Big Dan the Blogging Man

Need to mount equipment to a wall and have no idea where to place the screws because the holes aren’t visible when the device is against the wall?

I no longer host a web server.

SparkFun has recently started carrying a RJ-45 Jack + Magnetics break-out board for the Teensy 4.1 which supports Ethernet natively.

This summer (2025), Robert Robichaud approached me to see if several historical text-based Adventure games, namely Adventure, Thisala, and Ferret could be restored onto a Data General (DG) Nova Minicomputer simh emulation from a DG contributed software ta…

After spending the summer learning the HP 1000, it is time to move on to other projects.

As I wrap up my time on the HP 1000, I decided to get the last known version of Adventure for the HP 1000 running.

While experimenting with Fortran 77 on the HP 1000, I found you couldn’t access any files in the FMP File system, only the FMGR file system.

As I experiment with the SIMH HP 1000, I need to move files into and out of it.

The University of Stuttgart, Germany, hosts an extensive Contributed Software Library (CSL) for the HP 1000.

In the spring of 2025, Robert Robichaud approached me about trying to get a version of Adventure running that had been modified to run on the HP 1000 along with making some customizations to the game.

When I try to change call forwarding settings for my android phone using Phone Settings | Calls, I get Call Settings Error Network or SIM card error I believe this problem is caused when you enable Wi-Fi calling.