Hi All,
After the QL meeting last night where some were moving Archive databases over
to a MySQL system and others were discussing emulators, we had a general
discussion. One of the things raised was the range of different systems. With
that in mind, it is about time we had another survey as the last one was back
in 2004. It would be nice to have the results available to all and so I
propose not collecting any data that is personable. Is this sensible?
If the results are for the whole community do you have any burning questions
that you would like answered?
Below are the draft questions based on the the last survey and the
improvements that Tony made when he put it on-line.
Do you have any suggestions for other questions or even a better way to phrase
the questions below?
1 About your QL:
What is your main system (original QL includes non-processor expansions)?
Original QL QL + Goldcard QL + SuperGoldCard Aurora + GoldCard
Aurora +
SuperGoldCard Q40 Q60 CST Thor Other hardware system Emulator
If you use an emulator which? QDOS4Amiga QDOS classic for Amiga
Q-emuLator
Q-emuLator for Mac QL2K QLAY QLATter QLAY2 QLem for Atari
QPC QPC II win-uQLx
uQLx Mac OS X uQLx Other
What do you use your system to do? Hobby Games Personal correspondence
Writing
Business use Programming Data collection System control Faxing
Other
2 About your peripherals:
Do you have expanded QLs (more than 128K RAM and/or Floppy disk interfaces)?
Yes No
If yes, what type? SuperGoldCard GoldCard TrumpCard Medic
SuperQboard
ExpandeRAM Cumana Technology Research Qdisk Qjump Sandy Datel
Other
Have you put your system in a different casing? Yes No
If yes, what back plane did you use? Mplane Qplane Other
Do you have a QL derivative? Yes No
If yes, which? Thor Q40 Q60 CST Other
Do you have an Aurora card? Yes No
Do you have any Minerva I2C expansions? Yes No
If yes, which? Analogue Parallel Power Relays Temp Sensor
Do you have a RomDisq? Yes No
If yes, what size? 2MB 4MB 8MB
Do you have a QEPIII eprom programmer? Yes No
Do you have a Qcontroll I/O board? Yes No
Do you have a Hermes chip? Yes No
Do you have a superHermes? Yes No
Do you use an additional keyboard? Yes No
If yes, which? Di-Ren Falkenburg superHermes Schoen Keyboard
Products Other
Do you use a mouse? Yes No
If yes, which? Qimi Sermouse ICE superHermes Hardware mouse
Other
Do you have a QL connected printer? Yes No
If yes, what is the model?
Do you have floppy disk drives on your system? Yes No
Do you use a hard disk on your QL? Yes No
If yes, what is the total size?
How does it interface? qubide Miracle Rebel CST Falkenburg Other
Do you have CD-ROM access on your system? Yes No
3 Quanta section:
Have you visited the Quanta website at http://www.quanta.org.uk ? Yes
No
If yes, how often do you visit?
Are you/have you been a Quanta member? Yes No
When did you first join Quanta?
If you have left, when did you leave?
Why did you leave?
Do you own a copy of the current Quanta library? Yes No
Have you ever contacted the Quanta helpline? Yes No
Are there any topics you would like covered in the newsletter?
Would you be willing to write for Quanta? Yes No
Have you attended a Quanta workshop? Yes No
What was the most valuable thing for you about attending?
What could be done better?
What could be improved about the Quanta newsletter?
Do you receive the Quanta newsletter by email? Yes No
What could Quanta do to help you?
4 Your software:
What Operating System do you use? QDOS Minerva SMSQ/E Argos Other
Do you use a Pointer Environment? Yes No
Do you use LaunchPad? Yes No
Do you use QDT? Yes No
Do you use the GD2 drivers? Yes No
Do you use the office suites Psion4/Exchange? Yes No
Do you use ArcPlus (PC Archive derivative)? Yes No
Do you use a word processor? Quill Perfection Text87 The Editor
Paragraph
Other None
Do you use a spreadsheet? Abacus Qspread Other None
Do you play QL games? Yes No
What other programs do you use?
5 Other:
Do you have Internet access? Yes No
Do you subscribe to the ql-users mailing list? Yes No
(see http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm/ for details )
Have you visited the QL Wiki at http://www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki/ ?
Yes
No
Do you have CD-ROM access on your system? Yes No
What new software would you like to see for your system?
What new QL hardware would you like to see?
Do you have an interest in doing software development? Yes No
If yes, in what areas?
Do you have an interest in doing hardware development? Yes No
If yes, in what areas?
Any general comments for the community?
Regards
John
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