Hello from London!

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gbejniet
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Hello from London!

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(And thanks admins for activating my account!)

Not a lot to say about me really except that I don't (yet) own a QL... I was all of 11 years old in 1984 and wide-eyed and slightly obsessed when it first came out. There was, of course, no earthly way I was going to get my hands on one except on demo in a shop.

So I am looking forward to getting my hands on one at some point this year if the price is right; meanwhile, I'm just going to have a play with emulators and see what I can do and learn in the meantime.

Also very happy here reading all about what you folks have been doing with this beautiful machine.

(And to pick up on a point made by one or two recent joiners that resonated, I'm also kind of making a point to myself about the resources wasted by modern software; hoping to come out writing more efficient code in my day job as a result.)

:)


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vanpeebles
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A very warm welcome to the forum! :) I hope you get a QL setup sooner rather than later, always great to see new faces :)


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Welcome. And good luck finding a QL soon.

Cheers,
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Welcome aboard!

Have you written any software for the QL? Or do you have top secret plans afoot?


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dilwyn
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Welcome on board!

Until you get a QL, you can start reading the QL manual and articles online at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/index.html - the manual is available as PDFs and eBook versions on there, or as online html at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/olqlug/index.htm.

Elsewhere on the site you'll find a lot of articles, replacement manuals and software.


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Re: Hello from London!

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Big thanks everyone! I will spend some time looking through those resources. I am expecting a learning curve, especially as I wasn't anticipating so much development / hardware to have happened in the interim.
robheaton wrote:Have you written any software for the QL? Or do you have top secret plans afoot?
Ha ha, no plans, sorry, just woolly ideas so far. Would like to, though. :idea:


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