> > For those of us that were serious about computing, that didn't have access
> > to the kind of money a PC or Mac cost, the QL was a godsend.
> Too right, I still remember the day I wandered past Currys
> in Banbury and saw they'd repriced QL's at £199! Wandered
> home in a fret thinking "can I afford it?"... agonised over
> it for a week or so then bought it anyway :-) Best box I ever
> bought - within a week or so I had the Lattice assembler and
> a copy of the Technical Manual and was digging around QDOS,
> and soon after that I'd got a 3.5" disk drive (whoa, a whole
> "1440 sectors" on one disk!) and a C compiler. That was it,
> my metamorphosis into a complete "dalek" was complete :-)
:)) I like that ... who cares about Borg !
:)
H.
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