I have been using too much British stuff recently. My tea (I am glad
it ran out and I have had to drink a "Russian" one again - even if its
from the same Sri Lanka as the British one). The Z88 and the Psion II.
The umbrella ("designed in Britain ... made in PRC". And the bike is
from London (a Brompton folding bike), too. This is a little too much
for the EU citizen, isn't it?
Thus I decided to take a break and try to use a non-British computer.
My UKNC monitor issue is not yet resolved so I decided to use the
Apple IIe (US version as the damn Italian model still maintains its
keyboard issue - actually it does not power on at all now).
The CFFA3000 board (a venerable Version 1Revision C) arrived recently
so I have started to test it. It seems that (unlike other cards) my
IIe is willing to accept it. It even did not refuse to boot from a
pre-configured image. The ProDos boots almost instantly.
So I have removed both the floppy emulator card and the ROM card (with
the ProDos) because the CFFA3000 seems to be able to replace both.
Thus my IIe now includes just the CFFA3000, the Uthernet2 and the Disk
II (a floppy) interface. And the RAM ("80-column") card, of course
(I'm going to replace it with a modern 8MB RAM card because it should
dissipate less heat). Maybe I should get a timekeeper card at some
point. But for now I should concentrate on setting up of the software
environment here (I use the Microsoft BASIC,.. I mean Applesoft...
here). Any tip for a C (cross)compiler which can handle floating point
numbers?
P.S. My attempt to avoid British stuff of course failed. I have
written this post on the Psion Organiser II...
