Yes, I could put the program on my site if required. -- Dilwyn Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Newson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spare GC or SGC?
> Stephen Usher wrote: > Hi Steve, > > ... > >>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.) > > Neither did the 540K PC of the time (Windwos 3.x were just about > around when > I got the GC, but never had them at the time to compare with using > the 128K QL). > > > 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. > > If space really ran out there was alway the "emergency" PTP > (Paper-Tape-Punch) archive...I still have a few sitting around > upstairs, but > with no means of reading contents :( > > > 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. > > Funny you should mention them...I was having a chuckle about one in > particular (the pre-main code filing password adder/remover) and > exactly > what it did and how it did it. > > > 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. > > I have it somewhere...need to search...can't remember to whom I > wanted to > send it now. > > To whom should I sent it (ie who would possibly be interested in > archiving/having it [for distribution])? Dilwyn? > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Newson, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 17 Sunnybank, South Norwood Phone: (020) 8654 6643 > London, SE25 4TQ Mobile: 07737 515 214 or 07922 060 > 873 > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.30/674 - Release Date: > 07/02/2007 15:33 > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
