Too much British stuff
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I have been using  too much British stuff recently. My  tea (I am glad 
it ran out and I have had to drink a "Russian" one again - even if its 
from the same Sri Lanka as the British one). The Z88 and the Psion II. 
The umbrella ("designed  in Britain ... made in PRC".  And the bike is 
from London (a Brompton folding bike),  too. This is a little too much 
for the EU citizen, isn't it?                                           

Thus I decided to take a break  and try to use a non-British computer. 
My UKNC  monitor issue  is not yet  resolved so I  decided to  use the 
Apple IIe  (US version as the  damn Italian model still  maintains its 
keyboard issue - actually it does not power on at all now).                                                       
The CFFA3000 board (a venerable  Version 1Revision C) arrived recently 
so I have  started to test it.  It seems that (unlike  other cards) my 
IIe is  willing to accept it.  It even did  not refuse to boot  from a 
pre-configured image. The ProDos boots almost instantly.               

So I have removed both the floppy emulator card and the ROM card (with 
the ProDos) because the CFFA3000 seems to be able to replace both.     

Thus my IIe now includes just the CFFA3000, the Uthernet2 and the Disk 
II (a  floppy) interface.  And the RAM  ("80-column") card,  of course 
(I'm going to replace it with a  modern 8MB RAM card because it should 
dissipate less  heat). Maybe I  should get  a timekeeper card  at some 
point. But for now I should  concentrate on setting up of the software 
environment here  (I use  the Microsoft  BASIC,.. I  mean Applesoft... 
here). Any tip for a C (cross)compiler which can handle floating point 
numbers?                                                               


P.S.  My attempt  to  avoid British  stuff of  course  failed. I  have 
written this post on the Psion Organiser II...