Re: [Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday
P Witte wrote, On 25/03/09 19:20: I found the original receipt of my first QL ;o) Its dated 12th March 1985, serial no. D12-059637. It sported JM ROM. Viking, Norway were the distributors, although this was a UK version, not a Norwegian model. The price was a whopping 6900 NOK, or about £600. A month or two later I bought a Cub colour monitor and a Brother EP44 typewriter/printer. The Cub blew up after a few weeks, but the QL has worked flawlessly for years and, AFAIK, still does. The only repair I can remember having made was replacing the keyboard membrane. Prior to all that I had waited months for the QL to arrive in Norway. In the end I bought some other home micro instead. A lot of people deride the QL microdrives, but they never gave me much trouble, apart from being rather slow. The alternative for most home micros of the day was a tape deck which, to my mind was a lot worse. That was the case with the one I bought. I hated it and sold it again when the QL finally arrived; technically the best machine of its time! In the summer of '85 I went on holiday to the UK. There I ordered a Medic 512k interface with dual 3.5 floppies. When it didnt arrive on the date promised, I went to Basingstoke to pick it up in person. The address I was given turned out to be an empty house! I spent the better part of the day sleuthing, which included a phone call to QL World (or User), who warned me, off the record, that there was something fishy going on at Medic. However I finally located the Medic workshop. Mr Whatshisname was there (as was Mr Beatty Batty , of Sector Software) and explained the trouble they were having with suppliers, etc, which was the reason for the delay. Being forewarned, I opted to take away the stuff without finished software or the cover on the interface. Luckily! as a few months after the whiff came the bang! Ah, happy days! I got mine in the post without a case. I too went to their warehouse, but to get a case, which I got. Skoglund was there and they were copying the free games software. They had a couple of dustbinfuls of microdrives! Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(0)1442-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] SBasic Thing documentation
Does anyone know what the SBasic thing expects on the stack when it is used? Or can anyone please tell me where the appropriate documentation can be found (I have the SMSQ source but no idea where in it to look)? Looking at Jonathan Hudson's code, I can see that it can be passed a command string (cmd$) and up to 4 channel ids. Of the channels, one relates to a program to load (but is this necessary and how can the thing tell when no program is meant to be passed?). Thank you Christopher Cave ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] SINCLAIR QL's 25th birthday
In message 49ca83f8.40...@witte.fsbusiness.co.uk, P Witte p...@witte.fsbusiness.co.uk writes Hi Per, Interesting recollection. I guess we all have similar stories to tell. Relatively speaking, we are still paying around that sort of price for a new computer / PC of a good specification now. PS - I have several colour monitors stored that are suitable to go with a QL computer., or similar. Mostly of the Cub type. A very robust manufacture. I found the original receipt of my first QL ;o) Its dated 12th March 1985, serial no. D12-059637. It sported JM ROM. Viking, Norway were the distributors, although this was a UK version, not a Norwegian model. The price was a whopping 6900 NOK, or about £600. A month or two later I bought a Cub colour monitor and a Brother EP44 typewriter/printer. The Cub blew up after a few weeks, but the QL has worked flawlessly for years and, AFAIK, still does. The only repair I can remember having made was replacing the keyboard membrane. Prior to all that I had waited months for the QL to arrive in Norway. In the end I bought some other home micro instead. A lot of people deride the QL microdrives, but they never gave me much trouble, apart from being rather slow. The alternative for most home micros of the day was a tape deck which, to my mind was a lot worse. That was the case with the one I bought. I hated it and sold it again when the QL finally arrived; technically the best machine of its time! In the summer of '85 I went on holiday to the UK. There I ordered a Medic 512k interface with dual 3.5 floppies. When it didnt arrive on the date promised, I went to Basingstoke to pick it up in person. The address I was given turned out to be an empty house! I spent the better part of the day sleuthing, which included a phone call to QL World (or User), who warned me, off the record, that there was something fishy going on at Medic. However I finally located the Medic workshop. Mr Whatshisname was there (as was Mr Beatty, of Sector Software) and explained the trouble they were having with suppliers, etc, which was the reason for the delay. Being forewarned, I opted to take away the stuff without finished software or the cover on the interface. Luckily! as a few months after the whiff came the bang! Ah, happy days! Per ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
