Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-18 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Dilwyn Jones wrote: Cheers, Marcel Well, our lives would be that much worse without all the work you've done on QPC, Window Manager, colour drivers etc etc. Thanks. Just one thing, Marcel, if you were only 4 at the time, how and when did you get into QLs? (Late starter!). I started using

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-15 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Hard to believe its all lasted 20 years Indeed! On 12th jan 1984, I was enjoying my new 16K ZX Spectrum, which Dad had bought me a few weeks earlier for Christmas. Wasn't too long before I was wishing for a 48K one (some things never change..) Did your dad know what he was getting

RE: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations ...

2004-01-13 Thread Claude Mourier 00
Not so sad : no one in this list was born in 1984 :-)) -Message d'origine- De : François Van Emelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 13 janvier 2004 21:03 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations... Only ONE who remembers

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-13 Thread Gerhard Plavec
Hi all old QL-fellows :) I had a look in my daybook an read there, that at this time (january 1984) I just finished the hardware of my Interface to connect my ZX-81 to VC-1541 (Commodore-Floppy) - I had to desolder the ULA, etc... but it worked very fine :) I was a very late QL-User and never

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-13 Thread John Southern
Gérhard wrote PS : If I remember well Clive Sinclair was not yet a Sir at this time - may be I am wrong... He was knighted in 1983 during the Queen's birthday honours list. John

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-13 Thread Bill Cable
I remember well as the QL changed my life in many aspects. Summarized I mean it changed it in very positive way. I would say that without the QL and its technology I would not be at the business position I am today... Likewise, I have my present job because of the QL and ARCHIVE. A+

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-13 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I remember well as the QL changed my life in many aspects. Summarized I mean it changed it in very positive way. I would say that without the QL and its technology I would not be at the business position I am today... My live certainly would be different. For the better or the worse I

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-13 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Time is moving so fast those days! On January 12th 1984 (exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs lauched the Apple Macintosh) Sir Clive Sinclair presented the QL professional computer to the world in a hollywood-style event at the Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, London. Today, 20

[ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-12 Thread urs_koenig
Hi QL'ers Time is moving so fast those days! On January 12th 1984 (exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs lauched the Apple Macintosh) Sir Clive Sinclair presented the QL professional computer to the world in a hollywood-style event at the Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, London.

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-12 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi QL'ers Time is moving so fast those days! On January 12th 1984 (exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs lauched the Apple Macintosh) Sir Clive Sinclair presented the QL professional computer to the world in a hollywood-style event at the

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-12 Thread François Van Emelen
Only ONE who remembers that important date. How sad! François Van Emelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi QL'ers Time is moving so fast those days! On January 12th 1984 (exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs lauched the Apple Macintosh) Sir Clive Sinclair presented the QL professional computer to

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-12 Thread Marcel Kilgus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On January 12th 1984 (exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs lauched the Apple Macintosh) Sir Clive Sinclair presented the QL professional computer to the world in a hollywood-style event at the Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, London. Today, 20 years later

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-12 Thread Tony Firshman
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 at 18:21:17, wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi QL'ers Time is moving so fast those days! On January 12th 1984 (exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs lauched the Apple Macintosh) Sir Clive Sinclair presented the QL professional computer to the world in a hollywood-style

Re: [ql-users] SINCLAIR QL's 20th birthday today! Congratulations...

2004-01-12 Thread Timothy Swenson
But it took a little longer to be launched on the US shores, with a whole lot less fanfare. I think I might have heard about the QL when I walked in to Sunset Electronics in SF, to buy other Sinclair things. My anniv. is either March or April of 1986, when they dropped the price of the QL from