On January 12th 1984 Sir Clive Sinclair presented the Sinclair QL Professional Computer in a typical Sinclair-extravaganza type launch event at the Intercontinental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, London. This was exactly 12 days earlier than Steve Jobs presented the Apple Macintosh. While the Mac did it in the long run and is a mainstream product in the present and future, the QL went into dust. Before leaving the field, the QL inspired many experts and influenced today's products in one way or another. Most prominent example is Linux, where its creator Linus Torvalds was a QL hacker back in the 80s. The QL still is a very good example of an innovative, stylish, powerful but underestimated product. And as you can see in this video it had its own extremly unique designed ecosystem (Sinclair sliver labeled black and white CI/CD using the Syntax typeset). *** QL is 30, let's party! *** This is an exclusive "QL is 30" release (see http://www.qlis30.org.uk). This movie consists of several independent scenes (intro, scene 1, scene 2, and so forth) - 1st scene is called "The Collection", a launch-day anniversary special published on January 12th 2014 - which will be produced and uploaded during the anniversary year and added to this unique playlist on YouTube. Subscribe to this channel to get notified about new videos. Watch, like, share or comment the videos and do not forget to carefully read the video description as they will lead you to exclusive specials only available through the links in the video descriptions. As the movie will grow during this year, your comments, feedback and other contributions are very important and may give the movie one direction or another. Become part of the "QL is 30" party. QL forever! QL is 30 - Sinclair QL 30th Anniversary (1984-2014)! http://www.qlis30.org.uk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ql Scene filmed in one long continuous shot (take 2) on Thursday 2014-01-08 using my Panasonic HC-V727 Camcorder in Full HD format (AVCHD Progessive 1080/50p). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_hd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p No QLs were harmed in making this film. Music is track "the British IBM" by the British IBM. Special thanks to Paul for helping me with the video archives and to Aidy of the British IBM for allowing me to use their great music in my videos. I created this video with the Microsoft (Windows Live) Movie Maker and the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor). *** Exclusive specials *** This video shows - for the first time ever - video footage of the "Sinclair QL Launch Press Kit". This glossy launch press kit which was handed out at the launch press conference on January 12th 1984. The document has been scanned by former Sinclair employee John Mathieson and is available for download. This is an exclusive "QL is 30" special re-release. Download link is: http://www.sinclairql.net/downloads/1984-01-12_Sinclair_QL_launch_press_kit-OCRed.pdf This video also shows - for the first time ever - video footage of the brand-new "QL-SD internal SDHC Card Interface" for QL. http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/QL-SD-internal-SDHC-Card-Interface-for-QL-3596 This video also shows - for the first time ever - video footage of the brand-new "QL is 30 2014 The Distribution" QL software and documentation distribution. http://www.qlis30.org.uk

• published: 12 Jan 2014
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