stevepoole wrote:Hi,
Wednesday 25th April I celebrated my 70th birthday.
I have had my QL now for almost 35 years... half my life !
Steve Poole.
Happy Birthday Steve! I turned 50 on the 12th, and have had my QL for 31 years, so 62% of my life - oh my
In fact, following the sad news re Rick Dickinson yesterday, I got all nostalgic and I got the QL out of the cupboard last night and plugged it all in - I think the last time I powered it up was about 5 years ago (quite possibly longer than that). It all still works, amazingly. The image on the TV is pretty awful (RGB to SCART) but I am not sure whether that is the TV (a cheap Alba that is getting long in the tooth itself) or the QL, and most of my microdrive tapes won't read any more, but the floppy disk works and I have been able to retrieve the source code from quite a few of my early SuperBASIC programs. Some of the code was quite good. Most was... well least said, eh? I've never done any C++ myself, my introduction to objects was using Smalltalk to build banking systems on OS/2 in the 90s. Those days were fun! Nowadays it's mostly Python, PHP, and lots and lots of SQL and NoSQL database work. But like, you, I find SuperBASIC still hugely appealing. There's just something about it.
a.k.a. Jean-Yves
