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Vintage Computers Any vintage computer systems, calculators, video games etc., but with an emphasis on 1980s and earlier equipment. |
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27th Nov 2020, 6:28 pm | #21 |
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Re: QL_Sinclair
There is still quite an active QL user community as well based out of the qlforum.co.uk including quite a few native Italian speakers.
In terms of the hardware there are different machines around (about six board revisions I believe) and there is also at least on the continent a build with different serial port connectors. It continued to be developed into machines such as the CSR THOR. There is also a range of improved ROM's as the dongle Andrew refers to was rapidly substituted with larger onboard ROMs. We were lucky enough to get an early pre-release machine under an NDA to develop the adventure writing software on. I often tell the tale of sitting on the train back from Cambridge with a giant Jiffy bag eyeing lots of others with the same unable to talk to each other as we had all just signed the NDA... I was very impressed with even that early OS as it provided a very professional interface to write to and multitasking support. That original is long lost but, I have a working one with an SD card based Hard Drive emulator making it quite usable - and one of the Microdrives still works to reliably load and save - once you re-felt the cartridges - DO NOT USE ONE UNTIL YOU DO... https://youtu.be/bzRc6S7cCHk |
27th Nov 2020, 9:03 pm | #22 | |
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Re: QL_Sinclair
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Reminds me of a bar-room dialog after a 1980s IBM presentation. "Have you signed the NDA?" "I'm not allowed to answer your question" "OK, me neither, but what do you think about the new 4381 upgrades?" |
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27th Nov 2020, 9:38 pm | #23 |
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Re: QL_Sinclair
Despite two requests to stay on topic this thread has wandered off topic again.
IT'S NOW CLOSED FOR GOOD.
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