Logbook: Month one after the "birth anniversary" of our baby we look how the web and media took up the story.
As expected there was poor feedback if any in most NewsGroups, only comp.sys.sinclair took it up: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/browse_thread/thread/6888ea 8b4b1761cc Good usage of the web-page information. I got 216 downloads of the PowerPoint presentation and 75 of QPC (the virtual QL to run on the PC) so far. 4GB traffic in 5 weeks. Thats not bad for an oldy. German ct magazine (Issue 3/2009, page 24) took up the line and mentioned the QLs 25th anniversary on their regular "Prozessorgeflüster" (CPU rumors). They also mention the cloud QL<>PSION->NetBook->Todays Netbooks: http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ct/2009/3/24_kiosk But it comes even better UKs well known and favourite PC magazine Personal Computer World (PCW) who took up the line in their test bed blog http://labs.pcw.co.uk/2009/01/sinclair-qls-25.html just after my message on January 12th went deeper into it. They got in contact with David Karlin (QL hardware designer) and me. David gave en interview to Clive Akass. I allowed them to use all the information and pictures from my web-sites. The result can be found in the current issue (April 2009, Vol. 32 No. 4) on sale since February 19th. http://www.pcw.co.uk/magazine/thisissue. - "We" are in the Editorial of Kelvyn Taylor on page 7, - then the Interview with David and QL vs Mac comparismn on pages 14 and 15 - and as a goody the full reprint of the QL benchtest from the June 1984 issue (Vol. 7 No. 5) on pages 53 to 60. I can hardly remind me of such a massive coverage (11 pages) of the QL in a main street publication ever. So go out and buy the magazine! Put it on the shelf and tell you children and grandchildren about the "Mac that never was" better than "The machine that failed in the market". For the remaining eleven month of the anniversary you can expect a surprise every month. Take care and have a nice weekend, Urs www.tinyurl.com/9ryma3 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
