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[ql-users] Clive Sinclair working for the French??I know that Sir Clive's skills lay in other
places other than marketing, but has he sold out to the french I
wonder??Just that I saw a TV advert last night for a Citreon
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 at 11:04:48, ZN wrote:
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On 09/04/02 at 14:31 Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
Clive Sinclair working for the French??
I know that Sir Clive's skills lay in other places other than
marketing, but has he sold out to the french I wonder??
Just that I saw a
ZN writes:
computing in a better way, with Citroen you get to preach that there are
better ways to drive around on 4 (and actually, even 3 - some will work
without one rear) wheels!
Dont I know! Once, driving with a friend in his ancient Citroen D model in
Africa somewhere, I saw this
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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B. Wrong. It refers to a bigger microdrive like device,
with magnetic tape. The same infinite tape trick as in microdrive, no
rewind needed. It was the alternative to floppy. (or the evolution of
classical tape).
ZN wrote:-
Bzzz -
On 17 Oct 2001, at 20:07, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Also, do not forget that the first microdrives were intended to be only
the start of a whole range of innovative new ways for mass storage.
Clive subsequently 'lost' a lot of his 'millions' investing in plant and
research to produce new devices
be huge, and that is probably what ate most of his
investment in plant - the production of flawless silicon wafers.
Ian.
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From: wlenerz
Sent: 19 October 2001 14:29
To: ql-users
Cc: wlenerz
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair
On 17 Oct 2001, at 20:07, Malcolm
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} Wafer memory...
} Wafer Scale Integration I believe he referred to it as at the time.
B. Wrong. It refers to a bigger microdrive like device, with magnetic
tape. The same infinite tape trick as in microdrive, no rewind needed.
Even with current low cost silicon, there is still a high rejection
rate. That, as was said , cannot be afforded with a bigger chip.
Actually, bigger chips increase the number of rejects incredibly. The
reason is very simple: the basic idea behind chips in most cases relies on
all chip
In article 3BD046D3.18653.10B3805@localhost, Wolfgang Lenerz
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On 17 Oct 2001, at 20:07, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
Also, do not forget that the first microdrives were intended to be only
the start of a whole range of innovative new ways for mass storage.
Clive subsequently
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ZN
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Big snip :-)
The wafer technology was of course based on chip technology and design and
testing procedures of the time. Today it would actually be easyer to
produce them as things like mid-process testing, late stage metalization,
On 10/19/01 at 8:39 PM Malcolm Cadman wrote:
The wafer technology was of course based on chip technology and design
and
testing procedures of the time. Today it would actually be easyer to
produce them...
Very interesting, Nasta. As you say the technology is always moving on,
and what was
ZN wrote:
I wonder what happened to Sinclair's asynchronous microprocessor.
That would have been a great project too, especially since some
people at the Frauenhoffer isntitute (IIRC) developed it quite far,
using self-handshake logic instead of clocked logic.
The University of Manchester
May be worth following up just what the QL2 was going to be
(probably
like a Thor). I was sent a copy of the Tyche Rom which is
partly, but not fully compatible, with QL ROMs. Can't remember the
name of the company embedded in the code though - I think it was
Sirius Cybernetics. The ROM itself
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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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
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
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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
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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
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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
: I will try and check this out sometime, as I still know the industrial
: designer who worked on the QL project for Sinclair.
:
: --
: Malcolm Cadman
About innovations at Sinclair Research, TT once told me this interesting
story.
They wanted to develop a pointing device at the beginning,
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
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 and power hungry.
If only...
..the QL would have been more successful than the Macintosh, there'd be
October 2001 12:02
To: ql-users
Cc: pgraf
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair
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 and power hungry
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 at 14:11:12, ZN wrote:
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On 10/16/01 at 4:59 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..the QL would have been more successful than the
Macintosh, there'd be a million active QL users, and
Motorola would be producing 3rd generation 850 MHz
68060 CPU's ;-)
..the QL would have been more successful than the
Macintosh, there'd be a million active QL users, and
Motorola would be producing 3rd generation 850 MHz
68060 CPU's ;-)
And keyboard membranes wouldn't be as rare as hens' teeth.
When I was talking to Syd Humphreys, he said that QLEA
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 and power hungry.
If only...
..the QL would have been more
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 selling price ?
I was told that, just before the QL was due for
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman
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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
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2
SINCLAIR RESEARCH LIMITED
1A Spring Gardens, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, SW1AA 2BB
www.sinclair-research.co.uk
Why not send a copy of QL Toady? If he responds it would be
interesting to see
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 at 19:37:43, Geoff Wicks wrote:
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2
SINCLAIR RESEARCH LIMITED
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www.sinclair-research.co.uk
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