Rich Mellor schreef: > How odd - I wonder why Bill would produce his own? What is more, he > would have needed access to the source files for the original manual > which are not available, so far as I know. > > Rich > > Dilwyn Jones wrote: >>> I have just listed an odd Sinclair QL Guide on ebay - does anyone >>> have >>> any suggestions what this may be? >>> >>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140170695011 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rich Mellor >>> >> Yes, it was a "shortform" QL user guide, issued by Bill Richardson >> with the QLs that he sold. >> >> Where it came from, I have no idea though, unless he produced it >> himself. >> I don't know where he got the stuff from, but he built about 5000 QL's out of spare parts in the eighties. In 1993 in Eindhoven, he told me only 48 had left.
The first time I saw them was in 1988/9 as the Elra shop (a Dutch electronics shop that disappeared years ago). They were sold in big brown cardboard boxes with a white piece of paper stuck on it. On the paper the word QL was foto copied in black. They did cost 350 Dutch guilders back in 1988/9, Elra would go down to 300 Dutch guilders, but I only had 250 Dutch guilders so I didn't buy one. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
