Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread QL-Mylink
Re; Tony's - "BTW to reply to what John (in Wales?) said about line broken URLs. " -- Not me sir! - but now everyone knows why - just not being 'any boring old John' - I've always *proudly* qualified

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Rich Mellor wrote: > Is it me, or does that machine have two R letters on the > keyboard with no apparent difference between the two? Thanks for letting me know. Even the seal is not broken the machine seams to be "modified". Right, removing/changing QL keytops is possible without opening the ca

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Tony Firshman
Tony Firshman wrote, on 13/Sep/10 09:04 | Sep13: BTW to reply to what John (in Wales?) said about line broken URLs. Two solutions: 1) still can break: http://thisisalongURL_thisisalongURL_thisisalongURL_thisisalongURL_thisisalongURL_thisisalongURL_thisisalongURL_thisisalongURL_thisisalongURL

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Tony Firshman
Rich Mellor wrote, on 13/Sep/10 08:55 | Sep13: On 13/09/2010 07:32, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: Petri Pellinen wrote: greetings from sunny Finland. I recently found my old QL in my father's attic and am going to put in some quality retrocomputing time. It's great to see that there are still people

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Rich Mellor
On 13/09/2010 07:32, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: Petri Pellinen wrote: greetings from sunny Finland. I recently found my old QL in my father's attic and am going to put in some quality retrocomputing time. It's great to see that there are still people active around this piece of hardware. Is it the

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Petri Pellinen
Hi Urs, indeed it does say "Don't break the seal" or literally translated "It is forbidden to break the seal". Top line is Finnish and bottom line Swedish as you guessed. My machine is the UK version, I didn't dare to get the Finnish version as I was afraid of compatibility problems. I didn't kno

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Per Witte wrote: > http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.photos.live.com/self.aspx/Sinclair%20QL/QL > > comput ers/SinclairQL^_Finnish^_version^_MGY^_ROM-P1050787.JPG > > This link doesnt seem to work Try this one which links to the folder with the pictures: http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.photos.live.com/brow

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-13 Thread John
On Monday 13 Sep 2010 07:50:42 P Witte wrote: > Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: > > http://cid-c250d8748980ce5a.photos.live.com/self.aspx/Sinclair%20QL/QLcom > > put ers/SinclairQL^_Finnish^_version^_MGY^_ROM-P1050787.JPG > > This link doesnt seem to work The link does work, but it is line sliced and as a

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-12 Thread P Witte
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: Petri Pellinen wrote: greetings from sunny Finland. I recently found my old QL in my father's attic and am going to put in some quality retrocomputing time. It's great to see that there are still people active around this piece of hardware. Is it the Finnish or English

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-12 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Petri Pellinen wrote: > greetings from sunny Finland. I recently found my old QL in > my father's attic and am going to put in some quality > retrocomputing time. It's great to see that there are still > people active around this piece of hardware. Is it the Finnish or English version of the QL

Re: [Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-09 Thread Gennaro Montedoro
At 21.21 09/09/2010, you wrote: Hi everyone, greetings from sunny Finland. I recently found my old QL in my father's attic and am going to put in some quality retrocomputing time. It's great to see that there are still people active around this piece of hardware. I would appreciate any help or

[Ql-Users] Hello and a question

2010-09-09 Thread Petri Pellinen
Hi everyone, greetings from sunny Finland. I recently found my old QL in my father's attic and am going to put in some quality retrocomputing time. It's great to see that there are still people active around this piece of hardware. I would appreciate any help or hints on a hardware problem... Aft