Many of you know that I have been messing around with testing my MIOs for years... nothing better to do. About a month ago, on my last MIO (the MetalGuy66 MIO), I replaced the 7805 Voltage Regulator (VR1) with one of the newer lo-temp versions of this chip which seemed to be OK at the time and it did not give me any trouble that I know of... and it was cool(er)! But about a week later, based on doctor's orders, I put the original 7805 chip back in the system, It still works the same as near as I can tell. So today... I decided to add a little fan over top of the heat sink because the 7805 gets so hot it will burn your finger. Here's my little fan... Cute ain't it... I power it with a Meanwell 5vDC 3 amp power supply which also powers my ZuluScsi Mini card which is hooked to the MIO (seen on right side of pic.) So far it is working as well as can be expected.

When you don't have a 3d printer and you need a quick case for your GreaseWeazle, here you go. You can re-purpose an old wireless mouse box. The floppy disk ribbon cable goes in the front... The USB C connector plugs in the back... Close it up and it looks like this... All plugged into one of my backup PCs. Using the GW GUI... makes it easier. Seen here copying AtariWriter Plus. I really have nothing better to do... 😎

The work has begun...

I found this yesterday in my "stuff"

Even though I am not much of a gamer, I did manage to play around with Pinball Construction Set back in the 80's. Guess what this one is called??? It can be downloaded (along with it's predecessor) on the Boot Factory BBS 2k+... bfbbs.no-ip.com : 8888

I have decided to finally do some much-needed work on AT_Telnet... it began last night. For those who don't know, AT_Telnet was originally developed by Tom Hunt in and around 2000 and I took it over about this time. It is a PC-based terminal client for accessing ATASCII BBSes on the internet from your PC. It is my primary terminal program. I will be renaming the program AT_Connect - The ATASCII Terminal Client and upgrading the version to v3.oo. This change is about 85% complete as of right now. Telnet was never a part of this program... it was simply the name that was used back in 2000 when this began. Swatted five minor bugs that have been around for 10 years or thereabouts. Plan to address what I call the 1 major bug in the screen processing section of the code. Currently the Ctrl-Del key is not processed correctly. I have prevented it from shutting down the program by simply ignoring the key (or incoming char as the case may be) however, I do want to get this fixed. I may need some help. Plan to update the 'Help' system. Also started on this last night. Plan to get a better handle on the implicit changes to the system caused by the way the UAC system in newer versions of Windows interacts with the older VB6 programs.. At least one new major feature to be added... more on this later. No plans to upgrade from vb6 to a newer version of VB. This cannot be done due to THE major component of AT_Connect no longer existing in VB. What else??? I am open to suggestions.