July report
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This July was a bit strange. I had some health problems at the end of
June and they continued in the first half of July. I thing it was
mostly related to my overworking during the May/June period at my work
I had to revise my plans because of that. Jo there were just 2 or 3
longer bike trips (by "longer" I mean >40 km) and I did very little on
the retro-computing front. Actually, I did too little anywhere.
The bikes:
- two failures on my 1965 Moulton Standard; I have replaced the
sprocket after all
- two bowden cable breakages on the 1989 Alex Moulton AM-ATB bike; I
will have to find a better repair strategy
- I have got (and finally unpackaged) the "bard find" Moulton Stowaway
(the first series bike from 1963 with single speed Perry coaster -
actually it came on form of a pile of rust; I have managed to make it
running but the replacement tube for the front wheel (itself a very old
one) broke very quickly - so I will have to order a spare one (I ran
out of spares at the moment); will have to remove all the rust anyway
- I have installed a fairing on my FAvorit steel bike; I originally
wanted the Zzipper [1] but it is not possible so I got a cheap
motorbike one
The computers:
- I have made a short BASIC program to compute the pi (3.14...). I saw
that at the Retrocomputing forum [2] and wanted to try it on my
Elektronika MK-90. I have to add hte number sand the LET keywords and
then it works!
- I have got a green testing model (it's labelled "prototype") of the
PSION Series 5. It's half-functioning, but funny. I traded it for one
of my NanoNotes and the Sharp NetWalker (it was a nice machine but hard
to use one).
- I have bought the Seiko DATA-2000 smartwatch (from early 1980s) with
the keyboard "dock"; it's a funny thing but an useful, too: it can
store a lot of text and show in on a run (the keyboard is only needed
to enter the text); I also have found a phone application which (well,
sometimes) can simulate the original Seiko keyboard and allows to
insert text into the watch [3] - it's designed for a newer UC-2000
model but works with the DATA-2000, too
- well, I have started my SGI Indigo once more - actually, just to
check the Gopher and to make this text ;-)
I think that's all.
Written on the SGI IRIS Indigo R3000.
References:
[1]
http://zzipper.com
[2]
https://retrocomputingforum.com
[3] git://github.com/azya52/seiko