QL is 40 in crunchy snow 2024-01-12! QL-is-40

On January 12th 1984 Sir Clive Sinclair presented the Sinclair QL Professional Computer in a typical Sinclair-extravaganza style 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 rest is history!
On the 12th of January 2024, my wife and I went hiking on one of our local mountains, where we emerged from the dense fog into a blue and sunny sky at 1200m above sea level.
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