Hi Urs, nice to hear from you.
Have you received my Amiga-disks? Good luck with your new job! Kind Regards, Anton Am 10.01.2010 um 17:37 schrieb Urs Koenig (QL): > Hi all, > > I hope you started well into 2010! > > Something about Sinclair related anniversaries: > Linus Torvalds, best known for having initiated the development of the Linux > kernel, became 40 on December 28th 2009. Linux v1 had its 15th anniversary > last year too. As a kind of a birthday present to him and the ICT world I > was digging out a piece of Sinclair QL software written by Linus way back in > 1986. Here's the video: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxx6brHlwJI > > With this email I'm closing the books on the 25th anniversary of the > Sinclair QL. I've updated the anniversary webpages recently. > http://tinyurl.com/ql-is-25 > > The last thing to be added will be the web statistics of the anniversary > year. To name a few figures: > - 8698 unique visitors on the site (some 2000 of it due to the blogging of > Linus, 891 alone on the day following his blog entry) > - 6341 visitors on the anniversary page > - 1301 downloads of the anniversary PowerPoint presentation > - 464 downloads of QPC (the virtual QL to run on the PC under Windows) > - 15'000 video views on my YouTube channel > > So, no need to repeat the ceremony every year, therefore no mailshot on Jan > 12th this year. ;-) > > Today there is another special anniversary (have no fear; I will not start > another annual posting). On January 10th 1985 the Sinclair C5 - a vehicle > (don't call it car) not computer - was launched. Enjoy the viewing of ITV's > "NEWS at TEN" of that day: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9PivEygh_8 > > It was a sad day in retrospective. Look at Clive's face on the picture > (http://tinyurl.com/sinclairc5-launch). He must have guessed it. This day > rang in the fall for Sinclair enterprises taking the computers into downturn > with it. > > Here's my opinion on the C5: "Brave idea but too much ahead of its time. > Giving the resources, money, management attention to the QL and further > computing developments instead of Sinclair vehicles, chances would have been > different that the IT world would look different today." > > Today is also the last day of my sabbatical. Tomorrow I will start my new > job as an independent research & development consultancy. > http://www.cowo.ch/ > > My first project is "optimised quality of data access for dummies". I'm not > allowed to tell you more about it today, but in case it evolves I will post > more details. > > So that's it. But before the final curtain call, please note that there are > 3 related movies for personal download. They will have to be removed soon > for various reasons, so please download them asap. > > Horizon - Clive Sinclair, the anatomy of an inventor > http://tinyurl.com/horizon1989 (423 MB, 49:17, BBC 1989) > > Visions - Interview with Sir Clive Sinclair on hopes and fears for the > future http://tinyurl.com/visions1990 (251 MB, 29:13, BBC 1990) > > Micro Men - Docudrama on the race for the home computer supremacy in the > 1980s. > http://tinyurl.com/micromen2009 (583 MB, 1:24:12, BBC 2009) > > Best regards, Urs > http://www.qlvsjaguar.homepage.bluewin.ch > > Some more URL's which you might surf, favourite or share: > http://tinyurl.com/ql-story > http://tinyurl.com/ql-pics > http://tinyurl.com/ql-videos > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
