He's so beautiful...NormanDunbar wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 8:34 am As well as reading about Retro Printer, you get a photo of Rich so people like me, who have never met Rich, knows what he looks like!
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- Sun May 26, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Retro Printer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 61
Re: Retro Printer
- Sun May 26, 2024 5:20 am
- Forum: The Off-Topic Section
- Topic: Today I Received...
- Replies: 649
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Re: Today I Received...
I bought one of these...a Spectrum wannabe ZX81 monstrosity created by Timex. Was never interested in the TS2068, but this one I was always curious about.
- Fri May 24, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Stephen Hawking letter to Clive Sinclair
- Replies: 6
- Views: 326
Re: Stephen Hawking letter to Clive Sinclair
@bwinkle67 I'd never heard of that system or indeed the company until the post on Mastodon. Interesting history. I found this pdf which may bring back some fond memories for you - if it's the right system? http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/charles/CharlesRiverSystem-Universe.pdf Yup, that was the form f...
- Thu May 23, 2024 3:40 am
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Stephen Hawking letter to Clive Sinclair
- Replies: 6
- Views: 326
Re: Stephen Hawking letter to Clive Sinclair
I used one of the Charles River Data Systems 68K computers at my first job in 1990. It used 8" floppies as well as tape drives that I used to install UNIX on for my company (I started as a sys admin). Pretty cool system though I don't remember much about it other than it was about the size of a...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Dynamic program loading in SuperBASIC
- Replies: 20
- Views: 842
Re: Dynamic program loading in SuperBASIC
I'll just add a little note of caution here as regards a warning in the Toolkit 2 manual of what can happen with un-numbered lines in a BASIC file on some QDOS ROMs, which is also mentioned in Simon Goodwin's ROM bugs articles in QL World. "If you try to RUN a BASIC program from a DO file, the...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: QSTAR 2
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1075
Re: QSTAR 2
If there is no device entered on the command line, the Toolkit 2 default is used. If you note in the code, the FTEST specifically hit up an existing device (i.e. microdrive), since otherwise it would crash as it couldn't load Toolkit 2 from that same device. Only the file is missing, so default dev...
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: General QL Chat
- Topic: Possible QL Is 40 event, UK
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3930
Re: Possible QL Is 40 event, UK
Do you mean RMC's place? That would be a great place to have it (not that I could make it from the US). Did anyone contact Neil and ask?
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Another quest for the holy grail... (Sinclair QL related)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 313
Re: Another quest for the holy grail... (Sinclair QL related)
Are you going to restore those 6 mutilated QLs?
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: QSTAR 2
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1075
Re: QSTAR 2
-7 NOT FOUND (QDOS & SMS) This error message is generally issued by file-related commands (eg. LOAD) if either the supplied device name or file name do not exist. -16 BAD OR CHANGED MEDIUM(QDOS) - MEDIUM CHECK FAILED(SMS) This message occurs when you try to read or write to a medium and an erro...
- Wed May 15, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Software & Programming
- Topic: Dynamic program loading in SuperBASIC
- Replies: 20
- Views: 842
Re: Dynamic program loading in SuperBASIC
Really cool. I knew you could put non-line numbered statements into BASIC since I've seen boot files that did that. But never thought of doing a status bar. Curious why it's not more common in long BASIC listings. I added a twirling clock to minesweeper program and it works really well: 10 REMark MI...