Sinclair QL is 30 this year

Problemchild

17 Jan 2014

Since I have made lots of friends in the QL community I'm very happy to say that the QL is now 30

Based on the 8bit version of the 68K the 68008 and 128K of RAM it opened a whole range of

3rd party hardware/software and still after all this time has a wide following and Vendor support

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Enjoy the little trip to the 80;s

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doctorcdf over 10 years ago +1

I wonder if the Sinclair could be made to do something like this - http://www.keacher.com/1216/how-i-introduced-a-27-year-old-computer-to-the-web/
Former Member over 10 years ago +1

lol. make us feel old why don't you
Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +1

From young revolutionary to old tyrant ..The History of the world travels in circles !

Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

From young revolutionary to old tyrant ..The History of the world travels in circles !
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johnbeetem over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

selsinork wrote:

lol. make us feel old why don't you

It's also the 30th anniversary of Apple's award-winning "1984" advert. You know, the one in which a lone free spirit liberates masses of mindless fanbois from enslavement by a vicious, secretive, monopolistic empire.

Apple has always had great marketing
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Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Yep sorry to do that , I notice that a great number of the QL crowd are now well into the RPI in fact a few of us met up at the Cambridge Jam in September
and were last seen heckling the presenters in the lecture theatre
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Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to doctorcdf

Yes Christian you can and in fact the QL has a TCP stack written for it so you can certainly do that.
I was thinking if the device could be shrunk down to a single chip as a IOT thing since Freescale
can put a 56K CPU on even their Jelly Bean MEMS devices!
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Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to shabaz

I used to repair and "mod" the QL so yes I have one or two plus a grave yard of all sorts of Stuff.
I still think it would make a good project Vehicle for some FPGA work ....Hint Hint
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