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The visit of the Musée Bolo at the EPFL campus in Lausanne (Switzerland) last Saturday was my second Sinclair and Retro Computing highlight this September.

In this walkthrough video you’ll see (among other interesting things) a good old QL in action, connecting to a Linux based BBS using Telnet:
http://youtu.be/CMyTpwxKhY0

Watch out for pictures, stories and more videos which will be published in the days to come.

QL forever!

Cheers, Urs

Hi Urs,

Great video, lots of interesting computer equipment.

I used to us a QL to connect t Unix mainframes via QTPI and a USR Robotics modem.

Did they have a Cray running?

Derek_Stewart wrote: Great video, lots of interesting computer equipment.

Thx.

I used to us a QL to connect t Unix mainframes via QTPI and a USR Robotics modem.

Didier Luthi informed me that the QL in action was running "QLTERM Version 2.32 Release 20/12/93 Copyright  1987,88,92,93 by Jan Bredenbeek". This software can be found on Dilwyn's Website.
qltrm232.zip 27'983 04.03.2005 18:37

Did they have a Cray running?

No, but the museum owns 3 CRAYs! At that evening they fired-up the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer. What a machine! I will publish a video of that later on this week.

Some link to nice webpages or PDFs about the museum:
http://www.ibm.com/news/ch/fr/2013/11/0 ... 86t67.html
http://www.bolo.ch/dossier_5novembre2013.pdf
http://www.lausanne.ch/thematiques/cult ... y/Bolo.pdf
http://greenbyte.ch/14252/bolo-museum-g ... chnologie/

As I could never pay the electricity bills running a Blue Gene, I'll better stick with the QL.

At that evening they fired-up the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer. What a machine! I will publish a video of that later on this week.

Here's the video about the IBM Blue Gene/P:
http://youtu.be/iEUeaCzv5TU

Some links to nice stories:
2014-09-28 Rencontre avec Urs Koenig aka QLvsJAGUAR
http://www.sinclair-collection.com/?p=449

2014-09-28 Nuit des musées 2014
https://www.abcm.ch/wp/?p=2215

2014-10-01 Nuit des musées 2014 – le Sinclair QL fête ses 30 ans !
http://www.sinclair-collection.com/?p=467

QL forever!

Cheers, Urs

Sinclair QL rocks the party! (Bolo EPFL 2014-09-27)
http://youtu.be/-E37gj7jWv8

This is the sixth and last of a series of videos shot on the EPFL campus in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 2014-09-27. I was in the computer museum Bolo for only 75 minutes and oh man, I did six quality videos, saw and touched many beautiful systems, met great people and had a few very interesting chats. I call that a perfect hour.

Last weekend I was attending the QLis30 workshop in Edinburgh (Scotland). I’ve shot several videos which are now being uploaded to YouTube. Stay tuned...

The Sinclair QL ran at ~1 MIPS - equivalent to a VAX 11/780 @ 5 MHz.

The Cray Super Computer ran at 160 MIPS.

My Core i7 MBP runs at 118,000 MIPS. (118 BIPS!)

QLvsJAGUAR wrote:Last weekend I was attending the QLis30 workshop in Edinburgh (Scotland). I’ve shot several videos which are now being uploaded to YouTube. Stay tuned...

Can't wait!!

Any more news on the videos? I've been pressing F5 on youtube every minute since Tuesday!

vanpeebles wrote:Can't wait!!

The wait is almost over. For now try this QL FORUM exclusive: http://youtu.be/LO-nD2URz1g

This is just a piece of art. Enjoy!

Excellent! Great choice of music too!