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| Author: | paulzolo [ Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | What's Rick Dickinson up to now? |
Rick Dickinson was Sinclair's industrial designer - he designed the Psectrum, ZX81 and otherbthings. recently, he's posted a couple of images like this:  http://flic.kr/p/pk74Hi This could just be an exercise in updating an old design, but I can't help thinking that there is more going on. The Ql wasn't the success that Sinclair hoped for, so reviving it just for a redesign seems odd. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's Rick Dickinson up to now? |
I don't trust those lights - it'll kill us all! |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's Rick Dickinson up to now? |
Never knew the QL existed. Interesting that it had control and alt keys. We had two spectrums and neither has the rubbery keys. It was all-black, all-plastic. Microdrives were awesome over cassette tapes and I used to dream of having a rom expansion pack. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's Rick Dickinson up to now? |
The QL was Sinclair's attempt at a 16 bit machine. Well, it had a Motorola 68000, but it used 8-bit busses. The keyboard was similar to the Spectrum + - plastic, probably like yours. It also used Microdrives - two were built in. It was a noble attempt at a business machine, but it was too little too late - by the. IBM & Microsoft were making inroads, and a small British company was just not going to compete. |
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's Rick Dickinson up to now? |
The QL was certainly one of my favourite computers. Not so good for games, as I recall, but that could be because I used it for serious work type stuff. Sent from my big ass Sony Xperia Z Ultra tabphonelet, using Tapatalk 4. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's Rick Dickinson up to now? |
IIRC the Spectrum+ was release after the QL and inherited the QL's case/keyboard design. I did like the QL - we used them at school. I think I might still have a Spectrum and a Spectrum+ in the loft (assuming they survived the house moves, and SWMBO didn't throw them in a skip). |
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What's Rick Dickinson up to now? |
I lent my QL to my kid brother who then GAVE it away to a friend of his, who was allegedly writing a book. Or doing college work. Or some other BS reason. Sent from my big ass Sony Xperia Z Ultra tabphonelet, using Tapatalk 4. |
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