>>Which is only 3 years away...To think I was _only_ 24 when it > all >>started...ouch! > The QL is 23 now (2007-1984), so only 2 more years to go before > the big party. Oops :o) Never was much good at maths!
> Yes Dilwyn, you really must debug that calculator of yours ;o) The calculator may have got it right, my brain (or lack of) certainly didn't :o( > I just found the original receipt for my first QL, Serial number > D12-059637, > dated 12/03/1985 for NOK 6,900 (about GBP 650). You still have the receipt...now that impresses me, Per, especially as you were presumably in Norway in those days when you bought it. > I had been fiddling around with the wonderful HP41CX programmable > calculator > for a couple of years before that, and was on the lookout for my > first real > computer. When I read about the QL in Personal Computer World I knew > that > was the machine I wanted. None of the other computers on the market > in those > days could hold a candle to the QL in terms of specs, software and > price. I > waited for it to arrive in the shops for a long while, but was told > that > there was a delay due to conversion of the machine for the Norwegian > market. > I ordered mine in November 1984 (I think). It was worth the wait. I > still > have it and as far as I know it still works (or did about a year > ago). Yup, I still have my first QL too. Or rather, my second, as the first one was a dongled one which was quickly returned to Sinclair. What impresses me is the microdrives still work after 2x years (not falling into the arithmetic trap again). Last year, I retrieved some programs from microdrive cartridges from the mid 1980s sometime and managed to read most of them first time. More than I can say for most of the floppy disks from that era. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
