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Welcome to modem noises!

It's November 6th of 2024.

So far, so good on the stuff I said I would be doing. I entirely cut things like social media off, I've been keeping news to the local stations, I stepped away from spaces that were making me mildly uncomfortable, and man does it feel good. I haven't done a ton of work on the listed projects. I did my little bits of research into thermals for airsoft (and determined that I'm intrigued but not committed to the cost as I can get NVDs I'd like for a bit less). I really just kinda added more projects to the list, not that I really mind.

I decided to put a bid in on some Wang 928 hardware, specifically a workstation from eBay and a Model 10 master unit on Facebook. I won the workstation, it arrives on November 8th, but I'm still waiting to hear back from the guy with the Model 10. I frankly don't care if I get the Model 10 or not, I've found through some technical service manuals the command set and protocol for communicating between a master and the workstation. If I get it then cool, if I don't then I'll just build my own little serial link.

The IBM 5150 hasn't been revived just yet but a purpose was determined. I've been wanting to upgrade my BBS from a short message-only system running on a 48K Apple II+ to something which could maybe serve files. I found out that RBBS-PC exists, there's a version which runs on a 128K system with two drives and a 1200 baud Smartmodem, and I'd quite like to try it out. I recognize that running just a 1200 baud Smartmodem is maybe a bit "stupid" (but I don't have slots for more than one ACIA card) so I may look into some sort of serial A-B switch and running either the Smartmodem or some wifi232 setup, one for some days and the other for othres, if that's something I could do.

I said "in a week" last week for the homebrew computer stuff but it might be an extra week, I had some new dumb ideas come in. Whoops.

Working out hasn't been going great because I got covid and it kinda sucks, that said I'm starting to clear up today. When I finish writing this page I'm going to do an hour or so of cardio, however long it is until work hits. I want to be tired when I get home tonight, I've been having some issues getting to sleep comfortably, so I think a bit of extra activity should help me out there.


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