Malcolm wrote
So, iPad like devices will succeed all of the above, and we will all
be using them as they get more capable.
You have to distinguish between those things that are long term
computing trends and those which are short term fads
No one can dispute the huge sales of the Ipad.
From memory, there used to be a public domain program (maybe in the
Quanta library) to read One Per Desk formatted microdrives on the QL -
does anyone recall what it was and where it can be obtained from?
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Rich,
On 21 Jun 2010, at 09:11, Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote:
From memory, there used to be a public domain program (maybe in the Quanta
library) to read One Per Desk formatted microdrives on the QL - does anyone
recall what it was and where it can be obtained from?
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On 21/06/2010 09:21, Dave Walker wrote:
Rich,
On 21 Jun 2010, at 09:11, Rich Mellorr...@rwapservices.co.uk wrote:
From memory, there used to be a public domain program (maybe in the Quanta
library) to read One Per Desk formatted microdrives on the QL - does anyone
recall what it was
I suspect you are thing of my OPD/QL Interchange software? If so
it can be downloaded from my web site at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/djwdown.htm#OPD. I have not
even looked at it for a decade or two, but there is no reason it
should have stopped working :)
Dave Walker
Thanks Dave -
Thanks Dave - that was just the ticket - Dilwyn - any chance you can
add
this to your Sinclair QL Homepage?
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Rich Mellor
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Done - if you'd care to give it a try at
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/filetran/index.html
As Dave has a lot more details on his page than the brief descriptions
Roy Wood wrote, on 20/Jun/10 23:29 | Jun20:
On 20/06/2010 20:03, Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 18/06/10 00:15, Tony Firshman wrote:
I have that set but it doesn't spell check. Looks like a bug (3.0.4).
That's interesting Tony. Roy on Windows and you on Mac and me on Linux,
all using 3.0.4 (I
In message e1oqc0a-0006a9...@outmx08.plus.net, Martin Wheatley
mart...@martinwheatley.plus.com writes
Malcolm wrote
So, iPad like devices will succeed all of the above, and we will all
be using them as they get more capable.
You have to distinguish between those things that are long term
In message 4c1fb5a0.80...@dunbar-it.co.uk, Norman Dunbar
nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk writes
So, iPad like devices will succeed all of the above, and we will all be
using them as they get more capable.
Nope. iPad like devices may catch on - they didn't when they were called
Tablet PCs way back. I
Yes, OK then ... what will be the 21st Century specification of this
Linux based laptop ?
No need to be practical, right now ... just dream what it might be .
Well, if you put it like that, I still have no idea! However, a few
thoughts, or rambles?
MC68 processor and lots of RAM.
On 21/06/2010 20:10, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
SNIP
No need to be practical, right now ... just dream what it might be
. :-)
Was it the Rocky Horror Show? - 'Don't dream it - be it!'
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Malcolm
Can't you see. Cloud computing is monopolistic. That is it's great attraction.
All computing will finish up in the hands of a select few and they will
control everything.
If you write a really useful piece of software they will market it for you and
if they are not interested there
With the iPad, you have missed the point I was making.
I was using the iPad like devices - not the iPad per se - as an
example as to the way things may well ( are ) going forward.
Then we will have to disagree. There is a place for the Ipad and Ipadalikes
but I don't see it replacing PCs
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