July report
===========

This July was a  bit strange. I had some health problems  at the end of
June and  they continued  in the  first half  of July.  I thing  it was
mostly related to my overworking during the May/June period at my work

I had  to revise my plans  because of that. Jo  there were just 2  or 3
longer bike trips (by "longer" I mean  >40 km) and I did very little on
the retro-computing front. Actually, I did too little anywhere.

The bikes:

-  two failures  on  my  1965 Moulton  Standard;  I  have replaced  the
sprocket after all

- two  bowden cable breakages on  the 1989 Alex Moulton  AM-ATB bike; I
will have to find a better repair strategy

- I have got (and finally  unpackaged) the "bard find" Moulton Stowaway
(the first  series bike  from 1963  with single  speed Perry  coaster -
actually it came on  form of a pile of rust; I have  managed to make it
running but the replacement tube for the front wheel (itself a very old
one) broke very  quickly - so I will  have to order a spare  one (I ran
out of spares at the moment); will have to remove all the rust anyway

- I  have installed a  fairing on my  FAvorit steel bike;  I originally
wanted  the Zzipper  [1]  but it  is  not  possible so  I  got a  cheap
motorbike one


The computers:

- I have made a short BASIC  program to compute the pi (3.14...). I saw
that  at the  Retrocomputing  forum [2]  and  wanted to  try  it on  my
Elektronika MK-90. I  have to add hte number sand  the LET keywords and
then it works!

- I have  got a green testing model (it's  labelled "prototype") of the
PSION Series 5.  It's half-functioning, but funny. I traded  it for one
of my NanoNotes and the Sharp NetWalker (it was a nice machine but hard
to use one).

- I have bought the Seiko  DATA-2000 smartwatch (from early 1980s) with
the keyboard  "dock"; it's  a funny  thing but an  useful, too:  it can
store a lot of  text and show in on a run (the  keyboard is only needed
to enter the text); I also  have found a phone application which (well,
sometimes)  can simulate  the  original Seiko  keyboard  and allows  to
insert text  into the  watch [3]  - it's designed  for a  newer UC-2000
model but works with the DATA-2000, too

- well,  I have  started my SGI  Indigo once more  - actually,  just to
check the Gopher and to make this text ;-)


I think that's all.


Written on the SGI IRIS Indigo R3000.


References:

[1] http://zzipper.com
[2] https://retrocomputingforum.com
[3] git://github.com/azya52/seiko