update file' I am not, how did you guess? a Pointer Env. etc wiz but to me AVG = AVG(risoft) = alias Grisoft Anti Virus. Is this a special cousin of Marcel's or Toby's etc or does its presence indicate a problem(s)? = Thanks, fellahs and (any) girls, John -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/566 - Release Date: 03/12/2006 16:36 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] QL Monitor Connections
Derek Stewart wrote: I have a Microvitec Cub 1431MB monitor, which I would like to use with a Sinclair QL. Does anyone know the video connections on the Microvitec Cub 1431MB monitor, which hasa 7 Pin DIN (270 deg) video socket on the back of the monitor. I have the connections on QL from the QL User manual. Hi Derek - this I can tell you from experience - the manual [concepts p33] is **wrong** if not dated 12/84 :0( I have details for CUB 653 TTL which is 6 pin design and 5 pins used. Should you like a graphic file of my layout(both ends) e-mail me direct. I have no copy, but QL World, May 1987, page 25 is relevant - according to my annotations!! Good luck. John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/566 - Release Date: 03/12/2006 16:36 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] month number
Dilwyn (with one 'n') said - ...The collective sharing of information and ideas is a brilliant feature of the QL scene. Couldn't agree more! Have a good one, wherever you are. John in Wales PS Still puzzled re; diff between O.S. and 'platform' in our recent context. :( -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release Date: 15/09/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Q40 and SMSQE v3.12
George wrote (thank you George ;-) '5 operating systems for SMSQE v 3.12' As they say in Liverpool, I can't get me 'ead 'round that. Would anyone like to climb in and help me please? Best regards to all John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.2/442 - Release Date: 08/09/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] apostrophes
Robert wrote - As I thought, but shirley you and I, the subject of the missing/implicit verb is plural (together as one pronoun: we) and so would use are and not am? = I bet I'm not the only one what would like to meet shirley! What fun ;) John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 26/05/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] apostrophes
Thanks Tony re: the gnokii software and a serial interface. (http://bryns.org.uk) === David wrote - Whilst on the subject, are the angels dancing on the head of my pin male or female ? = Has it been hissed That the jist Of this list Has been missed? Whatever happened to 'QL-Chat'?! :) Cheers, John in Wales. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 26/05/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] QRAM (was printer probs)
Dilwyn wrote - QRAM itself was discontinued some years ago, although possibly some of the traders may have second hand copies if you are lucky. QPAC2 is its nearest living relative, though not exactly the same software. Elements of QRAM are built into other products these days - ramdisks and screen dumps are in disk interfaces and you can get an sdump_rext for systems where it's not built in (I think it's supplied with QPC2, though not 100% sure), pointer environment is now freely available from the websites of Wolfgang Lenerz and myself, some of the job control facilities have vaguely equivalent menus in QPAC2 and so on. -- Dilwyn Jones = Thanks Dilwyn. I have QPC2 QPAC2. 'Fraid I havn't found the key (yet!) to its QRAM-like attributes/utilities/pointer-screen. :( If its a case of read the manuals (again!) - then so be it. Do I have to write a pointer-prog. to get this functionality? With my thanks John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.5/321 - Release Date: 21/04/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] printer problem
Robert said - ...any suggestions how to clear (trying propan-2-ol seems to have had little effect (other than to get one dot working for minimal time), though it does collect the other colours quite well - I dismantled the head unit to get direct access to the jets...the C460 has a ... -- The Epsom [racing !] stylus Colour 460 is (I believe) 'NonDURAbrite' inked. I've managed similar unblocking by sparingly using warm water with old cartridges - until normal service was resumed (via invocation (!) of ROM auto-head-cleaning routine). ;) HTH. Regards to all, John, in the Wales they can find when they deliver to the door ... :-) -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/301 - Release Date: 04/04/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Psion PC Four (XChange on PC)
Regarding versions of the Psion-4. Don't let's forget the ICL [Personal Computer]: OnePerDesk, ROM(s)! Regards to all, John in Wales PS Is QL Chat defunct? - does anyone know, please. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.11/191 - Release Date: 02/12/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Web site moved
Nice one Dilwyn thanks. John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.4/57 - Release Date: 22/07/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Free to a good home - the saga continues
but I will be going there, and Pisa to see the tower - which I believe thay have recently added a new clock to the tower. === Yes! and half the world's known reserves of lead ;-) Enjoy. John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 01/07/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Quanta AGM 2005
Re: I have an address label he gave me in an old diary at home, but that's in Wicklow 200 miles from here while the house his being done up.. :-(( Darren Serves you right you rampant two-house capitalist! ;) John in Wales PS I'm chuckling about the RSM at Sandhurst who, when asked about Wales' impending period under his supervision said, I shall call him 'sir'! and he shall call me 'sir'. The difference is - he will mean it! (J in W. Ex very junior staff, Sandhurst) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 06/05/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....
Jeremy said - / And now for another suggestion The QPC2 demo on Marcel's site hardly shows the system off to its best potential.. The presentation of the screen that results from the boot file on the .win file that is included for download is awful, and could have been from qdos. There really isn't anything to help the uninitiated to know whatto do with it, and.../ === I must say that I have had this same thought many many times - but it usually arrives coupled to another Jeremy thought i.e. ... how much work I'm asking someone to do for free ;-) ).. Best wishes to all, John in Wales -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.13 - Release Date: 16/04/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC TOPICS- [Was Welsh Humour]
Re Norman's - We could have an irregular 'off topic' column in which articles of interest could be published - even if not related to the QL. Or would that be unacceptable ? Here, in Wales we encourage the use of QL Chat List for OFF TOPIC TOPICS. But, before we leave the humour bit - about 'ewes', that is. I am reminded of the Liverpool Schools Inspector who told me that one day in a class room he requested Would Hughes please stand up - and, you've guessed it! - the whole class got on their feet. Have fun... on OR off(TOPIC) John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 01/04/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] OFF TOPIC - Welsh Humour
Re: - Called shut up, ewe! Well, it did have Anthony Hopkins in it Darren. etc === First; it's so nice to be 'Dunbared', so thank you to Norman Second; sorry Darren it would have to be shut ewe up! Best April Fools' to All, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 01/04/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Text Protocol Conversion
Mornin' all, Somewhere in the back of my spacial, though vacuous mind, I have a recollection of a list item regarding conversions from PDF formats. Just in case this helps here it is - CONVERT PDF FILES TO WORD DOCS Turn your locked PDF files into fully-formatted and editable Word documents. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=2307978 Best wishes from under the sun, John in Wales Hope the business is going well Norman the Scot! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 04/03/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] You can never have it all...
Re: Inspired by the discussion on a good superbasic book on this mailing list I managed to get a second hand copy of Jan Jones QL SuperBASIC - the definitive handbook. In my opinion this book was written in a fairly technical style, it is an excellent and comprehensive resource for reference purposes, but definitely not a good starting point for newcomers. = On this thread I've been surprised not to see a mention of what I shall now mention! ;-) Viz Illustrating Super Basic on the Sinclair QL Donald Alcock, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 182pp ISBN 0-521-31517-4 I was well into programming when I got the book - but I see (now) from my many annotations in it that it proved a very useful source. Yes! - for all ye olde buffs, it's the one that's handwritten but nevertheless very clear with sketches of little 'bugs' crawling here and there. Regards to all, John in Wales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date: 28/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Name calling
Re: Use the Welsh version, Ffibys for variety. Or even just ask people to call you Dokos as you seem to be the only one on this list, just as I think I'm the only Jones (for once). == Dilwin - should that Dukos be Dulos!? Happy new year to all. Jon in Whales - from under the desk Pheobus ;-) -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 22/12/2004 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] SWMBO
Mind you he might have picked it up from somewhere else - the bible, Shakespeare? = If so, it wasn't an 'orthodox' bible! John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Dates
Not in Ethiopia boyo (Jan 6th). I had two Christmases a year when I lived there! John in Wales - .That comes about because of the Gregorian reform of the Julian Calendar. The Julian calendar assumed an earth orbit of 365.25 days and so added a leap year every 4 years. However,. Robert and the Julian calendar is, c7 years ahead of its time, [just ike the QL - on topic UC ;-)] . Thus I was able to re-spend years in Ethiopia which I had already spent in Europe - and get 13 months to each year into the bargain! I'll not mention sunshine. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Whither or Wither ?
Re Dilwyn's - So, somewhere between 300 and 400 years after Christ's birth, his birthday moved to 25th December! Not in Ethiopia boyo (Jan 6th). I had two Christmases a year when I lived there! ATB John n Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Whither or Wither ?
Re: Existential-grade questions however are rarely on topic and since they are extra-ordinary these could be ermm... explained a bit (of course that would make them lose their point) but ermmm you know! (I forgot what point I was trying to make here! :-D ) Phoebus = OK.. it was me guv'nor, I should have said - Philosophical theory emphasising the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining his or her own development. [Oxford Concise 1995] when I actually said existentialism. ;-) So here's another quote, with which I should like to be associated - I am always impressed by the quality of the contributions in English from people for whom it is not their native language. M. Cadman 2005 John in Wales (Duffer at foriegn languages: never knows whither he is right) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] List protocols
Re: Anyone help with the current list rules please - specifically to unsubscribe. === Than you Wolfgang and Per. I'm about to taken the medicine... but better send this first ;-) John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] List protocols
Following a period of getting non of **my** postings here - I now get two of everybody's (including mine!). However the old protocols for removing a subscriber from the list (in order to 'start-again') get bounced. Anyone help with the current list rules please - specifically to unsubscribe just my alter-ego? Thanks. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] TEST with greetings!
Test - please accept seasons' greetings and then ignore! ATB to all the list. John in Wales ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
