Yes, it did exactly what it says on the cover and arrived (UK) Today! Looking forward to reading part 4 of "25 Years" but haven't had the chance for anything more than a glance through yet.
On the subject of electronic vs. paper copy, electronic would certainly be convenient for archiving - I don't have enough storage space to keep back issues of the paper version - but I'm more likely to read cover to cover a paper copy; if it were just available on a website I probably wouldn't get around to looking at every issue. Please keep the paper version for the time being! The Future (or, oh what is to become of my Q40?) My Q40 is still working perfectly reliably and I even get a decent enough image on an HP Pavilion f1523 LCD monitor if I shrink #0 to 4 text lines. In Mode 8 the image is very good (except circles are elliptical), but this is not the problem. The Q40 is now the only computer I have which has a floppy-disk drive; it is also the only computer I have with an RS232 style serial port and the only one with a parallel port. So while I still enjoy writing my own programs and trying out those in the magazine, all the effort typing it all in is going to be wasted if I can't get the stuff off for backup or transfer to an emulator when it eventually bites the dust. Is this the future of the Q40/Q60? I could buy a USB Floppy drive (if they are still made and are reasonably priced) for the PC but no guarantee it will read Q40 formatted disks. What about the CF reader/writer? If I got one and formatted a card with a SMSQ file system, is there any software for the PC that could extract the files from it? I did have something else to add to the future of QL debate but will have to leave it until later - got to go to work now :-( Ian. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
