Welcome Allie, you might want to catch up via a lot of reading by looking here
from this site http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/index.html loads of stuff, software, documents, and especially a few sections for those new or returning to the QL community another site regarding those new or returning to the QL https://sites.google.com/site/iwant2learn2/ (mine) QL Today - A4 publication - subscription 4 issues per year http://qltoday.com/ QUANTA - still going, A5 publication or e-mag - subscription 6 issues per year http://www.quanta.org.uk/ You will also find by surfing the above and those recomended by RWAP (Rich), the small number of traders who still operate within the Sinclair QL and its derivatives. Enjoy your experiences :) Lee On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Rich Mellor <[email protected]>wrote: > On 13/12/2011 06:05, Alison Cassidy wrote: > >> 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 >> ______________________________**_________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/**smsqe.htm<http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm> >> >> >> Welcome Allie, > > It is nice to see new people joining up to the mailing list (and returning > to the QL). > > Alas some of us have been here from the very beginning - others are too > enjoying the joys the QL for the first time, or after a break. > > You may also want to check out the QL forums - www.qlforum.co.uk and the > QL wiki - www.rwapadventures.com/ql_wiki > > Kind Regards > > -- > Rich Mellor > RWAP Software > Specialist Retro Computer Dealer > > http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk > > -- Try out our new site: http://sellmyretro.com > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/**smsqe.htm<http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm> > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
