Norman Dunbar wrote, on 7/Apr/11 15:52 | Apr7:
Norman/
On 07/04/11 09:29, Urs Koenig (QL) wrote:
Amstrad and Sinclair computers got married! :-(
I just had a horrible though, imagine what Clive and Alan's kids would
look like! ;-)
A horrible though sounds just like something Richard Adams
Tony Firshman wrote, on 4/Apr/11 19:18 | Apr4:
Tuesday 5 April
Great Lives, 4.30 – 5.00pm, rpt Friday 11.00 – 11.30pm
New series. Sir Clive Sinclair discusses fellow inventor Thomas Edison with
Matthew Parris.
Did anyone listen? You have another chance tomorrow.
They kept raising the C5
peet vanpeebles wrote, on 7/Apr/11 17:13 | Apr7:
His new machine is the X-1
http://www.sinclairzx.com/spec-x-1.html
Oh dear - it is a re-cycled C5. Will he never learn (8-)#
Tony
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Dave Park wrote, on 7/Apr/11 19:23 | Apr7:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Dilwyn Jones
dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.ukwrote:
No, I meant holiday sites might have a number of these to hire out, like
some places hire out bicycles or those silly pedalled 4 wheel things like
unpowered golf carts.
Lee Privett wrote, on 8/Apr/11 09:35 | Apr8:
Been watching this Horizon programme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh1LNsptktUfeature=related
Horizon - Clive Sinclair, the anatomy of an inventor (1989)and I think I have
now got it sussed (sp?) now
X1 this year, two years time it will be the
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 8/Apr/11 11:06 | Apr8:
On 07/04/11 16:14, Tony Firshman wrote:
He mentioned he has another electric vehicle in the offing. This new one
just *has* to be better, but that is not saying much.
Stuff the C5 or the X1, I want one of these from Honda!
http://www.youtube.com
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 8/Apr/11 12:43 | Apr8:
On 08/04/11 11:31, Tony Firshman wrote:
Murphy's law though is that Hardware always goes worng!
I'm sure that 'worng' was a deliberate typo! ;-)
Well no as it happens, but deliberately not corrected.
I *like* those sorts of typos.
Tony
Malcolm Lear wrote, on 12/Apr/11 07:19 | Apr12:
+5v right into the regulator socket, but serial and microdrives are
dead in
that arrangement so it is of limited use! I'm open to suggestions on
where
to get a replacement transformer, or for simple designs for a PSU that
gives
the correct AC
Norman Dunbar wrote, on 12/Apr/11 11:09 | Apr12:
On 12/04/11 11:05, Rich Mellor wrote:
I see the Quanta website is just displaying a blank home page at the
moment.
View Source shows something is there, the head and body are both empty
though. I suspect someone may be doing an upgrade?
I'm not
Adrian Ives wrote, on 12/Apr/11 16:18 | Apr12:
File transfers to and from FAT format devices will still be possible using
the File Manager, but a native QDOS driver will not now be supported.
Ah - so one *can* use a standard QL, but only with your file manager?
There is one massive
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 19/Apr/11 16:42 | Apr19:
With grateful thanks to Rich Mellor for helping me get copies of these,
I have now been able to put what I believe to be the most recent British
versions of Abacus (v2.35), Archive (V2.38), Easel (V2.35) and Quill
(V2.35) onto my website now, so
Laurence Reeves wrote, on 20/Apr/11 09:29 | Apr20:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 6/Apr/11 13:23 | Apr6:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Afternoon all,
On 06/04/11 10:52, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Gerard Phelan had the idea of asking a search engine how to
pronounce it (now why didn't I think
Rich Mellor wrote, on 20/Apr/11 12:45 | Apr20:
On 20/04/2011 12:25, Adrian Ives wrote:
Thanks to Rich Mellor, who managed to source a Hermes chip, I can now
confirm that the Ser-USB will work on a standard QL fitted with Hermes at
speeds up to 19200 baud. It is still necessary to load the
Adrian Ives wrote, on 20/Apr/11 13:02 | Apr20:
I'm a little bit surprised by your comment that I am misusing slave blocks.
Obviously the authors of the original QUBIDE driver, on which Ser-USB was
based, were also misusing them!!! Like them, I use the slave blocks to keep
mirrors of the data
Would anyone interested in buying a usbwiz ser-usb interface please
contact Adrian Ives direct on adrian AT acanthis DOT co DOT uk .
I don't know the price, but I guess it could be over £120 (plus postage).
It is no good writing here as he is not subscribed to the list.
Please cc me as well so
Lee Privett wrote, on 26/Apr/11 15:39 | Apr26:
Lee/
I have posted you message on the QLFORUM as well Tony
Many thanks. I haven't signed up for the forum. This mailing list does
much the same job for me, and I don't have to log on.
I am keen to see this put into production. Adrian has done
Computer Research Centrum, Ltd wrote, on 26/Apr/11 16:23 | Apr26:
Would anyone interested in buying a usbwiz ser-usb interface please
contact Adrian Ives direct on adrian AT acanthis DOT co DOT uk .
I don't know the price, but I guess it could be over £120 (plus postage).
I didnt catch the
The pinouts of the Samsung QL serial ports are well documented.
However there is no mention of gender.
It is worth mentioning (Dilwyn and others) that the serial ports are
socket (holes) and the ctrl ports plugs (pins).
Tony
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This auto generated page, with some minor configuration by me, might be
of interest:
http://wn.com/Sinclair_QL
Interestingly not one of the 120 million articles collected by worldnews
since 1999 mentions Sinclair QL.
Sad.
Tony
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Rich Mellor wrote, on 6/Jun/11 12:35 | Jun6:
On 06/06/2011 12:28, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Rich Mellor wrote:
Now we all know that finding a suitable Atari Bus mouse for use with
QIMI can be a pain, but how about using one of these:
Darren Branagh wrote, on 10/Jun/11 14:37 | Jun10:
Dont throw the towel in so easily - Launchpad (QL) was here first, long
before Mac OS Lion. Now, if Mr. Jobs wants to offer you, say, 4 or 5 million
to change the name, then we'll talk. :)
Well it does happen. i41 has just won $290m
It is *very* good to see Adrian Ive's product in production.
Behind the scenes he got very frustrated at progress, and almost fell at
the final hurdle.
Everywhere the reviews say one can get 19200 with Hermes.
True the baud rate is 19200, but in our tests (years ago now) the
maximum input the
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 8/Jul/11 13:02 | Jul8:
I wrote:
TODAY I've got my personal copy (well, it's not a copy,
it's an original
unit) of Ser-USB from Memory Lane Computing (Adrian Ives).
After collecting the package at my local post office this
afternoon, all I could do today is unpacking
Tony Firshman wrote, on 8/Jul/11 13:17 | Jul8:
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 8/Jul/11 13:02 | Jul8:
I wrote:
TODAY I've got my personal copy (well, it's not a copy,
it's an original
unit) of Ser-USB from Memory Lane Computing (Adrian Ives).
After collecting the package at my local post office
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 11/Jul/11 18:11 | Jul11:
Dilwyn/
Having been a member of the Quantum Webring since it's early days, I am
finding myself a bit frustrated with a problem which has crept up in
recent times.
Visitors to www.dilwyn.me.uk are sometimes (seemingly randomly)
redirected to the
I came across this:
http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/
There are Spectrum and ZX81 programs, but not one for the QL.
Now that is a easy challenge. We could add lots of languages to the
1434 they have.
Laurence Reeve's 3k Forth would be a unique one.
... but I have never heard of the song
Urs Koenig (QL) wrote, on 19/Jul/11 11:11 | Jul19:
Earlier I wrote:
I will investigate the very early standard QL next week.
First I will check the hardware (e.g. with loopback cable as
Tony suggests), then I will do several tries (e.g. swap ROM
chips with JM, swap ZX8302/IPC). I'll report my
On Aug 2, at 12:52 | Aug2, Davide Santachiara wrote:
It is with the deepest sadness and sorrow that we announce the death of our
friend Roberto Orlandi. He was 47 years and he suddenly died on 16th of
December 2010 while playing tennis. He leaves behind his wife and two
children.
We
On Aug 2, at 12:52 | Aug2, Davide Santachiara wrote:
It is with the deepest sadness and sorrow that we announce the death of our
friend Roberto Orlandi. He was 47 years and he suddenly died on 16th of
December 2010 while playing tennis. He leaves behind his wife and two
children.
We
On Aug 3, at 11:04 | Aug3, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
On 03/08/2011 10:42, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
In the latest issue of gamesTM, page 20, there is an article on the
Raspberry Pi which is basically a £20 pc.
If it comes with Linux, one of the Linux QL emulators (uQLx, QLay for Linux)
with it...
On Aug 4, at 19:59 | Aug4, Geoff Wicks wrote:
Geoff/
I have now added a QL news page to the Just Words! website.
This is experimental and I hope it will be a permanent feature, bit I give no
guarantee.
Thanks to all the people who have visited the site. There were 489 visits in
the
On Aug 4, at 23:48 | Aug4, Lee Privett wrote:
It was on the original email from Geoff, just under his signature
Whoops - that was no visible on on my phone.
Tony
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+01:00
To: Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk, RWAP Software
sa...@rwapsoftware.co.uk, _Dr. ?= dex@gmail.com
Dear friends,
today I've turned on my FD driver and it didn't read, show seek error
permanently. I've find the problem was the mechanical contact inside variable
capacitor cca
On Aug 11, at 08:11 | Aug11, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Greetings from a very wet and dreich Leeds! (Look it up
URL:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dreich
On 11/08/11 06:12, Computer Research Centrum, Ltd wrote:
No JPEGs please! No lossy compression!
For computer screenshots the
On Aug 15, at 21:23 | Aug15, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message 003201cc5b75$bfd154d0$6402a8c0@baerchen, Ralf Reköndt
ralf.rekoe...@t-online.de writes
From Geoff Wicks
Quanta is being very shy at the moment. If you are curious go to the
penultimate item of the Just Words! news page.
On Aug 18, at 13:43 | Aug18, Geoff Wicks wrote:
This discussion is becoming an absolute farce.
!: I changed the subject for a good reason. No one has taken any notice.
2: I am told there are no PDF files on my site. Strange, because, with one
exception, all the files on the help and
On 18 Aug 2011, at 15:49, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk wrote:
On 18/08/11 15:07, Tony Firshman wrote:
I wonder if there is a method that would work for Firefox/Mac - I would very
much prefer this.
In Firefox,
Edit-Preferences (or Tools-Preferences accordingly
Neither.
All apps
Does anyone use Word for HTML's?
I agree with your sentiments absolutely.
However when one gets given a complex word file each week for my church's
website it is the only practicable way when the designer *demands* html (8-(#
It works but is horrendous code.
Tony
Does
On Sep 14, at 15:20 | Sep14, gdgqler wrote:
On 14 Sep 2011, at 12:48, François Van Emelen wrote:
Never had a problem either but you need a working version of 'unzip' first
... and to get hold of one can be a problem for non-QLers.
The program I prepared which allows a user to assemble
On Sep 15, at 10:18 | Sep15, gdgqler wrote:
On 14 Sep 2011, at 20:30, Tony Firshman wrote:
On 14 Sep 2011, at 12:48, François Van Emelen wrote:
Never had a problem either but you need a working version of 'unzip' first
... and to get hold of one can be a problem for non-QLers
On 18 Sep 2011, at 09:14, gdgqler gdgq...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 Sep 2011, at 08:18, Tony Firshman wrote:
Tried the DVD on my desktop PC, and was not able to auto-start. From
directory, then saw files on the disc, yet no content.
Turned off PC, and re-started. Then disc not accessible
On Sep 18, at 11:35 | Sep18, Rich Mellor wrote:
On 18/09/2011 07:43, Jochen Merz wrote:
Hi Malcolm,
Arrived in London, too, on Saturday 17th September 2011.
Very fast this time.
Tried the DVD on my desktop PC, and was not able to auto-start. From
directory, then saw files on the disc,
On Sep 18, at 16:14 | Sep18, thorsten herbert wrote:
Hi all,
Just a fast question upfront subscribing to QL Today. Does the DVD work well
On OS X?
George Gwilt has already said yes.
I tried again with mine (Lion 10.7) and it also works fine, under Firefox.
One cannot follow Jochen's
On Sep 18, at 19:05 | Sep18, Jochen Merz wrote:
George Gwilt has already said yes.
I tried again with mine (Lion 10.7) and it also works fine, under Firefox.
One cannot follow Jochen's suggestion if using MSIE (8-)
Still IE bashing? Well, it did the job, and it comes with every Win system,
On Sep 18, at 19:39 | Sep18, Jochen Merz wrote:
Without a 'home' link that is the worng decision in my opinion.
Too late now anyway …
Indeed. It is easy though to keep a DVD directory window open.
Did you make the key layout on the disk physically, or simply use individual
images? I say
On Sep 24, at 13:08 | Sep24, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Urs Koenig wrote:
Today I gave the DVD a go under Microsoft Windows 8. Yes, 8 not 7. I have
the Developer Preview version (an alpha version) running in Oracle's
VirtualBox on my PC. Here's a short video of how the DVD does under
Windows 8:
On Sep 24, at 14:16 | Sep24, ql wrote:
Am 24.09.2011 um 13:55 schrieb Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk:
I didn't last until the end, but I especially liked the obviously
intentional reflection of Urs in the screen.
Beside the official topic there are so many other things visible
On 9 Oct 2011, at 10:22, Bryan Horstmann b...@newlan.org wrote:
On 09/10/2011 09:39, Dave Walker wrote:
-Original Message-
From: ql-users-boun...@lists.q-v-d.com [mailto:ql-users-
boun...@lists.q-v-d.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Horstmann
Sent: 09 October 2011 08:51
To:
On Oct 9, at 18:52 | Oct9, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
On 09/10/2011 10:32, Tony Firshman wrote:
snip
Thanks Dave. But I don't understand current focus. Can you explain a
bit please as I struggle with the techhie bits. VMware was set up for me
and I hardly understand it except
On Oct 9, at 22:21 | Oct9, Stephen Usher wrote:
On 07/10/2011 19:48, Malcolm Cadman wrote:
With, the QL, at the time of manufacture, it was the lack of a floppy
disk drive (in favour of the micro drives).
Erm, yes, there was the lack of a floppy drive, but then there was the
foolish
On Oct 9, at 22:28 | Oct9, Stephen Usher wrote:
On 07/10/2011 20:05, peet vanpeebles wrote:
To be fair Apple products have a had a checkered reliability as well.
I've fixed a number of ibooks. Not mention the faults with older
ipods or phones with no signal. Or the top of range liquid
On Oct 10, at 09:43 | Oct10, Stephen Usher wrote:
On 09/10/2011 23:37, Tony Firshman wrote:
Nope - all they needed to do was to program it better. Laurence
Reeves proved with Hermes you could get working code with the 8049.
It's only issue was it was not fast enough to get a true 19200 input
On Oct 10, at 10:06 | Oct10, gdgqler wrote:
George/
I use QPC2 on Windows XP on VMware on an Apple Mac. If I am in QPC2 I can put
a floppy in the reader and it is instantly available, as flp2. If I attach
some other device I get a window asking whether I want the device attached to
the
On Nov 25, at 17:54 | Nov25, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Please give the procedure for converting Abacus files under
Psion 4 (DOS) to Abacus files running on QL (QDOS) and QPC2.
The above is a query received by Quanta Helpline. Does anyone have experience
of transferring between these systems?
I
My BBS main disk died today.
I am mightily glad that the system boots primarily off romdisq - it made life
so much easier.
The 23 daily backup partitions on a separate HD should have all been OK, but
some were not.
I found one that was and all is restored with a 296mb partition on a 20GB HD,
On Dec 1, at 22:12 | Dec1, Derek Stewart wrote:
On Tue 29 Nov 2011 19:44:24 GMT, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:
My BBS main disk died today.
I am mightily glad that the system boots primarily off romdisq - it made
life so much easier.
The 23 daily backup partitions
On Dec 2, at 00:21 | Dec2, Tony Firshman wrote:
On Dec 1, at 22:12 | Dec1, Derek Stewart wrote:
On Tue 29 Nov 2011 19:44:24 GMT, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:
My BBS main disk died today.
I am mightily glad that the system boots primarily off romdisq - it made
life so much
On Dec 3, at 09:59 | Dec3, j...@supanet.com wrote:
snip
Do you want t encourage mote QLers?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mote
Great slip of the fingers. I suppose the QL scene is getting smaller but
(8-)#
Tony
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On Dec 3, at 23:05 | Dec3, Darren Branagh wrote:
QBBS dying, snipped
I think thats really very, very sad
yet a sign of the times...
Can you post a few pics of the set up before you retire it fully, just for
posterity?
The machine is not dying - simply the phone connection.
It has
On Dec 4, at 18:08 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:
On Dec 3, at 23:05 | Dec3, Darren Branagh wrote:
Can you post a few pics of the set up before you retire it fully, just
for
posterity?
The machine is not dying
On Dec 4, at 19:24 | Dec4, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
On Dec 3, at 23:05 | Dec3, Darren Branagh wrote:
Can you post a few pics of the set up before you retire it fully, just
for
posterity?
The machine is not dying - simply the phone connection.
It has all my files on it.
Why not run it on
On Dec 4, at 19:48 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:
On Dec 4, at 18:08 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk
wrote:
Why not run it on the Internet, sans phone-line
On Dec 4, at 20:15 | Dec4, Mark Martin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:
Now that is interesting. I run a Linux server full time.
Mind you the *whole* point really about shuttung down QBBS is to save
power (8-)#
I reckon as noone calls
On Dec 5, at 14:35 | Dec5, Mark Martin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote:
I will copy the files if you want.It is all less than about 100mb I
expect, but getting it to a downloadable file will be interesting.
I suspect I will have to use
On Dec 6, at 10:33 | Dec6, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
On 06/12/2011 07:55, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I finally got around to testing this. I created a test spreadsheet using
the Psion Abacus for DOS. I saved the file as a transfer file (.abt).
Changed the extension to _abt, and moved it onto a
On Dec 6, at 15:57 | Dec6, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
On 20/11/2011 10:17, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
QaLendar 2012
My annual offering of the QaLendar (QL themed calendar) is now available to
download free from my website. Filled with QL themed pictures, it is
available in two forms
1.
On Dec 7, at 17:10 | Dec7, Billy wrote:
TOny
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Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman
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On Dec 13, at 22:21 | Dec13, Darren Branagh wrote:
Hi Alison,
Just when I was getting used to being one of only two QL users still in
Ireland, you had to come along :))
Where about where you originally from? I'm willing to guess Northern
Ireland...??
We have a former Apple
On Dec 15, at 14:17 | Dec15, Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 15/12/11 13:59, Geoff Wicks wrote:
The QL Today
team took up the challenge and I don't think we have ever done such a
quick proofread.
Is now a bad time to mention some errors then? ;-)
None for met yet.
... unless German is
On Dec 16, at 12:12 | Dec16, Jochen Merz wrote:
Tony Firshman schrieb:
On Dec 15, at 14:17 | Dec15, Norman Dunbar wrote:
On 15/12/11 13:59, Geoff Wicks wrote:
The QL Today
team took up the challenge and I don't think we have ever done such a
quick proofread.
Is now a bad time
On Dec 16, at 16:47 | Dec16, Geoff Wicks wrote:
This is totally off topic, but worth telling.
The best two typos I ever made were in the same document. It was way back
during my probation days when we had to use typewriters and stencils
(remember those).
I had prepared a summary of a
On Dec 22, at 15:40 | Dec22, George Gwilt wrote:
How many people have a password for this list?
I do not appear to have one.
]
I presume you mean for the admin interface.
Not me any more.
I know Quanta have one years ago as I used it once to get the list email
addresses for my TF
On Jan 3, at 13:02 | Jan3, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Norman/
On 26/12/11 15:15, alf...@juno.com wrote:
When THAT happens, it is necessary to spend 5-to-10 minutes (maybe, it
took a longer time -- who can remember?) pressing the button which tells
the printer to CLEAR its print jets (whatever
On Jan 3, at 16:17 | Jan3, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Norman/
top or bottom quoting snipped
Ah - it is a bit Lilliput/Blefuscu-like isn't it!
Don't throw rotten eggs anyone!
I suppose it is that M$ products default to top quoting. Interestingly all
the mailers I have ever used (Turnpike,
On Jan 3, at 16:35 | Jan3, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
snip
I see that Raspberrypi are putting the first 10 boards on ebay.
... and the current bid on #10 is over £2000!
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I have used QL parts for numerous repairs in the past. One that springs to
mind is a dead central heating timer in the 90s. A microdrive power transistor
was *perfect* to replace a similar dead one in the timer.
The heat sinks were used on the replacement power amps for an 80s Copeman-Hart
On Jan 6, at 14:06 | Jan6, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Anyway Ben (my son) gave me one for Christmas. A great moment and an amazing
gift.
The magnetic card reader roller was mush as an American enthusiast told me
it would
be. I reamed out the centre of a QL microdrive
On Jan 9, at 15:27 | Jan9, Arnould wrote:
I have said this before but Laurence Reeves was a master of
this sort of programming. His QL Forth was under 4k of
machine code I think.
Tony
Why was?
(8-)#
Slip of the brain.
In today's bloated environment there seems little
On Jan 9, at 19:42 | Jan9, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Please ignore this.
I always have problems with these types of emails. For example, if I ignore
it, I have in actual fact followed the instructions to the letter and in
doing so, cannot possibly have ignored it!
I once had an argument
On Jan 10, at 09:11 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amended) as
to why there was a dead person in the shower surrounded by
empty shampoo bottles:
1 Wet hair
2) Apply shampoo and rub in
3) Rinse
4) Repeat
On Jan 10, at 09:37 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
On Jan 10, at 09:11 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amended)
as to why
there was a dead person in the shower surrounded by empty shampoo
On Jan 10, at 12:17 | Jan10, Geoff Wicks wrote:
--
From: Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:30 AM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Test
Pedant (8-)#
(Pot calling the kettle black).
Tony
On Jan 10, at 13:12 | Jan10, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Tony Firshman wrote:
Pedant (8-)#
(Pot calling the kettle black).
Tony
Why the sudden outbreak of testy emails ;-)?
Not at all - didn't you see the smile. It was a J O K E.
and the 'pot' comment was against *me* (8-)#
WSH
On 12 Jan 2012, at 15:18, Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Dilwyn Jones
dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
From: Rich Mellor r...@rwapservices.co.uk
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:27 AM
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Subject: [Ql-Users] QXT-640 Revived
On Jan 17, at 12:17 | Jan17, Antonio Giusa wrote:
On 17/gen/2012, at 12:13, Rich Mellor wrote:
The SPEM keyboard interface is also interesting - would be nice to get some
photos of this for the QL WIki - does it plug into the ROM port?
The SPEM keyboard has no interface. It plugs
On Jan 17, at 12:21 | Jan17, Bob Spelten wrote:
Op Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:13:45 +0100 schreef Rich Mellor
r...@rwapservices.co.uk:
The SPEM keyboard interface is also interesting - would be nice to get some
photos of this for the QL WIki - does it plug into the ROM port?
In one of the
On Jan 17, at 17:16 | Jan17, Ralf Reköndt wrote:
From: Tony Firshman
The *only* good things about it were the the look and feel.
It suffered from keybounce. They produced a replacement chip for the 8049.
That did cure keybounce but broke the serial ports. Hermes fixed both.
Once
George Gwilt wrote, on 18/Feb/12 10:14 | Feb18:
On 18 Feb 2012, at 08:17, Rich Mellor wrote:
Can anyone still read PC formatted 5.25 disks and convert it onto a 3.5 disk?
I have a 5 1/4 disk drive. Also PC Conqueror is able to read these disks in PC
format. Xover should then be able to
Rod H wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:01 | Feb26:
Rod/
Hello,
This is my first time on the QL forum so please be gentle.
Welcome indeed.
There is a separate 'Forum' which I am sure others will tell you about.
This we call the 'Mailing List'.
I've recently dug out my QL gear to sadly find that the
Rod H wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:32 | Feb26:
Rod/
I have a stack of boxed QLs and some have acquired issues over the years -
mainly with the microdrives becoming unreliable. I recently acquired an
additional 10 QLs, 5 working and 5 non, and have been parceling them out to
users, new and old,
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:35 | Feb26:
I don't know if your Trump Card has the format ram1_,mdv1_ command -
part of the Tony Tebby toolkits on interfaces.
Minor typo, no comma in it, between ram1_ and mdv1_ and the underscore
after the 'mdv1' is optional.
Whoops yes. I typed it *so*
Rod H wrote, on 26/Feb/12 21:54 | Feb26:
From: dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:35:49 +
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] New to the forum
I don't know if your Trump Card has the format ram1_,mdv1_ command -
part of the Tony Tebby toolkits on
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:16 | Feb29:
Lee Privett wrote, on 28/Feb/12 10:28 | Feb28:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Bryan Horstmannb...@newlan.org wrote:
Just received this:-
The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive)
announcement that just might
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:30 | Feb29:
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:16 | Feb29:
Lee Privett wrote, on 28/Feb/12 10:28 | Feb28:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Bryan Horstmannb...@newlan.org
wrote:
Just received this:-
The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:38 | Feb29:
snip
I managed to get to the main product page. This URL will save one L O N
G step:
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?ICID=I-RASP-HPBLOF-0015bespokepage=farnell/en_UK/promotions/raspberryPi.jsp
A purchase of over £45 has zero
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:42 | Feb29:
Tony Firshman wrote, on 29/Feb/12 06:38 | Feb29:
snip
I managed to get to the main product page. This URL will save one L O N
G step:
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?ICID=I-RASP-HPBLOF-0015bespokepage=farnell/en_UK/promotions
Lee Privett wrote, on 29/Feb/12 20:25 | Feb29:
Unfortunately any account with CPC-Farnell is not recognised with
'Farnell', they are treated as two separate companies which means
registering with Farnell separately if you wish to purchase.
they had sold out of Raspi when I managed to get
The first 10,000 have arrived in the UK but are now being held up as RS
and Farnell are demanding a formal CE test, rather than the usual self
certification.
This might be a problem, as they are uncased and are bound to produce EMI.
In the USA the FCC allow manufacturers to bypass this by
John Alexander wrote, on 1/Apr/12 19:27 | Apr1:
Yep , they have photos of them been in the UK warehouse which is great leap
forward.
I don't know how much more if any of the EMC testing they need to complete.
Any way it sort of gives me my unit in maybe 2 weeks ish
Re casing, I don't
Billy wrote, on 1/Apr/12 21:29 | Apr1:
On 01/04/2012 17:40, Lee Privett wrote:
Guys, I feel it would be remiss not to mention that owning the book
(which I do) is one thing, however obtaining an electronic version
from somebody else may indeed break copyright especially if the
copyright owner
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