02-21-2014, 04:51 AM
Good morning. It's 43° with 78% humidity. The high will be 65° with some clouds.
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Couldn't sleep so I've been up all night. Back and knees were hurting but I don't know why. I didn't do much yesterday and the heaviest thing I lifted was one of my IIe's. I took it out of the closet to replace the speaker in it then put it back. That weighs only about twelve pounds. But the pain wasn't the only thing. I could've simply ignored it as I have in the past. I had an itchy spot on the back of my left shoulder that was driving me nuts. It just wouldn't settle down. After trying to get to sleep for a few hours I finally just said screw it and came in here to play with the computers.
Speaking of computers, I have another Apple coming in today. No, it's not mine. It's a //c that belongs to a friend of mine. He needs some expansion board installed in it and he's afraid to touch anything in it. I've never worked on //c's much. Usually used them for target practice. The pieces of about a dozen of them are buried someplace in the lower part of my fathers back yard along with a couple of Apple II+ clones. My dislike for the //c was that it ran only DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. The language I used for the most part back then was CP/m and Apple computers had to have a co-processor installed to run it. That was no problem for the Apple II, II+, //e and //gs. A Microsoft CP/m card could be put in it in less than five seconds. Couldn't be done with the //c. There was never a CP/m card or module made to fit it.
Enough of that.
Later today I'll probably tear down a disk drive. I have one that's giving me fits and I think it's the tracking device that moves the read/write head or the stepper motor that makes that device work. I'll know once I take it apart.
No other plans for today. Thank God it's Friday!
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Couldn't sleep so I've been up all night. Back and knees were hurting but I don't know why. I didn't do much yesterday and the heaviest thing I lifted was one of my IIe's. I took it out of the closet to replace the speaker in it then put it back. That weighs only about twelve pounds. But the pain wasn't the only thing. I could've simply ignored it as I have in the past. I had an itchy spot on the back of my left shoulder that was driving me nuts. It just wouldn't settle down. After trying to get to sleep for a few hours I finally just said screw it and came in here to play with the computers.
Speaking of computers, I have another Apple coming in today. No, it's not mine. It's a //c that belongs to a friend of mine. He needs some expansion board installed in it and he's afraid to touch anything in it. I've never worked on //c's much. Usually used them for target practice. The pieces of about a dozen of them are buried someplace in the lower part of my fathers back yard along with a couple of Apple II+ clones. My dislike for the //c was that it ran only DOS 3.3 and ProDOS. The language I used for the most part back then was CP/m and Apple computers had to have a co-processor installed to run it. That was no problem for the Apple II, II+, //e and //gs. A Microsoft CP/m card could be put in it in less than five seconds. Couldn't be done with the //c. There was never a CP/m card or module made to fit it.
Enough of that.
Later today I'll probably tear down a disk drive. I have one that's giving me fits and I think it's the tracking device that moves the read/write head or the stepper motor that makes that device work. I'll know once I take it apart.
No other plans for today. Thank God it's Friday!
15 year veteran fire fighter
Collector of Apple //e's
Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Collector of Apple //e's
Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam