Hi all,
I just joined your mailing list and have rejoined the QL community
after ... umm ... a break of some 25 years :) My name is Alison Cassidy, I'm
originally from Ireland tho' I'm now living in the US and have been for some
years. I'm a diagnostic developer at Apple Inc. and have been working
professionally with computer hardware and software for some 26 years now. As a
very young teen, I started on Commodore PETs - that would have been 1979 or so.
I 'progressed' to the ZX80, 81 Spectrum and ORIC-1. I remember building RAM
packs for the ZX series out of my bedroom and selling them on to fellow-nerds
at school :) One Summer, I saved up all my cash from my Summer job and blew it
all on a new QL. That was in 1984 or so, and my parents were *not* impressed!
For my birthday, I remember my aunt and uncle buying me a blank Eurocard and a
SP0256 speech chip, and I went on to interface it to the QL, producing, I
believe, the first speech synthesizer for the QL.
Anyways - I managed to pick up a second-hand one on eBay last week. It
showed up on my doorstep today and I'm now drowning in a wave of nostalgia.
*sigh* :) I've no idea if the thing works or not - it's supposed to - but I'm
going to try fire it up later this week. Can't wait to get back into QL
programming again!
Best regards,
-- Allie - http://www.alisoncassidy.com
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