Robert, Well, there is another QL + Trump Card owning lurker out here as well...
>Rich Mellor wrote: > >> I would be interested in sourcing a new development of SGCs (must write to >> Stuart about this), but I do wonder how many people would still be willing >> to pay ?200-?300 for a SGC nowadays. Certainly with a need to make 50 >> boards to make it worthwhile, I am not certain there would be a big enough >> market, especially with "only" 4MB RAM ! > >I find with 2M on my GC, data and programs just rattle around inside! Even >with the base 128K machine (around 77K(?) free for use) I used to be able to >do/run more than I could with a 540K PC. Or are people becoming so >"bloatware expecting" that 4M sounds titchy? Yes, but the QL doesn't have all those silly GUI thingies written in bloating C++ (or now JAVA and .NET). I must admit that I sometimes found 128K restrictive but never filled the Trump Card memory. (Oh and I did have a sort-of GUI thingy for the QL, the ICE ROM & mouse.) Still, storage has never been a problem for you, other than the UCL Euclid file quota, which you got around using a neat trick using the e-mail inbox if I remember correctly. Oh and then there was thae hack for getting long printouts on the self-sevice printer.. and the Babbage programs you wrote which made UCLCC people nervous about 'cos they did things no-one thought a normal user could do. By the way, I seem to remember a couple of years ago that you asked if you could pass on the source etc. of the terminal emulator I wrote to someone, did you do so? Seeing as I've not got a modern machine readable copy would it be possible for you to fish it out and pass it onto whoever archives QL software on this list? Someone might as well get some use out of it. Steve P.S. The terminal emulator emulated the UCL BBC Model B ROM based terminal emulator, which itself emulated a VT52, Tektronix T4010 with some additional escape sequences to run BBC *FX commands. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
