Returning to the QL
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 4:47 pm
Hello,
I am new to the forum, so I thought I'd introduce myself. Since this is more or less a cross post with the mailing list, it may seem a bit familiar to some people
I originally bought a Sinclair QL some time in the mid 1980s. It was my main computer for a while, but I eventually replaced it with an Atari ST and it went into the attic.
A few years later I got back into the QL. I used QPC1 and then QPC2 on whatever PC I had at the time. I gradually got interested in other things, and then I seem to remember getting my first PC that had no diskette drive and so I couldn't run QPC anymore.
During this period (1998-2000 apparently) I wrote a program called Qbase that I am astonished to find is available from Dilwyn's site and is part of the Black Phoenix distribution. Dilwyn also sent me two other programs that I wrote 20 years ago and had completely forgotten about.
A while ago I thought I'd see what was happening in the QL world (or rather, if there still was one) and I found that it still existed and so here I am, configuring my boot file and trying to get my head around EasyPtr, again...
Outside the QL World I am actually a professional programmer and also a linguist and researcher into automatic language analysis and speech analytics.
It's nice to be reunited with the QL, and also to find so many familiar names still involved with it. It's amazing what an interesting system the QL is. I'm actually wondering whether the continued hardware and software development of a 1980s platform by active enthusiasts, especially one that basically failed when it was new, is actually a unique phenomenon. I can't think of any others.
Regards to all,
Daniel Baum
I am new to the forum, so I thought I'd introduce myself. Since this is more or less a cross post with the mailing list, it may seem a bit familiar to some people
I originally bought a Sinclair QL some time in the mid 1980s. It was my main computer for a while, but I eventually replaced it with an Atari ST and it went into the attic.
A few years later I got back into the QL. I used QPC1 and then QPC2 on whatever PC I had at the time. I gradually got interested in other things, and then I seem to remember getting my first PC that had no diskette drive and so I couldn't run QPC anymore.
During this period (1998-2000 apparently) I wrote a program called Qbase that I am astonished to find is available from Dilwyn's site and is part of the Black Phoenix distribution. Dilwyn also sent me two other programs that I wrote 20 years ago and had completely forgotten about.
A while ago I thought I'd see what was happening in the QL world (or rather, if there still was one) and I found that it still existed and so here I am, configuring my boot file and trying to get my head around EasyPtr, again...
Outside the QL World I am actually a professional programmer and also a linguist and researcher into automatic language analysis and speech analytics.
It's nice to be reunited with the QL, and also to find so many familiar names still involved with it. It's amazing what an interesting system the QL is. I'm actually wondering whether the continued hardware and software development of a 1980s platform by active enthusiasts, especially one that basically failed when it was new, is actually a unique phenomenon. I can't think of any others.
Regards to all,
Daniel Baum