On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 at 11:25:27, Norman Dunbar wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>My Sinclair addictions started before that :
>
>- I always wanted a 'Scientific' calculator - untill I found out about RPN.
>A fried had one back in school around 1973-74-75 ish, and when you did 0 0
>divide, it started a stop watch counting upwards in seconds :o)
Yeah - you are talking HP of course.
I got hooked by the HP65 in 1973 or so at Ford.
It was the cause of me leaving Ford in disgust but that is another
story.
I went to a meeting of the Cambridge University Computer Preservation
Society (CUCPS) recently where I met the HP65 agian, and many other HP
calculators.
I will be giving a talk (with son Ben) on 30 April at Cambridge entitled
"The Sinclair QL: Recent Developments 1984 -- 2002"
If anyone is interested, I will publish details of where etc when I have
them. One advantage of joining (although I am sure they will accept
guests) is a regular 'lucky dip' of donated hardware.
>
>- I wanted a 'black watch' - but never had one.
>
>- I wanted a 'matchbox radio' - never got one.
>
>- I did get a ZX-81, and it was hooked from then. I wouldn't be where I am
>today (ie Married and working with Oracle) without the ZX-81, so I've been
>at it since about 1981-82.
>
>- ZX81, much modified, upgraded to a 16K Spectrum - complete with rubber
>keyboard. Was I the only person who liked that keyboard ?
>
>- Spectrum, now with IF1, Cheetah memory pack, two microdrives, that speech
>processor, and a thermal (non-sinclair) printer, upgraded to a QL.
>
>- Which I still have to this very day - although Tony has had his hands on
>it a couple of times
... but way back in August 1991, with a guarantee repair a few months
later (8-)# Looks like (with the exception of one membrane) it has been
going well ever since.
> and it has had a few new membranes too.
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