Inspired by the article on "make free books" in Computeractive, which shows how to extract material from the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia I decided to try it out.
I started with the usual search for Sinclair QL and added all pages linked to from that main page. It includes pages about ZX Spectrum and other related stuff like general information on modems and so on. I didn't set out to create a monster, but it turned out to be a 52.5 MB book with 616 pages! The size makes it impractical to put on my website or send by email I guess, plus I haven't looked into the copyright staus of it (too much small print to read!), but it goes to show what half an hour could achieve! I guess if anyone wanted a copy I could pop it onto CD and mail it out or try getting it onto my website some way if anyone can be bothered to check copyright status before asking for a copy :-) It's called simply THE SINCLAIR QL AND RELATED COMPUTERS, here's a text-only list of contents to show what could be done in half an hour! It says in the footer "PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See http://code.pediapress.com/ for more information." if anyone wants to look into using it to compile their websites into books! Dilwyn Jones Contents --------- Articles: Sinclair QL 1 Quantum leap 5 Personal computer 6 Small business 22 Portable computer 27 Cathode ray tube 29 TV80 38 Modem 38 Motorola 68008 52 Computer screen 53 ZX Microdrive 62 Floppy disk 64 RS-232 84 Local area network 93 RGB 95 Framebuffer 109 Double buffering 113 Minerva (QDOS reimplementation) 116 Uncommitted Logic Array 117 ZX8301 118 ZX8302 119 Intel 8049 119 DRAM 122 Computer multitasking 136 Operating system 140 Sinclair QDOS 158 Tony Tebby 159 Read-only memory 161 BASIC programming language 168 Interpreter (computing) 176 SuperBASIC 180 Jan Jones (novelist) 180 Office suite 181 Psion 192 GST Computer Systems 197 68K/OS 198 Atari ST 200 Sinclair ZX81 216 68k 221 Apple Macintosh 225 Clock speed 241 Bus (computing) 243 Cycle stealing 248 Gate array 249 Advertising Standards Authority (United Kingdom) 250 Firmware 256 Computer bug 259 Kludge 268 Dongle 272 Samsung 277 Amstrad 288 IBM PC 294 Central processing unit 305 International Computers Limited 317 One Per Desk 328 British Telecom 330 Merlin Tonto 341 Telecom Australia 343 Computerphone 344 Sinclair Research 346 HM Customs and Excise 354 Cambridge Systems Technology 357 CST Thor 357 Miracle Systems 359 Motherboard 360 Q40 (motherboard) 367 Qx0 368 Motorola 68040 369 68060 371 CPU 374 Ethernet 386 Linux 393 SMSQ/E 406 Linus Torvalds 408 Overscan 413 DE-9 connector 417 BS 6312 423 Sinclair QL Software 430 Metacomco 438 BCPL 439 Assembly language 442 Microdeal 454 Tetris 457 Pengi 471 The Pawn 473 Magnetic Scrolls 475 Return to Eden (game) 478 Your Spectrum 485 ZX80 493 ZX81 496 ZX Spectrum 501 Timex Sinclair 1000 512 Timex Sinclair 1500 515 Timex Sinclair 2048 517 Timex Computer 2048 518 Timex Sinclair 2068 520 ZX Spectrum +2 523 ZX Spectrum +3 534 Cambridge Z88 545 Jupiter Ace 547 SAM Coupé 552 Didaktik 560 Dubna 48K 563 Hobbit (computer) 565 Pentagon (computer) 567 Scorpion (computer) 568 Sprinter (computer) 576 Komputer 2086 577 ZX Printer 579 ZX Interface 1 580 ZX Interface 2 581 Timex Sinclair 2040 583 Timex Sinclair 2050 587 Timex FDD 588 Timex FDD3000 590 References: Article Sources and Contributors 592 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 608 Article Licenses: License 616 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
