Added: May 28th 2009 | Updated: January 12th 2010
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 got a lot of positive comments and feedback. So for me it was worth the time.
Links...
Following are links to web pages which took up the story:
"The text bed" blog entry of Clive Akass on the website of Personal Computer World (PCW), UK's leading computing magazine (12-01-2009)...
Mentioned in c't article by Andreas Stiller, Germany's leading computing magazine (19-01-2009)...Web
Thread on QL-Users Mailing-List (12-01-2009 07:05)...
Thread on comp.sys.sinclair NewsGroup (12-01-2009 07:36)...
Blog 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)...
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)
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)...
A blog by entry Andy Dawson on BitterWallet just a day after Micro Men was broadcasted (09.10.2009)...
Another post in the Micro Men bash, this one by Ian Douglas in the Telegraph (15.10.2009)... Thread closing the anniversary year on comp.sys.sinclair NewsGroup (10-01-2010 17:22)...TV
Micro Men (fka "Syntax Era")"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 wast broadcasted first on Thursday 8th October 2009, 9pm on BBC Four.
Story on Sir Clive Sinclair and the upcoming BBC docudrama Micro MenHappy 25th anniversary and QL forever!
Urs König (aka cowo)
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