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Hi, just picked up a ql from a garage sale and hopefully going to revive it

Welcome to the forum!!

Werlcome back to QL universe! From which planet do you come from?

Cristian wrote:Werlcome back to QL universe! From which planet do you come from?

I’m from the UK, Dorset

wmh71 wrote:Hi, just picked up a ql from a garage sale and hopefully going to revive it

Welcome!

I am also new to QL and hope to enjoy discussing it here.

Welcome aboard!

TJ

wmh71 wrote:I’m from the UK, Dorset

Aha! Planet Dorset, I have visited there and loved it.

Welcome to the QL world - what are you interested in doing/learning with your new found QL?


Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:

wmh71 wrote:I’m from the UK, Dorset

Aha! Planet Dorset, I have visited there and loved it.

Welcome to the QL world - what are you interested in doing/learning with your new found QL?


Cheers,
Norm.

Well, I’ve always been a spectrum user, but I remember when the ql came out thinking I’d like one of those. Took a few years but now I have one! Really looking forward to getting it up and running (with some help on the way)

I bought a ZX-81 to catalogue my record collection. I had to teach myself Basic and eventually wrote a database system that worked, and started loading my data. Hmm "Out of memory"? What's that all about/ I have 1KB, how much do I need? I moved up to a 56K RAM extension soon after that!

Then I got a Spectrum (16KB), interface 1, two microdrives (from Boots the chemist of all places) by trading in a guitar that I had no hope of ever learning to play (to a music shop, not to Boots!)

I could only afford the QL when the price dropped from £400 to something like £199. Sadly, the week after that, they started giving away free Serial 8056 printers with the QL for the same price! I now have three originals (2 without microdrives, one with) but all have dead keyboard membranes which I'll get around to fixing at some point, but I do all of my QL work on QPC these days, running on Linux, under Wine.

I suspect I might just be a Sinclair addict!


Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:48 am I could only afford the QL when the price dropped from £400 to something like £199. Sadly, the week after that, they started giving away free Serial 8056 printers with the QL for the same price! I now have three originals (2 without microdrives, one with) but all have dead keyboard membranes which I'll get around to fixing at some point, but I do all of my QL work on QPC these days, running on Linux, under Wine.

I suspect I might just be a Sinclair addict!


Cheers,
Norm.

hi, back in 1986, our local socialistic luxury shop TUZEX got some saled and falling Atari 800XL, so I got one here. On high school we had computer club and one guy there soon got Sinclair QL, probably at that $199 sale from foreign emigrants/friends. He noted embargoed M68k, but was not very happy with the BBQL system. If I ever knew whole history what I know today, I would swap immediately that 800XL (even with nice ANTIC) probably for QL, ... but it was meybe single QL on our soil at that time )) and no internet, no information and no BBSes, they occured through VERY expensive dial-ups only after 1990...

Entire history of QL is just exciting, even the initial fails, these days, really;
Petr