The Yellowstone Tester
I once said I’d spend a maximum of one day on development of an automated tester for the Yellowstone disk controller. Haha, that was so cute. Today marks two months since I began work on the tester. Today was also…
Steve
WordPress Latin1 and UTF-8, Part 2
Yesterday I wrote about some BMOW blog troubles displaying special characters and international characters, which was apparently triggered by a recent update to MySQL 8 at my web host. Old pages containing special characters like curly quotes, accented letters, or…
Non-Breaking Spaces and UTF-8 Madness
A few months back I wrote about some web site troubles with the HTML entity, non-breaking spaces, and UTF-8 encoding. A similar problem has reared its head again, but in a surprising new form that seems to have infected…
Apple II Pascal Booting Problems
Thanks to beta tester Bryan V., I’ve discovered that Apple II Pascal disks don’t boot normally with the prototype Yellowstone disk controller card. This includes the Pascal master disk as well as other disks built on Pascal, including Fortran, “Apple…
Tech Support Dilemmas
When I first began selling hardware to other vintage computer collectors, I never gave tech support much thought. I imagined I could design something, build it, sell it to somebody, and they’d happily go use it. End of story. Reality…
New Zealand Shipping Suspension
The world of international shipping continues to grow more difficult. As of October 1, the US Postal Service has halted acceptance of international package shipments to New Zeleand, due to COVID-19-related service disruptions at the destination. The same suspension was…
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