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comp.sys.sinclair service list for the Sinclair QL
This list has last been modified at 1998-Jan-05
1 Preface
Dear reader,
this is the third edition of the service list for the
Sinclair QL computer. The hypertext version of this list is much
easier to handle than the second edition.
Due to historical reasons the entries aren't ordered very well.
Sometimes the first name of a person has been taken as sorting
field, sometimes the second name. Furthermore some of the
vendors may be in the wrong section (e.g. in the hardware
part instead of the software part). You've been warned.
PLEASE! someone check some or all of the entries! Much of them
are outdated and I lack the means to check them all personally!
Entries marked with (?) or similar are very likely to be wrong.
Be aware that other entries may be incorrect too!
If there's someone out there who is willing to help me converting
telephone numbers from national to international format please
contact me.
Telephone numbers are in international or local format. I still
don't know how to convert local numbers to international format.
ATTENTION: The phone numbers have changed in the UK. Older numbers
will not be correct anymore.
If you are looking for a list that covers the availability of QL
resources on the internet more, please have a look at the QL
Internet Resource list from Richard Zidlicky. It is posted
regularly to the newsgroups comp.sys.sinclair and maus.sys.ql.int.
This Service list as well as the QL FAQ is available
via World Wide Web at
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~roklein/ql
Notes: Only larger dealers have Fax, often on the same number.
Some numbers no longer active in the QL world are give for
reference and support queries.
If you have any ideas, suggestions, criticism please mail me at
RoKlein@Goofy.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE.
Well, now relax and enjoy.
Robert
NEWS *** NEWS *** NEWS
IQLR has closed with vol5 iss6 (i.e. march 1996) due to a serious
illness of its editor, Bob Dyl sr.
A new magazine will take its place, QL Today. It is published by
Jochen Merz Software, Germany in cooperation with Miracle Systems
Limited, UK and edited by Dilwyn Jones, UK. Watch comp.sys.sinclair
and your snail mailbox for further information. Addresses in the
magazine part.
QL world has closed with vol3 iss5 (i.e. may 1994). If you think
you have a claim concerning undelivered subscriptions, write to
Arcwind at the following address:
Arcwind Ltd
The Blue Barn, Tew Lane
Wootton, Woodstock
Oxon. OX7 1HA
Great Britain
2 Contents
1 Preface and News
2 Contents
3 Warranty and miscellaneous information
4 Hardware dealers
5 Services
6 Software dealers
7 Club adresses
8 Magazines
9 QL Internet Resources
9.1 ftp sites
9.2 UseNet News
3 Warranty information
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Each part of this list may be reproduced in any form whatsoever
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How to submit new material to the Service List
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The Subject should at least contain the term QL.
4 Hardware dealers
Care Electronics (?)
0923 / 672 102
- Tebby connection but no longer dealing directly
CL Systems (?)
081 / 459 1351
- Real Time Digitizer
Computer Technik (Juergen Falkenberg) (?)
Parkstrasse 25
D-75223 Niefern-Oeschelbronn
phone/fax: +49 - 7233 / 81515 (Germany)
- Hard disk interface/systems, tower housings for QL
systems.
Dilwyn Jones Computing (defunct)
41 Bro Emrys
Tal-y-Bont
Bangor
Gwynedd, LL57 3YT
(Great Britain)
phone/fax: +44 - 1248 / 354 023
- Process controller, power regulator, network prover.
(closed in March 95)
Ing. Buero Michael Klein
Martinstrasse 23
D-64285 Darmstadt
Germany
- QL compatible computer (Primus).
Miracle Systems Limited
20 Mow Barton
Yate
Bristol, BS17 5NF
(United Kingdom)
phone/fax +44 - 1454 / 883 602
- (Super) Gold Card expansion card; QXL/2 25 MHz hardware
QL emulator for PC.
Qubbesoft PD
38 Brunwin Road, Rayne, Braintree
Essex CM7 5BU
(Great Britain)
phone: +44 - 1376 / 347 852
fax : +44 - 1376 / 331 267
email: 101634.776@compuserve.com
- Miracle Trump Card, Expanderam, twin 3.5" disk drives.
Sales and support. Qubide QL AT/IDE hard disk interface.
QL Mini Tower Kit. 2nd user QL hardware and software.
QPlane. AT/IDE hard disk drives.
Soon: Aurora Graphics Card (QL motherboard replacement)
W N Richardson (EEC Ltd.)
6 Ravensmead
Chalfont-St.-Peter
Buckinghamshire, SL9 0NB
(United Kingdom)
phone/fax: +44 - 1494 / 871 319
car phone: 0850 / 597 650
- Complete QL systems, monitors, keyboards and
interfaces, disk drives and printers, peripherals.
TF Services
29 Longfield Road
TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG
(United Kingdom)
phone: +44 - 1442 / 828 254
Fax: +44 - 1442 / 828 255
email: tony@firshman.demon.co.uk
WWW: http://www.firshman.demon.co.uk
- Hermes IPC, Minerva ROM, keyboard membrane, repairs,
spares, superHermes (fast ser3, kbd interface ...),
superHermes LITE, QL RomDisq etc.
5 Services
Adman Services (Dennis Briggs) (?)
0952 / 255 895
- Spares, repairs, support, peripherals.
Joe Atkinson (?)
36 Ranelagh RD, London W5 5RJ
- Roms, mdvs, spares, PD software.
For QL products in the U.S., contact:
FWD computing (former Mechanical Affinity)
P.O. Box 17
Mexico, IN 46958
USA
(317) 473 - 8031 Tuesday thru Saturday only, 6 to 9 pm
fax: (317) 472 - 0783 7 pm thru 11 am
email: fdavis@walnut.holli.com
- Hardware, software, services, repair etc.
Main US hardware and software supplier.
Seacoast Computer Services (defunct ?)
15 Kilburn Court
Newport
RI 02840
(USA)
phone/fax 401 / 849 3805
- IQLR magazine
Suredata (?)
081 / 902 5218
- Repairs
QL World (Readers' Services) (? -- F*@! 'em, I never got my money back!)
0993 / 811 181 (Ask for Fran)
- Subscriptions, binders, recent backissues.
Quanta
Secretary:
Roy Brereton
94, Teignmouth Road
Clevedon, Avon BS21 8AJ
Tel/Fax: 01275 871 917
- User group, support, library.
Quanta
Membership Secretary:
Bill Newell
213 Manor Road
Benfleet, Essex
SS7 4JD
Tel.: 01268 / 754 407
6 Software dealers
Albin Hessler Software (?)
Im Zeilfeld 25
D-72631 Aichtal
phone: +49 - 7127 / 952 890
fax: +49 - 7127 / 952 898
- Cueshell, Easyptr, Disa (dist. by J. Merz)
Athene Consults (?)
0705 / 511 439
ARK Distribution (?)
0983 / 79496
- Archivist, Master Spy, Spy.
CGH Services (Richard Alexander) (?)
0559 / 384 574
(Closed 31 March 1993 - enquiries about past products
only.)
COWO Electronic (Switzerland) (?)
c/o Urs Koenig
Muensterstrasse 4
CH-6210 Sursee
Switzerland
010 - 41 - 45 / 211 478
QTop, Atari QL emulator, Thor support.
Deltasoft (?)
7 Tyrell Way, SToke Gifford, Bristol.
- FlightDeck, Image D, AMD Airplan.
Digital Precision (?)
222 The Avenue
London, E4 9SE
(United Kingdom)
phone +44 - 81 / 527 5493
- Perfection, PC Conquerer, Lightning, Professional
Publisher, Eye-Q, Solution, Spellchecker, The Editor,
Media Manager, Professional Astrologer, QMaths, CPort,
and others. They currently sell the "QL Collection"
which is a collection of _all_ their programs for a
price of 179 GBP.
DJW Software (?)
phone 0256 / 881701
- homebanker
Dilwyn Jones Computing (DJC) (defunct)
41 Bro Emrys
Tal-y-Bont
Bangor
Gwynedd, LL57 3YT
(Great Briatin)
phone/fax: +44 - 1248 / 354 023
- lots of software.
(closed in March 95)
Di-Ren
Jelanda
Wyndley Drive
Sutton Coldfield
B73 6EU
(Great Britain)
phone/fax: +44 - 121 / 355 3943
email: support@di-ren.demon.co.uk
www: http://www.forthrt.com/~di-ren/homepage.html
- Fleet Tactical Command, keyboard interface
Amadeus token ring network system. Di-Ren also
maintains an extensive amount of QL pages on their
world wide web site. They're covering virtually
every QL related internet address. Check it out.
Ergon Developments (Davide Santachiara) (Italy) (?)
c/o Davide Santachiara
Via Emilio de Marchi 2
42100 Reggio Emilia
(Italy)
phone/fax: +39 - 522 / 70409
FIDOnet 2:335/21.11
- ZM-X ZX Spectrum emulator, Open World, other QL
software.
Grange Technology Limited (?)
Rosebank, Stream Road
Upton, Oxon, OX11 9JG
United Kingdom
Tel/Fax: +44 - 235 / 851818
- GT-Prolog/QL
Joe Haftke (defunct ?)
7 Lansdown Road
Sidcup, Kent DA14 4EF
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 - 181 / 302 6154
Printmaster plus; Filemaster plus; Vision mixer plus;
Home bills budget; Picturemaster plus; Remind me plus;
JDir. (All at 15 GBP each; Upgrades 7 GBP + old Master
disk)
Jochen Merz Software (Germany)
Im Stillen Winkel 12
D-47169 Duisburg
(Germany)
phone: +49 - 203 / 502 011
fax: +49 - 203 / 502 012
mailbox: +49 - 203 / 502 013
mailbox: +49 - 203 / 502 014
(orders from 10am to 8pm local time)
- QL/Atari emulators, QSpread, File Finder, QPTR Pointer
Environment Toolkit and other PE programs, QDesign 2,
various games, and others. He also sells SMSQ/E as
well as often needed hardware components, e.g.
ZX8301, ZX8302, keyboard foils etc.
Accepts Eurocheques, Eurocard, Visa, Access, Mastercard,
American Express and Diners Club.
Lear Data Systems (?)
6 Southview Green, Bentley, Ipswich, Suffolk IP9 2DR
- PCB-CAD.
Liberation Software (Liberated Software ???)
081 / 546 7795
Ocean Computer Services (?)
061 / 740 9002
- Professional Poolster
Pointer Products (?)
0258 / 455 117
- Pointer Environment programs.
PM data
Engja 4
N-4200 Sauda
Norway
Tel/Fax: +47 - 5278 3413
email: pmonstad@sn.no
- Disk Mate 5
Progs (Van Auwera) (Belgium)
Dr. Fr. Hemerijkslaan 13/1
2650 Egdem
(Belgium)
phone: +32 (0) 3 / 457 8488
Fax: =32 (0) 3 / 458 6207
email: joachim@club.innet.be
WWW: http://www.club.innet.be/~year2827
- LineDesign, The Painter, The Clipart, DataDesign,
Proforma, ProWesS PROGS Window Manager.
Q Branch
P.O. Box 7
Portslade
East Sussex
BN41 2ND
(Great Britain)
phone: +44 - 1273 / 386 030
fax: +44 - 1273 / 381 577
email: qbranch@qbranch.demon.co.uk
They have almost everything there is concerning the QL.
Qubbesoft PD
38 Brunwin Road, Rayne, Braintree
Essex CM7 5BU
(Great Britain)
phone: +44 - 1376 / 347 852
fax: +44 - 1376 / 331 267
email: 101634.776@compuserve.com
- QL Home Finance, Public Domain Software,
see also hardware section.
Quo Vadis Design (?)
57 Shaftesbury Road
Romford, Essex, RM1 2QJ
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 - 1708 / 755 759
email: 101366.3534@compuserve.com
www: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/qcd
Lots of QL Software including the full range from Albin
Hessler and Ergon Development.
SD Microsystems (?)
0462 / 422 897
- General Ledger, Small Traders' Pack/Invoicer and Stock
Accounting. Other business software.
SJPD Software
Steve Johnson
36 Eldwick Street
Burnley
Lancashire, BB10 3DZ
(United Kingdom)
phone/fax: +44 (0) - 1282 701 767
email: SteveJohnson@compuserve com
- Public Domain Software. Send formatted QL disk plus return
postage for a free catalogue.
Software 87 (?)
33 Savernake Road
London, NW3 2JU
(Great Britain)
- Text87 Plus4, Publishers' Pack.
Geoffrey Wicks (Just Words!)
28 Ravensdale
Kingswood, Basildon
Essex, SS16 5HU
Tel.: +44 (0) 1268 / 281 826
Specialist software for writers and word lovers.
Thesaurus, Style-Checker and Word Games Solver
Wood and Wind Computing (?)
Bill Cable
RR3 Box 92
Cornish NH 03745 USA
phone: (US) (603) 675 - 2218
WS Software (?)
0534 / 81392
7 Club adresses
The following Club list is alphabetically ordered. I
added only the contact adress.
Austria:
DER Computer Club
c/o Peter Postl
Stiegerg 5
5110 Wien
Austria
Belgium:
Club Sinclair BruQsl
c/o Jaques Tasset
Aarlenstraat 104
1040 Brussels
Belgium
QL Club
c/o Leon Thianche
Rue Paul Wemaere 12-14
1150 Bruxelles
Belgium
France:
QL Contact France
c/o Jean-Louis Dianoux
22 Avenue Lenine
93230 Romainville
France
Germany:
Sinclair QL User Club eV
Please contact Jochen Merz for more information!
Greece:
QL Athens Club
c/o Stathis Grigoriadis
Tarsu 6-8
10440 Athens
Greece
Holland:
Sin_QL_Air
Nederlandse QL-gebruikers Groep
Chairman (Voorzitter): ........... Jan Bredenbeek
Bonifaciuslaan 16
1216 PS Hilversum
Tel.: 035 - 6236 823
(Alleen tussen 19.00 en 22.30 uur)
Secretary/Editor (Secretariaat): . Sjef v.d. Molengraaf
Mullerweg 17
5624 JC Eindhoven
Tel.: 040 - 2442 309
(Alleen tussen 20.00 en 23.00 uur)
Treasurer (Penningmeester): ...... Frans v.d. Laar
Kroezelstraat 10
5632 XM Eindhoven
Tel.: 040 - 2426 318
magazine: Quasar
Italy:
QItaly Club
c/o Roberto Orlandi
Via Brescia 26
25039 Traveglianto (BS)
Italy
magazine: QItaly magazine
Editor: Dr. Eros Forenzi
Via Valeriana 44
23010 Berbenno (SO)
Italy
Tel. +39 - 342 / 590 450
Fax +39 - 342 / 590 451
Norway:
Norwegian All Sinclair Assosiation (NASA)
c/o P Monstad
N-5580 Oelen
Norway
magazine: Sinclair Magazine
Scotland:
Scottish QL Users Group
c/o Alan Pemberton
65 Lingerwood Road
Newtongrange
Midlothian EH22 4QQ
Great Britain
(they have a newsletter)
Spain:
Qliper
c/o Marcos Cruz
Acacias 44
(Monteclaro)
E-28233 Pozuelo de Alarcon
Spain
magazine: Qliper
Sweden:
Svenska QL-Gruppen
c/o Johan Boman
Toftaasgatan 73
42147 Vastra Frolunda
Sweden
magazine: QL-Bladet
Jamten-TCL (International QL echomail conferences)
BBS +46 - 63 - 133 330
Michael Cronsten
Radhusgatan 61E
83137 Ostersund
Sweden
Turkey:
QL Club
c/o Bul9ent Artuz
Prof. Sitesi B/1 D/5
Etiler 80600
Istanbul
Turkey
UK:
Quanta (UK) Membership Secretary
c/o Bill Newell
213 Manor Road
Benfleet
Essex SS7 4JD
Great Britain
phone: (01268) 754 407
magazine: Quanta
Editor: Colin Baskett
3 Stonor Green
Watlington
OX9 5PT
Tel: 01491 614 293
Great Britain
Please send your email submissions to Quanta magazine to
Graham Underwood at 100121.3564@compuserve.com
Ashstead sub-group
c/o Derek Stewart
13 Beales Road
Great Bookham
Surrey KT23 4NA
Great Britain
Bristol sub-group
c/o Roy Brereton
94 Teignmouth Road
Clevedon
Avon BS21 6DR
Great Britain
East Anglia
c/o Geraint Jones
1 Bridgate Court
Thetford IP24 3AJ
Great Britain
Essex sub-group
c/o Dave Walker
22 Kempton's Mead
Potters Bar
Herts EM6 3HZ
Great Britain
London sub-group
c/o Basil Lee
31 Fairdale Gardens
London SW15 5JW
phone: 0181 789 1976
or email Martin Wheatley at
martinw@mail.bogo.co.uk
c/o Jeremy Davis
6 Elmcroft Crescent
Harrow
Middx HA2 6HN
Great Britain
North-East
c/o Derek Stewart
20 Emily Street
Gateshead
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
c/o Billy Turkington
Fairy Hill
Rostrevor
Newry
Co. Down
BT34 3BB
Great Britain
Mid-Southern sub-group
c/o Geoff Fish
44 Billing Avenue
Wokingham
Berks RG11 4JE
Great Britain
QL User Group (West Midlands)
c/o Mike Bedford-White
16 Westfield Road
Acocks Green
Birmingham B27 7TL
QL MUG (Merseyside)
c/o G Reynolds
051 / 932 1484
(fortnightly meetings)
Solent sub-group
c/o Graham Evans
32 Reeves Way
Lowford
Bursledon
Southampton
Great Britain
Tel.: 0701 / 403 350
USA:
New England Sinclair QL User Group (NESQLUG)
General meetings held near first Saturday of odd numbered
months.
Special meetings held near first Saturday of even numbered
months.
NESQLUG will exchange newsletters with any group
supporting the QL. A software library is available to
members.
Director: Bill Cable ..... RR3 Box 92
Cornish
NH 03745 USA
email: cable@cyberportal.net
Editor: Mike Jonas ..... 1654 Massachusetts Ave
Apt #12
Cambridge
MA 01821 USA
Treasurer: Gary Norton .... 43 Richardson St.
& membership Billerica
MA 01821 USA
email: gnortal@ziplink.net
magazine: THE NESQLUG NEWS
is published six times a year.
Annual membership is USD 12 in North America and USD 20
in the rest of the world.
8 Magazines
note: Sinclair QL World is dead. Their last issue is vol3iss5.
note: IQLR is dead. Their last issue is vol5iss6.
QL Today (published bimonthly)
Contact
Jochen Merz Software (German office and publisher)
Im Stillen Winkel 12
D-47169 Duisburg
Germany
phone: +49 - 203 / 502 011
fax : +49 - 203 / 502 012
box 1: +49 - 203 / 502 013
box 2: +49 - 203 / 502 014
or
Miracle Systems Limited (English office)
20 Mow Barton
Yate, Bristol
United Kingdom BS17 5NF
IQLR (International QL Report) (appears every two months)
(defunct, address only for reference)
P.O. Box 3991
Newport
RI 02840
USA
Tel/Fax: +1 401 / 849 3805
or
IQLR
23 Ben Culey Drive
Thetford
IP24 1QJ
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 842 / 762 406
email: iqlr@nccnet.com
QReview (quarterly)
c/o Bruce Nicholls
57 Shaftesbury Road
Romford
Essex RM1 2QJ
United Kingdom
phone: (01708) 755 759
(now merged into IQLR)
QL Hacker's Journal
c/o Tim Swenson
5615 Botkins Road
Huber Heights, OH 45424
USA
(513) 233 - 2178
email: swensotc@ss1.sews.wpafb.af.mil
www: http://www.serve.com/swensont
The QL Hacker's Journal (QHJ) is published by Tim Swenson
as a service to the QL Community. The QHJ is freely
distributable. Past issues are available on disk, via e-mail,
or via the Anon-FTP server, garbo.uwasa.fi. The QHJ is always
on the look out for article submissions.
Update! magazine
P.O. box 17
Mexico, IN 46958
USA
- covers QL, Spectrum, TS 2068, ZX81 and Cambridge Z88
Also there is a disc-based QL newsletter that has been running
for over 6 years now. Anyone interested should send a blank
formatted 31/2" disc + a padded bag and if possible return
postage to
Mike Kennealy
6 Barnaby Road
Poynton
Cheshire SK12 1LR
England
phone: 01625 878 207
9 QL Network and BBS Resources
9.1 Internet ftp sites
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/ql
Has only stuff in ASCII text, e.g. QHJ backissues, some
BASIC programs, some pascal programs.
ftp://maya.dei.unipd.it/pub/sinclair_QL
Here you can find ca 8MB of QL programs (zoo'd and zip'd
binaries). For example C68, XLisp, Scheme, Rogue, some
packers etc. Some of the packers are not compressed, you
have to restore their fileheader on the QL before you can
use them. You can restore the fileheader with the follling
commands:
a=alchp(length of program)
lbytes program
sexec program,a,length of program, dataspace
where 'dataspace' should be enough for the program; I
recommend to use 64K, most programs are well with this
value. (I don't think this will work on a standard QL, you will
need a memory expansion).
This site is not longer existing. Please look at the mirror sites.
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/sinclair
This site mirrors both maya and garbo.
ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair
This site is dedicated to all Sinclair Computers, preferably to
the Spectrum, but there's also some QL stuff.
Has a mirror of maya too.
9.2 World Wide Web
I apologize for this section being uncomplete. However
I'm pretty sure that you will find pointers to all other
existing QL Web sites on these pages.
There a site dedicated to the history of microcomputers
with a bit about the QL:
http://pcsupp1.cc.rl.ac.uk/home/chris/hchof/ql.html
Peter Jaeger has a new Web page at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/peta
Di-Ren's web page is at
http://www.forthrt.com/~di-ren/homepage.html
This WEB site also maintains WEB pages for other QL
related stuff, e.g. several QL vendors have a homepage
there. I recommend this as starting point. The pages
here are well structured and they are up to date.
NEWS: Di-Ren's page has moved. Pointer is at the above address.
Don't forget to take a look at Tim Swenson's page at
http://www.serve.com/swensont
And at last my personal QL pages at
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~roklein/ql
9.3 UseNet News
Nu, there are four QL related News Groups. First comp.sys.sinclair,
which is dedicated to the various brainchildren of Sir Clive
Sinclair (not Sinclair Research Limited, though there's an amount
of discussion about devices from Sinclair Research after they've been
bought by Amstrad, e.g. the Sinclair PC 200 Arghh!). Then there
are three groups from the maus net.
They are:
maus.sys.ql.c68-int (discussion about the QL C68 compiler)
maus.sys.ql.int (general discussions about the QL)
maus.sys.ql.ger (general QL discussions in german)