Re: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ...
- Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:29 AM Subject: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674 Cheers, Norman. Ah, memories! My first ever computer. I bought it partly to pass the time while I was ill back in 1981, and partly to learn a bit about computers. Little did I know what it'd lead to! I'd actually ordered a ZX80, but as the ZX81 was in the process of launching, Sinclair kindly offered to change to order to a ZX81. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ...
--- On Fri, 11/3/11, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ... To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Date: Friday, 11 March, 2011, 10:09 - Original Message - From: Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:29 AM Subject: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674 Cheers, Norman. Ah, memories! My first ever computer. I bought it partly to pass the time while I was ill back in 1981, and partly to learn a bit about computers. Little did I know what it'd lead to! I'd actually ordered a ZX80, but as the ZX81 was in the process of launching, Sinclair kindly offered to change to order to a ZX81. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Just give me a ZX81 and I'll control the world I always remember that house tip from Trashman :D Peter. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ...
On 11/03/2011 11:06, peet vanpeebles wrote: --- On Fri, 11/3/11, Dilwyn Jonesdil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: From: Dilwyn Jonesdil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ... To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Date: Friday, 11 March, 2011, 10:09 - Original Message - From: Norman Dunbarnor...@dunbar-it.co.uk To:ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:29 AM Subject: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674 Cheers, Norman. Ah, memories! My first ever computer. I bought it partly to pass the time while I was ill back in 1981, and partly to learn a bit about computers. Little did I know what it'd lead to! I'd actually ordered a ZX80, but as the ZX81 was in the process of launching, Sinclair kindly offered to change to order to a ZX81. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Just give me a ZX81 and I'll control the world I always remember that house tip from Trashman :D Peter. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm Just spotted a blast from the past making a comment on that news article - no less than Leon Heller !! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk http://www.rwapservices.co.uk -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ...
Op Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:29:23 +0100 schreef Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674 Memories. In the early '80 my employer wanted to sack me on the grounds that they didn't have work for me. I then used a program Formcalc typed in on my ZX81 from Practical Computing, to put all my daily time sheets in a spreadsheet to prove them wrong. The company didn't have a computer and probably never heard of spreadsheets. I wasn't fired. But I cannot claim that the ZX81 saved my job. By the time the court ruled in my favour, the company had new owners and new management. Bob -- The BSJR QL software site at: http://members.chello.nl/b.spelten/ql/ ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Memories are made of this ...
The 30th anniversary of the launch of the ZX81, along with the BBC 4 programme Electric Dreams has had me pondering... which prompted me to write a blog item. http://www.lingula.org.uk/wordpress/2011/03/06/fun-basic_required/ Comments and discussion either to the list or to the blog are welcome. So, what are your thoughts? Steve ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
