Week Log
========

There  was  too  little  interesting   events  during  last  week.  Our
university  is  preparing for  the  new  semester  so there  were  come
councils and meetings  and so. Thus the GPD Pocket  was in full action.
Students have  been coming,  too. We  will see  at is  develops because
there are  many student from  other countries  and it is  possible that
borders will close soon...

I had  little time  to do anything  useful. I think  that I  started my
hideaway Indigo only once and edited one or two lines of code. The only
new finding was the VCal (an old SGI IRIX calendar application with the
Motif GUI)  can output very  nice month  calendars in PostScript.  So I
printed the September calendar (thus: exported from the VCal, converted
from PS to PDF  with the GhostScript and the printed  on a printer). IT
is not configurable in any way but it looks very well.

I wanted to upgrade my standing desk  with the Sun Ultra 20. It is much
faster and much versatile than  the first generation Raspberry Pi Model
B which was here.  But I failed - my last RAM moduli  or the Ultra just
died so the  computer cannot boot. So  the poor old Pi  was not removed
from its  position. So I still  cannot run (or compile)  the GNU Octave
nor the SDL version of the BBC Basic.

I tried  to set up  my Apple ][e (Italian  version). It starts,  it can
read from the floppy drive but I cannot find a proper monitor (I have a
modern small LCD  which is said to  work perfectly with the  ][e but it
the image is moved down and there are  is no way to adjust it). I got a
RF modulator (actually  two of them: an old Sup'R'Mod  one and a modern
Chinese one: the  Sup'R' one cannot be  connected to any of  my TVs and
the modern one cannot produce signal which I'm able to see reliably; it
might be  my TV issue  as I had  similar problems with  the Elektronika
BK-0010 until I have found a SCART adapter for the device).

The second problem  with the ][e is that the  "Return" key produces the
"9" character  and not something like  the newline or so.  I'm not sure
what is  the problem  and I cannot  find any help  on the  Internet. It
might be  something simple and stupid  but at the moment  I don't know.
There is a keyboard layout switch  but the Return work equally for both
possible layouts (Italian and English).

P.S. If you do not want to buy the Apple ][ then please do nod read
the "Sophistication and Simplicity book"...


Written on the SGI IRIS Indigo R3k...