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by David Batty
Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:47 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire
Replies: 23
Views: 17915

Re: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire

Hi David, nice to see you on here again, good luck sorting out your QL stuff but please don't start streaming your accordian music here... ;-) If while sorting out your QL stuff you happen across a disk with a manual for Page Designer 2 I can release it as freeware. My disks with the DOC files on a...
by David Batty
Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:44 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello All
Replies: 7
Views: 5184

Re: Hello All

Welcome to the forum, I was in Vilnius recently, its a nice place.
by David Batty
Mon Sep 04, 2017 12:18 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire
Replies: 23
Views: 17915

Re: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire

Hi Richard, Dave and Norman. Seeing the forum inspired me to think about digging out a Ql monitor sometime to check my stock of QLs to see if they need new membranes or not. Norman: I did have between 10 and 20 thousand customers so its quite likely. I know I have a copy of at least the first 10,000...
by David Batty
Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:55 am
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Z88 is 30 Today!
Replies: 9
Views: 5692

Re: Z88 is 30 Today!

Wow, tell us more!! 8-) What was the meeting like at Sir Clive's? There was a black porche parked outside, the house itself looked like a castle with battlements. There was a big sculpture in the hallway as you went in, that used to be in Sinclair Research. Go through the hallway and you ended up i...
by David Batty
Sun Sep 03, 2017 10:26 pm
Forum: The Off-Topic Section
Topic: Z88 is 30 Today!
Replies: 9
Views: 5692

Re: Z88 is 30 Today!

I was a beta tester for the Z88 after Cambridge Computer contacted me and asked me to be one. I had to go to Cambridge to pick one up and sign a non disclosure agreement. I was using the Z88 while the magazines were showing photos of a wooden mockup of one, this also allowed me to quickly get my QL ...
by David Batty
Sun Sep 03, 2017 12:34 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire
Replies: 23
Views: 17915

Re: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire

Hi All, its been a four years since I last saw the forum, life has been hectic with work travelling the country with my work (delivering programming training) but am am back in the office now. An interesting chat about the QL fpga in the Spectrum Next group reminded me that this forum existed. I wil...
by David Batty
Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:15 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire
Replies: 23
Views: 17915

Re: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire

Hi Mr Navigator, it might be because you bought something from Sector Software at Leyland, Lancashire? Touch Typist, Taskmaster, Spellbound, WriteTurn, Flashback, Ferrett or a multitude of other titles. I also sold hardware, had keyboard membranes produced, sold modems, monitors, microdrive cartridg...
by David Batty
Sat Aug 25, 2012 4:25 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire
Replies: 23
Views: 17915

Re: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire

Re: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire by Dave » Fri Aug 17, 2012 7:07 am I remember you! You're a very smart guy Hello Dave, I see you are a perceptive chap :D Android development? Oh goody, I'd love a QL emulator my Android phone... Lol, thats quite a big job Dilwyn, I'll leave it to someone else, I ...
by David Batty
Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:42 pm
Forum: The Welcome Area
Topic: Hello From Leyland, Lancashire
Replies: 23
Views: 17915

Hello From Leyland, Lancashire

Hello everyone, I registered quite a while ago but only just got round to getting in here. I am David Batty, from Leyland, Lancashire, England. I haven't read many of the forum posts yet but will catch up soon. Hi Dilwyn and Richard, I saw you when I glanced through the posts. I am a QL owner, windo...