In message <[email protected]>, P Witte
<[email protected]> writes
Damn, I missed all the fun as Orange havent delivered the mail for over
a week ;o( Not even the message to tell me that I need to agree to
their new conditions before I can use my mail account (via an email
client or even their webmail interface). How dumb and unhelpful is that!
Regarding floppies, No, you cant format DD disks in Vista or W7 as the
native drivers dont support it. No problem reading them, though, and no
problem formating HD disks from W7 or from within QPC - at least there
shouldnt be. Solution: Copy your old stuff to HDDs and go on living!
As for the QL future, I guess there aint any, at least not at the
present (if that makes sense). Modern computers have evolved far beyond
what was envisaged when the QL was young. Surely we dont need yet
another way of doing the same old tired things any fool can now do with
Linux, Windoze or Macs. The current trend appears to be towards Cloud
computing, where data storage and even processing power is an off-site,
on-line service. Thats a major paradigm shift - back to square one,
some three or four generations ago.
There is still the possibility that some of the seminal concepts from
the QL era will come round again in a new form in the future, so its
worthwhile hanging on in there and keeping it alive as best we can. And
if not, weve still had our moneys worth!
Per
Hi Per,
You are right to point out that what we call "computing" is moving on.
Certainly in the office work environment there are many individual
machines - now usually networked in some form - who knows what that will
be like in just a few years time ?
At home devices are all converging with many "intelligent" features
embedded.
Individual "computers", as we have known them may then rapidly disappear
in favour of the ipad style of machine.
So, what will a "QL21" - code name for a project for a 21st Century
version of QL heritage - actually be like?
--
Malcolm Cadman
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