On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 at 19:18:02, John Gilpin wrote:
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Thanks Tarquin for your thoughts on the weekend, you've set the ball
rolling.
Has anyone else any comments to make?
If it's been said before, then say it again so we know who feels which way
about it.
I personally
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 at 19:18:05, gwicks wrote:
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I don't have the address myself, but I understand that if you do a Google
search of, say, Phil Borman dentist you will get his details straight
away. Not sure it it contains an email address.
Very good suggestion:
phil AT
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 at 11:36:03, Timothy Swenson wrote:
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On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:08:02 +0100, Marcel Kilgus
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Question 2:
| How to retrieve data (from Archive for instance) to convert from QL to
| textfile under WinXP
Like it was said earlier,
Roy Wood's column in QL Today prompted me to look in my boxes.
You lie Roy - there are only about NINE power supplies so far.
Thanks (8-)#
Tony
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 at 10:54:11, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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If anyone is in contact with John Roberts, please can they either pass
on the following message to him or let me have his email address. He
has used the form on my website to send me an email message without
filling in
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 at 16:37:33, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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I'm in calendars mode at the moment...
My wife has just been used M$ Word to create a calendar of her own for
her office where she works, based on my QaLendar 2006 with new
pictures. That got me writing a little
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 at 16:37:33, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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I'm in calendars mode at the moment...
My wife has just been used M$ Word to create a calendar of her own for
her office where she works, based on my QaLendar 2006 with new
pictures. That got me writing a little
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 at 09:34:27, John Gilpin wrote:
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request from Ralf R for original Microperipherals eprom - snipped
You may or may not be aware that Quanta collects second user QL equipment
and I hope to catalogue what we currently hold in the near future. The
purpose
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 at 10:28:13, gwicks wrote:
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- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Esperanto
This is a question asked on behalf of John
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 at 09:45:27, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
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Ôçí Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:58:59 -0500,ï(ç) Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ýãñáøå:
Can we please please give up trying to use anything other than plain
text (8-)#
The problem is that (at least I) need mostly
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 at 20:11:38, Paul Holmgren wrote:
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Tony Firshman wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 at 13:22:56, David Tubbs wrote:
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And this 'Noise' problem was the reason for the popularity in the
USA of the Bent modifications to the QL's
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 at 12:15:15, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
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Ralf/
I remember this bug.
8-). Interesting to see, that now everybody seems to remember it.
However I always used multiple new lines instead of FF, with an empty
printer_dat. I did _all_ my printer config in
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 at 13:36:26, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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snip
Also available is the QaLendar 2006. This is a QL-orientated calendar
you can download, in Word DOC format, and includes picturesof some
well known QL personalities (but don't let that put you off!). PDF
format
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 at 12:35:29, Arnould wrote:
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There is a whole lot of information about the QL etc in the english
version of Wikipedia, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL
and a link to this text that I did not know:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 at 12:27:42, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
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Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:14:34 -0500,() Tony Firshman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] :
I must add the missing links to my products!
Sorry! Never got around to do them :-(
Ahha I might have guessed.
Many thanks
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 at 02:23:18, sinclairql wrote:
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Javier/
Sinclair QL Spanish Resources has new URL more according to the
international scene and to the modal of resources only in Spanish. From
now the Internet direction of our web is
http://sinclairql.es
Is there an
Does anyone have an email for Jean Claude Bridier?
Tony
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On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 at 15:58:53, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
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Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:08:41 -0500,() Ralf Reköndt
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snip
I've seen it used in the USA (IRS forms actually - that's the tax guys
for
the uninitiated) to denote January 2nd.
Then of
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 at 16:50:01, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
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On 15 Jan 2006 at 13:56, George Gwilt wrote:
On 13 Jan 2006, at 18:06, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
(...)
es assembley programming a joy to do.
One question that I often ponder if I disassemble a program
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 at 08:06:02, wrote:
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I take it you don't read Terry Pratchett novels then ?
Lots of footnotes there too - most of them, highly amusing.
Does anyone remember Martin Gardner? He came to the fore writing a
mathematic puzzle column in Scientific
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 at 08:57:23, Bill Cable wrote:
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Probably because their pint = 16FlOz to match 1lb = 16Oz, whereas the
imperial pint = 20flOz.
And that could be due to a pint of water (at
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 at 01:18:38, David Tubbs wrote:
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At 08:41 17/01/2006 +, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Probably because their pint = 16FlOz to match 1lb = 16Oz, whereas the
imperial pint = 20flOz.
Cheers,
Norman.replied to a mail that never reached me
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 at 01:31:21, David Tubbs wrote:
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I am using Qlem with Minerva, so sweet to see it all again, and it really
is fast.
Mostly for the manipulation of text files from the PC, for me it is the
interactivity of SuperBasic and Editor that suits me.
But
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 at 09:52:03, Tony Firshman wrote:
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My ISP does absolutely nothing other than spend £100,00 plus
whoops - £100,000
to cope
with the spam traffic. That is fine by me - I would rather be in
control of my own filters.
Tony
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 at 10:30:35, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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How do these ISP spam filterings work?
Do they pattern match emails (i.e. look at it, that's spam, add it to
the list and stop every copy of that email) or simply decide that a
particular isp seems to carry a lot of
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 at 09:47:54, John Gilpin wrote:
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Quanta has noted both the quality of the site and its great features.
Congratulations.
My main problem with the Quanta site is that every time I have looked on
it, mainly for future events I think, it has been out of
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 at 14:41:06, Robert Newson wrote:
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
One of my contacts using freeserve,co,uk is having terrible trouble.
Approximately 50% of her emails get filtered out somewhere in transit.
That is curious. My old email address[1] was with
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 at 21:01:56, Robert Newson wrote:
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Mine's still sitting on my desk; however it isn't working at the moment (I
suspect a ULA) :-(
What are the symptoms?
Tony
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 at 22:54:19, Robert Newson wrote:
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Tony Firshman wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 at 21:01:56, Robert Newson wrote:
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Mine's still sitting on my desk; however it isn't working at the moment (I
suspect a ULA) :-(
What
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 at 23:43:05, Roy wood wrote:
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I have a lot of working QLs if you need one.
US ones?
I thought Robert was USA based?
Ahha no - .co.uk
Sorry Robert, but you could still come to the US show (8-)#
Tony
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Newson
[EMAIL
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 at 14:14:26, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
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Ralf/
I had a QL, where the surface of the 8301 seemed to be made of ceramic,
instead others, which had a plastic surface.
Mine works very reliable through the QL's whole life. Maybe that's the
difference? I also had
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 at 19:33:26, Jeremy Taffel wrote:
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Robert Newson wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
...
I've had to resort back to my hacked (personal mod [again]) Phillips TX BW
TV (hacked in a Video input to bypass the demodulator which doesn't
work) as
my colour
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 at 14:04:28, John Hall wrote:
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snip
3) Installed all critical updates for Windows XP SP1.
You should be using SP2 surely.
Tony
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 at 17:38:08, Rich Mellor wrote:
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On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:39:58 -, John Hall
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Per Witte wrote:
John Hall writes:
Help!
The QPC2 pointer (via both the mouse and the cursor keys) on my
Windows XP desktop has become
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 at 08:15:13, wrote:
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Morning all,
I might have missed the point (as usual) or even part of this thread,
but, sorting in DOS is easy.
Open a dos box
type sort input_file output_file
Done.
OK, sorting is based on the entire line in this case, if you
Does anyone use AOL broadband?
If so can they email me privately with details of how to set up the router.
The AOL supplied router will not work, and we want to set up another
router. AOL won't help as it is not their router!
Tony
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Malcolm Cadman wrote:
snip
The problem seems to be that QPC2 does not recognise the Supercharge
extensions. As I wrote this really is a long shot, but has anyone experience
of running Supercharged programs on QPC2?
Supercharge was the early version of Turbo, I believe.
It wasn't.
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Την Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:56:19 -0500,ο(η) Marcel Kilgus
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Ralf Reköndt wrote:
BTW: Where can I find sinclairql.info?
Well, at www.sinclairql.info ;-)
In fact simpler than that - sinclairql.info works just fine without the
'www.'
( 8 - )#
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
onto a QL disk?
4. How to get past the catch 22 of needing to unzip the Unzip program
on a QL when you haven't got Unzip already. (use the JRH SFX procedure
to make Unzip self-extract and how to work around it on the 1% of
systems the SFX doesn't work, or order a copy
John Gilpin wrote:
Can anyone out there offer me any advice please?
Is there a way (step by step instructions please) to check that my serial
port is still working? I do not have a serial printer nor a reliable serial
to parallel converter with the correct D type plug on it - most of what
I have just had the following email. Can anyone pick it up?
-
I have the following surplus QL gear to give away to anyone near South West
Durham who cares to come and collect it.
E-mail philip_elders AT lineone DOT net
Witchy wrote:
On Mon, March 20, 2006 12:37 pm, Tony Firshman said:
I have just had the following email. Can anyone pick it up?
I drive almost past south west durham every friday and sunday nights on my
lovely* commute between north and south if that's any good.
You will all have
Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
On 22 Mar 2006, at 17:59, Tony Firshman wrote:
snip
You can only network to other QLs - or a QXL card on a PC. There is no
other network for the QL.
That's a shame. I've seen ethernet adaptors that work on serial ports
modified for machines like the Atari 800
Jerome Vernet wrote:
Hi,
A long long time ago, nearly 20 year back, I read papers about the new
Sir Clive system, the QL. I had to wait these 20 years to get one !
So ggoood !
So here is a boxed QL complete with documentation, original software
microdrives, originals games on
Jerome Vernet wrote:
Le 2 avr. 06, à 15:04, Rich Mellor a écrit :
f somebody can provide these suggestion, it will be glad !
The other option would be to get a disk interface and 3.5 disk drive -
these are faily cheap (we have some interfaces in stock although no
disk
drives).
I saw,
Rich Mellor wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:48:57 +0100, Jerome Vernet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tony Firshman a écrit :
Jerome Vernet wrote:
Too *cheap* - I think you mean 'expensive' ( 8 - )#
Yes, you're right ;).
Trump Card is an alternative.
I think I will deal with a Trump Card. What
Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Mellor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
The cable is not special - a standard PC floppy disk drive cable will
do.
You are wrong here Rich. The cable is special. PC drive cables twist
lines 10 through 13 which does not work with the QL
Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος) wrote:
Την Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:32:04 -0400,ο(η) Jerome Vernet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε:
Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος) a écrit :
What *is* happening with your Greek characters.
Thunderbird at least recognises them, but what are the double quotes
David Tubbs wrote:
have noted that
?windows-1253?B?UGhvZWJ1cyBSLiBEb2tvcyAo1u/f4u/yINEuIM30/Orv8ik=?=
and
?utf-8?B?XCJQaG9lYnVzIFIuIERva29zICjOps6/zq/Oss6/z4IgzqEuIM6dz4TPjA==?=
=?utf-8?B?zrpcIlwizr/PgilcIg==?=
and
Tony Firshman
are correspondents most likely to complain
is
tight. Tony Firshman has promised an article on Hardware detailing all
the bits you could/can plug into a standard QL and I would like the next
article in the series to deal with emulators.
Apologies if this is a duplicate. I tried sending during a DOS attack
and I think my earlier reply got
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I've just been upgrading an old QL from JM ROM to JS ROM and
accidentally broke one of the keyboard membrane tails.
This QL has been in use from 1984 without a single change of keyboard
membrane (although it's only had light use in the last 3 or 4 years).
Is this some
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
snip
I agree with you about PDF, it is a good universal format. Although the
file size can get quite large.
Not necessarily. I know the defaults do, but (on Acrobat Distiller
anyway) there are plenty of options to reduce the file size.
ie image resolutions and
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I've got a test file (already !) of the AS68.doc file supplied with
C68, the details are :
as68.txt = 4KB
as68.doc = 6Kb
as68.html = 12Kb
as68.pdf = 549Kb (!) high-res
as68.pdf = 549Kb (again) low-res.
Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David
Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Remember in the old days typing in the programmes published, if only they
had been machine readable ! Pity the Omnireader would no cope with other
than a couple of typewrite scripts, though it was planned to
David Tubbs wrote:
Tony's flyer brought to mind once again an odd thought.
Is there a hint of unfriendliness in J leaving the Quiet Corner to march
(Merz) with Kaiser Bill ?
Has anyone else been so struck ?
That was too clever by far.
I don't think we choose where we live by street
P Witte wrote:
.
Youre welcome
Youre welcome
Youre welcome
Three missing apostrophes (8-)#
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Phoebus R. Dokos (Φοίβος Ρ. Ντόκος) wrote:
Την Mon, 22 May 2006 08:14:11 -0400,ο(η) Robert Newson
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P Witte wrote:
David Tubbs writes:
...
Youre welcome
...
Three missing apostrophes (8-)#
...
BTW the apostrophies are not missing, Ive merely removed
Laurence Reeves wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
One very common one now is to use 'less' for everything, where 'fewer'
should be used. Less people for instance. The rule is *so* simple.
If one can count the noun (ie discrete items) then it is 'fewer'.
(Surprise, surprise... I do still
Stephen Usher wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 02:32:13PM +0200, J?r?me Grimbert wrote:
There is a difference between:
I want less jockey on my horse!
and
I want fewer jockey on my horse!
pedantYes there is, the first is correct but the second isn't, as the plural
of jockey is
Tony Firshman wrote:
Stephen Usher wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 02:32:13PM +0200, J?r?me Grimbert wrote:
There is a difference between:
I want less jockey on my horse!
and
I want fewer jockey on my horse!
pedantYes there is, the first is correct but the second isn't, as the
plural
John Taylor wrote:
More can be applied to both quantity and numbers, so why cannot less
It is regular practise now to talk about me and you, not you and I.
While I agree with you on the use of fewer and less, it must be
remembered that English is not a fixed language.
I am always deeply
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
As I said originally, I don't mind language changing at all - it
has to,
or die like Latin. What I don't like is the dulling down of
meaning.
sine die?
George
Any language where you can spell fish as ghoti cannot possibly be
dull.
gh = f as gh in rough
o=i as o
Robert Newson wrote:
John Taylor wrote:
More can be applied to both quantity and numbers, so why cannot less
It is regular practise now to talk about me and you, not you and I.
And often wrong:
She is nicer than me and you.
is wrong, it should be:
She is nicer than you
Robert Newson wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
...
She is nicer than me and you /are/.
Now you see why it's wrong.
Indeed, but not completely - it would be I am not I are.
As in She is nicer than you and I am? Surely it's we are not we am.
I was referring to the 'correct' She
Robert Newson wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
...
Indeed, but not completely - it would be I am not I are.
As in She is nicer than you and I am? Surely it's we are not we am.
I was referring to the 'correct' She is nicer than than you and I (are)
As I thought, but shirley you and I
George Gwilt wrote:
On 29 May 2006, at 13:16, Tony Firshman wrote:
Ah I see what you mean - You and I is the plural.
Surely you mean 'You and I are the plural'.
(8-)#
No
Tony
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George Gwilt wrote:
On 30 May 2006, at 20:49, Tony Firshman wrote:
On 29 May 2006, at 13:16, Tony Firshman wrote:
Ah I see what you mean - You and I is the plural.
Surely you mean 'You and I are the plural'.
(8-)#
No
Ah. So You and I are not the plural.
You and I is a collective
Laurence Reeves wrote:
Robert Newson wrote:
She is nicer than me and you.
is wrong, it should be:
She is nicer than you and I.
or
She is nicer than I and you.
'Fraid not. Replace nicer with heavier and it becomes obvious that
in the above you almost certainly
John Taylor wrote:
Lau
There is no missing apostrophe. The people's, yes, but in this case
peoples is plural.
Eh? 'People' is plural.
Of course, people often use the awful plural 'persons'
Tony
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David Tubbs wrote:
At 13:30 31/05/2006 +0100, you wrote:
There is no missing apostrophe. The people's, yes, but in this case
peoples is plural.
John.
But do you mean the Pidgeon and bastardisation of English by peoples around
the world or correcting another person's English
I do of
Laurence Reeves wrote:
snip
A la TF,
A le TF surely (8-)#
I deplore the loss of meaning specificity that a missed
apostrophe causes
Punctuation rules!
Eats shoots and leaves. (Probably, has a diet of both parts of a plant).
Eats shoots, and leaves. (Consumes some young bean plants in a
Peter Fox wrote:
Hi there,
I have three Psion Programs set up as ALT a for Abacus,
ALT b for Archive, and
ALT c for Quill.
I have found that if I start with loading Abacus, it loads with an
error. On the
Laurence Reeves wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
Just to wind up this one, from way back, Tony Firshman wrote:
Being me, I took TF at his word, that the rule should be countable,
and went onto my infinity theme.
Sorry Lau, I did not take your point correctly, but certainly a nit
Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
Not everything with a plural can be quantified:
See for example waters as in The waters of the Gulf of Mexico...
You could potentially count their displacement but then you have to prefix
it with amounts. There is a plural in waters however you cannot say
Laurence Reeves wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Surely if there is a plural, then it can be counted?
Argh! See infinity. You can't count the points on a line (finite or
infinite length). They are plural, but not countable.
Maybe then one should think the other way round.
There can be one
Peter Fox wrote:
It just says ERROR press space to continue.
Above the 'error' it has 32 but what that means is not clear.
If you press space nothing happens so off to jobs to clear it.
Interestingly exactly the same problem happens with the DOS version of
Abacus (in PC Four).
A
James Hunkins wrote:
It would seem that, regardless of the fact that my contact @ email
address for my QDT software web pages is not mineable, it has ended
up on someone's junk mail list big time. Normally this happens
because the address would have gotten into someone's mail address
Jérôme Grimbert wrote:
Hello everybody,
May I ask a question: when are planned the next heindoven meeting ?
(Just to try to book one of them in my schedule...)
October 14th is next 'local' meeting.
There is one 'international' meeting a year. This has just happened so
the next one where
Koenig Urs wrote:
I leave for summer holidays on Friday.
Question: Who else of the Europeans will attend the American Show?
You mean other than Roy and I, I assume.
Are you thinking of coming?
Tony
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Rich Mellor wrote:
I am having problems with the ROM cartridge for Metacomco Pascal in that
it is only rarely recognised by the QL for some reason.
Does anyone have an image of the ROM cartridge (or can anyone remind me
how to make one with SBYTES...) and I can look at getting it
P Witte wrote:
Tonu [aka Tony] Firshman writes:
Whoops!
TonY
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On your downloads page, you have a program named 'calender' should that not
be 'calendar'? It's somewhat amusing as the ads down the right side of the
page are all trying to get me onto eBay to buy ... a spell checker !
Even better, I Googled for Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Morning Tony,
You'd probably [not] be suprised to hear that I did too!
^
You have to be careful to spell correctly when you comment on other
people's spelling (8-)#
well caught young man, well caught. The words 'hoist' and
Tony Firshman wrote:
snip
It wasn't Lego. I forget the name, but Qview developed it from a German
kit that was *something* like Lego but was sold to schools and
universities as commercial kit.
Fischer Technik and designed by Qview's Jonathan Oakley.
I liked it so much that I bought a kit
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
So ... what in particular is painful about IE ?
Mainly it's inherently unsafe to use it on the internet. No IE user
should be surprised if they catch some virus, worm or whatever. Apart
form that it's usually slower, it doesn't have proper keyboard
Rich Mellor wrote:
Has anyone come across problems with a Super Gold Card freezing the QL
after about 5 minutes use? It has been tried with 2 QLs now (without the
68008 chip) and it works fine for 5 mins, but then the QL will not restart
until it all cools down again.
Seems to be an
!) To get 56K you would need to
upgrade your QL with a SuperHermes (£53 new from Tony Firshman). Then
you could use a conventional serial modem, which are still made: I have
one with my PC (£30 new). No broadband, though!
That is superHermes Lite - which is 19200 bps.
The full superHermes is needed
Tony Firshman wrote:
The main problem was that the input handshake (8049 chip) was bugged.
Hermes uses the same basic hardware (but erasable firmware) and Laurence
Reeves simply coded it properly! If only he had worked for Sinclair at
the time we would have had a *much* better QL from
Neil Riley wrote:
On a similar subject, whats the average age of you guys... Don't
lie, I've seen the pictures :-)
as a starter for ten, I was born the year we last won the world cup so
the average currently stands
at 40, any advance ! :-p
60
Tony
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Ade Vickers wrote:
I've still got that first QL (cue dewey eyes) - although the mainboard has
sadly packed up, as has the original 8032 coprocessor chip. She's had 2 or 3
new membranes too. I've replaced the board co-pro with one from a newer
QL, but retained the original microdrives (still
Ade Vickers wrote:
Hi Tony,
Often motherboard faults can be repairable, especially ram.
What do you see on screen when it tries to boot?
Random coloured snow, various screeches and whistles from the speaker, both
microdrives spinning up down randomly, all constantly changing. The
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
[Age: pedwar deg chwech - only known to Welsh speakers :-) ]
... and to online dictionaries! (46)
My mother though would have known. She didn't know English until she
learnt it at school as a foreign language!
Tony
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
[Age: pedwar deg chwech - only known to Welsh speakers :-) ]
... and to online dictionaries! (46)
My mother though would have known. She didn't know English until
she
learnt it at school as a foreign language!
Tony
Surprising how many QLers have told me at workshops
Ade Vickers wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Ade Vickers wrote:
Possibly - but would a connector give up when the chip had been
undisturbed for ~10 years?
Indeed it could. Corrosion is likely on the exposed areas,
and this chip gets pretty hot, so can migrate.
OK. I'm pretty sure
Neil Riley wrote:
Can't actually read the words as they are obviously broken up but I did
wonder if MIRACLE SYSTEMS was in there somewhere trying to show itself.
It's a starter for ten i guess. Chap in work had a look at the underside
of the PCB and whilst he wasn't 100% sure, he suspected the
Rich Mellor wrote:
Malcolm Cadman has given me a Gold Card for sale - however it has the two
outer pins on the 5V regulator shorted and a capacitor on the underside
(underneath the 68000) - I presume it has been adapted for power through a
backplane - can someone remind me of the
extdgl42 wrote:
OK, formally reserved. See everyone (excuse me, that's y'all , another
good Southernism) there. Unless I sober up when I actually get around to
calculating the distance. Reminds me of the German relatives of friend Dita
who visited the US figuring, oh, they'd drive from
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I'm looking forward to hearing back from you all :o)
PS. I'm off to France next week, so any replies after today will be delayed
in being read. I've got to drive on the wrong side of the road for a week -
that should be fun. If you are anywhere around Marseilles,
Photos of the Niagara Falls show are on my website:
http://www.firshman.co.uk/ql/photos.htm
Tony
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as there is a risk of destroying the motherboard.
Tony Firshman
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