I thought I'd stop lurking and post.... I only joined this group a few weeks ago out of pure curiosity. Many, many moons ago I set up the London sub-group with the help of Frank Merrison. University, the discovery that there was life outside London, and meeting Rebecca who eventually became my wife caused me to stray away from the QL scene.
I agree with Rich, there is an interest in retro computers. I am now an Engineering and Electronics teacher at GCSE and A Level. Electronics education has recently been revolutionised with the introduction of cheap PICs that can be programmed via a built in serial port. PCs are far too complicated for the average student to understand, however older computers such as the Sinclair computers are easier to understand and modify. While they are not QL specific projects, I have had GCSE students design keyboard interfaces and sound cards. I've just looked at the suggested projects for A Level next year, and one is to design an SD card reader - it doesn't specify what disc format the project should use.......... In the not too distant future we will be looking at A Level students designing computers as complex as the original QL! I think older computers such as the QL that are "less complicated", could be used to great potential in electronics education to get across the ideas of "Processor", "Math-Coprocessor", "Display Driver", "Keyboard interface", "disk interface" etc etc. I dusted off my old QLs, and some students were amazed to see that you could network computers using just "iPod headphone leads". Jerry On 10 June 2010 10:56, Marcel Kilgus <ql-us...@mail.kilgus.net> wrote: > gdgqler wrote: > > Marcel's and Jochen's comments made me think twice about > > considering adding information about my TurboPTR on Rich's site. > > Oh god, I wasn't trying to discourage anybody from contributing to the > wiki! TurboPTR not being commercial it's a different situation anyway, > in my opinion at least. > > Marcel > > _______________________________________________ > 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
