On 16 Oct 2001, at 8:50, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Das QL? I'd say it's masculine.
Not in my ususal mode of address:
Das Sch... *+=8% QL Dings, da
wolfgang
(hey, after thhat much dutch, we're entitled to some german...)
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On 16 Oct 2001, at 21:27, Tony Firshman wrote:
They changed to the crummy one that goes brittle probably to save 20p.
Yup, that's the typical QL story - do it el cheapo!
wolfgang
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On 16 Oct 2001, at 17:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glad its not feminine, Die QL sounds a bit rash in english!
It's already happened, anyway.
Wolfgang
(runs to shelter)
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 at 08:25:32, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
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On 16 Oct 2001, at 5:06, Arnould Nazarian wrote:
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From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: I got SMSs from Jochen on the day, so am glad to report he was well
:
Has anyone else had an email from Yahoo saying that the web ring we manage
or have a site on is about to vanish ?
Norman.
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Norman Dunbar EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Database/Unix administrator
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 at 12:09:31, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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I am puzzled by all this - I got the email too, but, as I said, I am not
on the yahoo webring.
I have to do nothing, I assume, to keep my site on the QL webring.
What _is_ this yahoo webring? Someone has added
As far as I can gather,
we are in the_quantum web ring,
the ring used to be hosted/powered/somethinged by Webring
Yahoo took over Webring at about the same time as it took over all the
'groups'
Yahoo now want to split Webring off again, but because it has an agreement
with us, it cannot pass
Is the QL masculine or feminine in gender ?
In Italian masculine: Il QL
And in Welsh, as we all know, masculine: Y QL hwn
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Dilwyn Jones
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http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
Roy Wood wrote:
I was told that, just before the QL was due for release, someone
showed
Sir Clive one of the 'new' 3.5 drives and said it would fit into the
same space as the microdrives. He is reported to have said 'That will
never catch on'
Last year I saw a QL with a 3.5 inch disk drive in
OK, once someone has figured this out (that email must be one of the
most ineptly unclear ones ever) tell the dozen or so of us who are now
confused (the quantum webring members) and above all Giorgio Garabello
as the Quantum Webring master (or whatever the originator is called)
what the hell to
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 at 12:40:09, Norman Dunbar wrote:
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As far as I can gather,
we are in the_quantum web ring,
the ring used to be hosted/powered/somethinged by Webring
Yahoo took over Webring at about the same time as it took over all the
'groups'
Yahoo now want to
17/10/01 15.25.56, Norman Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
just let our web sites drop from the ring
have them added back again as new sites on the ring when all has been handed
over to Webring.
I received that message on 15 oct. I transferred existing Beginners' Club site ring
information
Certainly apocryphal (TP spell checker - not me) as the 3.5 drives then
were much too high. Suitable drives did not appear for years.
but a nice story.
The same story must have happened over the years - wheel, spinning
jenny, bicycle, digital watch, mobile phone, head
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Phoebus Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
A floppy disk drive would certainly have made it more successful - if
people would have been prepared to pay for it. Around 1/3 to 2/3 again
added to the
In message 00ae01c1570c$3550db00$c7075cc3@default, Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Roy Wood wrote:
I was told that, just before the QL was due for release, someone
showed
Sir Clive one of the 'new' 3.5 drives and said it would fit into the
same space as the microdrives. He is reported to
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tarquin Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Peter Graf wrote:
Tony wrote:
Microdrives especially killed the QL. He tried to push the speed up to
100k - and they never worked reliably. Unfortunately, the 3.5 disks at
the time were simply too large
In message 3BCD4547.6743.1997C9@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On 16 Oct 2001, at 22:23, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In English 'objects' or artefacts are seen as being neutral, or
inanimate. However, most English people do attach a gender to objects
... like cars = the 'old
: I will try and check this out sometime, as I still know the industrial
: designer who worked on the QL project for Sinclair.
:
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: Malcolm Cadman
About innovations at Sinclair Research, TT once told me this interesting
story.
They wanted to develop a pointing device at the beginning,
Nothing more on a Stafford Show then?
John in Wales
PS The new look QUANTA has given me back my eyesight ;)
This is probably an apocraphal (is this spelled right Geoff ?) story but I
like it.
---^
Apocryphal (Apo = From, Crypto/Crypho = Hidden ;-)
Elementary Dr. Wood :-)
Phoebus
I think it was the 'crap' element that attracted me to that spelling. As
in From Crap Hal ! but
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