26 Mar
2002
26 Mar
'02
12:42 p.m.
At 00:13 27/03/2002, you wrote:
Well, I found the QL keyboard to be very unpleasant to
use...
Quirky, not "unpleasant". Definitely quirky...
Err, a serious business computer (which is what the QL
was sold as in the
UK, at least initially) does not require you to make your own media.
The trouble was the price. Sinclair would have had to approximately double
the machine's price - and quite possibly size & weight - to get a disk
drive in (forget the Amstrad 3" wreckages, they're about as reliable as
microdrives).
Granted, the QL would possibly have enjoyed more success that way, but
Sinclair is Sinclair.
In any case, unreliability was still a problem. And I,
for one, am not
going to use a computer where I can't be certain of being able to read my
files back again.
I'll happily relieve you of any old QL stuff you still have...
--
Cheers, Ade.
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