Usually I have some sort of project I want to work on. But not lately.
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Quizlet – Similar to Anki but free for iPhone
Was looking at and impressed with Anki because my daughter loves making flash cards for school learning. However she’s an iPhone user and their app is $25. So I heard about this app in Anki vs Quizlet videos. Although it doesn’t appear that they have a desktop Linux app.
Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards.
My daughter likes to make flash cards for her school work. I like to watch reaction videos of Americans speaking fluent Chinese to Chinese people. Which led me to a video about learning languages. Which led me to a video about people learning anything. Which led me to hear about Anki. Which brings me back …
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Looking at Apple ][…sometimes called Apple II
As iconic and important as the Apple was in the 1970s I don’t really know much about it. I decided I’d look into it a little. I downloaded linApple emulator. It almost seemed like floppy’s were required. But I know that can’t be true. This site claims 670 cassettes at the time of this post. …
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Resize fullscreen windows complaint
I really hate when a window is fullscreen…you press the resize button, and basically it stays the same size. This also makes it very hard to grab the resize border edges to manually resize it. I think if a screen is fullscreen then pressing the resize button should automatically resize the window down by at …
Retro Kits
A list of retro kits I have an interest in PiDP-11 (DEC PDP-11 mentioned previously)PiDP-8 (DEC PDP-8)IMSAI 8080 AnotherAltair 8800 AnotherAltair 8800b
trs80gp – another TRS-80 emulator
Downloaded and trying to learn this program. So these are first impressions. There are a lot of options so I’ll say upfront that things may not initially work because of my unfamiliarity with the program. At start it defaults to Model III. One thing I wanted to change under view right off the bat was …
Thanks Amazon!
They “found” something they think I might like. Thanks to their advanced AI…looking at my Lists…they were able to find something I might like.
TRS-80 cassette and Firefox annoyance
Had been doing some research last night on reading physical TRS-80 cassettes and saving them to disk . Had some interesting bookmarks opened, then this morning as is too often the case Firefox opened to a single tab…losing all my open tab research. This is an infuriating thing that Firefox has been randomly doing for …