| An ABACUS Without Beads |
Mention the wood “Spreadsheet” to the experienced computer user and he will immediately think of a programme for displaying, analysing and manipulating numbers. Indeed the name of the QL’s spreadsheet, ABACUS, indicates that it is a programme which involves calculations. |
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| Computers 101 (An Addendum) |
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| Ergon Floppy Disk Utilities |
My affection for the Ergon Floppy Disk Utility program first started when I received a PD diskette containing the Ergon Demo Disk from the IQLR Software Library, IQLR-022, US $2.50. I had no idea that this disk contained the FDU program. All files on the disk were archived and had to be unzipped and even |
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| Installing a Hard Disk |
Here is the saga of my recent activities in updating my QL to be really modern and have a HARD DISK! (An old QL with Super Gold Card, Hermes, Minerva, SMSQ/E, Sermouse). I write this because it shows how naive one can be. Hard disk? Easy – buy one. |
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| Joining Hands - QReview & IQLR |
To best serve the QL community, as of this issue , QReview is merging with IQLR. This means that I will still have an active outlet for reviews, news and articles but with less of the administration duties and the late nights. |
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| Late Breaking News |
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| NESQLUG Fall-Fest |
For a few weeks in the the Fall the prettiest place on earth is in the mountains of New England. The sugar maple leaves are ablazé with vibrant red leaves. Bill and Mary’s house is right in the middle of it, and NESQLUG is having a weekend of QL learning and fun there. Anyone who |
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| New Product: QPLANE |
The consortium of Zeljko Nastasic of Croatia and Ron Dunnett of the UK have launched their second product “QPLANE” a powered QL Back Plane. From personal experience, get the deepest tower case you can, usually 16″ or better (this can eliminate or reduce any cutting of the case’s frame that otherwise might be necessary). If |
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| New Use for an Old Silicon Friend |
A human (as opposed to silicon) friend with a photo lab asked my assistance in solving a problem. The photo printer (original cost in the mid-$70K range), which is computer controlled, was on the blink due to a dead display – a single line flourescent dot-matrix readout. It was analogous to trying to use your |
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| Q-emuLator |
Q-emuLator is a new software emulator for the QL that runs on Macintosh computers. It includes no hardware parts and it is not a QDOS compatible operating system like SMSQ. |
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| QL Clip Art Collection V2.12 |
This QL Clip Art collection contains over 10,000 images converted and ported from the Public Domain and from commercial sources. You can use the images without any restrictions. All the images (screens) were converted using Carlos Delhaz (thanks Carlos) powerful “unGIF v0.73” and my own routines. Whenever possible pictures were converted in their original sizes |
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| QXL In Command |
There is a new QXL logo printed on a small plastic square that can be pasted on your computer so that everyone will know that it is running the QXL and not the you know what. Bob Dyl, us, and others decided to use “QXL IN CHARGE” with some stylized lightning. Thus, the logo won’t |
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| Reader Profiles |
Michael Simpson, Anthony Magnus, and March Renick. |
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| Scripting in QTPI |
Jonathan Hudson’s QTPI program has been evolving for some time, beginning as a ‘simple’ terminal program under another name and evolving into a pointer environment, full featured communications package with drop down menus, multiple transfer protocols, etc. His latest version adds the powerful capabilities of scripting. |
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| Security on the QL |
It is 3.30pm on a blazing hot day in early May and I am driving along the Sussex coastline to interview John Wakefield of Wakefield Security Systems Limited. I came in contact with John through a letter I had published in the February ’95 Quanta magazine. I had just moved from Hamburg, in Germany, to |
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| SMSQ/E - Hints and Tips |
We recently discovered a number of problem solutions to various problems which arose when faulty programs were used in conjunction with SMSQ/E. These problems are not faults of SMSQ/E but become visible under it. |
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| The QL and BCPL |
Some nine years ago, I bought my QL, for one-sixth of the original price. I found the name: Quantum Leap hardware wise not appropriate, but from the software point of view the QL was, and is a revelation. |
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| The Quanta AGM |
For many years I’ve read the various printed reports, seen the many pictures of smiling QL users and wished I could have been there. This year was different, I’m in some of those reports and pictures. Thanks to the urging of Stuart Honeyball of Miracle Systems, Quanta’s long-time treasurer John Taylor and many others, I |
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