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From: David Tubbs
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Turbo
Thanks for the apology!
A4 A5
There is a troglodyte, living far out in the desert, running a solar
powered MDV only 128 QL. He does NOT have access to the Internet.
Is there anyone else that does not have a phone line and a PC, or access
to the web from the office, a library or an Internet caff ? If these
resources are not utilised that does not mean they are unavailable.
This year Roy Wood and I are helping a man in his late 70's with a problem.
He is a black box user who has used nothing more than Quill for many years.
He now wants his 1/3rd lifetime's work converted to PC format to be
available to his family. To do this he has bought a PC, QPC2, QPC Print,
QL2PC Transfer and possibly also the Qmenu extensions. I recently spent 45
minutes on the phone with him giving a telephone tutorial.
He employs a tutor to teach him how to use a PC, but has not yet mastered
formatting a QL win disk and many other things. He is also still learning
about emailing.
Up to a quarter of Quanta's members do not have access to email or the
internet and have the right to help with their problems and a paper
magazine.
But the real advantage of the down-loadable version is surely that any
programme content, basic or assembler can used as is without having to
type it all in is that an I or an l or a 1 ?
Good point!
I think a straight forward WORD doc is better than a pdf, more easily
modifiable for printout, content, size and/or page order.
Have you compared file size .doc versus .pdf? As it happens I can print out
more versatilely from .pdf than .doc. (Not all of us possess WORD. WORDPRO
is a good alternative.)
And as for GWICKS quote :-
However no one on the Quanta Committee has experience of either so we
would have to have external expertise.
Says it all in spades why are they running a computer group ?
Another true story:
A member of the Quanta committee had a QL problem. He asked everyone he met
for the solution, and no one, including many QL experts, could give him an
answer. Then he asked a household name in the QL community and got his first
definitive response:
If you don't know the answer to something as simple as that, then you are
too stupid to use a computer!
I am sure that members users interests would be better served by a
coalition of traders, they have the expertise and an active scene is in
their interest. Online conferenceing via Skype could replace travelling
expenses too.
The traders can also be an ill disciplined bunch. Just try asking them for
an advert in GIF or JPG format and see what you get back in return! (And
that assumes you get a reply in the first place.)
Online conferencing is not as simple as its sounds. Jochen and I are trying
to set up online facilities for urgent QL Today editorial conferences, but I
am having problems with my server. The last Quanta committee meeting lasted
for 4 hours. Would you really like to be sitting at your computer for that
length of time? Sorry but I like to have human contacts.
Wow! What a revelation! The Quanta Committee are human after all!
Best wishes,
Geoff
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