>As an on-topic note, I used my QL at Uni. I wrote several BASIC programs >for subjects like energy distribution, acceleration vectors, suspension >behaviour etc.
I had an Independent Studies course in College to get me just over the number of credits to graduate. I was studying Cellular Automata and concentrating on One-Dimensional. I wrote the main program that demo's the CA on the QL using Metacomco Pascal. Since the Professor needed a demo, I packed up my entire QL and took it off to the college, set it up and demo'ed the program. Luckily he had no problems with me writing software for a computer the college did not have. But, his computer graphics class was still using an old kludged CP/M computer with some special graphics hardware. For his office, he was using a Sun-2. I found a bug with Metacomo Pascal and contacted the US office (here is Silicon Valley). I sent them a microdrive with the source code. One of the support guys thought there was a QL stored somewhere around the facility and tried to find it. Never did hear back from them. About a year later they closed the US office. Tim Swenson
