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Tue, 30 May 2006
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Well, I finally gave simplog the flick. PHP is simply not serious enough to use for a web site. I am now using Blosxom, which is a 'do it all yourself' environment. At least there are lots of examples from others, so it isn't hard. It is also statically generated, so the kiddies can finally go and get stuffed. If you agregare from me, you may like to point to index.php20 instead of rss2.php. love Doug |
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I thought I would put up a couple of pictures of a computer system I constructed in about 1987. A company in Queensland called 'Energy Control' distributed a single board development card based on a Rockewll FORTH chip (65F11 / 65F12). Essentially the development system had all of the required support components to support develpment (even a FDC). I constructed my unit is a small enclosure, and originally installed a 720K 3.5" drive that I borrowed from tech. Tech wanted their drive back after a couple of months, so I installed a 80 track 5.25" drive. 4 years ago, I decided to replace the 5.25" drive with a 3.5" unit. The 65F11 is an interesting device. It had a 6502 core, and all of the forth primitives in mask rom, as well as I/O controllers all on chip. Many fun hours were spent developing forth code on this system, and I eventually used it to develop my multi radio controller as a tech project. It used the 65F12, which had tons of I/O. I still have all of the doco rom Rockwell, as well as the binary images for the Rockwell forth development ROM, If anybody is interested, I'll post them online.
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I was cleaning the workshop the other day, and found my old acoustic coupler from the mid 80's. Those were the days, collecting dial up numbers for systems that would answer. The cut and thrust of guessing passwords, and trying standard admin accounts (especially on VAX boxes.) From memory, I received my first formal warning when the system admin of our school looked at the teletype records that were printed whenever anybody dialed up (yep, I didn't know about that *early* logging technology.) All at the blistering speed of 300 baud. At least it was battery powered, so the whole thing was portable. Those of you with a clue may ask 'But the TRS-80 Model 100 was well known for it's internal modem... Why did you have to resort to an acoustic coupler? ' Well, 1) Originally the internal modem of the TRS-80 was set for Bell 103 tones, not CCITT (The component changes hapened later on, and yes, it worked a treat, and 2) The acoustic coupler worked a treat in public phone booths..
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