Earlier today I made a template that would enable me to quickly copy sixteen blank directories to an SD card for use with my SDFloppy II disk drive emulator. I copied it to an SD card a little while ago. That took less than two minutes then put the card to the acid test. I copied an entire diskette to directory 0 without a problem then changed to directory 3 where I copied four files and did write protect tests on them, renamed them, locked them then unlocked them then deleted them. All went without a hitch. My template is a complete success! This is like you guys repairing an old favorite loco and having it pass all it's tests with flying colors.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Evenin' folks!
Nothing except a refill on the decaf for me Janie, I just baked two batches of toll house cookies... Ah, well yes, I have to eat a few too make sure of quality control you know!
Jeremy
Tomorrow is the Christmas Dinner and exchange of gifts at my sister's house. I made another batch of winter squash to take their, and some of the cookies will tsg along to be distributed along with several gifts. I decided not to give her one of the gifts I bought for her. It is a plaque that reads, "I haven't been the same since the house fell on my sister." She will probaly take it wrong.... Maybe not and that would be even worse....
She found out that her outdoor kitty, Klim, got locked into a neighbors garage for a month while they were in Flowiduh! He appears to none the worse for wear, but has been hanging around her house constantly. he showed up and was meowing nostop even after she went and got him food and water.... He wanted her to hold him and just kept on meowing.... Poor little guy. He is very friendly to me and a few other people he knows but mostly my sister. Anyone he doesn't know, GONE!
Need to feed the woodstove. Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hi Guys
Well Christmas is over for another year for us with dinner at my parents place tonight. We usually go over for dinner on Sundays but the whole family was over tonight and it was great to see the kids open there presents and get excited and just generally have a great time and forget about lifes problems for awhile. Just had a great christmas this year on my side and the wifes side.
But for me I find January and February somewhat depressing. Dark,cold, snowy and just the sudden drop in excitement from Christmas. The travelling and going back and forth at christmas time gets to be a bit too much but I do enjoy spedning time with the family.
Tomorrow the wife goes back to work and after that we are going to two hobby shops to pick up a few items. Just a few freight cars and some atheran parts. Might pick up a jar or two of the mig pigments.
Talk to you guys in the morning.
Curt WebbJeff- I have to admit that when you talk about computers, it goes in one ear and out the other without stopping. I understand almost nothing about computers.Surprise It looks like you are very good with them.
Afternoon All,
Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Our family all met at my daughter's house for the get together and supper. My 2 grandson's put together a wooden train kit and painted it for me. It is now in a place of honor on my work bench.
John Boy- Hope you are doing well. Jeremy B- I also hope you continue to do well. Jeff- I have to admit that when you talk about computers, it goes in one ear and out the other without stopping. I understand almost nothing about computers. It looks like you are very good with them. Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
John Boy- Hope you are doing well.
Jeremy B- I also hope you continue to do well.
Jeff- I have to admit that when you talk about computers, it goes in one ear and out the other without stopping. I understand almost nothing about computers. It looks like you are very good with them.
Hope everyone has a good night and prayers for those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
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Well I've been studying copy I made of the SDFloppy II SD card. It has sixteen directories, numbered 0 thru 9 (1-10) and A thru F (11-16). Each directory consists of one (1) .DLL file and one (1) .DSK file and can hold the equivalent of one 5.25" floppy diskette. So one SD card can comfortably hold the contents of sixteen 5.25" diskettes. Disk utility programs that do a sweep of the file table contained in the .DSK file can display a list of the files when the user (me) uses the Applesoft command 'CATALOG' (same as 'DIR' in MS-DOS). However programs that look for track $11 (track 17) specifically can't display a list of the files nor can they copy files to or from the SDFloppy II. Copy 2+ is one of these utilities. The DOS 3.3 programs of the 'SYSTEM MASTER' utilities can work with the files all day long with no problem and can copy to and from the SDFloppy II just as if it's an Apple Disk II disk drive. Copying a diskette to the SDFloppy II is slightly faster as there's no delay waiting for a disk drive to come up to speed and index to the proper physical location of a diskette. I say slightly because the Apple IIe's processor speed is only 1.023 MHz so it can send data through the drive interface only so fast and the speed of the interface is also very limited. It can also INITIALIZE (format) the allocated space in the directory just as if it's a 5.25" diskette. I'm finding it to be a handy little device.
Well, did some errands.
Went to the grocery store pharmacy to get a script.
Went to both the Bank and CU to adjust funds to where they need to be.
Went to the PHaramacy Pharmacy for a script.
Did some "after xmas candy shopping" and perused the offerings of one store.
BOY! We have a Big Lots store here where they already have VALENTINES Stuff out!
No Kidding! Xmas isn't even all gone and already with VAlentines??? Talk about rushing your holidays!
Then stopped at the bread store.
I know, exciting day, huh?
Well, I guess i go rest my back now, though MOH is soon to be home!
Valentines ! ALready!
Sheesh!
golly gee wiz!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Mornin' everyone!
Happy Boxing day and a happy first day of Kwanzaa. My family appreciated Boxing Day as my late wife was the personal secretary to an ENT Doctor who was Canadien. We could always count on visiting one side of the family or the other on the day after Christmas 1 (besides, Christmas is 12 days long and in the church year is a season rather than a day...) I have many friends here in Geneva who celebrate Kwansaa so I'll wish all of you a great day, no matter what you celebrate today!
Zoe, I'll have a big bowl of hot oatmeal with brown sugar, bacon, and a mug of dark roast coffee please.
The sun just peeked out from behind a cloud!!!! WOW! Would be nice if it stuck around for a bit today... Haven't made any significant electric here in a couple weeks. I did clean off the panels yesterday. They had a couple inches of fluffy white stuff on them.
Christmas Dinner yesterday was great as always. We had Prime Rib and Ham, Potatoes au Graten, carrots, winter squash, rolls, and about 8 different pies and cakes to choose from for dessert.... I won't mention what my blood sugar is this morning.
I started to tell what I got for Chrstmas yesterday when I had to get over to my son's house... Also got a daily calendar with train trivia on each page (Should be fun. I may share from time to time.), a few Micro Mark tools, a new bathrobe, and a book titled "How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You!" But the best gift is just to hang around with my (extended) family and enjoy all the busyness of the day.
I have to make another winter squash dish for dinner tomorrow at my sister's house in Canandaigua. My DIL finally talked her into celbrating after Christmas Day so we could all relax and not have to be on a tight schedule to get back to my son's house for the next round of family stuff there. I hope my sister finds it is a lot nicer to do it this way and will "change the Tradition" permanently.
I hope to get some stuff done on tyhe layout today among all the other things I have to do. I best get doing it!
Good morning. It's 49° with 59% humidity. The high will be 56° and feel like 59°.No plans set in stone today. I'm going to make a copy of the SDFloppy II's SD card then work with the copy to figure out exactly how it works. Once I've done that I'll wipe the files from the copy and copy some floppy disks to it and see what it's storage capacity is.Other than that I have no plans.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Hi Guys.
Its boxing day here and that means stores will be nuts, wont catch me in one. I may go to the hobby shop tomorrow afternoon. Have dinner at my parenst place tonight and that pretty much wraps up Christmas, we also have a dinner next week on New Years eve day. The world junior hockey tournament starts this morning so Im happy about that.
Well,
Naturally the holiday has its original meaning to me, and to My Other Half, just can't say more than that here!
I did not get the Zscale stuff I had hoped for for Christmas. We did get a little cash, and I thought about telling MOH we'd each splurge with a little of it {which would get me a few Zscale stuffs}, but we have bills to pay off and things we need to do to the trailer that cost $$ so, I think we should do that instead. There isn't a lot of cash either, just a little.
We Didn't necessarily get what little we wanted for Christmas, but we got a LOT of what we NEEDED. {Including Underwear, David!}
ANd that Makes the BEST Christmas presents! To get what you need, that is!
So, We are greatful!
All in all, a day spent with my father and with FIL is what is the most important. at 86, we never know when it will be FIL's last Christmas. My father is only 79, and healthy as a horse. Dunno. THis is the first Christmas without MIL.
Don't actually know when it will be our last Christmas either I guess, but chances are we will live long after Father and FIL pass.
Merry Happy Day After Christmas!
I will NOT set foot into a store today either!
I can hear it now:
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind....
THE END IS NEAR! THE END IS NEAR! {of the year, that is!}
morning coffee in the diner...
Tosspot: (TOS-pot): noun: 1. A drunkard. 2. An idiot.
Just got back from my sisters place a little while ago. My niece loves the manicure/pedicure station I got her and she like to flipped when she saw the nail dryer. My sister is crazy about the Star Trek collectors set of drinking glasses I got her. Her husband likes that I got the DVD 'Red'. He's a Bruce Willis nut! And my nephew likes the Nascar Bobby Labonte Monte Carlo I got him. It's an AMT model and so has the detailed photos on the box showing what decals go where.I got the SDFloppy II of course. I hooked it up to the drive controller in slot 5 of my //e as drive 2. I quickly located the copy of Oliver's adventure that I saved to it as a test a few days ago and saved an up to date copy to it tonight and checked it. The SDFloppy II is working great. Now if I want to work on the 'Native Fury' game at night I can save it when finished without the loud disk drive chatter.I also got both of the new alternate reality Star Trek movies, Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness. I already have the first one but mine had a scratch on it that sometimes makes the movie do strange and not so wonderful things. Last but not least I the manuals on the flat screen TV I'm using as a monitor on my //e. My sister hasn't found the remote yet but says it has to be in her room someplace.Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Ho Ho Ho!
We went to my Father's, where Santa had left something for MOH and I!
Then we went to my FIL's and darned if the Jolly fat old elf didn't leave a present for us there too!
Let's jsut say Santa was very good to us, and gave us just exactly what we needed!
In boht cases, we didn't go empty handed. Took dinner and a few small gifts of warmth to my father.
Took dinner to My FIL. He says "I don't need nuttin'.
Both will have a FEAST I cooked up! A little different form Ulrichs!
Ham, Smashed taters, candied Sweet taters, veggies! Apple pie for dessert!
Christmas dinner was MUCH easier on my back to cook than TG, though I spent half a day doing it.
Well, Hope you'all got over to my "WHat did SAnta bring you?" Thread and told us all about it!
I enjoyed listening to my new HAwaiian Mele chants CD whilest I cooked!
Well, off soon to bed!
Have a great evening guys!
Back home after a busy day.
Started out at my parents place for a huge breakfast and then on to the wifes moms for another great dinner and a visit to my grandparents for a visit on the way home. Tomorrow we go back to my moms for dinner and that will be it for christmas. I cant believe how fast the day has gone and am sure tomorrow will be the same.
I have to try to get over to the hobby shop this week as I have had a order there since early in the summer that I have keep forgetting about. I want to pick them up. I als have to head over to the other hobby shop I go to to give the fella there my walthers order. Might wait until Friday to do that, its going to be nuts out there with all the boxing day shoppers.
Talk to you guys in the morning. If I can get to the PC, I am so full at the moment,lol. Might go thumb through the new MR and my new Pelle Soeborg book
We usually have Prime Rib for Christmas, but this year we are having Ham. Too bad, I picked out some really great wines to go with the prime ribs. We will have the Prim Rib later in the week when the sisters come over, but I cannot serve my best wines to them because they mostly do not care for the dry wines.
SANTA cleaned up my train room last night. The floor is all swept. Actually I was looking for a particular drill bit, which I did not find. I'll have to get another one from the shop.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Ho, Ho, Ho.....
Merry Christmas!
I went over to my son's this morning to have a great breakfast and to exchange our gifts. I will be leaving here to go back over there for a Prime Rib Christmas Dinner and to photograph and document the gift "Feeding Frenzy" that is part of DILs family tradition. I have some very expensive chocolat bark from a downtown chocolate store here for each of the rest of the family and will likely get a few small gifts during the sharing session afetr the meal myself.
I got a couple of needed tools from Micro Mark (Wire rope andspring wire cutter and a wire stripper/cutter and a few other things.) Son just called and said dinner will be served soon and to get over there!
Later!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
Hope you have a great day and remember, all food cosumed today has zero calories! It's the Christmas exemption at least that is my story and I'm sticking to it.
We are off to my MIL's place soon for dinner. It won't be a traditional Christmas one though as we doing Italian food, chicken parmigana.
CN Charlie
Well the GERD finally decided to go away and leave me alone, for now. So I managed to get a bit of a nap in and I feel a lot better now. No unwrapping of gifts yet as the festivities haven't started at my sisters place yet. At least this time I'll be able to walk up the steps. I've been practicing a lot and can do fairly well as long as I'm not carrying anything. But if I'm carrying something all bets are off. And I can get into her house without having to do the first seven steps of the ballet on my butt. That's a BIG improvement. Now I already know what one of my gifts is. After all I ordered the little gem.That's called a 'FloppySD'. It's a SD card reader/writer that emulates an Apple II Disk II floppy drive. The other gifts that have my name on them I have no idea whatsoever what's in them. I'll find out later today. After dinner they might have to roll me back down here.Now I imagine there might be one or two questions about this morning computer related photo, like what the heck is that after the '//'s. It looks like EPB but believe it or not it's 'SRB'. Seriously! I entered 'SRB' in 'Source Code Pro' font then switched it to 'Symbol font' and it comes out as ''.
Good Evening!
It´s been a quiet day today - the phone rang only once. Took my time to study all the pictures in my new book, which gave me some hints on where to improve my loco design to be more prototypicaal.
Tomorrow, I will start on the cardboard mock-up of it.
We already had our dinner - Petra spend hours in the kitchen and we both wolved it down in 15 minutes! But, boy, was that delicious! It looked like this:
We have enough leftovers for tomorrow!
Merry Christmas to all!
Now, back to getting that turkey in the oven.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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Good morning. It's 30° with 100% humidity. The high will be 55° and fell like 60°. There will be a few clouds.Not really in a festive mood today. I've was up all night. GERD has been kicking my butt big time. It would flare up for a while, die down for a bit then flare up again. I've been taking some Tums antacid tablets and they're helping a bit but it's still kicking me around. Getting ready to take my morning meds and have a light meal to keep my stomach settled. I hope this goes away before the family festivities start. Of all days why does my body pick today to pick on me? I hope nobody decides to pull a practical joke or something on me because it would be easy to tick me off and having a hacked off short tempered Indian in the room wouldn't be fun for anybody. Well my friend Harry (an Apache) might enjoy it but I sure wouldn't. Think I'll see if I can get a bit of rest while I can.
It looks like Christmas will be just the two of us for now.
We will open the Santa presents under the tree.
Then I will cook a glazed ham, sweet potato dish, mixed veggies and maybe some regular potatoes.
FIL is going the 2 hour trip to the cemetery {MOH hates FIL for picking the military cemetary so far away but his only close option}. I tried to get MOH to go with FIL, BUt the two do NOT get along. I could barely stand the 2 hours in the car with those two to get there at funeral time! It is always instant clash between them. SO MOH isn't going. FIL wants to visit and se the wreaths they have on the Military graves.
We WILL take MY widowed father a nice dish of CHristmas Dinner.
AND later when the FIL gets home, we will take a dish to FIL later.
That's our plan and we are sticking to it!
Jeremy B:
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF!
I hope you are feeling well and up to all that activity.
Still no word from the Doctors on what happend last week?
You are so lucky to still have parents and grandparents around. THough half of my Gparents lived long lives, they are now longer with us for many years gone by.ANd my Mother rest in peace. Celeberate with them all you can!
Have a wonderful day, just please don't overdo it!
PS I still have the prayer candle up for you!
Merry Christmas everyone.
Hope everybody has a great day today. I will be going over to my parents for christmas and then over to the wifes mom's around three for dinner and then over to my grandparents for a qucik visit before heading home. So its going to be a busy day for sure.
I will check back later tonight to see how everyone's day has gone. Have a good one guys.