Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 15/Jan/13 19:06 | Jan15:
Tony Firshman wrote:
I expect most of us will know or have had dealings with Bill Richardson
and
EEC.
He has just died well into his 90s.
Very bad news, how sad! My deepest condolences.
I've met Bill a couple of times at QL-Shows and will keep him in good
memories.
Here's a picture of him attending the QUANTA workshop in London in November
2002:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C250D8748980CE5A!1024
... with Keith Mitchell in fornt of him.
There's a video of him on the QL2002 DVD where he's telling his Sinclair
story. The video is also on YouTube and can be watched here:
http://youtu.be/P3CwIineYZ4
I hadn't seen that before - very interesting.
He was 84 in mid 2002, so he was about 94/95 when he died.
I too was videoed on that occasion.
The 5000 membranes he mentioned were the ones he and I shared.
They were though still only made of the original plastic, which became
brittle.
The ones Rich had made I believe are made of superior clear plastic.
This type was fitted to early QLs, but was soon superseded, I suspect to
save a few pennies.
Interested that fire in the Z88 factory. I am *sure* the stock was
worth only the few thousand Bill mentioned, so it has one wondering!
Tony
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