I need room...
The following packages might be available, if you manifest yourself here
or by email, at the coming soon Eindhoven QL show of 24.03.2007:
- package A: QL(JS)+SuperHermes+SGC+Miracle 40MB harddisk+modem+twin ED
drives+mouse+many hundreds of floppies, including some ED floppy (most
Seeing all this discussion about possible new hardware etc. and the risks etc.
is why I've come to the conclusion that there's never going to be any new
hardware. It's just not economically viable:
(a) The cost in time and money to design and build would be high.
(b) The size of the market is too
Hello Jan,
Thanks for your comments, I can understand your point of view and maybe
you're
right, The QL was doomed from the beginning as it was too expensive for
the
'kids' and in my opinion should of been designed as a high end games
machine/
business machine instead of just the latter. I
omega wrote:
Have you ever think why on earth is the spectrum still so strong?
Is it? I have actually no idea.
There are knowledged people willing to share for NO PROFIT.
Oh well, then we only have to find some of those and we're all good.
That should be easy ;-)
This makes the spectrum
Hi,
To stimulate the debate further.
I still believe that new hardware stimulates new software, which all
goes together to create activity and interest.
The QL with the original QDOS and the newer SMSQ/E has an OS that is
still interesting and capable of development.
The form factor of the
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
SNIP
Both old and new users are stimulated by something new.
Repeating a list that I gave earlier - probably 3 item ranges will be
suited :
1 - £50 to £100 a card of some type, probably modular too, that most
people would have an interest in to add to their
- Original Message -
From: David McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Hardware and software - new horizons
To keep an old computer going you need a reasonable user-base and a
perceived function. The Spectrum
- Original Message -
From: Malcolm Cadman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
Well ... 2 years is a long time in computing ... :-) ... so may be some
optimism that new ideas can take seed.
And in those 2 years 86
In a message dated 15/02/2007 09:40:16 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seeing all this discussion about possible new hardware etc. and the risks
etc.
is why I've come to the conclusion that there's never going to be any new
hardware. It's just not economically viable:
(a)
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gwicks wrote:
Then there's the lack of USB and printer support.
But just a provocative thought. Have you ever tried to connect a USB only
laptop to a parallel printer? PC World don't know the answer to that one,
but I do mainly because of my
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], gwicks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Those of us who went to the Sinclair show in Norwich a couple of years ago
had a very strong impression that the Spectrum has not moved on to the same
extent as the QL. We saw stall after stall selling Spectrum hardware and
software
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