* * * Sinclair QL 25th anniversary web & media coverage 2009 * * *

Added: May 28th 2009 | Last updated: January 12th 2010 (Content), June 4th 2017 (Broken Links & Formatting fixed)

Get personal...

 Originally I planned to do a big thing, a wide-spread PR case, media breakfast with Sir Clive, etc. at the same venue as the launch 25 years ago. The idea was in my mind since summer 2008, I even set some dates in my agenda for preparing it, but as you can imagine there was just not enough time in my life to do such a thing. Those dates in the agenda passed with work and life and in the end I had only some hours on Sunday Jan 11th 2009 – a day with very bad weather in Switzerland, very cold, no sun... - to do some Powerpoint, Photoshop and html work, set the battle plan for the mailshot, etc. On Jan 12th all to be done between breakfast with family and start of work was to upload the html pages, send the eMails and post to selected NewsGroups.

I've got lots of positive comments and feedback and the story got fairly good coverage in TV and both print and online media. So for me it was worth the time and effort.

I shall summarise the QL 25th anniversary year in detail in a series of three articles in the QUANTA magazine to be published during 2010.

Links...

 Following are links to web pages which took up the story:

Web

 Thread on QL-Users Mailing-List (12-01-2009 07:05)...

Google groups, nowadays way of accessing UseNet NewsGroups Thread on comp.sys.sinclair NewsGroup (12-01-2009 07:36)...

Andrew Pennell of Microsoft blog on msdnBlog of Andrew (Andy) Pennell, a former QL software developer and author, now Microsoft employee (12-01-2009 10:26)...

Link to my webpage on Twitter (12-01-2009 20:16)...

Linus Torvalds (Linux) on the QL Blog of Linus Torvalds, a former QL user and software developer, then the man who gave us Linux) blog (13-01-2009 12:30)... (warning: page will take a while to load due to *roboted* comments)
  • Glyn Moody quoting Linus blog on the QL (13-01-2009 21:21)...
  • AhmedFaissl on JNN linking Linus's blog entry on the QL... (14-01-2009)
  • German translation of Linus's blog entries...

    Blog of Richard Wilson on Electronics Weekly quoting PCW's blog (20-01-2009 11:24)...

    Italian's Macity (25-01-2009)...

    Chat on Boycott Novell (12-03-2009 22:43)...

  • quardianBritains theguardians TV & radio guide Story on Sir Clive Sinclair and the upcoming BBC docudrama Micro Men (03.10.2009)...

    BitterWallet - consumer hacks, tips & news A blog by entry Andy Dawson on BitterWallet just a day after Micro Men was broadcasted (09.10.2009)...

    Telegraph Another post in the Micro Men bash, this one by Ian Douglas in the Telegraph (15.10.2009)...

    Google groups, nowadays way of accessing UseNet NewsGroups Thread closing the anniversary year on comp.sys.sinclair NewsGroup (10-01-2010 17:22)...

    Print

     Personal Computer World, Britains no. 1 ICT-magazine"The test bed" blog entry of Clive Akass on the website of Personal Computer World (PCW), UK's leading computing magazine (12-01-2009)...
    Sinclair QL coverage in April 2009 issue of Personal Computer World, Britains no. 1 ICT-magazine Following my "spreading the word of the anniversary" on Jan 12th 2009, Personal Computer World magazine (PCW for short) had a huge QL coverage in their April 2009 issue (Vol. 32 No. 4) which went on sale February 19th 2009:
    - Editorial of Kelvyn Taylor on page 7,
    - Anniversary article by Clive Akass including interview with David Karlin and "QL vs Mac" comparison on pages 14 and 15
    - and as a goody the full reprint of the QL benchtest from the June 1984 issue (Vol. 7 No. 6) on pages 53 to 60.

    I can hardly remind me of such a massive coverage (11 pages) of the QL in a main street publication ever.
    Sinclair QL coverage in May 2009 issue of Personal Computer World, Britains no. 1 ICT-magazine PCW did continue with their retro section in the May 2009 issue with the Apple Mac. They had overwhelmingly positive response to the start of the retro section with the QL in their April issue.
    In their June 2009 issue the QL had its third - this time small - 2009 coverage in PCW.
    Scans of the articles are available on request.

    c't, Deutschlands führendes Computermagazin Mentioned in c't article by Andreas Stiller, Germany's leading computing magazine (19-01-2009)...

    Sinclair QL coverage in May 2009 issue of Personal Computer World, Britains no. 1 ICT-magazine RETRO GAMER had a nice 6 page QL coverage in their July 2009 issue. A scan of the article is available on request.

    Amiga Future - the last remaining AMIGA publication Article by Anton Preinsack in AMIGA FUTURE, the last remaining AMIGA publication (Issue 82, 12-01-2010)...
    You can download the article in German or in English.

    TV

     BBC, Micro Men (fka Syntax Era) Micro Men (fka "Syntax Era")
    BBC docudrama Micro Men
    "Martin Freeman (The Office) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller, Mutual Friends) star in this single drama which provides an affectionately comic account of the race for home computer supremacy in the Eighties.

    Micro Men documents the lengthy rivalry between maverick visionary Sir Clive Sinclair (Armstrong) and his former colleague Chris Curry (Freeman) who go head-to-head to achieve domination of the growing home computer market. Micro Men gives an amusing insight into the brilliant but eccentric characters that triggered the beginning of the UK computer revolution."

    Micro Men was broadcasted first on Thursday 8th October 2009, 9pm on BBC Four.

  • Micro Men press release of BBC...
  • Micro Men program info on BBC...
  • Micro Men program info on BBC iPlayer, BBC's web based TV channel...
  • More on Micro Men by computinghistory.co.uk (21.08.2009)...
  • Micro Men trailer on YouTube (16.09.2009)...
  • Micro Men got blogged by Richard WM Jones (30-09-2009 16:58)...
  • Micro Men reviewed by the INQUIRER (06-10-2009 01:14)...
  • Micro Men on WIKIPEDIA (09.10.2009)...
  • Micro Men listing in The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)...

    Happy 25th anniversary and QL forever!

    Urs König (aka QLvsJAGUAR)

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