Haha! Well, in classic ADHD fashion, I
got bogged down with the Packard Bell
Navigator stuff and didn't get around to
configuring any games for my brother in 
time for Christmas, but I've got that 
down as my primary project the next time
I have a free day.

In the mean time, I lucked out and found
an Etherlink 3C509B card in one of my 
old computers, and I transferred it into
my Tandy 1000TX since I've been trying 
turn that into my "daily driver" for
vintage computing.

It doesn't work!! I can't write to the 
EEPROM from the 8-bit ISA bus, 
apparently, so I had to put it into a 
third card to reconfigure it. That 
worked fine, but it still can't connect
to my router in the Tandy.

I have a couple more things to try, then
I'm going to ask on VCFed to see if any
of the Tandy owners on there can help.


In other news, I got a CZUR Aura[1] book 
scanner. This is a really neat doc cam
that uses laser guide-lines to remove 
curves from book pages, allowing you to
get decent scans of books without having
to remove the pages from the spine.

It's gonna be great for reading some of
my books that are too fragile for my 
comfort, because with a little bit of
effort I can convert the scans into a 
decent e-book file. With a litle bit 
more effort, I can give them a proper
TOC and chapter sections.

I'll produce a proper long-form write up
of this scanner later, but for now I
put some information about my experience
scanning a book into an e-book in a 
Mastodon thread.[2]

[1] https://www.czur.com/product/aura
[2] https://retro.social/@68km/103484103822200563