Hi folks,
I found this list after googling for David Oliver and CST, who hopefully
some of you will remember produced the Thor range of machines. Having got my
paws on what I think used to be a working Thor WF2 (before someone removed
the hard drive) the other week I'm trying to find any info I
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 15:42:59, Witchy wrote:
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Hi folks,
I found this list after googling for David Oliver and CST, who hopefully
some of you will remember produced the Thor range of machines. Having got my
paws on what I think used to be a working Thor WF2 (before
I want to buy a complete Aurora based Tower System, while on the subject I
remeber seeing a Scottish website a few years that sold them but this
seems to have dissappeared.
--
Tarquin Mills
ACCUS (Anglia Classic Computer Users Society)
Witchy wrote:
I found this list after googling for David Oliver and CST, who hopefully
some of you will remember produced the Thor range of machines. Having got my
paws on what I think used to be a working Thor WF2 (before someone removed
the hard drive) the other week I'm trying to find any
Hi Marcel,
Thanks for the corrections :) I'll update the page now.
Cheers,
W
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Sent: 03 February 2004 17:55
To: ql-users
Subject: Re: [ql-users] CST Thor
Witchy wrote:
I found
Last Sunday I spent about 90 minutes talking to the QUANTA committee. As you
will all know I have been one of QUANTA's most vocal critics during the last
12 months. I attended the meeting at the request of QUANTA and I think it is
to their credit that they are prepared to listen to criticism and
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
In true Sinclair style it was marketed long before it was ready,
resulting in initial shipments needing an extra ROM 'dongle' out the
back because they couldn't fit SuperBASIC into (I think) 32K.
48K.
no 32K, 48K=32K ROMs+16K Kludge later 48K ROMs
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 18:54:54, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
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Witchy wrote:
I found this list after googling for David Oliver and CST, who hopefully
some of you will remember produced the Thor range of machines. Having got my
paws on what I think used to be a working Thor
Tarquin Mills wrote:
In true Sinclair style it was marketed long before it was ready,
resulting in initial shipments needing an extra ROM 'dongle' out the
back because they couldn't fit SuperBASIC into (I think) 32K.
48K.
no 32K, 48K=32K ROMs+16K Kludge later 48K ROMs
Hm, right, sorry
I didn't think anyone would even try to squeeze the whole of
QDOS/SuperBasic into 32kb...
IIRC only the QDOS had to go into 32 kb. Superbasic was supposed to be
loaeded from microdrives.
Arnould
Tony Firshman wrote:
48K.
yes, 48k - and not just superbasic - the whole O/S.
This was the great thing about the QL.
Yes, amazing. But still you've always needed more than that to gain a
really usable system. Space for WIN driver, FLP driver, maybe RAM disc,
the whole extended environment and
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
This puts the seemingly massive current SMSQ/E for QPC in perspective
(currently at 287kb. However, last version for QPC1 was 191kb big! A lot
has happened since then... the 3 included screen driver alone take up a
whole lot of space).
Does anyone
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Last Sunday I spent about 90 minutes talking to the QUANTA committee. As you
will all know I have been one of QUANTA's most vocal critics during the last
12 months. I attended the meeting at the request of QUANTA and I think it is
to
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Sent: 03 February 2004 19:42
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] CST Thor
windows to update without pausing the programs.
The QL multitasking since then has been 'real'.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 19:06:40, Tarquin Mills wrote:
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Marcel Kilgus wrote:
In true Sinclair style it was marketed long before it was ready,
resulting in initial shipments needing an extra ROM 'dongle' out the
back because they couldn't fit SuperBASIC into (I think)
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 21:04:33, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
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Tarquin Mills wrote:
In true Sinclair style it was marketed long before it was ready,
resulting in initial shipments needing an extra ROM 'dongle' out the
back because they couldn't fit SuperBASIC into (I think)
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 20:49:14, Witchy wrote:
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Sent: 03 February 2004 19:42
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] CST Thor
windows to update without
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 21:17:08, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
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Tony Firshman wrote:
48K.
yes, 48k - and not just superbasic - the whole O/S.
This was the great thing about the QL.
Yes, amazing. But still you've always needed more than that to gain a
really usable system.
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From: Dave P [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] CST Thor
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
This puts the seemingly massive current SMSQ/E for QPC in
perspective
My two-pennuth on the -
and the multitasking wasn't really 'multi' because background tasks
were paused.
theme.
OCR'd from the second page of full colour promotional leaflet The Sinclair
QL
(A4 - 8 pages and [silver] cover with references 9513 2 84)
=
Bill Waugh wrote:
Does anyone remember what was originally intended to occupy the
32768-65535 space? Was that all meant to be available for ROM
expansion?
Or was some of it intended for some other use?
Second screen ?
Nah, far off. That's at 160kb ($28000).
Marcel
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Sent: 03 February 2004 21:25
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Pffft :-) Because I don't know the full ins and outs of any of the
machines I've got (other than
Some of you may have noticed the changes made to the text at the bottom of
the Front Inside Cover of Quanta Newsletter. This is the paragraph which
outlines the terms under which small ads are published from both our members
and non-members.
The original text printed up to and including the
Tarquin,
Have you considered an Aurora System in a Pandora Case? The two I use are so
reliable that I think I could manage without my spare one. email me for
details if you are at all interested.
John Gilpin.
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From: Tarquin Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Regarding the QL Today comments:
I am very dedicated as long as our readers are.
Readers will have noticed that there was never a missing or unplanned
late (or early!) issue. If issue release dates were shifted by a week
backwards or forwards, then there was always a reason like having it
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 at 19:41:48, Tony Firshman wrote:
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48K.
yes, 48k - and not just superbasic - the whole O/S.
This was the great thing about the QL.
It was ready to go without having to load the O/S from file, with a full
basic supported command line.
Mea Culpa.
It was
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Sent: 03 February 2004 22:36
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] CST Thor
If anyone is interested I think Joe Miller still has some
Thor stuff ( 2 or 3 machines but maybe not
Tony Firshman wrote:
When memory became short (often in the pre-Gold Card days) you could
see him using the 32k screen area as a working space!
Actually there was a bug in exactly this code that more often than not
crashed the machine in this situation. I have only fixed it a few months
ago
John Gilpin writes:
Have you considered an Aurora System in a Pandora Case? The two I use are
so
reliable that I think I could manage without my spare one.
Famous last words ?
Per
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