On 12/01/2012 18:28, peet vanpeebles wrote:
I'm late to the QL scene but what was the North East group like in its
day? I'm from Durham :)
Peter.
Hi Peter
QuantaNE as we liked to call it was I think founded by Dennis Crow
(sadly deceased), members included Ian Bruntlett a talented young lad
worked for Libris software (archive software for Library's ), Derek
Stewart who is still active on the QL scene, Joe Miller who set up
Applications Unlimited in Bedlington,and quite a few others who's names
escape me at the moment but were also talented in various fileds and
Eamon Malone (who owes me a Spem keyboard(;-)
Meetings were held in Dennis's house then in a church in Heaton and
finaly in Joes shop in Bedlington, being in Joes shop things inevitably
moved slowly towards PCs, at times I was the only one there wth a QL,
Joe also had some health problems and did not want to open up the shop
on Sundays for our meetings.
We held one or two Quanta worshops in Tyneside which were reasonably
attended but eventualy the group folded.
The nearest group to me is the Scotish group held up about Edingburgh
somewhere.
I still have a QL but also QPC2 which I do use, however apart from this
list my contact with other QLrs is nonexistant, so much so that I doubt
I will renew my Quanta membership although QLtoday (which I used to
subscribe to) might hold some interest to me, I stopped my subscription
to Qltoday when I retired until I sorted out what my pension would
support, I now think it (QLtoday) would be of more benefit to me than
Quanta.
All the best - Bill (will post this also to the list as it might
interest some of the members who remember Dennis an Joe ........)
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